Master Of None

Even the attempt to move his mana anywhere near the small spot where the opening to the mana void was could be easily said to be more painful than most injured Walker had taken on in his life. He could sense an immense resistance that told him all about the strength of what he was trying to influence.

This was similar to the feeling of the true saints he had sensed before. He had only met one that had shown his actual body and that was the true saint of earth. He had the strength to fully make earth mana his and move as such. Meaning that in his abilities, he would be able to have taken away all abilities Walker had to manipulate earth mana when around him.

That was the feeling that Walker had now. That he could try and manipulate the manas but they were blocked, no more like they refused to move to his whim.

There was even more stress when Walker tried to use space mana. It was an immediate push back that made his body and even his bones themselves hurt. Basically he felt that he was beginning to push himself in to pieces if he wanted to manage to manipulate the space mana in any way.

The added force that came with the ripples of chaotic mana was not helping anything. Now that Walker had approached the spot where the mana void was connected, he could feel when the chaotic manas switched places with the unbalanced manas.

Every single time that happened the mana that appeared caused a shock to go through the other manas. When the heart tremored, it was the chaotic earth mana stressing and breaking the balance of the earth mana here. When the air shivered, it was the wind mana becoming sharper due to the chaotic wind mana.

This was having a clear effect on the world right around here already. The heart seemed less vibrant, less fertile. The light was dull and the shadows were stretched too thin. Even the trees had begun to look more like they were half in to the coldest of seasons than the warmer season they were in now for the area.

It wasn’t that life and death manas were acting up, just that the balance of manas was causing everything to become wrong. That the aspects of the world right where were stressed and the elemental manas could not handle it. Later, there would certainly be an effect on the deeper manas like life and death.

If time mana was being affected, Walker could not sense it as of yet and that was fine. He wouldn’t know what to do if he could feel that right now. If he could see what forms of damage were being done in the sense of time as it was right here and now.

There was more though. Walker could still feel that the space mana was doing what it should. Taking the form or attempting to take the form of a bridge to the elemental planes. Space mana was the building block, no, the foundation of the world and elemental planes. So much so that space elemental planes could exist within the elemental planes without causing damage to them.

It was part of all things and could make itself exist within and outside of them without causing any real harm to things as they were. This thought made Walker also understand that the chaotic mana affecting space mana right now was forcing the space mana to somewhat go against what it did as a principal.

Maybe he didn’t have to take full control of space mana at all. Maybe he was not required to ensure that the space mana moved accordingly to become part of the world as a whole but instead guide the space mana to better suit the space mana that was already here in the world?

Just a deep breath later, Walker found himself moving more by instinct than by thought. He didn’t resist the feeling as he had touched on something he felt was correct and his body was acting on that thought and instinct properly.

As his hands started to feel pressure from space and even started to appear bruised just from approaching closer to the mana void, he also felt the twisting of the space mana.

It was not supposed to move like this. It should be more solid. It should be more stubborn. But the chaotic manas were twisting it out of the shape it should be.

So, why not offer it more calm space mana to follow? Offer it the space mana that it needed to resist and fall in line with the way it desired to be?

The space mana that Walker had been able to move within himself and also naturally absorbed there was a solid bastion of mana. It was the same sort of space mana that rested within the bridges to the elemental planes.

He had felt that sort of space and he based the space mana within him on it. That was the space mana Walker understood best and he even could use it to teleport a short distance now, let alone what he would be capable of in the future.

As he began to try and make the space mana resonate, Walker again felt as if he had been hit. But instead of a physical hit, it was something deeper.

All the mana in his body was unsettled at once. The chaotic manas all started to gravitate toward him like they would become his balance.

Whether this was natural for them or not, Walker had no idea. In theory, this was because he was an Origin being able to sue dense and purer manas than anything or anyone else. He would be able to bring unity and balance to the chaotic manas.

He lacked that strength right now though. He was inexperienced and overall too young. He wasn’t ready for anything grand like balancing massive amounts of chaotic manas or even the small amount that was here.

Yet, he did feel it clearer. The space mana was right there. It was as if it was also being drawn to him and the balanced manas he possessed.

It was similar to the ways that the chaotic manas were acting right now.

With a thrum of what Walker could call shock and mana to his kind, he began dragging the space mana toward himself.

This tug of war between the space mana which didn’t have proper form as it naturally would and the fact that other chaotic manas were rushing about was harder than what he could expect.

It was also making him feel a deeper sense of understanding. Like he was wiping the dust from something he knew was covered in valuable text but couldn’t read it clearly unless it was fully cleaned.

”Come on. You want to be like the other space mana around so just accept that!” The shout of effort came louder than just Walker’s voice. In reality, Walker hadn’t said a single word out loud. He had shouted it out using his very mana.

Not a demand but a concrete and unbreakable offer.

He’d offered to mana itself for it to come to him and balance. He’d offered it calm and harmony. Exactly what it wanted no matter what.

Like a rubber band snapping back all the space mana rushed at him and a larger pulse of mana thrummed through the area. The wave of mana caused a gut wrenching feeling as Walker realized he wasn’t standing In a forest.

His exhausted mind looked at a massive field of gray and white grass. The chaotic manas had all been forcefully suppressed but the world itself and its commitment to the mana flow and nature.

However, the wake of what Walker had done was causing pressure on his mind still. All that mana had been smashed back in to him. All of it had influenced the world while forcefully suppressing the chaotic aspects of the elemental manas around him.

’Quest completed.

The mana void path has been halted. Space mana has returned to the world. Chaotic manas are being suppressed by the will of the world.

Reward given.’

Before Walker could even understand this, he felt another pressure. This one came from within.

He felt the space mana spreading through his body as some returned to him. He felt himself resonate with the space mana all around and understood that the space mana here had become part of the world.

The very first place that space mana had taken root and would be considered the most prominent mana in the world. Fields of gray and white grass in the Kaiser of a forest that were all existing with an affinity for space mana. A new place he could sense and was acting as a catalyst as his awakening fully to space mana and the ability to resonate with it.

That was what he had done. He’s resonated with the very foundation of the world. Just like he had begun to with the bridges to the elemental planes, this time he had inserted his will and acted to assist and guide it.

Now he was fully acting as someone of the Origin race and as a reward the will of existence had made what he’d done part of who he was so that he could enhance his own growth and understanding.

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