Evin quickly started floating, so he didn't have to look up while talking to Snyden. It was a trick he learned eventually, where if he wanted to be taken seriously, he would float at eye level with whoever he was talking.
From the other side of the portal, a line of people ca strolling with Snyden in the lead. Evin counted three well-dressed females other than Snyden, which he presud were mages, and a fifty or so non-mages in total, all male and cleanly dressed, though not so fashionably.
'Gender discrimination?' Evin thought amusedly, but quickly disposed the useless stray thought.
"There's our client, he-he!" the man exclaid as he walked over to Evin to shake his hand, "Sorry if I've kept you waiting, eh? Took a bit of ti to gather all the materials needed for your project," the man said in a lively tone.
"No worries, after all, it's easy for us mages to keep ourselves entertained," Evin said.
The man seed much more polite compared to the last ti he talked with Evin, which Evin really appreciated.
"That it is. Anyway, let's sign the Non-disclosure agreent and we can get to work," Snyden said and brought out a bundle of papers.
Evin wanted to put everything on a World Contract, but sadly, the things weren't so easy to acquire that every business used them. So, he had to trust the integrity of Snyden's group and the Cosmic affiliation that it had.
"There are a few rather special children inside, so please don't startle, or be startled by them," Evin said, after everyone finished signing on their Agreents.
"You were so secretive about your dinsion the last ti we talked, I even had so dreams about it afterwards, you know?" Snyden laughed and the rest of his group followed behind.
"Please don't panic," Evin shrugged and channeled so energy to his shadow, which in turn widened and slowly engulfed everyone present. He then made the dinsion accessible to everyone present and the next mont, Snyden's group appeared inside his shadow.
Snyden whistled as he floated above the ground to look at the place in detail.
"Never thought I'd see a real dinsion in a shadow Only heard that the Oathbreaker has one in his possession, though his place doesn't sound like it's sothing so clean and nice as yours," he then comnted as he landed next to Evin.
"Oathbreaker?" Evin asked, curious about the new na he just heard.
"The current Mage King of the West A very mysterious man, to say the least. One of the strongest super-imposers who got famous by breaking the many Oaths and World Contracts he made over the years, which ended up crippling him greatly, but sohow ended up becoming the one who enforced those Oaths upon others. In any case, so say that his shadow also works similarly to yours and houses countless horrifying creatures of darkness in it instead of a bunch of kids," Snyden said wryly, gesturing at the World Sprites, who looked at the new group with unveiled fascination.
'How professional...' Evin thought thankfully. He was glad that the man, or anyone from his group for that matter, didn't inquire about the World Sprites and also didn't give Evin so weird looks for keeping a group of children in his shadow.
'Or perhaps they've seen many similar scenes in other dinsions and beca numb to it...? Wait, ain't that bad?'
Evin eventually rid himself of the random thoughts and focused on the conversation.
"Well, I got this all from the Cosmics, so I thought that more people would have dinsions similar to mine, although they could be pretty rare."
"Well, sadly, I myself only know hearsay about those dinsions as well, so I'm afraid I won't be able to tell you anything useful. And besides, it doesn't change the job we gotta do," Snyden shrugged and floated up once more to see the landscape again.
Evin could see the man take on a silver hue for a second, before coming back down. He then pulled out a piece of paper and started drawing with inhuman speed. A minute later, he gave Evin the paper, which had a fairly detailed first draft for the town. Evin looked at the paper for a while, before nodding with fascination.
Aside from the buildings being arranged in a circular way that was very pleasing to the eyes, Snyden had also left so reasonable explanations for his choice of their locations, like living areas being a bit distanced from the noisier central areas which included the business buildings and the central hall He'd even left so empty space that was reserved for possible future projects like workshops, slting stations, and blacksmithing places.
As far as Evin could tell, there wasn't much to judge about it all, even if he wanted to be nitpicky. Even the arrangent of underground infrastructure like the sewage lines seed perfectly planned.
"Very impressive," he comnted in the end.
"Well, your dinsion is relatively empty, which makes my job very easy. And your arrangent of the trees there also helped decide the overall shape of the town to be a collection of circular pockets. Almost everyone opts for a neat arrangent of perfect squares or rectangles, which honestly, gets a bit boring after the 20th ti. I'm a goddamn artist at heart, not soone who draws a bunch of squares! Though, don't tell my other clients that, alright?" Snyden laughed.
"Don't worry about that. Anyway, let's go with this plan, if you don't have any other revisions."
"Perfect. Ah, how I wish every custor was the sa as you, so unpretentious and easy to talk with. So people just can't get over their need to make at least 10 revisions before starting the project... Sigh, co on over, girls," Snyden said with a big sigh and called over the three mages.
The three looked over the plan for a bit as Snyden described so details, and then the group went towards the monunt of trees, where the World Sprites were chilling.
One of the female mages pulled out a gigantic pile of what should be listone, dirt and pebbles from a storage ring and started mixing them together. The other pulled out a river of muddy water and started mixing them together with the earthen ss that the other was working on.
'An Earth Mage and a Water Mage...' Evin thought, pleasantly surprised by the fact that he wasn't being weirded out by the sight of the swirling mass of muddy water.
The non-mages, on the other hand, pulled out a variety of thinned out logs and planks (all of which seed to be weightless) from Snyden's storage ring, and started building a fra of a house. So ti later, the two-girl-show continued to its next phase, and they started adding the binder to the wooden fras of buildings. The third mage, on the other hand, used a heating spell on the listone to dry it faster.
'Cool,' Evin thought and then walked over to the World Sprites to see Snyden's group work on his town.
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