Master Of None

Chapter 2943. Physical Understandings

”Hmm, I thought the two of you would be on a date or something?” Gil had been out on a walk with Alma. It wasn’t just them enjoying time to themselves but the fact that he had heard a few of the elven merchant groups had returned from acting as emissaries from the water elemental plane.

It had been a big deal with twenty merchants who went through vigorous and harsh training to resist water mana.

They had originally all had water mana affinity and bragged about how they as water elves could travel easily along the rivers, new waterways, and even visit the merfolk kingdom for trades. It was also why they had managed to expand their group earlier than other merchant groups managing to procure a total merchant group registered with the merchant guild boasting a total of one hundred and fifty members now.

The two had met with them and heard about how their training had pushed their water mana resistance beyond even some toughened warriors who trained it for longer. The twenty who had succeeded in meeting the requirements had proven that they had the tenacity to achieve their goal of going beyond being just merchants in the world. They wanted to stand for merchants within and outside of the world too.

As Alma and Gil had met them and found that they returned with various goods showcasing a few smaller races of the water elemental plane, some being tribes of monsters that had recently become recognized as official races, the two were impressed.

They also could use that as an excuse for venturing and looking in to the other emissaries who went in to the water elemental alone. Knowing more was available for every single leader within Genesis, Gil and Alma just had a head start before the next Genesis council meeting.

This aside though, they had decided to venture toward one of the training grounds where they had heard that Walker and Alice had gone together for a unique form of training.

”Walker is testing his understanding of his body. He needed to so he could be better and healthier.” The statement was a fact for Alice. She believed this was for his best and she was going to make certain that it was so.

”Well, Gil can go train or whatever with Walker. You can spend time with me since Gil brought me to a few of the new food stalls on the way and I have snacks.” Alma smirked with a slightly mischievous grin proving all too well that the girl who had deadly poisonous plants under her control still had that spark. But now it was a little less about combat and more about teasing him.

With this though, Gil found himself tossed toward the cut off area where mana suddenly pulled away from him.

The feeling was odd and he didn’t like it, his body as something with the high elf bloodline and innate connection to natural mana now felt off. He was not resisting since he knew it would hurt the healers working on this form of training, but that didn’t mean that he had realized the effects of mana on his body that were more passive overall.

The weakness he sensed was greater than he expected. As the rest of the party, Gil had a lot of mana in his body. He didn’t need to worry about running out and it had been a while since that was the case. He didn’t even run out of stamina when he was moving around either lately.

That was just the benefit of being stronger and being somewhere that did not require his utmost effort to survive or fight.

”Hey, Alma sent you in here so she and Alice can talk privately?” Walker knew exactly what had happened. He knew exactly what the two might want to talk about and how Gil would be thrown in to training regardless. Not to mention the fact that Gil might actually benefit from this training too.

He focused so much on the magical arrows and the arcane form of his archery lately. Yes, Gil could make magical arrows using just mana or even ignore the material’s limits when adding mana now. He was definitely miles ahead of who he used to be in terms of using mana and magic with his arrows.

But that was exactly why he would need a little more attention to the body itself. That could have been ignored a lot more lately than what Gil was realizing.

”Exactly, but it’s fine, I knew you were training so this might be better. But not using mana at all?” Gil was skeptical since Walker was normally fully focused on training mana and magic.

He knew that Walker was always interested in new skills and new ways to use what he learned. It wasn’t in question that he had to learn more overall. It was more a question why Walker had decided to accept this change in his usual method of training.

”Oh, so you are trying to get yourself out of a rut then?” The thought of always doing the same things and realizing that he might have missed something was exactly what would motivate Walker to make a change. Especially when it came to changing training to guard his potential weaknesses.

”That’s a big reason, but I also realized that the stress and pressure I was under became normal. The multi dimensional storages come with weight on my and my overall being. If I ignore that and go too far my body and mind could be damaged.”

He stood up from lying down, something he had done while just listening to his body and the way his organs and blood flowed.

”I have neglected the feeling of my own body without mana enhancing myself passively. I still have mana inside my body stored but I stopped my mana sense and returned to just seeing the world as it is. I didn’t know I was under stress just like Remey and Su were. I had more resistances and I had gotten used to increasing pressure so I thought it was normal.”

Walker seemed somewhat calm, Gil noticed that he wasn’t as stiff. Like Walker had stretched and relaxed for the first time after a hard day of training. It was more like when they had just started their training as adventurers rather than what they had become now.

”Let me try then, it already feels weird since my body is attached to mana now too.” While Gil wasn’t feeling the pressure like Walker, he also understood that he might have missed a few things.

For Walker, the understanding of improving his body and understanding of it was a massive boon. Now he was able to better see how he had held himself under pressure.

His heart for example had changed because of this. He could tell that mana flowed through it differently because he was of the origin race now. But he did not realize it had changed so understanding the movement of it could change how he utilized the life mana and natural mana that enhanced himself.

Basically, he understood that he had been inefficient. He hadn’t allowed himself to physically obtain the potential he had as he had grown. He’d stayed too far back and not melded the magical and physical aspects growing together.

He limited himself!

”So you’re saying that the feeling in my forearms where I normally concentrate mana, that soreness is because I unintentionally let mana flow there and I heal before I realize I’ve stressed that muscle set?”

”You are getting it. You heal because mana is enhancing your body, but what if you didn’t feel that stress on your body because of the mana and harmed yourself? That could change the flow of your fighting and everything without you realizing why a change happened!!!”

The sudden burst of energy that Walker showed was enough for Gil to accept this training.

”Oh wait! You and I should soar through the combat techniques we know. You go through dagger techniques and other elven skills without using mana. I will train them too, we can see where we missed things because we focused on mana while learning them too.”

Now Walker was talking Gil’s language. He could more readily go through the things he knew and see errors he might have missed overall while refining them. He also knew that he might be able to better improve his skills too since he might find errors that he could teach others to avoid when training as well.

As the two became even more absorbed in their mana absent training, the healers outside were swapping out. This isolation training was becoming something of a challenge for them since it was taking more and more hours.

Yet, it was an offer of growth. Growth that a few more of them could achieve an advancements the mana isolation and mana halting skill sets they wished to gain.

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