CHAPTER 2646: 2646. TWO KINGS

While the time that they had all stood in the hatching hut while listening to the true wind sage make premises of safe and speedy journeys to the bridge to the world, Walker and the others had found themselves present in a truly meaningful ceremony.

Being welcomed in as witnesses of the chief passing his feather to the next chief was something that felt as if they shouldn’t be present. Not because they were just outsiders, but because of the emotion behind the tradition itself. Walker and the others all felt as if they were not attached enough to show the proper amount of respect to the process as a whole.

From start to finish, Walker had sensed the mana from the older chief gathering within a singular feather. It was a lot of wind mana that realistically shouldn’t hold that much wind mana to start with. However, it seemed that this skills as one that only those of the sly crow race could use once in their lives.

A racial skill that would not have any benefit in performing magic, battles, or even with crops. A purely symbolic show of one passing all of their knowledge and strength down to another who would rise to the occasion. The wind mana dissipated as soon as the guard took the feather and took up the mantle as the next chief. Proving again that it was a cultural tradition of emotion and trust between the sky crow race members.

Many of the other sky crow people were watching closely with a focus that proved that they were also very attached to this tradition. It was something that Walker could see every force within their village utilizing. A craftsman graduating an apprentice. A guard becoming a leader of defense for the people. And even a farmer handing over their plot of land to a child. It was a sign of the next generation.

This was nonetheless a chance for the entire party to know the sky crow people. How they will fit in within Genesis will be a major piece of everything that comes from this new relationship. Beyond this, the party will be seen and be part of their people too now. Not a separate entity that just says they know of their traditions.

The party was there to be part of and witness one of the largest and most important cultural traditions that often only happens once or twice a lifetime for the sky crow people. That had meaning.

"They are here to take you and I will be arriving shortly. This golem body of mine will lead them to the edge of the next border. That is where an aspect of the wind king is assisting the wind to balance." The true wind sage kept things moving. It seemed that the approaching manas were very densely and were some sort of dragon blooded monster with high wind affinity that would protect the sky crow people. Walker also noticed the more unique and extremely distant feeling of a denser wind mana. One that seemed to be shown to him so that the entire party knew that truth was being upheld.

It was respect for them and their effort.

"The wind king had been holding the border in balance since the newest light elemental plane was added right at the edge. The wind king and the light king had worked together to ensure balance is maintained in this area." The true wind sage’s golem was speaking while Walker saw the sky crow former chief and new chief standing and watching them. Their eyes had a new spark in them. It was good to know that they would be taken care of and be able to safely make it to Genesis, where they could live with a better future.

"So the light king is working on spreading the manas away from the border while the wind king is making sure that the manas don’t react too violently?" it was Gil asking. It seemed Zephyr had gone back to sleep for a while since she wanted to properly make more of the pure and dense wind mana in to part of who she was. It was a very high mentally taxing situation that needed time to be able to allow adjustments. This was all natural for the spirit race now though, they were deeply connected to their mana affinity, as all spirits are.

"Yes, that is why we will be moving with one of the wind currents bringing mana to the wind king to assist in maintaining balance." Before anyone could say a word, intense wind wrapped their bodies and the true wind sage’s golem dissipated following the intense wind mana that dragged them forward.

The party could barely take note of a few monsters they passed by. Nor could they make out the plants or terrain they passed above. It was all the speed and intensity of the wind that moved them right now, but Walker was grabbing some benefits from the feeling of how the mana moved naturally even though it was being manipulated by the wind king themselves.

It seemed that wind mana controlled by the wind king was unique in the sense that it was able to move naturally to get to an area. Everywhere it passed through was not burdened meaning that space was made. A being that embodied all of what an elemental plane was could move certain denser pieces of mana without even troubling the other areas of lesser or even purer wind mana. A striking example of what it meant to truly understand what a certain mana was.

When the wind slowed and the body of the true wind sage reformed in to a different golem. The entire party didn’t hear the first words being said. Instead, they saw a strange plane of multi colored wind ahead of them. Blue, yellow, white, green, and so many other colors clashed in different wind currents. They swirled and mixed but some moved with beauty while others seemed dangerous and violent. It was closer to the chaotic manas Walker had seen than anything else.

"It is beautiful." Alice spoke out loud causing the light mana to shift and some of the currents of wind to slow. She hadn’t intended to but her innate skill to make light mana move with her voice seemed to be more effective here. It caused the attention of two shapes to move toward them immediately.

"You are now in the presence of the hand of the light king and the hand of the wind king." the true wind sage dissipated the golem they had made leaving the two kings hands and the party itself stunned. It felt like the true wind sage had run off, not guided them or helped them get here. It was like a child seeing something they were afraid of had run away.

"That sage of mine is always so quick to run off and explore something new. You assisted them. For that you have the wind at your back whenever you are in my lands." The wind king was subtly pulling the purer and denser wind mana and making what seemed to be a wall of wind at the edge of the border.

On the other side, without being blockers, the hand that seemed to form from different colors over and over also built a wall of light capturing and dragging the dense bits of light as it separated from the wind in to the main light elemental plane.

"I hoped to meet you properly. I will ask of you as task. Come to the light plane and assist my eyes. I have held back the birth of a new monster species and it is time that another comes to assist. To make a decision that would affect the world." The light king seemed to have spoken out using mana causing the others to become confused.

While the system could translate all languages, only Walker seemed capable of understanding what the light king had said. It also seemed that this was intentional so that the rest of the party would not be burdened. Something that the light king seemed to think was polite.

"We would like to know more. We also wish to have your words that the elemental planes will remain safe and protective for the first travelers coming from Genesis. They are here to learn from your people and build bonds." Walker spoke out. The two kings had their divided attention on him. Seemingly a simple thing for them since they could move aspects of their bodies all over the plane that had created them and embodied them.

"You are free to travel in the wind elemental plane. They will be safe here as ambassadors."

"The light elemental plane will wait to see what you and your people are capable of here."

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