Master Of None

"So, what are you and the party planning to do before the summit? Anything I should be worried about?" Clara was slightly worried about the answer to this question but it had to be asked. 

"Midnight wants to learn different elemental fore breaths so I will help her with that. Remey is bolstering up her knowledge of alchemy and making sure everyone is prepared for the formation of the alchemy guild. Su is spending time learning about her system. She feels she is missing a few things. I expect Gil will work with Zephyr to better understand the wind elemental mana he used. And I want to try and awaken this new friend along with a lot of other elemental spirits while pushing forward in the true spirit forging path" 

It was a lot to take in. Walker still had other smaller goals but for now, they weren't worth mentioning since he could see Clara was a little overwhelmed already. "Do you ever plan on just not doing anything?"

Walker was sure that she meant just taking the day and relaxing. However, for Walker, going out and learning new things was relaxing. Going out and finding more dormant elemental spirits sounded exciting. His party going out to train and learn new things was exciting.. There was so much they could do, why would they just sit around doing nothing? Doing nothing was boring and did nothing to help anyone.

"I don't think doing nothing would ever happen. It's fun and relaxing to get out and do something. Heading to the cathedral to heal people is relaxing. Seeing family and helping them is relaxing. Even just coming here to chat is relaxing." Walker no sooner said that he was relaxing by coming here to speak with Clara, that Clara realized she had spoken a little haphazardly. 

"Well, I think pulling back and doing less wild and ground breaking things would be a better phrase. I don't want to see you go out for a walk and end up discovering a hidden relic or meeting an ancient monster race." Clara joked around but felt that the words she said could easily come true if Walker's party pushed a little. 

Walker laughed going along with the joke. "We have those scheduled for another time. For now I will stick to getting stronger and preparing for the summit. Unless...the demons act up again. But I don't think they will. It feels like they had just targeted all the kingdoms to play with them instead of actually attacking." Walker's expression grew grim. 

"That is a general consensus with many of those in leadership. With all the information now available to us from the other kingdoms, it is clear that this was a ploy to weaken every sngle one. It also left lasting fear. We don't know the end goal just yet, however, we are going to be extremely vigilant and send some spies to scout the demon lands." Clara had already issued her own quests but looked at Walker just to make sure he understood the gravity. 

"I don't know if you ever noticed them, but there are higher tier adventurers. Ones the guild master erases from our record. They are shadows. We send them to protect  higher risk targets. Valuable assets to the guild. Or to dangerous lands like the demon lands to scout. I think you and your party is strong enough to know of them yet. When you all reach level sixty You will be moved to gold tier party. You easily fit it now. But you are too low leveled to justify it." 

It was a lot to take it. Walker could remember the strange shadows that seemed to follow him and his party when he first signed up with the guild and when they received the hero titles. "I remember strange shadows. But I never asked because I seemed to be able to focus on the memory. I will let everyone know of a promotion. It will be good motivation to get stronger over the next months. Not that I expect to get tp level sixty so soon." 

Walker had to hastily add the last part about not hitting the level soon. For a moment he had noticed Clara's eyes become wide as she feared the party would miraculously get all the experience overnight. "Ehm, I should return to the job. I was caught up on the paper work for the day. Although, if I blink, it is all stacked up waiting again." Clara sighed and wished she could just sit with a cup of tea or sleep. But today was not that day. 

"I guess I took up too much of your time then. I will head home. I will be trying to awaken this water spirit tonight. Since the moon has something to do with water I think it will help. We shall see." Walker left off with that and opened the door to reveal a stack of paperwork on a table just like Clara had said. As he waved he gave her a good luck expression. 

Another wave of adventurers had taken the guild floor by storm making Walker realize that it was well past lunch time and had come in to the evening. This was the later wave of adventurers trying to procure night quests or quests for the early morning. He did his best to get out the door and found himself standing in the open street again. 

The streets were full and had much less chaos now compared to yesterday or even the morning. The only major difference was that there had been a change in most of the stalls and shops. There were people out setting up decorations and preparing for the harvest festival. It would be in two days and Walker was exceptionally excited about it. He let the memories of the harvest festival claim his mind as he wandered home. 

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