exposition and explosions

After taking care of the remaining magic cannons the the knights clear off, allowing the party to reveal the way to the hidden city. I first thought it would be some kind of mountain fortress or forest village, but I never expected it to be a giant floating city inside of a huge flying jellyfish monster! The group use the whale dragon to fly up to the city, and after talking to the elder they get a huge bunch of back story.

First off it seems that all the magic orbs are made from the large crystals that the talking monsters leave behind when they die. Basically the monsters absorb the small amount magic in the air during their life, and then when they die all that magic crystallizes into the crystals, then the elf-like people found that if they break down the crystals they can be utilized as basic magical batteries. To give these batteries function they embed a magical formula into them to basically instruct the magic as to what task it's to do. One of these formulas though dosen't need the stored magic of the orbs but can directly use the small amount of magic in the air around it, and it is this formula that is on the artificial orbs and give Estelle her healing magic. The down side of this is that the planet tries to produce more magic to make up for the amount used, if too much is taken out of the air the planet will flood the air with magic to compensate, making it toxic. To make things worse, some kind of giant magic eating monster is said to be attracted to high concentrations of magic and will eat the planet if the amount gets too high.

So hearing that using her magic can lead to the destruction of the whole world, Estelle kinda flips out and runs off. A short time later there is an explosion somewhere off screen and I saved the game before investigating it tomorrow.

Also there was another epic monster, but it was 20 levels higher than my group, so after losing several times I figured I would get it later aver I had gained some levels.