Legends of the Terralands
Episode 12
For the past 2 months, Frosty has been teaching me how to use the wings. I learned that they grant flight, but don't give you flight. In other words, it means that it's a glider, you can't fly right away on it, but it helps you stay airborne for as long as you're in the air.
The only way you can fly right away on it, was using the grasshopper, which is that tiny little button that boosts you up in the air. Frosty was wise to using it, but since I didn't have one myself, it was really hard trying to not hurt myself. I can still remember the trauma from when Frosty let me first try it.
When I pressed the button, I went from 0 to 80 upwards in the sky. I was up so high that it felt like I was way too high up to fall down and stay alive. I went weak all over in my body, as if I were in limbo. Then I began to feel myself falling at 100mph down to the ground. I thought that I would be dead so easily, but Frosty managed to pull out a bale of hay just in time so I can land safely. I was so traumatized by the fall that I couldn't train for the rest of the day.
Afterwards I started to use the wings which I learned were called, "Lilienthal's Wings". I honestly didn't know why they were called that, but apparently according to Frosty, the public calls it "Lilient", which sounds a little funny in my opinion. The wings worked great, when you activated them while falling, you have to have a downward momentum while gliding, and if you wanted to ascend, you have to carefully aim yourself upwards to keep the momentum going so you can get to a higher altitude for a little while longer.
The point of the Lilient is to carefully go to a lower area without having to fall down too fast, or trying to travel a very long distance in the air without any interruptions. Sadly, the only interruptions with the Lilient are mountains, and undead archers. These bastards go out of their way to shoot you down, mercy forbid if you come across the rare aviator undead archers, they will instantly try to collide with you, taking away any control you have only to make an emergency landing.
If you couldn't tell, I really don't like consequences of the Lilient, which leads me to the worst part about it, the Lilient, can hurt you. Like a lot of tools and weapons, it takes a lot of care to safely and successfully use them on other objects or living things. If you use it incorrectly, you will hurt yourself and your purpose of using it. The Lilient is the same issue, if you fall too fast on it or fly into a wall, you will lose momentum and hurt yourself. For the past 2 months, this is what I've been learning about the wings. Every painful, confusing, crazy moment I experienced, were the lessons I took, but today, it was something different.
Frosty handed me a bow that was glowing mystic colors and one arrow. I was concerned since bows use arrows, when I asked, she told me it has the ability to duplicate the arrow as long as you had one to hold. Frosty was planning to teach me how to snipe towards the ground, almost like an aviator undead archer, this was so I can attack the offense without needing to land.
Frosty had us warp to a special cave in the Terralands, it was a long downward tunnel from where the starting point was. "SQUAWK! Give it a try!" She asked. I took one step forward, two steps back, and dashed out towards the jumping platform. Then, I jumped off and activated the Lilient as I began to take flight. It was quite relaxing to take flight, until turrets started popping out arrows towards me. I pulled out the bow Frosty gave me and started stringing away at the turrets. One by one, each turret was disabled as I flew past them. During the flight, walls began to get in my way, which surprised me at first, but I was able to maneuver around them, until the walls got so large that you had to pass through the hole in the wall to continue. Eventually my trip ended two minutes in when I couldn't make it through one of the holes in a wall. When you fail the trial, you get teleported back to the start to try again. Frosty could tell I was getting that good at the Lilient, so it was time that she declared that we visited Evilania.
I wanted to continue the flying trial, but Frosty suggested I should go back home and get prepared for the trip, as well as bringing some strong armor. Sadly, I didn't have any, and after telling Frosty that, she had me teleport to her home to see her shuffle through her closet and slowly reveal a full set of steel armor, with mystic colors glowing from them as well. Frosty told me they were given Level 3 toughening power, which means that they will take more resistance from attacks. Despite how powerful it made me feel to have, I still felt like the nature of Evilania would be too strong for me to handle.
After teleporting home from Frosty's, I felt weak everywhere, as if arrows stabbed me everywhere in my body, forcing me to fall flat on the ground. I went straight to the bed and blacked out. Anything past that is a blur, even my dream was.
Maybe… Tomorrow will be different...