Master Of None

”Large waves approaching from the left!” The shout from one of the angels was nothing that would have normally worried the more experienced Genesi forces that had been on the ship before. However, when they glanced over, they noticed that the angel was not exaggerating. The large waves were actually enough to shake every single ship. ”Water mages at the ready! Lower those waves and have the elves check the distance!’ the orders went out with even more panic. Not necessarily a panic that was keeping everyone from their ditty, but a panic that pushed them up from any resting that was going on. So far, the sailing had been very smooth. This had allowed everyone to take their time to begin thinking about what Walker had discovered. Furthermore, it had given them the peace of mind to be able to look more deeply at themselves and the roles that they played in the world right now. Many things were changing. The calm waters were just a memory at this point though. The waves that were approaching were leather. They were like ripples of something that had caused the waters at a distance to become broken and in chaos. Walker snapped up from his meditation when he sensed the manas change. His mind had been on the feeling he had at the sides of his mind. The manas that he could not grasp but he could narrowly feel all around him. His goal to understand them was still very far away, but at least he had been able to hold on to that small prickling feel at the edge of his mind. Walker snapped up from his meditation when he sensed the manas change. His mind had been on the feeling he had at the sides of his mind. The manas that he could not grasp but he could narrowly feel all around him. His goal to understand them was still very far away, but at least he had been able to hold on to that small prickling feel at the edge of his mind. Seeing that the waves were being held down by the water mages, he focused on what might be causing them. He could see that many of the elves had taken to the crows nests of every single ship. The binoculars made by the dwarves had proven to be excellent tools since the elves already had sharper eyes than many others. With the added tool to assist them, they were getting incredible details compared to what they could already see. The details that they saw right this second, were the small steam clouds that they could narrowly see above the waves coming from a distance. Otherwise, the steam clouds appeared to be bursting out of the water in random places. Not a good sign at all. The slight burning smell of salt water made everyone crinkle their nose. But Walker noticed another familiar scent. He could smell molten rock. The same smell he had noticed everywhere when he was in Ignus’s territory before they had begun moving the dragon villages. ’There is a volcano under the water.” Walker understood that there was a lot of danger that came with this. He wondered how the echidna had not noticed and warned of this being the case. However, Walker realized that he could not blame them for a single thing. He had been meditating and focusing on the elemental manas all around them. Yet, when he had been doing that, he had missed this. Therefore, the event had just happened and the elemental manas that he could have sensed were actually well below the ocean water. So much so that he couldn’t sense it until the large bubbles were bursting from the waters. Before they could worry about another wave, a large shaking happened between multiple ships. A large bubble of salt water steam had burst up from the waters. It had made the surface of the water harder to float on since there was a middle section of the ship floating in a much less dense substance for a moment. This could have caused the ship to potentially break in two! Luckily, it did not break at all. Instead, Walker could hear that there had only been some bolts and a lot of groaning metals. The ship was built with the best fo the best, the dwarves who mainly invented it would not allow for it to break so easily. The risk though, was that they needed to get through their area where bubbles of volcanic steam were appearing at random. The shouts from another of the ships was enough for Walker to begin thinking of a major plan. ”Onyx! Make sure that Current can sense the changes in the water. He could stop them before they make an entire ship sink!” Onyx heard Walker and did just that with his mental communication. Walker on the other hand saw another larger wave heading toward the ships. He used his water manipulation to break it down so that it did not put too much strain on the already rough hull of the ship. He felt that the wave was easily pushed down. Unfortunately, another burst of gasses had escaped the underwater volcano. This time the ship groaned even more. But it also made the water mages focus on the density of the water that they could not see. Since there was a chance that they could be damaged just by sitting here, Walker tried to make the currents work for him. He wanted the ship to move faster. The wind affinity mages did the same. They started to call up the wind to push the ships faster. While this was not a monster attacking them, this was a threat from nature itself. Nature was not always welcoming and kind. Sometimes it is moving in its own flow only to cause a lot of unintentional damages. When Current took to the air from the water, he shouted down the large size of the volcano beneath the water. He knew well that this would be a spot that islands would form in five years from today. That was just the sheer size of the volcano that Current had witnessed erupted down within the salt water. This was all helpful though. Walker now had a radius of where they had to leave. If they could do that, then they would be able to leave the dangers behind them. It was also how they would be able to make this new location down on a map. It was a surety that the maps of the oceans would slowly but surely increase as more people wanted to explore the vast salt water oceans. Letting his senses reach out strictly below, Walker could feel it. The smallest sense of wind mana below the water. That was what the heat from the volcano had created.a bit of wind mana that was bubbling up to the surface. He used his mana manipulation to force that bubble to the side. The seemingly weak act of nature would have hit the very end of the ship. It would mean sinking for sure. It didn’t stop those, the mages on every ship were expending a great deal of mana that only seemed to limit the damages. It had changed so quickly that many of the genesis forces were unsure how to handle this. Not that they expected someone to have knowledge of this. The sort of situation that they were in, was not one which people would ever find themselves in. ”Full sails please!” The order came from the air above them. Walker saw Midnight and Ventus flying in the air in dragon forms. The pair appeared to have been working on their own thoughts. Walker could also sense this. When the sails all fell down the masts in to position, Ventus let loose a wide breath of wind mana. Not enough to harm anyone, but enough to force the ships forward at nearly double the speed from a moment ago. Meanwhile, Current manipulated the waves so that there would not be a single chance that there would become an issue with the speed and way that the ships were moving. The sudden change was all due to the strength of the royal dragons. However, Walker needed to ensure that he kept the crew on the ships safe. He made sure that those nearby edges in this odd situation were not falling overboard. He made sure that they were preparing what was needed for the spots on the ship that had become damaged. As the bubbles were appearing all around the ships. They were not appearing right in front. The radius was surprisingly larger than what Walker had imagined, but the elves had already recorded the size. It would be a place they had to look for in the coming tears for planting. Regardless of that, the smell was the next big worry. The poisons in a volcanic fog still needed to be addressed. Therefore, healing and purifying magic skills were being used on everyone. The ship that Walker was on was coincidentally the one with Alice on it. That meant that the large amount of light enveloping it was Alice singing a song of healing and purification. …

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