Master Of None



"It must be weird to see a whole basket of chicken eggs randomly appear in the center of the rune formation carved out for a literal day." Gil's comment was exactly what many were thinking. 

The process of activating the rune from formation after it had been carved over a very large area had required thirty four mages. The mages needed to use about a quarter of their mana to be able to help the rune formation activate. 

This was a few more than expected, but proved that it could be reduced since the elemental space rune formation had been thought to require much more mana than what it did take. Furthermore, the process had been surprisingly faster. 

The rune formation had easily taken the mana. Possibly because the carvers had gone over their work well over a hundred times. This was followed by Ezra's strict evaluation and then cleaning. Especially after Walker had used the all around appraisal skill to check the formation. 

What Walker had found interesting more than anything was the fact that the all around appraisal had changed. Instead of just saying this was an elemental space rune formation, it was a showing up as a large elemental teleportation formation. 

This change proved that the size of the formation also influenced how it worked. For a moment, he had been worried that changes might be needed. This had already been fixed though. The rune carvers had their natural skills and instincts with the systems they had. Therefore, when they noticed the issues, they mended them. 

This was how multiple life runes had been added and a recurring space rune pattern came to be. While it would have just been a few interesting changes, Walker and Ezra had seen the runes overlapping and understood that it had to do with the amount of mana needed and the amount of mana flowing through the runes smoothly. 

But even more, when the space rune had been overlapped in certain areas, they were able to oddly piece it together even more. Walker had been more silent than before because he noticed that Ezra already grasped what this meant. With a steel will, Ezra had held himself back from researching the potential that this was a more complete form of space rune. 

If Ezra had not been able to control himself, then they would have missed one of the rune formation carvings that had been chipped due to the first test after sending the basket of eggs. This would have led to a failure in the second use of the formation. The wear and tear in the formation was clearly more than expected. But that was also because of the materials. 

The materials were rough since it was last minute. The metal sheets brought by the angels and the stone underneath were not made with all elemental manas in mind. They had been brought because they could handle, for a time, the elemental manas. There was also the fact that no one knew what might be able to handle the spatial mana better yet. That would need more research which Ezra would surely be thinking about spooner than later. 

"There was a hatching chicken egg in Genesis!" the announcement came out in a loud roar. Mordant had rushed to be the one that would communicate with the communication crystal. Hist desire to return to the continent was high since he wanted to plan to get more of his dragonkin together, 

The other royal dragons held this idea as well, all but for Ignus and Terron who had already found the dominator dragon ruins for their own elemental affinity. They wanted to study as much as they could so that they might be able to get strong enough to handle the corrupted undead wyvern king that was currently flying around the corrupted city as a ward. It was dangerous opponent that the dragons were not confident in facing while also handling whatever dangers came from the corrupted mana. 

The success also drew the rest of the angels from the embassy to celebrate but also look and see what was going to happen. Many of the more powerful angels had always needed to remain calm due to their positions of power. Yet, with the changes going on right now, they were letting their curiosites show much more than they would normally show. 

This was all a good thing though. It meant that the representatives leaving with genesis forces would be able to meet genesis with a more open mind. Not that they would be able to handle what they saw. Even the party would struggle with some of the new and completed buildings that they had missed being built since they had been gone. But that was all for later. 

"We are finally heading home, right?" Remey spoke like she was about to burst. But when Walker turned around toa answer, he was stopped speechless. 

"What happened!?" His eyes were focused on the small burns here and there on her body. But even more so on the fact that she had bandages all over her arms to her fingers. 

"None of your business. Training is training and I will punch you all the same if you bother me. So just spit it out, when are we going home? I want to check on the alchemy guild and get people ready to fight for real." Remey's annoyance was clearly a goal mixed with pain, but Walker still wanted to know how she had burned herself and also managed to do it so badly that she needed bandages on her arms. 

"Seriously, just let Walker heal-"

"No!, this stays this way because it needs to." Remey's instant kick toward Gil made him jump away from her. But no one dared to say a word. Even as Ignus made a move to stand between them as well. It appeared that he also would not let anyone interfere with what Remey wanted. It made everyone a little more tense. 

"Remey is not the only one brother." Onyx voiced his own concern as Alice and Su walked up looking haggard. Su didn't even have her armor on. She was carrying it using the twin shields as a method to carry it all at one. Her arms and legs were clearly bruised and she walked as if she had just trained with immense force. 

Alice was much the same, but the look in her eyes was that of someone whose mentality had been shattered over and over. It was especially worse when she tried to focus her attention on what was going on around them. 

"What did all of you do!? Why does it look like you all went to war without anyone knowing?" Walker might have known that everyone was doing their own training in some way or another, but the fact that they were all so beaten up proved that it might have been deeper than training. 

"We prepared ourselves better. That's all that you need to know for now. We are just following our own paths. You learned the same from the Echidna." Su spoke softly. She had a bruise on her cheek that stopped her from being louder. Not that it stopped Walker from hearing everything. 

"I brought some of the archers that I think should return with us. I know that there are more, but they need to remain here to protect the village we began to build. Leon and Scylla will be here soon too. They have their own plans for their people and what else needs to be done." Alma made it clear that the ships were not the place for them to remain now that there was proof of teleportation being possible. 

"It's going to be very busy when we get back." Gil made a head nod towards the elven archers that had come behind Alma. She knew as well that the elves would be very talkative and wish to see the high elven dagger technique returned to their people. Gil would also have to teach it. That would be the true challenge. 

"There will be more than busy. We have a lot to do and clearly a lot that we don't know about each other." Walker shook his head slightly as he saw the Genesis forces that were leaving beginning together. It would take some time to send everyone, but it was possible. 

"Before you make any moves. We have our representatives." the voice of Rize spoke loudly enough to silence many angels nearby. Fel also arrived next to them with a younger angel in two. The two had chosen angels that were young enough to grow in to a position which was a wise choice. Walker nodded calmly as he saw the two angels move toward him for introductions. This would be one of the last steps before they began teleporting people. 

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