Master Of None

Chapter 2309: 2309. Fixing Winds

"This is all wrong." Ventus had said this more than ten times out loud to herself after she had floated higher in to the sky. Even above the smoke, she felt that something was very wrong with the way that the wind flowed.

She could see that the smoke was still rising from the volcano. It wasn't just a little either, the smoke coming was in large bursts of black. Toxic clouds of black ash which felt like they would completely poison the air. It was entirely unnatural to her senses.

Ventus was a wind dominator dragon, therefore, she was in tune with wind well beyond that of others. Even more so since she had gone to the wind elemental planes and learned from the true wind sage.

Her understanding of wind mana was well beyond almost every single other wind affinity being in the world right now. Even the grand wind spirit would struggle to keep up with her at this rate. Not that Zephyr was competitive like that, and Zephyr was made of wind mana to a degree, so she couldn't easily be beaten in wind mana understanding.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

As Ventus spread her sense even further over the entire area, she was amazed with how much effort that Rise was putting in to this. She could tell that an immense amount of light mana was being used here and now to purify everything.

But that was not going to last forever.

Just pushing the smoke back in to one place would not be enough. Right now, the bursts of smoke, fire mana, and ash were ruining the natural flow of wind currents within this entire area. So much so that the ash was falling only within the area and surrounding lands.

Normally, ash and dust would be spread out over larger areas causing less damage and actually nourishing things. While for a time, some areas would suffer, the long term effects would be grand.

The ahs and the smoke shouldn't be able to cause so much damage right now. It should be more limited in the essence that the smoke would be unable to affect the rain clouds. Especially those so much higher in the sky than where the smoke could normally reach.

This was all due to them coming out in bursts with the ash and smoke. It was bringing the ash higher than normal. A campfire's smoke would naturally cool and the ash within would fall in a smaller area or be drawn by the weaker wind currents to scatter appropriately. This was dense and able to take over entire rain clouds causing the ash to fall in thicker pieces.

In turn, that was what was really wreaking havoc on the nearby lands. Aside from the what beneath due to caves filling with magma for the first time in an exceptionally long time.

The heat ceased the natural flow of wind causing a build up in the steam, creating a build up in rain clouds. The continued heat would stop those clouds from moving to surrounding lands to release cooled rain. It caused even more dangers to the stronger wind currents above the land too.

Without those currents of wind mana flowing properly, areas much further away could be affected. Mountains that needed constant flow of wind and wind mana might be weakened. Places where wind always flowed could be entirely still. It could cause excessive heat in areas that the wind would naturally cool.

All of these things revolve within Ventus's mind. She could consider every single aspect. She had her mind opened to the larger possibilities of wind by her elder in the path of a wind dominator dragon.

While she was still blind to the largest of possibilities that her elder on this path had long since grasped, that did not mean Ventus missed things. She had grown within the world so she could already feel insight about the flow of the wind currents everywhere she went. Now, she could spread her senses further to understand where the issues were coming from. How to touch upon them and help. How to balance the wind mana with the other manas flowing around.

A silent roar rippled through the air. It didn't need to be heard by anyone in the area. It wasn't meant for them. It was meant for the small and weakened wind spirits. Ventus was calling to them. She was using one of the many aspects of what she had learned from the wind elemental planes.

The dense wind mana she released as she flapped her wings began to revitalize the wind spirits which had been weakened. They had always been there. Always follow the wind currents. They might not have become spirit race members due to their weaker strength. Nor had they the intelligence to make many decisions. But they were part of the natural flow of the world.

As they had been trapped here due to the radical changes in winds, they had been weakened and started to fade. Yet, with Ventus sharing her wind mana and guiding them, they began to create a flow of wind. A flow that directed itself right over the volcano trapping the smoke and ash in a massive circle of wind.

The perfect target for purifying light mana.

"And there Ventus goes." Walker looked up at the ring of trapped smoke. It unveiled the top of the volcano and showed off the lava slowly pouring out of it. This lava was not free to just flow though, there were random pieces of stone within it causing it to partially cool here and there. Further showing off that Ignus and Walker's theory of a blockage was worse than what they had suspected.

"If there are that many stones, I would say that a cap must have formed during the more dormant years. I have seen plenty of inactive volcanoes with tough stones like that. Years of magma pooling and then cooling perfectly flat."

Hearing that Ignus had knowledge about this from the many places that fire dragons had lived over the years was perfect. Walker knew that he could better prepare himself to deal with stone formed in this way.

The stone was tough because it had been heated and cooled in a more dense fashion than any normal stone. The myth of a volcano was perfect for forging a stone tougher than normal. Since it cooled with this heavier weight on it as well, that told Walker that the stone would be denser than normal stone, let alone what some earth mages were capable of. He would have to use a lot more of his own mana to handle this.

This wasn't all he learned just from listening to Ignus. He could theorize that there was some stone already broken up by the natural eruption of the volcano. However, he could also understand that the broken stones were just small parts of the issue. They could lead to more blockages because they were cooler than the magma. Potentially making a sealed up volcano entirely.

Hence how they both understood why they were seeing these bursts of heat, smoke, and lava moving from the mouth of the volcano, it was these pieces of stone making small buildups of mana all at once within the mouth of the volcano.

"If we do not handle these issues, we will need to leave the area. An explosion of this volcano would decimate the area and kill us." Ignus was not joking either. He had witnessed a small volcano explode after it appeared on the shore of a nearby volcanic island. It was covered up and sealed causing all the pressure to shatter the side of itself.

The result was enough force to show off the sands deep beneath the water and alter the entire shoreline for miles. Not to mention even stirring up the volcanic islands and create a new

small island after the fact.

Seeing that Ignus understood the risks better than him, Walker used another of his buffing skills. He wanted to use some of that overflowing wind mana that Ventus had released all around to give them a faster arrival time.

In a gust of wind, the pair was halfway up the monstrous volcano. Ignus was fleeing the denser fire mana from underneath the jagged stone and the pouring lava. Every single bit of that fire mana was chaotic and under some pressure. "Here comes a burst."

Ignus moved as lava spilled from the higher up mouth of the volcano. Walker had sensed the earth mana and the fore mana shift, but he had been slightly behind Ignus in saying something. Proving that Ignus was tuned in to the fire mana much more closely.

"We will handle the issues and whatever else is up there. I can feel the manas moving oddly. They aren't all blocked."

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