Archer appeared outside the treehouse, summoning his wings and soaring into the sky, hovering above the surrounding forest. He knew where all the Swarm Colonies were, but he hadn't checked on Athena, the Deepsea Stalker Queen's new home in the Western Sea's which was full of all kinds of sea monsters.
He soared above the lands forged from his mana: jungles that bled emerald into obsidian forests, rivers of liquid starlight carving through crimson canyons, and glaciers that kissed skies of perpetual dawn. Below, endless grasslands rolled like a sea, where titan herds of crystal-horned beasts grazed beneath auroras.
Following that, Archer banked westward, wings of pure violet flame igniting the stratosphere. The grasslands fell away like a discarded cloak, giving way to the continent's jagged spine, mountains that bled molten gold at their peaks, their shadows slicing the land into ribbons of dusk and fire.
