The presence of the whip flame scorpion was not necessarily making people relax. They were still watching it carefully as every time the flames from the giant flame swallowing turtle were dragged toward it. There was a little more fire mana that was moving off of the turtle after the last hour but Walker could also sense that they were nearing the bridge to the world now.
They would all have the experience of traveling throughout, the issue was that the scorpion might or might not keep moving with them. If it chased to keep following it would be in a very dangerous area that would cause there to be a lot more fighting.
The bridge that Walker was focused on was the bridge to where the fire dragon territory was next to the heart dragon territory. This way, they would walk in to the fire dragon territory and be able to easily move to the open space and place this whole city down.
As much as he wanted to think this would all go smoothly, the worries that had come to him about the whip flame scorpion following them and the worries about the city even having enough room or fire mana were all justified.
This was just another addition to the panic that many of the expedition forces were handling and would be unable to communicate properly because of the ways that the mana and location they were in was.
There was a very low chance of being able to communicate with the others in the world right now. There was so much mana and the bridge to the world and elemental planes was not easily moved through or manipulated with the fact that there was space mana there.
The communication crystals were basically useless pieces of crystal compared to anything else. What Walker did know though was that he was close enough to the bridge to the world that he had to make a choice here.
Stepping through the fiery air and reaching the flame swallowing turtle's head, he spoke out, "This whip flame scorpion is still following us, if it follows us through the bridge it will endanger many lives and that can not be the case. If it comes to it I will remain behind a little and scare it off, but that is not what I wish to do unless it is the absolute last choice."
As much as Walker knew that this sounded bad since it would be mankind danger for the fire elemental plane at the location of the bridge to the world, he had to be more forceful now. If he hesitated or waited then he would not have the right answers for anything.
There wasn't much of a response, the flame swallowing turtle's eyes followed Walker for a moment and that was that. It kept moving toward the bridge and Walker could only open his mouth to reply before a larger ball of flames formed.
The intense fire and what drifted off behind them on their walk quickly leaving it behind, the flame swallowing turtle clearly lost part of its body and shrank as well. It has just cut away a lot of its internal fire mana to make sure that Walker would not fight the whip flame scorpion that had stopped to gather that mana for its young.
"Thank you for that, I will prepare as much as I can ahead of you then." Walker moved back and met with Su, Midnight, Gil, Remey, and Onyx, who had been speaking with all the squads to make sure they were still ready for the movement through the bridge since they were nearing it.
They had all seemingly relaxed more from the looks on the rest of the party's faces. The whip flame scorpion stopping behind them was enough for them to ensure that they would not be attacked immediately or be bringing a more dangerous monster through the bridge.
"How are we all fitting this entire city through the bridge? Isn't that impossible?" Gil felt that he was missing something that Walker had yet to tell them.
They all believed that they would be able to move through the bridge even though it was clearly, to their eyes, not large enough. Then again, they also did not understand the space elemental mana that was part of the bridge. They might be missing a lot more that they did not comprehend in terms of how the bridge even worked.
"We should be fine, the space mana is not solid, it is moving and it should allow for us to move through. The fire mana isn't chaotic or being forced because of some strange balance either. If it was then the space mana would try to push for balance of some sort." The way that the manas balanced had been clear enough.
For the space mana, it would concentrate and try to balance the high and dense amount of fire mana moving here. This was especially true when in terms of teleportation rune formations or even magic from what Walker assumed.
However, this mana was balanced, protected, and peaceful. It was also linked to a being that had control over it for the most part along with all the coal people and Walker himself who would be in the bridge himself.
"What I want all of you to know so that i will rush ahead and make sure that the land for the city is properly set. It will be part of the larger fire dragon territory so that will make things a lot harder to analyze in terms of space available, but there is still a lot of space available and we can even expand more outwardly."
He knew that this would be a struggle for some of the people with Genesis. Mostly because their expansion had been major and the rebuilding of some trees, plants, and gardens had been required to keep nature flowing smoothly already. It was also to ensure that the elemental spirits had places to form and be born from the naturally gathering manas.
All that aside, the idea that Genesis itself would be undergoing another expansion of controlled territory made it feel like the second city would also be taken as a constantly growing project. It would and could make the angels in the Sigil continent feel that the alliance is taking everything over and stealing their potential autonomy.
"Wait, you want to run ahead because… You need to do that now!" Remey had tried to tell him that he was dumb but then she had thought of how many alchemists and mages would be needed to even make sure that the herbs and other important materials in the city would not be damaged right away just by entering the world.
That wasn't even considering the immense amount of containment needed by the elder dragon who could make sure that the denser fire manas did ot dissipate too rapidly and cause any troubles for the ruen formation and the world as a whole.
The mana from the giant flame swallowing turtle would incorporate with the world. That was known and a fact of this matter. However, it did not mean that everyone would be able to handle that mana when it did not have any control.
The coal people also had to be protected from it since the mana was too different and dense for them to be able to contrite easily. They could not just take the mana and use it as they wished.
Before Walker could say a word, Midnight and Remey pushed him away to get him moving. They had understood that the lack of communication was an issue but now that they were all fully focused on it, they had to be clear. This was a bigger issue with the potential dangers.
All in all, as Walker sped through the fiery air and well ahead in to the bridge to the world, he sensed that the space mana would easily allow for their travel. Right now he was holding a dense ball of fire mana he gathered from the air to test the reactions for his surety in the matter.
What he noticed was that the mana didn't even react at all. It stayed in his control and did not get influenced by the smaller amounts of mana from the world moving through the bridge naturally. It was a good sign that as long as they all worked together to control the larger amounts of fire mana that there would not be an issue.
If Ignus was not able to be present within the next few hours, Remey would be the one with the most focus on this matter. She could manipulate many forms of flames to help her alchemy, so if she was able to be the center of focus to act as anchor to hold the mana while everyone else used their magic and will, it could be done much more easily.
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