Master Of None

Chapter 2752: 2752. Glad To See It

It wasn’t that Walker thought that Alera and Su would end up injured, it was the fact that the speedy strikes used against Su were pushing her to use more of her strength than normal. Meaning that she would most likely start ramping up the output of her attacks.

However, it was clear that the popularity and rumors of Su’s offensive shield style had been brought to the demi-human lands. Alera was dodging any attempt to be slapped or deflected by the twin shields. Yet, she was still not landing a single blow at all.

”Your arrogance and disrespect to our king is clear. You should not wish to stand on the same level as someone who supports our entire nature.” Alera was doing what many nobles or royal guards would do if they felt that their king or lord had been dishonored. It was an older way of thinking but not one without merit. She possessed loyalty to Rorick and the demi-human people beyond a doubt.

This was why Rorick seemed to smile when he saw her acting this way. She was strong enough to push herself to get stronger. She was dedicated enough to show her strength where it needed to be shown even when she had lost to other generals in combat. She had been loud enough to stand out from the crowd of those trying to get any position higher than just a soldier. She had been brave enough to put her life on the line to ensure that every farmer and soldier escaped a flood naturally occurring in their territory.

All these things made Alera a valuable general who would allow for the people working beneath her to rise higher. It was very similar to the thing Scylla had done and many made a point to say that she would be able to stand in those shoes one day.

Just not yet.

She had too much space to grow. Rorick knew that and Walker was seeing it clearly. Scylla was wiser and had made sure to see the world as a larger picture. Right now Alera was only seeing a small part of what was happening. She hyper focused too much and needed to step back metaphorically.

The scimitar strikes continued but Su deflected both at once causing a shift to occur. She changed her armor using her unique skill and shocked Alera who had not expected that Su’e armor would become lighter and thinner. Not that she cared until she realized the shields stabbing at her were also faster.

This armor set was a set based around wind mana. It was called the wind strider armor and the wind blade twin shields. Those names were made by the wandering blacksmith when he had been making purely elemental affinity armors and shields for Su. He had used materials that were extremely light so that she could utilize the agility she gained better and also for when she was taken to the air for fighting or traveling.

The shields were made to more easily flow with her movements. Hence their thinner design and the more pointed bottoms of the shields so Su could raise them up and slash or stab with them, even stab them in to the ground to better deflect winds or attacks like a dragon breath.

The sudden faster movement had changed the pace. Now Su was dictating the fight and throwing the attempted scimitar strikes away from herself. ”You see everything too small. You need to look at this entire city and realize that I am one of the foremost figures living defending this place. Kings are something I can fight easily. I fight beings that are older and stronger than just about anyone in the world right now. I can travel to places that you have never even dreamed of. You need to learn that blind respect is worse than anything at times.”

Su swung her leg out, tripping Alera and smashing her shields in to the arena ground one on each side of Alera’s neck. The attack caused the entire arena to crack and shatter. In return shards of stone caused cuts and scrapes on Alera’s body while a gust of wind buffeted the entire area causing many shouts from the crowd watching.

Just because Su was not actively using the wind did not at all mean that she was not still drawing the wind mana in and it would be released. The armor was also made to absorb wind mana and allow it to be used when Su needed it. This was a passive ability that made things easier for her. It also made it clear that she had let herself get a bit too worked up.

”Alice?” Walker asked calmly before Alice gave a brilliant simile and started humming a bit. The healing light washed over Alera making every cut and scrape disappear quickly while also helping her clean up due to the purifying effects of the small song.

”Rorick, my guards are all gaining a lot from training here against your royal guards and general. Thank you for visiting them and challenging them. For now, I will take most of them with me so they can learn from their battles and explain to me the flaws they found.” Su walked away leaving General Alera sitting up with wide eyes. She didn’t have enough words to express what she was feeling at the moment.

”Midnight wants to train against some of your guards too. If I remember seeing it right, didn’t I see a report that there are some demi-human mages and magical warriors in your ranks now?” Walker had his own sly smirk as he made sure Midnight heard him. She had wanted to spar and train using the new methods of moving mana within herself she had gleaned from watching Walker. This was an ideal chance.

”I knew you would hear about them coming this way. I managed to expand my forces due to the corrupt mana that we have to have worries about.” King Rorick along with every ruler had heard about corrupt mana existing generally now. It was always a natural thing to occur now that the world was moving according to what it was meant to.

Manas being perfectly balanced would make existence a utopia, something that just wasn’t the case. Therefore, even before the proper expansion of the world and dungeons, rulers had begun looking for chances to get more magic focused warriors to ensure that there were methods to handle corrupted mana and the monsters or plants full of it causing odd changes.

”I also had some of the elves visit and speak to us about issues we missed in growing our fruit trees. It was very enlightening. I hope to have the few farmers that can work with your people.”

”That’s good, we have a lot of farming projects and research on herb growth too. I believe we will see a lot of changes in food production once the floating islands are figured out. We have rune formations researched and plenty of opportunities to make them more permanent. The ancient angels had good ideas but they made too much on top of one another to make it easy for us.”

Rorick nodded along, he could tell that the ideas were good but the theory was only that until it was possible in practice. ”Knowing you and your involvement, they will have things working sooner than later.” Rorick paused as he looked at his royal guards lining up and the younger soldiers he had brought lining up. They had seen his signal align with the fact that Alera was now standing up again.

”I will have my soldiers train and learn as much as they can. I want them to be more diverse when handling the dangerous locations near our territory. We have had more monsters trying to steal away our food lately. The outer farms are struggling now and then.”

”I will make sure I put in words for some people to work with them then. A few of the adventurers who could be called veterans are making their way back here. They heard that rulers are coming here so that they can gain some opportunities working for rulers or nobles directly.” Walker knew that training with royal guards was also an extremely valuable opportunity for anyone who was looking to move upwards in the world.

That is agreeable. And thank you Saintess for your healing. Alera is going to be brilliant one day. The scratches would have deterred her from training further today. I believe that she can research her own bloodline and step forward with more determination after today.” The two ended their conversation but Walker would tell that Rorick was beyond impressed. There was a weight seemingly left off his shoulders compared to when they had first met. An air of comfort around him rather than stress.

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