The obstacle was easily crossed by Daiko, but Kai seemed to have a slight anxiety with her swinging. Because of that, she swung a tad to the side rather than a static arc alike the Fire Wizard. He couldn’t help but chuckle a little after she got out of danger’s claws. If anything, this was the easiest task for flying birds like Coda - and yet, she stuck to Daiko’s shoulder the entire time, not even bothering her bird-only way of travelling. Birds should fly around and be happy, not stick to shoulders and laze around like toddlers.
“There’ll be more holes on the way, I’m sure of that,” Daiko assured Kai. He paid little mind to how the path was formed out for them, because it would probably change the higher they got. This was a renowned place, and people often passed by to climb around and do hiker stuff. Therefore, some places felt as if they were already inhabited by other hikers, while the taller, more extreme areas were moreover left wild and untouched. Around the tree zone, where trees and vegetation would stop growing, Daiko prepared himself mentally to use his hands more and more on the climbing rather than casual, knee-lifting strolls across rocky floor.
“Yeah, Shahrbaraz would pity this place for a training ground,” Daiko replied to Kai. He was well-aware that Shahrbaraz embodied the term ‘endurance’, and he was even co-training with their previous Guildmaster. That meant that theoretically, Shahr would be just as powerful in the same aspects as Aguero. “He would spit and mock this place… something like ‘what a kindergarten excuse for a training ground! I’m doing you guys a solid’… but then again, I think it’d be different now.” This special training wasn’t special for nothing, after all as Daiko continued: “He really wants us to improve ourselves, so rest assured; if we complete this challenge with flying colors, then we can celebrate!”
Yeah, he would love to fire up a huge bonfire and dance around the fireplace with a cooking bull impaled on a metal pole like a shishkebab, accompanied by his fellow Lamia Scale Wizards. As bewildering as the picture looked, Daiko also felt like an embodiment of the guild’s values; strength, spirit, hardness… even monster. Lamia Scale was often referred to as ‘a monster’s guild full of power in carne’. That was why Shahrbaraz wanted them to undergo this training - it was fun to confirm the rumors of Orchidia’s population and at the same time assure them a guild that stayed loyal and friendly with its neighbors.
“There are caves everywhere now… uh, let’s take this one,” Daiko suggested. He was eyeing a hole in the mountain that led to a small area where the height to the roof was about 2 meters. There were rocks and boulders in random places, so sitting down on one would do some serious hallucinations upon whoever looked at them. Like having chairs upside down and stuff.
WC: 497
TWC: 584 + 497 = 1081