Master Of None

Ignus and Remey? Shocked to find that all the fire mana around them was frozen as if refusing to move even an inch. They had both not accepted that Walker was capable of stopping even their mana, yet using space mana too it seemed possible for him.

Walker and the rest of the party? Shaking their heads at the fact that Ignus and Remey were still seemingly ready to battle it out to their hearts content to see who is stronger right now.

”We weren’t done!” Remey was seemingly eyeing Walker like she was going to choose him as her next sparring partner, but Ignus seemed to be looking away somewhat frustrated that he hadn’t been able to draw enough mana before Walker had interfered to fight a little more.

”We have to take our time to get settled back in, if you two keep fighting like that you would leave this entire area too warm for comfort for everyone else nearby. Try and fight in the lava fields. I got everyone a week to acclimate and train ourselves to accept whatever we need to accept.” The reprimand from Walker was not that harsh, he too understood that he too wanted to rush away and fight or train right now.

He watched as Su and Alice already started to walk away from the bridge toward the main city. He knew very well that Alice would be testing her new songs and playing with light mana and her voice for some time. She wanted to bring illusions in to her songs and condense the light mana to make more defined figures. It would allow her to make much more dynamic songs that represented her more focused will behind those songs.

Su would be focusing on her personal growth and relationship with mana within her fighting style. The shields she could overlap using different armors and manas were always growing in strength, now though, she would be able to represent a much more stout defense. She would be able to use better condensed elemental manas potentially changing the shielding skills she used overall. Not to mention the elemental wreath skill which she had obtained where she could cover her shields and even parts of her body in specific elemental manas.

This would lead her to changing her fighting style as well. Advancing her overall combat toward both a magical and physical melding. It would be passed down to those who could learn this advanced style when the time was right. It would work with singular affinities to manas or multiple too. Hence why her mind was so focused on the idea and growth of such techniques.

It was easy to see that Gil was waiting for Walker to move since he would need some of the materials that Walker stored away. Enough that he would be able to start fashioning new arrows and testing them while he took breaks in contemplating and altering his dagger styles. The high elf dagger technique was not something Gil had imagined he might be able to change.

While the dagger technique naturally attracted natural mana, Gil had been able to use a small amount of that mana compared to the whole of the mana that was attracted. It mostly just layered in his body and reacted to his movements and will. Now, he understood how to make that more useful. How to control some of that mana and potentially even layer it in to his normal arrows making them carry some elemental styles too. It would be a lot of training to refine, but well worth it later.

Where Midnight and Onyx shared similarities was their desire to consolidate their racial aspects. Midnight could focus on the manas she had absorbed and how to purify and unify manas within her better as a true dragon champion. Onyx could learn to meld the light and dark mana better while also allowing all the densely stored mana within his body to help him advance in strength. Besides the fact that he had already established a closeness and more advanced form of his new race that would allow him to teach the younger generations even better than before.

This left Walker with the benefit of being able to meditate for a full week on the fact that he has unique manas within his multi dimensional storage and also an entirely new multi dimensional storage. However, the fact that he had created a new one was small in comparison to the potential knowing he could make entire small elemental planes in to fuel to create a unique multi dimensional storage.

He’d realized that he was closer to a small goal of his than he had realized. The potential to make a separate safe place, a separate dimensional storage where living breathing people could go was there. While he was sure there would be highly specific restrictions, that was not a matter he worried about. Instead, he worried that he would be able to control and safely create such a thing. Yet, he also understood that other origin race members might be able to do such a thing if they were strong enough and wise enough.

”The commotion won’t die down for a while so we should all handle what we need to handle.” Walker smirked and stepped forward, yet, everyone was fairly stunned as he had stepped in to nothing disappearing and appearing a fair distance away. Walker was testing his space mana manipulation!

”If you are going to test new skills, tell me so I can keep up.” Gil grumbled a little but he was definitely a little impressed since he needed to put a bit of effort in to catch back up. Normally, he would have been able to speed ahead of Walker due to his focus on agility and movement.

”It’s a skill I realized I had gained by whatever had happened when we were moved a few times. Instead of needing to use other manas to pressure space mana, I use my internal manas to move through and draw space mana around me. That allows me to slip through the distance sort of like water through a sifter. It goes through but slows down. Instead, I am cutting that distance and moving through without being slowed. I can even move faster I think.” Walker could contemplate and test the skill out even more later.

In Gil’s perspective, he knew that Walker would have long distance teleportation much sooner than later. He had already done something similar before but it was not refined to the point where it could be called seamless or perfect. It was rough and would need some meditation and practice. However, if Walker was able to teleport the entire party here and there when needed, they would have a major benefit to helping where they were needed.

This also played in to the fact that Walker might have new insights about the spatial rune knowledge right now. There were rune carvers testing and practicing their runes to create a better elemental space rune teleportation formation. If there is anyone right now that could advance that, it would be Walker.

A more refined spatial rune would be perfect.

”What else are you going to study? Back to imagining making a world within your spatial storage?” As much as Gil knew he was joining a little, he also wanted to see if Walker was actually going to attempt something that grand.

”I kind of have that idea, but different than you might think.” Walker was able to sense the life mana in the earth beneath their feet while they walked. He could sense that there were small seeds sprouting and growing while some met with dead mana and perished becoming fertilizer decayed by dark mana. The flow was brilliant and more vibrant in his eyes than before.

”We already helped some races come to Genesis. It was hard to bring some since they needed to bring their entire city. What if I could make a special space where living beings could rest and I could bring an entire village or even a city to Genesis territory or to another safe place within the elemental planes. Sort of like the origin race members who can carry an entire elemental plane.”

”That’s a great idea. Then we can make sure they all stay safe and none of us would cause risks to them at all. They would all be safe and sound from any dangers while travelling and be able to easily acclimate to whatever changes in mana when they were brought out. They could even get stronger if you provide enough mana while in your unique space.” Gil was seeing the benefits and Walker knew that he was on to something. A chance to make a special safe place for anyone they rescued was more than just something to consider.

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