Artorian's Archives Omnibus by Dennis Vanderkerken & Dakota Krout

Author:Dennis Vanderkerken & Dakota Krout [Vanderkerken, Dennis & Krout, Dakota]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781950914579
Publisher: Mountaindale Press
Published: 2020-04-16T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Five

Artorian shielded his eyes as he peered into the distance. A fantastically dressed Pine, Birch, and Human were all standing in the middle of a lake. They stood on the water, using a widespread net of water Essence to gather water tension and remain stable. This method copied water striders in some sense, but for creatures magnitudes larger.

Ember kept guard nearby, standing arms crossed at the edge of the nearby outlet to the bay. Her frilled petal dress matched her healthy crimson hair swimmingly. She’d filled out from her previous grandmother’s frame over the last few years; back to a spartan-built powerhouse sporting sleek and obvious muscle. Power visibly corded beneath her Mana skin.

Little was happening in the physical world, mainly because the Elves-turned-nomads were keeping a sharp eye on the oily, Blighted Core-tree in the far distance. It was such a filthy, obvious, smoke-belching source that you didn’t need the phantom wails to realize it was one of the sources that the Blight used to repopulate its smoky forms.

Where the Blight had become stifled, the Elves had flourished. The Senate had done majestic things to their combined growth. Something akin to a golden age had occurred since the advent of their shared mental prowess. A revolution of cultivation sharing and advancements had been brought forth by a foolish human, and his invitation to what any Wood Elf had previously considered a racial secret:

The inner workings of a cultivation Core. What one had begun, others had spread. It had been the young ones at first; opening the path from the Forum to their tree Centers, showing where they were stuck, and what was causing them to experience blockages and difficulties directly, rather than through troubled explanation. With the secrets of elder trees revealed by the machinations of the young, a joined effort to grow the saplings as best as one could had arisen between them.

No longer did a sapling depend purely on their parent tree for guidance. Now the entire culture shared, and shared freely. When it was safe to do so, great orders of Elves each opened pathways to their Cores, showing how their Core-tree operated. While exploring refinement enhancements which had caused even elders to get stuck, younger trees had found easy solutions. Centuries of cultivation progress was made in the handful span of seasons as Wood Elves traveled from hometree to hometree, purging the region of Blight with ever more powerful and methodical efficiency.

The Forum was a constant cacophony of activity. Considerably improved methods of communication had been devised; ones that did not deafen the rest of the Forum upon use. To Artorian’s delight, it had once more been the youngest among them with the most fascinating of ideas. Their exposure to so many cultivation methods, ideas, and freely shared techniques had opened their eyes and minds to combinations the older of their flock could not imagine. Permutations of existing techniques, variations in simple patterns causing great effects, abilities such as standing on water accomplished easily.

What had been a society of shy, separated, distanced groups were now a thriving nomadic species.

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