Phew, thanks to you one of my tasks has been completed.

Still, I have a mountain of work ahead of me.

There are many reports to sort and dozens of matters whose progress must be monitored.

(sighing) It would be really nice if someone would help.

• You ask if you can help.

Ah, that you’re helping me, I’m very grateful.

It’s not a particularly difficult task. You just need to deliver my master’s greetings!

If you follow the path east from here and pass through the Phanoe Gate, you’ll find Philon’s camp. Meet Philon there.

• You end the conversation.

Quest: Fulfil the request of the student Ambred.

Hm? Did Ambred send you?

Hehe, oh, how surprising. Apparently he sent you because he himself didn’t feel like working.

It can’t be helped; this is also your fate.

That you came this way is also fate.

• You keep listening.

Have you perhaps visited Scar Canyon in southern Inggison? There Tiamat’s curse turned everything to stone; it’s a land everyone fears.

The problem is that the petrification spreads like a disease. Many scholars have been called in to find ways to stop its spread.

But recently I’ve discovered something astonishing.

• You keep listening.

That the Land of Wailing Stones is actually a fragment of something!

At first I thought I’d discovered petrified Balaur Bones, but it’s something else.

The petrification consists of an accumulation of fragments. These fragments could be organic in origin.

I’ve begun to study this petrified formation, but I still have no evidence I can state aloud. To verify whether my hypothesis is correct, I need a representative specimen.

• You keep listening.

I've done excavations at many sites, but this is by far the hardest I've ever done.

I wanted to take some samples to determine the identity of the massive petrified mound, but they wouldn’t come away. Somehow they behaved as if they were living organisms that didn’t want to separate.

You’re probably a bit stronger than an old, feeble scholar like me, aren’t you?

If you examine Western Petrified Mass, Eastern Petrified Mass and Southern Petrified Mass, that would help me greatly.

• You end the conversation.

(You see petrified ground.)

(On closer examination, it looks like a large fragment.)

(It appears to be connected to the other fragments.)

(You try to take a sample.)

(But that seems to be physically impossible.)

(You try using the essencetapping method.)

• (Collect the marker of the Western Petrified Mass.)

(You see petrified ground.)

(On closer examination, it looks like a large fragment.)

(It appears to be connected to the other fragments.)

(You try to take a sample.)

(But that seems to be physically impossible.)

(You try using the essencetapping method.)

• (Collect the marker of the Eastern Petrified Mass.)

(You see petrified ground.)

(On closer examination, it looks like a large fragment.)

(It appears to be connected to the other fragments.)

(You try to take a sample.)

(But that seems to be physically impossible.)

(You try using the essencetapping method.)

• (Collect the marker of the Southern Petrified Mass.)

(After all the markers have been removed, a faint tremor seems to pass through the area.)

(It seems as if you now know the locations of the monsters in Scar Canyon.)

(Exercise extra caution before a fight.)

• You end the conversation.

Have you examined the traces of petrification?

Your face shows you have good news; please tell me what it is.

• It’s said that a specimen was taken from the traces of petrification.

(He takes the sample and looks guilty) Hm... as I expected. I actually thought the traces of petrification in Scar Canyon were evidence of a major cause of petrification.

But when I see this specimen, my suspicion seems to be correct!

That the traces of petrification in Scar Canyon come from Petralith, astonishing! I’ve discovered that Petralith existed in Inggison!

• ‘That I took the specimen...’

Ah, you’re still here?

Does it matter what you found? The important thing is that I discovered Petralith in Inggison. Hahaha.

Well, do you have anything else to say?

If not, go to Vrius over there. He will give you an appropriate reward.

• You end the conversation.

Hm? Who was that again?

Ah, so you’re the one who helped Philon (forcibly).

• ‘What...?’

Now, don’t worry.

Since you helped with the investigations, you’ll need to carry out a task.

Let’s see what would be appropriate...

Good, that should be fitting.

The scholar Ambred asked that the matter be passed on to his teacher Philon, rather than taking it on himself.

When Philon took on the matter, he discovered unusual wounds at the petrification site.

Investigate the petrification sites, take samples and bring them to Philon. Philon will suspect they are the wounds of a Petralith and will be concerned.

Afterwards the legionary Vrius apparently received a reward from Philon.