Chapter 314 Darkness Elemental (1/2)

”A Darkness elemental? What do you mean?” Eisen asked rather confused, before Xenia grabbed the end of the staff and sligthly tilted it so that she could get a better look at everything. ”Basically, this just turned into a magnifying glass… kind of? And I know what elemental spirits look like because I can see them inside of everyone's body… So I can see a Darkness elemental in the distance right now. Although…” The high-elf muttered to herself, before scratching tilting her head to the side slightly.

”It seems kind of weird, to be honest…” She explained, and the old man looked down at Xenia with a frown.

”What do you mean, 'Weird'?” He asked, and Xenia swiftly explained. ”Well… We're still in the dungeon, right?” She asked with a wry smile, but Sigurd quickly appeared out of nowhere directly next to the two.

”My Mistress, that is simply because you can still see the outside world through the walls of the Dungeon. It is as if we're in a compressed space right inside of Fafnir's body, so what you're seeing like that is simply directly outside of him.” The Core Guardian explained, seeming rather curious about the item at the top of the Staff as well, before Xenia slowly nodded her head.

”I see… Thanks, Sigurd… But either way, it doesn't seem to be that far away. Eisen, should we leave the dungeon for a moment and see where the Elemental actually is?” Xenia asked with a light smile and dog eyes, knowing that Eisen still had work to do, but even then the old man couldn't really say 'No' to her just like that. After all, this would only help Xenia's skills further so that she would be able to properly use the staff at some point or another, and that's just exactly what the old man wanted to happen. It wouldn't be great if it simply stood around in random places, after all.

”Fine, but let's hurry up then.” The old man replied and immediately stepped toward the exit while Xenia followed him, and the moment they were outside, Xenia continued trying to pinpoint the location of the elemental.

”Ah! It's behind the ship!” She exclaimed excitedly before getting closer to the windows and trying to see how far exactly it was away, before noticing something rather peculiar which made her feel slightly like an idiot.

”So… It seems like the gem isn't a magnifying glass…” She explained with a wry smile, but Eisen just looked at her confused, before Xenia told him what she meant. ”It seems to focus directly on nearby elementals in a certain direction… Sure, it might magnify it, but that's not directly how it works… That's my guess at least, because I can see the elemental even without it... Because it's following about ten meters behind the ship…” Xenia told the old man in front of her, who simply shook his head with a deep sigh.

”Really? Then why didn't you notice it beforehand?” Eisen asked with a frown as he crossed his arms, before the High-Elf just shrugged. ”I don't know, I don't use Spirit Sight that often!” She answered immediately, and Eisen slowly sighed.

”Alright, at the very least we know how this thing works now. If it's a Darkness Elemental, maybe it's been following us ever since we went to the Mana Source. Do you know how we can get it on board?” Eisen asked curiously, and Xenia just scratched her cheek. ”Maybe we can just ask the skeletons to slow down a little bit… now that I can see it properly, it seems like it's just barely fast enough to to match our speed, so it should be able to get here when we slow down.” She explained, so the old man nodded his head and stepped out of the door and went down to the floor below the meeting room, the control center, where the 'Captain' of the Skeletons was sitting most of the time, and asked it to slow the ship down.

Immediately, the Skeleton stood up and saluted to the old man, before clattering its jaw while looking outside to the main deck, where the other skeletons seemed to react nearly immediately by pulling up the sails.

”Alright, that was easy enough, I guess.” Eisen muttered to himself and swiftly made his way back up to the Meeting room, although it seemed like Xenia was at the very top of the structure so that she could get a clearer look at the Elemental from there.

And to her surprise, it seemed like the elemental was able to get there quite swiftly now and 'Climbed' up the side of the ship. It didn't really 'Climb' anything, it was more like it slid across the surface. Eisen himself couldn't see any of this, but luckily, Xenia explained to him what was going on.

”The elemental is up here now… It's a Darkness elemental in the shape of a… snake? I guess? It's kind of sea-serpent-ish, but it's made of black mist…” Xenia explained, and Eisen slowly nodded his head. ”Do you want to make a contract with it? That's how it works, right?” The old man asked, and Xenia nodded her head, seemingly in response to both questions, as she extended her hand forward.

And before he knew it, Xenia opened her mouth and was speaking, although what came out of her mouth wasn't english, or any language that he knew of, actually, and soon enough, a three meter long pure black snake appeared out of basically nowhere.

”It worked!” Xenia exclaimed as she threw her arms up excitedly, and Eisen immediately turned to the High-Elf. ”What exactly just happened?” He asked with a wry smile, and Xenia just grinned at him. ”I was speaking in the spirit language. I can do that by just infusing my throat with my element, and whatever I'm saying will be directly translated into the Spirit Language. Basically, I asked the Elemental if it wants to form a contract with me, and it accepted and told me its name, so here it is!” She exclaimed while the pitch-black snake began to climb up Xenia's arm and slung itself around her whole body.

”You hate spiders more than anything, but you're fine with a three meter long snake? And didn't you say it's mist-like?” Eisen asked, and Xenia nodded before rubbing her hand over the snakes head.

”Yeah, well, Snakes and Spiders are very different! And yeah, when you make a contract with a Spirit, their form slightly changes, especially so with elementals.” She explained, before the snake began to move again, this time stretching its body directly into the air, before disappearing into nothingness again.