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[Quest]

Deliver the 'Key of the Two-Breathers' to Selena Darktide in exchange for three gems.

[Quest description]

Unlike the merciless ocean, where the strong devoured the weak, this cramped, dry island allowed even the powerless to survive by relying on others. Shahualin's mind had long since shattered. She had lived in human society for so long that she had almost forgotten she was not human.

Yet the nature of her ocean-born kin whispered constantly in her veins. She yearned for the sea's primal chaos, for the spreading bloodshed. These two identities tore at each other within her, leaving her lucid one moment and mad the next.

In her madness, Shahualin secretly killed the kin who had come with her, seeking only to obstruct the ritual and protect the land where she lived. In her lucid moments, she followed her people's demands, painstakingly drawing and maintaining the sacrificial magic circles used to collect blood and souls.

It was amid this fractured mental chaos that Selena Darktide gleaned the information she needed. Before their people's army could be told to advance, preparations for the ritual had to be completed. The most crucial step was recovering the 'Key of the Two-Breathers'.

This key came from an ancient civilization long since swallowed by the depths of history, an ultimate empire that had once ruled both the islands and the ocean. Its legacy still slumbered in secret. Only by placing the 'Key of the Two-Breathers' at the central intersection of the magic circles, then charging and activating it, could that ancient mechanism function again.

Only then would all the killing and scheming, all the sacrifice and waiting, truly have meaning.

Quest reward: 1,500 experience points.