Master Of None

Chapter 2307: 2307. Waking Magma

Looking upwards, Ignus noticed that Walker had been standing just above him in the air for the last few minutes. "Why did you stop?" He had no idea what had made Walker stop moving and suddenly walk in to the air only to look at the thick black clouds of smoke and ash.

"Ventus isn't here yet to help Rise, but she is already wrong on the issues at hand. We can relax a little while Rise purifies the entire area." Ignus didn't believe that Walker was saying this.

This area was much larger than what it had been before. Purifying all of this was not some small task. Even for Rise as a light dominator dragon, it would take a massive amount of light mana and control over that light mana. Not to mention the larger amounts of fatigue it would cause afterwards.

A backlash from using too much mana at once was nothing new to anyone especially the royal dragons who had pushed themselves to their limits during the process of becoming dominator dragons. Nor was it odd to Walker who had been at that limit many times over and forced to relax or else suffer long lasting damage to his body.

That was when all those doubts from Ignus were erased. He could sense it now. The high density of light magic being used well above his head.

Then he began to see it.

The clouds of ash and smoke being purified in to a pure white fluffy cloud dropping purified ash on to the land below. Nothing left of these massive lingering clouds were anything that could be called dangerous. Even breaking some of it in just left Walker with a little bit of a dry mouth. The same feeling as when dust got on his tongue and he needed to rinse it out with water.

"She will need to sleep for a while after this. But Rise is using a skill I saw the high priest use once. He used it to purify someone of a rash that came from touching a poisonous herb. It cleansed the body and completely allowed the person to be healed within minutes. But she is using it with a lot more light mana and channeling it to spread in a large area around her." Looking at Ignus in the eye, "I can't use light mana whatsoever while we are fighting here. If I do, I might harm her control over it which could cause her severe damage." This meant that more powerful light type healing magic was out of Walker's hands. He would choose to hold himself back and rely on using life mana form within him or within Ignus before using other healing magics.

This had its own downsides since life mana was using what the body already had to heal, but it was the price they would be paying since they were going to be ensuring that this entire area was able to survive now. Rise was risking a lot to make sure that the light was able to reach the world as it needed to, so, they could take a little hit if they allowed themselves to get hurt.

"I can't say I know that dragon up there. She is entirely different from the dragon I met so many years ago." The mumble from Ignus was barely caught by Walker, but it didn't need a response. Rise had clearly grown a little more in to who she was supposed to be.

As light fell on everything above the volcano and the entire area surrounding it, the pair began to move with more speed toward the volcano causing the issues. They could both sense the built up fire mana further supporting their theories. But they could also sense that there was a little more there than just fire mana.

With added speed, the two pushed through the air toward the volcano only to find a river of lava moving down through a large crack in the ground. It appeared to be from an underground cavern which had opened up allowing the magma to begin moving with some guidance.

It wasn't the river itself that struck either if them as important though. It was what was stabbing its long claws in to the moving lava and pulling out smaller monsters which looked like fish.

'Magma shell pangolin

This is a monster perfectly adapted to high fire mana environments like volcanoes, lava fields, and even magma pools. It can use that magma to grow and cool a defensive shell similar to the earth pangolins found within certain mountain ranges.

They are known to hibernate for years on end depending on how much mana they condense within their hearts before they solidify their shells for protection. They will often only awaken when they have found enough fire and earth mana align with food to sustain them. This is why it is thought that some of them are actually from hundreds of years ago.

Their lack of intelligence makes them a dangerous monster that relies on instinct to hunt using their lava tempered claws. Their strong defenses which burn anything that touches them, and their sharp senses allow them to combat opponents which are stronger than them. Their claws and their shells can be used for many different crafting purposes. The naturally created mana gem within their heart is also capable of purifying fire mana and even earth mana to some degree. Making it an exceptional treasure to any blacksmith trying to create a rune carved weapon of the fire and earth affinities..."

Walker shouted out the all around appraisal while they dodged the sudden claw attack. The speed was surprisingly faster than what either expected. Since Ignus had taken his dragonkin form to better converse with Walker, he had to be mindful of the size of this monster. It was larger than him right now.

It wasn't that Ignus was weak, he just didn't fight as often in his dragonkin form even though he had been limited to it lately. Genesis was too small and delicate for him to just waltz around in his fire dominator dragon form. It would be destroyed way too easily.

"This thing might be hundreds of years old because it went dormant? We should catch it then." Ignus thought this would be more valuable. This monster could have awakened because of the changes within the world. A valuable thing to study. Especially since it had an affinity for fire mana.

Surprised that Ignus was so calm and collected, Walker just dodged and prepared to evaluate this monster a little more.

Trapping it wouldn't be an issue. They could use their strength, but it would be better to make some sort of cage which the monster couldn't escape from. Even though this magma shell pangolin was so tough and had sharp claws, it was not strong enough to beat something stronger than it. Ignus's dragon scales were definitely tougher and it would struggle to scratch them.

It was not an option though. Walker's didn't just have a ton of dragon scales lying around. Using them would be overkill too. Instead, he could make earth which the magma shell pangolin couldn't break. Dense earth which it couldn't manipulate since it clearly didn't have the ability to actively manipulate earth or fire other than on its own shell when it used magma to create the shell itself.

"Keep it still." The small order made Ignus frown before he flapped his wings and gathered fire in his hands.

The oppressive flames caused the magma shell pangolin to fall to the cracked earth and the lava began to melt yet again beneath it. Its shell also suffered and became softer. The amount it resisted the flame that Ignus had just thrown at it surprised him. This monster was tougher than what he had expected even after hearing the all around appraisal information from

Walker.

A few breaths later, Walker set foot on the ground and a large pulse of earth mana caused the somewhat cooled stone to rear up. A dense dome of black rock shaped itself around the magma shell pangolin. Trapping it entirely, leaving only enough room for it to breathe and wait for someone to return to it later.

"It won't be able to channel any fire mana around that to melt it. It would have to completely envelope itself in magma for a few hours to even move a little." Walker had made the stone denser which increased its resistance to fire mana as a whole.

"Good, the others can research it for whatever information it may hold about the ancient volcanic areas it lived in. We might learn more too." Ignus's curiosity about the ancient times was partially because of the ancient dragons but also about how ancient fire mana might have been different from the mana he could use now. His mind was completely occupied with it right now.

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