The power of the Paths is very strong, so flying isn't difficult: the real difficulty lies in having enough strength to fight while flying.
An average Pathstrider's power simply cannot support fighting while flying. If a normal Pathstrider encounters an enemy they can't beat, flying is often even less efficient than just running away on foot.
Only by reaching the level of an Emanator, where Imaginary energy can be used almost at will, can one fight while flying without any drawbacks. For someone at that level, the energy consumed by flying is negligible.
Rather than using the power of the Path to fly directly, it's better to just get some technological equipment. It's not only faster but also more efficient.
Pei Guang: "It's possible. Actually, we can exploit a feature to fly up. Come on, everyone sit down and listen to my instructions."
Under Pei Guang's command, the four of them sat down and extended their legs under another person's butt.
The four of them formed a square, sitting on each other's feet like a human pyramid.
Once everything was set, under Pei Guang's command, everyone attempted to jump.
Pei Guang: "Follow my count and jump together~ 1! 2! 1!"
With Pei Guang's count, the four of them simultaneously completed a jump using their butts. Utilizing the characteristics of the speed aura, the four of them took off at the same time.
The speed aura allowed one to walk on flat ground as long as their four limbs weren't touching the solid surface, and even allowed for normal limb actions, such as jumping.
The four people's feet provided a solid surface for each other. Using this solid surface, the four of them bounced up with their butts simultaneously. While in the air, the four of them simultaneously caught each other with their feet, then jumped again.
Repeating this cycle, the four of them flew up.
While flying up, Pei Guang discovered something even more interesting: even if they stopped moving forward, this flight really wasn't affected by gravity causing them to fall.
Instead, affected by the aura, as long as they maintained this cycle, they could achieve levitation.
Originally, everyone was curious about what Pei Guang would do.
After all, traveling on one's butt and running faster than normal people had already numbed everyone: they wouldn't be surprised by anything else they saw.
But now, seeing four people stepping on... no, bouncing off feet with their butts to spiral up into the sky, any normal person would be silenced.
On the contrary, Welt rubbed his chin upon seeing this, finding it quite amusing. He thought he could find Pei Guang to try it out privately later.
As for Aventurine, seeing these four people actually fly up in this manner, he was numb once again.
He had seen people fly in various ways: using technology, using Imaginary energy, and even those whose races possessed special powers or organs that allowed them to fly.
But he had never seen anything like this: spiraling up into the sky with absolutely no energy fluctuations, just by bouncing off feet with their butts!
"Why are you guys so fast!!!"
Even Aventurine couldn't help but shout out the question in his heart.
It was one thing to fly, but these four were actually bouncing on their butts faster than he could fly!
Not to mention Aventurine, even Phantylia, who was watching the live broadcast, was silenced by this scene.
Along the way, she had seen many of Pei Guang's bizarre abilities. But when she saw Pei Guang's group flying up like this, she couldn't hold it back anymore and started chattering inside the power furnace.
Regrettably, the only response she got was cheerful laughter and mocking sounds.
Facing Aventurine's heartfelt shout, Pei Guang revealed a cruel smile: "It's a feature, kid."
Watching the group of four continuously ascending and wearing cruel smiles led by Pei Guang, Aventurine wanted to resist, but he was currently in the process of accumulating power.
In gaming terms, he was casting his Ultimate.
Aventurine hadn't learned mobile casting, nor accelerated casting, and certainly not super armor.
Facing the four people flying up, he could only watch helplessly.
Watching Pei Guang and Stelle fly into the sky with cruel smiles on their faces, and watching these four fly right in front of him, he could only watch without any resistance as they waved their weapons and smashed them towards his head.
However, before smashing him, Pei Guang still expressed his inner thoughts to Aventurine: "Dear Aventurine, don't be sad. In the future, when facing other enemies, we'll be together. But right now, you are my enemy, and I want to see if we can defeat you when you're not holding back."
For some reason, hearing Pei Guang call him "dear," Aventurine felt his heartbeat accelerate slightly.
It was amazing: he actually felt Pei Guang's emotion towards him in that "dear." He hadn't expected Pei Guang to invite him to face powerful enemies together.
But upon second thought, he let it go. Just as Pei Guang said, they were enemies right now.
Pei Guang was taking precautions, understanding his abilities in the Dreamscape beforehand and trying to see if he could defeat him: this was entirely reasonable.
Aventurine smiled, but regrettably, due to the mask, none of the four could see his smile.
On the contrary, the other three, upon hearing Pei Guang say the word "dear" to Aventurine, glanced at each other and made a decision.
Take out Aventurine: this guy must not be allowed to live.
In fact, what Pei Guang said was simply, "Dear Aventurine": just two words, meant as a friendly gesture toward Aventurine, with no strange or ulterior intentions behind them.
After all, having done the other party's quest but still torturing him like this, Pei Guang felt no pangs of conscience whatsoever.
However, considering that the rewards Aventurine gave were quite good, it was still okay to preserve some affection points.
But regrettably, the remaining three only heard the word "Dear."
For March 7th, the competition on this trip to Penacony was already fierce enough. She had only been gone for a few hours, and Pei Guang had already picked up a cute girl who seemed like they had been together for months.
What was even more hellish was that this cute girl really did seem to have been with Pei Guang for a long time, pampering him, which put a lot of pressure on her!
It was enough having Firefly, but now there's another "dear" too?
Although it was taking things a bit out of context, it was better to just take him out.
Firefly felt much the same.
Judging by the special passage of time in the Dreamscape, she had been with Pei Guang for a long time, but he also knew March 7th, who looked just like a childhood sweetheart.
She had no time to wait or choose: all she could do was make a decision as quickly as possible while she was still alive.
March 7th couldn't be physically expelled, but couldn't you, Aventurine, be physically expelled?
Therefore, Firefly directly swung her staff at Aventurine once again.
As for Stelle? She just felt that the atmosphere had reached this point, and it would be a bit inappropriate not to go all out.
Thus, before Pei Guang even had a chance to act, the three of them swung their weapons and started beating Aventurine violently.
Aventurine, who was originally flying steadily, had his skill casting forcibly interrupted by this bunch of weirdos and fell straight down from the sky.