Kalas Mountain: Moon Ruins
The "Kalas Mountain" that Shade and Daniste had set out for was not particularly tall. It stood on a peninsula in the north of the Old Continent, surrounded by no major cities, and was part of the rolling Walter Mountain Range.
Daniste's travel plan was simple. They would take a train west from Tobesk at ten in the morning, arrive at the transportation hub west of Tobesk—Crossroads Town, Kovos Town—at noon.
After lunch, they would take off from the fields. They would need to avoid the detection rituals above major cities and slow down to avoid triggering rituals meant to detect wild dragons, but they should reach the mountain foot of Kalas Mountain by Monday evening.
The plan went smoothly. Although the train was half an hour late, it did not delay their lunch. Then, while flying hand in hand, Daniste unexpectedly discovered that Shade's Flight Spell had improved considerably. Using "testing the Flight Spell" as an excuse, she compared the difference between kissing in midair and kissing with their feet on solid ground.
She was so focused on this professional experiment that the two nearly flew into the territory of Golden Wheat City—Escariz City, an important city in central Delarion.
This was Shade's first time undertaking such a long-distance flight, and everything felt wonderfully new to him. Daniste noticed his rare childishness and deliberately slowed down so that he could better admire the scenery from the air.
Nothing worth mentioning happened during the journey. After bidding farewell to the wild geese flying alongside them, they arrived at the mountain foot of Kalas Mountain that evening.
From high above, there was no sign of human habitation amid the rolling mountain range. At its foot stood a remote settlement called Kalas Town. A railway passed through it,