Master Of None

Chapter 2434: 2434. Where To Go

With so many areas in the sights of Walker and Midnight, it was hard to decide what they would travel and check out. Walker knew that if he went back to Gneiss he would be bogged down with important meetings and such. Therefore, he wanted to bring information back that could help those meetings.

Information about the scouted areas that he and Midnight would travel to could be invaluable to the planning of exploration expeditions. Especially if he managed to find more dungeons or even monsters that had returned to the world.

The fact that they were seeing more and more reminiscences of ancient monsters was becoming very hard to handle. Especially when some of them were not just ancient monsters that roamed the world.

Some had been like the eggs that they found within the ruins here and there. Dormant eggs that had been kept alive by rune formations that faded or went dormant because of a lack of manas. Therefore, these eggs had a chance to return.

Meaning that even though they would be tamed monsters or familiars of sorts, these monsters were back to the world and growing again. It meant that inevitably, some would make their way out in to the wilderness again and finding the right environment for them would be imperative.

The group had already seen a monster species return that was harmful to every environment. There would be plenty of others that could and certainty would be like that as well. Adding in the fact that the worldʼs mana was still adapting to be able to handle that sort of stress, well, it could mean that the areas destroyed would not be able to recover.

Walker had thought about this a lot when it came to the events within the volcanic area and the lava fields. That was a place that could have grown out of control very easily. He had needed to use natural mana to spur the life mana of the area itself. Meaning that not many would be able to recover the land in that way other than him and a handful of people still too weak to cover larger areas with natural mana they stored or gathered.

Midnight also had her own ideas of where they would travel. Walker had mentioned a few areas and she had also heard of them. The idea that they would head to another of the vampireʼs lands was interesting to her.

The forest of the endless night or the night forest, some were even calling it the pitch forest, was a place that seemed the most dangerous. She wanted to go there as a challenge to her strength since it would rely on her dark affinity which she had a little ahead of the other affinities that she possessed. It also meant that she could focus on the shadow wrapping skill and sneak around to hunt again, which she enjoyed because she had done a lot of good battles using this technique.

But that could be the same if she challenged herself in the foggy mountain, or a place called the great foggy mountain. The largest mountain range that had appeared since the world had adjusted and seemingly grown. It was even considered a place that no one could travel.

While the area was within the dwarven lands, it was avoided by the dwarves so far. They had realized that they could not easily dig efficiently in to it from their known caves. The cave systems they also found were more complicated and had signs of monsters already.

With all this coming together, Midnight understood that it was a place no one had set foot in at all, even the vampires had no idea about it which meant that she and Walker would be the first to go there. A very tempering potential discovery.

Then again, when the dwarves heard about what they found and got the information, then there would be a massive exploration with dwarven golem armies and everything. They would jump at the chance to be able to excavate whatever they could find and properly explore the caves.

Might wasnʼt sure she wanted to head in to the fog and then roam caves for days on end, it was harder for her to fight to her heartʼs content in caves that might not be spacious. Meaning she would have to fight in her dragonkin form and that meant she would be holding back too much, she didnʼt want that.

”I was thinking about heading to that new river that was recorded on the map. The wind dragon that flew over it said that there was a frosty mist coming off of it but also that the river was not entirely frozen. The way that the weather is, nothing should be frozen, so I have a feeling something special is underneath the deeper waters of the river itself.”

This made Midnight turn her head, she hadnʼt really considered it, but the large river was taking a lot of space and she would be able to train herself in the water elemental breath attacks she didnʼt use as much. That and she had also seen that water could be used to form ice armor if the dragon was strong enough. She had also learned that some of the ice dragons which were water and wind elemental affinities could make ice armor tough enough to resist some earth attacks.

She wanted to be tough enough to do that too.

”The river apparently starts coming out from an underground cave, but from what it was seen as, there was no ice for frosty mist around it until later down the way. I think that there might be a naturally forming water rune or something else unique that causes the water mana to get dense enough to form ice. Or maybe there is a monster doing it. Whatever it is, learning about it will make traveling the entire river safer.”

The other two areas in Walkerʼs mind were able to be explored later, but since the frosty river was so long and cut through so many of the new areas on their map, it made sense that he would have to figure out the dangers first. Many people would have to cross it or move near it while they traveled. Even him.

Walker focused his mind on the map he had seen and pointed ahead while he and Midnight were taking to the sky. He was still amazed by how much longer Midnightʼs wingspan was now that she had grown. It seemed that all the denser and purer mana was just giving her more and more nutrients to grow. Not that he hadnʼt grown either.

He didnʼt even need to look at his stats to understand where he was in strength. It even felt that he didnʼt have the need to worry about his stats any longer. Mostly because he was in touch with the manas within his body and he knew them deeper than would be represented on his status board. Meaning that he believed he was transcending it in a way.

The thought lingered for a moment and made Walker wish to know more about the Origin race. But that was something he had to wait for. Especially with the fact that he knew he was still missing a vital understanding of various manas before he was even allowed to explore the elemental planes again.

Everything else aside, Walker could sense the distant manas. He could feel the potent earth mana coming from the mountain he could see in the vast distance. With how sharp his eyes were, he knew that exploring the mountains would not be something he would even make a scratch in. his mind leaned toward what he could do more for helping everyone than just one area.

He also understood the vampires would want to explore the endless night forest and discover things about it. So, the river just made more sense regardless of the other areas.

Before he forgot, Walker sent a message to let everyone know what he and Midnight were doing before venturing back. He was sure that Alma and Gil wouldnʼt mind since their focus was still on the spirit tree. They were working hard to make sure the long process finished earlier and perfectly.

Otherwise, Walker pretended not to see Remey reply since he knew she would be angry for being left out. She also still wanted help with her alchemy lab and he had dodged that a little.

When he saw Su reply though, he was surprised that she had met a representative for the Shifter race. The woman named Iona seemed to have a lot of knowledge and have a small set of secrets since she was the oldest shifter and also able to exceed the age limit of shifters which was much younger than other species. He wanted to ask about it but knew he would have to wait.

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