I didn't recover from my awe at the divine fragment in front of me for nearly five minutes as my mind raced with the implications of this information. Once I did recover though I pocketed the frade 5 water stones and recalled Gaia back to her ball. Sparing o look at the tooth I then swam back across the ke to where my torch was. An iing thing I had noticed before I recalled her was that Gaia was fie the sheer amount of pure water type energy in the air though she looked a bit unfortable.-

  'Nonmove based energy must not be detrimental to pokemon with flig types though it also isn't good for them either it seems.' I thought curiously as I swam across the ke. 'I wonder why that is exactly?' I thought totally unaware that it was a very hot topi the stifiunity of this world. I would tter learn this of course but at this time it was merely one of my many questions about this new world of mine. Once I reached the other shore of the ke I released Gaia again who looked unhappy about her stay in the ball however short.

  I was sure that it wasn't unfortable within the ball so it robably b instead. The reason I could know this was that no pokemon would be ok with staying in a ball if it was unfortable for them. "Help me dig out some of these glowing crystals so I see on the way back." I said and Gaia nodded befoing to work on the crystals. In the end I got two foot long carrot-like spikes of glowing crystal that I had Gaia carefully create a hook at the top of.-

  I carefully looped those hooks through the belt loops of my jeans at either side of my hips which didn't mess with my movement as I walked. "Hmm , I'll o secure them better ter but for now this works." I said as we left the cavern and the glow from my crystals allowed me to see te away from me which was enough in my opinion. It was still fairly dark but I could deal with this level of shaded surroundings. We didn't get into any more fights on the way out but I did find a gold about the size of my thumb that was hidden on the backside of a stone which e missed it previously.-

  After about an hour of walking we finally left the caves and I immediately had Gaia colpse the entrah rock slide. I didn't want to share my discovery with anyone else so leaving the entrao the caves open was impossible for me. I eve so far as to have Gaia create a small rockslide that erased the path we made to the cave just to be extra sure it wouldn't be found on act.-

  We walked down the mountain carefully after that so as to not leave a trail which was harder than you think. I myself earned exhausted arm and shoulder muscles as well as several cuts on my palms for the effort. Using the little bit of daylight left Gaia and I washed up and drank some of the water from the gcier stream a bit from our base camp cave. I ed my palm injuries as well while we were there before heading to the base camp for the night. Once safe I immediately accepted my rewards from the quest.-

  3 random item tickets , 1 exp ticket and 1 ability ticket ticket were all deposited in my bag as I had pleted each of the objectives for the quest. First I grabbed the exp ticket and tore it in half but rather than send it to Gaia like before I chose to use it on my Aura skill. That was the best decision ever as immediately I had a rush of memories like I had been practig the skill for aire month and just remembered it. It was freaky how one sed I was a total novice at the skill and the I had a rough grasp over the fuals.-

  In my status the skill was still beled as a novice skill but I khat I wasn't a plete amateur at it any more. I couldn't project my aura or read minds or anythi but the primary ability to activate and sense ones own aura ossible if I meditated now. This alone came with the huge be that I healed faster than normal humans without aura skills. There was a dowo the skill however in the form of needing to e a rge amount of calories to repce whatever ent.-

  After familiarizing myself with my new level of profi the skill I moved on to the ability ticket. Uhe other tickets I've gotten so far that was bd white the ability ticket was a shiny rainbow color. I assumed this meant it was very valuable and immediately tore it in half. In the system menu a resple brightly glowing rainbow colored roulette wheel appeared with a variety of choices. Giving my agreement the wheel started to spin and pick up speed until it was a swirling rainbow circle that hurt my eyes to look at.-

  After spinning for a mihe wheel started to slow down aually stopped and I learhe true meaning of "double edged sword". See what I got was [Improved body v1] which as I learned immediately afterwards meant that my ENTIRE body got the same rapid adaptatioment as my feet did the day before. I have holy never been in so much pain before that suicide started to look like a viable form of escape but I was sorely fug tempted. I couldn't scream as all of my muscles locked up as my skin , hair and nails dried up and ushed out by ronger versions.-

  After that was my muscles that tore and stitched themselves together throughout every iny body over and ain to grow denser and stronger. Ohat was done came the by far worst part in my opinion as my bones disied before ref much stronger and sturdier like if I had broken them everywhere at once befeing. The pain was frankly unreal when that part happened as anyone who has ever broken a bohout adrenalio numb it could attest.-

  The final step was that my ans were basically reformatted into a slightly stronger and more perfect state that caused me to throw up all over the ground. This process took nearly fifteen minutes and if Gaia hadn't left to go hunt dinner she would defihink I was dying during that time. Despite the pain ending I didn't return to my normal state of mind for at least another fifteen minutes. Gaia retur that point and immediately dropped the Zigzagoon corpses she had in a panie chee. "I-I'm fine , just give me a moment." I said quietly and she rexed a little bit but still watched me worriedly.