Elementrium: World of Elementalist Online

Chapter 19

"Come on, let's dive in." Both of them said excitedly.

"Like right now?" I asked, I look at my watch and it was already past 6PM.

"Of course, the maintenance is already done, we can now log in the game." John said.

I took my VRHL from them and look for a spot in the living room to lie down.

"Meet you guys back at the center of Estria," James said as he went inside of the game.

"Wait, your in game name." John asked but James has already entered so we don't have no choice but to follow.

"Activate." I said, the VRHL vibrated and a hummed as my consciousness got sucked in.

A bright light clouded my vision, I opened my eyes few minutes after I feel like it's safe to open them. We we're back at the sanctuary where we logged out. Right, it is a safezone and so we never tried to go back to Estria.

"You have your gemporter ready?" Ailus asked.

"Uhm, I have my Shadow Travel skill, I don't need gemporters anymore." I told him as I scan the sanctuary. I checked my friend's list and Lyric's not online.

Gonna go back to Estria to meet a friend, maybe we can continue the quest for some other time. See you later if you ever go online today.

-Aisen

I was about to send it when suddenly she appeared in front of us.

"What a coincidence." She said excitedly, as she greet us with a smile.

"Yeah it is." Ailus said as he stares at her, he's too obvious.

"I was about to send you a message saying we we're going back to Estria, we're going to meet a friend of ours." I told her.

"Great, to be honest I don't want to continue the quest. Maybe we could do it some other time, we still have a long way to travel and I'm afraid that it'll be more dangerous if we continue." She said with fear and disappointment evident on her face.

"Yeah, what happened was a little bit traumatizing, good thing we survived." Ailus said with relief.

"Yeah, well anyways. Let's go?" I asked them, both of them nodded and already have their gemporters ready.

"Ok, see you there." I said as I sank into the shadow, both of them looked shock of course, especially Lyric. Haven't they seen this last time? Anyways I was already in the shadows, I opened my map and clicked Estria.

"My head," I said as I travel through the shadows, I really need to get use to this fast, this headache is killing me.

Few minutes passed and I'm back to Estria. I resurfaced feeling so nauseous and dizzy I was about to fall when suddenly someone caught me.

"You alright?" He asked as he help me stand straight.

"Yes, just not used to using thay skill." I said as I balance myself so I wouldn't fall again.

"Aurum." He said as he offer his hand for a shake.

"Aisen." I said as I took his hand and shake it.

"So, what was that you did a while ago? You just suddenly appeared from the shadows." He said curiously.

"It's a special skill of the demon race, only a few have it and I was lucky enought to have it. It's a form of teleportion skill which is useful but it's really hard to use." I said explaining it to him.

"Cool, that's awesome, I wish I have that skill. Anyways, I'm waiting for some friends so I'll be sticking around here a little more, might need someone to talk to at the moment so feel free to ask me amything." He said as he look around the crowd of players.

"Oh, same here. You seem pretty strong, what Element do you control?" I asked him.

"Great, let's wait here together. About that, you wouldn't believe me if I told you." He said as he gave me a wink.

"Try me." I said winking back, nothing will surprise me now.

"Ok." He said, what was he waiting for. Tell me now.

"Well?" I asked him.

"I have two elements." He said grinning evily.

"Really?" I asked trying to sound surprised.

"Yeah." He said as he held his head high up. "Steel and Ice" He then added.

"Wow, that's cool." I said with sparkling eyes. This player really thinks I'm surprised.

"Right? Having two elements is rare and at the same time it's really awesome." He said as he tap my shoulders. "How about you?" He added.

"Me?" I asked him pointing myself.

"Yes, you." He said pointing me too.

"At the moment..." I was about to tell him something when I heard someone scream my name.

"Aisen!" Screamed Ailus and Lyric as they walk towards where I am.

"Those are my friends." I told Aurum who's still waiting for me to say what I was about to say.

"What took you guys so long?" I asked them.

"You were just too fast, it didn't take us that long." Lyric said as she rolled her eyes.

"I didn't know that." I said as I look at Ailus and he too think it's funny.

"So..." Aurum said cutting me from laughing.

"Oh guys, this is Aurum. I was just talking to him when you guys showed up." I said introducing him to Lyric and Ailus.

"Ailus, nice to meet you." Ailus said offering his hand for a shake which Aurum took and shaked too.

"Lyric, nice to meet you." Lyric said as she also did what Ailus did.

"So, what are you doing here?" Ailus asked him.

"I am waiting for some friends, I don't know what's taking them so long but anyways, Aisen here is keeping me company for the time being so I'm thankful." He said.

"Great, we can keep you company for a while, we're also waiting for someone." Ailus said as he look around.

"Great, to be honest I don't know how to look for them. I forgot to tell them my in game name." He said looking worried. "I was too excited that I went in without even asking them their names." He added as he facepalmed himself.

I looked at Ailus and he was also looking at me, if I'm thinking what he's thinking, maybe this guy... Maybe this guy would be the one we've been also looking for.

"James?" Both of us said at the same time and to my surprise he responded to that.

"Jack? John?" He said as he immediately look at us with surprise and smiles happily as he go in for a hug.