Operation: Benemal

After I have started skipping school there's no turning back. You can't march into the classroom and announce that you were "just running a little late". That takes you straight to the headmaster. The headmaster provides you with this glowing orb that you must smash into your element box and all of you collectibles with disappear. That wouldn't really matter except for that fact that there is a due date to have a certain amount of collected items and if you don't meet that requirement, it's off to the headmaster's. You get three trips to the headmaster before you're expelled. Here's one great thing about school in Benemal: They don't take notice if you skip the whole day. It's just being late. But, you can skip as much school as you want, but there is one test day after each 6 weeks of school. If you miss that test, you're expelled. If you fail that test, you're expelled. Pretty much any way you go, you head towards expulsion. The way I do it is skip a day, then I take a walk through the alley to the other side of town, where Xana lives. I ask her all about school, she teaches me things, and so on. But, I do limit myself to one "alley walk" a six weeks. Meaning, I can only miss one "learning before a test. It's kind of a nice system so today I head toward the trail that leads to the woods. When I get to the woods, I walk a little far and then stop. I can hear a soft humming. I peer around trees and even pull up grass. Nothing. Then suddenly, I see something white leaning against a tree. It turns out to be a spirit. Spirits have been gone for a long time. It was the kind of spirit we see in the books we read at school. The town elders banished them from the land because they kept decreasing the population by sending these dangerous quests that mostly people died on. Everyone tells tales of people driven insane by a spirit. I was always curious about them... so I decided to go say hello.
"Hello. I see that you are a spirit. I-- you're not really supposed to be in these woods."
"Neither are you."
"Yes, but it's my choice. I reason carefully."
"So do I."
"Listen, I think it's kind of great and awful that you're here. I mean--"
"Listen child of Benemal. I understand the elders have made these choices to protect you, but I think if they really want to protect everyone, they should let us do this. You see, all those quests have been trying to do the same thing. Slowly, the condition and the point of the quest has been getting worse over the years. This quest trial is our last chance. Will you take this perilous journey?"
"Don't I get to know what this is first?"
"No."
"Then... I decide..."