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.

• "Then we must punch back."

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.

• "I will visit him immediately."

Order: We will need more Aether if we are to be victorious in Gelkmaros. Go to Valetta and accept her assignment.

Ah, it's good to see you, Daeva. 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...

• "You're rambling."

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.

• "I'd better not get mutated."

...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....

• "Please take the samples."

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, Daeva. 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, Daeva. She’s been waiting to hear back for a while now, so I’m sure she’ll be pleased.

• You end the conversation.

Greetings, Daeva. Did you talk to Farbin?

How is his research into expanding the aether in Gelkmaros going?

Is the Drana energy in the Nunglark Ruins still potent?

I heard that Farbin’s research was successful. Please tell me everything.

• "It wasn't easy, that's for sure...."

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.

Valetta explained that success in the war against the Balaur would be determined by controlling key territory.

Aetheric Field Generators installed in the Nunglark Ruins and the Marayas Scrubland were nonfunctional due to the presence of Drana growing devices there.

You helped Farbin collect samples, with which he made a solution that could destroy Drana growing devices.

You destroyed the Drana growing devices and installed an Aetheric Field Generator. Valetta rewarded you for your role in this great victory.