Lightning took out the "adventure supplies" that she carried with her and checked them again.
Fire sickles, tinder, bandages, daggers, maps, and a bag of dry food stuffed with beef floss.
"What about you?" She looked at Maggie, "Check them too."
"Coo!"
Maggie put her hand into her satchel. This cloth bag was usually hidden under her fluffy hair, so it was difficult to see how many things could be stuffed inside. Moreover, after turning into a bird, her clothes and satchel seemed to disappear into thin air. Compared to her own strict flying weight limit, Maggie seemed to be less affected. The best proof was that she took out far more things than herself.
Jerky, meat floss, chicken thighs, fish fillets, eggs, piles of food were placed in front of Lightning.
"Oh my God," she said while holding her forehead, "We are going on an adventure, not going to a barbecue in the wild. At least you have to bring a weapon."
"Coo coo!" Maggie touched her mouth.
"Do you want to say that your beak is a weapon?" Lightning sighed, "If you meet a Judgement Army soldier dressed like a can, it would be a wonder if you can peck open his armor! Well, forget it … Anyway, it's only one day, we shouldn't encounter any danger. Let's go. "
"Oh! Coo! " She suddenly turned into a pigeon, ran two steps, and flew close to the ground for a long time before slowly rising.
Well, maybe the weight still had an effect on her.
Lightning pulled down her windproof glasses, and with a light leap, she flew in front of her.
She remembered the first time she met Maggie, she was still in the southern woodland and launched an aerial pursuit. Although at that time the fat pigeon couldn't escape from her palm, at least it took her a lot of effort to get her down. Now, it seemed that she could catch her in the blink of an eye.
She couldn't go on like this. It was rare to have a flying partner, and in the future she would have to rely on her to help her carry the exploration equipment. The little girl thought that it seemed that she had to train her.
"Coo, coo?"
Lightning slowed down and flew side by side with Maggie, "Speak properly!"
"I want to ask, where are we going to explore, coo?" The pigeon opened and closed its mouth.
"The Concealing Forest is the westernmost part, I want to see how big this forest is," Lightning took out the map and spread it out, pointing to a blank area on the west side. "While I'm at it, I might be able to see where the Redwater River comes from."
After Maggie returned from the Fjords, she immediately began to prepare for this adventure. Anyway, during the free practice, His Royal Highness wouldn't care where they flew. Moreover, there was a secret in the little girl's heart that she had not told him. She no longer dared to explore the forest alone.
This was a great humiliation for an explorer.
But she couldn't deceive herself. The trip to the stone tower had made her fear this deep forest. The thought of those horrible monsters hiding somewhere in the forest made her want to run away as soon as possible.
Fortunately, she was still the daughter of the greatest explorer.
Thunder had once mentioned to her the way to overcome fear, which was to approach it bit by bit, then observe and understand it. In the end, she would find that fear was not that scary.
Because it came from the obstacles in her heart.
This adventure was Lightning's first attempt. With Maggie's company, her heart at least had a little more confidence. The chosen route was also very safe. It would follow the Redwater River to the west, not going deep into the forest, so it would be less likely to encounter the Devil. After flying through this route, the next time she would try it alone. She believed that one day, she would be able to draw a map of the entire Western Territory, and once again step into the stone tower to uncover the truth about the Holy City of Taquila.
…
Along the way, Lightning controlled her speed to be around 60 kilometers per hour. Now she could accurately adjust the speed by how much magic she released. According to her current consumption, she could continue to fly for a whole day.
Flying along the river and the edge of the forest made her feel a lot more relaxed. Compared to the last time when she searched for the stone tower, the whole field of view was dark green, and she couldn't tell the direction and height, which seemed gloomy and depressing. Now with the sparkling silver belt, coupled with the constant chatter of Maggie, Lightning felt that her fear was gradually fading.
"Look, there's a mountain in front of us goo!"
Lightning also saw this unparalleled mountain. Although it was far away, its gray figure was enough to explain its loftiness. At the same time, the hilly area on the side of the river rapidly decreased, and the mountain that was near the sea seemed to be moving inland, getting closer and closer to the Redwater River, and finally completely touching the silver belt.
"This mountain is a little too big," she couldn't help but sigh. As the distance continued to shorten, the outline of the mountain became more and more clear. Its top was snow white, as if it pierced the clouds. Although it wasn't like the Impassable Mountain Range, which continued to rise and fall for thousands of miles, but in terms of height, it was higher than three or four Impassable Mountains combined. The southern hilly area was an extension of this mountain, and the source of the Redwater River also came from this magnificent mountain.
"The Concealing Forest has come to an end, goo!" Maggie excitedly called out.
She saw that the dark green color under her feet had finally ended, and the earth had returned to a light green color, which should have been a grassland. But as she looked further ahead, her field of sight unexpectedly turned into a smear of darkness, and it even covered the foot of the mountain.
"Let's go down and take a look," Lightning made a gesture, and then swooped down towards the dark earth. She soon discovered that it was a ground made of black stones.
"What is this?" Maggie landed and pecked at it twice, "It seems that we can't eat it, goo!"
"Of course we can't eat it," Lightning picked up a black stone and carefully looked at it. It looked angular, and although it looked dark, when it rotated under the sun, it could see a metallic luster. And such stones were everywhere, mixed with the sparse soil, at first glance it looked like the earth had been soaked in ink. "This may be some kind of ore, let's take two pieces back to His Highness."
The next step was to draw, so she returned to the air and began to record the nearby terrain in detail.
It took almost half the morning to reach the foot of the towering mountain from Border Town, which meant that they were about 240 kilometers away from Border Town, which was much farther than Longsong Stronghold. And this mountain … Lightning's mind suddenly came up with an idea. What kind of scene would be behind such a huge mountain? Would it be a vast jungle, or rolling hills and mountains?
After the fear subsided, this idea was difficult to suppress once it appeared.
It was obviously difficult to cross the mountain, and just the white snow at the peak was enough to make people flinch. Then there was another route, and that was to go around the sea, or even to the back of the mountain, as long as they kept flying diagonally towards the center of the sea, they could cast their line of sight behind the mountain.
Lightning called Maggie, and told her not to move, then put on the wind goggles, and in a flash increased her speed to the limit. Her magic quickly poured out, and the oncoming wind blew all her short hair to the back of her head. The land continued to recede, and the blue sea filled her entire field of vision.
After flying like this for about half an hour, she could faintly see the scene behind the mountain. Behind her, there seemed to be a continuous mountain range that separated the sea and the land, but then Lightning saw a scene that made her blood freeze.
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