Master Of None

Walker slowly moved outside of the Genesis building. The second roar he heard was from the dragon approaching, however, between its claws he saw familiar shapes. "That's Alma, Gil, and the enforcers! Clear the main square!" Walker's voice boomed over everyone. The few people around rushed to the edges.

Wind whipped up as the dragon landed in the middle of the square. The slight shake of the ground was enough to cause a few people to poke their heads out windows to see what was going on. "I take it you are Ignus's son?" Walker had put the pieces together seeing the similarities between him and Ignus.

"My father has asked me to deliver your family to you safely. I have done so. But I must leave quickly. I have been trusted to move the village for the first time. My father will come within the day and his warriors will follow beyond him." The booming voice was quickly silenced before Ignus's son whipped his wings back up to fly away.

"Get home safely, I will see your father soon," Walker shouted after Ignus's son. He knew that there was a chance that this was Ignus's way of whipping his son in to shape to take over a branch village one day. The view that Walker had of Ignus had radically changed in comparison to what it had been.

Once the wind had died down, Walker could feel the changes in mana around him. He felt the wind elemental mana that was still drawn to Gil like a moth to a flame. "You made it back earlier than we thought. Care to come to a meeting?" Walker saw Gil take a deep breath. The look on his face said that he didn't even know how he would go about talking about what had happened.

"I can't even tell you how much better it is to be back here," Gil smirked a little while giving Walker a hug. He had been worried about what everyone would think as they came back since there was so much that had potentially gone wrong during their outing.

Moving back up to the meeting room, Walker found that everyone had returned to their seats pretending to be calm. The thing that gave Scylla away was her fidgeting. "You weren't really going to try and fight a dragon just because it was coming here, right? What if I was the dragon coming here?" Walker's attempt at a joke was met with nothing, just people looking at him strangely.

"I think I should be the first to speak. Gil's subject is more complicated than we can explain." Alma knew that she was going to need to take the lead. She was the representative for the elves. "The flame elves have struggled against the moving of mana and their core beliefs. This led their king and leadership to develop unhealthy tendencies. Tendencies that prioritize the grand fire spirit and mana purity over the people."

Alma had thought that this would be easier to say. However, she felt her heart breaking all over again for the flame elves that had been pushed out of their homes. "The flame elf city was in a terrible state hidden by lies. The true people had followed the mana toward the grand fire elemental spirit to make a dangerous home. They will be coming here. Some may need help rebuilding their city after the remaining criminals are put on a proper trial." Alma stood tall. She was sure that Genesis would more than lend a hand.

"Some fire trait demi-humans will assist. Being shunned because of purity is an outrage. There are many different traits within my home kingdom. Many different beings that oppose one another that are deeply bonded together. We can help you flame elves with their home." Scylla knew that the demi-human people would look at this as their duty and offered assistance immediately. It wasn't even worth thinking about too hard.

"That leads me to the grand fire elemental spirit; Fintan. He gave up his name to be passed to the next grand fire elemental spirit the world recognizes. That way, he could ascend to the fire elemental plane. He said complicated things about seeing Zephyr again. I have no idea how he could speak with me but it could be my newfound connection and title." Walker was beginning to see why this was so complicated.

"The flame elves may have more records and so may other elves. There also seemed to be a connection with a race that once left for another plane as well. Fintan did not say much. He was more excited that Zephyr was there to see him off and that she was not going to the wind elemental plane. Somehow they would all meet again. The grand elemental spirits that were there when they were all named…"

Gil knew that everything he said was hard to grasp. Things that happened thousands of years ago that only the oldest of the old could remember. The room was silent while they absorbed this information. However, there was more to it. More to what this situation may mean.

"I felt the mana become strange when he gave up the name. It was like the fire elemental mana is looking for a core. I think the grand elemental spirits are named by the world to help with balance somehow" Gil's theory meant a lot of things. Especially to Walker who was helping Fleur, a nature spirit and a world spirit.

p "It may not be my place to speak of this, but have we considered finding someone older to ask for information from?" Clara had been waiting and listening. She had not acted yet because it was not her place. She was a guild master but not really a member of the council.

"What do you have in mind?" Walker was the one to ask. He had a strange feeling about what Clara may be insinuating.

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