As I assume you’re already aware, we will need to prioritise the creation of an advantageous environment while we are fighting in Gelkmaros.

That’s why we’re making the effort to install as many aether generators as we can.

We’ve also put a lot of effort into trying to turn the Nunglark Ruins into an aether zone. We haven’t been successful with that yet.
Indeed. The Drana growing devices represent the most advanced Balic technology. They not only activate Drana, but they keep our generators from producing artificial Aether.

Even if we succeed in installing new Aetheric Field Generators, they will be useless unless we can destroy these Drana growing devices.

They are like living creatures, and they reproduce even if destroyed. Farbin is doing research into a way to permanently remove them, but he needs help. From you.






Ah, it's good to see you, Player. Brigade General Valetta said she was sending someone to help me.

I've been studying the Drana growing devices as she asked, but I can't give it my full attention. I'm quite busy, you understand, but here's what I've worked out so far.

The Aether generators and the Drana growing devices are too close! Drana devices grow Drana, Aether generators restore Aether. Back and forth, back and forth, like a stone slab I once saw at the Temple of D...




Oh. Right. Aether. Drana. As the two devices conflict, a special environment is being created. Anything that wanders nearby might be horribly mutated or killed. Or worse!

So, I'll need you to get some samples from the area. First some Marayas Wild Grass, a very common plant in this area, though not so common as Duggan the Elder mentions in...what was that book?

I'll be a moment finding this. You should also bring back some tissue samples from a Wilds Barghest and a Mutated Barghest Corpse. That should do it.






...that should definitely NOT have turned blue so quick...oh, you're ali...back. I'm pleased. This does ruin a theory I was working on.... I suppose I can discard this as an outlying datum. Problem solved!

I sent you for samples, as I recall? You're quite fast. Though not fast as the legendary Millicent, who ran twelve leagues in a single hour during the second rising of the f....

Sorry. Samples. Just let me check your hands for mutations first. We wouldn't want another outbreak like the Blistering Plague. Horrible! I have a book that lists every one of the four hundred symptoms....




Ah, you did everything just as I asked! I am aware it can’t have been pleasant, taking things from a corpse. But that’s all behind you now.

Now I can use this to make something that will be able to destroy the drana growing device. Instead of using physical force, we’ll use the power of chemistry to manipulate the structure of the drana growing device, rendering it harmless!

Brigade General Valetta has been waiting long enough… It’s time for some results!

(Shows you a bottle of liquid.) This drana solution will absorb drana from drana growing devices. That’s how we’ll destroy the growing devices.

Here you are. Use this to destroy the Nunglark Drana Growing Device.

Once it’s destroyed, put an aether generator where the growing device used to be. Use this summoning stone to summon it.

You’ll only be able to summon one aether generator, so put it where the Nunglark Drana Growing Device currently is.
The results of your efforts are already plain to see. The Wilds Barghests are already getting weaker.

We discovered that the tissue we got from the Wilds Barghests has absorbed large amounts of drana. Now that aether is flowing properly again, the Wilds Barghests aren’t so powerful.

It’s all thanks to you destroying the drana growing device, Player. That aether generator you set up in its place is working well.

I must inform my superiors of the good news.

Please go and see Valetta and tell her the news, Player. She’s been waiting to hear back for a while now, so I’m sure she’ll be pleased.
This is great news. Far more than I expected. This may mark our first real victory in Gelkmaros. Now that we know how to destroy Drana growing devices, we will be able to advance to Tiamaranta in no time.

Words cannot express my gratitude, so instead I will merely give you this. I hope it is enough.