137. The second mountain range
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Early morning in the rocky mountains is quite bizarre. It can be said that it is like breaking the morning into pieces and scattering them in many places. And the subjects that made it were high and sharp rocks like an awl. The bedrock was tearing the morning apart. Mornings fragmented by bedrock fell all over the mountain range.
It looks like a border between darkness and light.
The saintess opened her mouth and stared in amazement as the morning light only reached part of the mountain range due to the too high elevation of the bedrock. There was still a place where the shadow of the bedrock kept the darkness of the night. It was the moment when the saintess slightly lowered her head to take a closer look. Suddenly, the body of her saintess was thrust downward.
“Huh? Huh?!”
Ecilia struggled with her arms, revealing her strong desire to fly. But, as wingless creatures often do, she seemed far from fulfilling that wish.
The saintess, who was voluntarily trying to carry out a near-impossible challenge, suddenly had her body pulled to the other side. Surprised, Cilia raised her head in her haste. The Death Knight was holding her saint’s arm.
“Ah, thank you. Knight…….”
The saintess who leaned her head against the Death Knight’s body gasped for breath and brushed her chest.
“Be careful, Esilia.”
They were standing at the top of the cliff. To be precise, I was standing on one of the many peaks of the mountain range. Because of this, I was able to see a rough view of the mountain range. Beyond the point where the Cassell Prime Mountain Range ends, the second mountain range, the Kradmesser Mountains, was revealing its majesty. The slowly rising light of the morning was scattered in pieces without fail even in the Kradmesser Mountains.
It was hard to believe that there had been a moment of dizziness just before, the fragmented morning of the mountains seemed so peaceful.
-Hwiiik – !
The peacefulness was broken by a sharp sound. Ecelia, who leaned her head on Zer Peed’s chest and caught her breath, was startled.
I turned my gaze to where the sound came from. However, the saintess of innocence soon had to tilt her head. Because nothing was visible.
The sound came from the shadow of the rocky cliff on the other side where the morning light did not reach. Ecelia, who was looking at that part with her head tilted, was immediately startled.
The shadow began to wriggle. No, what had been hidden in the shadows had begun to move. It started to move slowly and shivered as it moved to a place where the sunlight hit it. Before long, the shadows emerged into the light. Ecilia could clearly see its appearance. It spreads its huge wings and catches the sunlight.
LindwurmLindwurm.
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Lintwurm was sunbathing with his wings fully spread, holding onto a protruding stone with his tail. As if he had just woken up early in the morning, his pupil’s eyes were wide open. The saintess of innocence watched as she opened her mouth wide and shook off her sleep.
If the wyvern is a hunter with strong hind legs and spread wings, both on land and in the air, and has a balance of both, the drake and the wyrm are hunters who specialize in hunting on land, traversing the rough wilderness with strong scales or legs.
On the other hand, Calling Lint was a hunter specializing in the air, focusing on raids in the air with her wingspan incomparably wider than that of the Wyvern and her flying altitude suitable for it. In fact, seeing the call to lint, Ecelia thought that a tiny drake might be able to ride on her wings.
Of course, it is impossible in reality. Since Calling Lint’s physique is geared towards hunting in the air, her weight is extremely light, inversely proportional to her enormous size.
The legs are long and dry rather than grabbing something, so they have more strength in snatching prey lightly, and the membrane is also thin enough to show veins on a bright day. Like the legs, the muzzle is long and slender to make it easy to hold in the air. Same goes for the tail. Its long, not thick tail makes it easier to balance in the air than to strike down.
Of course, the expression ‘thin’ or ‘thin’ is the standard for polyps. Therefore, if nothing else, at least for humans, even the tail, the thinnest body part of Lindwurm, is transformed into a formidable whip.
However, more than these factors, what made Lindwurm an assassin in the air was, of course, its vast wings.
Lintwurm opened his eyes. The vertical pupil, which is unique to polyps, blinked a few times, then looked up at one spot. It was at the top of the cliff where the saintess and death knight were.
Lintworeum flew up. The saintess could not contain that figure in her eyes. It was a literal expression. It disappears as soon as you ‘blink’ your eyes once. Only the wind surging upward proved that the lintwurm had taken off. The saintess hurriedly raised her head.
“Kieack – !”
It was too hard to call it a flight. It was more like an acrobatics. Lintwurm was falling vertically, wrapped in wings. There was not even the slightest movement of Lindwurm. Lindburm’s ferocious eyes were fixed only on the Death Knight and the saintess.
-Jjeouk – !
When the long jaw was opened, the dense, barbed-like teeth within it were revealed. The saintess could not hide her astonishment. And it was an appropriate choice for the saintess to express her astonishment.
As soon as he expressed his astonishment, Lindwurm fell to the place where the saintess and death knight were. If expressing surprise had been a little late, it might have happened inside Lindwurm’s stomach.
The moment he expressed his astonishment, he thought he should ask the Death Knight for help, but he couldn’t. All of that happened in about 10 seconds, until Lindwurm recognized the saint and the Death Knight and rushed to where they were. That’s why the speed of lintbloom was so fast.
“Heeep! Heck!?”
Hiccups flowed from the saintess’s mouth. It was only after hearing the hiccups coming from her mouth that Ecelia realized that she hadn’t been swallowed up by the call of lint. He was hanging dangling in the air. He was holding the clothes by the nape of his neck in one hand of Zer Peed.
Confirming that his prey did not enter his mouth, Calling Lint snorted and twisted his body slightly. He intended to rise up and lunge again, just as he had been charging down. In order to move forward more quickly, Calling Lint spread his wings.
And the fact that he couldn’t go forward called Lint was embarrassed. I hurriedly checked to see if his skin was torn, but the state of both wings was rather absurd. It felt like something unreal was holding him back. Calling Lindt turned his head with a dazed expression. It’s been a long time since the ferocious eyes he showed me just now turned into a blur.
Lintwurm confirmed that he was right. The man was holding himself. But the way was completely unexpected. The man was holding the tip of his tail with one hand.
“Kieeh… ….”
The sound of air escaping came from the mouth of the lintwurm. Lindwurm shouldn’t have done that. He had to struggle at least.
If so, he could have avoided going back to the cliff on the other side where he slept.
In a way that doesn’t cling to it as if it were sleeping, but rather puts it down.
Zer Pied, who flung the lint call over the cliff on her side, was overcome with a bit of embarrassment.
‘…… Oops, I could have prepared something for lunch.’
“…… So, how are we going to cross the mountain range?”
After finishing her meal with a simple dried fruit, Celia blinked her big eyes and asked Zer P. Ed. It wasn’t because she didn’t hear, of course. But it was clear that Zerfied thought so.
“Ride my horse.”
“Sure! You’re asking how to do that!!”
Esilia was almost crying. Zerfied was taken aback by Ecilia’s reaction. Esilia had to exclaim as if she was out of breath as she watched Zer Pied’s reaction.
“How do you get from cliff to cliff that is hundreds of cubits wide!!”
The direction the saintess of innocence pointed with her finger was the Krad Messer Mountains, the mountain range next to Cassel Prime. Of course, those mountains were not physically connected to each other. However, finding and moving to such a point was too much for them. It was a fact that was not very welcome for them, who were currently being chased.
So, this was the plan that Gerpied came up with. To leap over mountains and cliffs between mountains hundreds of cubits wide, on horseback. And when Zerpied came up with such a plan, it was when the two of them were riding slowly to cross the Cradmesser Mountains on a headless horse when they came into sight of the Cradmesser Mountains hundreds of cubits wide.
Esilia sighed and said.
“Miss Knight, I know that your riding skills are of course excellent, but…… , There isn’t even enough space to run up here. Moreover, no matter how high the knight’s ability is, this interval is too…… !”
Escelia saw the width of the cliff and she was speechless.
“Oh, of course I’m not just running. How do you just run through these intervals?”
The saintess was relieved after hearing the Death Knight’s words. So yes, how could she just run? Perhaps the Death Knight found her room to jump over to find a gap that was not that wide, and it was clear that she said it just because she thought she was now.
“…… Yes? Phew… ! How did you go beyond this range?!”
At the headless horse that suddenly started running, the saintess was speechless. The saintess was already floating in her air. The Death Knight, she thought, should show her that what the saintess was worried about was actually something she wasn’t too worried about. He immediately swung the Partisan.
-Keying – !
The slash that flew with a roar shattered part of the cliff on the other side. Fragmented rock fragments fell from the cliff hit by the slash. Of course, even if it was a piece of rock, it was almost six cubits in size. Zerpied landed on a piece of falling rock. There were still pieces that were falling from above. They were indeed great springboards.
Jerpied climbed up the cliff on the falling steps and slowly landed on top of the Kradmesser Mountains. After appreciating the surroundings for a while, Zerpied spoke to Ecilia.
“Of course it was like this. Running like this is much more stable…….”
“What, much more stable – !”
Unfortunately, Death Knight’s day didn’t seem very stable. As proof of that, he had to face the saintess who was glaring at him with his cheeks inflated, making a sound like ‘Heung!’ And hugging the Death Knight’s mantle tightly.