Knowledge about wilderness mountaineering was completely useless to Shen Fei now, but there was no harm in listening. The key was that Ritsuka might need it. Strictly speaking, personal strength was still inferior to nature's might. Take the Pirate World, for example: pirates who entered the New World were hardly weak, yet every year, a considerable number still died to its brutal natural environment.
Even Luffy's Straw Hat Pirates had nearly been wiped out by nature several times, such as when they got lost at sea and almost starved to death.
"Did you remember all that?" Shen Fei asked when he saw how attentively Ritsuka had been listening.
"Mm, I remembered it all." Ritsuka nodded at once.
"Then let's set off." Just as Kadoc was preparing to personally demonstrate how to climb with an ice axe, Shen Fei stopped him. With a wave of his right hand, he created several square meters of cloud on the ground, gestured for everyone to step onto it, and floated upward. Floated, not flew.
Shen Fei had many ways to climb a mountain. Spatial teleportation was the simplest, but this was a rare opportunity for him to experience the feeling of Cloud Riding.
After giving Shen Fei a few helpless looks from atop the cloud, Kadoc sighed, dispelled the magically created ice axe, and sheathed his short sword.
"This is a lot easier." Compared to climbing a mountain nearly a thousand meters high, riding Shen Fei's cloud was naturally far more comfortable. They could even take in the distant scenery. Unlike the original work's Kadoc, who had exhausted himself climbing all the way up, this time he had it easy.
"Careful! I've detected magical energy fluctuations. Enemies are rapidly approaching you!" Mash suddenly shouted as the group reached the mountaintop.
"Strange Birds? Looks like