Master Of None

Chapter 1696: 1696. Step Back, Get Ready

”The naming technique is not poor. However, they do not deserve a name that sounds the same as mine.” Rise was a little prideful but the other royal dragons that had arrived in full gave her a look that shut her up. They were all putting aside their pride for the moment, she could too.

”I think that they are angels because some of the second ruins we found in the demon city were showing winged people that were not harpies. We have proof that angels exhausted at some point in Aliceʼs bloodline, Horizon approved this. An elemental spirit has to have a clear explanation of this.” The information from Horizon was trusted because he was a grand elemental spirit.

Lying would not be what their race was all about.

”I expected that one. We have seen some undead just now that were similar. If you didnʼt say there were angels then how could there be so many stories made up about them? Lately, it seems like every fiction has proven to be real.” Gil had said what everyone felt. So many races had fairytales that had been proven to be real and just left in the past lately.

”Do you know anything else about these two empires?” Scylla cut off that train of thought. She was more focused on how they would be handling two warring empires. That was the crux of where they stood as an entirely new entity.

”I have no idea. If they are still at war things will be harder. I just didnʼt think that differences over time would end like this. A war between two halves of a continent.” Walker and everyone thought the same. But they all knew that time could smooth or make things much more rough for people. Values could become tradition and tradition could spur war.

”I think you have all forgotten where we have anchored and how many have become weak after this battle.” Leon and Current nearly spoke together. They were the foremost leaders of how things should progress in the water. They also had looked over the soldiers the most.

”That is correct. My dragonkin worked the hardest to defeat those disgusting things. They deserve the time to prepare for the next battle, especially if there will be more things like that.” Rise also wanted time to recover her mana. That way she could battle wyverns the moment she saw them.

”That is a good point. So I propose we worry about getting through the coral tomorrow.” Elise spread a map. ”Some of the tamers were working during the night and day before all this happened. They managed to get a rough outline of the coral growth. Now the dwarves and the merfolk can finish it.” Elise had not spoken up since she was not sure she should. All the figures here seemed higher than her.

However, Elise was a growing representative of the entire tamerʼs guild. She had been leading tamers, and even teaching them. Now she should be allowed to stand tall and speak with everyone about how they progressed. Surprisingly to her, everyone looked over in approval. They were very happy that this had been produced in such a short time.

”The sun should be rising any minute now. It will be time to plot a course through the coral. By then we can focus on landing and setting up a temporary camp. Then we send people out accordingly. If they are wars… we should avoid them.”

”No, we should not avoid wars. You were giving us good ideas until then. That is why you and a few are too young here. The wars will be where we find high ranking generals to speak with. We find the border and or a war. Then we make them listen to us.

If they both want peace and allow us help in finding out enemies, great. If not, we will join a war.” The king of the surface was much harsher than others. However, it seemed the royal dragons and Scylla agreed with this for the most part.

”No war. That is not what we are here for. We should not fight people that we donʼt know. We have no business in their conflicts. We can learn from them. We can find out enemies and finally stop that demon king.

Then we can also find the wyvernsʼ cause and see what we can do. If the cause is the war, then we can try to garner peace with them and explain that they caused wyverns to flock to our homes.” Walker put his foot down. The way he spoke made everyone pay attention to him. He hadnʼt realized that there was some natural mana leaking around him in every word.

”We would need more troops.”

”We would need the entire dragonkin population. A whole continent of territory would be hard to manage.” Terron and the other royal dragons had the same thought.

”No War! And if we had troops, still no war. And the territory would be the one person who didnʼt want it. Thatʼs the only person that would not abuse it. Alma, can you grow some seaweed so that we can protect the hulls of the ships from coral?” Walker ended it there. He was not entertaining any form of fighting.

”I can do that. There are enough of my elves to support me. I just need to prepare the seeds. I have some but I will get more. If you can help me with some more natural mana, we might be able to get rid of that energy.” Alma looked at the ocean. The slight rays of rising sun reflected off the water and reminded everyone of the darkness mana and the undead energy that seemed to be sitting there.

”That is not my realm of understanding.” Mordant saw many look at him. They assumed that darkness and death went hand in hand so it would make sense that he understood the best. ”Darkness mana is pure and balanced, it is not always death. But death mana or energy… that is not something I touch.” Mordant seemed even more resolute as he said this.

Now with everyone listening, even his fellow dragons, he would be able to explain a little more.

”We have seen the darkness dragons that chose to be skeletal dragons, or fall to be skeletal dragons. Some go in to the wilds and live alone as darkness dragons do. They can maintain sanity but have angry dispositions. That is normal. But when they decide to ignore darkness and follow death, they lose their minds.

Not unlike rogue dragons.” This made sense, the energy was a mystery and it was not something easy to understand.

”I never touched it to remain pure in my mana. But you have met people that have. Or should I say strange undead that even we would not wish to fight because of their secrets.” Mordant glanced at Walker and his party. He knew that Walker had met a powerful undead before.

”The undead mana seems to be scared by the light. We can have Alice sing while Alma works and I provide natural mana. One ship at a time through a route. Just like the river. We can move through one by one.” This was the best and easiest way to make sure that the ships would not be damaged and a safe route through the massive coral reef and rocks could be made.

It was also known so it would be easy to jump right in to it.

”We will have everyone that needs it rest then. Those who donʼt need it will start their work.” This was the king of the surfaceʼs last words before he walked away and began to give his soldiers orders to get the golems prepared. They would need to map out a lot while working with the merfolk and tamers that could control monsters that could fly.

Onyx. Midnight, Gil. Su, and Remey gathered around Walker. Alice was also paying attention even though it looked like she was ready to fall asleep standing where she was. ”So, two empires at war, wyverns, and the same evil demon we have been after from the start. Why does it seem like things are getting more complicated with every step we take?” Gil sounded even more stressed than usual.

He had a lot on his mind with just the elves, now there was a whole new thing to worry over.

”You and I both are asking that question. But we have everything we need between us. I think the best method is to step back and let them work to map the reef. When we get to land…we will go exploring.” Walker knew it would be a whole new tough set of trials. But for now, they needed to be ready.

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