Master Of None

"Who is that man?" Walker saw an unfamiliar figure covered in moss. He seemed to be moving without even taking a step. Just gliding along.

"I have no idea, a moss covered mage. Definitely no one that I ever heard of when I was the adventurers guild master." The thought that ibis might have the answer fell to pieces while the three began to focus on the unknown mage.

"His opponent looks strange too. I have never seen a woman with that many…well whatever they are." Ibis was dumbfounded. He was looking at a tall woman with many strange pieces of metal in her hair and even wrapped around her.

"You three should start listening to the crowd around you. Alma and I heard everything just walking over here." Gil teased the three since he saw that they had totally missed their chance.

"Well little archer. What do you know that this ancient royal dragon does not?" Mordant was a little snippy as Gil had teased him. He had to show his strength to ensure that he would not be disrespected.

"What Gil was saying is simple. The crowd has been gossiping about the migrating mage and the steel mage. They are two wandering mages that many think of as bards stories and not real people." Alma jumped in at the perfect time.

"What can they do that is so amazing?" Ibis was not hesitating and decided just to ask outright.

"The migrating mage is just that. He wanders wherever the warmth is so plants can grow. He has some skills like me but he has much more experience. One of the few elves to leave the city and be praised for it. He can create a forest with his skills if he so desires." There was a very proud tone when Alma described the migrating mage to them.

"And the steel mage is one of the extremely rare cases where a dwarf is born with magical system and skills. She has absolute control over metal and only metal. Specifically, she merges metals to create steel and attacks with them. It's basically a tougher earth mage. Some were saying that she wraps herself in metal so she looks thin and tall because she doesn't like her height." Gil finished the description Alma had started.

"So we are now watching some of the veteran mages that have come for a chance to enter your mage tower. They are fighting for a very valuable chance. I would say that migrating mage has water and earth skills while the steel mage has a very refined earth skill. It should be interesting." Mordant had become distracted. The migrating mage had begun to move.

The moss all over the migrating mage proved to be nothing like moss at all. Instead of moss, gree all over him were extremely small trees. The migrating mage had grown them to this size to be used in battle or to grow a forest around him. It was an ingenious and mana heavy way to battle.

Roots burst out beneath the steel mage's feet, but they were stopped by a piece of metal that bent off of her outfit. There was barely a look at the migrating mage before small spears of shiny silver steel flew at him.

The trees grew in a blink of an eye to catch the steel spears, however, this was not the last attack of the steel mage. She had created a very appropriate drill shaped spear that started to screw in to the wood created by the migrating mage. In just a few moments of pushing, the steel mage had broken through the migrating mage's defenses.

The reaction was a burst of water and earth elemental mana as the roots and trees began to grow and converge. "That's the living forest skill! He is using living forest skills!" The trees formed in to a deer made of wood and leafage. The shape was held together by massive amounts of mana that seemed to flow from the many, now visible, earth balls hanging on the migrating mage's waist.

"It's an amazing skill, but the migrating mage has a bad opponent. Steel can cut away a forest. Just like now." Ibis was impressed but saddened that he would not get to see more. All around the migrating mage, sharp steel spears started to rise.

They pointed at him and his deer creation. As they floated up they melded together to form a collar and binding chains. The steel mage had brought numerous pieces of steel with her so that she could control the flow of battle. Her skills were not as highly learned as the migrating mages' were, but she had the practice to force her skills to change shape to counter someone not as tough as her.

"She chained the living forest so easily! I can't believe it. He should have…now, he didn't because he has to hold back here. If he used a mastery skill he would ruin the entire city in to a forest. He was outsmarted!" Alma was more impressed knowing that the steel mage had won using her wits. Alma had learned a weakness that came with her plant based skills as well.

"I would say that was a pretty amazing show though, look at the judges. Even Ignus seems to be on the edge of his seat after seeing that happen." Gil saw that Clara was diligently keeping Ignus and Rorick from starting a loud and angry debate about who had the better skills between the mages.

"These are great ideas. I have the flame doll and the lava puppet. I need to figure that one out too. If I can, it might be more sustainable and usable in battle." Walker was taking rapid mental notes while creating theories. He wanted to start training this potential as soon as he could. Yet, the battles weren't even over.

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