Master Of None

Walker was nearly crawling on the floor while tracing the spot that the runes should be. He could follow them from the stairs with his eyes but found that there were gaps where the bookshelves sat on the ground. The slight breeze through those gaps was enough to tell him that something did not add up on this floor.

"I know we are close to figuring it out. The bookshelves are all in this pattern and are hard to walk around. Why would they do this for a library floor? Also, why can't we take any of the books out of this room, let alone a few feet from the shelving that they are set up on?"

Walker raised these questions while he slowly stood and tried to pull a book away from its place on the shelf. He found that after he took three or four steps away that he would find himself pulled back by force. It was as if all the elemental mana in the air was forcing him to go back toward the same spot. Nothing made sense until he sighed and put the book back down. In the single movement, he felt the connection of mana flor through the room. But it was broken.

"No way it works like this…" He moved and jumped up to look from the ceiling. He could see that the broken shelves all had the same pattern. They were complicated to walk through but if Walker changed the perspective he could see that they could line up. "If I just try and push like this…" Walker landed and pushed against one of the smaller sections of bookshelves. It slowly started to grind against the stone and move. The gaps were so that the bookshelf could move and fit in to place.

The burst of adrenaline allowed Walker to push the shelves over and over until he heard a clicking. The mana in the room seemed to gain a purpose and flowed toward the shelving. The books became more than just pages. The runes written within each one filtered the elemental mana and caused a change to the room itself.

Dense elemental mana flooded the room as the shelves fell away. The room was not some library floor but an all around elemental gathering floor with plenty of space. "This is amazing." Walker watched as runes formed in the air and faded away as elemental mana flowed through them. Runes had been carved in the very space of the room to cause this phenomenon and attract more elemental mana. It was a feat that no current rune carver or rune smith could boast. All in all, it was a miraculous discovery.

"Fleur! Those runes weren't in the books to show and learn from but they were there to create this room's effect!" The amazement in Walker's voice was matched by the feeling he received from Fleur. She felt that this was the ideal environment for her to absorb all the elemental mana she needed. On top of that Walker could also feel that he would be able to better meditate here to understand the intricacies of elemental manas fusing and breaking away from each other. He would no longer forcefully balance mana and make them come together, he could learn to easily and harmoniously fuse them in to natural mana faster.

The eternal orb lost shape all of its own and floated in the middle of the room. The balance in the air and the balance within it seemed to make it absorb and find the center point of the room. The eternal orb had not been made to do this but it was an interesting show of what an elemental affinity item could do in an environment high in the elements that it had the affinity for. Walker could theorize that a fire affinity sword would be much stronger and produce better results with high fire elemental mana in the area. But this was a proven fact already, just not in the case of multiple elemental manas.

Unknown to Walker while he began to meditate and understand the elemental manas, he had caused more than just this one floor to change. The runes had responded to this change and many similar shelves began to click and move in to place on other library floors. All were books that were unable to be moved or understood. It was not a problem until now though.

The researchers left behind were stunned to see this happening without any idea of why. They felt the changes and saw the mana adapting to the surroundings. The elemental floors became much purer along with the training floors growing dense in all elemental manas. Those researching the training floors noticed that their spells that revolved around elemental mana cost nearly nothing to cast, making them ideal for learning and training in a specific elemental mana.

"Alice, It seems that brother must have happened on to something good again. We should take advantage." Onyx didn't have a single doubt in his heart that Walker was the cause of this. It was too common for these things to happen and be the cause of someone in the party rather than be random occurrences.

"He's helping us get stronger." Alice showed a look of pure determination. The light elemental floor was nearly blinding to everyone. However, it was the opposite to people like Alice who had very high light elemental affinities. This was comfortable.

Alice removed the bracelet that would hold back her ability to manipulate the light. The heavenly serpent felt that the light elemental mana around them was moving just with Alice's breath. The entire room was sensitive to the slow movements of Alice now. It made for an incredibly challenging training period for her. And she would be doing it until Walker descended the stairs.

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