Master Of None

”That is not right.” Terron had stayed behind with Midnight, yet, when he felt the heart mana shift and even the air around him feel as if it had become denser, he was not sure what was happening.

His senses told him it wasn’t innately dangerous and it would not harm him, but the waves of mana that moved around him also told him that this was not a natural event. It was something that he would be unable to control or confluence in any way alone.

”Brother is asleep.” Midnight had perked her head up and begun flying right away. Terron heard her but he felt that it was not normal at all. She hadn’t said Walker was in danger, just that he was asleep.

There was no reason for Walker to have just laid down and gone to sleep. He was working on an issue that could affect the start and progress of the new city being built here on the Sigil continent. Therefore, it made sense that he would keep himself committed to that.

Was there a monster that had made him sleep? Was the land too dangerous? They had all heard of the dungeons and other dangerous places with plants that could easily poison the air and cause paralysis or more.

The pair had felt all the mana shifting and the unusual unfamiliar feeling of a mana dense enough to know that they didn’t know it properly.

This didn’t matter as much when they noticed the entire area was extremely different from what they had seen in the distance when they had been in the air just moments ago.

The beer snot looking at a very large clearing in the forest. The gray and white grasses moving in winds that didn’t exist. A place that felt as if it had been cut out of another world and placed here instead.

”Brother!” Midnight rushed ahead and landed in the middle of it next to Walker who was sleeping in the grass. Manas moved around him and the spirit marks on his body showed that even Fleur had been exhausted yet again sharing a massive amount of her own nature mana with Walker to help him recover his own mana.

The pair knew very well that nothing normal could make Walker use all his mana, but this was the second time in such a short time. He’d managed to do this by manipulating the bridges to the elemental planes and now again he’d done something that caused him to exhaust himself again.

However, Midnight could sense more than Terron could. She could sense that there were changes inside his body and that her connection with him wasn’t able to understand what that was.

Yet, she knew she had felt something like this before. When Walker had first changed races and needed to become more than what he had been. When he had accepted more on to himself and looked at the growth of the world over just being a hero for one or two people or even one or two races.

Even now, she knew she could let him be and it would be fine, but her presence had already been enough to encourage his awakening along with the fact that he had drawn in a larger amount of mana to him before she had arrived.

The rate at which Walker replenished mana was insane to say the least. Not many if any at all could manage the same things. Even Midnight understood that sharing mana with him through her bond with him would be slower than his natural gathering of mana now. Something not many would be able to comprehend.

”Sorry.” He mumbled as he leaned back up in to a sitting position. He wasn’t looking at them, his eyes were still closed. But he could sense them there clearly.

The way that Walker faced them and lived without even looking at anything made both Midnight and Terron feel a little uncomfortable. They could tell he was looking at them but that he was doing so purely using his mana senses. Even more specifically, they could tell the space itself moved more around him when he looked at them in this way.

He took a deep breath before he realized he felt more calm than before. Or maybe it wasn’t calm, he felt more solid than he had been before. If that made sense to anyone he would have stated it out loud.

”I rushed off and found a path to a place outside of the elemental planes. Chaotic mana had pushed on a small space elemental plane causing it to try and become a bridge to the elemental planes. It failed and we had a risk to the world.”

He didn’t state that existence itself had managed to send him a quest. If he had done so, it would have made Terron and Midnight even more worried. But he still felt they were worried now. Their mana was unsettled.

”I can feel your emotions through your mana now!” Walker’s eyes opened wide and he realized that he could sense manas deeper than before. He could also feel everything around him. Not just the place they were but the manas that they used to hold that space.

It was intense. The changes between how he’d seen the world until now felt like night and day. A radical change that wasn’t just using his eyes and mana senses separately. The addition of space mana radiating through his entire body had allowed his mana sense, sight, and all his senses unite much more clearly.

That was why he could sense the emotions of others through their mana. He knew the slight changes in their internal manas clearly. It was such a small amount that others would not have been able to sense it. Yet here he was, able to feel it clearly now.

”You can sense our emotions in our mana?” Terron became confused while he did not see how that was possible.

He had heard stories of people in tune with mana that they could feel their opponent attack before they even made the move. That was the hyper sensative understanding of mana and even more. But this was even beyond that.

”It’s more than that. I am able to feel mana even more closely than I was ever able to do. I have let space mana inside my body…” Walker trailed off as the depth of what he had done and what happened came to him.

His mind was disorganized and he was certainly not that useful right now than what he usually was. He had to calm himself more so that he could be able to act as the leader he should be.

”First of all. This is the first place where space mana primarily exists in balance with the rest of the world. I brought it here and understood more about it. Since that’s the case, this will be a place we are careful with. It might be dangerous and people won’t even know they are being hurt without the proper senses.”

Neither Midnight nor Terron had realized Walker had been controlling manas around them. He said it was dangerous and they to be focused enough to notice that he had a buff of mana protecting them like a thin shield.

”We can leave and I will explain more when I can.” He had to put everything he had just understood in an organized full thought.

Everyone who had halted work soon received a roar that the dragonkin recognized as a sign that everything was safe. They had an in depth understanding of the royal dragons who protected them, meaning that without any language the meanings behind their roars came through clearly.

The returning patrols had not found anything else of danger which meant Su had managed to come to the tent where Walker, Terron, and Midnight returned soon after.

She could feel something different immediately. Her instincts told her Walker was much more powerful than he had been before. She couldn’t tell how though. He looked pale and like he was injured though, which didn’t make sense.

”I am fine Su. I had a quest and helped the world and I guess existence too?” He worded it like this as if it was something he had to do as a hero. It was the best way to avoid worrying everyone that worse could happen.

”There is a new space mana related field that way. We will make it off limits until it is studied more. I know we will need to make sure space mages can research it. We don’t have any yet, but soon we will.” This area had to be a sign now. The world had grown and so would all the races.

Otherwise, Walker took a moment to tell Su and Midnight he would hold a meeting with just representatives soon. That was the best process right now.

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