Master Of None

”The wind is picking up a little more.” Walker could sense the wind outside the protection of the wind magic rune formations used to completely nullify the wind as the floating ship moved. While the runes were doing their work, Walker’s senses went beyond them.

”Is that going to be a problem?” Su knew that if Waker had stopped their sparring and her training to switch through the armors she had gathered from the wandering blacksmith that this was not just a simple small issue. Walker could easily tell what issues might be attached to the fact that the winds were becoming more violent outside.

”Yes and no. The ship is made to handle any storms that may occur. The wind dragons helped test its ability to resist wind storms in general. Some small ones have already passed us in the last hour. But this is a strange change. The wind isn’t just coming from one direction. Two air currents are crashing in to one another while the winds change. I think it’s one of the effects of the world returning to flow properly since more manas are coming for the elemental planes.”

This was something known. The changes were already being documented and changes in wind currents had been sensed by weather mages and also by the dragons or more sensitive echidna who were in touch with natural mana. Since people knew of these dangers, they changed their plans accordingly.

Some days the harpiers and other aerial traveling races would not take to the sky as high as they usually did. The dragons tended not to mind the changes since they had the strength and power to resist. ”Should we have had Zephyr come and help us?” Su’s thought was enough to keep Walker a little more occupied for a moment.

He knew that the spirit race had become much more independent. They were either focusing on growing their race in to a fully fledged standing race that bridged the gap between the elemental spirits and the more physical race, or they were resting.

Zephyr had been with Gil and remained so since their bonds were so developed. Whereas the earth, water, light, and dark spirit race leaders were slumbering or working on their own without those that they had bonded with in spirit marks. The only ones that seemed to be the same as Zephyr was the fire spirit race leader with Remey who had become very focused on fire control and alchemy just like Remey.

This left Walker to wonder if his partner would remain slumbering. She had been absorbing mana for a while making him worry. Yet, he also felt that it was needed. With the changes in the world, having any connection to natural mana would cause a lot of change in the way that someone acted.

The echidna who had connections to natural mana had been struggling. They had either lost touch for some period of time or needed to go in to isolation to properly adapt themselves to the changes in the world as a whole. None of this was a bad thing, just a fact that they had to endure.

Walker was only able to adapt because of his bonds with the literal grand elemental spirit of natural mana and also because he had deeply ingrained natural mana in t his very being as a member of the origin race.

”No, I think that this would stress out Zephyr too much. The many elemental spirits within the manages with some of the wind and fire spirit race would have caused a break up in their flow. They all have their roles and they are playing them perfectly. Having an outside spirit race change things or bother them could have caused more issues than help.” He felt this was the potential issue of doing so. Hence why he also internally calmed his own mana so as not to affect the spirit marks where his partner slept and grew.

”If the tunes are affected at all I will add my mana and have the wind dragons work with me.” Walker could sense that the two elder wind dragons above them had also lowered themselves closer. They were able to be seen through small gaps in clouds now. Before they had been way too high in the sky to even be seen from the floating ship.

Their preparations had been because they could feel more changes in the wind since they were exposed to it at all times. They did not need to sense the mana and flow around them. Every time they felt the air on their scales their instincts told them how to adjust their wings so that they could fly smoothly. Instincts were something that stood well above Walker’s mana sense right now since he was blocked by the wind rune formations calming the wind.

”The stress on the underlying runes is not too great. We have thirty five formations still to activate. We will have several mages gather to begin the mana transfer process...” One of the working members called out this order to a few of the nearby members of the crew. From what Walker remembered, this was a dwarf working under the captain of the floating ship. The man who could feel the manas and the overall being of the floating ship by attaching his very own mana to it.

This closeness allowed for the commands to be sent out through the ship using his mana. The many stations monitored by his crew were always full of orders to make small adjustments. The spirit race also saw and heard these right away since they monitored all the mana within the ship. It was a system that was being considered to be built through all of Genesis.

The only issue with doing that was that the connections needed to be monitored by spirit race members at all times, the mana usage was very large, and also people had to be attached to the system with unique skills at all times. Small scale was doable, large scale was impossible. ”They have rune formations that they are not using.” Walker kicked himself internally. He had not taken that in to account when he was thinking about being prepared.

”They do. I came and helped for a little bit. There was a lot of worry about some of the parts that held the control over direction or even directed the wind mana to allow for floating at all. So, there are rune formations that will not activate unless another rune formation breaks or there is too much stress on those parts. It’s to save mana and also to make everything more efficient.” The small smile that Su wore proved that she had been waiting for Walker to grasp this fact.

”Oh? So you knew and wanted to let me worry about it?” He sensed a large clasing of wind and felt the next wind mana rune formation activate. The wind that was buffeting the ship was forced to slit around it allowing for the floating ship to maintain its consistent speed and flow through the air.

Walker made a small handful of fire balls and flicked them at Su. The sudden attack made her use the magic equip skill and a brilliant red armor for resisting fire mana took the place of her previous armor. She smiled with a more violent intent and charged at him wielding one of her twin shields. The fire was nothing with her resistances and the right armor to help those resistance. This was what Walker had been testing anyways.

As the show of Walker and Su sparring began again, more people gathered. Their sparring had showcased the speed at which a battle could take place.

While that would sound odd since both Walker and Su were holding back, the speed aspect was in reaction time to a changing situation. Su was changing her armors to resist the manas that Walker called up to attack.

This was the perfect to educate the adventurers and guards who were present that would be traveling the lava fields for materials. They could use this as an example of how they would be changing their mindsets to adapt to the tough terrain.

Whether lava plumes erupted nearby, the ground became unstable, or even different monsters attacked they would have a better mind to react to those situations.

For those worried and on edge, they were able to understand the strength of those going with them: the guards and adventurers who looked at Walker and Su calmly were showing off their own veteran status. They were experienced and relaxed, they were not panicked and being pushed to learn last minute.

While Walker and Su didn’t think of this as a reason for training, they were never hiding. They trained in the open and never saw an audience as an issue: they knew where they stood and welcomed others to learn about and from them.

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