1776. Half And Half
As much as the party could train for days and hours, the mana they were using was too much to allow that to happen. Their mentalities greatly outweighed their ability at this moment in life. However, that did not limit the pressure they could put on one another.
Walker was able to start pushing the earth condensing skill on to the earth sculpting skill. The two high level skills were mixing very well. Enough that it seemed that he would be able to do much more when it came to earth mana in general later in time. He also had started a competition to make the earth claws that Midnight was using tougher. The two had a simple goal of beating the shields that Su made.