Master Of None

"Midnight, I think you will need to help forge new tools first. The metals we will work with require a lot more strength and endurance from the hammers and carving tools to mold." Midnight didn't even blink as she moved to the forge furnace and help the wandering blacksmith. 

"Su, I have to learn about elemental mana and how elemental mana comes together to create natural mana. This is going to be tough and I think I will need someone to feed me the elemental crystals evenly and slowly to make sure the spirit gets what it needs." 

Walker's plan was simple. Su would pass the crystals to him and he would slowly and equally combine and fuse the manas in to natural mana. Through this, he would learn more and more until he could freely manipulate the natural mana. Then he would feed it to the lesser mana spirit in the spirit mark with the hopes that the spirit would awaken and finally meet them. 

The process started easily. Walker and Su placed a single elemental crystal of each around Walker in a circle. They flowed in a pattern of what would naturally bond and be weak to the other of opposites.. It allowed Walker to pull the mana away in the same format he would make it come together. 

Su was curious about this since she would need to learn how Midnight was able to balance her flames. This didn't seem important at first, but for Su, she knew that being able to understand how the flames worked in comparison and contrast to come together would assist her in how she would be able to defend against them. 

Watching Carefully and allowing her senses to relax, Su began to feel the mana a little in the air. It was nowhere near how strong a magic caster could feel the elements but for some reason, she had the feeling she would be able to. Her instincts had sharpened to a much higher level after she gained her draconic guardian system and she believed that it was part of the upgrade in general. 

When the elemental manas started to leave the elemental crystals they did to want to go near each other at all. They wanted to spread out and go their own way. They did not cooperate at all until Walker pushed them to move in a similar spinning motion and Su had seen when the elemental spirits awakened and the nature spirit had formed. 

The mana came closer and gathered above Walker and still did not combine. It was pushing away from each other and reminded Walker of when he formed the moldable crystal ball. It had given a lot of pressure against him so that he could not store the light and dark mana inside. The feeling being the same helped him more than anything. 

After expending more mana he finally reached the tipping point the elemtnal manas began to blur and bleed into each other. This was where the magma, ice, lightning, clouds, and many more natural phenomena came from. The mixing of mana was an intense occurrence that changed the world. 

Slowly, very slowly, the small amounts of mana came together and Walker could feel he had fully fused the elemental mana. But when it happened he felt that he had lost full control of it. The change was definitely in to natural mana but his mana was having trouble holding on to it. It was no longer pushing back against him but it was slipping through his fingers like a ghost through a wall. 

The spirit mark began to glow and pull the natural mana in and absorb it. Walker could feel his connection with the nature spirit strengthen. His mana was also mixed in with the nature mana he had created so the feeling of it being absorbed was almost as if it was returning to him. His body felt full spiritually. It was nourishing his soul which in turn fueled his body. 

'The user has succeeded in creating natural mana. The skill natural mana fusion has been taken from the spirit sage system. The user has learned the skill natural mana fusion. 

Natural mana fusion- 1+ mana cost

The user calls upon the elemental mana around them to pull close. The elemental mana will fuse together creating natural mana that influences and works with the world itself. Natural mana is profound and one of the hardest to manipulate mana in existence. This skill can lead to many effects that mimic the way elemental mana naturally fuses in the world.'

Walker felt that this skill was a little of an oddball skill since it was not very explained. He could fuse elements better as nature did? He held out a hand and pulled earth and fire elemental mana together. In second a small amount of heated rock melted with almost half the amount of mana as usual. "It helps me fuse them in to their other forms!" This was perfect. The skill would be the key to his new spells using multiple elements.

The desire to experiment and try more passions was all too powerful but Walker resisted after checking his goals yet again. He needed to understand all of it better. He may be able to pull elemental mana towards him and fuse it but he could not harness the natural mana that was already around him because his mana was not part of it since he did not fuse it specifically.

This was not missed by him as he started to pull more of the elemental mana at a faster rate to fuse it and create the natural mana. Su watched the change and started to grasp the concept that natural mana was just all elemental mana in a perfect balance. She knew this would come in handy but was not sure how. She felt she was missing a few pieces before she could utilize the knowledge. 

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