Davina

Tenebrea walked up to the pixie girl, who was seated and staring at her in confusion. She stretched her hands and picked the girl up. "What's your name, young one?" She asked with a smile.

The girl hesitated and looked at the elders. The lights in their holes pulsed, indicating it was okay for her to trust the blond lady in front of her.

"Davina. My name is Davina," she said with a rather hoarse voice.

"hmmm?" Tenebrea looked at the elders for an answer.

"She accidentally cursed herself during a session." They coughed as they replied nervously.

Tenebrea just sighed, then walked to Davina. She touched her throat, and Davina felt instantly relieved.

"You have healing magic?" She exclaimed

"No, not really. All I did was take away the negative spell you had placed on yourself. I sometimes feed off negative energy," she giggled.

The elders told the people to take them back and provide whatever Tenebrea's group needed as they passed through the village.

Since they weren't in a hurry to leave, they chose to stay in the village for a week, as Tenebrea had to teach Davina how to use her curse attribute properly.

As they were heading to the proposed place they were going to rest, Julius asked the question that has been on his mind ever since he saw the tree-like elders.

"Who are the elders of the moor?"

"You know the dark pixies have the decay attribute, which means their bodies cannot decay when they die. So what happens for the strong pixies that die is that their soul is stuck in the body, which eventually gets absorbed by the soil and becomes like a rotting tree, which holds all the power. The weaker pixies that have spent all their potential will be used to juice up the ones that become the elders. They are going to die anyway, and their bodies cannot even help with the plants, so they sacrifice their remaining lifeforce trapped in their bodies to ensure the tribe is going to be protected. That is why there are a lot of elders. They are a collection of everyone that has died, and as long as they do not exhaust their power, they continue to live, if you would call that living." Anastasia explained it to Julius.

It looked like whenever it came to worldly affairs and history, Anastasia was the one who would always talk about them.

"The reason they move together is a different case. They are stronger when together, as they can collectively share their thoughts and

"That is a bit freaky. They are like a hive mind," Julius commented.

"Yes, something like that." Ana then looked at Davina, who was seated in front of Tenebrea as she sat in her lotus position.

Davina looked at her new caretaker with curiosity. She felt the elders were a bit scared of her, despite the fact she could sense she was just at the intermediate red rank. Regardless, her elders words were final, as they had raised her since she was born.

Tenebrea finally opened her eyes and said, "Okay, Davina, what exactly can you do so far with your curse attribute?"

"Umm, I was taught just the basic spells. Slowness, confusion, paralysis, and blindness I actually learned them really fast, but getting access to another spell took a long time," she said sadly.

"Wow, you really did not learn a lot. Okay, first, what is your understanding of your attribute?"

"The curse attribute is the opposite of the blessing, which means that while blessings buff your allies, curses debuff your enemies." She said it quite confidently.

"That is not entirely right." Davina felt the smug look on her face break into a thousand pieces.

"Do you know why most people would rather face foes with the blessing element than someone with the curse?"

Davina shook her head, waiting to hear the reply.

Tenebrea sighed "Blessing users can either bless themselves or the allies; they would not want to bless the enemy. Some blessing users have been seen that can grant immortality in a given period of time, but on the other hand, curse users can kill you without you knowing you're dying; they can also buff allies, as long as there's a sacrifice. Most necromancers are curse users, as they curse souls to stay in decaying bodies. They are extremely dangerous to fight because they are unpredictable. It's not their debuffing that scares most people, but instead it's their versatility and unpredictability."

Davina was astonished, as she never expected her attribute to be so overpowered. It wasn't only her; even Julius and Scarlet were a bit jealous.

"So your training begins now. I will teach you different spells and their utilization. You're a pixie, so like an elf, you are one with nature, especially with the fact that you don't have the decay attribute; you're like a silent killer, an assassin."

Tenebrea and Davina spoke about how she could utilize her spells properly. Tenebrea found out that Davina did not learn how to use weapons, and Tenebrea recommended training her in the art of throwing weapons, which Davina accepted with pleasure.

''Why didn't I learn how to blacksmith from Hephion?" Tenebrea screamed in her mind, but there was nothing she could do now.

She just gave Davina the basic throwing set of shuriken, darts, and daggers. After they had trained for a week, it was about time to leave the dark pixie village.

They stepped out, and Tenebrea felt it was time for these guys to actually have physical training with each other. Individually, they were decent, but they needed to learn how to work together.

Teamwork was an essential thing that needed to be learned just in case they were in a situation where they needed to fight or face a foe as one.

"Ana, I need you to go scout forward. Find me the location of several monsters that are at an intermediate green rank minimum and a peak green rank maximum. I do not care about numbers. It could be 100 for all I care; just tell me how many you find and report back." Tenebrea spoke to Anastasia via telepathy.

She smiled at the three people and one boar, and they smiled back weirdly. They did not know that she was planning something big for them.