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    <Six dayster>


    ραΠdαsΝοvel.cοm During the six days, Lyrian and the crew spent time taming the ostriches even more, well more so Alten and Leon, since Lyrian''s ostrich was already very obedient to him.


    While giving themselves time to hunt for cores at least a few hours each day, they also used the time to allow the birds to train to get better to climb the mountain, as doing it with an added load came to be far more difficult.


    The group realized they needed to train the ostriches to do this when they tried to blindly climb the mountain on the first day, only to fall back down after a few feet.


    They saw that the ostriches could freely climb the mountain on their own, but the added load of an entire kid seemed to be just enough to offset their bnce on the mountain, as they weren''t used to it, making it too much for them to handle.


    To deal with this dilemma, they attached rocks that were the same weight as them on their backs and allowed them to train on the mountain for hours at a time.


    ***


    Finally, at noon of the present day, the rock ostriches could go all the way up and down the mountain with the rock weights with no problem, being able to do so in only a few minutes.


    During this time, at the bottom of the t mountains at a farther distance, Cedric and his crew of over still over 20 kids had finally reached their destination.


    The forbidden area had not been easy for them, causing several kids to be wiped out from the exam before they reached the mountains, but they still arrived there nheless.


    With a confident and serious expression, Cedric vowed to get to the top of the mountain no matter what.


    Glis had also arrived there a day before Cedric''s crew and was already training her own ostrich to climb to the top.


    ***


    Back to Lyrian and the others, they were now prepared to begin the journey to the top.


    After readying everything that they had beenposing for the past few days, they got atop their ostriches and lined up at the wall of the mountain.


    Now, their ostriches had make-shift rope harnesses attached to them in order to carry the rocks, which made good saddles for the three boys that were riding them as well.


    "Let''s go," Lyrian said, as the three ostriches began making their way up the side of the mountain.


    Needless to say, the creature were extremely fast, climbing up vertically at speeds that easily reaches up to over 80mph.


    Their giant rock ws the which were the width of h hoops dug into the side of the mountain as they stormed up, clearly confident in their fearsome abilities.


    After a few seconds, Lyrian and the others began noticing several holes in the mountain that looked like caves.


    After two minutes or so, his ostrich jumped right over one, allowing him to see that a giant Rock Lizard existed inside, its eyes glowing brightly, seemingly ready to pounce.


    "Guys! Don''t go over the cave holes! Some of them have liza--"


    Lyrian tried to quickly warn Alten and Leon, who was slightly ahead of him, but as he looked up he saw a giant lizard suddenly throw its tongue out and grab Alten and his ostrich, pulling them both into the cave instantly.


    Leon and Lyrian immediatelymanded their ostriches to stop, "Go to that hole!" Lyrian yelled, as both his and Leon''s ostriches rushed towards the hole that Alten had been snatched into.


    The two quickly got off of their ostriches and jumped into the cave. The inside was nothing but a long hallway that was 10 by 10 square feet, already lit up with several amber crystals.


    "Where the hell did it go?" Lyrian said, confused at the speed at which the lizard seemingly disappeared.


    Finally, after a few minutes of running, the hall opened up to arger cavern room also lit up with amber crystals of various sizes.


    Looking around, several cave holes from the outside seemed to lead to thisrge cavern which was enormous in size expanding 300 feet backward with a height and width of 100 by 100 feet, and just from a nce, Lyrian counted over 30 Rock Lizards the size of pickup trucks inside.


    As they arrived at the opening, both Lyrian and Leon instinctively hid their presence.


    Thankfully, most of the lizards seemed to be asleep, so the two jumped down from the hall they came from and quickly began making their way further into the cave.


    In the end, there were fewer lizards, but two that looked to be awake. Leon and Lyrian quickly hid behind some rocks as they noticed this.


    Peeking up, they saw one was a normal Rock Lizard like the other''s, but the other was a good bitrger and emitted a dangerous aura.


    "It has to be a tier four," Lyrian whispered, for Leon to nod in approval.


    Therger one wasn''t made of rock, but blue crystal that looked to be extremely durable.


    ''That must be the Diamond Lizard that Alten spoke about when he was talking about the potential candidates of the golden core.'' Lyrian thought to himself as he witnessed it.


    Right below the two creatures, they also saw Alten and his ostrich.


    ''The Rock Lizard got them so he could feed them to the Diamond?'' Leon thought to himself as he observed this.


    As the two saw the Diamond Lizard getting ready to chow down on Alten and the ostrich, they looked at each other.


    Somehow, they seemed to already have a n in mind,municated through their own thoughts.


    Neither of the two of them knew if they fully understood each other, but trying to form a n here would only make them stand out.


    After putting their trust in each other, the two nodded, signifying to begin the n to rescue Alten and his ostrich.