Master Of None

Walker tried to get an all around appraisal of what he believed to be a poison elemental plane but found he didn’t get that result at all.

’Unsettled elemental planes.

This elemental plane is slowly beginning to balance properly causing it to take on a very unique nature. When a small amount iof space mana grew attached to various other manas it allowed for this unique situation to occur. It has been three hundred years and the balance is still not made however, there are monsters and plants within beginning to grow.

The unsettled nature of this elemental plane is why there is danger in anything having contact with it. There is a chance that the manas could all react chaotically if bothered too much making it safer to allow it to continue to naturally settle over another hundred or so years.

The materials within are not very…’

Walker sighed knowing that there was not much he could do about this situation. The elemental planes was too unbalanced in its mana to be able to be explored or even thought of as something able to be placed anywhere. If they had a theory it could be brought to the world somehow, now was not the time it could even be tested.

The other two elemental planes were the same meaning that the odds they would naturally mix and become one was expected. He also felt that the chance of getting an all around appraisal might be higher since there were less manas within.

’Frozen iron elemental plane

This young elemental plane is one mixed with water mana, wind mana, and extremely dense earth mana which has created iron. As such, it has become a unique elemental plane that is abnormal even for other elemental planes and their borders.

The iron within has so much heart mana within that the entirety of this elemental plane has become focused on the iron. This has caused the slowness of the water mana and wind mana mixing properly and balancing to happen and is why this elemental plane is still remaining here.

This elemental plane can be called unique since the mix of frozen iron is not due to high density of water mana and earth mana and instead caused by the enriching of water and wind manas in to the dense earth mana. This process causing the frozen iron that makes up this entire elemental planes to be both denser and higher quality than any others. It also prevents the life mana that was once settled here to be expelled leaving a barren elemental plane…’

The second elemental plane with the same manas Walker could sense was also giving him the same appraisal. This meant that he was looking at two very massive chunks of resources that would need to be placed in a very unique spot within the greater elemental planes to ensure it did not break down or would not cause a very large imbalance within the mana around it.

”So it’s a big piece of very useful and rare metal then?” It disappointed Remey and Gil since they understood that they would not find anything but frozen iron there. Gil thought he would only be able to make one specific kind of arrow while Remey knew she would not have a single alchemy material. It just made sense that their interest would wane now.

”I could still bring some of the metal back so we can have others forge it. They would be able to use it to help someone or a project.” Walker tried to make the best of it. He could tell that harvesting even a small piece of this would be very tough though.

That was when he felt the space mana shifting around them and one of the frozen iron elemental planes simply blinked out of existence. Now, it hadn’t ceased to exist, it had been plucked from here and taken away by something.

They all stood frozen in place, unable to comprehend what had just happened. This wasn’t normal. Entire elemental planes didn’t just go poof like that. It was abnormal beyond strange or odd. It was a ridiculous thought.

”Those were spatial rune formation. There are space rune formations carved out of the very space around that elemental plane!” The sudden excitement and shock that Walker had made the rest of the party realize that something had left the rune formation on that elemental plane so that it could be teleported at some point. It had been done with full intention and control.

”Aree you saying that-”

”Yes! Another origin race member had to have had that one waiting for it to use. I bet the other one… no, I don’t sense the same. Maybe the planes drifted here?” After falling in to contemplation Walker could tell a little more after witnessing the space rune formations appear for a brief moment.

He could tell that they were not there on the other frozen iron elemental plane. It was subtle but the space around it was not the same. It did not have the same stability. But he could try something. He could sense the space moving now. It was separate from where he stood and where the party used their manas to move. It was different from the sealed condensed true elemental plane.

The unstable aspect of it actually attracted him more to it.

”We are just letting him touch that?” Gil looked at Su and Alice who might be voicing reason. The only issue was that the two of them also seemed to be holding their breath waiting to see what Walker had just realized and would try to do.

That was, until their jaws dropped. To be fair, everyone had the same expression as the entire second frozen iron elemental plane disappeared with a slight wave of spatial mana pushing them a little further away from the remaining water and poison elemental plane.

”Ha! I can make it in to a unique high dimensional storage. It’s not a world or has any life mana, it was only metal, water, and wind that was in there. The space mana was unstable so I took it and used it to keep the manas trapped and the skill did the rest. It’s under my control and I can bring it all back.” Walker’s laughter was bordering on wild at this point. He had just done something even he did not expect to be possible.

”He is totally losing it.” The long sigh that Remey gave out while she nudged Alice to go check on Walker was enough to move things along. They all sort of wanted to know more details though.

”What did you figure out?” Alice placed a hand in his shoulder and found that Walker was breathing a bit heavily.

”It costs a lot of mana but if there are other barren elemental planes like that, I can use them as materials to make a high spatial storage copying the properties and even storing half or a third of the materials they are made of. It’s amazing.”

They had all been told about how the multi dimensional storage skill which had once been the high spatial storage had changed. They also knew Walker had created basic elemental storages along with his basic storages.

This being a fact made it all the more useful for them as they had gathered materials from elemental planes, such as herbs which would be held in immensely better qualities within these specifics storages. Besides this, it meant that Walker was getting closer to being able to do more with the set of skills he had.

They had all seen him focus on the metal manipulation that the steel lamias used, meaning that he was most likely already considering what he could do with the metal elemental plane he had used as a single material to create a new high dimensional storage. Besides the singular fact that it was just plain amazing he had managed to achieve this in the first place.

”That whole theory he said wasn’t really possible, he can probably do it sooner than he things, can’t he.” The whisper from Remey would have been heard by Walker if he wasn’t so focused on rambling to Alice about what he had achieved.

’You mean making a small world within an elemental plane within his spatial storages? I think he can do that but he is missing the whole life and death thing. But that’s what we are here to learn about I guess.” Gil shrugged and knew that whatever Walker did they would be right by his side helping or witnessing it.

All of them knew very well that Walker’s fascination with magic was simply because he had realized he could bring mana and magic in to every skill he learned. He was fusing his skills and abilities constantly. Sooner than later he would do something else extreme that would shake their understanding. They just had to be there for him. They were family after all.

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