Master Of None

The rest of the night passed by fairly quickly. The dragonkin went out to explore the surrounding area to see what monsters might be around. They had the desire to hunt a little more than usual since there were new monsters around. They would rarely travel this far from their village. It was the perfect chance for them to take back some interesting meat. 

The party slept fairly well while Onyx stayed at the cathedral. Su promised Walker in the morning that she would be checking up on him while he worked with Alice. Walker was already heading out to the mage tower. He was very happy with the effects it seemed to have around the city. Many people were in better moods and just had a healthier glow around them. The best [art was that the mage tower was not even fully functional because there were runes that were not processing mana at the moment. 

This meant that there was a chance for the tower to have damages or even monsters that could not be separated from the power when it folded. Walker was skeptical about the monsters but didn't want to put it out of his mind. It was better to be safe than sorry. On top of that, he didn't know if he would even be able to find someone that could fix the runes at the current level. No one had an understanding of the perfect runes that the tower had because their knowledge was much less developed. 

There were also the secrets of the race that left the city and tower. Where had it gone? Why did it leave behind the knowledge? How could they advance so far and fast? There were plenty more questions that arose, unfortunately, Walker could not spend the time to think on them since he could lose himself to such things.

There were still many people outside of the mage tower. Some were coming just to look at it and see what it was all about. The others were the craftsmen and rune related system, users. The last group consisted of guards that were creating a perimeter around the tower. They had to keep people away since there could be danger, but the actions of some that couldn't help their curiosity was very amusing. One man had even tried to jump over a guard and rush in to the tower. 

"Fleur, I will rely on your help to figure this out. We are going to the top as soon as we can." Fleur seemed excited by this as well. She could feel the mana filtering through the tower and the air. For her, it was a great chance to absorb more and grow. But it was also something that made her feel she should explore. There was something about the tower that drew her toward it. The same feeling that Walker felt as well. 

There were no issues as they passed by the guards. The relieved expressions from the guards were paired with excited expressions from craftsmen. Both would get what they wanted sooner. The guards a break and the craftsmen a chance to analyze and learn. 

The first floors were the same as Walker remembered. The only issue was that the few dark runes were hard to trace. The patterns were too involved and even using his finger to trace the path led him to the issue of floors. The runes moved through the floors while connecting to other runes. Sometimes they would be dark and sometimes they would glow with different elemental manas.

"We need to head up, let's do this." Walker wished he had someone who had more knowledge. However, the people he knew that understood and could carve runes were busy. Or he had not met anyone new that he trusted would be able to defend themselves properly if something went wrong. 

Walker felt Fleur pull on his hair a little and he found that she wanted him to head up the stairs toward the next floor above them. The light from the entrances faded as Walker headed up the stairs. The spiraling was a little odd since it was so dim and the people that had once walked these stairs must have had longer legs. 

The slight glow of runes was just enough for Walker to see but he still used his light orb skill to give him more light. What was revealed first were walls carved full of writings. The runes that seemed to make up the writings were more involved than the first floor or the outside of the tower. If Walker knew more he might be able to tell what they were doing and being used for. Even the all around appraisal skill was not helping him at all. 

"Huh, there are some papers here too." A pile of rotting papers was on the floor. They were, mostly falling in to dust but it was clearly research papers left over from the desert elves. It only made sense that some were left behind and folded in to the tower. "I can read this a little but it's not complete." His skills translated the writing but it was very broken. 

"I can make out that the runes had something to do with elemental floors? Or elemental zones? But this clearly says master, elemental, zone." Walker was running the ideas through while trying to find a way to preserve these papers. 

However, what he was focused on more was the fact that these words could be speaking about floors above dedicated to each elemental mana. Even more, they could have skills related to the elemental manas that could become skills. This would be invaluable to certain system users and potentially Walker. A skill like that would have to be a mastery skill, but that didn't mean Walker was at a loss. 

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