Master Of None

Chapter 2030 2030. Condensing wood

The fighting was dying down more and more as everyone was moving in to their next tasks. The fact that the dragonkin and Barry's adventure forces had seamlessly taken over the fight against the vampiric skeletons spoke much more than anything.

There had been too many of the vampiric skeletons than what anyone had expected. This was simply because the monstrous vampires had kept them around as cheap labor. As a force to sue as fodder. 

Something that happened like that was easily considered horrible. Yes, the immortal king also used the undead as his tools, but the monstrous vampires doing it seemed worse. Simply because they had kept the undead within a sealed and isolated ruins beneath the ocean for many years. 

This had been done to keep them around to be used later. The state of their bones proved that it wasn't a good way either. They had been kept in terrible conditions and shouldn't even be able to rise again. The only reason they had was that they were still bound to the monstrous vampires until they became worthless lumps of dust in the wind. 

These thoughts were sitting in Walker's mind as he looked at the forces in the distance. He was glad that no other vampiric monsters had appeared in this time. It was mostly because so many people were going to be low on mana. 

Walker himself was low on mana but he was easily able to recover since he had the means to do so. His mana sensitivity allowed him to better draw in some mana to use as his own and heal hjis heavy mind. It was why he was able to use natural mana better. 

On top of this, he had the best quality mana potions ready within the high spatial storage. He was not holding back with them either. This was simply because he knew that powerful vampiric monsters might appear and attack them while they began to prepare the weapons from the light ash wood trees. 

Some of the farmers that had their mind still strong enough, the highest leveled ones, were making the trees create seeds. They knew that there would be many times they might need to create more of these trees for weapons. But they also understood that this was a species of plant that might not exist anywhere else any longer. 

Many of the elves had gotten the quest to preserve this species of tree. The same with the echidna that had used their connections to nature to help all of them prepare this forest. Walker was surprised about that. Not the quest to preserve these light ash wood trees, but that the echidna had appeared and were still here. 

He could see that they were retired, yet they were all directing others with their wisdoms. But they were clearly secretive. They held back when they were asked certain questions. 

How are you still standing with so much mana? 

How did you know how to draw in natural mana so easily?

Why are you able to use so much variety in skills to help us?

These were just a few questions that they were asked and only met with smiles or polite responses. The echidna were secretive for their own reasons. They were polite and not violent or mean about it. 

Understanding this, made many of those who asked keep themselves from getting annoyed that they were not getting straight answers whatsoever. But Walker had begun to realize that it might be the world itself that was preventing them. There might be some quest or requirement from the world to restrict what they told the other people. 

It was already clear that the island that the echidna had lived on had reached a perfect balance of mana. Yes it had been sinking in to the ocean, but that was just things changing over time. The echidna had reached a balance so close to nature and the world that they had easily been considered one with it in many essence. 

Seeing the tway that they acted now, helping people recover their mana faster even though some of them were clearly warriors and not mages or healers, proved this many times over. Walker could only hope that when the corrupted mana was dealt with and the demon lord was handled, that there was a way to know what the echidna knew. 

"Walker, stay focused. You can do more than just sit there and use the all around appraisal on the trees and everyone to make sure things are fine." Gil spotted Walker still standing and looking around. He knew that Walker had recovered since the slight pale appearance in his face was gone. 

"I was just taking the time to appreciate the echidna coming to help us. I Was wondering what they have been up to." Walker smiled a little when he saw a few echidna that heard him smile and nod out of respect. They were glad to hear that they were appreciated. Anyone would be. 

"I know, but we need to start making things out of all this wood. Some of the carpenters that came are already working on their second and third daggers carved with earth, water, and light runes. They say that they might be able to make some that can cut the same as an iron dagger or better." Now this was interesting. 

Walker knew that many carpenters and builders in general would use special runes or skills to make wood tougher. This was done a lot while the construction of Genesis homes were made. Many of the builders even added runes to prevent fires since they had learned from fire in the past. The party being some people that had helped save others from such a fire. 

"I think I can learn to do that. I have the mana control to possibly condense some of the wood in to a much smaller but denser and harder shape. Maybe I should make some daggers?" Walker's idea was to make condensed light ash wood daggers for as many people as possible. Perfect for stabbing the monstrous vampires. 

"No, you will be doing that to arrows." Gil was sure that a condensed light ash wood arrow would be many times heavier, but hit many times harder. There was also a much higher chance that light runes could be added to it so that it gave a bigger attack.

"You want to make an exploding light ash wood arrow that spreads the wood of the arrow and light mana all over the area that it lands. That way, even missed shots will handle many of the vampiric skeletons and other thralls of the vampires in there." Walker was not asking a question. He was staging exactly the thoughts that he knew Gil had. 

"Exactly. So let's do it." Gil threw a branch at Walker. 

The branch was a very straight twisted branch. It was one that matched the theory that Gil had for the wood that would spin when it was braided like this. But when Walker felt it, he relayed that it would definitely be able to use the wind mana to reach a very powerful rate of spinning. 

But this was a piece that should be carved in to at least three or four times as many arrows as he would be condensing it. He wasn't even sure if the mana he used to force the wood to condense would allow the wood to survive. 

Without thinking much more, Walker decided that the best method was just to accept the task. He was going to work on it anyways while he trusted the adventurer's and midnight to keep everyone protected. 

His senses picked up the innate manas within the wood. Water, earth, and a very powerful light mana that had gathered. It allowed him to channel these manas within the wood easily. But that was not what he needed. He had to add outside pressure. 

The first second he tried this with all manas pushed the wood to start to splinter on the edges. Upon stopping, Walker realized that he was letting the fire and water manas clash at the edges since they 

were forced together in an improper way. 

This meant he had to direct balanced manas at the wood. Natural mana. 

Using this method, the wood began to release the air and other small impurities within it and condense. Very slowly, but enough. Yet, Walker felt that the earth mana was breaking free a little. That the natural mana was somehow naturally channeling itself in to the earth mana. 

It was a very odd feeling that the mana itself was trying to guide him. Like he had missed the true essence of what he was doing. However, he also believed that this felt familiar. Like he had felt this sort of pressure his entire life. 

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