Master Of None

Chapter 2391: 2391. Path Of Firsts

”Is it right?” The whisper came from Aurora. Onyx had heard it with the mental

communication that he and the other serpents had begun to develop. While he had the skill, many of the serpents had begun to gain it since they did not communicate verbally. It was just part of their race.

Regardless, Onyx had the skill longer and the fact that all the younger serpents were getting it very early in their lives meant that it would be the primary way they would all communicate. Aurora just rarely used the skill since she had been close to Alice and captured some of Alice’s tendencies. One being not speaking much.

”I think we made the right choice. Walker understands. I just had to do a lot more to figure it out myself.” Onyx knew that Walker was not at all angry. While they all knew that some people would find their leaving to be wrong or hard, but that was fine. They would have to accept that while they took a new path.

”I knew that Alice and a few of the employers or even the others we all worked with might be angry and worried. Everyone accepted that risk through. They had done so because they wanted their entire race to have a history made by them and without the help of others.

Yes, Onyx and all of them had help from many to get where they were now. But they needed a legend or a moment where their race grew and stood alone. Onyx had thought that he needed to become a hero to be important and stand beside his family. Then he had thought he had to become a patriarch to be the leader of his race. Then he had believed that he had to strive for strength.

When in actuality, he had to unite all of them through actions. Take to the world and unite them with cooperation and growth in more than just surface level aspects. He had to grow together with them to make something that would never actually be physical which could be passed down to every serpent of their race forever.

”I am with you.” Aurora trusted Onyx very much. Enough to throw herself against a massively dangerous amount of light mana. That risk had paid off with both of them being able to grow, she even began to grasp dark mana properly and spread her strength out. But she had also changed herself at a deeper level too, just as Onyx had.

”Thank you.” Onyx focused on the shadows. Being with Mordant who was an expert in traveling through shadows had paid off a lot though. When Midnight had been training with Mordant, onyx had managed to be there here and there. This had given him deeper insight in to how Mordant used the shadows to protect him while moving vast distances through them. While Onyx knew he was far from moving vast distances, he could travel with many of the other serpents. While it was because they were the same affinities and also related by blood in a way as a race, this was still amazing. Right now, with all of their mana, they were already what would take many hours to get for any merchant away from Genesis.

”We are healing toward one of the larger and unexplored areas. I heard that there is one that is passed where we were helping with the ruins. Where there is a lot of light mana and also tall stones making large shadows.”

This area was marked by one of the wind dragon elders who was exploring the lands and helping map makers. The area had been named the towering stones passage. The terrain was made of towering stones that had risen from the earth where it appeared an earthquake had once caused the land to crack. The result was a lot fewer trees, if any, and also large shadows or places where the sun hit constantly.

When it came to the balance of light and dark mana, it was ideal. They would all be able to grow a lot more than what they had been able to do in Genesis. Not because of the density of mana, it was actually less here. It was because of the balance between the two being the focus allowing for all of the hundred serpents with Onyx to be able to focus on their natural abilities.

This was a great place to explore for potential ruins and also to train. They could establish themselves a legacy by training here. There were many more serpents that had decided not to come. For one reason or another. None of them were thought of as less, only that they had different priorities. Some had taken binds with the tamers, they had accepted a different path already.

Others had decided on professions and managed to get classes. They did not need to focus on other things because they had their own independent paths. Right now, these hundred young serpents were not able to have classes because they had been undecided and focused on just growing up a little.

When they had heard Onyx speak of their legacy and the future of their race, they had been inspired. They had wished to stroke their own actions in to the history of their species. If even to be remembered for a moment, they wanted to be like Onyx and tread a path of firsts.

Their travel was swift and only a day was needed for them to get to the start of this land where the rocks and dryness had subsided to be more mixed with some greenery. While some would feel this land was still barren to a degree, Onyx felt that it was a perfect place. A land lost to the broken aspects of the world and returned to be able to develop with the world as it grew again.

He could sense that the dark and light mana competed for attention here. The shadows stretched and in those areas, grasses didn’t grow as much. Other plants bloomed through. In the areas where no shadow would fall, larger trees or bushes grew, but the darker leafed plants in the shadows didn’t even come near. Clear lines with clear reasoning.

He could also sense more. With the fact that he had better united two skills using his two affinities, Onyx’s senses for those affinities grew deeper.

The flow of light and dark manas were strict here to change with the sun and the night. It had liens. But in small places the two overlapped allowing for different plants to grow which were not anywhere else.

A small patch of herbs which he had never seen. Right at the base of a broken stone cliffside. The sunlight would hit it partially while the shadows would somewhat overlap. Changing through the day in strength but both never perfectly fading.

These herbs were very enticing. They seemed like they would taste good and also that they could help them all. But before any of that, ”everyone, this is the place I want to explore. We can train here. We can eat the herbs. We can find the secrets of this area and make it our

legacy.”

The unexplored towering stone passage was massive in size but held a lot for them to discover. Whether the monsters here would be dangerous would come with the fact that they had to face them together. Whether the herbs were valuable to them was what they would test. The manas they accepted would be up to them.

There was nothing here to compete with when it came to other races. Just them and their goals before them. Exactly what Onyx wanted so that they could establish who they were.

”There’s a lot here we can explore. I expect everyone to stay close and we will move carefully. First, we should find a place we can rest after we explore the area. I can sense stronger flows of light and dark mana. We can follow that to a better place to rest for a few days.”

As much as Onyx wanted to go off alone, he didn’t. Instead he took to his full size dwarfing the other young serpents and slowly slithered through the area. Enjoying the feeling of the dual manas perfectly suited to him.

He also caught the slightly stronger flow of light and dark mana coming from further away in the towering stone passage. The slight hint that there was a purer set of manas mixing behind his sight that he and they could use. ”Follow me.”

No one doubted him and they checked the plants and moved in and out of the shadows. Curiosity and caution being their focus while mental communication spread to explain what they were finding and what they were feeling. All gathering as experience for their growth. Uniting them even more than before.

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