Master Of None

Chapter 2142: 2142. Odd Joke

As the pressure of the unique earth mana that the king of earth used grew, Walker felt he was learning through it. Like his body was acclimating to it. More like he was able to grasp the understanding between his body and the earth mana better than before.

He felt tougher, his body overall, and not just because of the density. He also felt he could more easily use the earth mana to boost his defenses using earth in an armor form if he desired. While these thoughts came to him, he wondered if it was due to his race now. If it was adding more boosts to him now that he was in a mana rich environment.

It would explain a lot about the origin race. They clearly had this deep connection with mana for a reason.

The entire mountain shifted slightly before settingly again. Walker and the rest of the party could see that. It was also when the pressure of the mana subsided a little. ”There it is, he has invited us in. Just a quick move inside to his hall.”

The true earth sage was showing that he knew much more about what to do and where to go with the earth king. But they had just moved in to one of the densest places for earth mana. It was a true show of where they were. This wasnʼt some partial boundary. It was all earth mana.

The only thing that had allowed them to come to the center of the earth elemental plane was the true earth sage. The speed which they moved over the earth was spectacular. But now they were stopped in front of a massive cavern.

The earth was formed in to many pillars. All forming unique aspects of earth. They showed their uniqueness in the forms of earth manas that they radiated as well. Walker sensed that he was able to grasp a different understanding of each as he walked.

He saw raw iron ore as a pillar, its shape was more akin to stone. But then he saw a pillar of purified solid iron. Showing that there was a unique change that came with the iron being in an ore form and being solid iron without impurities.

While everyone knew this was the case, it was this way to show off the magnificence of the earth manas. How they changed no matter what form of earth it was. These changes between each form would allow them different roles.

The weaker dull silver would be used for jewelry that could be polished brightly. The moon silver would be used for unique tools that required soft and cooler light mana to flow through them. This was a metal that would bind well with moonlight if used to forge it. But it was still a part of earth, not light.

He easily counted over a hundred of these large pillars running along the walls of the massive mountain entrance as they walked in. Small rumblings like more were rising well ahead of them also caught the partyʼs attentions.

The walls were not made of brick or anything. From what Walker could tell, the walls were also different bricks of different solid forms of earth. The surprise that Walker found this time though, was that they were made of fossils at some points. As if they were there on display to show that even those that were buried in earth could become one with it somehow.

A full circle of life that went beyond just walking on the earth.

Small details like this was a very interesting thing to find. Because it was hard to imagine what it meant to become earth even in death. Regardless of becoming fertilizer for plants and returning in that way, this was a way to become stone over time. A hard concept to understand.

However, it made Walker think about how the earth could change something over time as well as the other elemental manas. How time would play a part in what earth was as a whole. How they might have its own unique connections to time mana. How else would a fossil become a fossil?

Time had to move for the earth to gain a fossil. For a being to be trapped so perfectly that the body left behind would lose all mana. Lose all form and be left back with just bones. Trapped as stone forever.

”Walker, thatʼs what the blacksmiths were low on. Thatʼs called azure cloud iron. Itʼs what they want to use as the main body for all the flying ships.” Walker looked over at the deep azure colored pillar. It appeared heavy, but the earth mana coming from it was light and stiff. Meaning it was not heavy and could hold its shape fairly well.

ʼAzure cloud iron