Book 12: Chapter 4 (1)
The dragon instantly soared high into the sky, clearing away the clouds in its passing, ultimately reaching a height other flying monsters rarely flew at. The party rode on Tzaobath in the following order: Sety first, as guide, Shin behind her, as he also could tell which direction to go, followed by Tiera, Filma, and lastly Shibaid.
“No one fell off, right?”
Shin had already checked the map, but turned around to look just in case. He knew that riding on Tzaobath without any protection would be risky, so he had set up a barrier to protect all passengers from the wind and any bird or insect collisions. Even then, they sped through the air at an incredible rate.
Tzaobath had risen so quickly that during its ascent many birds and insects had been knocked off their paths by the barrier. Had Shin not put up the barrier, high STR members like him, Filma, and Shibaid would have been fine, but Tiera would have been thrown off their dragon steed easily.
In terms of STR, the mage-type Sety would have been in danger too.
“….it looks like we’re in a different world.”
Tiera slowly opened her eyes to look down, with a mixture of excitement and surprise plus a streak of terror. The scenery that spread before her was surely very different compared to anything she had experienced before this. The ground, usually firmly supporting her from below, was no more: more than half of her field of view was now colored blue. The ground was so far that she almost couldn’t believe that she had been standing there just moments before.
Tiera had ridden Elder Dragons before, but Tzaobath’s speed and height were a whole other experience. Shin felt that they were now flying in a place where only very few flying organisms could, which surely made it seem like a whole new world.
“It’s rare to be able to look down at the earth from this high. The rideable monsters can’t fly this high, after all.”