Chapter 313: See? Travelling the world broaden our horizon
We flew across the meadow and golden fields to the lush green spread on the northern side of Sarteriel, past a canyon and stony mountain where we needed to maneuver carefully because of the wind and the terrain.
That was what Ilya and his griffin, Occia, were here for.
Vrida coated herself in a layer of mana that protected us, her rider, from excessive air pressure and belting wind, following the griffin carefully from behind so we wouldn’t get lost between walls of jagged rock. Of course, in the event that we truly got lost, we could just fly higher until we could see the edge of the rainforest that was our destination. But doing so would strain Vrida’s magic to protect us and herself because she obviously wasn’t an iron bird stuffed with four propeller machines.
So yeah, we had to follow the slower-flying griffin in front of us. I had to say though, compared to riding a wyvern, riding a griffin probably felt closer to riding a motorcycle. It wasn’t as fast as a wyvern, but still fast nonetheless, and more agile due to its smaller size. Fortunately, Ilya was sensible enough to make sure the path that Occia took was big enough for a wyvern to pass.
[Master! It’s different!]
The most energetic one was still my little bird, the seeker of thrill. And yes, the path was different and fascinating. The realm of demons was filled with urban landscapes and farmlands, very few remained as raw, unprocessed nature. The same could be said with the human territory. Even the mountains and valleys had their inhabitants and industry tied up to process resources.
Here, much of the place felt like it had been left untouched since their conception. There were only two city palaces of elvendom, and eighty percent of the elven population lived there. The other twenty were either going out exploring the world, or living together with nature and other races; among the druids and the drows. There was no settlement to be seen on our way, except for the houses of the people who tended to the farm outside the city.
It was probably why the air was so rich with mana and nature’s life force which, in turn, caused everything here to be more massive than the ones in the other realms. Lake as large as a city, rivers wide enough to hold dozens of airships, and a blanket of forest that almost looked like a differently colored sea.
And mountains that made skyscrapers look tiny.