Day 9

I got up and headed back to Nasdaim and took a leisurely walk around town just talking to the locals and gathering intel when one of the locals asked me check in with someone else about a delivery that was supposed to be made. Since I had nothing better to do I went along with it. I ended up having to hunt it down. Come to find out they had mistaken me for one of their undercover scouts who had been killed by the Rogs. I got to meet the leader of the group who asked me to join them. I thought it'd be within my best interests to do so. He then told me about a shipment of Siege Engines who's caravan he lost contact with and asked me to go check up on them. Upon arrival to the last point of contact I was greeted by a lone person who told me they had been ambushed by the Rogs who made off with the Siege Engines. I was told they were in the next clearing and that there would be a Siege Engine he called Firebrand sitting there that I would be able to pilot. Sure enough there it was. The thing was huge!

I excitedly jumped in to the Firebrand and took out the surrounding enemies, but no other Siege Engines were to be found. I reported back to Hidis who went into despair about all the other Siege Engines being taken. I felt kind of sorry for him, but there was not else I could do.

I headed back to Bijumir and collected another, rather simple task which required me to collect some poison sacks from 2 monsters so that High Priest Croteus could study them and make an antidote. After turning the poison sacks in High Priest Croteus asked me to get Prial Wings from Rickles in North Helm. I manage to find Rickles easily enough, but he tells me that I'm too late to get the Prial Wings from him because a band of thieves had just recently come by and stole them. He also said he hurt one of the thieves pretty badly so they're moving slow and if I hurried I should be able to catch them. I took off running in the direction he indicated but rather then catch up to the thieves I found one of them laying, dying on the beach who also told me I was too late. Am I starting to see a trend here? I sprinkled some of the water Croteus gave me before I headed out on a large stone nearby to communicate with him. I gave Croteus a break down of what happened and he told me to look for four Neo Steam pillars saying it is what they used to communicate. I headed further up the beach and sure enough found four Neo Steam pillars and headed back to the large stone to in form Croteus and get an update. Croteus told me to go back and rotate the north one twice, the west one once, the south one four times, and the east one three times. I'm beginning to wonder how he knows so much about these particular pillars. After performing the instructed actions on the pillars a secret compartment opened up and inside I found the Prial Wings I was told to retrieve.

I returned to Croteus with the Prial Wings who then told me to report to Ruirven in Nasdaim. I jumpped on the subway and headed for Nasdaim. Ruirven asked me about becoming a Dragon Knight and to report to Major Macham in the Ancient Ruins just outside Nasdaim. Major Macham began my initiation into the order and told me based on my past acts of bravery I was exempted from the trials and that all that I had to take care of was my rite of passage. That being to slay a Dracon. Sounds easy enough. I headed off to North Helm to clash with this foe. Dispatching the Dracon was a lot easier then Major Macham made it out to be and with axe in hand I happily headed back to report of my success. Upon handing the axe to Major Macham a stark look of surprise hit his face. He told me that the axe I brought back wasn't the type used by the Dracons they hunted and asked me to take it to Dervius the Third in Nasdaim who's an expert in dragonology. Dervius told me that these Dracons always travel in groups of four and that the other three wouldn't be happy that I slew their friend and that I would have to slay them as well before they hurt innocent people, but first I would have to report to Macham. Dervius also gave me a tip that the Dracons grow stronger with flame and that I should use an Ice Crystal to defeat them. I checked back in with Macham and then headed back to where I slew the first Dracon to hunt down and slay the other three. Upon returning to Macham after slaying the other three Dracons he gave me my Dragon Knight Insignia and made me an unofficial Dragon Knight saying the Knighting Ceremony would take place once the General returned at which point I would become an official Dragon Knight. He also mentioned that I would be working under General Troima and that I was to report to him first thing in the morning. I decided to head back to my room and call it a night. Sounds like I'm going to have a busy day tomorrow.