For the first challenge of the Caventry's Main Trials, Sato was to reach the designated spot on the [Staircase of Zolstice] within 48 hours.
During his entire adventure with 'Xue Yan', though it seemed short, Sato had actually spent more than 8 hours of which a majority was spent within the cavern. Now it was almost 12 hours since Sato had walked up the mountain but he was still a bit far from reaching the red stripe on the mountain.
"Huff, Huff, Huff."
Sato dragged his weary body up the mountain. He had been hiking for slightly more than 4 hours now and along the way, Sato had to face a diversity of monsters.
AN :
You might have noticed how my chapters have been short as of lately. It's thanks to my already stressful life getting more stressful with practicals and exams coming up and to meet up with my personal deadline, I decided to make them short. But the total amount per day is still the same(2 chapters/day that equals to 2000 or so words) as the previous one(1 chapter/day at 1600~2000 words)