Castle in the Wind.

 After clearing Yoshida-Shinden, I scaled towers using grapple points, gliding from village to village in search of Maita Castle. Through forests and shooting ranges, I moved closer, eventually meeting Igashichi who sent me on a glide infiltration. Ryoma joined mid-air. Inside, the castle turned into a battlefield with bandits, arrows, and blueprints waiting to be claimed.  After fighting and taking down the bandits and restoring public order to Yoshida-Shinden, I was looking for a way to get on top of the tower close-by. There was no ladder but I noticed a high point from where I could grapple and get up on the tower, where I found some loots.  Then I was gliding towards Maita Castle after jumping off the tower and when I was passing a small village, I thought there were some bandits below but no, they were ordinary peoples.  The glide lost power there and I noticed a tall open tower where I climbed up so I could try the glide again to get to the castle fast. And after climbing atop the tower, I was looking at the Maita Castle from afar.  I started gliding again and this time I was gliding through this beautiful forest where the colorful tree leaves surprised me with their beauty. Unfortunately, the glide didn't last long.  I guess I'm getting addicted to the gliding feature. I noticed another tower nearby but there was no ladder to climb up. I noticed this tall bamboo on the other side of a lake so I went there.   Using the grapple point of the bamboo, I could glide to the tower and after collecting the loot from the tower, I was gliding again.  The Maita Castle was still more than 700 walks far but I thought it was this place when I reached there as there was another sign on the radar that was close by.   I found this place as a shooting training ground where I could try my aiming ability. There I did great and won some medals I guess.   This time I was riding my horse as I didn't find any big towers or the ones there were, I didn't find a way to climb up. I rode all the way to the spot and then I had to rode on a big bridge that was connected to a cabin or something.   There I found Igashichi who gave me a plan. There were some bandits hole up in the castle (I understood I was not at the castle still) and I'll have to glide from here, to the castle to avoid enemy attacks. Once I'm in there, I just had to retrieve the blueprints Igashichi was looking for.  When I started the mission and was going for the glide, I noticed Ryoma came over to join me in the fight. I guess these missions won't be for me alone, which is good.  I was confused about Ryoma as he didn't have a glide but when I jumped and started gliding, I noticed Ryoma was also gliding right behind me.  There was this bandit below me whom I could air assassinate but I failed to do that as I was slowed down. I killed him brutally instead and he lost his left hand when he was going down.  Then I noticed an archer from a far saw us and was shooting us with fire arrows. I didn't wish to get close to him to kill him so I shot him with a headshot. We'll continue in another post with another game. --- **Thanks for reading. If you like my post, please follow, comment and upvote me. All the in-game screenshots are taken by me, just the games logo is borrowed from deviantart.**