Master Of None



With this decision passed throughout the entire Genesis force, the group was able to begin preparing easily. Remeyu was the first to be ready to move. She had long ago passed out whatever potion that the group wasn't keeping. She also had been waiting to get a move on further ahead. 

"I thought you would want to stay with Ignus. He said he was leaving to head toward the embassy with the others so that he could meet Terron and then focus on learning more about the fire elemental path of the flame dominator dragon." 

"Walker, if I stay and miss this then what's the point? I came all this way and saw the fact that there might be something left after the terrible stuff that happened here. I'm not just leaving that halfway done." Remey grumbled a little as she spoke making it seem like this was perfectly clear to see anyways. 

"And Ignus will tell me what he learns. He knows that if I don't I will break the fire elemental knuckles over his head before refusing to make any more fire affinity potions." The slight flush in Remey's cheeks as she clenched her fist and pretended to punch the air. Walker wasn't really sure what to say about it all. 

"When it comes to your elemental knuckles for your gloves, we will have to rebuild them. I bet with the metals and other things we bring back that the wandering blacksmith will make something much tougher." This made Remey even more energetic. She wanted to be able to punch harder, this was no surprise at all to anyone in the party. 

"We are heading out now, right? I just let the elves know that they would have to take the leading scouting positions while they traveled back. It will take them much longer since they aren't being flown to the edge of the desert. There are sandstorms already being seen around." Gil's worry was written on his face. 

"I heard that as well." Alice chimed in. She had been speaking with the healers nearby and the Fel angels had already brought news of weather changes in the desert. "They say it is the return of rain soon." 

"That's good then. The desert rains will begin to bring monsters, animals, and plants back to where they should be." Su sounded very glad that she had been a part of returning the desert back to how it should be. Who wouldn't be though? 

"I think you are all forgetting a problem." Current had been ready to push them along before hearing what they were talking about. Now he was ready to start dragging them all through the caves to the underground river bed. "Once that rain falls, it will travel through the sands for the first time and flood the underground riverbed. We need to move with haste." 

"Good point." Walker put even more pep in his step as he moved through the underground area he had found. The sewers were still bone dry. That was a good sign but it was certain that water would also make its way to the mummified city. "Midnight, you might be swimming again soon.' Walker saw Midnight focus on their conversation silently. 

He could tell that she wanted to work on her elemental dragon breath attacks related to water more now than before. She had not been able to branch out more lately. But the light and darkness affinities had been trained more because of where they were. Not to mention the fact that she had some more sense of what else was around. Life mana and death mana being two that she was able to slightly understand better because of Walker's newer understanding of them. 

"I was sure that Ventus would want to go with us, but I understand that she wouldn't want to see the cave scratchings and drawings of fleeing children forced to live in sewers." Walker had thought that it was just that they were going further underground. Ventus being a wind dragon might not like that. But he remembered she had three children that were younger on the dragon spectrum of age. 

"It is certainly worse seeing them now. I do not have any children around at the moment. But it would spur any parent in to anger." mordant had been looking here and there for any signs that there was a monster or more than met the eye in this place. If this wasn't all dried up, then having a dragon here at all would be impossible. A dragon in a sewer? Not a thing. 

As the group moved, Walker was able to check out what everyone had been doing lately. Specifically when it came to their gear. Su was the major focus though since he had already noticed that the twin shields were due for a large upgrade. 

The fact that a lot of darkness mana mixed with the odd death mana was being used when battling so many undead had been very hard for them. The twin shields showed more wear and tear than they had ever since they had been forged. 

With the fact that Su used them all the time to attack and defend, it would be a matter of time before they were broken. However, Walker wasn't sure if he could use the portable forge skill to fix them. It might not be within what he could do with his skills. 

There was also another issue, the materials needed to fix them or to improve them. Using dragon scales would be great since Midnight's baby scales had been used to create them in the frost palace. However, it was an issue that Midnight had not grown larger to the level that she would shed more scales. Forcefully taking scales was completely off the table since they would harm anyone. 

Onyx had offered his scales since many had fallen off when attacked, but no one was comfortable with that yet. Onyx had instead brought on another round of lecturing about his safety and how they cared for him. Not that he shouldn't have seen that coming. 

Otherwise, Walker started to think about the additional materials to start storing away with his high spatial storage. If he managed to get some elemental herbs, metals, and unique things from the Sigil continent it would be good.

"Hey Alice, are there any pieces of equipment that would help your buffs and singing?" Walker also wondered what might be good to plan for when it came to Alice. She was certainly a major player when it came to their entire army now.

The buffs had been a major addition to the way people could fight. Not to mention the job that the healers had while trying to make everyone healthy and safe. Plenty of them relied on the healers led by Alice after their fights. 

"Necklaces and potions." Alice appeared to think a little harder. "Robes or fabric dresses with unique materials." 

"So musical systems would benefit with equipment made for further boosting their abilities. I'm sure if there was a fabric made with unique light materials and also rune sewn it would help everyone." Su was very happy to hear that it would be easier to find things for the healers and Alice.

"I will look for something then. We might find something good along the river bed. Since it's all dried out many things could have been washed away and opened up that would be underwater." Walker's thoughts were simple but Current was nodding along with him. 

"Many monsters will show themselves too when a river dries up. It's worth hunting for better food." This wasn't necessarily as important a fact as everyone expected from Current but they listened nonetheless. Not that they were unhappy to hear about what else they might be able to find monster wise.

"I know fish burrow in to the mud and sleep for a long time. Once this water returns I assume that many will come back" Gil's opinion has formed when it came to how the elves hunted during the forest dry season. 

He had learned a lot more about hunting from them. The elves had to adapt with the forest and cared for nature a lot. "If there are monsters, then they will be very hungry. It will be hard to come here." 

That future problem was going to make any exploration here very tough. The Fel empire angels would need to plan ahead to travel on the river once they had let the monsters pass through this Howe active phase. It would be a good idea to invite the aquatic Demi-humans to help. Or the merfolk, but that was a thought for later. Now their group was starting to get to the riverbed and needed to focus on their exploration. 

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