Master Of None

”Is this what it feels like to wake up after being drunk?” Walker had never drank, but he recalled the few times his father had woken up after spending time with fellow guards at night. The headache had had claimed was from a monster beating on his head. The feeling of thirst like he had never drank water in his life. ”You are pretty bruised but shouldn’t be feeling that and with all the whaling. Alice fell asleep trying to heal us.” Su pointed out Alice who was sleeping at the foot of Walker’s bed. It looked like she had set up a chair but ended up crawling on to the bed and falling asleep at some point. To be fair, if she was that tired, anyone would have believed that they would just fall in to a comfortable position. ”We are all in a lot of trouble…” Walker knew that they had promised they would be fine before this. Yet here they were. All injured in some way shape or form. It was rough. ”You have that right. Alma has already sent three elves in here to yell at me. I think she is too angry to come in herself. If she sees me she might kill me herself.” Gil wanted to laugh a little but he was genuinely a little afraid that Alma would literally kill him. ”Well, if she kills you, we will find a necromancer to raise you back to life. Then you can get killed again.” Remey smirked at this. She was sure that it would be possible. ”I don’t know why you are making fun of brother Gil. Sister Remey, did Ignus not come in here and glare at you twice already?” Remey returned that statement with a glare toward Onyx. it made Midnight huff slightly. She was laughing at her but had a hard time doing so since she was still healing her damaged ribs and scales. ”Did it work?” Walker could already feel it. But he was sure that he was just making it up in his head. ”Yes it is. I don’t know what you did. I was blurry eyed when you acted, but whatever it was, it worked.” Su’s voice became a little high pitched. It was clear that she also worried about all of this still. They had done a lot. Seen something terrible. It was surely hard to take in since they had been working toward this goal for so long now. ”There were notifications from the world. How it rejoiced and then notifications from the universe or existence, whatever that was. It welcomed us before a huge wave of mana changed everything.” Remey made exaggerated hand motions as she tried to explain how the mana changed. ”I can sort of feel that. It’s like I have cotton around everything though. Why is…” Walker stopped as he recalled what the system did as he shouted out the mastery skill. ”I used a mastery skill that the true hero title gave me…” He glanced through the system. He saw many things standing out that wherever different. But he also saw things that he had not seen since he had just awakened his system. The cost of him using the greatest attack and master skill for the true hero title that he had gained by living as a hero. But accomplishing so much. ”I gave it all up for that last attack. I wielded true mana that I could not have a single bit of knowledge to properly wield. I can remember the feeling of it. The completeness that came with being able to use every form of mana united entirely. It was more than what I can explain.” His eyes darted back and forth. The feelings and the ways to grasp the individual manas were all carved in to his mind. He could learn them again. Completely redo all of what he had thought he knew. He just needed the time to put it all back together the right way. It would take a lot of time, but he knew he could do it. ”I’m level one again. I have my titles, but everything else is locked. Skills are blocked out more or less, and I have a class now.” ”We know you have the same as us. But we’re pretty sure there is something else you aren’t telling us. Because you looks a little different.” The way that Gil said this made Walker focus again. He looked at the system and felt it in his very body. In his soul. ”My race.” Slight lines had formed all over his body. Runes. Runes that were more than what any average person could create or manipulate. They were of various manas, some that would not have been recognized by anyone since they had never seen that form of mana in their lives let alone been abel to decipher it without the right senses. ”Your race is right. What are you after using true mana? After mixing some dragon abyssal serpent, human, nature spirit, and what else?” Gil pushed more and more. He was too curious. But Walker looked at him like he would keep it a secret forever. ”You know we will just start using all around appraisal scrolls or better on you if you don’t tell us.” Remey balled up her fist to pretend she was being more intimidating. However, the curiosity was too palin on her face as well. ”Origin race. It says that I am the origin race which can use every mana. Only those that have managed to absorb true mana through various means have the ability to alter their bodies to accept all that comes with existence.” ”I’m pretty weak though. A level one that can’t even fully understand all the manas. So true mana is pretty far from what I can wield right now. I know more though.” he paused, his mind rushing as he thought about the race that had once used the island to travel through the world to the elemental planes. ”The ruins we just fought in and that the demon lord used. They are the origin race. They created that place to be able to travel through the elemental planes to go further. I bet they are out there. Still exploring the existence that we saw notify us.” Walker’s theory made it feel like the world was so tiny compared to everything else that might be. ”So you say that we have an entire vast something out there to explore now? Screw that! I retire!” the others appeared to be with Remey at this. They all wanted a vacation. To be done running around fighting for a while. Especially after this last battle. ”The demon lord got what he paid for. He tried to break the rules of everything. Ruon the entire world after he had lost something. He didn’t stand strong and fight back for justice even though he had been given the hero system. He broke it all by going against it all with everything he had.”

”Then he tried to bring back what he lost and instead it took what he had as a price. Chaotic mana between the planes and the world is uncontrolled. It might do anything. It’s not evil, it just can’t be manipulated.” Walker felt sad. The demon lord had been a victim at first. Instead of letting that guide a righteous heart, it led him down a terrifying and terrible path. He created wars, destroyed races, and even caused many who were suffering more pain. After that, he was weak and used the demon race as a method to grow stronger. To slowly gather what he was missing. All the allies he had made were used as pawns. Some of those pawns were just harmed and looking for a way to save themselves. It was a horrid way to live life. Now that he was gone, the world that had nearly been broken entirely, had been saved. Walker could rest easily with that knowledge. Yet, he still felt that it was all wrong. If someone else had been around back in those ancient times, then maybe the demon lord could have been saved. If the world had grown faster to what it should have been in proper flow, then maybe it would have been different. ”The mana and everything about the world is denser. Brighter. It’s like it was reborn entirely. So we have a lot to explore again.” Gil leaned over to Walker’s bed and bumped him on the shoulder. The two smiled for a moment. They were going to have a lot of exploring to do. ”So we don’t have to end our adventures just yet. We can have some more normal ones. Maybe try some food or gather some unique herbs. See the sights.” Walker felt that he was more excited to relive growing up again. Become stronger again. …

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