- Elsword: Denif!
- Ventus: Woah, you surprised me! If you're looking for the old man, he's out to look around the area. Bad timing~
- Elsword: I see. There's something urgent we have to talk about. I think all the priestesses should hear this too.
- Artea: Yes, of course.
- Add: Queen, can you explain what you said before one more time?
- Eve: ... Mr. Adrian used El energy when traveling from Elrios to Elysion. Was that such an important factor?
- Ara: Hmm... why do people end up using El's power whenever they are travelling through dimensions or moving across space?
- Aisha: Hmm... Everything in Elrios is based off the power of El. The magic and mana we magicians talk about it essentially similar to the power of El. Therefore, maybe they had no other option but to use the power of El?
- Add: I thought the same thing at first, but I figured out something strange. Hey you, can you tell us what happened in Velder one more time?
- Elesis: Demons opened the portal using the Earth El, then the demon army poured out from there.
- Rena: That's right. Something is strange! There's no El in the Demon Realm. They said there was Dark El, but even high ranking demons like Lu have never seen one. So we can safely assume that they didn't use Dark El during the invasion. Even though demons were in no position to freely use the power of El, they went out of their way to use the Earth El.
- Denif: Hmm... maybe in their perspective, the Earth El was the strongest energy source they could find? Stronger the energy, more things they can try. Something along this line.
- Artea: ... Or their strategy could have been just to capture the central Velder City first, where the Earth El was located.
- Ciel: The reason Add couldn't use the portal device was because he didn't know the exact coordinates of the Demon Realm. They must also had great difficulties in finding the exact coordinates of where the Earth El was located. I'm sure they had a good reason to go through all the trouble to use the Earth El. Wait, at this point, the existence of El itself is...
- Add: The most definitive hint was the fact that El appeared in that yellow hair's world.
- Rose: Huh? I've never heard any reports about El being discovered. How did you... Oh! Of course!
- Zero: H-Huh? What! Why are you looking at me like that?
- Add: The fact that an El is sinside that piece of junk is the proof. You said it yourself, it was made in the world and it's powered by El.
- Rose: I heard that the distance between our world are so far apart to the point of being parallel worlds and therefore observation impossible using regular devices.
- Ain: (It's probably a world that's far out of El's reach. A world where the goddess' influence doesn't reach... I'll have to keep this in mind.)
- Sasha: If it arrived at such far places... It might have been out of the El shards that got scatted due to the great explosion.
- Add: Therefore, I'm hypothesizing that the existence called El has an ability to interfere with the connection between dimensions and space time.
- Elsword: To put it simply, are you saying that it's one of the El's properties is to connect world and dimensions?
- Rose: You could think of it like that... but it's a bit difficult to say that it's a connecting property. Demon Realm and Elrios seem quite disconnected and getting to different dimensions like Elysion is quite difficult as well.
- Add: Oh? You're rather sharp?
- Lu: ... Ability to block...
- Rena: Hmm? What did you say just now, Lu?
- Lu: I said, El's property is to interfere with connections between worlds so nothing comes over to Elrios from another place. And according to my theory... that another place might be the Demon Realm.
- Ara: Why do you think so?
- Lu: I heard this children's song back when I was very young. It was so far back that I don't remember who I heard it from. "Imprisoned apostles, what stands before you is the primordial mirror, a blue wedge. Hate it, shatter it, only then you shall see."
- Ciel: Ah, that's what Lu sometimes murmurs in her sleep.
- Lu: Hmm?! Cough. Anyways, don't you all think the details of this song are a bit too complex and vicious to be telling to a child?
- Elsword: Are you saying the "what stands before you" in that song is the El?
- Lu: That's right. I thought the lyrics were meaningless before. But everything seems to fall into place after hearing what Add said.
- Gloria: So without knowing all the details, people have been only using the El's property of interfering with the connection between worlds to make portals.
- Raven: El's ability... and it's property. Couldn't it be changed by human hands? The thought might be absurd, but couldn't humans have greedily modified the El's property so they can intervene with other dimensions?
- Ain: Such a thing is impossible. El's unique and fundamental trait was determined by the goddess. This isn't a realm that the power of mere humans can reach.
- Elsword: If that's the case...
- Ventus: Then the goddess created the El with the intention of stopping the invasion from the Demon Realm.
- Ain: ......
- Ventus: Well, that is if the theory is correct~
- Denif: ... So you want to investigate the area under the El Tower?
- Ventus: Isn't it sispicious no matter how you look at it? That hole under the El! Have you never thought about it?
- Denif: I never thought too deeply about it.
- Chung: A-Actually... we've already been down there...
- Denif: ...... Did I just hear you correctly? Did you say you've already been down there?
- Ara: Ther's because... I accidentally slipped and fell inside...
- Elsword: But no one was hurt and we all came back safe and sound!
- Denif: Seriously... you people...! Sigh...
- Eve: The structure didn't seem to have any consideration of going up and down. There weren't even traces of stairs.
- Ventus: But we saw clearly at the end of it. There was an extraordinary seal there.
- Elsword: We confirmed that there were no dangerous contraptions along the way, so it would be best if we all went down to investigate together. How about it?
- Denif: I understand. But we'll retreat right away if we see any signs of danger.
- Ventus: Yes, of course~ Is everyone ready?
- Anduran: Just leave it to us!
- Ignia: Haha, I'm getting excited. It feels like going on an adventure~
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