Master Of None

”This won’t be some simple and easy crafting task. Honestly, I have no idea what this tool will need to look like. It will be a magic device that utilizes materials that are extremely sensitive and very rare. It will also be somewhat like my eternal codex which allows for me to channel all manas through it. Even unique manas.” Walker also showed the eternal codex book form so they could all view the materials he had access to.

This was ignoring the materials that he had set up as rewards for the various quests he had given out. Those were already crossed out or set aside for pick up. It was pretty simple, Walker didn’t need to directly give the rewards to others unless it was training or knowledge. Therefore, he had tasked some of the younger guards in training with handing out the appropriate rewards.

They gained a small quest that had them doing so, the reward being a fair addition of time on to their training schedule for using better training grounds of their choice. Walker was more than able to sponsor that since some training grounds were very specifically made to test or train niche aspects of a guard. Meaning that the time to sue them was spread out and harder to get.

He hadn’t imagined that this would be a way he used his authority, yet, he was not at all unhappy with it. He was able to help a couple of younger guards grow stronger and they were able to make sure that the proper rewards for quests reached the people who deserved them. Simple as that.

It was also of note to consider that this was a time in Genesis history when materials were worth more than gold itself so to speak. People needed materials for armor, weapons, their homes, their businesses, and a myriad of other purposes. The more materials people could get the better.

”My thoughts are, we create a central magic tool that shows us the world. We can add to it as we map more of it, but we will specifically fix the points of each of the ten bridges. Those points will have to change color to show which elemental plane they are attached to, even the boundaries where manas are mixed.”

”They will get this information from the smaller tools we create and station with guards at each bridge so that the information is transferred over. The smaller tools can use communication crystals with unique rune formations that automatically send the information to the main magic tool. That’s something we need to work out along with how the manas will be shown and how the parts will come together.”

For a moment, Walker saw the three crafters he had recruited. Jan was looking at the materials list and mumbling about mana conductivity for the woods he might be able to carve out. He had even made a few notes of his own on a separate paper for materials he believed would be best compared to others.

Abe was holding a few of his carving tools looking around waiting to get started. He had ideas upon ideas. While his body was older, his mind raced as if it had just discovered the world for the first time. His mind was the youngest there was, every single small aspect of runes and rune formations was brand new and exciting for him.

The outlier was the wandering blacksmith. He was looking at the carpenter and the rune carver seemingly like they were from another world entirely. While he was primarily a blacksmith, the wandering blacksmith could carve some of his own runes or even make wooden parts on his weapons. But to the level that these two could? Not at all, he’d always needed assistance of mana or materials to make sure he could push the quality properly when using rune formations or wood parts.

”Mana conductive metal alloys that mix with wood conductive rune carved aspects. We need a shifting map. Triangle, no diamonds.” His words drew the attention of the others. Walker had been thinking that the wandering blacksmith might have a little more trouble working with the others since this was his workshop and many crafters were somewhat territorial.

However, it seemed the opposite. The wandering blacksmith had already begun building what he imagined the tool would look like.

When he sat down and started drawing, the other two followed suit and began adding to things as well.

Their joint blueprint creation was something that should be praised outright. While the blueprint making skills were similar across most professions that involved building and crafting, this was beyond Walker’s imagination.

They were each only drawing where their parts could go. Now and then they would realize something might not work or something might need additions, but they were fine with that. They were sharing a potential end vision of what they wanted.

The small diamond shaped pieces that would be metal could be adjusted to mimic mountain, plains, and even oceans or rivers. They would be adjusted by the tune connections between the more conductive to natural mana wooden parts allowing them to connect. The runes between them would share the minute amounts of mana shared at a central core.

While the larger sphere being created would not be as small as Walker imagined, it allowed for the potential to do more than just know where the bridges were and what elemental planes they were connected with.

This had the potential to be a reactive and adjusted to the entire world as it was accurately mapped was right here on paper. These three craftsmen were setting up for a map of the entire world even though it would be many times harder.

There was even a design for parts to be added as dungeons were discovered. Parts for where mana dense areas might gather and how to potentially track a flow of dense mana causing stagnation.

The sheer informational potential this map might have could be said to be thousands of times above the current maps. Even magic maps which could record entire areas would not be this detailed. Walker knew very well how such maps worked since he had some in his possession, and the map makers who relied on them, the surveyors as well, would throw them all away seeing this.

”The Genesis building will need to be remodeled again. We need more space for all of this.” Walker felt he knew the size of this would not be small enough for the lobby. Would have to be the size of an entirely new add on building.

”We will build this underground right below the entire Genesis building. We will make it a secondary meeting room for times of need or for general mapping when not used for meetings of the council.”

He was already sure that the space under the Genesis building could be made for this. There was room left there so that the Genesis building could be connected to the underground sections of the city anyways. This was just going to be in the place of that. They would still be able to build connections later for ease of travel.

”Then we can have a core of…” The mumbling stopped all of them as all three crafters realized they would need a central, highly crafted, core for this massive tool. Beyond just a golem’s core or mana gem. It would have to allow spirit race to interact with it but also a mass of mana that was balanced and able to move or mix as needed.

The rune formations would also need to tap in to that mana safely and consistently while being replenished. Meaning that mages would have to be there or the rune formations would have to work together constantly.

”Connections to the magic towers and small magic towers. No mana shortage. Additional teleportation formation monitoring.” Abe pointed out how he could connect these different things.

”Just use the wood golem cores and mix them with other golem cores.” Jan shared his idea and the wandering blacksmith looked awestruck. He’d never thought of using a very rare wood golem core and mixing it with other golem cores to repurpose as a central core for anything.

This was an idea that could bring carpentry skills and forging skills much closer. So much closer that they might begin to work hand in hand so much more often than any of them used to work before.

”I can also use natural mana to fill these cores and promote balance. We also have access to space mana so that the tracking of runes and such are better. I should be able to work life and death mana in too…” Walker was right there with them. Joined in and swept away with the amazing new potential he saw.

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