The monastery looks undefended

The walk to the monastery is long and silent. Tlax constantly casts suspicious glances at your goblin allies, while the goblins mostly look as if they expect opening their mouths will lead to their last words before they end up in her stomach. Only the rogue looks unfazed, but he shows no interest in talking and his expression is hard to discern below the black bandana that covers the lower half of his face like a mask. For your part, you can't help but appreciate the silence. It gives you time to imagine your sprawling domain, the wyrm of Imporne prostrating herself at your feet while you're attended by several buxom servants. You daydream of your encounter with Ari the priestess and of snake women with a bit more woman and less snake.

A flick of Tlax's tail on your shoulder snaps you out of your reverie and back to reality. Just ahead of you, the undergrowth thins out as it gives way to plains, and just at the edge of the trees you see the promised monastery. It's a plain compound, made up of the temple, a drab building that presumably serves as living quarters, and some open space whose purpose you can't make out behind the makeshift wall made of limestone slabs. A lone monk stands hunched over at the oak gate. You motion to the goblins behind you, and the masked rogue nods and vanishes into the underbrush with his comrades in tow. Following behind, you make your way to the wall adjacent to the edge of the forest and your whole group begins to climb (or slither up) the craggy wall.

The inside of the compound is just about as plain as the outside. Most of the open space seems to make up a plain vegetable garden, with a small pen for animals over in the far corner. Hiding behind a small grove of trees, you watch as a bald, robed priest seemingly materializes out of thin air and walks over to talk to one of the monks. You check his character sheet to reveal he's a level 1 priest of Enileve and was apparently just created. Is this where adventurers come from? After a few words, he heads over to the vegetable garden and starts picking vegetables. Strange.

"Kill bald guy?" the rogue whispers to you.

"No. He's just level 1. I killed a level 2 adventurer and he didn't have a crystal. Let's not risk alerting the guards for no reason." He nods. "You're the stealthiest one here: Tlax, the other goblins and I will keep an eye out for any higher level adventurers while you see what you can find inside. Remember, I'm looking for what looks like a magic crystal and fancy-looking wax candles. Prioritize those if you have to choose."

You've barely finished speaking when he darts away, flitting from shadow to shadow. Next thing you know he's vanished into the church. He would make a useful minion: now you just need to find out how to win him over to your side.

Meanwhile, the first-level priest seemingly wishes he had chosen the "Farmer" class. At least, if there were such a thing. You can't imagine why else he's now catching a few sheep which seemingly escaped from their enclosure while lugging a sack full of vegetables on his back. Adventurers just get stranger and stranger the more you learn about them. Finally, after you've almost nodded off, he wrangles the last sheep and walks back to the priest. With a sudden flash of light around him and an "Oh" sound like a note from a choir, his sack vanishes and you check his character sheet to discover he's now level 2. Really? Adventurers can level up just by digging up vegetables and bullying sheep? As if life wasn't already unfair enough! He turns and resumes digging up vegetables. It isn't the fastest you've seen a new adventurer gain levels, but it's still way faster than anything you've done and completely risk-free.

Or at least, it would be risk-free if there wasn't a group of monsters hiding in the trees. After dozing off watching him go back to farming, you feel yourself being shaken awake by the rogue who holds up a grimy sack. You thank him and explain what you're waiting for before checking what he found.

Goblin Sack
Ornate Wax Candles (20)
Jeweled Goblet
Ruby Necklace
Silver Rod
Take Some/Take All

"No find shiny blue magic crystal. Find candles and other things." He shrugs apologetically.

No mana crystal? Well, that marked off the altar at least. Your thoughts of it might do are interrupted when another "Oh" announces that the priest has levelled up again. "Get him!" You signal to the goblins.

A volley of arrows, a firebolt, two jagged knives, and an encouraging hiss from Tlax immediately kill the priest and the monk standing beside him. You see the other monks in the courtyard simply flee in terror, while doors to the buildings suddenly slam shut. That was almost too easy. You run over and loot the priest, to discover he only had the claimant crystal, 20sp, and 12cp. He hadn't even bothered getting any gear, probably because he figured he was totally safe with his very boring levelling method. You hand the crystal to the rogue and get ready to burn down the temple door for a more thorough search when you hear a loud trumpet ring out and see a popup appear in front of you with a picture of your face staring back at you.

World Quest: Fire in Enileve's Garden
A boss monster is attacking the local monastery and trying to steal its mana crystal! Calling all brave adventurers to defend it!
During this world event all experience point gains for participants are doubled. Monsters have a small chance to drop exclusive collectible items.
Destruction: 0/100
Success (The monsters are driven off or defeated): All heroes who killed at least one monster gain 1000xp.
Failure (The monastery is destroyed): The mana crystal is stolen, and a new mana crystal must be placed here before the monastery respawns and new quests are available.

The good news is you now know where to get a mana crystal. The bad news is those quest rewards look pretty good: every low-to-mid-level adventurer or completionist near Imporne is probably heading your way right about now. So much for stealth.