# Cutting Down the Numbers

**Quest No Raw**: 197278
**Quest Group (questGroupNo)**: 670
**Entry (questId)**: 3

## Giver Label

_Black Spirit_

## Objective

The Black Spirit proposes that you kill more Mask Owls to get more experience and to help out the people of Florin.

_Reduce the number of Mask Owls;_

## Rewards

Rewards this quest can give. Choice rewards are marked separately.

### Item Rewards

- **Quest Reward** — [Black Stone](/item/16001.md)
- **Quest Reward** — [Gold Bar 10G](/item/3.md)


## Summary

We did good.
You know, right? You believe me, right? You really do, right?

## Related Quests

Nearby quests from the same group, prerequisite quests, quest chains, challenge links, and branch choices.

### Earlier Steps

- [Their Weapons](/quest/131742.md)


### Quest Group Entries

Other entries in the same quest group, shown in in-game order. Check each quest page for its own requirements.

- Entry #1 — [The Scary Owl](/quest/66206.md) — The Black Spirit says there are walking owls farther north of here. Find out what they are.
- Entry #2 — [Their Weapons](/quest/131742.md) — The Black Spirit finds the equipment used by the owls fascinating and wants to take it.
- **Current:** Entry #3 — [Cutting Down the Numbers](/quest/197278.md) — The Black Spirit proposes that you kill more Mask Owls to get more experience and to help out the people of Fl...
- Entry #4 — [Report Back to Norma Leight](/quest/262814.md) — The Black Spirit says that is enough, and suggests that you return to the Northern Wheat Plantation.