Master Of None

Chapter 2282: 2282. Ruins Hunter

"Where were the ruins found?" Walker gave his full focus on this matter. He could stay away for weeks at a time with the strength that he possessed. Why would he put this aside? Especially with how important it is to Onyx right now.

His focus on this matter allowed Onyx to relax a little. That alone was enough for Onyx to remain focused on what he had come for. The details were already memorized since Onyx had been amazed to find who and how the ruins had been found.

Three of the abyssal serpents had gone to explore. While they were still young, they had desires to become explorers. Their classes are called ruin hunters. A few others have discovered the very same class since they want to find ruins of the past."

Onyx's pride in the three serpents that had gone off with their ruin hunter classes was clear. Walker also wondered what sorts of skills that a ruin hunter would have. Especially if those classes helped in discovering, understanding, and gathering everything about ruins.

There were plenty of ruins hidden away from ancient times up until now. The world had not been a calm and easy place to live in the past.

"The ruins were found on the edge of the mountains right before the desert. The rocks there were broken after the expansion of the world with the return of mana flow. So, the crags and deeper crevices were their access to the ruin which had been sealed by earth and time."

"It makes a lot of sense. I wouldn't expect that some of the ruins we will find will just remain hidden after the world changed again. Some might even be reopened because the world returned to its proper everything." The theory was sound and many people had already expected such things.

The world had been reduced in a way. Unable to be its full potential because mana was lacking. Hence why the dragons and other races had been declining in a sort of way. Their strength was lower because they could not rely on the higher amounts of mana which they needed to properly function.

Right this moment, plenty of unique landscapes had expended in to a larger and more dangerous place. There might not have been as many monsters since they would not

spontaneously appear, but as time went on, that would change.

The environments certain monster species and plant species had needed were returning. This meant that as time went on, there would surely be more of those plants and monsters. It would make certain wilderness areas much more dangerous. But also more bountiful for many people to explore. It was a balance of sorts.

Also a perk of expanding the magic towers. The teleportation formations that could be set up at those locations would allow for easier traveling. In turn, that would allow for easier gathering of materials or young adventurers to grow more quickly.

"I think I want to head to this ruins with you, sounds good?" Walker wanted to think more about his theories with how growth could happen in the future. A ruin like this could allow for there to be more growth chances but also could turn in to a place that monsters frequented.

"I was hoping you would want to do so. There are many monsters that have been attempting to get inside and only one of the ruin hunters has been able to return while the other to maintain the safety of the area. We will not lose what was left behind to find by the late generations."

Seeing that Onyx was focused on these things as well, Walker had no issues with it. "We will also be saving your young ones too. They were pretty brave to go off alone already. Or were they growing a little too fast?" Walker saw Onyx turn his head away. Clearly, he was trying to avoid showing his emotions here.

"Is the third that came to get you coming?" Waker was surprised he did not see this third ruins hunter. But to be clear, he also found it to be a chance that the third had been injured.

"He does not recover as fast as we would. He is resting after managing to come here in such a rush. It took them three weeks to get where they were and he rushed back in three days." This made a lot more sense. After pushing himself beyond his limits, this little serpent had been entirely exhausted and might need weeks of rest at his level.

"Then you made the right decision not to let him come."

"I would want to go with you as well Brother. I forced him to stay within the cathedral under the supervision of a few strict healers." It was easy to feel that Onyx felt bad but also understood he had made the best decision for the situation.

"I will be taking you two that way then. I have wanted to get outside the city too." Mordant grinned a little. "You both sensed me there and spoke anyway. I was just planning to speak with Walker about the feelings of dark mana increasing around the city lately. I have a feeling that it's not just the natural flow right now."

"We can look in to that after we help out Onyx's ruin hunters. They found some odd eggs that are dormant and could be another race or something more. If you come along, you can also explore the ruins with us." Mordant nodded along and started to take his dragon form after leaping in to the sky. Walker let Onyx on to his shoulders and they were caught by Mordant's claws.

Getting used to Mordant traveling throughout the shadows was not something Walker thought he would do any time soon. It was much harder to adapt to than the feeling of moving using space mana. But something Walker did notice was that the method of shadow diving Mordant used cost slightly more mana than what it had before.

Just the ability to sense the dark mana that Mordant was using was enough for Walker to see that it came with a greater cost. The thing was, this time Mordant was carrying fewer people. Meaning that it wasn't Mordant or the passengers that were causing it.

Most likely, this was that feeling where there was more dark mana around. If that was the case, it could be making using dark mana harder in general since the flow of dark mana overall was changing throughout the world. Something that Walker would need to focus on the most as time went on.

Luckily, this journey was made much quicker by Onyx guiding Mordant. Because Onyx had the ability to use dark mana as well and even store his body in the shadows, he was able to use the location of the other little serpents as an anchor for where he felt he needed to go. While a little complicated, Walker understood it well enough.

The issue was that they couldn't just move through the shadows and appear within the ruins. Doing so would massively disturb the area and also bring a lot of dark mana around where they appeared. Not to mention that Mordant's full dark dominator form appearing there could cause a collapse within the ruins due to his size.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

So, the distance that they appeared when Mordant had used enough dark mana and moved far enough, was still large. They would have to travel in to the mountains which overlooked part of the expanded desert.

Whoever, the moment that they came outside of the shadows, Walker was stunned.

The sheer size of these mountains and the large cliffs was easily doubled from what he remembered from the last time he was within this area. The sand dunes were also larger, but they did not appear as evil or expanding as they had been. The sands felt as if they were a part of the world and balanced this area better. There were even many cacti growing in the distance from what Walker could tell.

These were good signs that the changes as the mana flow returned to the world were all as they should be. However, he also understood that this made traveling much harder. For the average adventurer, no matter the race, this would be more difficult to traverse. Even those who could fly would struggle since they would have to deal with the lack of ability to see within the cracks and shadows of rocks.

"Onyx, we will follow you while Mordant focuses on gathering some dark mana again. And Mordant, I see what you were saying. I will be focusing on your problems next. We will figure it all out sooner rather than later." With this, they began moving again, this time towards one

of the larger outcroppings of rocks. A larger cliff broken off from the mountains.

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