Master Of None

”You took your time.” Su mumbled a little as she let her shields touch the icy ground with a crunch.”

”Someone made things a little harder by falling in to an entire elemental plane of blizzard.” Walker immediately rebutted against Su’s comment, but Su just laughed softly while still shivering.

She had started to be warmed by the healing skills that Walker used, but that was not as fast as it could be. The blizzard elemental had backed off and was watching in whatever way that could be said to be watching. It was unsettled but Walker had used a skill to enhance its defenses as well. A shield of ice and wind were protecting it.

The other manas would be damaging to its body, this just be the reality that it would have to face an being an elemental mana based being. However, Walker wondered if it was considered a race or a monster right now.

It was not necessarily a monster and closer to being called a spirit or a spirit race member. However, this was not a normal elemental which would be partial embodiments of a mana running amok or with some violent intentions. Elementals were somewhat dangerous in terms of the elemental planes from what Walker had learned.

Where this was different was the fact that multiple spirits made up this blizzard elemental. All of the intelligence and understanding of what it was had come from their unity in benign what they were. While that also meant a solid body was most likely not possible, that didn’t mean that it was not physical. It was just taking the form of a tightly condensed storm.

Su had a slightly worried look in her eyes as she watched Walker healing her and making sure he was also using some skills on the blizzard elemental. She knew very well that what he had done most likely cost him an extremely large amount of mana and that even Fleur must have been helping and would be forced to sleep for a little while to recover.

This seemed to be the result every single time that Walker was forced to go beyond his usual skills and push ahead to deal with space or more volatile manas. He would be weakened and in need of time to recover.

This constant cycle had to be troublesome for him and also wearing on him. Yet, he had to do this multiple more times along with delving deeper in to the manas that he had not been able to study or meditate on? How would he handle that?

”You are definitely too cold and need to take your time adapting back to normal. I will make sure some ambient water and wind mana rest around you as you dispel some from your body. That way it won’t react poorly with the mana in the air. He was careful to help Su stand again and found Current taking a position to help her while Walker would be able to handle the blizzard elemental.

”You were helping to protect Su from the more dangerous wind and ice in your home.” Walker didn’t say anything else while he looked at the moving blizzard around him.

”We reached out. We found others. We feel… different now.” Looking carefully, Walker could see the natural mana, life man, and death mana slowly bonding with the blizzard elemental.

It wasn’t in any harmful way, more like a puzzle having the rest of its pieces being fitted together properly after being missing for a long time.

”Those new feelings won’t stop there. From what I understand what you are and this home of yours were not finished developing. There needed to be time to develop and grow life mana and death mana to be able to mix with the elemental planes. Instead, you grew more intelligent and reached out to the naturally formed water rune.”

Somewhat bonus understanding the intricacies of how space would be influenced and something could vaguely sense the rune, Walker decided it was something well beyond him right now. He could worry about the bending and opening of space through chaotic mana due to heavily dense naturally occurring runes. They could be handled later since the naturally runes without a magic tower to bind with them would certainly have this effect again. Not that he hoped for that whatsoever.

”There is more than wind and ice mana in the work you are now part of. You can resist them properly because you have no resistance to them at all. You will need to stay here for some time before you can begin to move. You need to grow and train yourself.” This seemed overall confusing to the blizzard elemental.

”I don’t see you having evil intentions or anything cruel in you at all. When you felt the natural mana you even relaxed and accepted the buff even though I also isolated you from your surroundings more. You are an elemental and can control blizzards here in this new land attached to the world. We can make sure you are left alone to grow and develop for some time.”

Now it seemed Walker was making little more sense to the blizzard elemental since it changed the way the snow and ice moving in the air flowed. ”The Genesis alliance can make you an ally and keep this land off limits while that happens. Monster slight come still, and foolish people, but no one should be coming here without good reason.”

”What is needed?” This was something the blizzard elemental did understand clearly. Everything was give and take. It had learned that when first forming, no one spirit it was made of had control, they all had to be unified to be what they were.

”Join our alliance. Live on the side of peace and unity. Grow alongside all races whether you become one of them in your growth or a new race, join us. Knowledge, protection, and peace is the goal and currency of our alliance. Otherwise, if you do not join, I can offer temporary safety since my attention is on the whole world and not just here.”

He wasn’t lying or giving any unrealistic promises. Walker knew that this blizzard elemental surely didn’t understand the risk of what it had done when reaching out to the naturally formed water rune. It had done so since it knew that it could use that mana to grow and develop. Moving forward though, he could ensure that it grew safely while others didn’t accidentally harm themselves or it while this occurred.

”We do not understand. We can learn.”

”I know, the world is a hard place to understand especially with how young you are. You have what you need here now though. Current, that dragon who will carry Su home, will use some water for you to freeze in to a wall. It will help you maintain the manas you need while you slowly adjust to the world.”

After saying this Walker moved his hand and some water mana and wind mana made an odd misty covering over the area. It helped deter the light from becoming too strong and making the ice melt.

This entire area was dense with water and wind manas mixed to become a blizzard ice stormy mess. It would be hard for anyone to travel here but on the edges it would slowly melt and become muddy and marshy. The world would adjust but it was all about time. Having a little more time to keep things cold would be to the blizzard elemental’s advantage.

”I will also leave now, I will send a few people with affinities that are similar to yours later. They can help you understand what you might become or just be friends. you can ask them anything.” The blizzard elemental seemed to spread its body a little more sensing the manas in the surrounding. But no reply came.

As far as Walker understood, it was just watching and learning. It couldn’t truly keep communicating easily with the way it was now. It needed more time. It had too much to learn.

”Current, if Su seems like she is getting colder again, tell me. I know you can sense the lingering water mana in her body. And Su, you are going to rest for five days at least. If you even so much as try to go back to building…” Walker trailed off with a stern look. He knew she might do so anyways but she would understand that if she was too weak she couldn’t protect people properly.

After setting foot outside of the blizzard land he’d just pulled her, Walker was able to finally take a deep breath. He felt empty, almost every bit of mana was gone and he could tell his mental strength was gone too. He needed to recover and keep working, but that would take more time than he wanted.

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