I became a skeleton but I have a questionable skill

ch: 08

The leviathan was defeated but who were these strange people before me. I was gonna ask them but the soft feminine voice inside my head interrupted me.

“Hey...HEY… Look, put the sword in the lake... Hurrrryyyy”

I tried to walk a bit slow to irritate her.

“Come on, fasterrrr;” the voice said

“Hey, where are you going??? HEY” The cool and stylish water elemental shouted

I looked back at him and I saw him chasing me. I unconsciously started running away from him and towards the lake.

He asked me; “HEY, why are you running?”

“Cause you’re chasing me;” I answered

“STOP RUNNINGGGG!!!”

“THEN STOP CHASING ME!!!”

While the water elemental was chasing me, the other three started having a conversation

“Why is Diluvion (water elemental) chasing that young knight?” said the earth elemental questionably.

The air elemental replied in a shy manner; “I-I don't know, maybe it’s important, sir Silva (nature elemental)”

“Don't worry about them, Silva. Zeph (air elemental) use your magic to push Diluvion to that knight” said the fire elemental

“Yes, sister Flamma (fire elemental)” she answered excitedly.

The water elemental, Diluvion, suddenly flew towards me as if he was thrown. He tackled me and we both fell to the ground. With my energy drained, I let the sword slip within my grasp. It flew to the lake and was plunged under the water.

“WHAT THE HELL, Flamma, what did you say to Zeph this time?” Diluvion shouted

The lake shined bright and all of our attention was focused on it. A strange naked girl slowly appeared in the water. Her pearl white skin and the golden-brown hair that was so long that it touched the sole of her feet was steadily rising above the lake. She dashed towards me and as she was running, she tripped on her long hair and plopped on the ground.

I went and said, “ Hey are you alright?”

She looked at me with her beautiful black eyes, then suddenly jumped on me and we both fell on the ground. She sat on top of my armor and slowly got close to my face.

She whispered in a soft voice; “thank you, for freeing my father… and me.”

I can feel the sadness and regret coming from her voice. I was the one who killed her father and now she’s thanking his killer. I was planning on talking to her but she lost her strength and passed out on top of me, I thought that everything was over but her body shined and the next thing I know, she turned into the sword that I was using.

I was struck by the realization, she was sad because not only did she thank me for doing it, I also used her to slay her own father.

I questioned myself “Why? This is too cruel. How did things turn out this way?”

“It’s because of the smile’s curse” Diluvion responded to me in a calm and serious manner.

I stood up from where I was and looked at him, I asked “what is… smile?”

“Let’s get back to my lab and talk” he replied as he put on his glasses.

“Wait, are we going down that huge body of water?” I asked him worriedly, for I don't have enough strength to swim anymore.

He smirked and replied to me “don’t worry, this is only one of the si- five regions and I live in the capital so you can rest in a carriage while we’re traveling”

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*neigh, NEIGH*

A high-pitched sound uttered by the horses woke me up. I was inside the carriage with Diluvion. I looked outside the window and he said with open arms. “Welcome, to the capital of the Abyss, ADAMANTINE”

A massive long wall and a huge gate were in front of us, then without notice, the ground shakes and an earth giant started to sprout out of the land. They opened the huge heavy gate and permitted us to go through.

As I went inside, it was much greater, much grander than the previous village, or so I thought. It was just a normal city. The houses and the buildings were made out of woods and bricks and they all look the same. Everywhere you look it's the very same house. It looks like a normal town but the people are still elementals.

I was bewildered by the houses so I asked; “Why are the houses so identical?”

“You’ll see soon enough. Oh. We’re here, this is my house.” he replied to me, smirking.

It was just like the other houses. The same identical one, nothing was special or noteworthy in this house until we went inside. As he opened the door, I was greeted by his manor.

Shocked by the sight, I unconsciously blurted out, “A house… inside a house. This place never ceased to surprise me.”

The bush on both sides and archway vines on the top was like a path towards his property and a huge three-tier water fountain in the middle of his front yard.

I asked him “how is this possible. A small house like that could fit a huge manor inside”

He proudly stated; “I invented this spatial room using the scale of the dead space dragon underneath the city, it’s a 1 to 50 ratio from the house outside.”

I looked at him immediately, I was surprised by what he said “space dragon?!!”

“Ahh, we’re here, at the manor.” Diluvion tried avoiding the question.

He opened the wooden front door inwards and a breast of a woman was in my face. I looked up slightly and it was the fiery girl before.

“What took you so long?” she said with her head held high.

“We took the carriage, he was tired. What do you want?” Diluvion replied in a seemingly pissed manner.

“What do you mean? We four live in the same house. Anyways Zeph was playing in your lab.” Flamma said calmly.

Diluvion quickly ran to his room and left me with this hot girl. She put her arm around my shoulder and whispered to me; “aren’t you curious?”

I moved away from her because she might notice that I’m a skeleton.

Flamma laughed at me and said, “don't worry, c’mon follow me.”

She walked towards Diluvion’s room and entered it. I tried to follow her and prepared myself for the worst but as I entered his room a stair leading downwards was beside his bed.  I was on my guard while going down slowly but as I reached the end, I peeked my head a little bit to see what’s going on.

“What are you doing there, sir Greed” a deep voice spoke behind me.

I quickly looked back with a slight fear and it was the nature elemental standing on my rear.

“What are you doing there? Come inside.” It was Diluvion’s voice but his tone was different.

I walked inside his laboratory and his aura was a lot different from before. Wearing his glasses and a lab coat and sitting in a serious form. The four of the elementals are inside the room as if it is something important.

Diluvion stated; “Do you know her real name? the sword, I mean.”

I replied confusingly; “no? Who is she?”

“Vivien... that her previous name,” Flamma replied.