High Above

  Chapter 468 The Eternal Fortified City (43, end of travel chapter, leave tomorrow!)

   That's the way it is.

  After the incident of Feiyandi pretending to be the Dragon Cult and raiding the scholar group participating in the Gushan Conference was roughly over, only a small number of people noticed that Ian and his party suddenly disappeared.

   Except for Tres, those who knew about this matter chose to keep silent.

  They aren't necessarily the elite of their respective divisions, but having been undercover for so long, they've learned how to manage their curiosity...and maintain appropriate silence.

   So, after a while.

  Late at night, light rain.

  Ian, who was riding a dark blue scaled horse, and another horse with red scales, carrying a saluting horse, followed the track at a brisk pace, heading north.

  Two goblins whirled and danced beside the horse and the boy, laughing happily.

The surrounding area of ​​Lianli Town is full of moonfire grass, which is a kind of sublimation plant that can be used to prepare alchemy potions related to light. When they are hit by raindrops, they will emit a glowing light like a faint flame. Speeding past is like being surrounded by countless stars.

  Smelling the faint fragrance of plants and flowers in the dark summer night, the young man smiled and stood side by side with countless fluorescent lights in the night rain.

   Then, the light rain gradually subsided.

  In this starless and moonless night, the earth should have been shrouded in darkness.

  However, at the far end of the sky, where the long clouds overlap, there is a faintly lit beam of light reaching to the sky, so huge that it seems to penetrate the sky and the earth, standing at the end of the eye's field of vision.

  The colorful rainbow light spread around the clouds, but the light beam itself broke through the cover of the clouds and mountains, and reached the sky.

-what is this? Where did the light come from, so huge and bright?

  When the young man saw this, he was slightly taken aback, thinking about these questions instinctively.

   But then, he urged the horse forward.

  He and the goblins came to the top of a hill, looking far away, the center of the vast Quinnor Plain.

   Then, Ian briefly forgot to think.

  He heard the sound of the wind.

  The landform of the Setar Empire is very strange. The whole country is surrounded by many mountains, which can almost be said to be blocked.

Even if there is moisture from south to north from the South Ridge, Karan Mountains and Falut Mountains, and moisture from north to south in the direction of Meditation Sea and Wusha Port, it is impossible to make the heart of the empire moist. It is mild enough to be cultivated normally, allowing people to live comfortably.

  Even if someone wiped out all the towering mountains in the empire, it would be the same.

   But now, he understands a little bit.

In the summer of Quinol Plain, the sea breeze blowing from the Nanling Eternal Ocean is surging. This wind passes through the vast forest beside the Baisen Mountains, and then passes through the boundless golden field. The lake, passing through the vast hills and forests and the sea of ​​​​big trees in the Jerol area, proceeded straight along a long road.

Of course, the wind that passes through the vast natural circulation in the world is not so persistent because of nature itself, but because of a force, a force that originated from people but is beyond the natural circulation, so it is persistent all the way come here.

  After the rain, the cool wind blew the boy's hair and moved it forward, but Ian didn't have the energy to care about this trivial matter. He squinted his eyes and stared at the magnificent giant structure that emerged in front of him as much as possible.

   That is a huge spectacle beyond the essence of this era.

Under a huge beam of light that pierces the sky and the earth, there is a black shadow that is even bigger than the mountains that rise one after another. It is like a lonely mountain standing in the boundless plain. , the only giant structure that can block the human line of sight.

  Its majestic figure stands in the middle of the Quinol Plain, and its majesty is unparalleled.

  Shadows cover it, but there are layers upon layers, tiny things that are glowing and shimmering on its surface.

  The wind went towards it, as if attracted by the deep gravitational abyss, and seemed to want to be part of the beam of light that ran through the entire planet's atmosphere.

   This is a city.

  A giant city built on steel peaks and 10,000-meter isolated mountains!

  Ian was riding on the horse, and he looked into the distance, quietly staring at this huge, behemoth covered in shadow. It is like a volcano rising from the flat ground, with a height of 10,000 meters and a width of more than 15 kilometers, but there is a thicker foundation deep in the earth, and the metal structure reflecting the moonlight in the distance is glowing brightly. And the nozzle that was releasing the bright beam of light made the boy recall something.

"how can that be…"

  Ian whispered to himself, and the young man stared at the outline of the huge city curiously and perplexedly with blank and longing eyes.

  He shook his head slightly: "This is a planetary engine?!"

   "No... this is, this is a planetary shield generator?!"

   Nobody answered his question, not even a goblin.

  Hua An and Shuang Die stared together at the magnificent spectacle in the distance, the little fairy fell into a kind of shock at the majestic beauty, and Miss Fairy just felt that she should not speak at this moment.

   Until they heard a roar.

  Boom, boom.

The running sound of the alchemy furnace of the train was heard on the track, and the whistling of the engine was endless. The boy turned his head and looked at the track beside the road. An alchemy train was driving straight forward, passing him, across the town and the countryside, towards the plain. Central gallop.

   Not just one of them.

  Ian turned his head, and he looked around the entire Quinnor Plain. On this land covered by moonlight and darkness, there were many tiny spots of light flickering, converging towards the huge city.

  The trains merged into it like water droplets made of steel merged into the ocean of steel... Dense black spots and light spots interlaced, moving slowly on this lonely mountain made by manpower.

   That is the human city, the moss covering the shell of the mountains.

yes. Years, decades, hundreds of thousands of years have passed on Terra like this.

  Time leaves marks on the steel, and the earth repeats the cycle of fertility and barrenness until mushrooms and moss grow on the rocks, until the seeds grow into towering trees.

  Traces of human habitation, human cities, are just like that kind of moss, just like that kind of big tree.

  You can see the imperial capital here. And here is the imperial capital.

"I see."

  Looking at the city, Ian whispered to himself.

  He smiled softly, raised his head, and looked up at the turbulent rain clouds, as if he had returned to that rainy night four years ago.

  There is no thunder in the sky at this moment, but there is a beam of light that is more dazzling than the thunder, reaching the sky.

   "Teacher, I understand."

  The young man spoke softly to Gao Tian with a nostalgic tone: "Yes, yes. This is what you told me, and you passed it on to me."

   "You want to teach me, entrust me..."

   "Eternal and unmovable, fortified city."

   Arrive at the imperial capital, ask for a monthly pass!

   It will be closed tomorrow!

  (end of this chapter)