Master Of None

’Frost fairy dragon egg

This fairy dragon has the unique mix of water and wind mana that allows frost to form. While the wind affinity is very minimal, the water affinity is much greater. Therefore, it requires a substantial environment matching this to be able to properly hatch.

It will hunt and consume small ice type monsters and insects to increase its nutrients and mana within its body before developing nearly white scales with blue hues. Most of the time, it will spend time in the colder forests searching for elemental spirits to play with.

Once it manages to grow strong enough it will resonate with a place and take charge of it causing it to become a watcher that can assist in maintaining balance in a winter forest. It will rarely need to move to ensure balance, however, its instincts guide it to lead certain monsters and plants to grow or hunt in certain areas….’

’Moss fairy dragon egg

This is a fairy dragon egg with water and earth affinity, it also possesses a small light affinity which allows it to become what it must to encourage the mossy forests to grow. It will often be found hatching in deep mossy areas within damp forests after rain…’

”Walker.” Alice snapped Walker out of the appraising he was doing. It was hard to get through the forty or so fairy dragon eggs, let alone the dormant slumbering fairy dragons. They were so numerous that it was difficult to wonder how they would move them to a new place and make sure they would awaken or hatch to grow as they needed to.

Looking at where Alice had been observing, Walker noticed a small assortment of what appeared to be rungs and bracelets.

’Ring of the fairy dragon master

This run and its associated jewelry were forced using arcane blacksmithing and arcane rune carving. It was made with spatial mana to be able to store the dormant, eggs, and even living fairy dragons so that they can be transported. It also allows for the transportation of other beings related to the fairy dragons as their food sources, necessary balancers, or other related aspects.

Once used, these items will decay within one hundred days due to the immense stress put on them by being used. Beyond this, the crafter made them in this way so that the fairy dragon and other species of monster or plant within would not be captured and used as pets…’

A lot of the information seemed to be distorted beyond the basic use and the limit of one hundred days. More like it had been intentionally hidden or blocked, and with the level of magical crafting and understanding of these ancient mages, it might be normal for them to have some sort of safeguard in whatever they crafted.

It presented a gap in knowledge lost to people of today since Walker was sure that he hadn’t met an arcane blacksmith or arcane rune carver. To be honest, he thought that the arcane aspect was just being able to use mana in forging or carving of runes. Yet, that could mean that these craftsmen were first focused on magic rather than the materials. A different form of learning before they would take the next step to do more than to just craft.

It also presented the functionality of runes. Some would activate when they were carved and then mana was added. But what if they were created with purely magic, could that open new paths?

”We need to bring all of what is here out using all this?” It was fair that Onyx would be somewhat shocked. ”Brother, can we manage this alone?”

”We will need to, no one else could come here after we leave. It won’t exist in the same way after this. The dungeon won’t have a reason to maintain it, the guardian dryad is gone, it will become part of this massive dungeon of connected forests.”

Passing the items out, Walker also wondered who the fairy dragon master was. It made him believe that a fairy dragon tamer might have existed, or someone with similar skills or similar class. It might have even be a title of someone who protected and guided them to protect them in the most dangerous times of the fairy dragon’s existence.

There were even more questions now compared to what he had considered before. Yet, he wasn’t even able to think of them as he realized that when Gil tried to walk away to begin storing the fairy dragon eggs away within the unique rings and bracelets made for this purpose, the ring in his hand shot out of his hand and back toward Walker.

”Umm, what?” The pair just stood there, dumbfounded, while the others looked on curiously.

A moment passed as mana began to thrum through them and all the other pieces of equipment seemed to be attracted as well. Walker looked at them floating in the air near him as if they were being held in waiting.

’Soul binding rune formation is bound to your mana and soul signature. The items associated with this formation will be destroyed within one hundred days. Spatial affinity matches the requirements to properly store the fairy dragon haven within the combined runic space. Current time left before…’

”Apparently all of these items are bound to me until they break down. It’s another rune formation making them all a connected set. These mages might have been the most powerful beings in ancient times, and they aren’t even left behind.”

It wasn’t Walker being just impressed by what he and everyone else were realizing. It was also the fact that he was a little terrified.

If these mages could make connected pieces of equipment that hid information while also having effects that could not be replicated in today’s age, then what did that say about the ancient monsters? The beings that would hunt them and defeat them to the point that only ruins remained.

That the ancient monsters after being cut off from the elemental planes had actually gone to lengths that forced these mages to perish and hide away species of monsters, plants, and whatever else they had to be found in later generations.

How dangerous were the ancient eras before now?

’This item can no longer be appraised.’

Walker blinked having no words for what was going on. He couldn’t even appraise the rings and bracelets that had been brought on to his fingers, wrists, and ankles? What was this?!

”I can’t appraise any of this any more, and this area in the dungeon is about to be stored away-”

The ground shook while parts of the dungeon seemed to shrink in on them. Instead of the trees being well away making this small clearing of wonder, they were stretching and space was changing. It was like the dungeon had a whole different bit of space stored away waiting to be slotted in to this place.

’Forced exile from the shifting forest- from the forest of slumber- from the sparking fores- dungeon is falling in to a state of dormancy, all beings are exiled for the next month.’

It seemed like the will of the world had reached a hand in to this occurrence since whatever the ancient mages had done caused some trouble to this massive dungeon with multiple entrances.

’Major quest: return of the fairy dragons

Requirement:

Return the fairy dragon species to the world so that they may take their role amongst the spirits and the creatures of the world.

Reward:

Location of the ancient magic tower of the time mage.’

Walker saw that the rest of the party also received this quest. As they blinked and found themselves back in front of the small camp they had made. The most shocked of them was Mela, who had no idea what had happened. Her body was also weaker and she looked pale compared to before.

”So, we basically just grabbed a treasure chest of nearly extinct plants and monsters just to have to bring them out and let them grow? And we were kicked out from the dungeon that’s not going to let anyone inside for a month?” Remey huffed a bit while kicking the nearby tree stump. ”That’s rude.”

”I believe that the ancient mage responsible hoped that people like us would come along one day. We need to uphold their hopes and dreams for the recovery of those species.”

”Su’s right, so, I will make sure the elves help in the same way they do with the forests and herbs. Remey, you will have to help too, the herbalists know you best.”

Gil and Su were ignoring the fact that Walker would be working with everyone and Alice leaned on his shoulder a bit to make him feel better that he was being ignored as the others started to plan everything out.

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