Chapter 14 (2/2)

Hearing Konigs is ready to go, Riggan lowered his head and asked him to be careful.

「Hurry up, go.」

Following the instruction, the magicians mutter with ‘butsu butsu’ and Aifa flew up ahead. As if being pulled by the force, the magicians who stood around Konigs also floated and flew up to the sky together with the chair where Konigs sits.

While sitting and holding onto his chair, Konigs ascended at high speeds as if stretching higher and higher. He raised the edge of his mouth to the scenery of the cloud and trees that look small from above.

However, the magicians’ speed drop and they slowly ascend.

Maybe the height is about a thousand meter from the ground. Aifa who was still continuing to rise without dropping his speed noticed their sudden loss of momentum and comes flying back.

「It would be better not to push them too much. The flight magic uses a lot of concentration. If they go beyond their limit, their consumption of magical power will increase and the acceleration will slow down considerably.」

「This is good enough. I can see from here.」

Konigs looks above the sky diagonally, the flying island came into his sight, the castle roof can be seen.

「A flying island……」

「A, a building can be seen.」

「It’s a castle.」

Konigs corrected the words said by one of the magicians.

Looking at Konigs’ face, which gradually distorts in pleasure, the magician becomes startled.

Konigs’s body trembles all over, he laughed loudly as if exploding out.

「HA, HAHAHA, HAHAHAHAHAH! How could that happen? An island that dances in the sky, and a castle built on the island…… No, it’s a Heavenly Castle, huh!?」

After laughing for a while, he looks up at Aifa without hiding his excitement.

「Go as far as you can go! Look at the scenery of the Heavenly Castle and report back to me!」

「Yes, my lord.」

When Aifa replies shortly, he raised his altitude in one go. Taking his eyes off from Aifa and back to the castle, Konigs looks fondly at the island.

「I didn’t think my heart will shake so much at this age. What a magnificent figure! Surely, it’s an island where God lives, a castle where the God lives!」

Shouting that as he spreads out both his hands, Konigs stares with a look of envy at the Heavenly Castle.

「I want it….. I have to obtain that in exchange for anything……! If I can obtain that, I will not need anything else!」

Saying that, Konigs kept laughing like crazy.

【Aifa]

Flying high to the sky, Aifa raised his altitude safely and has reached almost 200 meters below the island.

Stopping his advance, Aifa opens his eyes wide to the majestic appearance of the island above him.

At the lower part of the island where the rock surface is exposed, a man-made wall and some sort of equipment are visible. There are massive gardens and countless white houses that could be seen above. And, the figure of the splendid castle rising above the hill.

「Do the castle and the castle town flies on their own… ..?」

At the moment when Aifa muttered that dumbfoundedly, something black and small appears one after another from the lower part of the island.

「…… What? No way, is this an attack?」

Aifa observed the flying black object for a while, but immediately remembered the emperor who is still below and began to descend at high speed.

「…… This is bad. If this is an attack, the empire will not be able to do anything……」

Aifa analyzed the situation calmly, but his expression was grim.