The instant hit of desire and determination that Walker and the wandering cksmith felt was enough to make them very focused. Very caught up in what they had to do so that they could keep forging and working toward their current goals.


    Anyone else would have been a very confused person when faced with such oddities before them. But for the wandering cksmith, this was amazing. It was an opportunity to take another step on his path above forging just what he could see. For him, this was the next chance he had to be more than he was now.


    For Walker, it was the solution to multiple issues he faced. He had been trying to figure out spatial mana, death mana, life mana, and now even time mana was open to him. He had chances to learn from all of it without needing to touch them right now. Furthermore, he could see that there was more to all of it than he thought.


    The isted branches of mana definitely came with the mixing of other manas and the weakness of the main mana. Therger sources of these lesser mana was just another piece of the puzzle in the puzzle that made the world and existence as a whole.


    While Walker was trying to understand mana as a whole, true mana, he was lost in it. He had still barely scraped pieces of what natural mana was or what the elemental manas were. He was desperately trying to learn about it. To understand what true mana was. How true mana could take other forms.


    He had the skills but he hadcked the understanding. Eys, he could mix elemental manas, he could ever separate them from one another. Using elemental and natural manas was very easy byparison for Walker . but even trying to make space mana work for him? Impossible. The same about life mana. He was a novice, if that when it came to controlling and using them within skills.


    With these two being so upied with their growth in these terms, the world could have been turning the opposite way and they would not notice it. The wandering cksmith was examining every material that the unique fire spirits had taken as fuel. He knew he could gain information about properties of such materials. About what the mes might be capable of. He could learn incredible things that would expand his mind and even create new forging techniques.


    Walker was sat cross legged on the floor of the forge. He was allowing every bit of ambient mana to move through his senses. He was absorbing what he could and letting it influence him along with y at his senses. The unique fire spirits even sent a small wisp of mana from their mes now and then at him to help. It was clearly the result of Fleur assisting them to be stronger in a unique way as a nature spirit looking to grow herself and those of her race. A true leader, sacrificing her condensed mana to allow her fellow spirits to grow immensely.


    This distraction left the two very immersed while others within genesis worked. Midnight in particr was present as there was a veryrge reaction from the elemental space teleportation formation.


    It was clear that she had heard that there was a grouping through it from the Sigil continent. She had been prepared to meet them since she had already finished meeting the wind dragons some time ago. It has already been three days since Ventus arrived back. But that was just part of the problem guing Midnight.


    She had found herself bored when Walker disappeared to work with the wandering cksmith. She had wanted to train and work more with him. Unfortunately, she had let him wander off and get distracted. She could sense through their bond that he was entirely focused on meditation and mana sensing. She would not interrupt him only to hurt his hard work. That would be insulting.


    But that was fine. She found the new people that would being as very interesting. What she did not expect though, was that a familiar face appeared. A familiar face that was slightly different.


    "Ah, Midnight. You were waiting for us. It is nice to see you yet again. I will leave you to meet with your guardian." The familiar yet also unfamiliar face was Rise. The light mana seemed to surge around her as she returned and flew in to the sky. Her smoothed out dragonkin form was more human and significantly more elegant. The smoothness in her wings and the elegance as she took flight would make any angel jealous.


    Yet, when Midnight tried to look and follow Rise''s flight, she became distracted. It was a deep thrum of mana in her heart. A sense that someone incredibly important was right in front of her. "I am back home." Su spoke quietly but openly. Her eyes focused on midnight with some worries.


    From what Midnight could see, Su''s features were sharper. They had a little more strength behind them as well. Su had gained strength. Her skin also appeared to have slight dragon scale patterns on it but they were receding. Midnight could sense that Su could control this as an aspect of who she was now. Binded perfectly with the blood from the ritual they two had performed.


    But Su''s hair was no longer what it had been. It held streaks of elemental manas. Changing the colr in small strands here and there to prove that Su had fully epted the influence of dragon blood. The affinities of manas that Midnight and her shared.


    Furthermore, a pair of scaled wings was behind Su. a striking proof that Su hadpletely epted and opened herself to the fact that she was not just human. That she was not just a dragon. That she was an entirely unique true draconic guardian willing to stand above any that attempted to harm her family.


    Midnight pounced on Su. She was very happy to see her. She could care less about how Su had changed in appearance. This was her family! They could never not be happy to see one another. "stronger. " Midnight only said this one thing after the two had finished greeting one another.


    "I am a half dragon now. I had been holding myself back from being what I could be." Su didn''t hide anything. She actually looked slightly embarrassed. But that was just the fact of it. She had been embarrassed for what she was changing in to and she had let the mental blocks cease her growth.


    "Do you like the wings? I didn''t expect that when I epted it all and helped Rise fight that I would awaken fully. It was a little painful but worth the experience." Su recalled the moments after Rise had begun her own transformation.


    Su remembered her blood boiling and mana surging toward her. Then an overwhelming hunger that required her to eat and hunt for days on end. By the end o0f everything, she had not even realized that she had grown taller. That she had grown wings. That her senses had be even sharper. Not that any of that changed who she was. She would always be the guardian that many people looked up to within the church. None of that had changed.


    ''I think we should go visit the others. They might not recognize me." Su giggled a little as Midnight took her own dragonkin form to hold hands with Su and walk together. She was also excited to see what everyone else thought.


    "Cathedral to meet Alice and Brother Onyx?" Midnight wanted to head there first. Specifically because she knew that Su and Alice trained together very much before Su left to work on herself. She also knew that Alice would be spurred to work even harder than before.


    Then there was the fact that onyx was always at the cathedral. He went and left multiple times within a day depending on his own training. But from what onyx had told Midnight, he was nning to be at the cathedral teaching the little serpants how to better manage their mana. Therefore, it made sense to head there and visit them.


    "How is everyone else? Should we try to bother Gil and Alma? What about Remey? Is she still locked away in the alchemy guild with Ignus?" Suughed a little as she pulled Midnight to a stop nearby a street vendor. The two still enjoyed their sweet fruit treats and could not help but buy some. Naturally, the vendor didn''t even hesitate to wee them back. He recognized Su regardless of her changes and Midnight in dragonkin or dragon form. It was just good business.


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