Master Of None

Chapter 2019: 2019. Familiar Ruins

Just as Walker stepped on the elemental teleportation rune formation, he sensed the manas more clearly.

He had missed these things when he had been on it on the way to the Sigil continent once again. But the manas flowed more smoothly in some places. This was the results of improving, and now recarving the formation for the second time.

The rune carvers had learned from the past experiences. They had also made it clear that they had advanced their knowledge of how the runes could form together. Especially when it came to the other runes that were made from parts of the basic elemental runes.

Natural mana runes had been somewhat formed, while rough, they were there so that the manas could all form together better. This was something that was not entirely possible before Walker had begun showing off natural mana everywhere. He had made a scene of sorts making manas fuse together better than other mages, even those with dual affinities.

Because of this, the rune formations had all been improved rapidly. That was also due to the mage tower. But that didnʼt explain how Walker was sensing more space mana everywhere around him as the rune formation teleported him.

He could sense that a lot more spatial mana was part of the formation. When he looked at the recarved and improved runes, he noticed some that held on to that spatial mana better. That they were rough to a degree that they did not perfectly allow manas to flow in to them. However, the spatial mana enjoyed that to a degree.

The spatial mana remained there for a short time. Walker could feel it dissipate while other manas came to replace it. This experience was short lived. It was only a blink of an eye in the comparison of the time he had meditation around the spatial flames that were created within the wandering blacksmithʼs forge.

But it was enough time to enlighten Walker here. He could understand that a spatial rune could not just be some flat and smooth thing like the other runes. Mostly because this would need to be an in depth rune that allowed the space it sat in to be affected.

That was why the spaces where the manas were being turned on jagged angles which were bad for elemental manas, were working. Space didnʼt need rules like the way water flowed through a water rune.

To be clear, the space mana was something that was everywhere already, so channeling it in a flow made no sense. Therefore, when Walker finally saw this happening, he was shocked. He had partially interpreted the space mana theories of his own improperly.

”Hello there?” Gil waved a hand in front of Walker for a moment. He wondered what had just happened in a second of teleportation.

”Sorry, I Was thinking about the space mana in the runes. Itʼs much better than before and I realized that I missed some things. I should have focused on earlier. But I will think about that while we move.” Walker saw that Ventus was focusing on him with a slight smile.

In the time that she had known this party, she had immediately opened her mind and heart to them. One, because she saw them as children just like her own. A motherʼs instinct was not simple. And two, because she already knew that these people were living a new and wondrous path that others had not before. She could not expect anything by amazing things from them.

”I will be taking you all from here. I will move quickly and place you on the edge of that undead ruins. It is a cursed place and I do not wish to remain too close. But from what you said, there will be reasons why you will get inside faster.” Ventus understood that the immortal king was not simple.

Yes, he was a monster. An elder lich that wanted immortality at any cost. Unfortunately, the forced research and gruesome means had trapped him. An immortal undead in a tower that chained him down. But that did not mean the twisted mind within that monster was anything slow or lesser.

Ventus also knew that a dragonʼs body and parts of a wyvernʼs body were already corrupted and forced together to make an undead able to defend a corrupted floating city. How foolish would she be if she did not keep in mind that a powerful monster like an elder lich wouldnʼt want to kill her and use her as its own servant?