Master Of None

There was also a lot of dense earth mana moving around the skeletons. Like something had used denser earth mana to shatter them when the skeletons had come near them. ”But none of them look anything like more than just normal skeletons. They aren’t the immortal king’s body.” Gil’s interpretation was fair, but Walker still wondered what had happened.

Learning what had happened and what was going on would be important to understand where the immortal king was going. What kind of experimentation he was doing? And for what goal? They all needed to grab this if they wanted to be able to handle anything else that was coming at them.

”What is this sage that we are trying to find?” Remey made a single request. Simply because she wasn’t sure what they were even looking for in all this.

A sage was someone deeply connected to mana and the flow of nature. The flow of the world. But how could a sage be here if there was not a connection to the world until now? Therefore., were they just a sage of the elemental planes? Or the nature that came with the elemental planes.

I gained the young sage title when I was learning about manas and natural mana through nature and how they flowed. But the more I focused on it all and got closer to natural mana, the more I felt that the title was worth it. That it was part of me. I still have the title too.” Walker felt that he was sure that the title would be useful within the elemental planes.

”Another sage? And a human sage? Interesting. The humans were supposed to be a race that’s extinct within the elemental plane of earth. It has been quite some years before I heard or saw anything like you.”

The voice was coming from the ground itself. Right below them to be exact. But there was nothing there. ”Ah, I forget that you are unlike the earth spirits that come to speak with me. Or the other beings that can see through the density in mana creating the very earth I am made of now. Please accept my apology.” The slight rough laughter was like an old man who was in need of a cup of water. But as the ground shifted, Walker understood.

The figure moving and condensing before them was holding an earth stave. It has intricate natural earth runes that only appeared when the earth mana was so dense that it could manifest as such. While the figure was not thin, the density of their body was intense. Enough to make the area itself feel like there was a hidden pressure.

Not a threatening aura of any sorts, but just a warning that they were a powerful being that deserved some respect. ”I wonder how many years it has been between now and the time that I came here to search for the true meaning of earth. The true meaning of what might create the very foundation for manas to put their roots in to?”

Walker had no idea what to say. The being that appeared before they had a gravel beard, stood ten feet tall, and was wearing what could be thought as a statue set of robes which still moved with it, without even making a sound of cracking stone.

”I don’t think we have ever seen anyone of your race around. Anyone made of earth would be a member of the spirit race. An earth spirit stronger than a grand earth spirit like my partner.” Su was confident that they had not seen anyone like this man.

”Ah, I see why that may confuse you. However, you are following a former member of my race. These undead are all too familiar. I recall the necromancy skills and practices that some of the elders used to think would be the key to their immortality. They failed to pursue nature. How foolish, aren’t I correct?”

Realizing that this was a moment of the immortal chasing race just like the immortal king, Walker immediately drew the next source of mana with higher density.

Flames sparked to life around everyone forming a dense wall of fire that sent heat outwards. Remey also took a battle stance with dense flames gathering in the body. They easily followed her will and showed off the full form of her body.

”Oh, I would take it that you do know of my race. Please tell me that they have mostly been suppressed by another race. The angels should have returned from their trip through the continents some time ago. They should have been able to change the path of my people.”

There was still not any malice in his words as earth formed chairs and a table. They were simple but a clear show of how powerful the earth mana is.

”Do you know someone that calls themselves immortal king?” Walker intensified the fire mana before Su’s partner, the grand earth spirit, burst out from the spirit mark and stood in front of Walker waving its hands.

”Thank you for speaking on my behalf young one. They have a right to be unhappy with me. My race is vile. They follow orders to experiment with everything, including themselves. It is how I managed to accidentally find the remnants of earth spirits like yourself. They traveled through the elemental bridges, I followed and found myself here.”

”It’s been some time, but I have acclimated and learned the way of the earth. I’ve shed my body and even my former race to become the true earth sage. Please rest easy. I do not have plans on harming any of you. Especially those who helped bring the world back to us.”

Slowly letting the flames die down, they found the true earth sage sitting on the stone chair he had made. ” Please, my fellow sage, rest here and help me understand the wood as it is now. I have yet to be home for a long time. I’ve yet to see anything as of late other than that poor excuse for an immortal.”

”We came chasing the immortal king. He’s an elder lich that was trapped within the ruins of the immortal chasing races city. After battling many dangers, including the one that damaged the world, we found he had escaped his self made prison.”

”We will explore the elemental planes later in search of knowledge and others like me. But for now, that is our goal. One earth spirit told us that you were here or we could go to the earth king and speak to him for assistance.”

Walker still held some fire near him just in case, but he did not sense the earth mana moving whatsoever around them. This true earth sage was not showing any animosity still.

”So they did end themselves. It must have been a different race than the angels though. Please do not tell me that they caused the world to be shut off…” The true earth sage clearly feared that he could have left behind his race which caused even more untold damage.

”They were involved, but it was a human turned demon lord that chose to give up becoming a hero and turned to being a monster. It broke the delicate flow of the world as it was still forming. Breaking the bridges. There’s more but that is part of everything.”

The gap in knowledge might be a larger issue than what Walker believed. He also noticed that the earth spirit before was not a spirit race, but an earth elemental spirit. Meaning there was now a difference between the race and just a spirit.

That should have been expected though. Not everything would change. Especially when the worlds flow and the elemental planes flow were compared to one another along with the beings within each respectively.

”I broke those skeletons. They emanated death mana. They tried absorbing earth mana to grow in strength. Death and earth is not an acceptable fusion within this part of the earth plane.” Pressure grew around the true earth sage.

From what they could all tell, there were limits and rules to what manas should be where. This was all due to the purity of the let bal manas and their density within these places.

”We lack the knowledge of these rules. I understand we may break some, but if we allow the immortal king to flee and get somewhere with more death mana…”

Walker didn’t finish the thought. He saw the true earth sage nodding along with his words. It was very easy to catch in to what the people he had met here thought.

”The world is a mystery to me now. If I were to visit again, I would not like to be an enemy of those living there. I wish to see the nature I did as a child before I came here.” Sentimentality was where many would find solace. This being had once lived in the world. They would wish to see it again.

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