Chapter 444 Gathering of Talents <TOC> Chapter 446 Farja
Translator: SumTLMan
A strange blue creature emerged from the endless sea, its transparent body continuously dripping with water, filled with seawater inside. It moved in a peculiar manner across the ocean surface, and when it reached the shore, the water on its body suddenly disappeared, and a handsome young man with blue fish scales on his forehead stepped out.
The handsome young man held a card in his hand and touched the fish scales on his forehead. A pale blue light enveloped him. Then, the light flashed, and a blue baby whale less than half a meter long emerged from his forehead, affectionately rubbing its face against his.
“Master, how did we get to land?” The blue baby whale flew through the air, occasionally spitting out pale blue bubbles.
“The Purification Garden is about to open, and Mentor has ordered me to go,” the young man said, stroking the baby whale.
“Master, you are the child of the ocean. Your body is pure and innocent. Why would Mentor ask you to go to the Purification Garden?” The whale wondered.
“I don’t know. Mentor has already gone to Sky Mechanical City first. There must be some changes there,” the young man said with a gleam in his eyes. “However, for me, it really doesn’t matter whether I go or not. But I received news that Miss Mein seems to be interested in going to the Purification Garden. In that case, I have to go.”
As the young man spoke, he combined the bubbles spat out by the blue baby whale to form a huge foam. He took the baby whale and dove into the foam, which quickly disappeared into the sky.
Meanwhile, Mein, whom the young man had mentioned, was in the Bliss World.
Bliss World is a famous subsidiary plane in the Southern Region of the Wizarding World.
There are no national distinctions in the entire Bliss World. It is primarily city-based, with self-control as long as one has power. Seizing a mountain and setting up a city is the rule here.
Every city here, though with different names, can be called the City of Sin. This is because, for the most part, they are filled with extravagance, indulgence, and all forms of pleasure available for consumption. However, it is both a haven for the rich and a hiding place for criminals.
In addition to the many Cities of Sin in the Bliss World, there is one place that stands out above the rest.
Its name—Blissful Pure Land.
It is also the main hall of the Bliss Pavilion, which is almost always ranked in the top ten in terms of power in the Southern Region of the Wizarding World.
At the center of the Bliss Pavilion, in a milky hot spring shrouded in mist.
Mein let out a soft sound, stroking her smooth skin, and slowly stood up from the hot spring.
Through the faint mist, Mein’s perfect figure could be seen. Though perhaps slightly slender compared to Nausica, her delicate and appropriate curves were even more tempting. Especially the pair of swan-like wings on her back, with white feathers falling when they moved, adding an innocent allure.
After taking a bath, Mein put on a thin, veil-like robe, picked up a card, and spread her wings, flying towards the teleportation formation.
“Sister Mein, where are you going?” asked another woman in the hot spring with an affectionate tone.
Mein didn’t turn her head and replied lightly, “Blissful Pure Land. I’m going to kill someone.”
Similar scenes occurred in many other places.
In a dense, primeval forest, a wanderer covered in green paint with a huge green bow on his back suddenly perked up his ears, hearing the sound of something piercing the air.
Looking up, he saw an arrow flying through the azure sky.
He noticed a letter tied to the arrow.
Drawing his bow, he shot an arrow infused with green energy towards the ground. Instantly, a giant vine leaf grew, and the wanderer accelerated, stepping on the leaf and flipping several times. He used the recoil from the leaf’s vibrations to propel himself into the air.
He grabbed the arrow mid-flight.
After landing, he sat down in the forest and carelessly tossed the arrow aside. He opened the envelope.
Inside the envelope was a faintly glowing, smooth card and a seed engraved with peculiar runes.
The wanderer glanced at the card, a thoughtful look in his eyes. He stowed the bow and arrow on his back and walked out of the forest.
Tens of thousands of miles away from this primeval forest, in a grassland, a captivating woman surrounded by flowers slowly walked by. With every barefoot step, a hundred flowers bloomed, and butterflies fluttered around her.
Her destination was the same as the wanderer’s.
A swamp monster, a waterfall ascetic, a bell tower watchman, a little witch with a black cat by her side… and countless other geniuses, for various reasons, converged under the ever-changing circumstances, all heading towards Sky Mechanical City!
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The Vast Continent was immense, so much so that many wizard organizations could not calculate its size. If one were to consider the countless affiliated planes, the area would be even larger. Each affiliated plane was equivalent to a world. Even if wizards flew, it would sometimes take years to traverse an entire affiliated plane.
Under such circumstances, although the Vast Continent had numerous countries, most of them only had impressions of their neighboring countries. Beyond that, they knew very little.
However, there was an exception – a country that was not only famous in the Wizarding World but also filled with legends in the mortal realm.
This country was called—Gloriosa Kingdom.
The reason for its fame in the mortal realm was that it exported prosperity, providing countless job opportunities for people.
Laying iron tracks, building trains, steel-crafting techniques, clocks, machinery, and so on… In just a thousand years, the world of steel and concrete began to spread from the Gloriosa Kingdom at its center to the entire Fertile Kingdom. By now, even the Eternal Night Kingdom, which is countless miles away from the Gloriosa Kingdom, has built underground trains, showing the influence of the Gloriosa Kingdom as a mortal nation.
It can be said that the Gloriosa Kingdom, with its own strength, has dragged most countries on the Fertile Continent from primitive society into the steam age.
The Gloriosa Kingdom is not only famous in the mortal realm but also has an undiminished reputation in the Wizarding World. Because the largest gathering place for alchemists in the Southern Region, and one of the largest trading hubs – Sky Mechanical City, is located in the Gloriosa Kingdom.
However, Sky Mechanical City floats above the clouds all year round, and even when drifting around the Gloriosa Kingdom, mortals have hardly ever seen it.
Now, Sky Mechanical City is suspended above an inland salt lake, and hundreds of airships have flown down from Sky Mechanical City to collect and process salt beside the salt lake.
Through the mirror-like reflection of the salt lake surface, one can see the colossal body of Sky Mechanical City.
The massive, all-metal mechanical city, occupying hundreds of miles, floats in mid-air. The dark mass appears like a gigantic monster. The continuous clouds in the sky cannot completely cover even a corner of this mechanical city, showing its enormity.
Not only is Sky Mechanical City enormous, but it also has a highly unified style.
Within sight, there are mainly metal buildings. Some are made of black iron, some of brass, and even some of gold and silver. In addition, Sky Mechanical City has another prominent feature: all chimneys are at the bottom. The smoke emitted is all directed downward, so the front of the main city of Sky Mechanical City is very clean and tidy, with no trace of smoke.
At the center of the main city area of Sky Mechanical City, there is an oval building. This building is the reason for the city’s prosperity – the Teleportation Hall.
As Sky Mechanical City is a neutral wizard organization and has many alchemists, they have direct teleportation arrays with most wizard organizations based on this point. This natural condition has gradually made it a popular trading venue for various wizard organizations. Later, Sky Mechanical City simply developed itself into a trading platform, building the famous Infinite Battle Tower and Sky Auction in the Southern Region…
Because Sky Mechanical City’s path requires external energy input, the Teleportation Hall has become extremely important.
On this day, in the center of the Teleportation Hall.
A young woman with brown hair and green eyes, wearing a star-and-moon wizard robe, stands outside a faintly glowing blue barrier. Inside the barrier is a teleportation array engraved with ancient runes.
The brown-haired girl is listlessly browsing messages received on her communicator.
“Teleportation attendant apprentice Cecilia, please note. Your shift is about to end.”
Cecilia had been on guard duty for almost two days now, and the teleportation formation connecting to the Fairytale World had not been activated. For other wizard apprentices, this might be an extremely easy task to earn magic crystals, but for her, it was not the case…
She chose to guard this teleportation formation, having secretly bribed a large amount of magic crystals to another apprentice. If no one came to Silent Hill, she would suffer a great loss.
As time passed little by little, there were only three minutes left before the task handover point.
Cecilia began to lament, waving goodbye to her soon-to-be-lost magic crystals, when her crescent-shaped communicator suddenly moved.
— A new message came from the main control console.
Cecilia was stunned for a moment, opening it with a glimmer of hope.
“Apprentice Cecilia, the teleportation attendant, please be advised. The teleportation formation of Silent Hill in Fairytale World, which you are responsible for, has been activated, detecting six direct lifeforms. Please prepare to receive them.”
Hearing the signal in her ear, Cecilia’s eyes flashed with surprise, and she immediately nodded, “Received.”
“Fairytale World’s Silent Hill?” A red-haired, flamboyant figure flashed in Cecilia’s mind; it should be him, right?
Cecilia took a deep breath, praying in her heart… it had to be him.
Then, taking advantage of the moment when no one was paying attention, she quickly took out her communicator and sent a message to another person—
“Someone is coming from Silent Hill!”
After a while, a message came back, “Received, I’m already inside.”
Cecilia looked up and saw a man in a brown trench coat and gray felt hat waving to her from a short distance away.
Cecilia secretly nodded and then walked to the teleportation formation.
As a flash of light passed, a group of people appeared in the center of the teleportation formation.