191 A Shocking City Part 2 (1/2)
Noticing that they were about fifty miles from Alchemy City, Saleen asked, ”Lex, what does Alchemy City look like?” At this point, they were able to move at full speed. Sika’s injuries had completely healed, and a distance of fifty miles could be covered within an hour.
”No idea,” Lex replied simply, making Saleen scratch his head in confusion. He thought that Lex knew the affairs of the Qin Empire like the back of her hand. That should have included Alchemy City.
”All of us were in such a rush that I had no time to contact my people,” Lex explained. Upon seeing Saleen’s ignorant expression, Lex laughed. ”Alchemy City is not just any city. Its structure constantly changes. Even the magic towers outside the city are like this.”
Instead of feeling enlightened, Saleen was even more confused by Lex’s words. However, he stopped questioning her. He believed that he would get all his answers when they reached their destination. After all, seeing was believing.
Saleen had never been to Alchemy City, but since his mentor, Jason Statham, had originated from the area, he had a good feeling about the place.
Initially, Saleen had thought that after seeing Holy Rock City, the grandeur of other cities would not impress or shock him at all. However, he had been wrong. Saleen could clearly see the outline of Alchemy City, even though he was dozens of miles away from it.
He did not see city walls. He did not see magic towers, either. The sight that greeted him was a vast urban network of towering buildings.
Left with only five miles to the city, Saleen utilized his icy sight to get a better look at the magic tower located just outside the city borders. However, the buildings inside the city were far taller than the magic towers.
Just what kind of buildings are they? They’re even taller than a ten story magic tower! Saleen thought, bewildered. He did not even need his special powers to know that most of these buildings were taller and bigger than the main gates of the imperial palace. He vaguely remembered reading a book about the holy church in the glorious city being the Myers Mainland’s tallest building. However, upon seeing the buildings in Alchemy City, he began to doubt the book’s claims.
People who did not know better might have thought that Alchemy City had no walls. However, that was not the case. The walls had been designed to suit the styles of different parts of the castle. Hence, they were not uniform. The walls were rugged, although pleasing to the eye. To further enhance the artistic beauty of the walls, the designers had even included sculptures to them. Not only were they beautiful, but they were also practical. Fully trained swordmasters no longer needed to use ladders to climb over the walls anymore. They could simply consider scaling the wall as a rock-climbing activity.
Most castles like this were built out of low-quality magical materials. However, no matter how inferior these materials were, they could still be used to construct magic towers. The walls of the castle – the sculpted areas and magical patterns – were not painted on, nor had they been artificially colored by other means. These features had been solely determined by the natural colors and textures of the stones themselves.
The main gates leading to Alchemy City did not appear to be average city gates to Saleen.
At the end of the road leading into the city were two tall statues standing as if they were waiting for a person’s arrival. They were so tall, standing eighty meters high, that a person would get vertigo trying to gaze up at them. They looked eerily lifelike, and were clad in animal skin clothing. Their eyes were designed such that they looked downwards. One of them even had a sword in its hand.
As soon as Saleen saw a third eye on the forehead of the statue, he realized that the statue was actually an homage to three-eyed giants.
The giant dimension had vanished long ago. Unlike the death dimension, where there were living, breathing creatures that could be summoned by necromancers, the giant dimension was nothing but a myth. It was a legend told in folklore.
Beneath the sword lay a statue of a giant dragon’s head. Besides fulfilling its function as a decoration, the dragon head statue was also the main gate leading into Alchemy City. All of a sudden, Saleen felt a gust of power surge through him.
He had seen giant dragons in real life. Yet, the amount of power radiating from this dragon head statue rivalled that of a real-life dragon.
The design of this main gate had definitely been inspired by the only Myers-based mythological folklore. The event had supposedly taken place thirty thousand years ago.
The gods had their eyes on the Myers Mainland for a long time due to its abundance of fertile land. In order to obtain it, they started a war between dimensions. Humans, along with hundreds of creatures from different dimensions, fought against the gods for the right to rule Myers Mainland.
The three most fearless tribes under the command of the humans were the devil tribe, the dragon tribe, and the giant tribe. When the gods were forced to retreat, all seemed lost for them as they prepared to give up the portal that allowed them to travel to different dimensions. However, it was a frail-looking runt-like god that managed to tempt one of the most important figures of the dragon tribe. This caused at least half of the giant dragons to betray the humans.
Rumors spread like wildfire. In no time at all, almost all of the magical creatures from different dimensions came to a consensus. All magical beings that existed in the human dimension had to be eliminated. This sparked many wars and even more rumors, the stories becoming even more distorted each time they were told. Despite having sewn discord amongst the humans and magical creatures, the gods had still lost the right to rule the Myers Mainland. However, it was because of this that the humans allegedly severed all ties with their best companions – the giant tribe.
The giants had expressed their disappointment over these wars time and time again, hoping that humans could at least make peace with the gods. They felt that wars were unnecessary and almost always implicated the innocent. After helping mankind slaughter the dragons who had betrayed them, they disappeared. Legend had it that they broke through the physical limitations of the magical dimension and travelled on to another world – one that was much larger than their homeland.
No one really remembered what happened after that, but one could probably imagine how chaotic it must have been and the amount of mayhem and pandemonium that must have arisen because of these wars. The only thing that people could remember was the emergence of a new god – Myers.
The Myers Goddess did not care if nobody believed in her. She bestowed gifts upon everyone, regardless of whether or not they were loyal followers. A shrine was erected in her honor to thank her for cleaning up the mess left behind after the war between dimensions.