The Rarest Flower

Hakumi was looking for a second job, she had finally made some friends in her guild and was happy. She didn't want to ask any of them to come with her, she wanted to show them that her image doesn't mean that she is limited in battle. She wanted to prove that she is a skilled fighter. She started browsing the job board for a D-class wizard job that involved combat. She found several that looked appealing, but the job named "The Rarest Flower" seemed to be the most interesting. The job was in a forest called the spooky forest, she wanted to do this job because it would help a lot of people, including herself. The flower would help make a medicine for the patients, and the flowers location was in a somewhat dangerous area. The monsters didn't seem to be all that rough, although, she would not underestimate them, as she read most of them came in packs.

After being approved to take the job, she set out to the spooky forest. When she arrived, she realized that the forest lived up to its name. It looked like something that you would see in a nightmare! Thick fog, loose branches that swung with the wind, strange sound, and darkness. She questioned if she could even see the flower in all of that darkness. She didn't even know where to begin to look for it. Now she knew why the others didn't want to journey into the forest. It frightened her a bit, but the description of the monsters didn't seem too extreme, so she felt a bit more secure, but she wasnt sure if she really wanted to go in there. The more she feared it, the more frightening the sounds seemed. She dreaded taking this job, the thought that anything coould jump out and attack her made her even more terrified, espescially since she hated things jumping out at her. Being scared into jumping was annoying and frightening. The more she waited, she could feel the bloodlust within the forest. She could feel all of the hungry creatures in their. But she didnt want to seem like a wimp so, After a while of procrastinating, she finally went inside the forest.

She eyed her surrounding, trying to not seem intimidated. While walking around in the forest, she clinched her key necklace like she was about to die, she honestly thought that she would die if she continued to walk through this forest. The look of the forest scared her so much, then she started to remember that looks can be deceiving, the scariest things can be the most unexpected, and the safest places, could be those that looked like this forest, surrounded in darkness, loose tree branches, and strange sounds. She started to feel a little reassured. She still didn't know how she would go about finding the flower, she knew how it looked, but not it's exact location. She began to feel a bit idiotic for not going to the person hiring mages do the job first. She wanted to turn in the flower while telling them she was there for the job. She began to wonder if any other mages had already took the job. She was kind of hoping that they did, she started to stray from her main goal and wanted some help. But, she started to remember why she took the job, she wants to prove that she is strong just like the rest of her guild. She couldn't give up, no matter how hard the job may become.

She began to brainstorm on how she would find the flower. "since the flower is rare, it must grow in a place that is either bad for plant growth, a place that is overcrowded, or a place that allows it to be constantly stepped on. I can cross out the third option, since not many are brave enough to set foot in this forest, the first option could be a possibility, but I don't see any other flowers growing around here, so my best choice would be the second option. Now, places that are bad for plant growth are sometimes high up, but they could be low down. High up places may give the plant too much sun, or cause the land to dry up, low down places probably don't give the plant enough water, but if I remember correctly, this flower doesn't really need water. So it must be on a high cliff or something!" She thought to herself. She began to look for a cliff pr a mountain, but she thought that it was too dark to find anything in this forest! So she conjured some petals to grab a stick that was high up in one of the trees, tore off a piece of her dress and wrapped it around the stick, and made a fire to put the stick in to make a torch. And she began to look for a mountain.

While looking for the flower, she heard a lot of strange sounds. She couldn't identify what they were, or which direction they were coming from, they seemed to bounce around from place to place, it seemed as if there were a lot of creatures running around in every direction, I that was the case, they were fast, gruesome sounding, creatures. She was a bit scared at first, but she though that the monsters wouldn't be that strong here, but she didn't dare let her guard down. If they were in packs, an all out attack from each of them at the same time could probably kill her. The though of death motivated her to try her best to try and defeat anything that might attack her, as the job description said that many were too afraid to venture into the spooky forest, the forest that scared her half to death. As she was walking, the sounds seemed to get a bit closer, and a bit more ferocious, like they wanted to feast on her skin, the thought of that kind of made her laugh, it made her a bit worried too, the feeling it gave her was complicated, it made her afraid, as well as anxious. She was excited that she might face her first enemy, and a bit scared that her first enemy could be her last.

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The member 'Hakumi Nazu' has done the following action : Dice Rolls

'Monster Dice' :

At last! Hakumi had finally found a mountain! She started to head toward the mountain, but was stopped by a pack of four wolves that ran in front her, each one greedily looking at her, like she was their next meal. After the wolves appeared, the strange noises stopped, and she awaited for their move. They circled around her and one launched at her and attempted to bite her in the arm, but she avoided it, bur quickly after that wolf attacked, another came charging at her and succeeded in biting her arm, the wolf nearly took an entire chunk out of her, but she poked it in the eye and it released her arm and backed away. Seeing the plan the wolves had she quickly jumped into the air and stepped outside of the circle they had her in and quickly called out, "Cherry Blossom Storm!" A pink magic circle appeared in front of her hands, and around the wolves. Petals started raining down on the wolves, each wolf hit by one petal. After the first damage the wolves had taken, they started to evade the petals, but were scratched a little bit by the petals.

HP: 90%
MP: 90%

Cherry Blossom Storm Duration: 3 posts (2 remaining)
Cool down: 4 posts (3 remaining)

Seeing that the wolves were somewhat evading the petals, she stopped the storm and conjured a katana sharp petal and stabbed one of the wolves in the eyes, after that attack, the wolf quickly died. After the wolf died, the other 3 came charging at her, one scratched her on the arm, another scratched her on the shoulder, and another scratched her on the leg, she flipped back away from them and conjured three petals to stab the remaining three wolves in the head. After all of the wolves were defeated, she headed to the mountain again. She was happy to have defeated her first few enemies. Although she was a bit banged up, she was still full of energy, she didn't even limp! She was too happy to feel any pain at that moment. She grinned the entire way to the mountain, forgetting why she was there when she arrived.

Hp: 75%
MP: 87%

She climbed up the mountain and upon reaching the top, she saw the rarest flower! It was a plain white flower. She expected it to be a little bit more extravagant, she wondered if the flower could inspire her to make a new spell, but, she didn't see anything special about the flower, she got the idea to ask the people requesting the job to tell her exactly how the flower would help them make the medicine, if it had any special effects that could increase healing, or cause the healing itself. And what exactly does the flower heal. Does heal wounds or does it heal some kind of sickness? She was dreading the trip back to the bottom of the mountain, it had almost been an entire day since she had started the job, she wondered if she was the only mage to take the job, or if she was the only one to actually finish it. On the way down she thought she heard the screams of other mages, but it just turned out to be some strange native animal. Once she finally reached the bottom, she encountered another monster.

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The member 'Hakumi Nazu' has done the following action : Dice Rolls

'Monster Dice' :

The monster quickly attacked her, but she easily dodged it and kicked him in the face, one hit seemed to take him out. Soon after the first monster was defeated, she noticed that it was accompanied by two others, the other two attacked her simultaneously but she dodged both of them. She didn't attack them because she wanted to get a closer look at them, they had the weirdest looking faces, they had more than two eyes, wrinkly skin, and the most peculiar expressions. They looked angry yet happy, like they were serious and excited. She noticed that one of them were carrying another one of the white flowers the job requested. She ran past the goblin and took the flower, the other one proceeded to attack her and she dropped the flower, she ran to get the flower and kicked one of them square in the nose. The other one grabbed her leg and threw her into the mountain, after hitting the mountain with her back, she ran toward the goblin and punched him in the nose. The goblin dropped to the ground beside the other two. She thought that these were the monsters that weren't that strong. She thought that she had proven her self by defeating seven enemies.

After defeating the goblins, she headed toward the entrance of the forest. After exiting the forest, she notices that she had been in there for an entire day, she was kind of disappointed that it took her that long to finish the job, but she was still happy that she finished it. She headed to the medicine shop in magnolia to give the shop keeper the two flowers she found. On the way there, Hakumi got stared at by a lot of people, she assumed it was because of her beaten up state. She had scratch marks on her body, bite marks on her arm, bruises on her legs, and her dress was tattered at the bottom. When she arrived at the store, she gave the shopkeeper the job request and the flowers. After getting the flowers the shop keeper said, "I didn't see you before. Did you finish the job before you came here?" Hakumi was a bit upset by the question, but she responded with a yes. She asked the shop keeper the questions she had, and the flower is just a part of a bigger potion, it was a needed ingredient, the hardest to acquire, but was only nearly the most important. Hakumi wasn't upset though. She got her reward and headed back to her home to change he clothes.