Is he joking of course there are fiends in the forest. Some of them even fly! There's one of those eye things but it's blue, and a really frickin' huge wasp, and a blue element.

He's gonna, like, not. He'll go higher. Yay.

Higher! He can see the Woods extending for several miles. To the west, there is a city connected to it by a bridge, larger than Luca is. And farther south, there are glaciers.

He thinks he will skip the city and continue south. Hopefully there are plains visible past the Woods.

The Woods are very extensive! Night will fall.

He can keep flying at night.

Before the sun rises up he can see... fog. Lots of fog, in the distance.

Is it really heavy fog? How feasible is it for him to just fly up, get to a place where it's thinner?

Not very heavy, no, just—pretty noticeable? And as he approaches, he notices the overcast sky and the occasional thunder over the fog.

He thinks he will continue flying, in that case, into the ominous weather.

The ominous weather resolves into large, lifeless plains, dotted by stone towers here and there. The lightning only occasionally hits the towers, and often actually hits the ground.

It would make sense for this to be the Thunder Plains, wouldn't it.

Gosh. Exciting.

He wonders what it's like to be struck by lightning. He hopes he doesn't have to find out.

Oh wow that one was pretty close wasn't it.

He hopes he isn't singed.

… It's probably too late now to go fly out of this place.

Perhaps! Oh that one was very close. Like, ten metres away close.

And there's a floating triangular mask making its way towards him now.

… Can he go not-that-way.

Sure, not-that-way is south anyway and—

—oh that looks like a blue element but isn't, and it's shooting lightning at him.

He can fucking dodge the lightning field next fucking time he gets near it then can't he and fucking Faraday cage and plastic probably works thank you very much.

Lightning lightning lightning from the sky and the fiends and everywhere else~

Unfortunately he can't really – fly with a makeshift lightning protection suit. But he can't fly with fiend attacks, either, so he'll just have to cope.

Yep, he will.

He does.

Walking, yay.

Makes a chance of pace, doesn't it. (Ha.)

Yes, it does.

Fiends will attempt to nonetheless attack him.

He will attempt to sink them into soil and he will try to clear the fog away from his face.

If it turns out to be magical, he's pretty sure he can make wind and move it around.

The fog itself isn't magical, no. And some fiends fly. Or float.