Master Of None

"Gil! What did you do?" Alma and Remey were glaring at Gil as they watched Walker make another wave of cold air all around him.

"We are trying out some skills that we can use in battle. It will be fine." Gil tried to brush it off but he felt that the glares were getting more powerful. Even Midnight and Su and looked over at him and Walker with a slightly unhappy look on their faces.

"Onyx seems to think everything is fine too, he is watching the magic form to help us. Why don't you-"

"If we get hit by another wave of frost then we will make you stay up all night with the fire to keep us warm." Gil knew that Remey was already telling him that this would be the case. He would have no choice so he just sighed in acceptance. But he was also very focused on what Walker was doing. They all were to a degree.

The frost ring skill that Walker had enhanced and focused on to eventually create the ice dragon's domain skills a powerful. It was a very strong skill that froze things around him so that he could use the ice to his advantage. It also helped him utilize the water in the air since the cold ice would cause the water to begin to form mist and ice all over again.

That was the thought behind using the cie dragon domain. It would weaken and freeze opponents but it was a domain. An entire area would always be affected when he used the skill. As much as Walker wanted this, it would not work with what Gil was after. He was after making the area around him covered in arrows that he could use. Just as had been done when Walker sculpted multiple rough earth swords at once.

The issue was that if he used earth, then the arrows Gil wanted to use would be too heavy. They would not be able to fly in the same way as an arrow should. If they did fly, then they would end up falling very short of the target due to their weight. Overall, they were just not acceptable for use.

The ice arrows were also something that Walker considered not to be good. That was until Gil had explained that he wanted to use the wind to enhance them. The reason behind this was that the light weighted ice arrow would normally not break through tough defenses. It was too fragile to do so. However, adding the wind would change things.

There had been people that could use skills to speed up even a brittle toothpick to pierce metal if it was made to move fast enough. The ice could be the same. Make the ice arrow fly faster and harder withwind to make it pierce the opponent. Then the ice would melt and leave a wound that would bleed. Monsters would be taken down from further away and in a faster speed.

Adding in the fact that Gil could use this when surrounded and on the run, he would be able to pick off the monsters around them without having to use real arrows from his quiver. The arrows that were filled with mana that could explode, freeze a single opponent, cause blinding light, travel in shadows, and much more. These arrows were valuable and for specific situations where they would be the best choice. Not for use against every single monster. The right weapon for the job was always the best practice.

Therefore, Walker was imagining the usage of his ice to sculpt it in to an arrow. He had done this before with Gil to make the ice arrows individually. Now he had to focus it in to the air around him at a larger scale but focused. That meant that he had to put the focus on the distant water around him.

Surprisingly, the water ball skill he had learned seemed handy here. Walker knew he could control water further from him. He was able to use his own mana to pull water toward him. Why wouldn't he be able to separate a larger amount of water from him and let it freeze and sculpt? It was slightly different but still the same as controlling the earth under his feet to make only certain shapes rise from it. This time he just didn't have the solid connection he would if it was a mass of earth.

The waves of cold were the result of this. Every time that Walker tried to reach his control in to the air and make the water that was naturally in the air bend to his will, he would end up causing the wind to carry a cold mist. Then the most would hit things and make frost. So far this had just been like making smaller frost rings. Not at all what he wanted.

The condensing of the moisture in the air was where the problem was. Walker struggled to bring it all together at multiple times and at multiple places. Not that this would have been hard for him to do if he remained focused on one specific place at one specific time.

​ It all went back to the control over mana overall and the fact that Walker needed to further train his mind to be able to handle these more intricate tasks at different times. His will had already become clear when it came to influencing the manas. Even Fleur could help him control the natural mana to increase his control over them. That was not an issue at all even though he still had the desire to increase his personal understanding of the elemental and natural mana.

By gradually lessening the places around him that he was trying to make the ice arrows appear, Walker began to slowly cause fewer and fewer bursts of frost around him. This seemed to be what made Gil get more excited. With his sharp eyes he was watching the form of an ice arrow gradually come to being before it often crumpled and fell back to watery mist. But the form had changed as it went on.

Over an hour of this made Gil feel that he was just waiting to let the ice arrows loose. Instead of the ten different spots that had been forming ice arrows, it had reduced to three. But those three were perfect dark blue ice arrows that had formed at once around Walker. Spread out in equal distances, Gil immediately took off and dove at one.

The ice arrow came to his hand while he was rolling. His bow had also been slung off his shoulder and in to his hand. This would all be missed if someone wasn't watching carefully. Gil's speed in these motions came from many repetitive training sessions where he had tried to improve his skill when it came to dodging and preparing a notched arrow for firing immediately.

The wind pulled around Gil while the arrow took on a green hue that proved Gil's wind and Zephyr's wind were a combined effort in the arrow. It was released at a nearby thick looking tree only to shatter on impact. Yet, the damage was clear.

Bark had been shattered with the arrow while a piece of ice had been lodged deeply in the tree. The wind that had wrapped the arrow also left slight cuts in the wood making it appear that some strange thing had fallen from the sky and hit this tree. After a few moments, the ice melted revealing the full extent of the damage Gil had left.

"Walker, this will work perfectly!" Gil was ready to celebrate until he saw that everyone but Walker was glaring at him and Walker. Their experiment had frozen more than a few places while the failed ice arrows had also made the ground slightly muddy. Overall, the entire section of trail had been roughed up just by this casual experimentation.

"Ehm, well, it's not a skill yet but I think I can make an ice arrow creation or armory area or something like that when I'm a little stronger." Walker tried to make it seem that he was sorry that he hadn't actually done anything, but he also saw that there was no way around this and conceded. "And Gil will stay up with me while we stay watch for the night. I guess we can all stop on the trail after another hour of walking."

"Exactly, we will even make sure that we set up the tents for our group." Gil's additional apology seemed to make the rest of their party happy. The royal dragons could care less though. They were more interested in seeing Walker manipulate mana more. They still found that his way of discovering and experimenting was different because of his use of natural mana. It was incredibly eye catching for them since he could influence mana they spent years learning about. But they could meditate on that any time.

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