Here, inside the Tenth Ward's Barracks, they could not find the answer to this question; the only person who could answer was in the famous dungeon of the Far Circle. Even if you were there, you wouldn't be able to get a response from Mel as he was now attacking the dungeon walls with his claws.
"Where are you, Dark Element? Come out!"
Go crazy with the absence of what the Far Circle rulers were using to drive him mad; Mel was tearing down all the inner walls of the dungeon with his blood-red claws. He had spent hours in a futile effort to find the Dark Element that would bring him into the Earth Dragon's consciousness.
He couldn't accept it, refusing to be one with him once again after experiencing the moments when the Earth Dragon listened to his mother's message and took over his inheritance. Even though he wasn't as developed as he was, even the rapid increase in his immunity to the Poison Element was proof that it was a payoff in itself.