"You can use the light elental crystals to get stronger?" Walker knew that the mages and many other system users had a way to use the light elental crystals. Even Alice could coax the elental mana from the light elental mana crystals to help her healing songs.
"Yes, we have ways to pull the light from them and enhance our bodies. It cos at the cost of the crystal because it makes it unstable. These weaker crystals are ideal for it since they are not as useful in other places." The flying light swordsman of the Rize empire knew well that they were limited.
While Walker didn't know it, the angels of the Rize empire had their own rankings inside of the general rankings from angel, to archangel, and higher. The angels within each elental hall had their own standings that allowed them to have access to certain things.
This went from elental mana crystals, armor, weapons, and so much more. They wouldn't get access to certain qualities of food nor would they be able to take on certain quests. It all ca down to the carefully controlled flow of information and education that the Rize empire believed in.
Because this was the way the angels of the Rize empire grew up, they believed it too. But they also had their own core beliefs that elental prowess was the key to the world. That should have been the end all be all for them. Yet, the addition of the Fel empire had altered that and caused many fights and wars.
Now with Genesis intervening, the Rize soldiers saw their chance to get more things they could use in battle. They had been sent because they were lower ranked and would not have the risk of causing a war if they were lost to so undead. The empires would still fight but the strength of the Rize empire would not be massively brought down as it would be if higher tier soldiers were sent. This was similar to the Fel empire but they had sent their life mages and a unique healer so that they could show off and attract the Genesis empire to them.
While this made the Rize empire out to be a villain, this was just the product of years and years of being pushed to one side of beliefs. The Fel empire was no different with their solitary and research focused attitudes. They were less emotional and could not make the proper moral decisions at tis because of their beliefs. There were many downsides to either empire's beliefs. It just ca to a heading here where so of the angels that t Genesis had seen new potentials.
While these may have been the complicated cases, Walker didn't hesitate to ignore any underlying issues he could sense. He had no knowledge of most of this because he had not been able to delve in to the true cultures and inner workings of either empire. The tasks at hand had covered everything that they needed right now. The entire Genesis force was completely focused on helping either empire and then pushing to capture the criminals they were after.
"Take whatever you need, but any extra can be brought over to so that I can take them out when Alice needs to sing. I know there is plenty of light here now, but starlight will not be enough for Alice to sing for a long ti when the sun sets." As much as Walker felt the sun would set here, he was certain that sothing was amiss in the desert. It had been many hours now and the sun had barely moved.
"You understand it now? I can tell that you have understood what is going on other than the curse affecting the sands and turning them in to this white and water stealing sand." Rise spoke to Walker for the first ti in a little while. Just as Mordant had been worried about the ruins and the potential that the ruins would be tainted, Rise had been focused elsewhere.
"The sun here isn't moving. The desert seems to have an odd mana around it causing the day and the nights to be longer. It is even slowing more although ti for us is passing. It is not normal under any sort of natural ans." The entire party and group of royal dragons stopped after hearing this. Eleven the Fel and Rize angels were stopped in place.
They had all been so busy with pushing toward storms, battling monsters, and avoiding other dangers that they had not realized that they had just been trudging along for more than should be normal. Their sense of ti had been entirely lost to the slow moving sun and the intense heat that worse away at them.
"You're saying that it may have been more than just a few hours. It could be days and we are sohow still in the sun." Ethan softly mumbled. His fellow Fel empire angels all understood that this would be so form of ti manipulation. A greater and worse possibility since they had nearly no knowledge of it at all.
There shouldn't be any ti mage strong enough to do such a thing. Ti runes weren't even possible to craft because the form and idea of them was too wild. It was all just theory for the entirety of the Fel empire. Their research would take many generations just to get close to properly manipulating a small area of ti rather than an entire expanding desert.
"So you're saying that just the space and ti of the desert are sohow being manipulated? These undead may have ssed with this entire place in a much worse way. But maybe it's not space and ti at all. What we know is that they ssed with death mana. Isn't life and death part of space and ti naturally? Sothing needs space to grow. Sothing needs ti to die. Wouldn't there be a cost for ssing with death mana?" Gil sounded like he was so wise monk having a brilliant idea.
Everyone heard it and wondered what the cost would be. "To use life mana, I had to pull at my own life mana inside . The cost of abusing it could definitely cause issues to . I know that. But if used right, I can help everyone and even attract more life mana to . Not that I can yet. What about death?" Walker had a barely surface level understanding of both life and death. They were so hard things to scratch when it ca to knowledge.
"Exactly, so what if they went against the death mana and forced themselves to stay here? They worshiped so god of death instead of a life bringing goddess. You said that at the waypoint temple. So basically, the natural flow of things got angry and they were cursed, right? But since they haven't been dealt with, the curse expands. Pretty much a natural retribution or sothing." Rey made it even more blunt.
From what she had said, the entire group could think wider. Everyone always believed nature and the will of the world to be the end all be all. However, they could be wrong. What if it was greater. What if the elental planes were not just the sum of everything? What if it expanded more? The thought was hard to conceive since no one really had the knowledge to understand it at all. Yet, what if?
"If this is all the results of what they did while they were Alice, then they probably had so ssed up senses and twisted minds. They ca back as undead and whatever bigger and badder undead that controls them is following the way they worshiped causing things to get even worse. I think that makes a lot more sense." Walker believed that their theories had a lot more basis now.
"We saw a lot of proof. All of this can be sowhat explained. ssed up nature because the natural cycle is broken. Elental manas not acting as they should, the sand and the heat, then add in the way the sun isn't moving properly here… it's all this area and it could spread to everywhere if left alone." Su knew that things were harder to understand since the sun still could set and fall properly outside the desert. But if space and ti were brought in to it, then anything could be possible. It was just a bigger mystery.
"That ans we should all start saving these light crystals. Ignus, you should look for figure crystals too. If the sun sets, we are in for a very cold and dark night." Walker realized that this was the ideal ti to prepare before they made another push toward the ruins. The mont the sun set in this cursed desert was the mont that things would begin to shift away from their advantage. It would be all against them and in favor of these undead.
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