Master Of None

"Faster!" Midnight was constantly surprised with how fast Onyx was moving through the shadows now. She would blink and he had hidden in a different shadow within the mansion. She knew that he and Mordant had trained together before he came back to Genesis to rest for a while but this was too much.

She knew that she would feel the pressure if she was able to fight with Onyx using skills like this. "I worked hard to even do this much. Mordant and I had to work together to move through the shadows using shadow teleportation. It was a great burden on both of us and we couldn't even think about fighting afterwards."

He knew very well that the skill to force dark mana to influence the space mana was just too costly. The price was well over what he wanted to worry about let alone focus on when it came to a fight.

However, he had learned that moving through the shadows and using the bare minimum mana on the skill caused his natural ability to move through the shadows to grow significantly faster. Since this was the case he would be able to use it when moving and generally at all times as long as he kept the focus needed for it.

"What about you sister, did you manage to make a triple elemental dragon breath yet?" This was something that Onyx knew Midnight started working on much more seriously after Su had started to focus on her dragon breath. The only reason that midnight felt so determined was the spectacular results Su had.

Since Su had been learning to use the dragon breath skill she had gained from her class and fact she was a half dragon now, it was a rapid learning experience. She had even stepped toward being able to surround the area she was directly fighting in with flames or other forms of dragon breath if she wanted.

This was a form of making a domain, while extremely weak compared to what Walker could do with various manas replicating the different types of dragons, it was still pretty amazing. Beyond that, Su could even focus her breath without causing her much harm at all but causing an enemy more harm.

This was beside the fact that Su was now mixing manas within her body to make different effects. There was even the idea that she would be able to use a triple or quadruple elemental breath attack sooner than later.

This was what motivated Midnight since she knew very well that the step from double to triple was major. She didn't want to seem lazy or stagnate. She had focused on her physical might and the usage of mana in her body. She had learned a great deal. But what major leaps had she had lately?

Nothing. In her mind, she had just become better as a leader of groups and force to follow. Not as an actual fighter.

The dragon breath she felt she should master was the most destructive she had seen. One that she knew a dragon could use if they had the right affinities but it was the mixed manas she had seen.

"You're really going to try that here in the back yard?" The large garden that Gil." Mother worked on was managed well, but the space in the back for training had gone without a lot of use lately. But it had been improved a bit to protect anyone from the training within.

It took some magic rune formations and some top quality kinds to manage it but that was the result. Not that everyone of those who trained here couldn't break through the defenses if they really wanted. But again, they didn't intend to do that.

"Brother just went to learn about it and he knows how to use it. I should be able to use it too and control it." The stubborn tone Midnight had stopped Onyx from flitting around from shadow to shadow.

He knew very well the feelings that they both experienced through their bond with Walker. While Onyx couldn't make use of anything related to other manas, just the information and feelings he gained from his bond with Walker was enough.

It was valuable feelings based on how other manas moved, especially in relation to how they reacted to dark mana and light mana which he used as almost equal now. He just couldn't do anything with the other manas, Midnight could.

She had felt the mixing and experimental manas that Walker played with even when he was hiding the fact that he was. She knew he constantly was testing little magic mixes and even found ways to mix them into his physical skills. He was looking to unite his magic skills and physical skills even more than normal too.

What she felt recently though, was what she wanted.

Lightning was capable of ending conflicts against powerful enemies without a doubt. A single strike of a dragon's breath should do that no matter what. However, the opponents they faced now could handle a basic elemental dragon breath or even dual elemental dragon breaths.

"Bring the manas in, and condense." Onyx walked her through the steps she had told him to mention while she trained this skill. He'd become the guide so that her entire mind was focused on the mana. This was only until she had the skill perfected.

"Keep the manas balanced until they are unified entirely. Perfect harmony waiting to burst out in a condensed moment."

The feeling around Midnight was heavy. The intensity of condensed and mixed manas would be noticed by anyone. However, it was the fact that she was still drawing some mana in that put Onyx's instincts in full alert.

She had tried this a few times now only to fail here and there. This time though, she was clearly showing all the practice she had done.

"Finally, guide the manas together and push them toward your target while adding your will to the mana."

The whisper was just enough to let Midnight know Onyx was prepared to defend himself as well but not enough to distract her as she opened her maw and forced the dragon breath she had been creating out.

The crack of thunder broke through the air while the sudden smell of ozone overtook Onyx's senses. He felt like the air itself was tingling and trying to shock him. Even more so, his eyes felt somewhat blinded by the flash he'd just seen. Something that he didn't know was possible since he literally consumed light mana.

Midnight was thrown backwards in to the nearby training dummies while the wall of the back training area was burnt black and shattered. The shards of rock flew about and tinked to the ground making the running in their ears all the more clear.

It hasn't been a sustained breath as Midnight or Onyx had expected. Instead, all the manas gathered had come out in a vicious ball of lighting which spread through the air attacking a single target and causing the general area to feel extremely unsettling.

The mana was dissipating but because it had been so condensed it was shaking the air very hard to handle for anyone that had mana affinities that were not mixed in the same way. But Midnight felt she could draw all that mana back in much better than before.

It made her feel like she was doing something different than making a dragon breathe. Like she was in fact making a lightning dragon domain instead.

This made Midnight's mind race. She had felt the way that Walker rushed about his magic breakthroughs like this and now she could understand how it felt to be enlightened like this. Even Onyx noticed the extreme focus that grew in Midnight.

Her eyes flashed with mana as she absorbed more and reformed the lighting breath inside her body. But this time instead of breathing in and trying to attack, she pushed to toward her scales.

The sudden surging sparks made Onyx rush away before larger arcs of lighting came off her body. They lingered in the air making Onyx feel that he couldn't even get within range of her if he wanted. Even the thought of touching her was clearly a regrettable action.

"Lightning scales." Midnight spoke out loud as her new skill radiated power. It was weak now, but with refinement and training it would be crushing everything that even attempted to contact her or the general area around her.

She looked at Onyx with glee clearly on her face before she fell to the ground entirely unconscious. "Sister, you need to watch your mama more carefully. You exhausted yourself too much today." As much as Onyx wanted to reprimand her, he was excited and In awe in the ways that Midnight had just created a powerful skill to protect herself when she had failed in making lightning dragon breath.

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