Chapter 1086 - The Weakness of the Floating Cities
Reisin Garden, a floating city.
As the largest floating city in Rian Province, Reisin Garden was the ideal holiday resort for all arcanists.
The Reisin Garden floating city hovered above the Crystal Lake, beyond the clouds. Below the city was the vast and boundless Flowertalk Plains, where one’s eyes would get tired just looking at the sheer space. It didn’t matter which corner of the Flowertalk Plains you were in. When the skies were clear, and the white clouds could no longer conceal the massive body of the floating city, you would be able to witness its sacred and beautiful outline.
It was currently the time of the day where the sun was at its brightest.
Sunlight spread a gentle warmth throughout the floating city through the arcane barriers.
It had magnificent gardens, pristine white arcane plazas, beautiful fountains that were the very epitome of arcane civilization, proportionate, unique, and elegant architecture, as well as arcane casters with books in hands that lingered around the gardens, marble paths, and fountains.
Anyone would instantly feel peace and calm at the sight of all this. They would feel the dense, mature academic atmosphere of the arcanists– ‘to pursue knowledge, to yearn for the truth.’
From a certain perspective, the arcanists were truly pursuers of knowledge and practitioners of truth!
“Additionally, all arcane security squads are to mobilize immediately. They are to find the evil adepts as soon as possible and exterminate them on the outskirts of Flowertalk Plains. The three floating cities of Rian Province are responsible for seventeen percent of the arcane energy supply on the battlefield outside the plane. We must not allow the evil adepts to destroy our energy system!”
“Understood!”
Rian Province had three floating cities, and the enemy sent three parties of powerful adepts. The arcanists would never believe that there wasn’t a connection between these two factors.
The hearts of all the arcanists couldn’t help but turn heavy.
They had a feeling that these three adept parties were headed straight for the logistical energy supply of the Arcane Empire.
Once they stopped the energy transfer from the floating cities here, the Great Arcanists fighting against those powerful enemies beyond the planar barrier would lose their energy supply. When that happened, the Arcane Empire would no longer be able to stop all those evil creatures from invading Morrian!
While the arcanists were engaged in discussion, the entire floating city lightly trembled. A massive energy pillar rose from above the arcane tower at the center of the city. The column of energy pierced the skies and beamed towards a place beyond the planar barrier.
A massive floating fortress could also be found there, guiding the torrent of energy into its own dried-up elementium pool. The energy reserves of the floating fortress started to fill up at a visible rate.
Just two thousand kilometers away from the floating fortress was a space battlefield where flesh and blood were intertwined and where the distinction between life and death was nearly non-existent.
The hordes of strange monsters constantly clashed with the stubborn walls of the floating fortress. Energy pillars radiating destructive auras swept across the entire battlefield. Tens of thousands of creatures died wherever the pillars passed by, their flesh burned and carbonized to ash.
However, fighting in such a manner demanded a tremendous amount of energy from the fortress.
Every so often, a floating fortress the size of a tiny continent would retreat from the battlefield and descend close to the planar barrier of Morrian. They would then anchor their position and connect with a floating city within the plane and begin long-distance energy refueling.
Three floating cities hovered above leyline nodes across the vast continent of Kentos. They were taking on the task of concentrating and redirecting the arcane energy to the floating fortresses above.
Once the charging process was completed, the floating cities would fall into a short period of energy exhaustion. It was also the time where they were most vulnerable to enemy invasions.
To prevent the floating cities from being attacked by the evil adepts, tall arcane towers rumbled and flew away from Reisin Garden, heading somewhere toward the distant horizon.