Master Of None

Chapter 2398: 2398. Mixed Battle

The sound of the air splitting as Onyxʼs tail slammed in to the shadow light ape was enough to make the entire area feel heavier yet again. This is his full physical might using his full size. Many times larger than the small serpent that hatched out of an egg some time ago.

This suddenly heavier attack shocked the shadow light ape. It had believed that it was attacking to defend its territory and assert its dominance, but it had just been attacked and pushed back with physical strength. On top of that, light spikes were being shot from above at it.

Since it was feeling annoyed by the attacks from range, the light shadow ape leaped toward Aurora, but with her ability to slither through the air and keep moving, she was not some easy target to just grab and attack. Instead, she was quick and unburdened.

Just as the light shadow ape lost the chance to catch her with a grab to force her to the ground, Onyxʼs tail had gathered momentum again. And this time, the shadow light ape had no ground to hold itself from being slammed back.

The cracking of the black and white stones and soil as it came crashing to the ground proved that Onyx could gather more momentum with his tail. His large size was not just there for show. It was there because he had grown and learned to use it during battle.

The follow up light attacks from Aurora were not just light spikes, she condensed the light in to three powerful spears. These light spears had more mana which had been pulled from the air using her strength and sent with full force. Enough to cause the first actual snarl of pain firm the shadow light ape to break the silence left after this large attack.

Sensing a threat, Onyx gathered dark mana around him and used his coiled stance to leap in to the air. The dark mana resisted the light mana claw slashes breaking through the air. The dark mana he had used to enhance his body and natural scale armor was not enough though. He felt the scales crack and the dark mana get forced away.

Aurora had been the target of this, but the scarier thing was that Onyx could sense that some of the light mana that Aurora had just used to attack had been taken and used in those claw slashes thrown at them. It meant that the level of control over both dark and light mana was much more than what Onyx and Aurora had suspected based off of first sight.

This didnʼt stop Onyx from fully calling out his own mana. The cracked scales were a small injury to him. He could use the light mana from Aurora too, and for him, that would heal the small damage. But he could also see that the shoulder of the shadow light ape had already started to heal as well. Naturally, this was what happened when there was someone who could use light mana well enough.

This was all what they had expected though. Being able to use light mana to this degree and have so much ambient light mana. It would always lean toward the purification and healing, that was the role that light mana often played in the world. The same way that dark mana played the decaying and the break down of things. Not that they were bad or good, just moving through their roles in the world.

With a burst of light and dark mana, the furs began to mix on the shadow light apeʼs body. The claws also became deeper dark and a more vibrant light. It was mixing the light and dark mana and changing its own turn in to a gray.

”Itʼs ready to fight now.” Onyx and Aurora sensed it. Onyx had only said this because he had the feeling that the young serpents needed to know that they absolutely could not approach or even think of leaving his shadow now. If they did for any reason, then they could be massively harmed by the calm manas around becoming chaotic in such high amounts.

The mixing of dark and light mana was often seen as chaotic. However, with the manas here and their state, they were balanced and calm. Beyond that, the naturally forming light and dark dual elemental rune was a mystery.

It balanced the manas and calmed them entirely. Because of this, the manas were smoothly mixing together. Onyx and Aurora had felt this and had been benefiting from this the moment that they had entered the dungeon. They had been absorbing these calmer manas and growing as well.

Every herb and plant here was beneficial. The air itself was. Let alone what else might be within this dungeon. But mixing the manas and fusing them perfectly to completely change appearance and the way that the manas showed themselves entirely? This was a level of fusion both Onyx and Aurora had yet to use.

Even Walker would not have been able to. He had not studied the perfect mixing of manas to this high degree. Just natural mana. Even that was still rough in the grand scheme of things.

The speed of the shadow light ape was enough to make Onyx tense. He felt that the threat grew and his body was challenged to maintain its own speed in defense. The double handed fist slam that hit his coiled body made him slide back and his scale crack.

Even worse, it caused his own mana to become more chaotic and the dark and light mana to be pulled away from him. He had never felt this before and it was starting to make him feel uncomfortable.

Aurora immediately stopped using the light spear and light spikes so that she could focus entirely on drawing manas in to buff Onyx. She could feel that she would not have the strength to do much otherwise. She was weaker than Onyx in many ways.

While she was younger, this issue was not about age but physical light mixed with mana. The shadow light ape used a mixture of both to fight and to pursue the natural strength needed to defend itself. Onyx was capable of this so Aurora knew that she should not get in the middle which would cause potential damage.

Onyx had learned something from this. He had felt the mixed light and dark mana stepping in to its own unique form. He had felt it directly.

Light that also decayed. No, it was purifying darkness. Or was it a mixture of both no longer separate? The gray manʼs where shadows and light were not perfectly cut form in another.

This was the bounty between the shadows where one could see the sun rise and make the shadow fade. That sliver of time before the sun left the horizon and night was welcomed. That single small moment in morning and evening as both light and dark would become one in the world.

The calming effect of the naturally forming light and dark rune, no, the gray naturally occurring rune allowed Onyxʼs mind to feel this strange state. The pain kept him focused on the battle. The manas though, they were calling to him now.

The surge of mana that pushed against him from the shadow light ape also was like a guiding hand. While painful, it was the perfect catalyst.

Onyx had accepted a lot recently. A massive amount of light mana to feed his growth. A new view on dark and light mana fusing together which led to a key skill becoming a passive and natural skill. A change in his mindset to do more Than just be some patriarch. His entire living race would establish their legend to fuel growth for generations.

A training ground. A story. A base for their future.

All of that was right now. So if accepting some pain to be able to battle a stronger foe and take those paths for all of them? Well, what other choice was there?

The forceful breaking of that wall in Onyxʼs mind and body was full of furry. Now full of a desire to grow beyond.

The already mixing white and black scales on his body became a perfect gray. More than just matching, but exceeding the gray that was covering the shadow light ape. This wasnʼt because the shadow light ape was weaker, but because Onyx had taken a route longer to get to this perfect mix.

He had taken a path of mentality and physicality. Uniting the manas as he grew with the bonds of those he cared for. Whether the relationship with a dragon or with an origin race member affected this or not didnʼt matter. Onyx met the dual gray mana slashing claws with his open mouth, fangs radiating potent gray mana ready to assert his own dominance.

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