CHAPTER 2643: 2643. TROUBLESHOOTING

The reason was more than enough to make the sky crow race not wish to leave where they stood. They couldn’t leave. If they left it was the end of their race regardless. If their eggs couldn’t hatch then new sky crow race members wouldn’t be born.

Even with the dangers of the endless sky serpents now being nearby, it was clear to Walker that the sky crows had struggled even before these new predators arrived.

The issues were most likely related to food. The sky crow race had managed to figure out making a village. The structure of their homes was ideal for the place they lived. They found a way to make fabrics using unique silks produced by monsters and plants within the wind elemental plane.

But they hadn’t hunted enough food. They haven’t gathered enough food. It didn’t even appear that they could grow much food here either. They hadn’t been able to grow their numbers. They had survived, but they had stopped thriving.

This also presented a unique question.

Why couldn’t the sky crow race hatch their eggs anywhere but here? What conditions here were perfect for them but different everywhere else? Was it the mana variation? The food they ate? The herbs that grew here? Or was it something tying them to this part of the wind elemental plane?

As Walker’s mind raced, he wondered if it also played a part in the fact that the sky crow race changed their color feathers naturally. It matched the day and night cycle in the world which could mean that a deep connection with the world also might be playing a huge part in where they lived and how they could grow.

"What do you know about the world? Specifically, about night and day?" This seemed to be slightly confusing to the sky crow chief, it was not a question they had been asked nor was it something he really understood.

"I know that the world is the elemental plane you are from and that we have been told is where our people came from before we were as we are now. That there is clearly dangerous beings there like you." The way that the sky crow chief spoke wasn’t necessarily rude, but it did make Walker wonder if he had been a little too much in terms of showing some of his power.

"In the world, we have days where if there are no clouds because of storms, then the sky is blue. The same color as your feathers turn at times. When the night comes, the sky turns dark. We can see distant stars and even the moon as long as the sky is clear. Your feathers turn black at night. You and your people are very much connected to the world in the ways that your feathers change to match the night and day to allow you to camouflage."

The sky crow chief seemed still to be confused. He knew little of the world, all of his people knew very little. "How is that going to solve the problem? The guardians came and insisted we moved without even listening to our troubles. The second guardian came and tried to force us. Then that elemental came saying they were a sage and we can not be protected and must move. Now you will tell us things that don’t have any-"

"I will tell you things about the origin of your race and why you may still be connected to the world!" Walker was a bit loud and Midnight along with the two guards outside looked in the room. While the entire party could hear everything clearly, Midnight still worried about Walker. That was just how family is. "Midnight, we are fine, I understand that when we speak the entirety of his race is hanging on by a thread. Tension is to be expected.

After a deep breath, Walker looked at the sky crow chief who was trying to articulate his next thought but struggled since Walker had shouted with more might than he expected. "Because your race developed to match not the light mana or wind mana to match the world, I believe that your race has either an innate connection to the world naturally in some way, or more likely, a connection to time mana in association to the world."

"Meaning that as the time of day changes, your bodies and feathers change to match it using a minuscule amount of time mana that altered your bodies at the core of what you were as a monster and now are as an intelligent race." Time mana was a big theory, but the most probable.

"Time mana is hard to grasp and even harder to utilize. It is everywhere as the same can be said for space mana. They are part of the foundations needed for everything to exist as we know it. The elemental planes nor the world could exist without them. While your race may not knowingly use time mana, it might just be part of what and who you all are. Could that lead to time mages or time affiliated classes in the future? I don’t know. But it would explain how your feathers still change and that your bodies are lacking the necessary environments to hatch and flourish the next generation’s future."

The weight on the sky crow chiefs shoulders had to be immense. It was a theory after all. They had managed to hatch children before. They had managed to grow but in the past years the decline has grown more and more to the point where many eggs weren’t even in their nesting areas for their village. Even right now, they had two that were still showing no sign at all of hatching.

The fear from the parents had been growing and growing as they believed they would not be able to meet their children. Something parents should never have to even consider as possibility.

"How would you know this is the problem and that even going to your plane would allow us to live safely. The other planes are dangerous. The manas there can kill us if we venture too far."

"If you go too far? You mean that your people can cross the borders and venture in to the other elemental planes?" Now this was something others could not easily do with the sole wind elemental affinity. If they did then they were not able to resist the same manas and survive in the same ways.

"Twenty years ago we used to in search of food. The dangers grew too great. No one is allowed any longer." More confusion glinted through the sky crow chief’s eyes.

"That is not something that normal races always living or fully adapted to the wind elemental plane should be able to do. Some will die if they even leave the outer wind elemental plane where your village is. I believe your bodies still possess the memories of resistances to other manas you would have if you were to live in the world. It might not be easy to handle the balance of mana in the world, but if you go, I believe your people would also be able to survive there more easily. The next generation would most likely live as if they had been part of the world forever too."

"If you allow me, I would like to change a small bubble of mana around the nesting grounds and wait with you to see if the balance natural manas, space, and time manas that I can make balance there would be what the hatchlings need to break free and be born properly." This was a risk on Walker’s part. He knew very well that he was pushing a little too much.

"Do it. Whether he agrees or not, do it. I want my child to fly through the wind and if I have to forsake my village I will do so." One of the guards dropped down to his knees. His eyes focus only on Walker.

No, this wasn’t a guard. This was a man asking for the help of the only lifeline they believed to have. They would risk it all, the home they’d grown up in, just to have their child born.

Could Walker even sit there any longer? There was no question like that. Walker was already standing up and helping the guard up. This wasn’t a discussion any longer. It had just been made in to the very situation Walker needed to act on as a true hero title holder.

Seeing that the sky crow chief wasn’t moving, but instead was shaking slightly, Walker worried for a moment that it was anger. That was until he saw a few tears beginning to fall.

This was the pain of a leader who had believed that they had failed beyond a doubt and had just witnessed the pleas of their people cutting through all else. A plea met with hope for the first time in years.

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