As Varian just left Thunder Region, Ashtarh team continued to face the challenge.
Unlike Thunder dynamites, the 'flag' was a very precious item. Thus, the difficulty rose exponentially.
How?
It took them a while to realize they weren't fighting Thunder Knights and Golden Griffins, but Thunder Knights with Golden Griffins.
Yep!
As the golden griffins dived down, the full-body armored humanoid knights mounted the creatures.
The griffins, five in each group, formed huge lighting circles once again.
This time, the lightning circles were also powered the Thunder Knights and each of the strikes turned deadly.
So, they had to dodge each attack.
When they did, some of the thunder knights would throw lightning spears at them, and Tiama was almost impaled by a spear.