Master Of None

"Now that was what they needed. The young ones always seem to need a little anger to push them all the way." Rise took this as a success and decided to call it a day. She flew back in to the sky presumably changing back to her dragon form above the clouds. Mordant just shook his head since he knew that Rise had actually just done what she wanted and then got bored.

"I will put an end to this, Su and Midnight need to rest now that they forced themselves to grasp a new skill. I don't want them going on patrol like Gil. I know he was tired from making arrows and being on the look out tower." Walker knew that Gil did not even care either. But at least he had multiple archers to watch his back.

"Before you do that, you should be looking at the shadows. Onyx has been there the entire time. I don't think anyone has noticed him." Mordant was smiling very wide at this. He could see much better than the others.

When Walker began to focus on the darkness elemental mana and the shadows. He could sense the shape of something hiding away. By the time he narrowed in on the view of a serpent shape in the shadows, it was already too late. Onyx had already made it in to position.

Without any hesitation, Su had jumped to defend Midnight, but Midnight had only moved back slightly compared to the usual large leaps back. This brought Leon, Su, and Midnight all in to the same close proximity all at once.

The shadows burst up around the three causing surprise to grace their faces. The shadows immediately revealed themselves to be the full size of Onyx's body taking form around them. However, all the three could see were moving dark scales as Onyx wrapped around them. He was trapping them while they had been totally focused. It was very sneaky but also very smart.

The small growls and pleas of freedom were all Walker heard while he moved up to Onyx's head and looked him in the eye. "The victor is the sneaky Onyx and his stealth training!"

"Thank you brother." Onyx released the three while taking his place on Walker's shoulders. He slowly shrank down as he did so, but everyone could tell he was extremely happy to have the praise.

"So, Midnight, you landed a good amount about making a shadow illusion. It looks like you can use it when you are in just about any situation. It will keep you safer while you battle and sneak up on others. Just because you are a dragon does not mean that you are invincible to everything." Midnight could only look down. She hated that onyx had caught her so easily.

"Leon, I am glad you are training with us. I thought you were a little distant lately but it was just the fact that you were too busy. I would like you to teach me a little about spearmanship at some point. I have a few but never had someone that was as experienced as you teach me." These were Walker's honest thoughts. Leon could see this in his eyes and smiled a little while giving Walker a nod. He had to keep his attention on the merfolk that had been watching the training too so he would be busy.

"Su, nice job but you need to get out of your own head. If you want to talk about it you can…I know some things are hard in life." Walker still had not gotten on the same page as Su but was sure that she was working to get through it. He had complete trust in her judgment.

"Don't worry. I just need to work it all out of my system. It won't matter after we beat a few more monsters…" It seemed that Su still had some tension left. But so did many people. Walker was not going to judge it unless it caused others harm. Su was always caring when it came to who was around her. This was just training and she had been calm and collected in any recent battles. It would be foolish to judge her on everything with this training.

"I think you really got the hang of that shadow step skill? Or is it called shadow propulsion? Because it propelled you pretty fast. I would almost think your agility is higher than Gils'.

"It's called shadow steps.  But I like shadow propulsion. It feels like I am in a slingshot that I make out of my own shadow. It is actually pretty fun when I am not letting my emotions rule me…it felt nice though, to let loose." Su was embarrassed that she had let herself be a puppet to her emotions in front of others. Yet. when she glanced at some of the dragonkin, they were still looking at her with pride.

"You are a draconic guardian. From what I can see, you just accepted the instincts in your blood. They think that too. Hell, you may have just become their idol." Walker's laugh rang out thinking about how Su might have an entire fan club made of dragonkin because she would be able to fight them all head on soon. It was comical, to say the least.

"My snacks?" Midnight had been watching Walker like a hawk. She was not going to let him get away with threatening her snacks and then just forgetting that he had said anything at all.

"I would never take away your snacks after you did so well to learn the skill you were training. I am actually very glad that Alice and I came back when we did. Even Rise seemed to think you were doing great. She encouraged Su too. You saw her use the dark and light skills at the same time."

Midnight huffed in response. She was proud that they had made break throughs in their training. But more importantly, she knew that they had done very well in their training. "It was inspiring to see." Alice joined the conversation while also pulling Su's hand to show her the necklace that they had just made.

"That's what we were doing in the forge. We managed to make a mana gem that stores natural mana and light elemental mana. It's because I learned the radiant armor kill while training a little with Alice." Walker was also a little embarrassed to say that he had let his curiosity and one track thinking drag multiple people to the forge. But it had also helped him realize that they could make mana gems that were specifically oriented for a certain mana only. That way he could have natural mana and that mana mixed better than just a normal mana gem that stored certain manas alone.

"Can I see it? I want to see how it works." Su touched the mana gem and felt that there was already light elemental mana in it. She gasped a little feeling how strong it was even though there wasn't really much there. "It's condensed light elemental mana?"

"Oh, yes. I forgot to mention that the natural mana helped make the mana gem able to store the condensed light elemental mana as well as the condensed natural mana. I was thinking I would take some time to properly store it and meditate here. I need to rest to get ready for another patrol too. It's been a long day today already. But night patrols are fair for everyone." Walker saw that the sun was already setting. He had to get ready for what the river might have for them tonight.

"Good, rest up now. I have to show you all what we are passing through on the map if you don't already know coming up." Scylla had just set foot on the top of the ship again after being under the water patrolling for some time. She gladly joined the conversation.

"I already know what you will say. There are a few twists and turns coming up. We will travel through them in the night. It should be an interesting event. Especially since that is a good area for monsters to live. I would like some caught for food though. I have heard river snappers are a delicious fish." Mordant didn't hide his own desires before giving a wave and heading toward the railing of the ship to watch the water go by.

"Ah, I forgot about this part of the river. I was so focused on training a little that I should have called my soldiers back. The river snappers are more active at night. Sharp teeth like a giant crocodile but with a large karp's body. They are a ravenous monster that lives to eat whatever they can get." Leon didn't look happy to have to deal with them. Walker could gather that these monsters were in the river and the oceans.

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