After several years of careful breeding and raising, the number of Wyvern Riders among the Lizardmen had risen from the single digits at the beginning to thirty.
This did not include the wyverns still being tamed and hatched.
Of course, Zhou Xu still felt that number was far too small, which was why even now, the Wyvern Riders' primary duties remained aerial communication and reconnaissance.
In Zhou Xu's view, the reconnaissance and communication value they provided truly could not be compared with that little bit of combat power.
And now, Soros's plan required the Wyvern Riders to carry the Wood Elf mages into the sky!
Wyverns did not have much carrying capacity, so the Wyvern Riders were all relatively short and light Green Lizardmen.
None of the Wood Elves were particularly fat, of course, but their builds were roughly the same as adult humans. Even the lightest probably weighed around sixty or seventy kilograms. On top of that, they had to carry the riders and some necessary equipment, which was no small challenge for the wyverns.
Soros had come up with this plan on the spur of the moment. In this situation, they had no other choice!
There was limited space on a wyvern's back. To let the Wood Elf mages, who had no riding experience whatsoever, sit as steadily as possible, the Wyvern Riders simply stood on the stirrups and gave the limited room to the Wood Elf mages.
"Hold on tight! Take off!"
As they shouted, the Wyvern Riders pulled on the reins in their hands. The wyverns' fairly sturdy legs exerted a little force, and together with the flapping of their wings, they prepared to soar into the sky.
The unprecedented weight nearly made them overturn. They hurriedly beat their wings several times before finally stabilizing themselves