Master Of None

Chapter 2295: 2295. Insight To Ancient Earth

Wandering off in opposite directions and avoiding the place where the shadow eating octopus was resting, the pair was sure that they would be finding some interesting ancient remnants.

Walker was able to feel the movements of mana much better, but he was also able to still sense a little more. The oddity of mana being somewhat pushed away from one section of very dusty rock had piqued his attention though. Especially since he knew the chances that there could be a bridge to the elemental planes that would form here.

As such, he reached out to the manas around it and found that the entire stone was coated in earth mana very evenly. The dust was easy to move away using a little wind mana and some additional earth mana. Revealing what had once been earth runes.

Therefore, Walker was led to believe that whatever ancient monsters had been here were earth affinity. Also, that they had created this place when the earth elemental planes had been moving past this area naturally.

Regardless, this may have even been before the elemental planes were rotating and were just in more chaos due to the unbalanced manas. Therefore, it could have been where the earth elemental plane linked entirely with the world and remained this way for a very long time in theory. That was if the plane did not move naturally at that time either.

But since Walker could feel the lasting imprint of mana here and could feel that he would be able to see a bridge to the elemental planes forming right here, he could have it guarded better.. He just wondered if the flow of elemental planes had caused the current situation.

If this had been a place where the earth elemental plane connected until the world began to be broken in flow due to the demon king's choices, then the elemental planes could have also shifted when the connection was breaking down.

In that time, the dark elemental plane could have connected and the mana could have flowed enough to cause this area to become doused in purer dark mana. Causing the ancient monsters to perish or for them to flee this area. Therefore, this rocky desert like mountain was left untouched before the world fully broke down and this area was lost due to unknown effects of all this.

With this fact being somewhat more established, Walker pushed himself to ignore the remnants of what should have been a platform made by some ancient monsters with higher intelligence than what he had expected. He couldn't go back in time and see things as they

were.

He avoided even trying to mess with time mana as a whole. Such things were well out of his reach and could not be easily understood. Even the thought of what might happen from fantasy stories made him and many others fear what would happen if someone capable of messing with time mana appeared.

Nothing good, in theory, that is.

Letting his focus shift to the stone nearby, Walker realized that those protruding from the ground naturally were not so natural. Some were very much different and even appear to have been the result of shaping using mana or sharper claws. Just the striations on them made it clearer that something had intentionally cut them rather than the stone naturally breaking up from softer stone underground.

Knowing that this stone had been chosen specifically, Walker focused on the earth mana within it. A denser earth mana which proved that the stone had been purposefully hardened by condensing it with magic skills. He could also feel that there were some small naturally forming crystals at the base. Most likely from impurities forced out of the stone as they were brought up from the deeper earth.

His hands ran over the stone as he felt small carvings remaining. But most were too faint that he couldn't understand what they might be. However, he understood that there were some which the shadow eating octopus had been able to understand. And with the world adjusting, the language had been automatically translated by the system of existence to allow it to speak with them when Mordant befriended it.

But other stones were more covered in the dust from sands and also from whatever had moved around here through time passing. As such, Walker began to move that dust using light wind mana causing a breeze.

The more he began to move, the more that carved stone was revealed. As if something or a group of somethings had been carving knowledge in to all the stones that jutted out from the ground. It could have taken years depending on what or who had done so.

That aside, it was an impressive occurrence to witness. Especially since so many stones were carved. It was very similar to the runic languages that other ancients had used. Even the ancient angels had only based their language off of this partially. Their symbolism was lost to some but still decipherable.

Those that had been covered in more dust were clearer because they had been protected from whatever elemental manas and natural forces had been affecting this entire cave over time.

The language was both complicated and broken. Seeing it, Walker knew that reading through this and grasping the symbolic meanings would be very troublesome. However, he understood how someone without any grasp could learn basic broken language from them. It was just a way of speaking that would not make sense without existence and the system translating now.

"Hmm, I can tell he found something, but he definitely hasn't found what i did." Mordant had felt the breeze and noticed the dust in the air increase. It was a telling sign that Walker had figured a thing or two out and was making his own moves to understand it.

But what Mordant had found prompted him to remove a few of the all around appraisal scrolls that he carried now. They were important to have since he had not been able to get the all around appraisal skill and needed more information on many things. Especially with the ways that the world was changing.

'Mountain devourer bones

This is an ancient lizard once thought to be on par with the gods or other ancient monsters. As long as it had followers of some form or another, it would lead them to attack and devour entire mountains to consume large amounts of earth mana and grow itself along with searching for other mountain devourers.

Its followers were often the stone lizardman which were a species of lizard man who covered their spiky bodies with tough earth armor using various skills. Their usage of tools was low but they could follow orders from their more intelligent earth skin mages.

The ability to use earth mana was very high for the mountain devourer. Often creating entire mountain ranges as it desired since it had consumed and benefited from massive amounts of heart mana which it used as it desired. Often leaving precious metals behind since it was often more interested in the earth mana crystals within the mountain as it consumed.

The bones here are extremely dense due to the heart mana within them. They can cause a various number of effects if forged in to armor and equipment. However, they are also extremely valuable if ground up and used as fertilizer within the soil. It can even return the roughest terrain in to fertile land.

The crystallized bone marrow within the bones could easily be used for a multitude of

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The scroll had led to a miraculous worth of appraisal knowledge. Mordant could only be amazed by the uses of the massive bones partially buried within the ground due to many years of being here. He did focus on one thing though.

'Due to losing the source of earth mana it fed on, this mountain devourer was suddenly unable to use large amounts of earth mana to move and sustain its body. Causing it to perish and the followers it had to flee elsewhere.'

He found this as a very important fact. It proved beyond a doubt that many of the ancient monsters and even some ancient races or variations of current races had died off due to the changes in mana. Proving further, that the races and monsters would be changing at a rapid pace due to the world regaining so much puree mana.

Taking this information to Genesis and sharing it with the Genesis council would be invaluable. Many of them would be able to take this information to their people and begin learning even more about the world changing around them. It could even become one of the first major steps to understanding some of the origins of certain races.

Focusing on the reclusive lizardmen would also be an interesting topic for some.

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