2051 2051. Future Terrain Issues As the other royal dragons arrived to witness the egg that had been found, Midnight and Remey stood proudly. They also found that they had no choice but to take the royal dragon to the ruined temple that they had found. Even when some of the healthier vampires had been asked, they could not recall when they had last seen the temple standing. So many years of torment had left them with very minimal knowledge about their own city. The state of their ruined city was ever changing now too. The farmers and Alma were leading a regrowth effort to change things massively. Especially when the life mages got involved. They could not necessarily grown anything, but they knew how to use buffing skills that helped the plants use their full nutrients. Basically, the changes were so great that even if the vampire recognized the ruined states of their buildings and other structures, they would be unable to properly navigate them. Not that it was a bad thing. The vampires that could get up and move about were mostly speaking about how they wished to leave. So see the world. Many years of being trapped in a sealed location under the rule of a literal monster had changed their races' entire perspective. Their desire to fight themselves for power with the strongest bloodline had faded a decent bit. While Gloria was still feeling the benefits of becoming a leader with the strongest bloodline, that did not change that the vampires wanted to explore the world now. It was even better in a way though. From what the healed vampires could tell, Genes was very open to that. The alliance was willing to offer them a hand to more than just change the way that they saw the world. They Were willing to allow them entirely to enter their alliance with the requirements that they did not harm. That the vampire race joined to grow alongside all races. Very few did not agree with this. The stubborn ones were quickly silenced though. Not because they were plainly wrong, but because the vampires healthier already made it clear that this mentality was what ended them in a terrible situation for more years than what they could count. Walker felt that he wanted to see this ruined temple as well, but he found himself with many more pressing matters to attend to. "When we finished circling the areas that were raised up to allow for those ruins to be blocked off from the water, we found that the skeletons used to make that massive wall were trying int in stone." Leon had made a way through the waters around the ruined vampire city carefully. The facts that the skeletons of many monsters and other undead had been forced to come back just to be used as a material for a wall was ridiculous. Especially since it was a skill that caused a massive amount of devastation and corrupted mana to leak around the entire area. Since there were those that could sue natural mana to stave off the corrupted mana, things were fine for now on that front. But there was another issue, the skeletons and undead had turned to stone. This left a massive stone wall made from what had once been undead monsters and other beings that the demon lord had killed, being left to change the way the entire area flowed when it came to nature. The wall would stop the water from covering parts of the beach that had once been flooded by salt water. There were already under the sand monsters and animals being forced up to die to the changes in the water. Not to mention the seeping water through the sands that had pooled up leaving stagnant water sitting all around the ruins. Even if the elves were to make the entire city a better place for plants, they could jot prevent the future stagnation of water and rot that would come. It would overall cause disease and illness in the area. Most likely spreading to the marsh lands every single time there was rain or storms that made that toxic rotting water move. The future was bleach for the direct area. Therefore, Walker found himself facing the issue. The only dragon that did not pursue the temple that had been discovered. Mostly because erthe earth dragons had a lot of varying feelings about raising young. Hence the earth dragons being left within caves to naturally grow until they found other earth dragons. Or they would just become rogue dragons. That was besides the point though. Terron had seen the issue with the potential negative future. He also knew well that he could manipulate enough hearth to create a more solid wall that would not potentially crumble like the stone that the bones and undead were turning in to. "Well, the undead might be changing in to stone because the skills are faulty. More so because it was used by the immortal king before, a purer skill not influenced by the corrupted manas. But the demon lord used it while he was corrupted by chaotic manas. So the results would be different. Actually, it's a wonder he is still sane... well, he may not be at all." Walker realized what a fool he sounded like saying that a literal demon lord was sane. Many of the things the demon lord had done showed a true insanity. An evil that only came from madness. It would be odd to say he was sane. "The corrupted mana shouldn't be an issue. If Terron handles the structure, then you can handle how the water will flow by compressing the sands in to channels making it a larger marsh land territory. It will also allow the monsters and animals that were not killed a chance to grow." Leon saw what the best method would be and jumped on it with Terron. The two would make sure that everything was perfect while Leon managed to have the demi-human, merfolk, and water left forces swim through the waters to check everything for damages or general issues. "Then I will start during that. Alma and Gil might get a little annoyed that we are making risky decisions while they work on plants and bringing things to life there. But, they will just have to extend that to the marsh land grasses too." Walker felt a little bad, but knew that this was the best choice. He could also see that there would be more issues if the wall of stone bones broke. The flood of held back water would cause many gallons of salt water to rush through the area again. More monsters would die. More plants would die. And the ruins would be partially submerged leaving them to be even more dangerous. The homes for aquatic monsters alone would be an issue. The more dangerous monsters could take up homes in the partially submerged city. It would make any shop traveling here at major risk. Furthermore, the partially aquatic monsters would have a place to hide when they were hunting on the shore. Then they could also hit and run on travelers on the beaches. Plenty of other issues could arise, but Walker shook himself away from these thoughts. "Looking at the maps, I will start with thai span of sand." Walker pointed it out and waved over a group of earth mages that had naturally gravitated toward Terron. They wanted to be around him so that they could learn more about the earth mana that he used. It was a very pure earth mana that was much better for the fact that he was a dominator dragon. Using less of that pure mana was going the same, and better, results as the earth mages could perform with their regular skills. They had to learn while they could. Having a team with him, Walker pushed aside all other feelings of manas around him. He solely focused on the high earth sculpting skills and the condensation skill he had. But combining these two, he could sue the earth mana being drawn in by his manipulation and the earth mages. Having that backbone of earth mages to help was what caused the first rumble of earth that shook the entire ruins. Gil jumped up from where he had been resting for the moment. He noticed that Terron was approaching the wall of undead turned stone and that a large number of mages in the nearly created sand flats. But he was more amazed by the fact that the eternal codex was channeling massive amounts of earth mana. That Walker, was raising a literal terrain of dense sand stone all through the earth flats as he walked. It was something that walker and he would never have imagined when they had first spoken about Walker taking the role of mage in the party. ... L1tLagoon witnessed the first publication of this chapter on Ñøv€l--B1n.