Master Of None

"I could break that." Remey was sure that she could break the stone that Midnight and Walker were working on. She could be sure that a solid punch would be able to crush it and break through the defenses. However, she could definitely not break the defenses of the stone that Su had.

Between Remey and Gil, the two had realized that Su, Midnight, and Walker had been missing for quite some time. This wasn't abnormal since they were all doing their own training and resting while waiting for the wyverns to awaken. But it wasn't normal that they would not be around somewhere visible.

The small exploration after Remey and Gil had taken a break from their own matters had brought them to the same place that Su had gone to. But when Remey found the three, she saw that they were all trying the same thing. Walker was trying to make a shield just like Su could when it came to earth shields.

Su's was much stronger because of her higher earth affinity due to her partner. Having that affinity grand earth spirit proved to be the main boon when making such a skill. Especially when it came to toughness and dependability. Walker and Midnight had just started to do such things. It was a little odd since Su was not a mage, but taking in the account that she had used a shield primarily made of earth in the first place, it did make sense.

The only thing that Remey found herself wondering was, how she could fare against the shields. Could she break them with defense breaking punch? Or would she need to stop and use the earth affinity knuckles to do anything to them?

"They aren't just making shields. Look at them adding layers to the shields they are making. Walker and Midnight should be trying to make them denser. Su might be doing the same thing without too much help from her partner." Gil spotted the differences much more easily with his sharper eyes. But he was also wondering if his arrows would have any effect. Not that he had any of them with him right this second. He had another focus. One that he had set himself up to use no matter what.

The high elf dagger technique had been too stagnant lately. He hadn't focused on it in the past days since he had been too focused on the current journey., but he also knew that when they returned to the village along the border, that they would be seeing Alma again. Alma would certainly have more to say about his rate of progress. He would be letting her down if there was none.

Therefore, the focus on using daggers was all that Gil could do. The reason he had gone looking for Walker, Midnight, and Su was also due to the fact that he wanted to ensure that he could train against someone other than Remey. He wanted to fight multiple people that could defend every single attack he used. That was the pressure that could push him to another level. Especially since it would be enough to make sure that he would see the flaws in every step very clearly.

"Remey? Gil?" Midnight was the first to break her concentration and look at them. It was because she had smelled the two closer than they had been before. The strength of a dragon's nose was nothing to be underestimated.

"Midnight, we came to train with all of you. Feel like testing out that shield?" Rmeye put on the earth affinity knuckles and patted her armor a little. She was waiting to see if Midnight would get fired up a little for a battle.

"I need some battles too. I want everyone to attack me. I need to push the dagger technique more. It's stuck." Gil didn't hesitate to get himself in to it too. This brought Walker and Su back to focus.

"You two came looking to train? There is still no change in the wyverns yet? What about the royal dragons?" Walker was looking a little more tired than the other two. The issue for him was the constant expenditure of mana and mental strength. He was using the natural mana to help him pull at the earth mana now so that he could meld them together. It was a very tedious balance that should only be used short term and not over the long term like this training. At least until he was better at using natural mana all the time.

"We had to come to train. The royal dragons have all started to meditate while waiting for Terron, Alice, and Onyx are training with light and darkness mana, even some soldiers are working with them. The angels have all calmed down finally and are basically just examining the wyverns without touching them to gather intelligence for their empires. The healers are the same. The life mages are actually the most interested." Gil sounded bored.

"It's not anything interesting. The life mages are talking about lifespan, and size. It's very boring. They are a lot less like healers now than they were." Remey grumbled a little. It was very clear that the life mages had tried to do this to Remey and Gil at some point. That just left them to want to train somewhere else even more. Therefore, here they were with multiple reasons to find the rest of the party.

"We cloud use a change of pace. I can only test my shield so much compared to what my partner and I can do. With this, I can break it many times. I might even be able to use the skills that Midnight is using to coat her claws in stone." Su looked at Minfight who had already shifted the shield shape to covering her claws.

The changes that Midnight had figured out were greater than the other two. She had managed to make stone claws and created a small stone shield. It wasn't necessarily as condensed as she wanted but compared to walker, Midnight had an actual stone shield skill now. It was sure that she could learn a stone armor skill if she wanted later with more training.

Walker had been slightly behind. When he had focused on coating his body in stone, the stone claws skill was foreign to his human body. This led him to focusing on the claws he replicated more. It was very similar to the dragon aspect in that way. He was mimicking dragons. Now though, he was a little jealous that Midnight had gained a skill first.

"I don't think that we will be focused on the defenses really." Walker looked at Remey and Gil. But the one that responded to him the most was Remey. She grinned and cracked her knuckles.

"He wants to fight face to face. What, are you jealous that you can't get the skills you want?" Remey had picked up on Walker's frustration easily. It was just something that came with the fact that they all spent so much time together as a party. Anyone would be able to pick up on these things over time.

The single comment had started a battle right then and there. The desire to train taking over their minds as they knew they would have to begin their journey toward the Fel empire and the desert that held the undead causing issues. The real wonder was what would make the undead so powerful? What had awoken them after so long? And what would happen if they were to continue to grow to the point that they were able to leave the continent?

These thoughts were in the back of everyone's minds as they trained but it was much more forward in the royal dragon's minds. Their conversations about what would be happening after the wyverns awoke and where more ruins might be had been long. The eventual end of them before they all sat to meditate and prepare had been simple. What dragon ruins might be in the Fel empire where the desert is strong.

Were there light, wind, or fire ruins? They could find more legacies for the most powerful dragons that had sent their race to the other continent many years ago. So many that the dragons had not known they were once residents of the Sigil continent at all. That history had been lost to time since they were too young in a new place as a race.

This would have been thought about more if after hours more there had not been a stirring in the ruins. In the wyverns. Some had begun to show signs of waking up which pushed the royal dragons to send their dragonkin to get Walker and the others. Just a few hours of training had been left for all of them.

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