thefictionvixens Chapter 10: The plane crashed right after takeoff, and I could almost see my great-grandmother wavin
Chapter 10: The plane crashed right after takeoff, and I could almost see my great-grandmother wavin
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Ten meters... twenty meters... fifty meters!
With the powerful lift of the Winter Feather Sparrow, Lin Ze was steadily carried into the air.
"Hahaha! I'm flying! I'm really flying!"
Lin Ze looked down at the trees and rocks below, which had become as small as ants, and felt the howling wind in his ears. An indescribable excitement and pride welled up in his heart.
The Winter Feathered Sparrow's flight was extremely smooth, and even carrying an adult, its speed was still astonishing. It carried Lin Ze, circling and gliding above the back mountain, its ice-blue wings drawing magnificent trails in the afterglow of the setting sun.
It must be said that Old Li from the Hunter Alliance was truly skilled. Even though Winter Feather Sparrow had used seventy or eighty percent of his strength, that layer of warrior-level hard skin remained firm. Apart from feeling a huge upward pull on his shoulder, Lin Ze did not experience any pain from having his skin torn.
"Chirp chirp—!"
The winter-feathered sparrow let out a cheerful long chirp, seemingly feeling quite novel and proud of the feeling of soaring through the sky with its master. It slightly adjusted the angle of its wings, drawing a graceful arc in the air with Lin Ze, and even playfully making a small dive.
"Holy crap! Xiao Dong, slow down, I'm a little afraid of heights!" Lin Ze shouted, but he couldn't hide the smile on his face.
Looking down at the land, the once towering trees had now transformed into a green carpet, and in the distance, the city walls of Bo City's borders resembled a giant gray dragon winding and coiling. This sense of vastness, with everything laid out before them, was something that no ground magic could provide.
"With this aerial mobility, if I encounter those demons that only run on the ground, I can just fly up into the sky and give them a good wash. The scene would be absolutely wonderful..."
Lin Ze was immersed in the wonderful fantasy of future air-to-ground fire coverage when suddenly, an extremely hot and frenzied aura burst out from the distant clouds without warning!
The aura appeared too quickly and too violently, like a volcano that had been suppressed for a long time suddenly erupting, and even the originally cool breeze around us instantly became scorching hot.
"grumble?!"
The Winterfeather Sparrow's keen intuition, typical of demons, caused its feathers to stand on end instantly. It abruptly stopped gliding, frantically flapping its wings in mid-air to hover, its pair of black gem-like eyes staring in terror at the sky to its right.
Lin Ze was also startled by this sudden change. He turned his head with difficulty and looked in the direction of Dong Yuque's gaze.
Just a few hundred meters away in mid-air, a figure surrounded by azure energy was approaching them at an extremely terrifying speed!
He was a burly man. He wore a faded military green overcoat, the hem of which fluttered in the wind. His face was covered with a wild beard, and his eyes were as sharp as a hawk's.
What shocked Lin Ze the most was the man's back.
Those were not real wings, but two enormous cyan wings formed from extremely dense and substantial wind magic elements—high-level wind magic, the Wings of Wind!
Moreover, in the right palm of this bearded man, a dazzling, violent crimson flame was leaping and compressing wildly. The suffocating heat that Lin Ze and Dong Yuque felt was emanating from this flame.
Clearly, this powerful being with wind wings mistook the Winter Feather Sparrow that was holding Lin Ze in the air for some kind of reckless flying demon that had come to the edge of the safe zone to prey on humans!
"You beast, how dare you arrest someone on my turf! You're asking for death!"
With a thunderous roar, the flames on the bearded man's right hand instantly surged, transforming into a giant fiery fist that was about to hurtle towards Dong Yuque and Lin Ze.
"Holy crap! That's a Fierce Fist?! People can die!"
Lin Ze's pupils instantly contracted to the size of pinpoints, and a chill ran down his spine. Being hit head-on by a mid-level fire spell from a high-level mage—even if he were wearing a full set of warrior-level armor, let alone his current warrior-level shoulder armor—would have reduced him to ashes!
"It's a misunderstanding! Please show mercy, senior! It's a misunderstanding!!!"
In this life-or-death situation, Lin Ze didn't care about his image anymore. He opened his mouth wide and shouted at the bearded man with all his might.
The bearded man in mid-air was visibly startled by the powerful shout. His [Fierce Fist], which he was about to unleash, abruptly stopped in mid-air. With a flick of his wrist, he forcefully dispersed the raging flames, leaving only a wisp of smoke.
"Hmm? A living person? And so energetic?" The bearded man frowned, his wind wings on his back fluttered slightly, slowing his speed as he prepared to approach and investigate.
However, while Lin Ze's shout successfully stopped the attack, it triggered another fatal chain reaction.
Winterfeather Sparrow, this little bird that Lin Ze just captured from the continent of Carlosia, is only at the servant-level advanced stage at most. How could it have ever endured this level of pressure?
First, the violent aura of fire magic locked onto him. The murderous aura emanating from the bearded man, belonging to a high-ranking mage and someone who had spent years teetering on the edge of life and death, plunged Dong Yuque's demonic instincts into extreme panic.
"grumble……"
The Winter Feather Sparrow let out a terrified cry. Its body trembled violently in mid-air, and its steel-like claws, which had been tightly gripping Lin Ze's shoulder armor, uncontrollably loosened due to excessive tension and fear!
Click.
A very faint sound, but to Lin Ze it sounded like a death knell.
The immense force that had been pulling him on the shoulder vanished without a trace in an instant.
"..."
Lin Ze felt his mind go blank, as if it had just gone blank.
Time seemed to stretch out infinitely at that moment. He saw the Winter Feather Sparrow's eyes, which looked somewhat bewildered and frightened as it loosened its claws, and he saw the orange-red sunset overhead rapidly moving away from him.
Immediately afterwards, gravity, the most ruthless and fair physical law in the world, completely took over Lin Ze's body.
"Aaaaaaaahh ...
A piercing scream tore through the sky above the back mountain.
Fifty meters in the air, equivalent to the height of a dozen or so stories. Without any safety measures or deceleration mechanisms, Lin Ze plummeted straight down into the rugged, rocky wilderness like a weight with a broken string.
The intense feeling of weightlessness made his heart almost jump out of his throat, and his stomach was churning with acid.
"It's all over! It's all over! My mission failed before I even got started, leaving heroes to weep in despair! I haven't even had a chance to show off in the world of Full-Time Mage, and I'm going to fall to my death here! Oh my god, I see you waving at me..."
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