There was a distinct aura of happiness around Mourningstar as two new people joined the Party, another Lizard and a Pixie. this was really good, all they needed now was a good tank and they would have an amazing party composition for anything that was thrown their way. The pixie, introduced as Ardur, dug through the hot embers, Mourningstar was almost tempted to stop him before he noticed the small shield covering his arms, smart thinking, so she let him do his thing. It was strange though, one second he looked like any other pixie, the next he looked just the slightest bit muscular. She blinked a few times to make sure her eyes weren't deceiving her, but nope, that was definitely a slightly buff pixie.
"Huh." Was this another skill that Ardur had just learned, or had she just not noticed this whole time? She shook her head and put her focus back on the light, buff pixie analysis can wait until later. What mattered right now was the-
"Holy shit! Guys we just hit the motherlode here!" Crystals, dozens and dozens of crystals were buried under the fire. Blue crystals, red crystals, even a mysterious green crystal, all for the taking. The first thing Mourningstar did was refill her MP with one of the blue ones, leaving everyone with 57 crystals, then Oberon took 3, lowering the count to 54.
But what caught her attention most was the mysterious
Source Crystal. Now she didn't know much about this world, but when something described as being closer to the Source, capital S and all, you knew that shit was important. Which is why she freaked the fuck out when she saw it begin to levitate towards Digbie seemingly of it's own free will.
"The green crystal is what I want, and that's it." Oh god why did you have to be like this you dumb dumb Goblin child.
"Digbie no no no no! That thing could be dangerous don't just start fucking touching it! There was an actual hint of panic in her voice as she poured 3 points into Lesser Force and grabbed the Source Crystal out of the air, hopefully Digbie got the message quickly and let go, she needed to study this thing in depth before she just handed it off to someone. As all of this distracted her, she never even noticed the new party of monsters gathering at the bonfire, more former humans was her guess given how the slime was talking. And was barking orders at everyone too, causing Mourningstar to narrow her eyes as she stared down the slime.
"Woah woah woah, hold the fucking phone there slime! You don't get to just wobble in here and start yelling at people to do stuff, especially when you don't even know our names! Get back here!" Mourningstar rushed over to the Slime as it wobbled away, getting into it's path and continuing to stare into the Slime's eyes as she thought over his plan, nodding a little bit as she hummed in thought. Damn, that was actually a pretty good plan. The problem lied in the fact that they didn't know who the fuck these people were, other than that they were smart and also a multi racial party. She quickly used Monster Analysis on the new party, nothing how
most of them were like her in being former humans, but two were not. The big slime and the big rat were pure monsters, tough ones too it looks like. Strange, but she wasn't going to complain too much, numbers were numbers in the end.
"Now you have a good plan, I'll give you that. You're also human, which is a plus in my book. But you don't get to just walk in and start telling people what to do like you're the boss and then walk away assuming we're just gonna do it. Far as I'm concerned, we're all equal in being generals of the Demon Lord. We're gonna follow your plan for now, but after this is all over we need to have a serious talk about leadership." With that being said, Mourningstar turned away from Jason and floated back to the pile of crystals, noting how it was 5 shorter than before due to the Slime. 49 mana crystals left, they were burning through them much faster than Mourningstar liked.
"And by the way." Mourningstar grabbed a flame touched crystal and showed it to Jason, making sure he noted how it was different from the others.
"I would suggest you find a use for these in your plan, because these ones explode. And everyone knows that the key to victory is careful usage of explosives to thin the numbers of an enemy before and during battle." It was one of the best strategies in her RTS games she used to play in the past world, explosives were key in controlling where the enemy moved and more importantly, where they didn't move.
"Oh yeah, just one more thing." She looked Jason dead in the eyes as she said this, giving off a smug smile as she said her next words.
"I'm Mourningstar. And I'm in charge around here."
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