Master Of None

"Alma came to meet me. She said we would be viewing the elemental spirit trees together." Walker looked at Gil and thought about the potential he had to completely send Gil in to the next territory.

"It wasn't a joke, I know that we have to help the other elemental spirit trees grow and that you are one of the best people to help the mages, elves, echidna, and spirit race already working on that there. But, you also have been running around doing whatever so we have some of the heavenly serpents take the sun witch for a better tour from a different perspective."

Now Gil was smirking a little bit more, however, Walker saw a little gilt in his eyes. The fact that he had oriented this odd double date in this way had been enough for Gil to feel bad. Especially since he knew that all the work that Walker did was valuable for Genesis.
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"You know, we haven't had a chance to hang out in a while either. All of us are always working on something. DSu, Midnight, and Remey worked with me on potions and mixing dragon breaths. Onyx is so busy that he is off with the younger serpents all the time being a leader. Even my own little sister is busy running a business at a younger age than most ever have been…"

He trailed off realizing that for these n coming years this would be the norm for them. They had all spread themselves out on to becoming these sorts of figures. Pillars that could not easily be replaced until others had grown enough to hold those positions as well. Not that this was a bad thing at all. It was a good thing.

There was a lot of chance to grow for those who were coming in to these new paths.

"So, you can hang out with us and we can go view the elemental spirit trees. The tree of wind needs some more potent wind mana and I was told by the echidna and elves there that it is also starting to choose a saintess to watch over it. So I would say that it needs that wind mana to do more than grow."

It was hard to tell that the elemental spirit trees were not the same kind of intelligence as other beings. Especially since they could easily communicate their needs and the bonds that intelligent beings could to others. However, their intelligence was similar to the elemental spirits.

They were able to work with the will of mana and nature to a degree. This allowed them to move through the will of the world or existance and bind with others. To grow in a more unique and connected way than other similar plants or beings. It was hard to wrap the mind around.

Redgraledd, Walker found that Alma and Alice were happily chatting away about the elemental spirit trees. Alma had been very weak after she had helped them grow and unite. While Gil had taken a lot of the stress from her, she had been pushed well beyond the limits she knew while also learning to understand what the forest elf queen might have in her connection to the forest.

This unique sense of the trees and how they grew was deeper. It was a new pathway to connect to the life of the forest and the future they had. Alma knew this and had added some of her very own life mana to them binding her with every spirit tree including the central one which unites them all and embodied all of their wills so to speak.

Since she had been so drained, she had been unable to be out and about as much as others had been. This had made some of the elves who were serving under her stressed and covering more duties, but also they learned. The elves who had expected so much from her realized that they were now capable of so much more.

They had stepped in to many of the jobs that Alma had done and found that they were now able to help her rest properly. This left Alma the time to recover some, but she had not been able to see her own friends or properly relax. Gil had also been busy, regardless of his tiredness, he had also been working constantly. So, even when he had seen Walker he had been unable to properly spend time with his best friend.

As they got to the wind elemental spirit tree, they had been greeted by almost everyone they passed. So many of the dragonkin moving around had been working hard to build the wind territory that was now centered around both the wind elemental spirit tree and grand wind mana array of rune formations.

There was even a rumor being bounced around that some mages claimed that a naturally forming wind elemental rune will form within the month. Walker wasn't sure what they used to get that information but he would like it if that was the case. Then they could build an even better magic tower here to enhance the manas even more.

The usage of natural mana spurred Fleur to leave the spirit mark again. She had recently used some natural mana when Walker had shown off to the twelve covens of witches within the endless night forest. However, she had been resting a lot lately when she was not working on guiding the spirit race as a whole.

This was a chance to use her mana in a different way that was a little more relaxing. Truly communing with nature and using her bond with the world and now bond with existence to some degree to assist.

She felt the flow of life mana between the elemental spirit trees and Walker was the one who felt guided as he and the others watched the tree shimmer with wind mana. The shivering leaves changed direction as various wind currents moved about them.

They all noticed the start of some treehouses within the branches, something the elves would do with all the elemental spirit trees. However, these were not treehouses to just live in. They were places for those most in touch with wind mana to bond with the tree and the mana at a deeper level.

For the dragons, this would be a place for them to nest. Not a traditional nest, but the ideal place to allow an egg to mature while absorbing the purer and calmer wind manas. Potentially allowing them to grow in to a better class with their naturally passed on affinity for wind mana from their parents.

This was just one of the elemental spirit trees, but Walker was still impressed. The manas coming together here worked perfectly with the rune formations made using rune knowledge from every race they had encountered and joined so far.

How much could this change with the witch runes? How much better could the flow of mana and ability to understand it?

That aside, the five focused on the figure at the base of the tree. They were all strongly absorbing and interacting with wind mana in meditation. Walker could sense that they were not just moving it or trying to shape it, that they were purposefully moving it to show their affinity and trying to grow their affinity as well.

These figures were not just young or old. They were of multiple ages and from multiple races. Shockingly, one of the gray haired spiders was resting with their head slightly bowed down focused entirely on the tree.

It wasn't that this was odd because they were usually bonded with goblins and did not branch out to these areas to focus on one mana. It was specifically odd because the wind was wrapping them with much greater strength.

The same ways that the wind currents moved through the wind elemental spirit tree's leaves, the little grey haired were being moved and influenced. Instead of using their will to manipulate the mana from the tree that had been purified and processed by the tree, it was following its lead.

This grey haired spider was communing with the tree itself to learn the ways of the air currents. The flow of wind mana itself. Something that all the others attempting to become bonded with the tree as a saint or saintess was missing. But just saying that was not easy.@@novelbin@@

This meant that the mana would be moved through the body against the natural flow of their body. Meaning that the one allowing this was allowing their body to be used as such by the natural flow of wind mana through the spirit tree. Meaning pain and potential damage.

That acceptance would change the body though. Allow for a chance. A chance that was successful from what the five were witnessing as the manas converged in a grand display.

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