My Bugged System Made Me Too OP!

Chapter 197: That was fun

He suddenly charged forward without a single warning, moving through the open air at a truly terrifying speed.

The sudden burst of pure kinetic energy was so immense that it felt as if the dragon had been shot out of a massive cannon.

One moment they were hovering perfectly still in the high altitude, and the next moment they were tearing across the heavens like a streak of dark lightning.

Despite its massive, towering physical size, its speed was incredibly impressive, and the vast surroundings blurred into streaks of color even for someone with Noah’s highly advanced senses.

Noah’s eyes widened significantly in genuine surprise, feeling exactly like a little kid riding a powerful horse for the very first time in their life.

The raw, unfiltered thrill of the movement completely stripped away his usual calm, calculating demeanor for a brief moment, replacing it with a sense of pure, unadulterated excitement.

It was an exhilarating sensation that he hadn’t felt before.

There was absolutely nothing for him to physically hold on to on the smooth, scaled surface, but he remained perfectly balanced on the broad back of Kael regardless.

He didn’t need to desperately grip onto any leather reins, a saddle, or the dragon’s scales to maintain his position as they hurdled through the atmosphere.

Instead, his body naturally adjusted to every single tilt, turn, and surge of the massive creature beneath him.

It was as if his own physical presence was completely anchored to the dragon’s form, allowing him to stand or sit with absolute stability despite the extreme forces of motion acting against them.

It was even far better than the unique skill of Goldie Neckie, which specifically used heavy wind pressure to keep her passengers perfectly stable during flight.

While Goldie Neckie’s method relied on actively manipulating the external airflow to create a restrictive, force-based cushion that locked a rider down, Kael’s method felt completely natural and seamless.

The ride was entirely smooth, offering an unparalleled level of comfort that made him feel as though he were simply a natural extension of the dragon’s own physical body.

He could clearly see the thick white clouds all around them completely blur into wispy white lines due to the extreme speed at which they moved forward.

Within a matter of mere minutes, they were already completely out of the massive adventurer city’s airspace, moving rapidly through the wider sky beyond the borders.

The vast distance that would normally take a standard craven days to traverse on the ground was being cleared by Kael in the blink of an eye, leaving the entire region far behind them.

Despite how incredibly fast Kael was moving through the atmosphere, he wasn’t making any loud noise at all, simply gliding through the air in absolute silence.

There was no deafening roar of rushing wind, no loud thunderclaps from breaking the sound barrier, and no heavy flapping sounds coming from his massive wings.

The air seemed to actively part around his form without putting up any resistance, allowing him to travel completely silently.

It was entirely because of his nature as an ancient dark dragon, a legendary race which made him perfectly built for absolute stealth, even when he was flying at maximum capacity.

The complex illusion spell Noah had casted earlier was still perfectly up and active all around them, making absolutely sure that no one else saw the dragon as they traveled.

As they moved at high speeds, the localized sphere of shimmering frost particles traveled right along with them, maintaining the perfect optical camouflage without a single slip.

Even as they crossed over different territories outside the city, anyone looking up from the ground would only see a completely empty, undisturbed blue sky.

After a few minutes of that exhilarating flight across the horizon, Noah emerged smoothly from a small, swirling shadow pool directly on the floor of his own room.

The transition from the vast, open sky back into the quiet safety of his personal living space was completely seamless and instantaneous.

There was no sound, no flash of bright light, and no sudden disruption to the quiet atmosphere of the room as his body materialized out of the shadow.

He stood firmly on his feet, looking around the familiar surroundings of his room, away from the chaos of the guild.

Kael was already completely back inside his shadow, resting silently beneath Noah’s feet after having successfully flown him all the way home within a matter of mere minutes.

The journey had been incredibly swift, proving that the dragon’s newly enhanced dark abilities were perfectly suited for rapid, long-distance travel.

Eidbale was incredibly far away from Creville, which was the specific name of the massive adventurer city they had just left behind, but with Kael’s outstanding speed, he could easily cover the immense distance between them in minutes.

Under normal circumstances, any regular traveler or merchant caravan would have required several days of exhausting, uninterrupted travel across dangerous roads just to get from one location to the other.

Even a highly advanced flying beast would have taken a day to navigate the expansive terrain separating the two areas.

Yet, Kael’s explosive velocity had completely rewritten the rules of distance, turning a massive journey into a brief, effortless sprint.

Noah would have normally needed to cast an incredibly powerful and complex movement spell to achieve that exact same level of travel speed on his own, but doing that would simply consume his mana.

By relying entirely on Kael’s natural, physical flight capabilities instead, he could keep his own mana core perfectly full and completely ready for any unexpected battles.

It was a far more efficient method that allowed him to travel at peak performance without sacrificing his combat readiness.

He collapsed heavily face-first onto his soft bed, letting out a long, relaxed breath as the tension completely left his muscles.

"That was fun..." he muttered quietly into his pillow, a faint tone of genuine amusement lingering in his tired voice.

The thrilling experience of riding an ancient dragon at maximum speed through the clouds had been a welcome distraction from the heavy burdens and dark conspiracies he had been dealing with back at the headquarters.