Contemplating what the origin beings did, Walker still felt he was missing too much. But the fact that he could pull at life mana without an attachment to a living thing made Walker realize he had never been able to sense it until now. He had missed that.
This rush here and there to do this or that had distracted him from that step. Walker had thought and death manas were mostly what existed within things. Life mana would not be sent out or it would harm the person that did that. They could spur their life mana to help heal to and grow a little more. But that was encouraging the life mana to act and not transferring to someone else.
The same with death mana. Undead had some within and death mana could certainly be sent out/ but it had to have an origin or a cause. It came from the undead or the dead in the area and seeped in because of it. It didn't just float about.
Then again, he had been wrong since he knew there was a dead elemental plane. That should have meant that there was a place where that mana gathered and had been free like the other manas. The very same could be said about the life mana around.
He hadn't managed to use ambient life and death manas naturally until recently. Nor had he actually been sensing it all. He had just sensed and spurred the life manas already existing within things. Meaning that he had grown in his mana senses as well without realizing things in the same way.
Feeling the fire mana coming from the bridge to the fire elemental plane, Walker easily grasped the space mana that was part of it. He hadn't rested and still felt tired mentally and physically. His mana was still depleted but making the space mana of the bridge alter itself and strengthen form was simpler now.
He'd pushed past a barrier he didn't know he'd had and this result was him realizing it properly. As much as he could understand what had actually changed it was more than internal. It was something between himself and the world, and even existence.
As the bridge calmed, Walker felt connections with the other bridges. The weaker feelings were those he hadn't altered at all yet. He could tell that they were weaker and that another one of them in the furthest distance away and chaotic manas around it. He could even sense that now just the same as he could tell the general location.
Moving to the bridge connected to the water elemental plane, Walker felt even more deeply connected. The bridges were paths, the same as any carved between different kingdoms or lands. The only unique aspect was that manas traveled through them more than people and that the lands were vastly different.
But wasn't that the same for the Sigil continent and Genesis? Two different lands that were united now?
He could stress himself as much as he wanted but the life mana and death mana he'd struggled with so much were actually within his grasp. They weren't something someone could force. Forcing them was asking for the worst results.
Forcing life mana could cause it to fail the source and run amok leaving less life mana where it had begun.
Forcing death mana could cause larger expenses of dead lands or people to perish.
But letting them flow naturally allowed him to see them. Allowed him to understand that both were everywhere in the same way as space.
They existed all around everyone at all times. It was just much harder to sense and manipulate. Walker hadn't even fully grasped that until he stopped himself.
While impressed by the instincts that had guided him through these processes, it was a clear example of the things he should be paying attention to. Even his understanding of the other manas was clearly more developed.
He had been held back because he didn't have the right understanding of what the elemental manas were. He understood them amazingly compared to those of the world, but to those of the elemental planes? Not much at all.
He had even been told by an origin being he had to learn more. And he had done so. Without realizing it, he had been allowing what his race was now, as an origin being, to guide him. All the advancements were subconscious.
When he had pushed his mind to split even more and to utilize everything he knew to keep working on the bridges, he had stored deeper feelings of manas in to his mental archive. He had achieved a higher understanding of how they worked together.
He was even able to sense the amounts of manas that came together to make this new dark wind area in the world. He could grasp that which meant he was already above where he'd been trying to get in terms of utilizing his ability to use every mana.
Even the mixing of space, life, and death mana was able to exist because natural mana, a combination of elemental mana, brought them together. While they existed separately or different ratios, they couldn't be without the others. Otherwise there ended up being chaotic manas just as were in between the elemental planes.
He lingered on this sensing the other elemental planes and stepping back in to the air to get to them. He had only a few left but the one he could sense chaotic mana form he would pursue first.
Something interesting he noticed though, was that when the Fire and Water elemental planes were releasing mana through these dual bridges, that the manas moved through in to the dark wind lands he'd pulled in to the world first.
The Fire mana and the water mana were moving through causing some parts to dry out and others to become damp. The humidity was growing. While Walker knew it was the smallest of starts, it would be another set of seeds to create a swamp land with wind and decay as the base. A very nice place for certain monsters and plants to grow.
The wind would present an interesting new aspect. A form of mana that would stop plants from growing too tall but also help dry them. It would move the humidity from the warm water making a season of fried cracked mud and wet humid mud. This cycle was clear before his eyes and instincts now.
This wasn't even something he would be able to gather properly. Understanding how nature would take its course was a whole new level of understanding in everything he was doing. He was more than just building up the space, he had started to look in to the future of the nature and space now.
"I'm starting to touch time mana." The second he understood this, the feeling was lost to him. But for that split second, Walker felt a mysterious force. One that allowed him to perceive the genuine natural flow of manas and nature as a whole.
Time wasn't necessarily something that speeds or slows, it was a potential. A possible path to travel that he could attempt to be enlightened by. Whether there was more to it or not, he would need to discover. Right now he could comprehend this possible future for this land and see that it had a greater potential from what he could have seen when he was younger.
All of this was rushing through his mind. He wanted to stop everything and try to capture this feeling again. Learn more about it. Take the next steps and try to actually bring time mana around him or into his body the same way space mana lived within him too.
He felt wrong even considering it. His instincts, his gut feeling, told him if he even tried he would harm himself. That he didn't understand enough of any of it to be able to make it happen.
He was right though. Time and space mana might hold together parts of the world but there was more to them than what he realized. Just as life and death were still concepts and manas that he couldn't say he was even close to mastering, he had learned something about them. Steps were taken that he would be able to pursue more and more as time went on.
"First to fix that chaotic mana." Doubling his focus and speed, Walker rushed toward the bridge to the ridge to the elemental planes where he sensed chaotic mana as well. He had to solve that problem then finish enhancing the other bridges. Only then could he consider the next steps.
Only then would he see what the next link in the chain quest was and how he could handle it. Something told him it would not be simple in the least.
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