Feeling happy that he is finally alone and free, Ryan who was rolling north west with his Kite and his Landboard travels in peace for about 3 hours. He stops at a small creek to get some water and then takes a break. He sees a peach tree nearby him and decides to climb it and grab a few pieces of fruit. As he grabs the tree and begins to climb, he hears something behind him that was disturbing the foliage behind the tree he was in. He ignores it and walks up and out on a tree branch and starts pulling off 10 peaches from the tree limbs and starts tossing them down at his backpack. He then dangles down from the tree branch and hops down to the ground. As soon as Ryan hits the ground somone comes from out from the tree and tries to pin him to the tree.

“What the Hell?” Ryan screams as he aggressively punches this person in the face who was tightly holding on to him. He then sees 3 other Highwaymen coming his way.

“Hey back the fuck up dude!” Ryan screams at this person that just let him go. Ryan was walking away from the man who now had blood coming out his nose.

“I was just going to steal your stuff but now I’m going to whoop your ass dude” The man wearing all black screamed at him.

Ryan starts walking backward and tries to keep his distance between him and these other 4 highwayman that were approaching him in a threating way.

“Hey dumbass I’d stay back. I am not afraid to defend myself” Ryan told this man that was still violently approaching him. The man then pulls out his sword from underneath his clothes and points it at him.

Right as he did that Ryan stops backing up. He then crosses his arms and takes a deep breath. The man keeps approaches him and Ryan goes to pull out his sword but looks over at his backpack and sees it was still strapped to it. As the man approaches closer, Ryan smiles and charges up [Chaos Bolt] using his Mana. As he starts to summon forth a black and blood-red fireball the man starts sprinting at Ryan at full speed.

Ryan then let’s loose this hellish spell. The spell leaves his hand and passes right through the mans chest and leaves a cauterized hole in his chest. The spell passes right through him and heads right on over to the other 3 highwayman that were coming at him. Ryan then detonates the spell in midair. The detonation sends a devastating blast that was equivalent to a 1000-pound bomb blasting through the area and blasts Ryan backwards into the creek. As Ryan gets out of the water he stands up and is amazed at how much damage he just inflicted on these assholes. He looks at the 4 dead highwaymen and just shakes his head at them. Ryan then has an incredible urge to scratch his left arm. He scratches his left arm quickly until this weird itch goes away. He then grabs his backpack and his fruit and walks away.

“Holy shit, that attack is amazing! I see why he doesn’t want me using it all the time” Ryan said as he looks over his shoulder as he walks away from the 4 scorched obliterated bodies that were laying on the ground.

Ryan then takes a bite of one of the peaches and unclips his sword from his backpacks and places it on his hip. A Blonde woman from across the creek comes running at him all smiling and cheerful and leaps carefully over the stream.

“Thank You! Thank You!! Thank You!!!” The woman screamed at Ryan while jumping up and down in joy.

“Umm? Thank me for what?” Ryan asked her seeming confused.

“Those assholes have constantly robbed me and my family of things! I saw what you did from my house over there. I really want to thank you for this!” The woman said thankfully while hugging Ryan.

“Hey that one asshole wanted to hurt me, and I gave him a warning to back off. I wasn’t going to let him, or his friends hurt me. But I am glad your life is going to be better now that I dealt with them” Ryan tells the woman.

“Just sit tight right here. I will be right back!” The woman screamed in joy as she jumped over the small creek again and ran to her house. Ryan smiles at her and sets his kite up departure. When he gets everything ready for launch the woman comes back with a fresh dish of peach cobbler and some alcohol.

“Here, eat this and take these with you!” The woman said while prancing around all happy in front of him.

Ryan smiles at her and takes a fork she gave him and takes a bite. Ryan’s then falls in love with the sweet and succulent meal that he just tasted.

“Did you just make this?” Ryan asked as he gently takes the cobbler from her hands and slowly starts to take another bite of it.

“Yes, I did! I made like 10 of them not too long ago!” She said while sitting down next to Ryan.

“So, what is your name?” The woman asked him.

“Ryan” he told her while taking another bite of cobbler.

“Well nice to meet you Ryan. My name is Stephanie. I really can’t thank you enough. I’m so happy I will not get harassed by them anymore thanks to you.” She said while still wearing a giant smile on her face.

“You are welcome Stephanie. Hey, I took some of your peaches I didn’t realize that this was your land” Ryan replied to her.

“Oh, your fine. I have plenty of them on this orchard of mine” Stephanie tells him

“Wait this is an Orchard?” Ryan asked her in a confused tone.

“Yes, this is. My family and I run a peach and blueberry farm here. We also Raise Cows and Sheep here and grow herbs and spices. On top of that we also make wine and spirits” She explained to Ryan while handing him a bottle of Peach wine.

“Oh, I didn’t know that. Hey, I really don’t need this” He told her while refusing the bottle of wine from her.

“I don’t really drink” He told her.

“No, I insist. Take this and the other ones too! Those thieve always stole barrels of our spirits from us. This is my thank you gift to you” She said as she put the bottle of wine in his backpack. Ryan rolls his eyes at this lady and just shrugs his shoulders at her as she starts stuffing his backpack with whisky and a bottle that contained something that was Green.

“What is that Green bottle?” He asked her.

“It’s Absinthe” She told him while clipping the backpack closed for him.

“What is that?” He asked her.

“Oh, you haven’t had it before? Here try some!” She said as she removed the bottle and poured him a shot. Ryan downs the shot and his body shakes at the high concentration of alcohol burns his throat. He then starts coughing. She pops the cork back in the bottle and places another bottle of Whisky back in his backpack when she realized she left a bottle out. Ryan Smiles at her then stands up as he keeps eating the cobbler.

“Hey Stephanie. I need to get going but thank you for this meal and these bottles of booze. I really don’t think I am going to need them, but I’ll at least try the wine when I set up camp tonight” He tells her.

“Okay Ryan!” She said as she hugged him tightly.

“Hey, I have a dumb question. How far is it to Blue Cliff from here?” He asked her.

“Blue cliff is still a ways away in that direction.” She told him.

“I’m headed there just for fun” Ryan told her.

“Oh alright. That place is pretty! We are coming up on springtime and the mountains where its located out will blow your mind” She told him

“Ryan then hands the completed Peach cobbler dish to her and smiles at her.

“Well I better get going. Thanks for lunch Stephanie” Ryan told her as he launches his kite up into the air.

“Hey what is that thing?” She asked him as she looks up at his kite.

“It’s a flying Sail” He told her as he hops on his board and tilts the kite and starts moving forward.

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“Oh, that looks like fun! Be safe Ryan!” Stephanie told him as he rolls away from her. Ryan then waves goodbye to her and starts rolling more to the north west.

For 3 more hours Ryan keeps rolling with the wind, but notices something. The more north he travels the more trees he sees.

“If the population of trees keep growing more and more as I keep heading north, I’m going to end up having to walk due to Wind shadow” He thinks to himself.

Ryan then spots a road and makes his way to it. As he makes contact to the dirt trail, he sees a sign that said “Blue Cliff, Sivika” 51 miles. Ryan also sees underneath that sign “Lauderdale” and an arrow that was pointing in the direction of it to the southwest. He also looks over to his right and sees a clear lake.

“I’m going to set up camp here for the night” Ryan thinks to him self as he brings down his kite. He then walks over to the lake and sets up his magic tent. He pushes the button on the side, and everything grows back up to full size and he assembles the tent like normal. Ryan then digs through his bag and finds a random old string that Citra left in his backpack when she repaired the kite line. Ryan holds this random kite line in his hand and has an idea. He takes the heart shaped pin he was wearing on his sleeve and bends the needle of it into a hook. He then looks at a tree branch and casts a low powered [Void Blast] at it and knocks the tree limb down. He proceeds to tear off a mildly long curvy branch and attach the line it. He quickly threads the homemade fish hook he had made on to the string and then finds a beetle that was walking along his path. Ryan picks it up and pierces the hook through this live bug and casts the line into the water. He also takes out a glass that Stephine gave him and pours himself a shot of whiskey. He then just sits back and relaxes.

By 8:30 Pm Ryan had already caught a fish and made a fire and was cooking it while mildly drunk. He had a hard time doing all this since being drunk made things harder for him, but he felt a sense of self-satisfaction for being able to do this. After he eats his dinner, he feels rain sprinkling down lightly above him and decides he’s calling it a night. He goes into his tent and lays down and then goes to sleep.

In The morning at 6am he wakes up and breaks down his tent, and hits the button on the case and shrinks everything back down to a minimal space and places it away into his backpack and grabs his fishing line he used last night from his homemade fishing pole and puts it back in his bag. He also takes the fishhook he made and also puts it in his backpack and pulls out a peach. He has a quick breakfast and launches his kite and starts moving again. He keeps rolling along for a few hours at 13 miles an hour when he starts to get a little bit thirsty. He looks for a water source nearby but can’t find anything. He looks at his backpack and shacks his head. All he had was alcohol available to him. Ryan shakes his head in shame and pulls out the bottle of whisky he drank last night.

“I really don’t want to start drinking at 10 in the morning” Ryan says out loud to himself.

He thinks about this decision and realizes that he is alone and nothing really bad should happen if he does do this.

“I mean if I think about it, I’m all alone in the middle of nowhere and I don’t have to worry about accidently saying the wrong thing to the wrong person if I do get hammered.” He says out loud to himself again. Ryan then smiles and pulls out the bottle and decides to take a few sips straight from the bottle. He puts it all back in his backpack and starts rolling again.

He sees a sign that pointed him in the direction of Blue cliff, and a sign that pointed toward Lauderdale again.

As he moves along for another 45 minutes, he was feeling a little tipsy and sees a lake nearby him. He wants to grab some water but at the same time he likes this buzzed feeling. He pulls out the whisky again and takes a few more large sips. As he puts his bottle away in his backpack however, he sees another group of bandits running out of the woods getting ready to rob him.

Ryan who felt higher than his kite right now, didn’t give 2 shits right now about these attackers. Ryan puts his hand up in the air and casts [Black Rain] on the charging bandits. This spell made Blackish red Fireballs rain down upon them into a pretty big radius and made everyone who was caught in his Area of Effect spell scream in terrible pain and agony. Ryan who was laughing maniacally at the 7 people who were severely injured and the 2 people that were dead from too much exposure from his spell then pulls out his bottle of whiskey and takes another shot and then pulls out his phone. He puts on the song “Party All By Myself” From Hollywood Undead and blasts it on Global while he gets rolling.

“This song is So Perfect right now!” Ryan thinks to himself as he keeps following the road to Blue Cliff.

As he rolls up a steep hill with his music blasting, he is blindsided by scenery that was on the other side of it. Ryan could see Mountains at the crest of the hill, and they were pretty to him. He then sees all the trees that were blocking his path in the horizon and decides to bring his kite down. As he brings the kite down, he has a hard time with his coordination. He was pretty drunk at this point. He pulls his flag line and the kite comes down and he staggers toward it. As he wraps the line up around the bar, he lazily rolls the kite up and keeps stumbling toward the nearest tree near him.

“How the fuck did I maintain my balance on my board!!!” Ryan thinks hard to himself as he turns off his music and lays down against a tree while he takes the scenery all in. Ryan next slowly starts nodding off under the tree. Ryan wakes up at 4pm with a heavy headache and a strong urge to pee. He waters a nearby tree and then collects his board and starts screaming in pain. He felt like someone repeatedly hit him in the head with a Rock.

“Damn it that was too much whisky too fast!” Ryan screams at himself while pinpointing this pain he was suffering from, was all his fault. Ryan also realized he felt weak and still felt thirsty.

“Alcohol is not a substitute for water dumbass!” He thinks to himself as he looks over in the horizon.

He spots a stream in the distance from on top of this hill and grabs his board and backpack.

Ryan hops on his board without his kite airborne and starts taking off down hill following the road down the crest of this portion of foothills. He picks up speed and reaches 30 miles an hour and goes down a left-hand curve and keeps heading toward the river. As he hits an uphill portion, he loses speed but then starts going back down again through the S-curved road. As he reaches the bottom of the valley, he power slides and bleeds off all his speed. Ryan proceeds to walk over to the river and takes a drink of water from the mountain stream. The clear and crisp taste of the water makes his sore throat feel better. Feeling happy Ryan leans down and dips his head into the stream to cool himself off.

He then proceeds to pick up his board and looks around him.

“I really don’t want to carry anything uphill” Ryan thinks to himself. Upon thinking about that he remembers he was taught [Void Storage].

Ryan opens up a small closet sized hole in front of him and places his board and his backpack inside of it. He then closes the portal and pulls out his phone. He starts walking north-west following the road to Blue cliff which he saw included a winding uphill path. He walks mildly uphill for 5 miles and then arrives at the town of Blue Cliff, Sivika. Ryan as soon as he saw the town runs to the nearby Inn and grabs dinner. Knowing he doesn’t have much money on him, and that it’s wise to spend as little as possible he opts out of getting a room and looks for a place to set up his tent. As he walks outside, he can see this town oversees a huge mountain lake just to the east.

While Ryan’s face lights up with Awe from the scenery, and the sun going down behind the mountains He hears 2 old men who were rocking back and forth in rocking chairs talking among themselves.

“Did you hear what happened to the Yellow tail bandits?” an old man asked his friend.

“Ya. I Heard that someone whooped their ass’s” old man number 2 replied to him.

“Well I heard that Sheriff Daniels found 2 of them dead, and 7 of them with severe injuries. The one’s that are alive are in jail as we speak” Old man number 1 said.

“That’s good. With the fall of the Disturbia anarchy coupled with that, I see the world is slowly becoming a better place now” Old man number 2 replied to him.

“Oh, speaking of the fall of Disturbia, Did you hear that Bunnell has a Son?” Old man number 1 replied.

“I heard that from a few people at the inn the other day. Do you have anymore info on that?” Old man number 2 asked him.

“I unfortunately do not. I heard her son was the one responsible for bringing down the Anarchy” Old man number one replied.

Ryan who was listening to them talking walks away and casts [Void Storage]. He pulls out his backpack and his board and puts on his backpack. He then hops on his board and starts riding down hill toward the lake that was about 2 miles away. He picks up speed and starts rolling 25 miles and hour down a trail that arced wide to the right. He then turns wide left and can see he was going way too fast to make the next right turn.

Thinking quick, Ryan burns [Ball Lighting] in a Reverse thruster type of way. He launches the flame in front of him instead of behind him which slows him down. He then makes a sequence of 10 S-turns down the mountain. As he reaches the end of the run, he leans his board toward the lake and runs over some rocks which catch on the board and cause him to jerk forward. He falls off his board and hits the ground at 7 miles an hour. He picks up his board and ignores his wipeout. He then sets up his tent and pulls out his bottle of whiskey. He takes a few shots and then heads to bed.

In the morning Ryan wakes up to a great view in front of him. He can see the towering Mountains that pop up and over the Mountain Lake in front of him. He smiles at this and takes off his shirt. He goes running into the water and dives in. The instant he hit the water he regrets it; The water was freezing cold.

As Ryan panics and gasps for air he stays afloat and walks out of the water. He takes aim at a Branch and shoots it down with [Void Blast]. Ryan then sets the branch on fire with a fire spell and huddles around the branch recalling that it’s not summer yet, and he is One thousand seven hundred feet up in elevation.

When he dries himself out, he looks at the map and tries to figure out what he wants to do next. He knows Ala-Ash lays to the north, but he really doesn’t know what he wants to do there. He takes down his tent and decides to walk north. As he starts walking north, he finds a path that he can follow. He looks back at his phone and see’s he is only 5 miles from the Sivika/Ala-Ash Border. He follows this trail up the mountain and then sees a trail he can mountainboard down. He hops on his board and rolls down hill and has a blast going downhill. He rolls downhill for 4 miles and finds himself in Ala-Ash when he comes to another uphill climb. He collects his gear, stows it away in the void, and then starts walking again. He finds himself doing a Walk uphill, Roll downhill routine while still exploring this wonderful world. At the end of the day he sets up camp near a lake and starts fishing and eating fruit that he collected along the way. In the morning he wakes up and does it all again.

For 3 full week’s Ryan finds himself Exploring the mountains of Ala-Ash. He comes out the other end of Ala-Ash and now is in Faterra. Ryan who was happy that he made it this far on his own falls to his knees in triumph. He then gets a tap on his shoulder.

Alex was standing right behind him.