Master Of None

It was another bridge to the elemental planes enhanced. While it was not the last, Walker felt that he was able to learn a lot about what he had just found. Midnight and Onyx had managed to understand a little more about what the elemental planes were and what the bridges were.

Since they could see and sense the changes in the world because of the added manas and even see that both could affect the dungeons it was very clear how all three would work together. It also made both of them consider how they would be able to use all of this in their growth along with others.

For Midnight, she was resting on the idea that she would be able to bring the younger dragon hatchlings to safer dungeons like this. They would be able to handle the higher amounts of mana because dragons naturally were more resistant to the manas they had affinities for. However, where things would really be important was that they would be able to get the best mana possible for them to grow.

Even if she managed to make a traveling group or multiple groups that would venture to the different bridges to the elemental planes it would allow them to grow much more. The purer elemental manas that flowed out would allow for them to take larger leaps in earlier growth which would lead to them being able to grow similarly to the way she did.

While it would still take longer for them to develop certain skills, it was already clear that there were a few of the hatchlings gaining an advantage over those that had grown up outside of Genesis.

When it came to the dragonkin transformation skill, there were several hatchlings that were able to partially change their bodies. It wasn’t a full skill yet but that was considered to be because there was a lot of growing they needed to do. Therefore, the skill would develop with them to become closer to their natural growth and also allow for them not to have any harmful side effects. It was a harder skill on the body the younger that someone was. Midnight had been lucky since she shared a lot of support from Walker and the party had helped her become stronger.

There were other factors too like the fact that the other hatchlings would be influenced by the other races too. They already had stretched himself sin to other classes and since the other races had helped them see different potentials, the hatchlings would become more developed socially as well. Simply put, this new addition of planning for Midnight would allow for her to take the future dragon race generation to a much higher level, especially for those who might be battle or more mana focused.

Onyx had similar thoughts, but he saw this as a good chance to have an additional place to grow. He already wanted the younger serpents to travel and explore more. That would make them even more varied in skills and experience as a smaller race. Besides, it would also just amke them that more important to Genesis. A little something they could brag about.

However, if it became a tradition for a young serpent of certain age and strength to travel to the currently connected bridge to the elemental planes that was bringing out purer light mana, it would become very good. A rite of passage that would show their growth and training. It would become a way to show that they were fully able to venture in to the world.

It would also be a different pilgrimage each time. One that would allow for them to pursue their individual growth. Many of the serpents stuck together in smaller groups if they had to split up, but Onyx wanted them to have an innate confidence to fight alone if they had to. He had developed it since he had trained with the party, but the younger serpents lacked it since they had always been supported in everything they did and not had a reason to go off alone as much as Onyx had.

He’d been blessed in that since he had needed to stand as an individual leader for all of the young serpents hatching. If need be, the only other serpent he could truly lean on was Aurora. Then again, there were some other reason that he would not admit out loud just yet there. That was besides the point. Onyx was forced to stop his thought process when he felt the space mana shift even more.

Just being able to tell it was space mana made him even more comfortable with the fact that he could have the younger serpents hide within his shadow. If he could develop the skill even more he could potentially allow others to hide in it too. He could carry an entire army to defend those in need. The idea was a spark of inspiration and determination for him to pursue this affinity.

The affinity that they all knew they could gain to some degree by being constantly exposed to spatial magic. Walker had already proven this to be true since the entire party was exposed to space mana when he used his high spatial storage skill. Something that Walker was surely improving on without even needing to say it out loud for others to hear.

The space mana that he was able to use was growing, whether Walker himself could sense it or not, his body had already changed a lot. His body was still growing and changing to be more suited to what he would do and be as an origin being.

The depth of natural mana that was within him was partially due to Fleur and his bond, but a lot of it had grown because of him being an origin being. The same with how much space mana could reside within his body naturally.

If Walker were to consider these two things, he would understand much more in depth that being able to hold and alter manas like space, death, life, and natural mana within and outside of him was akin to being able to grow and it was why he didn’t find himself hungry at all. He was using an immense amount of mana and exhausting his mind more and more while splitting it and growing his skills. It should have been enough to make him want to eat and rest, but he was more resistant to that.

he was also able to subsist off mana even more than he had been. Level aside, he could return to level one right now and still be able to do grand things with his mana manipulation. Even his instinctual grasp of manas and concepts behind them were much more advanced.

”I just sensed another bridge.” Walker had finished what he needed, but for him to sense another bridge to the elemental planes from where he was proved that he was grasping space mana even more.

Eh had felt the vibration of this bridge connecting to the elemental plane and how the space mana put pressure on the weaker bridges. While he had only felt a connection to another one, it was yet another bridge he would be able to enhance and also map the location of for all of Genesis. He could pursue it later with others who would develop an area around it.

Ideally, he knew that he could sense the bridges through this next one as well. The more that he improved them the closer the elemental planes were becoming. The more anchored the bridges were and the more access there was to the elemental planes and the world from either side.

This went again to prove that the world was uniting even more with the elemental planes. If he managed to sense the boundaries where the elemental aliens collided and made even more unique elemental planes of mixed manas, he would also understand that his work was allowing for more balance and peace within the overall elemental planes.

The reasons why the manas flowed in to the world was of course purity and density of mana. But the world harmoniously balanced all manas within. Meaning that he simply needed to focus on that and imagine what that would mean for the elemental happens where manas clashed and wars had even been fought over the superiority of manas and where they clashed.

Races had left there because of the shifting of elemental planes. If Walker managed to anchor everything properly, he might even be able to prevent the clashing of the elemental planes entirely. Something that he wondered what the other origin beings would think about.

Would he be overstepping if he was the center of the world and stood for it? Should he even consider doing so?

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