Master Of None

"What about you? What system and role do you play?" Wade had seen how the party could fit together well. Onyx help communication, they had a guardian, front line fighter, scout and ranged damage, and finally an assassin type. The only one left was Walker who he knew could use some water magic to make ice. 

"Walker can do anything, not mastery skills, but everything." Gil summed it up in such a simple way trying to brush off his jealousy. 

"Anything?" Wade and the other two elves were all stopped in confusion when they heard Gil say this. 

"I have a jack of all trades system. Currently, I have been focused on elemental magic. I also know some sword skills, hammer skills, cooking skills support skills, healing skills…" Walker would have continued but the jaws of the elves would have hit the floor. The rumor spreading at the moment was that the leader of the human party was just a water mage and nothing more. 

"I thought it was the start of a children's story book that was sent to us…" Alma was nearly at a whisper when she spoke. 

"And enhanced senses so I can easily say, no, I am not just a story book sent to you." Alma turned red with embarrassment and needed to stop herself from sending her vines to terrorize Walker next. "Honestly I thought your kingdom would have more information on our systems by now. We have made a lot of waves by getting the hero titles." Walker was plenty confused about how they were so in the dark. 

"The kingdom may know of aspects of your systems, but they tend not to pry in to the exact details. Most kingdoms would see that as a threat, including ours." Wade made a good point. It was better to pass on rumors and share small details than full out investigation and cause allies annoyance.

Midnight was puffing up her chest due to the attention Walker was getting. She was proud to show off her family and all that they could do. "Sister says that you should use some magic as a way to show off your skill." 

"I don't need to show off my magic. They can see enough of it when we go hunting for that massive slime. It is more important than fooling around." Walker was a little annoyed that Midnight wanted to waste time on that but more so embarrassed that she had said that he should show off immediately after meeting someone new. 

"I would like to see it. Literally anything." Calen was in front of Walker with an eager expression. She enjoyed watching the mages practice and seeing magic was always amazing to her. She lacked the magic most elves had with their systems in change for being able to learn speed skills. She also learned some close combat skills which made her stand out in comparison to other elves. 

"I will get Walker to show you his magic if you give me some of those blue ivy seeds." Remey was analyzing the blue ivy the entire time and couldn't control herself. She wanted to know what it could do in a potion or when made in to poison. It was crossbred by an elf and was dangerous enough to be used for battle. 

"That's all you want? Sure, you can have a hundred if you want. I can make as many as I need as long as I feed it enough mana. But don't think you can grow it so easily. You don't have the skills to feed it your mana, so you will need mana crystals and about twenty years." Alma smiled knowing that it would be years before they figured such things out properly. 

"I can make Walker learn some skills. It's fine." Remey accepted some of the seeds from Alm and didn't even consult with him for a moment. 

"What am I, just a circus act for you to sell off?" Walker tried to snatch some of the seeds from Remey so he could store them away and use his all around appraisal skill to study them but she was too quick to steal from. 

"I already made the deal so I guess you need to show off now." Remey was goaded on more by Midnight who was almost purring at the victory.

"Fine then how about this." Walker used the lure orb and avoided looking at the blue orb that was formed. He carefully looked at everyone's faces to find that they were completely absorbed in the beautiful blue color. "Wanted to see magic huh?" He laughed in his own trick but realized he had fallen in to the trap of wasting time. 

Waker released the skill and watched as the attention was again on him. "Sorry, we should get going and figure out where the massive slime has moved on to." He felt a little bad but also shot an extra glare at Remey who had caused him to fall in to the distraction. 

Su looked like she wanted to speak up, but when she noticed Walker had already seen his error she did not speak. " Wade, we will rely on you to guide us out in to the forest since you should know it better. But you and Gil should stay behind Su. Remey is fine next or in front of Su and Midnight will do her own thing. Calen, you are a little fast, please stay near in case we need to support you. Alma, with your system I think it will be best if you focus on the decay in the forest. You are the only one that can mitigate the damage." 

Alma appeared to already know this. She more than anyone knew of the adverse health effects the decay had on the queen. She would do her best to weed out the infected parts of the forest so that it could begin to heal. 

"I think it will be better if you stay close to Calen. The last time you ran off alone you were lost for three days. Luckily you ran around enough to find the enforcers, but what if you had become exhausted and been found by goblins? You would be nothing but a head on a pike." Wade shook his head while Calen looked red faced and embarrassed to have her faults brought out to them. 

"The goblins wouldn't do that to anyone. But just in case you can't shake the stereotypes you should know that the goblins won't bother us. We are their friends." Walker said this making all of the elves look more confused, but he decided to drop the subject for now. The odds of running in to other straggling goblins were low since the last of them were with Barry and protected. 

"Well, in any case, we should get moving. The longer we wait the more that slime grows and eats. If it makes it here I do not expect a good result." Wade decided to push on and guide the party out of the room and back out in to the branches of the giant tree. "Keep up, we are going to take a little detour." Wade started jogging on the branches and hopping from one to the other. 

Walker and the rest of the party watched as Alma and Calen followed easily. They knew that there was a magic used to keep their grip on the branches but that did not stop them from fearing the fall down to the ground. However, they were heroes and they needed courage.

They followed along being as careful as possible. Midnight looked t be enjoying the experience since she was able to use it to practice using her wings to glide a little. She had been getting much stronger lately and with this as practice, she could get used to being higher up in the sky. 

Walker hesitated as he was about to hop to another branch. He could see that the three elves were running and jumping freely from branch to branch and sliding down vines. He was jealous of them for having the ability to do so easily. "Walker, come on. We are going to fall behind." Gil gave a shout since he saw that Walker had gotten stuck thinking yet again. 

Walker got back on the move and tried to focus himself on his movements. He needed better awareness of where he was stepping. Unlike the dance of the wild rabbit skill, this was a more active use of movement. The dance of the wild rabbit used instincts to dodge and avoid a predator. This used the body to consciously move and find the next place to jump. 

Wade was leading them higher in the tree towards a branch devoid of foliage. The party could only wonder why they were on their way there instead of downwards to the forest floor to ding the trail of decay and hunt the massive slime. 

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