"There is a magic ladder in the store"
The apprentice's understanding of the moment ladder is still limited to the scene of similar circuit failure in Venevoise. "Are we leaving Blumnot?" In fact, we had just walked out of the tower's headquarters area.
"This is still within the scope of the Astrology Tower and is considered part of the commercial street. The Astrology Tower does not provide accommodation, man, unless you belong to the management staff. Apparently the person who explained it was replaced by Sauron. "The Affairs Department has arranged your residence and identity information, which is in the city of Brumnot. Now we will take you to familiarize yourself with the road, and you should note it down with gratitude.』
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Brumnot doesn't seem to be much different from Four Leaf Castle, the only difference is that there are no guards guarding the city. Because the edge of the city is the edge of the island, and no one can climb onto this floating island unless they grow wings.
The exit of the matrix ladder was on a platform outside a high-hanging island. When Uriel stepped out of the pattern of the matrix ladder, he almost fell into the clouds under the floating island. Runes flickered and pushed the clouds, revealing narrow steps leading down to the island. Blumnot is like a bright bubble suspended in a sea of clouds, and the refracted sunlight makes it appear near and far away. There are many fortress-like flying objects circling the city, with colorful flags fluttering from their spiers or tail fins faintly visible.
"That's a boat." Joey's tone was as serious as ever, "A boat like a carriage." He should be talking about its purpose rather than its appearance. But when the apprentice looked over, he saw a carriage flying across the sky. The horse that pulls the cart has four short legs, but has broad wings on its head. Even Joey couldn't tell what they were.
"I heard that his ability to identify mysterious species is as bad as his interpretation skills," Sauron quietly told his apprentice.
I just hope I don't have to tutor too much, Uriel thought to himself. There is more than one road around the platform, many connecting to other ladder base stations, and even more leading to the fog and sea of clouds. Each one looks full of unknown temptations. But he noticed that the steps seemed to float slightly, which would be a nightmare for someone with a fear of heights. The floating island is surrounded by the same platforms and stairs, like stars over the moon. Those are undoubtedly the base stations of the ladder. He somewhat understands what the so-called ladder traffic refers to.
"The steps are like duckweed on the water, but you will be fine if you fall." Joey said. "There is a large anti-gravity mysterious field around, which can catch every idiot who stumbles." Seeing that the apprentice seemed to want to try it, he added a reminder: "But he will also be fined at least ten Abbey gold coins."
Compared with life, ten gold coins is just a small amount of money. However, if it was used as entertainment, it was still too expensive, so Uriel immediately gave up the idea. "I have to walk over here every day from now on?" He couldn't help but feel a little afraid.
"This kind of teleportation magic is also everywhere in Blumnot. You can remember the coordinates of a certain ladder and then jump directly to it with the help of the platform." Joey said, "The ladders in the Floating Cloud City are all connected to each other. , the outside world cannot interfere, and the internal ladder cannot jump to the outside world.”
"Then why don't we do this?" Uriel has never been to the floating island, but the envoy must remember the coordinates.
"I don't remember the coordinates of Brumnot."
Uriel thought he was joking.
"The star gap is positioned by the stars" or the ring answered his doubts, "Bai does not need to take the internal ladder of Floating Cloud City, he can directly travel through the space through the matrix array"
Not to mention he can fly. The apprentice added in his mind, suddenly realizing that the gap between the two people was much wider than imagined. He wasn't sure he could be the messenger that Joey was.
Stepping on the steps, it sank as expected. Uriel felt as if he had stepped onto a raft in the stream, but he did not lose his center of gravity. The feeling is closer to driftwood on a swamp. The messenger floated, and the steps remained motionless.
Compared to the Angmar Tunnels and the werewolf's chamber in the Moon Capital, this experience was not thrilling. When he successfully approached the floating island, Uriel stopped. Blumnot's sounds, smells, and colors enveloped everything, and he realized that these real things were beyond his imagination of the city in the sky, especially the latter.
The City of Floating Clouds is a towering island in the clouds. The magic covering the island and the flying cars and boats will remind you of the rising bubbles and swirling foam in boiling water. The mountains and rivers inside are phantoms in the distance. In fact, valleys and mountains are as subtle as the veins of a drop of water or a leaf. Every inch of the river shines with the white light that water waves should have, but the forest shows a majestic and stunning dark purple, like an incomplete transition when the sun and night coexist and alternate, with orange-red and dark blue intertwined in parallel, with a kind of impact. The power to penetrate the soul. The clouds won't let you know anything more, he thought. Apart from telling you that you have a mysterious island in front of you, at most they suggest that the future is harder to predict than you imagined.
Joey said that the sunlight at high altitude was too hot, so the saint in the tower used magic to block the excess light, and also brought the entire Brumnot into the observation range of the observation station.
In the sea of clouds between the port and the bubble, the lighthouse shines day and night. A delta washed out by the river was closer to the shield outside the floating island than any edge. This highland was as conspicuous as a bonfire in the ice and snow, so a harbor dock was built naturally. People call it the Port of Far Light, but its name registered in the Department of Affairs is Provendel.
"You will be deeply impressed by this place in the future." The young man said suddenly.
After crossing the lighthouse, you can clearly see the star-studded port surrounded by the snow-white bay. The city behind it is built on the mountain, in the shape of a funnel with a wide top and narrow bottom. The coordinated rhythm and layering are really wonderful. Word. The loneliness caused by the isolated island in the clouds suddenly disappeared, and footsteps and laughter spread throughout Provendel; the air was filled with a sweet and strange smell, hot and humid coexisted, and the apprentice seemed to be walking in a hot mist, each receiving sensory signals. All his organs were working at full capacity, and he could hardly breathe.
"This is not only the island beach where the Yunhai boat is anchored, but also an unimaginable large-scale staircase shuttle station"
Uriel wiped the moisture from his face and said, "Large rectangular staircase?"
"Matrix ladder array shuttle station. The main body of the 'Star Gap' is right here.』
They finally landed in the harbor. The river flows into the sea of clouds, becomes a waterfall, and then floats around under the influence of the mysterious anti-gravity field. "If you fall, you'll get soaked," Joey added.
Wearing a silver ring, the guards' routine inspections became very lax. They passed the checkpoint in almost no time, and the purple forest and terraced town of Blumnot opened their arms to the apprentices.
Uriel heard the noise of traders and the sound of carriage wheels crushing stones, and the unknown bird song came from above his head. Two children were rolling barrels on the bridge, and a woman was reading on a park bench. Behind Uriel, at the port, there were shirtless stevedores working together to move a sack that was taller than a man. The carriage with the star flag in the team was placed in front of the owner of the two barrels of fuel and passed the level first. The mount flapped its wings and flew over their heads.
If you ignore the weird greenery and ridiculously big sun, this place feels a lot more familiar to me. Uriel followed the envoy across the stone bridge and soon saw the characteristic landscape of Brumnot. Well, maybe we have to exclude the terrifying number of stone steps...
As if hearing his voice, Joey stopped for a moment. He stood under a street tree on a fork in the road, stepping on the purple leaves that the sanitation workers had no time to clean, and fell into deep thought.
Everyone can see what the problem is. "Where are we going?" Uriel asked.
"Third Ring City, No. 222 Borg Street."
I really don’t understand why I can’t find such a clear location. He turned to the ring and asked, "Sauron? Don't you know either?"
Mr. Ring was not as brave as him, so he talked about him. "We don't come to Bloomnot very often. Most of the people here are ordinary people, so it's not interesting."
The messenger nodded the head that was not on his neck. Yuri suddenly remembered that the only way this guy could cross the city was through the Star Gap, and he couldn't help feeling resentful. Eventually he bought a map from a nearby store, only to find that it didn't have a complete route, just a photo of the current street. "Can I return it?" He decided to take back the words "familiar" in his heart.
"Tell it your purpose," Joey said.
"Can your instructions be more specific?"
A line of frosty characters appeared on the map: "No. 222 Borg Street, Third Ring Road District" Sauron was impatient.
The magic stirs——
Uriel noticed that a green arrow appeared on the photo. When he turned the map, the photo suddenly fluctuated like water, re-reflecting the scene in front of them. "I seem to have the knack." Uriel turned around the map, and sure enough he found that the green arrow also changed directions, but it was always pointing to the road on the right. "Just go this way."
With the help of the real-time map, Uriel finally found his new residence. Although he had many fantasies in his heart, the Sky Tower and the Affairs Department still used their wealth to make him realize the poverty of his imagination. The apprentice's new home was a beautiful double-storey red-roofed cottage, which also included a small garden planted with purple-leaf ligustrum and many hawthorn trees hanging down the back gable.
He didn't know what to say for a moment.
"You have many...many..." Uriel felt his tongue was tied. "I mean, do all the mystics in the tower have such benefits?"
"After all, you are Bai's apprentice, and you have already entered the ring." There was a ring-shaped depression in the position of the door lock, and the ring signaled him to use the silver ring to open the door. "He also helped a lot with the undead incident and Kamaria. This is considered part of the reward from the Saint, and is given to you through the arrangement of the Affairs Department.』
When you walk into the house, you will find all the furniture. Uriel could not tell the signs of use on anything, and he was even a little afraid to touch them. The surprise had already knocked him unconscious. The apprentice opened the window and had a broad view from the window sill to the lighthouse of Far Light Harbor. The clouds shadow the forest and the sky lights up, and dusk is approaching in the town. The intense colors at noon become soft and thick, and the floating island seems to blend with the sky. The rectangular platform connected to the long steps outside the bubble lit up in the sea of clouds, and Brumnot felt like he was in a nebula. He suddenly couldn't help but burst into tears.
"It's a rebuilt house," the messenger said. "It's fully functional."
And it's beautiful. He whispered back, "It reminds me of Knox Bar in Yotsuba City." And the red-haired girl with glasses inside.
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