>>5172274“Here, this may work better.” Chilli says, thrusting his staff down tip-first into the stone ground. “Crystal Magic: Luminous Crystals!”
And from the end of his staff, a small cluster of magical crystals suddenly begin sprouting. They rapidly grow over the next several seconds, quickly forming a half-dozen foot long crystals that radiate light. Chilli ends his spell, then cuts the crystals with his staff's magical blade. He tosses one each to Milha and Caulifla, then pitches the longest crystal to you. Ending your blast, you catch it in your left hand, and stick the crystal into the dark cave. It illuminates the darkness even better than your orb, you glancing back to your son and give him a thumbs up with your free hand.
“Excellent work Chilli. Let's see what's in here.” you say, turning back to the cave and stepping inside. At first all you can see is more of the same identical stone, but after walking deeper in a few feet come to a surprising sight: that giant wasn't alone. There is another one, but it looks different. It's body isn't ambulatory, instead it seems to have grown roots of some sort that are buried into the rocky ground. The hell?
“I've seen those before!” Caulifla says, walking right up to it without a care in the world. “This is a giant's tree! When a giant dies for good, it starts turning into a tree!”
“Giants turn into trees?” you ask her, wondering for a second how she could possibly know such a thing. But one glance to the shining pendant on her neck reminds you what it can do, and how she could have seen such a thing before.
“Hold on, I think I can get something...” she says, looking over the giant's living tombstone. She scurries around it a moment, looking around then stops with an 'AHA!' She then reaches up, plucking something from it and turns to present you all with what she found. “Look! I got one!”
“What is it?” Milha asks her, sounding just as confused as you are. “A fruit?”
“It's a seed!” Caulifla says excitedly. “These Giant Tree seeds are powerful, and hitting jerk invaders like those we fought earlier with one of these allows everyone to see and attack them!”
“That seems...Exceptionally powerful.” Chilli says, setting his staff down and rubbing his chin contemplatively. “But I can't sense any sort of magic coming from it, is it really magical?”
“Oh yeah, the Giants' magic is completely different than other beings.” Caulifla says without hesitation. “But it works really really well, Alva and Zullie showed me before.”
“Hey, look at this!” Milha calls, you all turning towards her voice. You see she'd gone deeper into the cave and is standing over something unexpected.
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