Master Of None

The earth mages had rested for a short while. Their mental stress was easy to handle since most of them were used to training for a long time. Leon also ensured that he left a crate with messages for the other ships to reference. The details of what work they had done and how it may still be dangerous. It was just better to leave detailed diagrams and explanations than sending someone back to another ship. It also ensured that this location would be an outpost one day.

Scylla had made a temporary plan with Leon to switch underwater patrols to a mix of merfolk and demi-human soldiers. This was to help them bond more and smooth out any difficulties when working together. The forces had not always partnered up so it was better that they were able to have some time to train.

"Are you sure that you don't have much going on?" Walker was unsure if Alice was actually free. She had been working with those that were poisoned earlier by frogs and assassin jackets. It was definitely something that should have worn her out. Yet, after she had returned to the top deck, she showed plenty of energy to Walker. So much that it seemed that she was hiding her tiredness.

"No, we can patrol too." But that was that. It seemed that Alice had shown her stubborn side and was not going to just let Walker join the patrolling round on the riverbanks without her.

The rotations had been altered a little since a lot of the mages were tired. Walker was willing to take a slightly tougher position and head out to patrol right away after the ship had pulled up anchor. It was just the best way since he had more mana left than others.

Where things seemed off was that Alice kept taking the lead as soon as she and Walker had gotten off the ship. Horizon also had gone in to the spirit mark to rest which was different since as a grand elemental spirit he was the most talkative and brightest out of all of them. But Walker just went with it because he enjoyed spending the time with Alice and he didn't need to get in to a long winded history lesson about what the world was like. Horizon knew a lot of things but the way he spoke was hard to follow since so many years were condensed in his mind.

"How was the healing and purification? I wasn't sure that you would be able to handle all the people being poisoned before Remey had made more of the positions. Since some of those assassin jackets were fast." Walker had heard that some soldiers had been ambushed by the maddened assassin jackets.

The threat they had was largely because they were angry but also because they were used to the area. The assassin jackets could hide easily and attack anyone that was unfamiliar with the area. Especially the patrolling soldiers that were mostly made up of people from further away from the river.

The others that had left to patrol also split in to groups of two or three. They still had to worry about any other frog dens or small groups of roaming assassin jackets. But there was the thought that they might encounter more of the tearing falcons. Gil would have liked that since the archers wanted to make even more arrows. There was no inkling of what monsters they might face in the oceans so that could mean no arrow materials.

"How is your light magic?" Alice changed the topic and stopped in her tracks. It seemed like she had been waiting to ask this for a little while.

"I have been slacking off to be honest. I haven't learned any new light magic lately. But when Midnight and I trained with Rise, I was able to alter the elemental wings to better fit me and Midnight was able to improve her dragon breath attacks. She can use a light elemental attack much better now. But not to the same level as Rise by any means." Walker knew he shouldn't hold this back from Alice. She was sure to figure it out anyways.

"Hmm.." Alice hummed slightly while thinking. Her humming made the light around them vibrate slightly. It seemed like she had also been put in to a training mood. But she hadn't been able to show much off to Walker lately.

"If you want to show me your swords of light again I can try to make one too. I am able to make temporary weapons out of earth whenever I want. I should try doing it with condensed light elemental mana. That would be smart too." Since it was clear that Walker had caught on to her a little, Alice didn't hesitate to start a soft song under her breath. She had wanted to show off but she also wanted Walker to be able to use light magic with her. She knew that Walker was very good at helping the other mages gather mana if he wanted to. They could make a joint attack if they trained together.

The light that condensed in tune to Alice's soft singing was a thin light blade that seemed like it would be carried by a swordsman that used speed. It was not detailed in any form or fashion but it was tough to add details to a blade condensed from light elemental mana.

"I know that touching it should be tough, but I bet that you can control them not to hurt yourself so you could probably wield your light elemental weapons without any issues. But I will have to try and learn a skill to make sure I won't get hurt." Light elemental mana was not normally condensed like this. A solid mana of any kind could be dangerous. Even earth elemental mana condensed heavily within a small piece of stone could cause issues. It was why some elemental crystals shattered.

After watching Alice reach out a hand and grab the sword made of light, Walker was amazed to see that she was letting the light flow around her. The saint of light title had made her better at controlling light, yes, but so had her relationship with Horizon. The bond that they shared was strengthening her understanding and ability to use light elemental mana.

Just like the former adventurer guild master, Ibis, Alice had a unique relationship with light. When she sang, she was able to control it better than any light mage that Walker had heard of until now. The best part was that Alice was still learning. That was why the light stopped spreading and only managed to make a partial light robe of condensed light elemental mana.

The sword and the robe combination would be her ideal form for healing and defense. She could patrol much safer than before. Even more, she would still be able to change the song she was singing to create additional light blades to send at enemies.

"That's actually pretty amazing. You have started to break the limits of your system. Or maybe you are just starting to find that there aren't limits."

Out of many people, Walker believed that Alice had a great system because it was not as limited as it seemed. She had the issue that she would almost always have light react when she spoke. But she had worked on that downfall. However, she also had the ability to control light elemental mana, condense it, and truly use it as she wished. She might not have major offensive magic skills, but with the right song and amount of mana, Alice could create a great offensive, defensive, or healing skill.

"I will try to manipulate the light and make a sword too. Then we can see what happens when they clash." Walker knew that they might do nothing because Alice had better control of the mana. He had to try though. Learning to manipulate light elemental mana would help him become better overall when fusing elemental mana in to natural mana. There was also the bonding with Alice since she clearly wanted to be able to share this with him.

The light seemed not to want to bend to Walker until Alice released the light robe she had made. With just the sword as her focus, it became stronger but it left more mana for Walker to control. It was interesting feeling that the light elemental mana would not readily do what he wanted it to do with Alice's control. This made him wonder what would happen if he made the natural mana the core of his control over mana. Could he still beat someone with perfect control of a single mana? Or would it be harder?

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