Last minute advice

Azulis floated motionless letting his mind drift to memories of the last few years. His master El'Dari teaching him to speak, honing his divine sense over countless hours practice, listening to his masters stories as He absorb the natural energy around him, and for a moment he let his mind drift to the outside of this valley He's been to confined to, thoughts of treasure to collect , of beings to devour, of new companions to talk fill his mind. For in this valley it is only him and his master, as all others avoid this place to avoid becoming fertilizer for his master.

"Azulis" A voice shouts in his mind breaking him from his thoughts he floats towards his master taking in what little of his huge form he can which he told Azulis towers over one hundred meters tall while his trunk is fifty meters wide and said his roots spread over a thousand meters in every direction taking up a large portion of the valley including the only entrance as a result only birds and other beasts that fly live in the valley and even then they dare not come near El'Dari's territory for fear of flying to low and being caught by his roots.

"It is about time you leave and explore outside of this valley his master said to Azulis as he neared his El'Dari's trunk."

"Why do you allow me to go now when you denied me a year ago what has changed since then." Azulis asked frustrated.

"A year ago you had only just learned to speak at the level of a child and knew nothing of the creatures that reside in the mountain range now though you can speak at the level of the average human and know the most common beasts that reside in the mountain range."

"What use is the tongue of humans in presence of beasts would they care at level what I speak the human" tongue Azulis retorted.

El'Dari let out a exasperated sigh at Azulis's words. "Did you think the beasts are the most dangerous things out in the mountain range for you, no the true dangers for you are the adventurers that explore the mountain in search of treasure and beasts, which they hunt for their cores and whatever else they find value of among their quarry's body. You in particular would be valuable since elementals cores are among the most pure and lighting elementals are some of the rarest to find elementals rivaled by only a few others in rarity so you would be hunted more fiercely than most."

"If they hunt me they will be left only as blackened husks, they are merely hairless monkeys while I am nature's wraith incarnate." El'Dari sighed "Those furless apes you speak of have killed many beasts in this mountain a few even stronger than me, I have only remained alive as long as I have since they see nothing of value to be gathered in my valley and the cost of slaying me would far outweigh the benefit of what materials they could harvest from my body."

"That can't be true." Azulis cried shocked to his core, "you are one of strongest in the mountain even the mountain king wouldn't be willing to fight you easily."

"It is the truth my naive apprentice so promise me you will avoid them to ease this old ones concern" he said before giving a encouraging smile smile to Azulis.

"I promise that I won't pick a fight with the humans in the mountains but if they are foolish enough to seek it out I shall be more than happy to show them the error of their ways." Azulis said while pulsating to show his will to fight those who would wrong him

"That is all I can I ask I suppose" El'Dari said mildly amused at his apprentices impromptu light show. "Now remember when you kill a beast take its magic stone they contain a large amount of energy with the higher the rank of the beast the more pure and dense the energy in the stone will be, beside that their will be a larger amount of energy in the stone, though there will be some some exceptions to like a elemental for example considering they have no flesh and their energy is the only defense as such they have a larger due their reliance on as well as the manner in which they come in to being will make it more pure. A rank one elementals core would be around equal to a rank two magic beasts core."

"So I should hunt other elementals to advance at the fastest pace."

"No elementals are rare if you see one you should get it's core but you should focus on magic beasts, make up for quality in quantity for you as an elemental the purity doesn't matter much since your core will purify it to the utmost extent, so you need not worry like most would when absorbing beast cores of making your energy to impure, and hindering your future development."

"Is their anything else I should know" Azulis asked amazed at his races ability.

"No" El'Dari said hesitantly before pausing for a moment to think and letting out a much more firm no. "Now off with you you brat!" He said with a wave of his branch "Give this old tree some peace and quiet I haven't had any in years since I took you in I swear I'm losing more leaves by the year due to the stress you cause me."

Buzzing with laughter at the last part Azulis set out for the entrance of the valley seeing only small game and foliage on the way still his excitement grew with each minute as he got closer and closer to the exit of the valley by the time he made it to the edge of the exit he was glowing with excitement literally.

Realizing this would make him a target he decided to stop there fo the night to calm himself and mentally prepare for the hardships ahead.