Master Of None

Forgetting about the fact that they had unwittingly come across two very powerful beings, one more than another in a row, wasn’t easily done. However, Walker also understood that everyone has their own personal thoughts about their future growth. The fact that they were willing to keep pushing the envelope and stepping forward was major to him and everyone else right now.

”So, are we heading that way?” Gil directed them toward what he could tell was a water elemental plane next to an earth elemental plane. But he also wasn’t entirely sure that he and the others would find those places very useful to their growth. But they also might see things that didn’t exist anywhere else yet.

”I think I should use a little more sense than that.” Walker was smirking a little. He was looking around with his head on a swivel. From what everyone could tell, he was looking at absolutely nothing but to him, he was trying to pick out wisps of mana he knew were not just ambient calm manas. He was trying to grab a hold of manas that were flowing from more potent and theoretically more developed elemental planes.

”I think we should follow this one.” Walker reached out and physically drew in mana in to a small ball that he knew the others would be able to sense and see. However, they were pretty shocked that this was the mana that Walker had grasped.

”You want us to follow undead mana?”It was fair that with the previous experiences with undead mana and the undead that Su would think Walker had lost it a little. To be clear though, they also didn’t use undead mana at all. Meaning that they were going to a place that would most likely give them less benefits than anywhere else.

”The undead mana is death and life basically coming together. It’s not wrong but it’s not right. My theory is that if we go to where this mana is so dense, we should be able to find something that caused the mana to be very dense.” The idea wasn’t complicated. For Walker, it was a focus on the fact that he would be able to see the death and life mana mixing with whatever other manas nearby.

Therefore, Walker would see how life and death mana can balance when in a vacuum. When it was just those two manas and how other elemental manas interacted with them. It might allow him insight about how death mana reacted and even gave him the chance to store some more pure death mana within his multi dimensional storage. From there he could use it to train himself more in the future.

”It could be interesting. The undead materials I had were used to make potions that made undead literally dissolve away if used right. So, maybe I can work with Alice and we can make potions that purify an area with dense undead mana even better.” The Idea Remey came to was that the benefits she had with potential materials were high enough. Undead mana naturally gathered in certain places anyways.

As much as she would not want to fight even more undead, it would forever be part of the world. Therefore, handling it properly was the best case. If she could help with that by utilizing her potions instead of her fists, then that was all for the better. She really would prefer to fight someone face to face than an undead that smelled and wouldn’t even feel the excitement of battle she possessed.

Otherwise, even Su seemed to catch on that they would not necessarily be looking for just the undead elemental plane that Walker sensed. That it would be more important to study the surroundings. If she could grasp something about death mana, even slightly, she believed that as a guardian she could protect against it. While no one she knew used death mana, that was a surety to appear in the future with how advanced the world was getting. Meaning that if she could teach another show to defend from it, she would be setting up a perfect future defense.

The others didn’t seem to mind and gestured for Walker to do what he did. Without hesitating, Walker pulled at space mana like it was easier for him than ever. While he made a mental note of how much easier that it felt, he also didn’t question it. Something about questioning it told him if he did he would not manage to succeed but that was maybe just in his head.

All things aside, the entire party could tell that they were even moving faster. It wasn’t in any way like what had just happened to them with the powerful being from before, but they all realized that going through that ordeal taught Walker something. It might have affected all of them since they all felt the shift in space mana much more clearly.

When they did arrive in front of the elemental plane, it was like looking at a rotating sphere of gray. The mana was dense and there was clearly an aura of sadness around it. While it was hard to describe as such, it was true and it was also somewhat deeper than that.

It was the same feeling someone would have when they hadn’t slept for days and just realized that they hadn’t even gotten halfway through the task keeping them awake. Besides that, there was a shifting of shadow figured within the moving mana, proving that this undead was not zombies or skeletons as Walker and the party had the most experience with.

’Violent wraith

This is an undead without a perfect form. Due to this, it is constantly using undead mana to maintain its form searching for life mana to solidify a proper physical form. It is able to corrupt and slowly possess another if they are able to break mental and physical defenses. The weaker their target the easier they have it.

They are not intelligent enough to speak or utilize the hosts’ memories and will quickly kill whatever they possess leaving nothing but an extremely violent zombie in place of those they had possessed. They are extremely weak to denser elemental mana because it makes their form harder to maintain.

When they are captured within specific gems, they are considered to be the same as what an elemental spirit is when trapped within a weapon. However, the violent wraiths will constantly try to escape causing the undead mana to attract more death mana creating weaker undead all around it. This is why some races that use necromancy will trap powerful violent or elder wraiths within gems and weapons to use as an additional strength for their…’

Walker read the all around appraisal to everyone. This was more like a ball of wraiths than it was just undead mana. But they were feeding on the undead mana while the undead mana was seemingly growing. Nearby, they noticed what could only be cleaner and purer undead mana being released without intent.

The face of a few of the violent wraiths slammed in to what must be some form of barrier as they noticed the life mana within the party. However, when Walker began to buff everyone using natural mana, they recoiled since they could tell they were not strong enough to fight or to possess any one of them.

”So some undead elemental planes are a ton of undead monsters just fighting one another and trying to escape. I hate it.” While blunt, Gil wasn’t going to make it seem that he liked this sort of place. There was certainly something about the plane that could cause a lot of damage to anywhere if it was added without safety.

The party started to chat about how they would need to handle anything they tried to take from here. How they might not even risk trying to gain anything. Especially with the fact that the elemental plane is clearly sealed for a reason. If they accidentally changed that then they would be responsible for any consequences.

”There it is. There is a small thread of life mana and a small thread of death mana. Both are being drawn in to keep this place balanced. It’s why the barrier is maintained.” Walker pulled at the two threads with his mana senses and felt that he could siphon a little mana for himself without causing any breaks or issues.

He also could sense that the undead elemental plane was not something naturally occurring. While he couldn’t put his finger on the specifics, he could tell just by feeling it. The mana around it and keeping the balance while also trapping the undead plane was made by an origin being and was not made to be easily added to another elemental plane. Someone had different plans for it somehow.

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