The center of the five islands of Kamiriku - Helios Island.

The heart of the island of Helios is the hot spring city.

Sha Ting looked at the huge city in front of her and was dumbfounded!

At this time, she was on the wide deck of the "Gilding", surrounded by people like her waiting to go ashore. The double-decker passenger ship "Baojin" is waiting to enter the port, and the surrounding sea is crowded with various ships like it.

Passing the crowd and the dense crowd of boats, Sha Ting saw that the arc-shaped bay of the hot spring harbor was full of berths, at least twenty or more. Compared to this huge port, the port city of Satin's hometown, with only three berths, is like a small fishing village. Behind the berths is a planked boardwalk, and the platform under the plank road extends back to the gentle and wide low hills, where countless colorful bungalows are paved, all crowded on both sides of a wide bluestone avenue, and at the end of the bluestone avenue is the entrance of the hot spring city facing the glory sea, the sea gate. From Haimen to the inside, the bluestone avenue diverges into several roads in the shape of a star, winding towards the interior of the city. The buildings behind the sea gate are no longer just low-rise bungalows, but huge complexes that can not be seen at a glance. High-rise spires, domed attics, and stacked courtyards all have solid structures and colorful colors. Sha Ting tilted her head and tiptoed, trying to find the flaming lake where the Golden Crow Temple was located, which was said to be a huge lake, but her neck was sore and she couldn't see a trace of the lake. Only then did she realize that as far as her eye could see, it was only the edge of the hot spring city.

"The city is so big! Isn't it, kid? The old woman named Lesa beside Sha Ting said. She was a passenger aboard the "Seaweed Golden Crown". "I come here every year, and every time I come I feel like it's getting bigger than before!"

Sha Ting nodded silently, Lesa wouldn't know that it was the surging mood that made her unable to speak.

The hot spring town is indeed too big. Sha Ting recalled the Thousand Eyes City on the Isle of War when she was a child, and in her opinion, it was already a magnificent and huge city, but if the God of War integrated his city here, probably no one would notice the change. That's not because of human ignorance, but because the bosom of the hot spring city is too vast. In front of the cities that belong to the sun goddess, the small cities of Poseidon Island that Sha Ting has seen are even less worth mentioning. Even if you throw the port city and the seven or eight towns around it into the hot spring city, it will only be like a pebble rolling into a deep lake, without a ripple.

But for Sha Ting, the feeling of the hot spring city to her is more than just "big"!

Ever since her mother planted the seed of "Sun God Island Hot Spring City Golden Crow Temple" in the young Sha Ting's heart, she has been growing up with it. When she was repeatedly knocked to the ground by the hammer of fate, it was the dream hidden deep in her heart that supported her and made her stand up again! How many times did she silently recite the names of her mother and brother in her heart, and swore to them that she would definitely go there! How many times in the dark of night, when she drove the foul-smelling corpse carrier along the path of Cedar Hill alone, her dream was the star in the night sky that guided her forward!

Hot Spring Town!

She muttered those three words.

For a long time that she could not remember, the name of the city had drawn her in like a magical spell. She searched for a word about it in every book she wrote, she had seen it in pictures, she had described it in her imagination, she had visited it too many times in her dreams.

What a hard day!

Sha Ting gritted her teeth and survived day by day.

Therefore, when the moment of the dream is close at hand, when the mountain-like hot spring city lies in front of Sha Ting, she has a sense of unreality like being in a dream.

"That's what it is...... Hot spring town? Sha Ting asked, sleepwalking. Is it the city of glory under the blessing of the goddess Apollona?

She saw the high, narrow sea gate glowing with golden light in the rising sun, and it was said that it was the gate that the first great witch had built with the help of the gods. The people of the five islands of Kamiriku believe that the building itself is a spell and an enchantment, protecting the hot spring castle from war, plague, famine, plunder, and regime change for 600 years.

"It's ......... Is the city where the Golden Crowin is located? How can I get there? The entrance ceremony is about to begin! ”

The short old lady beside Sha Ting burst into a cheerful laugh, "My good boy! Sha Ting! What's wrong with you? Lesa leaned close to Satin's side and exclaimed, "Our ship has arrived safely!" Follow me, kid! The gods bless you! You won't want to miss the entrance ceremony! Lesa does what she says! ”