I continue to take a look out the window as I see the exterior bounds of the outer city reveal walls of red and white that rise imperiously in the distance.
Hills I had not seen in the distance before now seem to dominate the landscape beneath the mountain, replacing the sky behind it.
In fact, the closer we get to the city, the bigger the mountain appears. To be specific, you would obviously expect that the mountain would appear bigger the closer you get to it.
However, for this one in particular, the scaling is all wrong.
If for normal mountain, when you get one step closer it would appear one tis bigger, then for every step toward this mountain, it appears 1.01 tis bigger. And the multiplication is growing higher as we get closer.
Look at my scan, reveal that this scaling isn't an illusion. It really is that big.
Which should be impossible.
To figure this out, I use my inactivated scan to co back on, to review the previous information I knew about this mountain.
The size still looks to be the sa as before, having a base of 1200 square kiloters and being 44 kiloters tall.
With that said, the space inside that space is much denser and bigger.
To put it into sci-fi terms, I just walked into an extra dinsional space.
I think I should stop here, though. I'm getting that feeling again: if I go any deeper into the secrets of this mountain, I'll hit up on sothing that will alert people much more powerful than I am.
Focusing back in on the architecture side, I look at the walls surrounding this outer city. One of the first things I can notice is that it's not a singular wall separating the inside from the out. In fact, the wall structure seems to be like a lattice of interweaving structures. The coloring of it appears to be mostly gold, with so hints of red.
It looks a little strange, though, like I can't look at it for too long. It feels vaguely similar to staring at the sun.
Like I can do it, it feels uncomfortable.
I quickly shut off my scan when I discover sothing that doesn't feel bad to know, but would definitely make people curious about why I know.
The walls of the city seem very similar to magnifying glasses, and are made of an extrely hard glass-like structure. The lattice structure forms a bunch of seemingly perfect mirrors
Based on the setup of this and the right techniques, they could fire giant beams of light onto soone or sothing.
What's even crazier is that the height and depth of this structure is enormous. At least a half kiloter long on both sides.
And I an, at least, in a literal sense of the word. So portions of this wall extend deep into the city stretching on for thousands of kiloters.
Considering how the area is also compacted by the extra dinsional space, that also ans that it could be even larger than I can currently see.
This is probably one of the sects defensive super weapons.
As I continue to look out the window towards the city, i Lin decides to speak up.
Are you looking at the wall too?
I freeze for a mont, but then automatically relax when I realize that's a perfectly normal question.
She seemingly continues without noticing.
I really like the history of this city. One of the things you can see from the walls, is a big difference in color between sections. Those are actually the newer sections, that needed to be replaced after demonic sects all banded together to try to wipe the sect out.
Shes right and putting aside the crazy characteristics of the wall shows it has quite a difference in colorings. Seemingly random ones, in fact.
I take the opportunity to look away from the wall and at her, which shows that she actually is quite excited about this.
Her eyes still sparkling, she continues as if rembering the words of a ballad.
Waves and waves of demonic cultivators threw themselves against the shining walls, tearing their blinding defenses asunder. Clouds of ash and light dancing in the sky, the remains of both sides turned to dust.
When all was completed and the battle was won, to rember their fallen and to acknowledge the sacrifices made, they swore to build the new sections in rembrance of their allies and in spite of their enemies.
She takes a breath, and actually points to one of the portions of the wall that had a little more depth than the others.
In each of those sections, is a morial to millions of the nas of people that sacrificed their lives during those wars. Each na fuels the power of the defenses, for tis in the future. So those sacrifices, of that amount, never need to be made again.
So, that kind of explains why so of the defenses seem so excessive. They didn't do as a good job the first ti, so they rebuilt it so that would never happen again.
Her voice once again breaks up my thoughts, but provides sothing I wouldnt have guessed.
The reason you don't see any farms on the outside of this city, is because they are all underground. If there's ever to be another assault like that, they will never be starved or have to destroy their own food sources. The sect cultivation techniques allow their farrs to do such feats quite easily.
Oh, that's helpful to know. Maybe I can use that, when making excuses for the demi humans being able to grow things underground.
Of course, thats only after we get past the you're not supposed to have cultivation anyway, type of thing.
Her face seems to brighten a bit, as I realized she might have seen my change in emotion regarding her words.
If that's true, that also ans she's been able to tell when I do and don't know sothing.
I feel like everywhere I go, there's at least one person who has an ability that allows them to get so idea of what I'm thinking.
Can't a guy just have so ntal peace and quiet?
Putting those feelings aside, I'm surprised by how much i Lin knows about the area and various other things. My scan shows the ballad isnt exactly common knowledge. So aspects of it are known, such as the battle, but not as much as you would think.
Now that I think of it, if not for her, I could have made so mistakes in public that would have been a bit embarrassing.
The briefing by Ai, Lin, and Gong was helpful, but was more centered on sect-based interactions, rather than what to do in rchant spaces and other various types of situations.
I should congratulate her on that, it sounds like she worked hard to gain this knowledge and is not usually praised on it.
Making sure to look straight at her, I nod my head in approval subconsciously.
Wow. You really know your stuff.
It really sounds like you looked into this pretty deeply and it definitely couldnt have been easy to find. Im very impressed
My words stall as for the briefest mont.
It feels like the world practically stops, as her face and deep blue eyes happily shines like the sun.
Ti seems to slow down and my eyes catch a glimr of light shining onto her silvery hair, illuminating the area around her. Her cheeks emanating a soft red glow, while her hand brushes back a sliver of her hair back onto her pointed ears.
She quickly looks away in embarrassnt, her eyes beginning to glance up and down at, as she fights to keep a constantly returning grin from her lips.
My scan shows it's not due to so sort of magic, Illusion, or even hypnotism like I faced in the past.
Just a show of pure happiness, that soone has acknowledged what she's worked hard for.
From just these small words of mine.
And it's absolutely adorable.
So adorable, that my body subconsciously wanted to catch every mont of it and used its considerable ntal reaction speed to do so.
With this, its easy to see why even young masters were pursuing her at her age. When she grows up, shell be one of those peerless beauties Ive always read about in the novels. That doesnt even include when she starts cultivating.
Further refining that beauty.
Its honestly frightening to think of.
Luckily for , I dont feel any of that sort of attraction to her.
Because shes a child.
But not only for that reason now.
What I do feel, deep in my heart and in a way that I'm not willing to completely acknowledge, is that I swear that this girl was now my true little sister.
Cuteness of this level has to be protected.
If before I was protecting her out of simple, common, human decency now it is like Im fighting for family.
Lets see if anyone wants to test this daddy.
I, your grandfather, will show you the difference between Heaven and Privilon!
Ive spent too much ti on this world.
Sigh.
Lets move on.
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