Chapter 42: Between continents(1)
Cades had been flying for a long time, so much so that he wasn't certain how long.
At some point he had blacked out far above a chain of mountains that had reached far into the skies with their stone crowns and awoke far away, over the ocean.
He would've fallen out of exhaustion but luckily he had been able to make a few breaks on smaller islands and that what he had thought to be the ocean at first had turned out to merely be a gigantic lake that stretched between two mountain chains, the first being the one he had blacked out above and the second appearing a few minutes later.
It seemed like the time he had spent not realizing anything had barely been a few minutes after all.
Throughout the journey he had been able to make various breaks, in clearings residing within ancient forests, on ancient islands that were probably known only to pirates and so many other places.
Overall the worst part about travelling for such a long time, for an ehetrian, was the boredom that came from seeing nothing but nature, albeit beautiful scenery, for days on end, aside from, maybe, the soreness coming from the endlessly repeated move sets of their wings.
After some time people had started following him but they had quickly given up, not being able to keep up with the stamina or sheer speed of a being at the peak of the lord rank, or maybe even shortly before ascending once more and finally giving a name to the next rank, at least in his native language, if it didn't already have one, which Cades wasn't too sure about.
The few followers had barely been able to keep up with him for a few hours and then they finally stopped.
And just a few days after that had happened Cades had flown over another chain of mountains, taller than any he had seen before, so tall that the clouds seemed to barely reach the middle of its shaft, so tall that he had to be careful and hold his breath as he was flying above them because of the incredibly thin air, although that wasn't really a difficult task for him.