Upper Earth Month, October 22nd.
As night descended, twinkling stars shone upon the deep curtain of the sky. As they approached the Angelic Mountain Range, the temperature in mid-air began to drop.
A black figure was flying rapidly through the night.
Lyle had already changed out of his white priest's robe and into a black cloak, carrying the unconscious Quine Aise in his hand as he flew toward the depths of the mountain range.
From afar, one could already see a flash of fiery red within the northern interior of the Angelic Mountain Range.
This was the seventh day after the Gray-robed Mage had died, and the third day since Lyle had entered the Angelic Mountain Range.
His mana had fully recovered, and even the mana consumed in the Orb of Death had been replenished somewhat.
Lyle chose the interior of the mountain range as the place to deal with Quine Aise; since the Slane Theocracy could lock onto his position, the environment of the Great Wetlands was nowhere near as complex as that within the Angelic Mountain Range.
In this way, it could further serve to confuse the situation.
"It has been seven days, I wonder if the Slane Theocracy has sensed anything unusual." Lyle felt the cold wind in the air and muttered softly to himself.
Whoosh!
A black shadow rushed at him from the air; it was a Harpy, about the size of a normal human, but with the wings and claws of an eagle.
It was one of the very dangerous Demonic Beasts in the skies above the Angelic Mountain Range.
Facing this Harpy that was attacking suddenly, Lyle did not pause his Flight at all. The moment the opponent was about to reach him,
A magic greatsword appeared in his palm, drawing a cold gleam through the night.
He sliced the Harpy directly in two!
"Experience gained: 1211"
[experience bar: 82907 / 120000]
Lyle's figure flew past rapidly. The Harpy, which hadn't even let out a scream, was left behind as he continued to fly toward the north of the mountain range, using the cover of the dark night.
Using physical means instead of magic, aside from saving mana, was also to avoid attracting the attention of those existences within the Angelic Mountain Range.
At this moment, even Lyle himself did not know which faction's territory in the Angelic Mountain Range the airspace he was currently in belonged to.
Dwarves? Quagoa? Frost Dragons? Or Frost Giants and other various parties.
If he hadn't mastered the Flight magic and had to enter the Angelic Mountain Range on foot, he didn't know how much time would have been wasted.
These factions were definitely top-tier existences among humans, not to mention the powerful Frost Dragons and Frost Giants.
Don't be fooled by how weak the Dwarves seem in anime; for Dwarves who are skilled at crafting weapons, any well-equipped troop they pull out would be stronger than human elites.
And the Quagoa were even more resistant to physical attacks due to their racial characteristics, especially the Quagoa King, whose Rank had reached the 38Lv Outlier Domain.
If the Slane Theocracy sent people into the Angelic Mountain Range, unless they dispatched the Black Scripture, the other Five Colored Scripture units would have a high probability of being wiped out if they went rampaging here.
Provoking any one of them carried the risk of annihilation.
"Almost there, is this the Great Rift?" Lyle looked down into the distance. With the help of the moonlight and starlight in the night sky, he could clearly see a huge, bottomless valley rift below.
The place he wanted to go was the Lava Zone in the Angelic Mountain Range, which was located deep within the mountain range.
With the high-altitude view, he could clearly observe it, so he wasn't afraid of flying in the wrong direction.
The location of the Great Rift was not far from the Dwarves living in the eastern capital.
The place that interested Lyle most about the Dwarves was the rune characters they possessed, but he had more important things to do now, so he only glanced down before flying over the Great Rift.
Dazzling fiery red light began to come into view.
Waves of heat accompanied the flow of air, rushing toward him like waves on the sea.
Lyle, who was flying above, felt the temperature of the air rise sharply as soon as he entered this Lava Zone.
In particular, the hot air in this area collided with the cold air on the outer mountains, forming quite chaotic air currents.
This affected even Lyle, who was flying steadily, forcing him to descend rapidly from the air and land in the outer area of the Lava Zone.
Hiss~ Hiss~
As soon as he landed, his soles made a "sizzling" sound upon contact with the scorching Rock.
"What amazing heat, and the mana seems to be more concentrated here than in other places."
Lyle felt the scorching air around him, curled his lips, and took a few steps back. After just a short while, a layer of sweat had already appeared on his forehead.
"Then let's do it here."
First, he observed his surroundings and, finding no other creatures in this area, nodded his head.
In such a special zone with extremely high temperatures, ordinary creatures could not approach this place at all, except for some Demonic Beasts naturally resistant to high temperatures.