While the conversation grew, it was interesting to see the way that someone else perceived the world from outside of it. To the true earth sage, the world was some frozen in place thing. Time could have stopped there. Everything he knew could have been just waiting for him to return. He had been cut off from it while undergoing his own journey here.
Walker also found it interesting that he mentioned how he had been in pursuit of different earth mana related strengths and theories. He had not followed the immortality exploration as his race mostly did and what they had literally been known for.
Due to that, he had not been as accepted. He had not been as supported as the others. They had different goals with their research, and just researching a singular mana to understand it at the deepest possible level was not what they focused on.