When Walker opened his eyes he could still see the same fairy like figure. He realized that Su had been pouring a mana potion in to his mouth drop by drop trying to keep an eye on everything around him. The strength that had left him from using the mana was nothing new but this time it was stronger, much stronger. The natural mana he had created and begun to manipulate was a much more challenging thing to do and took a larger toll on his mind.
Between the mental buzzing and the lack of mana, Walker struggles to sit up only to see that the figure in front of him mimicked his slightly pained expression before following Walker to make a confused face. "Ummm" As he said this it was also mimicked. "Fleur?"
"No, wait. I'm Walker. You are Fleur."
"No, Wait. I'm Walker.. You are Fleur?" Fleur was still mimicking Walker with even his words. However, everyone in the room showed that they could understand her. Unlike the other spirits, it seemed that the natural mana allowed Fleur to speak the same as anyone else without a language barrier to do some form of mana speech.
"The name the world gave you is Fleur. It fits you perfectly." Walker tried to slowly explain this but was met with more confused expressions from Fleur. It seemed that the resulting fusion in to a lesser nature spirit left her completely lost.
"I am here! Where is the world spirit!? It's awake- Oh my world of windy delight! You look spectacular my lady!" Zephyr had come in with a gust of wind ruffling everyone's hair.
"Fleur!" Fleur exclaimed while motioning at Walker which only made Walker shake his head. It was obvious that intelligence was going to be a slow thing to build.
"Oh, you already know your name. I was reborn with my intelligence but you are special. Walker. She will grow! Only nature spirits can grow through their tiers. My lady here will one day outdo me by leaps and bounds." Zephyr was able to tell these things just by a glance. Since she was a named wind spirit that had lived extremely long, she was able to feel that these things were true. It was as if this was part of her.
"Zephyr, why do you call her my lady?" Walker felt that he had a good idea but wanted to hear it.
"Hmm, like humans nature spirits are well above even me a named wind spirit. She is royalty. That is why they are bowing. Or maybe they are tired?" Zephyr wasn't sure on the other spirits around that had fallen to the ground but she was sure that there was a strong feeling that told her to respect this nature spirit as much as possible.
"I understand. Well, Fleur, welcome to the family." Walker held out a finger to the nature spirit. When Fleur touched his finger in a mimic of him he could feel some of his mana within her. They were linked by more than just the spirit mark that was now on his back. They were one and the same and much much more.
Surprising them, Fleur yawned a little before drifting in the air to Walker's back and melting in to the spirit mark. Walker felt as if he had been hit with a wave of drowsiness as well. "I think" Walker yawned as well, "We share some of our feelings because I'm really tired now."
"Of course you do. You two are connected. Every real sage is connected to an elemental spirit. You just happen to be attached to a nature spirit." Zephyr could have said more but there was a slight breeze and she looked out the door before smirking and rushed outside in to the air.
"I think spirits are very confusing. But leader, what happened." Su had done her best to make sense of all the action. Especially the actions of Fleur who had been copying Walker completely.
"I wish I really knew. But, Zephyr did say that Fleur could grow and become more intelligent than her. So that must be the difference between a normal spirit of one element and a spirit of natural mana. I know this might sound surprising, but I can already feel her pulling in more natural mana to feed herself. I think she will need a lot to grow in to her next level." Walker was starting to fall deeper in to thought as the buzzing in his head faded away.
"I also got a new title...young sage." After Walker said this the wandering Blacksmith sat himself next to them and Midnight did as well. They all waited for Walker to explain everything which only took a few minutes since it was a very straight forward title that affected natural mana and allowed nature spells to be used more easily.
"It was only a few hours and all of this happened." Su was a little more stunned than usual. "Every time I think that we are getting used to what might happen I have this shocked feeling. Congratulations. The nature spirit is awakened and you have a new title." Su laughed it off but she was sure the others would be just as shocked and she looked forward to seeing their faces.
"Midnight, after I recover we can try and work on an elemental fire breath skill. I know we need to work on a lot of them but one today and another tomorrow. And, I'm sorry for making a mess of the workshop." Walker felt even worse that he had caused the elemental spirits to become exhausted and that there were elemental mana crystals all over the ground still.
After some time cleaning and accepting what had happened, Walker and Midnight moved outside while Su helped the wandering blacksmith clean up. "How would you like to work on the opposite of the fire. We can aim for the water breath attack. I believe it's known as dragon's frost breath."