This is a multimedia webnovel with giant city-crushing monsters, a valiant man who dares to fight them, a hero who loses himself on a righteous path, and a darkness which conceives a profound love. But I suck at descriptions, so I strongly encourage...
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"I've been to the islands and I've seen the Fons Vitae, but this will always be the most beautiful place in the world to me. It was here that I decided to never give up," Hatasuko said as fireflies flew curiously around them.
"I don't think that Lumipyla is as wonderful as it looks. This is the city that somehow made Lazaro end up the way he is. It's not that I'm criticizing him, um, I'm a very nonjudgmental person, but there must be something else we aren't seeing. There's more to this canyon than starlight and fireflies," whispered Vaida as their vehicle rolled on.
Hatasuko glanced over the left side of the sail-rana and saw a small tree on the desert floor. It looked too little and flimsy to help them with any combat practice, but it astounded him that a tree could withstand the hard wasteland soil. Vaida quickly turned the steering wheel to the left so that their vehicle veered away from a large hole, though the ground was still very bumpy in this place. Vaida's two swords clanged as they bounced upon each other with each bump. When the sail-rana finally rolled a safe distance from the canyon ledge, the desert became flat and smooth. The wind started to steadily pick up, so the sail caught the wind and stole its speed. They were now traveling faster than ever before, but this also meant that Lazaro accelerated; he moved farther away with every second to pass. As they rolled by the luminous canyon of starlight and fireflies, Hatasuko saw that Lazaro and his sail-rana were now just a silhouette in the distance.
"Vaida, can you tell what that is? It's huge," Hatasuko asked, pointing up ahead.
The pulsing light of the stars and the flashes from the canyon walls illuminated a steady stream of water up ahead. The thin stream diverged around a large silhouette in the distance. The starlight reflected on the water and revealed the silhouette of a massive tree. Lazaro grabbed the sail and the foldable mast with both hands, quickly folded it in, and ultimately pulled down his mast so that his ship would roll to a stop. The sail-rana struck the stream of water before it slowed down, but the water resistance slowed him enough that he could step out into the ankle-deep water. The river then flowed quickly down a slope into the luminous valley, but the water was too shallow to carry away his vehicle. Lazaro pulled his sail-rana onto dry land and stood at the other end of the starlit stream. As soon as Vaida saw this, she folded down her own mast so that she would not have to drive into the water. As she secured the boat, Lazaro sifted through his belongings until he had everything he wanted. He left all his weapons behind.
"Hatasuko, I'm trusting you to look after my belongings. I'll be gone for several hours, so just try to keep yourself entertained up here. I think I left a hanging log in the tree; see if you can send Vaida up there," Lazaro yelled out from the other riverbank.
"Alright! We'll stay right here," Hatasuko replied as they rolled to a stop.
Lazaro let out a heavy sigh and then trudged toward Lumipyla. He stepped carefully on the downward slope beside the shallow stream of starlit water, though Hatasuko quickly turned his attention back to Vaida. Now that the boat became motionless, she stepped out of the vehicle and buckled her whip onto the back of her shirt. She pulled off her light jacket and tossed it inside the sail-rana. Hatasuko grabbed his sword and his whip from the floor, holstered them, and then climbed out onto solid ground.
