Professor Yondra Mefaal

**Yondra Mefaal** was an Archmage of the Griffon Kingdom, Royal Forgemaster, and Professor of Forgemastering and History of Magic from Black Griffon Academy. She was a member of the Kulah expedition team and was killed by the Odi.

## Appearance

The Professor was in her late 50's with shoulder-length grey hair. She wore Black Griffon Academy attire, a black magician's robe made out of a material that seemed to be made of living darkness.

After Lith gives her rejuvenation treatments, Yondra's body once again had the prowess of its thirties even though she still looked like a 60 year old woman.

## Personality

Despite her age Yondra had a fierce personality and had a shameless approach to getting what she wanted from people. In her pursuit of magical knowledge, she grew distant from her family to the point where they felt little compassion for each other. As the expedition progresses Yondra expressed regret over her past neglect and sought to reconcile with them.

## Equipment

Yondra crafted the Dampener, a useful tool that prevents other enchanted items from absorbing mana.

## Background

Yondra brought her Assistant Professor Rainer on the expedition to show that even being a historian required strength and guts. To search for relics, one needed to learn how to fight and face monsters and beasts.

When goblin-Abomination hybrid Korgh attacks the expedition team in the Laroxya Duchy crystal mines, Yondra and many other members are injured by the Abomination's Chaos spells while Phloria is severely injured due to not being able to block Chaos energy. Yondra attempts to order Lith to heal her assistant Rainer Lomann instead, and is knocked unconscious.

After the situation is resolved, Yondra apologizes to Lith and helps him construct a defensive array for their camp. Lith asks her about the Forge he saw from the Lost City of Huryole, and she explains about the mineral Davross and suggests Lith inherit her legacy at Black Griffon Academy after seeing how he successfully Forged an Orichalcum Skinwalker armor.

The expedition discovers Odi language markings leading to a set of giant gates that are the entrance to Kulah. High Command orders the expedition to continue and seal all communications with the outside, with Phloria taking command as the highest ranked officer. Lith grows closer with Yondra, asking her about runes. Yondra and Syndra are the only two Professors who don't object to destroying the ancient array on Kulah's city gates, deeming their safety more important than discovery. Upon entering the city, they are attacked by a fungal creature. Professor Syndra's assistant Calil foolishly uses a fire magic spell that detonates and spreads the creature's spores, infecting and killing several Professors and assistants while wounding the rest. Phloria opts to save Gaakhu, Ellkas, and Neshal over Professors Phesta and Syndra due to Lith, Phloria, and Morok lacking sufficient vitality to heal all of them.

Yondra pushes herself to the brink to heal Rainer and Gaakhu's assistant Nilla at the cost of damaging her life force, though the latter dies. Frustrated with her helplessness, she asks Lith to rejuvenate her and he agrees, seeing his old mentor Nana in her. Commander Berion orders the expedition to search Kulah, only leaving after making sure nothing left can endanger the Kingdom. The Professors sober up a little with the near-death experiences and loss of their colleagues. Yondra, Ellkas, and Gaakhu share their knowledge of golems and the Odi language.

The expedition splits up into two groups to explore the buildings, with Lith, Phloria, Yondra, and Ellkas consisting of the first group. The first building is a laboratory filled with dismembered members of various races in tanks. Yondra initially suggests preserving the lab to possibly use its technology to save the fallen Professors and assistants, but the horrifying way in which the prisoners were barely kept alive with their maimed life forces leads them to try to destroy it. However, Yondra's darkness spell ends up being absorbed by one of the creatures in the tanks, reviving the other meat puppets until they merge together into a pseudo-Balor.

Lith's group manage to destroy the creature, but immediately after using up their stored spells the other group runs into them with four prototype Flesh Golems on their trail. The two groups Blink back to the camp, where they attempt to destroy the creatures' power cores, with Yondra managing to suppress and destroy one.

Yondra divulges a little more about runes after Lith confides in her about his discoveries from Huryole, and Lith gives her a second rejuvenation. Later, as the expedition explores half of Kulah, they come across the headquarters. Neshal and Yondra help unlock the safe, discovering countless reports. From Ellkas and Gaakhu's analysis of the reports, they learn that the successful projects were moved to an underground facility. The expedition accesses the underground facility using the elevator in the headquarters building, inadvertently awakening the remaining Odi from their slumber deep underground. The world energy from the geyser is converted into a black miasma that devours all living life in the city and the crystal mine tunnels, forcing the Assistants and soldiers left in the camp to Warp into the elevator with the rest of the expedition.

The Odi lure the expedition to the Living Quarters, where they set loose a small army of completed Flesh Golems that kidnap the Assistants and Phloria's soldiers. Lith and Quylla manage to destroying several before the remainder of the expedition is forced to Warp back to the lobby. The Odi conduct another ambush, capturing Ellkas, Gaakhu, and Yondra, who plays possum to get behind enemy lines. Yondra kills her Golem captor and frees Gaakhu and Ellkas. They find their way to the cell holding the soldiers and Assistants and Yondra frees Rainer. Gaakhu and Ellkas abandon the other assistants and Gaakhu assumes command of Phloria's soldiers. They rush through the complex towards the Warehouse which holds Warp Gates.

Meanwhile, Yondra, Rainer, and Ellkas go the other direction towards the Magical Beast Breeding Center. Lith and Morok catch up with them, and Yondra teaches Lith how to use her Royal Forgemaster's Wand to activate dimensional runes. The group fights their way through swarms of Teks, Koas, and Thorns to reach the dimensional runes, with Yondra leaving Rainer in the rear with control over the elemental arrays to defend against any Golems. However, the Odi Jiira exploits the brief moment that the group separates to capture Rainer and kill Ellkas.

Morok attacks Jiira but he uses the God's Will Array and endless mana supply from the Mana Reactor to turn their spells against them. The Odi shatters one of Morok's hearts and uses Lith's Final Sunset to pierce through Yondra. He robs Morok's "corpse" and Yondra before leaving Lith for dead and Warping away. Yondra gives Lith her dying words, expressing regret for lacking as a mother to her children.

## Quotes

* *"No, she is a genius just as you are a moron!"* (Yondra to Morok, Chapter 646)
* *"I spent so much time researching magic that I almost lost my family more than once. My children may recognize my face, but they don't know me at all. That's why I want to retire and why I approached you. I want someone to relieve me of the burden of my magical legacy. Most of all, I know you can use rejuvenation magic. Please, give me back my strength! I beg of you. I can't keep living like a helpless fool, incapable of protecting even what she holds dear the most!"* (Yondra to Lith, Chapter 649)
* *"I called dibs already."* (Yondra to Gaakhu, Chapter 654)
* *"Crafty bastards achieve greatness whereas goody two-shoes die early because they're too stupid. That's how Mogar spins."* (Chapter 675)
* *"Please, tell my children that I didn't abandon them and that my last thoughts, even this last caress was for them. Tell them that I'm sorry I could never be the mother they deserved. I wasted my life, always giving priority to the wrong things. In the end, I let everyone down. My family, Rainer, even you. If only I could have one more..."* (Yondra's dying words to Lith, Chapter 712)

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 642
2. ↑ Chapter 674
3. ↑ Chapter 635
4. ↑ Chapter 631
5. ↑ Chapter 636
6. ↑ Chapter 637
7. ↑ Chapter 644
8. ↑ Chapter 644
9. ↑ Chapter 649
10. ↑ Chapter 650
11. ↑ Chapter 652
12. ↑ Chapter 655
13. ↑ Chapter 658
14. ↑ Chapter 663
15. ↑ Chapter 675
16. ↑ Chapter 685
17. ↑ Chapter 688
18. ↑ Chapter 692
19. ↑ Chapter 701
20. ↑ Chapter 708
21. ↑ Chapter 710
22. ↑ Chapter 712