Master Of None

”There is a perimeter made for us to enforce. But it will be hard to watch the sky without preparations.” The angels that reported to Seran had tried their best to spread the news about the monsters that they may face. However, there was a lot of worry about fighting in the dark now that the sun and nearly set completely.

”That is for the archers to worry about. The elves have better eyesight and the Fel empire’s life mages had given buffs to them for night vision. We will trust that for now.” Seran was not bringing any problems here. He may have his own beliefs but the wyverns and survival came first. That was just the fact of life right now.

”Understood.” The angel soldiers spread themselves out again among the other soldiers. They had to be where they were needed most and would be able to operate in any situation. Meanwhile, Seran turned his eyes to Walker and Gil that were working to cut a few more pieces from what they had said was thunderstruck wood. He had no idea what the point was to do this right before they would be facing dangers.

”You may not trust them yet, but you should be excited for what’s about to happen.’ Mordant had silently appeared next to Seran. Compared to the other dragons, the only two that had actively watched the angels were Ignus and Mordant. The others had been focused on preparing for battles.

”What do you mean? I would not be preparing new weapons before a potential battle. They should sharpen their swords as they are.” This was from a veteran fighter. Naturally this advice was sound.

”If they were just another person. Just another weak human, I would say you are right. They should be preparing their strengths rather than what they are doing now. But they are very odd. Walker can fight alongside and against any race. It was strange to see that he was willing to look me in the eye without even the slightest sign of fear. That’s one reason that I listened to him. But I saw a lot more. Sit with me and watch what they do. I promise that you will wonder just how they managed it.”

Mordant was not giving Seran the option. There was still enough light for Walker and Gil to see what they were doing so he wanted Seran to see the strange way that Walker’s party worked. The odd ingenuity and imagination that seemed to grow their strength at every step. The tiniest of quests that appeared to assist them in growing stronger.

”Walker, if I make an arrow from this I need an arrow head that can handle it. Don’t you have any mana gems that could fit together?” Gil had been stuck for a while now. He had the wooden arrow shaft that he had taken after Walker had used water magic to help cut the log in to a smaller part. The massive log was still there but the small portion cut off had been ideal for carving in to arrow shafts.

The fins were easily made from three different feathers that Gil had. He was sure to collect materials whenever he saw the. So he had water sparrow, hollow finch, and flame hawk feathers. The three feathers fire water, wind, and fire elemental affinities so that Gil would be matching the potential to create lighting arrows.

The issue had presented itself when Gil had thought of a way to mix the manas within the arrow head. He had to store elemental mana there so that the arrow shaft made of thunderstruck wood could become the catalyst for creating lighting. But how could the three elemental manas mix without breaking the arrow head when he didn’t have a lightning material that was natural?

”The mana gems we have are too large. And the mana crystal shards might not hold up and pierce anything. You would just be hitting things outside the monster with lighting. It would be a stunning effect. That wouldn’t be bad.” Walker proposed using elemental mana crystal shards instead because that was just the best method from where he sat.

”That’s the problem. If the minster has thick skin then a zap of weak lighting is useless. I have to pierce the monster and deliver a concentrated zap to stun or kill it right away.” Gil was also thinking of the scales that the wyverns had. They would be harder to break through.

Even if he looked for spots in between scales, the skin a wyverns had was sure to be very tough. They were majority earth type beasts and levied in mountains. Not to mention that they had already been praised as a powerful and very tough monster to face. A small zap was nothing to help him in battle.

”Then we can try breaking a mana gem. But it could go bad.” Walker had no idea if making a mana gem shard was possible. It might not hold mana at all.

”We can carve them in to shapes, right? Mostly they get fitted in to armor but what about the ones that are cut to fit in armor already? We saw the wandering blacksmith do it. So why can’t I made an arrow head out of them? Then break it in to three parts to make sure they fit together on the arrow shaft. It will have three manas with stronger density than a shard. And it will work better because it’s from the same mana gem.”

Walker was nodding along. He was very interested to try what Gil had thought up. In theory it all made sense. That was why he immediately pulled out one of the mana gems and handed it over to Gil.

When Gil took out his carving knives, Walker felt a little pain in his heart when he watched one of the mana gems get smashed after Gil made breaking cuts. The pieces were surely the size to be carved by the tougher knives, but Walker still felt sad seeing something he had made and stored for later broken.

”He’s carving a gem? Isn’t that a unique skill for other systems?” Seran was wondering what he was watching.

”They have been to multiple kingdoms. Met with many people. Gil has met elves with many skills. He might not really understand it but he is closer to a high elf than any other elf. He gathered arcane archer skills from every elven elemental type. Not just one. He is the leader when it come to reuniting the elven race. Even more than the future elf queen, Alma.”

The two sat in silence as they witnessed Walker helping shape the crystal with Gil and slowly adding three different manas to it. When it came to adding the strange arrow head to the arrow shaft, Seran wondered just how it would ever work.

”It is longer than it should be. The arrow head isn’t pointed but like a crescent shape. Did he make it to stay within a monster instead?” That would make the arrows hard to recover during a battle but most likely reusable more times than any other arrow. But the type of arrow was well known to be used in smaller game hunting since the cost was less.

”He does that for good reason. I learned that he and his family lived on a farm near the wilderness. He learned to hunt at a young age. That’s another reason he has different standings with the elves than others.” Seran was a little amazed that Mordant had carefully watched the party so much. But it just went to show how much the dragons and humans had bonded without it being said.

”Now that’s what I wanted you to see.” Walker helped Gil channel the mana at first so that he would be able to use the eternal orb and his own mana control to stop anything bad from happening. But what the two managed to do was more than that.

There was a small yellow flicker around the arrow shaft and the air in the area seemed to become charged. Many of the soldiers stopped to watch and the elves returned immediately with excitement. This was the first prototype lightning arrow ever made. It was the first that didn’t use a purely magic skill. It was an actual arrow that any arcane archer could create with the right materials. A massive breakthrough in magic and archery together.

”They did it just like that? It only took them a few hours.” Seran was unsure what else there was to say.

”Exactly what we have seen. Did you think that royal dragons would easily accept a human as one of us? Or did you think that they had power over us? No, we saw a future. Those humans were able to accept everything around them and open a future. I expect you to soon see more and change your ways here. If Genesis is dragged in to war, dragons will rampage.” Both a warning and a promise were made by Mordant before he walked over to see what had been made as well.

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