CHAPTER 2642: 2642. THE REASON

There was a clear depth in the ways that the sky crow elder was able to use the wind mana around. Besides the fact that his feathers were white rather than the sky blue most likely due to the randomness of albino beings, there were other differences too.

It was clear that the chief of the sky crows had been in more than just a few battles in his life. There were sports on his body missing feathers entirely and his beak was cracked, but not broken entirely. Otherwise, there was a staff leaving nearby his seat.

The staff itself was made of the same wind affinity wood used in the homes of every sky crow that the party had seen. Further, there were also wind elemental runes carved along it. Where it was more potent was the fact that there was what seemed to be some sort of refined gem placed in each inch long section of the staff. Making it store and produce very potent wind mana that also somehow seemed to be bonded with the sky crow chief.

All this was also harder to focus on since there was a lot of wind mana within the room due to the way that the sky crow chief was clearly using it to show off his strength. Which was a little rude in Walker’s eyes but he was not going to undermine the good rapport he and the party had made by arriving in peace and openness.

"You are not the first who has come to visit our home recently. Guardians asking us to leave our home. Spirits wishing to move our home for us, and something that called itself a sage appeared and told us that we will be the last of our species if we were to remain here."

It was easy to see that the chief saw that the party had been encouraged to move here by the true wind sage. However, it was also easy to see that the true wind sage’s words and what they had done before had been seen as a threat instead of a way to protect the people.

Yet, this still struck Walker as odd. There should have been some understanding that a dangerous threat was just right nearby them. That their people would need to move regardless, but that didn’t seem to be the case at all.

It seemed that they were not just a bit stubborn but there was some hidden reason that they would not move no matter what.

"There can be more than one reason for us coming here. Let me tell you about why we started to travel in the elemental planes in the first place."

Walker spent a few moments explaining why the world and Genesis itself was now sending envoys to the elemental planes. How they were rapidly growing and bringing in bonds with new races. That they ended materials and trade to keep growing as the world united more with the elemental planes on a natural level.

All of this was just information that he would have shared regardless of the true wind sage adding in that they wished for help with the sky crow race. "I understand that your race was, in ancient times, a monster species that came to the wind elemental plane and has survived, thrived, and become an intelligent race on equal grounds as others over time. So much has changed and learning about this will help other monster races explain the changes happening or that may happen to them over time."

This seemed to be very curious to the sky crow chief who had remained silent through the explanations. "Where things change with the involvement of the true wind sage is that new elemental planes added to the greater wind elemental planes. It possesses monsters that will hunt and consume the prey that they can find and your people are that prey. The true wind sage is an arm of the wind king. They are calling guardians who ask you to move because they can not always protect you as they do the massive numbers of other races."

"The fact that you reject the attempts to bring you elsewhere means that you and your people have a reason to stay even though it will spell the end of your race as a whole. As I would protect my people, while we are here we will fight monsters since that is within our ability. We will not erase that nest of monsters though. They are a species that came and developed from that small elemental plane added to the greater wind elemental plane. They are not deserving of extinction."

His words clearly had some effect since the sky crow chief appeared to be unhappy that it was being insinuated that his people would intentionally be left to perish now. That was just the case, Walker was not one to trap and force a race to move if they didn’t want to. He wanted to form a bond and make sure that they were safe if they wished to have that safety. It had to be on equal footing not a one sided. He’d been someone that went to prevent one sided relationships like that before.

"We stay here because we carved this as our home. All that we are is here. We will not be forced away." The wind mana surged even more as the chief began to stand up again, but with a quick movement from Walker, the wind mana in the room halted. Entirely still. Not moving whatsoever.

"If you try and use wind mana to intimidate me again I will show you what it means to have a young origin being here. That is not a threat but a show that you can not do whatever you wish when speaking to others. While those who met us were polite and even spoke to us a little as we took in some sights of your village, you have been trying to have dominance since I walked in here. I have a great deal of power and that is not because I fight people or monsters all the time. It is because I act to protect the races and equality of Genesis within the world and the bands we are making outside of it."

"I came here to build relationships and learn of myself and others. Not to fight everyone and everything. If you choose to stay so be it. If you choose to form a bond with us you may be able to travel to the world and see where your race originated. Where you will meet the harpy and the batman race who have similarities to you. Or even the angel race who has a way to grow multiple sets of wings as some of your people do as they age."

Releasing the wind, Walker saw that the eyes of the chief were now focused solely on him. No looks at the door, no glances to the sky crows who were waiting at the sides of the home he was in. They all knew who the more powerful being was and that they came in peace by choice and not because they were unable to do whatever they wished.

"I have made promises to offer what I can to your people to build a bond with you. But I expressed that I will not force things. So, will we trade and my people will take what materials or goods we can so that we can say we have unique items to study from an extinct race. Or, we will build bonds and bring the vast knowledge your people have to trade with the vast knowledge my people have. Think about it and maybe decide whether you want to tell me why you and your people can’t leave here."

"I know that there is a reason you do not wish to leave that is not pure stubbornness." He didn’t want to say that he could tell that these people were stuck. That the sky crow race couldn’t move for some reason.

It felt like hours as the sky crow chief sat there looking at Walker. He didn’t move but his breathing was heavier. Just watching Walker for a few moments while deciding if he could actually trust whoever, whatever, was sitting in front of him. The sky crows didn’t know what the origin beings were. They hadn’t even sensed whatever or however the new wind elemental plane appeared near them. They did know that there were more powerful forces out there though.

"The eggs will not hatch anywhere else no matter what we have tried. Only here in this spot will our children be born to continue our race."

The words fell like a mountain crumbling. It was heavy. It was scary. It was... too much for words.

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