Chapter 1519: Chapter 1517: Ancient Wizard Civilization World
Look.
Another world inside the dome, time seems to be at noon, and the sky is extremely bright.
Across the vast land, stand tall spires hundreds of meters, even thousands of meters high, appearing very slender, like toothpicks. Due to their height, most of the spires sway constantly under the wind, making one worry whether they might be snapped by the gusts.
But no snapping occurs, and this continues for quite some time until suddenly, numerous figures fly out from the spires. Some transform into streaks of light, traveling straight towards the distance. Some alight on nearby floating magic airships. Others summon magic creatures with wings and ride on them, flying away.
It can be seen that everyone is heading to a certain place in the north, forming a massive convoy in the sky.
And at the forefront of this convoy, strikingly, are massive black shadows akin to sea islands.
Upon closer inspection, on the "sea island" floating high above, more spires stand erect, surrounded by throngs of people. Due to the immense size of the "sea island," each person looks as small as an ant.
This is the Floating City, one of the top spell creations recorded in the materials of the Ancient Wizard Civilization.
Led by several large Floating Islands, the whole convoy moves forward and after some time, arrives at its destination.
And the so-called destination is an enchanting city like a dream.
The city’s buildings are bizarrely shaped, like stacked building blocks.
Some buildings appear to defy the laws of physics, such as ones with a base only a palm size, but expanding upwards like an inverted pyramid.
Some buildings are constructed from a pile of blocks, but the blocks are not fixed, constantly moving, sometimes forming a "door" shape, sometimes an "arch" shape, and occasionally collapsing into a mass.
Other buildings are directly living beings, specifically, a hundred-meter-tall giant—and the kind that’s alive.
The giant sits on the ground, with two lines of text written in the common language of ancient civilizations on its forehead, the larger letters resembling a sign: Barons Mobile Giant Inn.
The smaller text appears like a slogan: To celebrate the upcoming grand exploration project, the inn’s accommodation fees are waived starting tomorrow—today only.
The giant’s mouth is propped open by a thick wooden stake, and many people are coming in and out, including several bizarre figures. For example, some are short-statured, with oily green skin, similar to legendary goblins; some are robust, with heads resembling wildebeests, akin to legendary beastmen; and some are slender, with pointed ears, like the legendary elves.
Outside the "Giant Inn" on the city streets are even more types of humanoid creatures: blue-skinned mermen, centaurs, dryads, and even skeletons walking openly in the streets, creating a scene akin to an illustrated compendium of mythical creatures.
Notably, these humanoid creatures treat one another with indifference, as if long accustomed to each other’s existence, with no discomfort or resistance.
This is clearly a harmonious world, an unimaginably wondrous world.
One can’t help but be amazed.
At this moment, three long whistles suddenly sound from the city’s center.
"Woo——woo——woo——"
The city’s populace pauses briefly, then moves en masse towards the city center, with the convoy in the sky also shifting towards the center, nearly crowding the vast sky.
Looking into the distance, the city center, which draws everyone’s attention, appears quite ordinary.
There are no bizarre creations, no giant inn, only a square with a deep well at its center.
The camera zooms in, revealing dense magic runes on the ground near the well. The runes spiral inward, descending into the well, tracing down the walls, and vanishing into the darkness below, leading who knows where.
The camera stops, the scene freezes.
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In a magnificent palace.
The elder slowly raises a finger, pointing at the dome above, saying to Richard, "What you just saw is the world of the Ancient Wizard Civilization. I wonder if it left you in awe."
"A little," Richard replies after some thought.
Other things didn’t impress him much, as per Shalin’s development pace, he’s confident in achieving them one day. Numerous humanoid beings are also not surprising, as Shalin’s Tin Wood, Eight-Armed Skeleton Anan, Witch Demon Elder Ah Fu, Bi Bi, even Pandora, all fall into this category.
What really moved him was the building made of numerous transforming blocks from the scene.
From the materials within Balta, he learned this building, called "Wake’s House," was initially an idea proposed by a wizard named Wake. Simply put, the concept was to provide extreme convenience to residents; in the building, there’s no need to move—just imagine a room, and it would come to you.
It’s a lazy person’s dream.
For instance, if you’re in the bedroom and want to go to the bathroom without walking, in this building, you merely think about it, and you’d find the bathroom swapping positions with the bedroom—you’re already in the bathroom.
In Balta’s records, Wake’s House was originally just a concept, yet unexpectedly, it was a reality.
So what’s incredible about this building?
To be honest, actually... it’s not that incredible.
On the contrary, it’s somewhat low-level.
Take an example: if you really don’t want to walk, using other methods would be better, even installing a lot of moving walkways on the floor would be more practical than having rooms move.
It’s like being afraid of stepping on stones, so instead, you carpet the whole world rather than simply wear shoes.
A classic case of double effort yielding half the result.
Even saying double effort for half the result doesn’t suffice; a hundred times the effort for half the result would be closer.
Achieving "Wake’s House" isn’t exceedingly difficult, but still, a series of problems must be solved, resulting in just a slight convenience for the lazy.
Precisely this fact highlights, inversely, how advanced the world that could achieve "Wake’s House" must be; so advanced that they start researching something so low in cost-effectiveness.
That’s why Richard is somewhat astonished.
At this point, the elder glances at Richard, saying, "You’re a little surprised, huh? Well, you’re surprised too early. Let me tell you, the world of the Ancient Wizard Civilization consists of countless planes, and what you just saw is merely one of the more peripheral planes of the Ancient Wizard Civilization. The real Core Plane is a thousand, ten thousand times more astonishing than this!"
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