Master Of None

The collection of the light crystals became a focus. The small amount of fire crystals that Ignus’s dragonkin collected for him were also welcomed. Ignus seemed like he was more annoyed than anything that he and the other royal dragons had not noticed the shifting of the sun being slowed. However, they also lived much longer. It was hard for them to have the same sense of time as a human, let alone any other race. No one put the dragons at fault for this.

Whether Walker and the others realized it or not, their sense of time had been influenced too. They were human for the most part, but they too had other influences. Elemental spirits had bonded with them causing them to change at a fundamental level. That alone was enough for their lifespans to become layered. Adding in the elven, dragon, or other influences and the entire party was subject to a radically different flow of time than any human by comparison.

That wasn’t the issue though, the crystal bed was. The soldiers marching through and collecting the many small glittering elemental mana crystals were slowed by this. Luckily, the crystal bed had mostly been cleaned of sand by the sand tornado. This allowed everyone to move unimpeded for the most part.

While this would normally be a food thing, the problem that they all faced now was the fact that the crystal bed was surprisingly sharper than many would think. As the words had naturally broken away from the mountain and turned it to sand, it had made the rocks sharper and sharper. The shaping of winder and sand over time didn’t leave a perfectly smooth surface as many would think.

The stone tops were somewhat curved and sharp in odd directions that had followed the flow of winds over them. This allowed for the walking to become a challenge since many of the dragonkin did not have shoes nor required them. Their scales were often enough to resist many things. However, the addition of mana around the stone was causing some of the less resistant dragonkin to suffer.

There were also the angels and soldiers from Genesis who were noticing that their shoes or boots were being cut in to. Even those with forged metal boots or greaves were seeing the added wear and tear of them. It was making everyone uncomfortable when it came to the continuing exposure to these conditions.

Luckily, there were still earth mages and Walker with the group. It only took a little combined efforts to smooth things out. Therefore, a small group of mages formed with Walker at the front of the moving group. They were smoothing the more dangerous path while working in small sections they could see. This combined effort just added to the bonds with every soldier present that would have suffered some form of damage from all of this.

”Huh? I can’t smooth this small hill here.” One of the mages found that their skills was having absolutely no effect at all. ”I’m not out of mana and this looks like the same stone as everywhere else.”

The confusion was enough to reach Walker and two of the other mages drawing them over. ”Maybe it is just more condensed. Let us add some mana and push it down.” The spot didn’t need to be forced down so much but it was better to have fewer things to trip over. That Was why they were working together after all.

While the four pushed their mana in to the ground to manipulate it, the sudden sound of cracking and the view of cracks appearing on the ground made them all jump back. ”I think we might not have found stone.” The other mage spoke and Walker pulled all three back with a little burst of wind mana added to his surroundings.

’Stone crystal golem

Naturally formed under the mountain as multiple elemental manas collided over time, the stone crystal golem is an earth and light affinity golem. It would have slumbered for the entirety of its lifespan but the exposure to both light and earth mana was enough to activate the core that formed over many years.

The stone crystal golem is able to use the light and earth mana within its body to cause it to rapidly assemble its body again after limbs are destroyed. It is also able to use the light mana to coat its body in a defensive light. Furthermore, it can manipulate the earth to make primitive clubs.

The stone crystal golem is considered rare because they can only form as the earth and mountains shift over time. They can not be tamed unless the core is taken and engraved with special earth and light elemental runes. Not many tamers have enough skill to do so without unique systems being present.’

While it was interesting to read a new appraisal for a golem that Walker had seen before, he had never seen a golem that was formed in this way. He had seen them in caves and knew that they existed in a crystal form. However, the golem that had broken through the ground was partially stone with light elemental crystals jutting out of its body. They appeared sharper but were just the natural formations of crystals.

The core was actually very easy to see. It was a stone and crystal orb that appeared to be surrounded by dense light elemental mana protecting it. The golem itself held a large shard of stone that it lashed out with. The earth mages and Walker had already retreated, but they still felt small bits of stone hit their bodies as the golem’s club hit the ground.

”Now that is more fun!” Ignus growled out as he jumped forward. Remey was unsurprisingly, right next to him wearing her earth affinity knuckles. The two appeared to have been bored from all the calm and simple traveling. It was hard to believe that Ignus and Remey got along in this way since they were dragon and human. But many of the soldiers had already seen this happening within battles and even treated them somewhat similarly. Especially after Ignus had assisted Remey in controlling flames to make potions.

”Left and Right!” Remey shouted her moves out to Ignus and the two dashed to opposite ends. It seemed more like they were playing than they were fighting. The move pushed them to opposite ends while the stone crystal golem lifted the club back up. This shard of stone club started to sweep to the side trying to hit both of them, but that was nothing to the two.

Remey was agile enough to bend back and land on her feet again. The club had missed completely. Ignus had used his strength to completely knock the blub to the side. A dragon’s strength was high even in a dragonkin form as Ignus was right then.

The two punched out at the sides of the golem causing a crack to form toward the core. But as soon as it had formed, a burst of flight overtook the body of the stone crystal golem. The crack was repaired and a solid layer of light mana was protecting the golem even better than before.

”We should just stand back.” Gil stopped Walker from jumping in, but he had missed Midnight jumping forward. Su didn’t manage to drag Midnight back either before a burst of flames left her mouth and hit the golem. The attack completely took the golem’s attention and let Ignus and Remey have another chance to punch with even greater force.

The defense breaking punch that Remey unleashed with the earth affinity knuckles collated with the light mana. Before everyone was able to react to the cracking light elemental layer, Ignus had slashed with his claws. He had used his dragon advantage to slashed through the light elemental mana and the stone.

This left two massive craters exposing the stone crystal golem’s core to the air even more. Just in time for Midnight to follow up with another attack of her own. She took a move from Onyx’s books and spun around using her tail to attack. But what no one expected was that she had focused earth on it. She had watched Terron and Su use earth mana. She had trained with Walker. Now she used that experience.

The same feeling she had when she used her skeletal armor skills as used to draw earth mana instead. It gathered on her tail and she was able to perfectly combine them in to an earth hammer tail skill. The resounding crack as the stones shattered along with the core of the stone crystal golem left everyone wondering just what kind of people would play around like this. It was even more confusing when Remey and Ignus went to Midnight to laugh with her over their attacks. ”Battle maniacs,” Walker mumbled and shook his head hoping that they wouldn’t be fooling around too much more.

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