Master Of None

The methods of learning buff skills had been simple for Walker so far. He had been lucky to learn how to use the multi buff skill and heal skills through simple actions. The focuses on them were mostly to help others. But using elemental mana to specifically resist something was a newer endeavor.

So far, the entire party had been gaining skills to resist certain elemental manas. That was mostly because they had been in environments dense with them. The snow helped them gain resistance to water elemental mana in the form of cold resistance or ice resistance. The hot temperatures of Ignus's home had greatly helped some of them gain resistance to fire. Not to mention all of their time in the forges.

These resistances would greatly help any adventurer let alone any person. That is just a fact of life. The stronger resistances someone had, the better they would be able to resist the unpredictability of life. Whether it was weather or the changing conditions of nature's landscapes. Even The attacks of others would be better resisted when there was a natural resistance skill built up.

This was different from the resistance buff skills though. The personal resistance were built over time. It was the same way that someone pushing themselves in training would gradually be able to increase their levels and bring themselves to a tougher defensive nature. They were getting stronger as a whole permanently. The buff skills were temporary.

This was why Walker made a point to speak with the life mages. He had found that when they focused on the life mana within someone to try and buff them, that they were pushing their will on to the person's life mana. Their natural life mana inside their body.

Now this wasn't negative because it was easily resisted. However, when it was not resisted, then the result was the life mana taking form to create a specific result. It was the same as healing skills that were used with personal mana, light mana, or otherwise. There was a specified result that the affected body would react to.

The healing would then take place using the body's nutrients as the key to make that happen. Furthermore, there was the fact that the skill would come at a cost. That was why the life mages knew that the cost for certain buff skills would be more energy or higher mana cost. Whether the mana was provided by the one Beijing buffed or the one giving the biff mattered.

The idea to resist fire would require the body to take in water elemental mana around them. This would allow the body to cool itself with less of its own natural moisture. The cost was normally from the person giving the fire resistance buff. Therefore the secret to a fire resistance buff was having the ability to manipulate water if the person wanted a stronger buff.

An odd theory to be sure, many people would wonder if it was just adding water veils to protect the person or if it was stimulated in the body of the target to produce more water and guard the skin from the fire. Both could be true depending on the type of buff. It made Walker's head hurt a little to think about the different forms of buffs and how he would make his own focus on creating a wind resistance buff for everyone so that they could handle the much faster flying speed of dragons.

This left Walker with the idea that he would try to stimulate the earth mana that was within everyone to temporarily boost their wind resistance with earth. The manas within everyone were there because of natural mana or life mana. Both were there since everything had to be made up of the core elemental manas in the world.

While there were other manas around that also played parts within a being's body, the maid were the four elemental manas. This meant that when Walker looked at someone and sensed their mana, he could sense the small bits of mana that were not attached to affinity but just naturally part of someone's body. The fine control was just harder to grasp than most other things.

Many of the life mages watched as they saw Walker working through this problem. They had openly volunteered while they waited to see what he could do. Their researching mentality was fueled by the very basic curiosity when someone met someone new. They had to see what this person could do besides the fact that Walker could stand next to dragons casually.

The life mage that felt Walker sensing mana within his body was surprised when he felt that the multi buff skill had been used. Walker had done this to enhance the buff of the life mage and be able to sense where his mana went. A smart move to figure out how mana affected another being.

Many mages and healers had skills to diagnose injuries. Similar methods were used but using a buff to do it was very surprising to the life mages. They all agreed that it was a nice alternative for someone like Walker who had the skills to sense mana but not the skills to be able to directly diagnose things.

When Walker had done so, he was able to pick up the basic pieces of earth mana within the life mage's wings. Luckily he was an earth affinity angel in general. This would help immensely in developing a wind resistance skill.

The moment that Walker mixed natural mana and sent it to the earth mana within the life mage's body, the earth mana started to pull toward more earth mana around them. Small layers of dust were attracted to the hand that Walker held while using his skills.

In a quick test, Walker used the air around him to push on the hand from different angles. Each pushed off layers of dust causing the mage to wonder what the point was. He was making a resistance skill but instead had caused the mage to become covered in dust. Yet when Walker released his hand, the dust didn't fall. It was an odd experience since he had no skill to make this happen and had not used any skill at all.

'The skill dust veil has been taken from the snow shaman system. The skill dust veil has been learned through attempts to enhance the elemental resistances of a single being with natural earth affinity.

Dust veil- 2 mana cost

By using mana to stimulate the natural affinity or the small amounts of earth mana within a person, the dust and earth mana around will form over the being. This will allow for resistance against wind, sun, and heat for a short time. The buff can be extended by the one with the buff providing their mana through stationary movement. The multiple layers of dust can easily be removed with water or stronger earth magic.'

While it wasn't a pure resistance buff, it was a skill that served the purpose that Walker needed. He was sure that he would have been able to make a resistance buff if he stayed with this theory and worked harder. However, time was of the essence. He just had to manage everyone that might need a boost with this skill.

The sudden use of a new buff that the angels had not seen made them want to push Walker right in to their research labs. Any palace where they could continue this method to learn new buffs that they had just witnessed. Unfortunately for them, Walker stopped this instantly.

"I promise we can work more later. But we have bigger goals. Or would you prefer that the Fel empire be gone along with all the research done by your empire by the time we get back?" It was a sharp reprimand but one that worked. Keeping the focus here was the best bet Walker had to made sure that everyone complied.

"Good, you can help everyone move faster." Ventus had understood why Walker had stopped them from immediately leaving. She appreciated that with this buff that they could fly faster. But she also appreciated that he had thought more about the strength of the soldiers when they landed. If they had to go right in to battle then it would be a much better state of being for them.

"I didn't notice you watching. But maybe I can make other skills like this to resist earth or fire or water. I need to spend a lot of time just learning about buffs. I think that every single time I look around a corner there is a mountain of things I could never have the time to learn." Ventus heard him then generated to everything around them. Her point was clear. They had all found a literal mountain of things to learn from. It was a funny moment but Walker hadn't even meant to make that pun.

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