Master Of None

The second that Walker came in to view Gil spotted him from the garden. He had been pulling weeds since he didn't have the materials to start work on his arrows like he had wanted. "Where have you been? You were gone almost all day!" 

Walker wanting to show off a little gave him a small smirk, "You want to see what I have been doing all day?" He went over to the pump for water and pulled up some in to a barrel. Walker used his new skill pulling the water out of the barrel and creating the frost whip. "I have just been working on this little trick."

Walker swung the whip sending the pulse through it and causing a loud crack of breaking ice. The ice needles landed in the ground causing a small sheen of frost to form over the weeds Gil had been plucking. "Ah! Really? That's how you wanted to show me? By scaring me half to death?" 

While Gil yelled back at Walker in annoyance, Walker was doubled over laughing. Once he had finally started to breathe calmly and Gil had stopped ranting the two could finally speak normally. "I was thinking that skill could be useful when we leave. I just got caught up learning it and by the time I realized it was already well past noon, sorry…" 

"Ehh, it's fine. I needed to help out with the weeds in the strawberry rows anyways. I guess mom and miss. Hilda are planning on making strawberry jam to save for when we get back, so I need to put the work in now." Gil brushed the dirt from his pants and hands. "Want to drop the crystals off at the forge so we can get started." 

The two chatted about their morning and what Walker's new frost whip skill could do. Gil was very happy to hear that his archery would be a huge advantage when fighting the monstrous  mushroom species. He had been practicing adding the elemental mana in to arrows and he had some tricks he wanted to show off. 

"So you showed Midnight your new favorite sun bathing spot?" Walker spotted Onyx and Midnight the second the rounded the corner. 

"You're back brother. We knew you would come here so we waited for you. Sister said she was hungrier than usual and wanted to ask you if you had any good food." Walker was surprised, however he had expected that she would be going through a growth spurt with her system and bloodline changing. Having such a powerful dragon champion bloodline awaken must take a lot more nutrients than the mixed bloodline that was previously dominant. 

"I managed to find a bunch of crystals when I went out shopping. You can take some of the light crystals too. Whatever you don't eat and Gil doesn't use for his arrows will be stock for the forge. It's a long term investment." Since he had spent way too much gold on so many crystals Walker knew that he would have to justify it. 

Gil was completely unfocused when it came to the price, he knew that the party had more gold than they had plans for so he just went right in to the forge and started getting prepared. The wandering blacksmith was tinkering with a set of kitchen knives and saw them enter. He kept an eye on them curious on what they would be doing while he tinkered away.

"Alight, so here are the light crystals, and here are the darkness crystals." Walker opened the smaller crates for Onyx and Midnight to get at while he pulled the others out of his inventory. "Fire, water, earth, and last but not least air. There we go. What are you going to start on first?" 

Walker was looking at Gil wanting to see what his sill was all about. "Not sure I will be starting all the way, it looks like Midnight it getting started first." Gil pointed at Midnight who had taken a mouthful of each crystal and piled them up in front of her.

"Umm, what are you trying to do-" Walker was going to ask when she started chomping down on all of them. Instead of just eating the  darkness crystals she was eating some of each element. 

"Sister said they all smell good." Onyx's explanations from Midnight was short but just like her. 

"So, I guess she can and will eat every elemental crystal now…" Gil was just looking at the scene in awe. 

"I guess so...must be the change in her bloodline. A dragon champion couldn't be limited by one element if they are a champion among dragons." Walker found this conclusion simple. A dragon champion would need scales toughened by every element to withstand attacks from different elemental dragon attacks. 

Midnight didn't even pay them a single look, instead, she just made a low growl to show that she heard them then returned to snacking. Meanwhile, Onyx found a small pile of light elemental crystals for himself and wrapped around it. He looked like he was sleeping as the light element danced around his scales. 

"Well Want to see a mana crystal break faster than you have ever seen before?" Gil said this but was interrupted by a clear cracking sound. "Exactly, as fast as that.' He tried to keep a straight face as he acted high and mighty but the fact that Onyx was already absorbing the light elemental mana faster than he could create an arrow was all too clear. 

"You said we would need water right?" Gil grabbed a few water elemental mana crystals and sat down at the work table. He had placed five arrows on it and was examining the arrowheads looking to start infusing the elemental mana in to them. "The trick is to get the mana to get from here to here. If i can do that without breaking either of these then we are golden." 

Walker wanted to ask some questions but Gil had already gotten in to motion. He held the arrow head to the water elemental mana crystal and started to use his skill to manipulate the mana to push in to the arrow head. Since the spikes were hollow to begin with there was a hollow point left in the arrow head. This only helped give the mana a place to go.

He could see that the mana crystal was starting to crack slightly as the elemental mana was being pulled out of it. Gil was exerting a lot of effort to make this happen and his scrunched up face showed exactly that. Walker could feel how the mana was trying to force its way out in to the open air but Gil was using his own mana to force it to move in to the arrow head. 

This entire process had taken nearly five minutes but with the dim blue light the water elemental mana crystal had disappeared and the crystal shattered in his hand. The shards dropped on to the table out of his hand and the arrow head had gained a blue tint. 

"That is how you make a water elemental mana infused arrow." Gil looked at Walker with a fool's smile. The sweat that dripped down his face made him look a lot less cool than he believed himself to be. 

Walker did not miss this chance to use his all around appraisal skill to check the arrow out. He was more and more thankful for this skill every day. 

' Wither spike arrow (water element): Activation 3 mana cost

This arrow has been made from a rare wither wood tree and a spiked shell bug. The unique blend of materials created the perfect vessel for elemental mana and poison. Depending on the mana infused in to this physical arrow there will be a magical reaction upon contact. 

Water element has been infused in to this wither spike arrow. The result upon contact will cause high amounts of water element to become attracted to the target. This will cause water attracted to form sharp ice spikes within seconds.'

"That's actually pretty amazing. You know what this can do right?" Walker was amazed that Gil had been able to find all of this out in just a short hunting trip with his father.

Gil didn't look Walker in the eyes as Walker said this making him realize that he was off the mark. "Well...not exactly. I kind of broke like twenty arrows trying to infuse them with wind elemental arrows and fusing them with the wind arrow my bow made. I pretty much had the skill but couldn't make it work until now." He wiped his forehead while looking at what he had created in his hands. "You guys want to go out and test this out? We will need to know for safety reasons when we are out fighting." 

Walker and the wandering blacksmith did not even flinch as they stood up and headed out the door. No one had to tell them twice. "For safety." Walker echoed Gil as they went to the training field. 

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