Chapter 243

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Chapter 243

"But no law or convention requires me to stay. Come on, help me out, no need for change, keep the rest, find a way to get me to Star Song Castle." She handed him a few gold coins and pushed him towards the counter. She had witnessed this kind of secret bribery many times before, Swis and Virgil were both skilled at it. The staff member hesitated, holding the coins and shrugged, then went to communicate with his colleagues behind the counter.

Sylas heard them whispering, "What’s happening outside?" "There’s a small conflict, the guards are already taking care of it. Do we still have an Energy Storage Crystal? Someone wants to apply for an urgent teleportation." "Just one left. Going to Star Song Castle? Alright, I’ll handle it."

As Sylas waited, she pondered. At Star Song Castle, she would surely come up with a way to summon the Mountain Giant. But even so, it would take two days to travel from Star Song Castle to the eastern part of the desert and another two days from the desert’s edge to its center. Not to mention the time needed for researching the summoning ritual for the Mountain Giant, it would already be a four-day wait. Could she endure waiting for four days? Was there any other alternative?

"Wait! No, I’m not going to Star Song Castle."

The staff who had been threatened showed a displeased expression, but didn’t say anything and stopped another female wizard carrying an Energy Storage Crystal, signaling that she could go back.

Sylas continued, "I want to go to Tabletop Mountain City, thank you."

Both staff members stared at her with disapproving looks, but when they saw the innocent look in the girl’s eyes, they both silently agreed to let it go.

The large teleportation array took a long time to charge, which is why it had scheduled departures. Although it seemed like the intervals between the previous departure weren’t long, the rune that indicated the energy had only filled less than a third. The female wizard placed the Energy Storage Crystal on the Portal to Tabletop Mountain City, where there was a perfectly fitting groove that seemed to be specially made for the crystal.

"We can leave when the rune reaches this word," the female wizard explained. "This one can’t be fully charged, but it can be consumed from both sides simultaneously, thanks to the invention of series connection technology. That’s why I highly respect your teacher."

Sylas paused and asked, "You know?"

"Of course, I’ve been working here for three years, and I’m not blind," the female wizard replied, looking at her with a half-smile.

Sylas laughed awkwardly, but a sudden surge of elemental energy made her tense up. Her wild instincts once again helped her, as she lifted her hand and a stone pillar rose, blocking a feather arrow. The pillar continued to rise, blocking a fireball as well. The fireball was quite powerful, melting the stone pillar and consuming half of the feather arrow with its high temperature.

The female magician shouted loudly, "Attack! Attack! Guards!"

Two enemies outside ran into the door very quickly, and one of them had a strange posture. When he ran, his movements seemed to be opposite to others. His elbows were up and his palms were down. He looked like a funny gorilla from a distance.

Sylas couldn’t help but laugh. She recognized that the strange person was actually… "Sauran?!"

"It’s me… I found you… Hahaha…" His mouth opened and closed, and his voice didn’t match his speech. It sounded like it was coming directly from his abdomen.

Sylas wanted to ask someone, but no one could laugh. The female magician didn’t hear the guards’ voices and created a layer of water screen around herself. The staff member from earlier said, "I’m afraid we’re in big trouble! It’s a ‘puppet’!"

"What is a ‘puppet’?" In fact, you can understand the literal meaning. Sauran does seem to be controlled by invisible threads. He raised his hand, and the knife in his hand seemed to be stuck to his palm. Flames immediately burst out.

Sylas pushed away the female magician next to her and shouted softly. Countless tiny wind blades appeared in front of her. The flames were blocked by the wind blades, creating a chaotic zone with fire. But even though she counterattacked with wind blades, the surface of Leunen, who was standing in front of her to absorb excess heat radiation, still made a sizzling sound as it vaporized.

At the same time, several feather arrows pierced through the firewall. Although they were burnt halfway, the arrowheads still entered Leunen’s body, and then quickly slowed down and sank into the liquid.

Meanwhile, Sylas stepped on an Earth Child and bravely stood on a high spot. A series of ice balls flew from her fingertips and all hit the enemies’ faces. With her shouts, the chaotic wind spread everywhere. Air cannons exploded one after another, causing the plaster on the high roof to fall down, creating a smoky haze. In the haze, Sylas grabbed the female magician’s hand and said, "Take me away!"

The female wizard was pulled into the Portal in a confused manner. She listened to her reminder and hastily took out a string of runestones from under her robe. She held one of them and activated the teleportation.

The Portal emitted a soft humming sound. Sylas sighed with relief. The surroundings suddenly accelerated, colors merged into black, and dizziness struck. It was only when she reached the other end of the teleportation array that she felt somewhat stable. The female wizard smiled weakly and said, "You have arrived, please make yourself at home. I need to report that the guild has been attacked."

Sylas sincerely thanked her and hurriedly ran out of the guild’s gates. She found a place near the city gate to rent a Pegasus and rode towards Tabletop Mountain City.

Normally, travelers wouldn’t just go climbing mountains for no reason. Usually, a mountain doesn’t look much higher than your raised thumb from the city. But when you start walking, you realize it might take a long time to reach the foot of the mountain, let alone start the climb. These earth folds have complex terrain with crisscrossing gullies. Either they are extraordinarily steep, or not even a spider can climb them.

But Sylas had the help of magic. She had powerful magic support, and under her command, stairs grew out of the steep cliffs. Even the Pegasus, which hadn’t seen many wizards before, was frightened by this strange sight. At first, it hesitated to move, but it took its first step when Sylas pulled its reins.

On the other hand, the water lord seemed completely unaffected by gravity, floating around beside Sylas and the horse. It kept saying, "My master, what are you planning?" "My master, what extraordinary idea do you have?" "My master, please tell me already!"

"Shhh, you will find out soon. I hope you will like this surprise."

Even though Sylas climbed the steep slope in front of Star Song Castle almost every day and climbed the eighty-yard mage tower twice a day, climbing up this high tabletop mountain with stairs was still challenging. She had to take a break every fifty yards or so. It took her about an hour of walking and resting to reach the mountain top.

Tabletop Mountain was very, very high. Its top was not completely flat. Behind the mountain, it turned into a plateau, with ridges and most of the distant mountaintops covered in snow. Xerath said that few people survive in the mountains, and it’s the territory of high elves and dwarves in the dense forest, who don’t get along with humans.

The wind gathered from all directions and formed a colorful West Wind Vein, and even the sky above Tabletop Mountain had a shallow blue Milky Way.

But now, none of these mattered to her. Sylas climbed onto Pegasus’s back and said to its ears, "I will make you light and floaty. I will let the wind carry us as we fly. You have to run and jump as fast and far as you can, okay? Okay?"

Pegasus shook its ears and snorted, which meant it understood Dvořák, but now it seemed to be a common gesture among the whole Pegasus herd. Sylas pointed behind her, and Pegasus obediently turned around and walked a distance before rushing in the direction of the desert.

Pegasus even spread its wings to accelerate. Sylas lowered her head first and hugged its neck tightly, feeling the feathers brushing against her back. If she were not so narrow and thin, she would definitely be swept up by the wings. In the moment Pegasus leaped, Sylas whispered, "Light as a feather!"

Pegasus flew out with a "whoosh" and jumped so high that it even scared itself. Sylas continuously called the wind in a language no one understood, and the wind was willing to carry their Pegasus, taking them over the entire Tabletop Mountain City. With a few strokes of its wings, Pegasus flew far away. It seemed particularly excited and even performed acrobatics in the sky, only realizing there was a person on its back when it heard Sylas’s exclamation.

They flew higher than the lowest cloud, crossing the undulating land. Sometimes the wind blew them higher and sometimes lower, but even with Pegasus’s wings, they were still descending slowly. Moreover, it was too dangerous this way. Pegasus had not estimated its weight properly, and several times they almost fell from the sky due to getting caught in the eddies. Luckily, Sylas was skilled in wind element magic and saved them many times.

Halfway, Sylas wanted to summon Leunen, but each time the water lord hesitated behind the crack of elements, unsure whether to come out or not, Pegasus flew quickly and broke the connection between the master and servant. In the end, one of its small tentacles stuck an eye on Sylas’s shoulder, pretending to have spent the entire journey with Sylas. Later, it opened its mouth so it could keep babbling about its feelings in the sky to Sylas.

Pegasus and Sylas landed outside Doloru Town. A gust of wind came and gave them a final push – it let Sylas fly directly from the top of the waterfall, allowing her to continue floating across the last stretch of the pioneer camp.

This was Sylas’s plan – to fly up the strongest tributary of the West Wind Vein using a wind shield, and ride the wind shield across the dangerous desert. This would be faster than running with the Stone Giant and there would be no need to worry about the dangers brought by the storm.

The colorful turbulence was already visible to the naked eye, they all gathered above the crystallization and "bounced", when they passed Sylas, a friendly "wind" asked her, "Are you coming too?"

Sylas answered, "Yes." They all surrounded the only heir of the Elemental King and moved forward together, Pegasus felt the wind and flapped its wings happily, but Sylas said to it at that moment, "Stop here, I want to go alone, you go back!"

Pegasus didn’t know what to do, it still wasn’t done playing, this job was different from before, but Sylas still said, "You go back alone! I want to go home!"