Chapter 236: Otherworldly Rocks
Elmo was confused. First he'd been asked to check the stats of a shadow that had passed and now he was being asked to check the stats of some rocks that were merely, almost supernaturally, different. He wouldn't mind being able to take some of those rocks with him, but it felt like it would be wrong to do so, so he hadn't bothered even trying to take a small pebble.
The request sounded reasonable, but at the same time, he couldn't help but feel that he shouldn't spend his MP on something so frivolous. Like seeing what kind of stats he could find out from rocks. It really wouldn't cost that much MP, it just somehow felt wrong.
Elmo couldn't put words to why he felt that way, just that something inside him was resisting that idea. Which he also couldn't help but wonder why that was. Typically he probably would have checked, if only to learn what they were made up of. Like if they really were a mixture of crystals and gemstones or if there was something else about them entirely.
Elmo looked at Kim, as if he thought that maybe she'd help get him out of this predicament he found himself in. Like she'd tell Jonas that they should just continue on and not worry about those rocks. That they had other, more important things to worry about.
"Elmo? What'd the spell tell you?" Jonas asked, snapping Elmo out of his daze.
"What?" Elmo asked absently, blinking as if he just walked into the sunlight from a dark room.
"Elmo, are you okay?" Elin asked, looking rather worried.
"Yeah, I am," Elmo replied absently, "but what do you mean, 'what did the spell tell me?' I haven't cast it yet."
"You did cast it," Kim said. "Then you stopped and started looking around like you didn't know what was going on."
Elmo looked back towards the rocks again and was surprised to see a window disappear. A window he recognized that had always appeared when he'd cast his View Stats spell, which was just a little different from when he checked his own stats.
The biggest problem was how he couldn't remember casting the spell in the first place. It merely seemed like Jonas had just asked him to cast it, but that window clearly showed that he had done more than think about it.