That's the way it is.

After the incident of the Flying Flame Land disguised as the Dragon Worship Sect and the raid on the group of scholars participating in the Lonely Mountain Conference was roughly over, only a few people noticed that Ian and his party had suddenly disappeared.

Except for Tress, everyone who knew about it chose to keep silent.

They don't all have to be elite in their respective departments, but having been undercover for so long, they've long since learned how to manage their curiosity...... with proper silence.

So, after a while.

Late at night, light rain.

Ian, riding a dark blue scaled steed, and another saluting horse with crimson scales, followed the track with a brisk pace towards the north.

Two elves whirled and fluttered at the sides of the horse and the boy, laughing merrily.

The area around Latch Town is planted with Moonfire Grass, a sublimation plant that can be used to concoct alchemical potions related to light, and when they are struck by raindrops, they emit a glow like a ghostly flame, and they speed past the meadow as if they were surrounded by countless stars.

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

Then, the light rain gradually stopped.

In this dark night without stars and moons, the earth should have been shrouded in darkness.

However, on the other side of the sky, where the clouds overlapped, there was a faint light that connected to the sky, so huge that it seemed to run through the heavens and the earth, standing at the end of the horizon.

Colorful rainbow light spread around the clouds, and the beam itself broke through the obscuration of the clouds and mountains to the sky.

- What is it? Where did the light come from, so large and bright?

When the boy saw this, he was slightly stunned, and instinctively thought about these questions.

But then, he urged the horse forward.

He and the elves came to the top of a hill and looked far away, in the middle of the vast plain of Quinol.

Then, for a moment, Ian forgot to think.

He heard the sound of the wind.

The terrain of the Sertar Empire is very strange, and the entire country is surrounded by many mountain ranges, which can almost be said to be blocked.

Even if there is moisture from south to north from the South Ridge, Karan Mountains, and Farut Mountains, and from north to south from the Meditation Sea and Fog Harbor, it is impossible for the heart of the empire to be moist and mild enough to be cultivated normally, so that people can live comfortably.

This is true even if someone sweeps away all the towering mountains within the empire.

But now, he understands something.

In the summer of the Quino Plains, the sea breeze blows from the eternal silence of the South Ridge, and this wind sweeps through the vast forests of the Baissen Mountains, and passes through the vast golden fields, and it crosses the Hurricane Bridge, blows the Black Lake, and passes through the vast hills and forests and large trees of the Gerol region, and follows a long road straight ahead.

Of course, the wind that passes through the vast natural cycle of heaven and earth is not so persistent because of nature itself, but because of a force, a force that originates from people but is beyond the natural cycle, so it will come all the way to this place.

The cool wind after the rain ruffled the boy's hair and stirred forward, but Ian didn't have the energy to care about the trifle, he narrowed his eyes and stared as much as he could at the majestic structure that emerged before his eyes.

It was a spectacle beyond the nature of this era.

Beneath a huge pillar of light that pierced the heavens and the earth, there was a black shadow that was even greater than the mountains that rose and fell, it was like a lonely mountain standing in the middle of the endless plain, and it was the only giant structure that could obscure the vision of human beings on the land where there was nothing that obstructed the vision of the people around them.

Its majestic form stands in the middle of the Quino Plain, and its majesty is incomparable.

Shadows covered it, but there were layers of it, glowing tiny things shimmering on its surface.

The wind was heading towards it, as if drawn by a deep gravitational abyss, and seemed to want to be part of the pillar of light that ran through the entire planet's atmosphere.

It's a city.

A giant city built on steel peaks and 10,000 meters of lonely mountains!

Ian sat on top of his horse, and he gazed silently into the mammoth of the massive, shadowed behemoth. It was like a volcano rising from the ground, 10,000 meters high and more than 15 kilometers wide, but there were even deeper foundations in the depths of the earth, and the metal structure reflecting the moonlight in the distance was scorching, and the jets that were releasing the pillars of light that were shining brightly reminded the boy of something.

"How is this possible......"

Ian whispered to himself, and the boy stared at the outline of the huge city with a blank and yearning gaze, curious and confused.

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

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

No one answered his question, not even the goblins.

Birch and Frost Butterfly both gazed at the magnificent spectacle in the distance, and the little goblin fell into a shock at the majestic beauty, and Miss Elf just felt that she should not speak at this moment.

Until they heard a roar.

Boom, boom.

The sound of the alchemy furnace of the train sounded on the tracks, the roar of the engine was incessant, the boy turned his head sideways, looked at the track beside the road, and an alchemy train drove straight forward, past him, over the town and the countryside, towards the center of the plain.

It's not just that.

Ian turned his head, and he looked around the plain of Quenor, where the moonlight and darkness were covered in a mixture of moonlight and darkness, and there were many points of light that shimmered with tiny light, converging towards the huge city.

Trains merge into the ocean like droplets made of steel into the ocean...... Dense black dots and light spots are intertwined, slowly moving on this lonely mountain made of manpower.

That's the human city, the moss that covers the crust of the mountains.

Oh, yes. Days, years, decades, hundreds of millennia have passed on Terra.

Time marks 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.

The traces of human habitation, the human city, are just that kind of moss, just such big trees.

The imperial capital can be seen here. And this is the imperial capital.

"I see."

Gazing at the city, Ian muttered to himself.

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

At this moment, there was no thunder in the sky, but there was a pillar of light that was more scorching than thunder reaching the heavens.

"Teacher, I see."

The young man whispered softly to Gao Tian in a nostalgic tone: "Yes, yes. That's what you told me, what you passed on to me. ”

"The ...... you want to teach me, entrust to me"

"Eternal immovable, fortified city."

------Off topic------

When you arrive in the imperial capital, ask for a monthly pass!

Closed tomorrow!

Lewen