Qlipot wasn’t simply a wooden ship that moved with the winds. There were many enchantments around it and many of them helped with the movements and directions.

It was also a layer that provided extra protection to the boat, but the main function of these enchantments was to help with the movements in the turbulent weather, to protect the people from dangerous attacks, and to attract the friendly creatures to the boat.

There was a special area in the basement of the ship where the sailors of Qlipot could get fishes, seafood of various kinds, an area where the tamed sea creatures or even Familiars of the people of the boat could gather valuable things, and there was an area that was completely open on all sides so it almost gave a feeling of an open aquarium.

This great ship had three distinct floors besides the deck and the basement and these floors, though mostly filled with rooms for the families that lived on it, also had many different rooms for entertainment and area for the children and the elderly.

Some places of the ship were delicate and were restricted to only those who had the authority to enter these places.

Not just anyone could enter these places since they contained sensitive materials, devices, or stuff that was dangerous for them.

Some places were specially used to store dangerous things like beasts that they were going to sell or tame to make it their own.

There were also places, rooms that were never opened for decades. Some that no one could open themselves without meeting certain requirements.

The very core of the ship, the heart that powered the enchantments as well as elements that required high, continuous energy to function, was one such area.

“Not just anyone could enter this place.”

Standing before a certain room, Alex smiled at Elio, Sera, and Victor who hadn’t been to this place before either.

The three of them were going to be the only beings who could enter this place and that too, for three distinct reasons.

“So, are you ready?”

“What do I have to be ready for? At least tell me that first.”

Elio had no idea why Alex had brought him all the way to this place.

He sure was surprised to see the whole community of this ship, all the people that lived here, all the different kinds of people that lived in the same place, as well as how they all lived together despite their own differences.

It was a new kind of experience for him since he had been to cruise ships that were as amazing as this one.

There weren’t many like this one in the real world, well at least by the size and scale of it, so he could not really compare them completely. But still, by the sheer size, he had been to those unique ships where people spend their entire lifetimes on.

There weren’t as many people on those ships as there were on this one, but since this was a fantastical world with magic and all, it wasn’t that unbelievable to him.

Still, the communities, the people, the things that they do on daily bases, their lifestyle in this place, the way they spend their time, the way they had divided their communities and the way unique cultures existed among them was something Elio wanted to study extensively.

It was quite a new concept for him, tens of thousands of people living in a single structure, so he was excited to go around the ship by himself and see the various things that were present here.

But Alex dragged him here, in this empty corner of the ship, where no one was present aside from this lonely corridor and this single blue door.

“Hehe, you’ll know when we get inside~. It’s going to be really amazing, I’ll tell you that much.”

It wasn’t like her to be excited about something. Actually, the way she was acting reminded him of the time she had discovered a cave near his house IRL that ended up becoming a secret hangout spot for their families.

But perhaps that wasn’t it this time.

There was something else that she was excited about, he didn’t know.

However, she sure as well was going to find out the reason for her excitement soon…

“Well then!”

She opened the door and a bright light exploded from the simple looking blue door.

And then, the next moment he knew, Elio was feeling his entire body being deconstructed piece by piece and in the very next moment, he felt as if something or someone was recreating his body in someplace else piece by piece.

-Ooooooooooooooong!

When he opened his eyes, he found Sera massaging her head, and Sir Victor was in a similar position.

Contrary to the rest of them, however, Alex was perfectly fine. It almost seemed like she was used to something like this.

“What the hell, Alex-.”

“Welcome.”

She pointed at the front, redirecting his attention to what she had brought them here for.

“To the heart of Qlipot.”

A chamber that looked much larger than what any of the places of this ship had been like.

Unlike the rest of the ship, this entire place was made of metal, a strange kind of metal that most certainly was not simple iron.

“What…”

At the center of this round hall, there was a crystal hourglass as large as the room itself, though there was no sand inside of it.

There was no certain light present in this entire hall, but the place was lit as brightly as a daylight ablazed library.

The floor was smooth, the walls were smooth, and yet, the air around them had a strange texture that was filled with something that wasn’t familiar to any of them… and yet strangely seemed comforting to all.

“What… is that…?”

The light in this room was not of a certain color like the simple daylight or the lights of the magical lamps though, the light in this place was a cumulative of all the colorful lights present in this place… all the lights that ultimately originated from the hourglass like object in the center.

“Spirits…”

“I can’t believe it…”

Sera and Sir Victor recognised these objects, these beings instantly. And, from the way Elio’s hands were glowing, from the way the marks in both Elio and Alex’s hands were glowing, it was evident that this was no normal ‘hall’.

There was something special about this… something, that a certain being would love to see.

“Call out Az and Miu.”

“Hmm?”

Elio was still in a daze right now.

Before him, there was a glass structure that resembled an hourglass but there was something strange about this.

While certain colors dots, spirits as they knew now, appeared at the very top of the structure out of nowhere, the dots were moving from upside to downwards and the beings that were coming down were slowly vanishing as well, presumably reappearing outside of the structure.

It was a strange phenomenon… it almost seemed like the spirits were appearing on the top of this… thing… and then were coming out of it from the bottom of it.

Then they spread out across the entire room, some even passing through the strange metal and going out of this closed space.

Seeing this had mesmerized him, he did not even respond to her when she called out to him and asked him to take out his little friends from his special inventory, so she had no choice but to pinch him.

“Awwww! Aw aw aw! Hey!”

“Az and Miu. Take them out and then admire this place… I cannot see anything anyway, so show me how you see this place while you’re at it.”

“…hmm? What?”

Elio has an affinity for Natural and Unique magic but not for Elemental magic, but it did not mean he could not use any elements.

He was a strange individual that had affinity for all six of the common elements and perhaps more while Alex on the other hand, had an oppression to elements themselves.

She could not only not use any elemental magic, she could not even perceive any elemental spirits that were representations of these elements naturally.

Elio could see all these spirits naturally, Alex could not see any spirits in this place at all, while the Servants of both of these two, the beings that were an essence of their past stories, could see this entire place in a completely different way than these two.

“I cannot see them so show me! And bring out Az! It’s the only elementalist we have, dummy.”

By nature, elementalists were beings that could naturally interact with the spirits and the spirits themselves showed interest in them.

“Ummm… okey?”

In the past, Alex had a elementalist as her servant. A being that was one of the closest friends that she had ever had.

His name was known throughout the six realms, he was one of the strongest when it came to pure power, he was also one of the few beings in the entire world to have contracts with Epitome of spirit world, the kings and queens that rules ove the entire realm of the spirits.

He was someone she respected immensely, and he was also one of the first servants she has had, her third servant to be precise.

‘That bastard almost died on me…’

She had lost her closest friends, her servants, and she had lamented their deaths. She had avenged those who needed to be avenged and she had punished those who were responsible for the deaths of her dumb ones.

Some also gave their life for her when she didn’t even ask them for it, but that’s simply how they were. That’s simply how He was.

But thankfully, he did not die.

She was just sealed with many of her powers, the other servants, and her cute little goody.

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“Miu?”

“Muuu… muuu!!! Muuuuu?!”

Miu and Az were here. And, as soon as they appeared in this place, a storm of light rushed towards them.

“What the hell?!”

And then… well, the rest of them were covered by the various spirits of various elements from all sides.

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