Master Of None

"This yellow grass might be good for your flame dolls. I asked Alma about it and she said that it only grows in places near a lot of running water." Gil spoke up to get Walker's attention. Walker had looked at the grasses around them and just thought they were overgrown. 

"I didn't know they were that different. Let me appraise them and see what it's all about." The thought that the flame dolls might be able to upgrade with what was burned was a new idea for Walker. He had not tried to make any other form of doll or golem at all since he knew the challenges in it. He wasn't sure if he would be able to control all of them while he and the party battled. Pulse he would need to adapt them to different situations all the time. It would end up costing him more mana than he wanted. 

'Yellow river grass

This grass only grows in places where the rivers overflow. They become green with yellow flowers in the hotter flooded months while they become fully yellow in the colder months. They are very hard to burn and can make amazing tinder even in the rain. They are able to survive the hot and cold extremes as well as the flooding of rivers. Only a small number of insect monsters eat this grass during the harvest season.'

"It will be good for the flame dolls. I will pull out the scythe and try to harvest some as we go." Walker ran ahead a little and started to clear the path. Midnight was right with him to watch his back while he did this. As Walker cut the stalks down he saw that the snow was still on the ground. But even more, he could see the gravelly soil that allowed water to flow around easily. If this was a warmer season he would need to worry about flash floods. 

"We can tell that the water flows pretty freely here. We might want to make sure we are close to those hills if we see a water affinity monster around." Leon used his spear to point out the nearby hills. They would make the group easier to spot but would also allow for Gil and Walker to take down monsters from further away. 

"I believe we will need to be careful when we start a fire for a rest. This grass seems like it would continue burning even without us nearby." Neil had been told once by a fire affinity dragonkin that they often had to worry about causing large fires. They had the skills to use fire in conjunction with their weapons. Therefore, it would often cause fires that could spread uncontrollably. Since that day, Neil had always made a point to put out his fire completely. 

"I would rather go to the hills than wade through the grass that comes up to my elbows." Alma liked the nature and enjoyed being surrounded by it. However, the forest nature and this nature were different. Here she was not as prepared to deal with the monsters that could sneak through the grasses. She was also the shortest of the group and would need to worry about being attacked first if a monster did sneak up on them. 

With the speed that they could wrap them, Walker was able to get a large number of bundles made up. The yellow grass would come in handy. "You know, if we use this to make some training dummies, I wonder if there are elf mages that can make them move like a real opponent"? I have been wondering if I could learn a skill like that." Walker directed this question toward Alma. he knew that she might have knowledge about such things. 

"I have known some mages that could do such things. It may be rare for a dragonkin to become a mage, but the one that I met could create earth dolls that could fight back as long as a runesmith helped make them." There was some surprise hearing that there were dragonkin mages that could make earth dolls that didn't need mana from the caster exclusively. 

"I was going to suggest using magic like my vine control or plant growth to make that happen. But what if you learned something that controlled strings and mixed runes with it like the earth dills. I bet there will be plenty of runesmiths that could help you there." Since there was a rush to study magic and runes back in Genesis, Alma had an idea that there would be more people than not that could help Walker mix skills in such a way. 

"Good points. I should try and learn skills like that. Wonder if the dwarves could make a core that connected to some special threads and runes to make golems or dolls that could receive mana from the core. It would be kind of like those lesser liches we have heard about. They don't have the ability to survive within their own body so they require some sort of core or place to store their soul." Walker recalled a book he had read but couldn't verify if it was accurate. The undead were a big mystery when it came to how they came to be. He also wasn't sure he should study magic that made undead. 

"We should pay more attention to those weird stones up ahead. They seem a little too perfect." Leon was very careful to stop before the patch of stone ahead. The grass didn't grow in a perfect circle and there was no ice or snow there either. On top of this, the stones were all perfect oval shapes that were nearly identical in color. They were a red flag if any of them had ever seen one. Walker didn't waste time and used his all around appraisal skill. 

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