Chapter Fifty-Seven: Sky City, Murmuring Flowers
Thor is invited to a small airboat by the Witch of Sky City.
The technical content of this small airboat is significantly higher than that of large airboats.
Large airboats still rely on light balloons to take off, and witchcraft mainly plays the role of guiding direction, controlling speed, and maintaining safety.
But the small airboat Thor is now flying in is powered by magic.
Sky City can keep a huge island floating for a long time, let alone a tiny pocket airboat.
"The locals call it the Flying Carriage." The witch has just finished introducing herself, her name is Orna, Oliphia's close officer, and she is in charge of the internal affairs of Sky City.
In Saul's view, it's the same role as Hope, the butler.
"In front of it is the most beautiful landscape in Sky City, Huahai Street." Ona didn't seem to be in a hurry to bring Sol to Ophelia, but like a tour guide, she introduced Sol to the layout and scenery of Sky City.
Thor looked out the window of the flying carriage and saw the sea of flowers he had seen on the airship earlier.
When the wind blows, pink and white petals swirl and fly to the car window, and then they are quickly blown away by the next breeze.
"It's the most abundant plant in town, the Murmur Flower. In fact, we grow it mainly to strengthen the soil and conserve water. Onia really introduced it decently, "By the way, from here on, you basically won't see ordinary people." The minimum requirement to work here is also a Level 2 apprenticeship. ”
It seems that in order to cater to the fantastic beauty of the flowers, the architecture here is also very exquisite.
Most of the buildings on the street are small buildings with two or three floors. Almost every small building has witchcraft circles inscribed on the roofs and walls.
There are not many pedestrians on the streets, and some are in a hurry. A lot of people have flower petals stuck to them.
It seems that because of the hurry, no one will brush the petals off the body. It seems that these passers-by also blend in with the surrounding sea of flowers.
In front of the left side of the flying carriage, a window on the second floor was pushed open.
A young man with blond hair and a fair face poked his head out, as if admiring the beauty outside.
Then Thor saw him raise his hand and push a ...... out of the window Corpse.
The corpse's head and limbs were mutilated, as if it had been eaten by some creature.
When it fell down the second-floor window, there was a large amount of blood sprayed on the powdery white walls.
"Bang!"
The corpse fell on the street soil covered in petals, splashing countless broken petals.
When the petals fall again, the body is buried.
It didn't take long.
The moment the flying carriage sped by, the corpse suddenly disappeared.
Only the blood stains on the walls prove that what just happened is not an illusion.
Ona sat next to Thor and saw the scene where the body had just been dumped, but her expression did not change in the slightest. It was as if the blonde boy had thrown out not a corpse, but a bouquet of wildflowers.
"Okay." Thor smirked, "This is really still a wizarding world, not a paradise. ”
The flying carriage continues to move forward, the sea of flowers gradually disappears, and the exquisite landscape buildings have become upright row of high-rise buildings and small squares with different functions.
"This is the Quest Academy, and over there is the Practice."
There is no scenery in the Observatory, and most people are in the house and do not come out. Occasionally, there are people reading books in the square, and they look very hard.
But when the flying carriage passed by the practice house, Thor noticed that the small square here was much more lively.
The wizard in one of the small squares seemed to be experimenting on something. Coincidentally, the experiment failed, and the upper body of the wizard apprentice who was supporting him was blown to pieces.
A large amount of blood spurted out along with the pieces of meat.
And the wizard, who had nothing to do, looked at his notes and reviewed them, only concerned about why the experiment had just failed.
In less than a few minutes, Thor witnessed two fatalities.
But neither where the accident took place, nor on this flying carriage, no one made a fuss.
Only the pink petals swirl in the wind, as if disturbed.
Thor opened the window and reached out to pinch a petal, "This petal can't be made with human blood, right?" ”
Ona covered her mouth in surprise, and her words were a little playful, "Don't make fun of us, human blood stinks." ”
After passing through the practice courtyard and the knowledge court, and then crossing the dense living quarters, and a circular sea of flowers, the flying carriage finally came to the tallest building in Sky City, a light blue castle that could be integrated with the sky.
Ona smiled, with pride in her eyes, "That's the white glazed palace where the city lord is." ”
The flying carriage slowly landed on an open-air platform.
At the edge of the platform stood three men, two men and a woman, discussing something intently and intensely, seemingly unaware of the carriage's landing.
The two men were dressed in plain black wizard robes, and the women were dressed in navy blue dresses, their long hair was half-coiled, and the rest hung down on their shoulders and chest, and even their skin was glistening.
Standing there abrupt and dazzling.
After the carriage came to a stop, Ona jumped out of the carriage first.
Thor saw her walk straight over and curtsied to the woman in the blue dress.
"City Lord, I've invited His Excellency Thor over."
That woman turned out to be Ophelia?
She's not going to be waiting for me here, is she?
Thor barely felt the slightest fluctuation of magic in her, except for her outstanding appearance, she looked like an ordinary person in other places.
Ophelia heard Orna's words, stopped the discussion, looked sideways, nodded slightly at Sol, and then said to Ona, "Please go and see me in the main hall." ”
Ona curtsied again, then returned, not letting Thor come forward to greet Ophelia.
Thor was a little puzzled, and then heard Ona say, "Please follow me to the main hall to see the lord of the city." ”
With that, Ona walked ahead.
Thor followed, took two steps, and looked back at Ophelia, who was still standing on the edge of the platform talking to the two wizards.
"Maybe she'll go to the main hall when she's done talking?" Thor turned back and continued to follow Ona, "Looks like we're going to have to wait over there for a while." Maybe I can release Pell and Nirella, and Ophelia should be able to find her sister if she can sense me going to the island. ”
But Saul had just walked less than ten meters when he met Ophelia again!
At this time, the witch in the blue dress was discussing something with another wizard, a wizard who was different from the two previous male witches, and held a few snow-white manuscript papers in her hands.
The expression is calm and focused.
Less than three meters from Ophelia, Ona bowed again.
"Lord of the Castle."
Ophelia didn't even nod to her this time, and walked past Ona and Thor as if they hadn't seen anything.
Thor followed Ophelia, who had passed him, and turned back a little until he saw that the other party had also walked to the platform.
At this time, on the platform, there were two identical Ophelia!
Neither Ona nor the wizards who spoke to the two Ophelia separately questioned this.
"Is this doppelganger sorcery?" Thor couldn't help but ask Orna beside him.
"Yes, Lord Thor." Ona smiled and nodded, "The Lord of the City always says that time is limited and knowledge is unlimited, and if she can, she hopes to be incarnated in order to pursue more knowledge." ”
Thor couldn't help but sigh, "It's not difficult to make a doppelganger, and it's just a little painful to divide the soul, but at the same time, divide the soul and divide a part of the consciousness that can think independently...... Lady Ophelia is amazing! ”
He suddenly thought of Pell in his diary.
In fact, she was also the consciousness of being actively divided by the wind demon Pei'er.
Both sisters actually love to cut themselves!
(End of chapter)