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"Sounds good to me." Said Benjamin, he turned to the center, looking at a strange object. "There's a lightning rod at the center, I wonder what that does."

"It powers the city." Said a young woman, she had overheard their conversation and was quite curious about them. Her skin was quite pale, her eyes ocean blue and her hair silver with streaks of yellow.

"Knowing you, you'll be a battery or something." Muttered Elric to Nina. The woman smiled to Fara and Nina. "No, you're fine, so long as you're still in the city of course." She answered the family. "What brings you strangers to our land?"

The woman looked at them as if they were insane. "Oh, you don't want to go to the temple. You won't even get past all the lighting storms that have been intensifying. Why if it wasn't for the hammer, we wouldn't have been able to make the lightning rod, let alone have a proper conduit."

"A Hammer?" Asked Benjamin.

"Yes, I believe it's called Forge, a weapon that comes from Duo. We used it to create the lightning rod, it powers our city now as an alternate source of power now that our crystal reactor has failed."

Benjamin listened to the woman's words. It had to of been an Irrigan Original! This one however, he felt he needed to look at for himself. "Please take me to it."

"No can do." She objected. "It's the antenna of the lightning rod now. No one can get it without risking electrocution."

The woman looked at the ring in her hand. "I have no idea what significance that artifact holds, but I have seen another like it before in an antique shop. If you really think you can help our people, I will not object." She muttered as she began to walk ahead. "My name is Eloquin, I must not waste anymore time."

Elric turned to Nina and whispered. "She's pretty..."

"She has excellent hearing..."

And with that, Elric quickly silenced with a slight jump.

"It was black, around that size, but the color was mostly faded, dulled just as that one if that is what you mean." Explained Eloquin. to Benjamin and Elric, that sounded on the right track. In no time, she took them to the outskirts, the thunder plains.

"The temple is just past here. It's in the thunderplains themselves. The Lightning surrounding it warded away would be raiders and outsiders."

"No way you're going alone. I'm coming with you sis." Insisted Benjamin, he was also curious to see what else could he discover in Quintu. Seeing their eagerness, Eloquin answered them the siblings. "I believe it was called Dimmer Shimmer."

"Dimmer Shimmer, come on Fara, lets go look for it." Waving goodbye to Elric and Nina, Benjamin began to walk away in search of the Antique Shop. Meanwhile, the three others began making their way through the thunder plains. Luckily for them, Eloquin knew how to navigate the plains. She showed them that the ground beneath around them lit up whenever lightning was about to strike it.

((( You're, you're really going to make me explain this? )))

"The sand and dirt is littered with lightning crystals. These crystals react to lightning as you'd expect them to. Each one is dim, but there are so many crystals that the ground itself glows yellow."

"Wow, that's incredible." Said Elric, deciding not to say anymore than that. He'd rather not make a fool of himself again. She nodded her head and frowned a bit. "Even though it's dying, Quintu still warns her people from the wrath of her lands. So, I hope what you two are planning to do heals her."

((( It was a joke, besides I would had tried anyway. You're actually on the right path of what I planned to do. Destroyers were actually copies of the deities. The Wyvern of Uni, Phoenix of Duo, Leviathan of Tres Scorpion of Quatour and Thunderbird of Quintu. The actual deities have human forms and Nina can understand their speech. Giving them a prophecy though, got any ideas how we can make that work? )))

"Our people can actually withstand a direct shock of lightning, it's become so intense however that it hurts quite a lot. I can only assume it's fatal for anyone else." Said Eloquin, in no time, they made it to the temple. Quintu's temple was far different from the others. It was mostly an exposed altar, the same one Nina's parents had faced Revenant and his vile creation on.

"This is the altar, you have no fears of getting shocked once you're in the surrounding area."