Chapter 1005 Exploring Cloudia

Chapter 1005 Exploring Cloudia

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To move to the Grasslands, we had to take the Crescent River's Path towards the Sunstone Plateau, once there, we would need to climb the plateau and then descend from the other side towards the Grasslands.

We could had gone flying on top of uncle Arafunn's Familiars, but that would have ruined the fun of enjoying a nice trip across the beautiful and lively nature, so we were strongly against that idea.

It might seem a bit excessive, or perhaps useless to some people to walk hundreds of kilometers towards somewhere else if we could easily get there on top of flying familiars, but it was part of the journey to experience our surroundings like this.

The beautiful shining sun, the blue skies, and the greenery adorned our journey across the Crescent River's Path, which was beautifully decorated by the greenery of the Forests surrounding us.

The calming sound of the river as it moved, our parents chatting carefreely, and my friends giggling, jumping around, and exploring every nook and cranny made sure our travel never became boring.

And this walk would also become a nice exercise, as I was constantly reinforcing my own Physique while doing this, all while automatically creating more Runes inside of my Magic Circle.Updated from novelb(i)n.c(o)m

Even after all this time, it was still quite difficult to do these methods of cultivation passively while doing something, but I was getting there. Especially when the only thing we did was just walk and enjoy the trip.

We could had decided to hunt monsters, but our travel distance was so much that we were better off waiting to find a dungeon or something before hunting monsters, we decided to not disturb the nature of this continent if that wasn't necessary.

"This river is sure long! Just how far does it go?" Lara wondered, following the river with us. "Ah! There are so many River Spirits though... Hi! Oh, hi! How are you?"

As she talked, Lara constantly interacted with every single Spirit she found in the area, we couldn't quite see it, but it seemed like she was already being followed by a couple hundreds based in the Aura coming from behind her...

"It is one of the largest and longest rives in Cloudia, it extends all the way to the Grasslands where it divides into even smaller, and thinner rivers." My mother explained. "Or so I think, I haven't checked the map in a while, we're going mostly blind!"

"Well, it's more fun that way, honey." My father said. "The river ends up drying out once we reach the Dunes. There's an intermediate, drier area between the grassland and the dunes, you'll see how it is once we get there."

"Oooh! I see, I see!" Lara started jumping around. "Hey Luck, what are you doing?

"Maybe it's because his Physique is unique among others." I wondered. "Though, we can't really check what it exactly is, it's very strong."

"Yeah, you're amazing, my son." My father praised my little brother. "I bet you have like ten times the amount of Ki another person at your stage would have."

"E-Eh? You're all praising me too much..." Zephy got adorably embarrassed when we were all praising him. He was really the cutest.

"Hm? Oh! Is that the end of the forest?" Suddenly, Aquarina, who had been just vibing with her Spirits while observing the river's relaxing flow, pointed at the distance.

"You're right!" I said.

We ran towards the end of the forest, finding an enormous plateau stretching into the heavens, made of red stone and covered by countless red, orange, and yellow crystals...

Scattered over the plateau, there were many fragments of ancient ruins, and on top, we could the entrance to one of them, decorated by a gigantic red and orange-colored stone in the shape of the sun.

The end of the forest looked quite abrupt, but there was still a lot of grass and smaller bushes here and there, leading towards the drier plateau. We could notice a wide variety of animals in here, mostly living in harmony.

A lot of them resembled giant goats, which seemed to feed off the crystals and stones that grew in here, and looked quite mighty...

"We're here! Welcome to the Sunstone Plateau." My mother smiled. "This is also the home of one of the ruins we've not explored yet... How about we give it a quick look before we continue?"

"Sure!" I nodded. "Are you guys okay with that?" I asked my friends.

Everyone seemed to agree, and even when we asked Pyuku, he didn't seem to mind, and was quite excited to explore the place too.

"I don't really mind taking some detours, let's enjoy the trip together, everyone!" He smiled radiantly.

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