Upon arriving at the borders of the Rainforest Vale, I immediately began to use Essence Manipulation to control two types of essences in the plants nearby. Morian's Essence had rooted itself deeply in the plants, completely mixing and blending in with the plants' essence. After a few minutes of pulling and exerting, I was able to pull all of the Morian's Essence from the plants' essence. I collected the essence and stored it in a jar. I was just about to finishing gathering my second batch when a giant Guardian Dragon flew out of nowhere and barreled towards me. I jumped backwards to dodge, losing focus and letting the Morian's Essence back into the second batch of plants.

Fortunately, before I let go of the Morian's Essence, I secretly injected some of my Maker's Essence and mixed it into the Morian's Essence. When the Morian-Maker Essence mix mixed back into the plants, I could feel the essence coursing through the plants and back to Morian's main body. Because my Maker's Essence cannot be sensed by beings that cannot generate their own Maker's Essence, they would not be able to feel or sense my Maker's Essence coursing through their veins or in their vicinity. Anyways, back to the real problem at hand. I peeked at the Guardian Dragon and found that it was a Poison Dragon. Wonderful! I needed some poison to train my Thousand Poison Art.

The Poison Dragon charged towards me, mouth open as if getting ready to fire something. Just as it was about to do so, I used Flow Like Wind and appeared below the dragon, under its mouth. With a powerful Dragon Palm upwards at its bare chin, I knocked its mouth closed just as the first vestige of its Acid Breath appeared. With the mouth closed, the dragon's Acid Breath backfired and went up its nose, melting the insides. The dragon jerked its head upwards and squinted in pain. Taking advantage of the moment, I took out my Skinning knife and slit the dragon's throat and chest with two very fast slashes in succession. The Poison Dragon groaned and collapsed, dying. I walked to the side and thrust my knife in, penetrating the heart and ending its misery.

Afterwards, I stored the dragon into my ring and left. However, before I stepped out of the Rainforest Vale, a wave of visions/mental messages attacked me. I stumbled and collapsed outside the borders of the Rainforest Vale and into the East Barrier Mountains. My mind could not process the overload of information and collapsed. When, I came to, it was dark. Luckily, the place I fainted at was devoid of living things. I cannot remember much of the mental attack...all I could remember is pain...despise...sadness...imprisonment...and...and...Morian's bastard?!

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The next day, I went to collect more Morian's Essence from the plants in the Rainforest Vale. As I walked towards the destination, I saw a few hundred figures flying in the sky from the direction of the Rainforest Vale. As the figures draw nearer, I see that they were dragons...hundreds upon hundreds of dragons! There were Earth-type, Poison-type, and even Plant-type dragons. Upon closer examination with my Essence Manipulation, I can see that there are some dual-type dragons as well. These dragons...where did come from and where are they going? Could it be? Could they be Morian's Guardian Dragons? But why are they flying away from the place they're tasked to guard? I looked behind me at the direction the dragons were flying towards...isn't that Adventurer's City?!

Morian...he must have summoned most of his Guardian Dragons and sent them to besiege Adventurer's City! I immediately put on my mask - Mask of the Bomber and summoned Shadow. I told Shadow of the situation and then de-summoned him. When Shadow left, he left behind a normal clockwork spider. I stored the spider into my storage ring. Seeing the last of the dragon vanguard army flying away, I jumped into the sky and pulled out my Skinning Knife. With a swipe, I beheaded one of the unsuspecting Guardian Dragons. The other dragons were too busy focusing on their destination that they did not notice the death of one of their comrades. I quickly stored the Plant-type Guardian Dragon corpse and went on my way.

As I approached the borders of Rainforest Vale, I started manipulating the essences in the plants - separating Morian's Essence from the plants' essence. For every 6 parts of the Morian's Essence I extracted, I mix my Maker's Essence with the other 4 parts and fuse them back into the plants. After extracting a few vials, I sensed a disturbance within the trees with my skill Flow of Trees. Morian must have sensed my actions and has made a move against me. I jumped back out of the Rainforest Vale, but a ripple of destruction smashed into me. This ripple attempted to rip my soul from my body...but because I do not have a soul or rather my soul is bound to my body, I survived the ripple. Seeing me still alive, another ripple shot towards me from the distance. This time, this ripple attacked my body and attempted to vaporize me. As I "died" I used Rebirth by Fire and resurrected. At this time, I have left and hurriedly flew back to the guild. That was a close call.

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After reporting the situation of the dragons, I headed out once more to go collect some Morian's Essence. Arriving near the borders of the Rainforest Vale, I quickly collected Morian's Essence using Essence Manipulation. My efficiency and proficiency have increased significantly from previous quests and such things like extracting essence is easy. After extracting a batch of essence, I noticed a disturbance in the trees using Flow of Trees. Not wanting to experience what I had last time, I immediately left the premises. Reporting back to the guild after this short quest, I wholeheartedly prepared for the upcoming siege.