Master Of None

Chapter 1186 – 1186. Inexperienced

"Coming from above!" Su raised her shield when Walker called out the monster leaping from above them. She raised one of the twin shields and blocked the leaping cat. Claws scraped down on the shield but left no marks. It was nothing compared to the improvements that had been made under the careful eye of the wandering blacksmith. 

"Midnight, you run behind and cut off escape. I am using fire!" The fire elemental mana condensed on the eternal orb staff before a single fore bolt shot at the falling mountain cat. The previously grey speckled fur burned and the cat let out a howl as it lost its sight. 

Midnight followed Walker's plans and leapt at the mountain cat ending the attack in a second. "Good team work. I know that we just screamed to the mountain that we are here but to be attacked the second we started moving again…" It was more annoyance than anything for Walker. The mountain cat should have been afraid of them but never came in to contact with anything other than the other monsters in the mountains. It didn't know the dangers that it would face going after the three creatures it had never seen before. 

"That was a mountain cat right?" Su didn't have a good look at it before it had been burned and finished off but she could tell from the cat like howl. " They usually live in three or fours so we should watch out for more in the area." Midnight started to sniff the air and look carefully but found nothing around. 

'Mountain cat

This young mountain cat was very inexperienced in battle. The fire would be of poor quality materials if not for the burns it suffered. Normally silent and sneaky, the mountain cats are a devious predators when stalking small prey. Often they work together to take down larger prey which has made many liken them to wolf packs. They are known for their weak darkness affinity that allows them to better hunt in the early morning or late night even though they do hunt at all hours of the day.'

"It seems like this was a young one. We should look out for any others that are older. But they may have already run away after seeing this one fail. They would be wiser." It was easy to guess that any monster that hunted in a group would run away. 

"That's good. Because there is some dust rising up the mountain and I would say it's something that heard us. I would prefer it to be running through." Su pointed out the cloud of dust and the slight sound of cracking rocks in the distance. 

"I would say that it's coming down the mountain. We will see if we have to deal with it." They had already established their mental strength to deal with anything that faced them. This wasn't some arrogant show of power. They were here to be equals with royal dragons and they were ready to be as such. Small monsters trying to touch them would not only make the other royals see them as weak but it would ruin any relations with Genesis that the dragons could offer. 

The skeletal armor that midnight had formed with her skill seemed to be slightly different than the last time that Walker had analyzed it. He was sure that it was due to the growth and the intense training that midnight did regularly. However, that did not mean that Walker had initially noticed the other element mana that gathered within the bone armor. 

The feeling that Walker got from the skeletal armor was unique. It didn't just hold the darkness elemental mana that had been Midnight's base affinity before she had awakened the bloodline of a dragon champion. There were heavy earth elemental and light elemental manas that had taken to it. This meant that Midnight had managed to add those elemental manas to the skill as she trained through her elemental breath attacks. It only went to show how her training affected her other skills as she began to mix elemental manas like Walker did to create natural mana. It made him wonder if she would have a skill change from skeletal armor to natural armor or something when Midnight succeeded in mixing every elemental mana. 

"There's the next statue. We are heading to the left." This was away from the cloud of dust. Walker would not have seen the secondary trail if he was not following the tails of the dragons. The mountains were not perfectly carved out for a trail. This was a natural path through the jagged edges and rounded rocks forged by nature. Moving between rocks and discovering the pathways was part of the adventure.

"Look at the rocks. It seems like they are a mix of a few different kinds." The colorations through the rocks were of multiple ores and marbles. It was clear proof that not many had traveled here since they would have attempted to mine out veins of valuable ores like this. 

"It's a good thing we didn't bring the wandering blacksmith. He would move here and start crafting without any worries." Walker joked but he too had the desire to try and mine some of this. He still had the necessary materials and tools to use the portable forge skill. He had only gotten rid of the materials that he knew were better used by the wandering blacksmith or that he would never get to using. The temptation to forge had been pulling at him for some time. There were many things he wanted to learn more of since he never wanted to be at a loss for the right skills in a situation. He truly wanted to be an all rounder. 

"No, we are not mining that." Su stopped Walker's thoughts in a few words. She would not be stopping their trip and delaying just to get some more materials that Walker would not be able to use until after they returned home. 

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