Master Of None

The depths of the knowledge that Walker had gained were ringing in his mind. He was sure that this was similar to the teaching skill he had gained. He had a few by now, some that just enhanced his way of speaking.

These sorts of skills he had begun to ignore since they were easily gained and he was always improving them regardless of trying to or not. Even just speaking with the witch born he had managed to gain a skill called visual lecturing.

A simple skill that allowed him to put more meaning in to his actions so that the skills he used were clearly in steps and usage. While he would find this useful when showing off new skills and ideas that he came up with, it would shine more in the hands of a teacher for the small school of basic knowledge within genesis right now.

The witches had used their mental connection at their deepest level to develop a skill that allowed for large amounts of knowledge to be handed down.

Clearly, they could use this skill to share knowledge amongst himselfs in smaller amounts. It would make passing down the abilities to manipulate certain manas and enhance certian basic skills easier. However, Walker could tell that even with the knowledge he gained it was not extremely useful.

The reason being was that he had to have the innate ability to use that knowledge. He could spend years teaching a farmer about fire magic and how to channel fire mana to make a fire ball. That didn’t mean that they had the affinity or ability to utilize the knowledge he passed on.

It was the same for some who studied history. Some people just memorized it, others would be able to learn lessons and adapt from it. In a simple sense, it was wisdom and ability.

For Walker, he could not use the specific skills that the witch born showed him right away. He had the ideas of them and the general sense of how to use lightning better. It was a good enhancement of his already small knowledge on how to use it best. Especially since he now understood different environments that could create lightning more in depth than he could before.

It was all a good thinking though since he had also gained knowledge about the history of an extinct coven of the witch orn race. This history shared with him how they lost the coven of thunder but how they reserved the history and also the knowledge of them. Meaning that they could still recreate the coven one day.

They held hope and waited to bring that home to bloom. The sentiment and belief was major. He just had to hope that through uniting with genesis that the witch born race could achieve that one day.

Besides this, Walker had managed to learn of different forms of lightning and that there had been naturally forming runes of various types in the world before they had all collapsed due to the breaking of the bridges to the elemental planes.

Since they had broken, the naturally forming runes had been unable to maintain their balance, greatly altering the world and the nature of many things. It also made it very clear that there was a greater influence on the world as a whole since these runes had been entirely unable to remain.

Just the added insight on the prices of the world losing its proper flow and form could be invaluable to him. He had been learning more about it lately since his insights on the natural course of manas in the world and even outside of the world had grown.

If he were to learn even more he might be able to begin touching on a greater aspect of existence itself. Not that he wished to play at those aspects. There were lines he felt he could not cross because he was not ready to do so. Also rules he could feel should be in place to protect all things as he protected Genesis.

At the end of the day, all this contemplating was just that. He had been locked in thought as he passed through the elemental rune teleportation formation and even as he rushed through the air at high speeds using winds made of wind mana. He’d copied the way Ventus moved and it was immensely helpful.

It brought him above the jungle canyon and immediately attracted the attention of a few flying monsters.

”Golden feather falcon and a few breeze starlings. Not too dangerous.” The large golden feather falcon was a monster with a very wide wingspan and light gold feathers. It used its light and wind affinities to move and blend in to the bright sun before it would dive down to attack smaller prey. It was known for attacking prey larger than it out of arrogance.

The small breeze starlings were smaller white bird monsters that followed others like the golden feather falcon to steal small bits of its prey. They were better known as scavengers who tried to look pretty since they were obsessed with their pure white feathers which allowed them to blend in with the clouds.

All this aside, the moment that Walker let out his control of wind mana to make a sharp wind current pushing them away, the four monsters fled the area. They knew very well that no matter how they attacked they would be unable to win even a little scratch against Walker.

As he looked down though, he felt the dense water, fire, and light mana around. The canyon allowed for more light mana to fall in to it and mix with the water and fire mana making steam. It also allowed for other manas to surge around the area in faster paces since the canyons changed some wind currents as well.

As he noticed Gil and Alma dealing with one of many lightning eater lizards, he observed how they were scattered through the canyon. He could feel their attacks on the stone sides and soil of the canyon while they searched for the elemental mana crystals in larger amounts.

He also got the same all around appraisal as what he had been told but his attempt was so that he could gain more information. The fact that they could potentially awaken their ancient bloodline and manage to achieve lightning based skills using four elemental manas rather than just two was amazing.

Monsters with multiple affinities for manas like that were rare to say the least. However, they were also very dangerous. The thing was, the size of these monsters was where they failed. They had tougher scales because they consumed purer mana crystals. Yet, since they lacked earth mana affinity they discarded that mana and did not strengthen their scales that way.

It left them with much more speed and ability to use quick lightning based attacks. In turn, this also made them somewhat dangerous. Most people were not able to keep up with their speed and without the tactics that Gil and Alma had prepared these monsters could not be easily handled.

If they were captured and tamed though… well, that would introduce a powerful force of tamers in to Genesis. It was why Walker contemplated isolating and capturing some of them later. He and the rune carvers could easily create an artificial environment for them to grow and breed within Genesis or at least outside the city a short distance.

As he lowered himself out of the air, Gil and Alma didn’t act surprised whatsoever. They had sensed and seen his methods of scaring away the avian monsters who foolishly chased him. If they hadn’t noticed something like that then what would that say about all their training?

When Gil was close enough to Walker, he pointed toward the bottom of the canyon near the collapsed side and the rushing rapid boiling waters. The steam was rising a little more than could easily be able to be seen but that wasn’t an issue. Walker sensed the mana clearly and with a small bit of manipulation cleared the way to see the naturally formed lightning rune clearly.

He was in awe of the way that it moved. He could tell that the light, water, and fire mana reacted within it to come together. He could even see smaller naturally formed runes of those three manas coming together as if partially fused.

His mind wanted to say that it was and was not lightning all at once. Maybe the different forms were only part of what it really was. However, he couldn’t dwell on that since his eyes focused on the small opening letting larger amounts of mana flow in to the naturally forming rune. The beginning of the bridge to the elemental planes was only forced to slowly open due to the nature of the area it was in.

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