1262 Playing Tricks Part 1 (1/2)

The Floating City appeared at night. Thick clouds floated overhead. The Floating City hovered at an altitude of over 30000 miles. All of this meant that, with the exception of some powerful individuals, no one in New Demon City had discovered the massive construct hovering above their heads.

The reason some powerful ones had been able to discover the Floating City was that the space vibrations resulting from such the massive construct jumping through space were very strong. Even powerful individuals who were over 1,000 miles away were able to detect the intense changes in space, let alone those who were in New Demon City.

Said changes quickly stabilized. The people who were far away were unable to see that far, but they knew well that New Demon City was not a place that they could easily peer into, so nobody continued to observe what was happening.

The Floating City continued moving upwards and Saleen did nothing to stop it. He only knew that he was able to control the Floating City like he controlled the Magical Element Tower. He let the Floating City keep climbing upwards. They would have attracted too much attention otherwise.

Just one jump consumed hundreds of Saleen's elemental creatures. To pay such a cost was truly heart-wrenching.

Jason saw his student's pained looks. He pointed out to him, ”With this thing, you'll be able to mobilize your armies as you fancy. You could even attack Holy City right away with it. Regardless of the fuel cost, it is worth it.”

”I know, I know...” Saleen kept repeating that, but he was unable to suppress his sour mood.

Jason was exasperated as well. His student was a decent person, yet he had the character flaw of being tight-fisted.

”Well, there is nothing around. How about we test the flight abilities of this thing for a bit?” Jason had no intention of saying more. A mage could raise their levels, but not necessarily change their personality and temperament. It was nonetheless a good thing that Saleen knew conservation and moderation. If he were to be unrestrained with his spending, no amount of wealth would have been able to keep him afloat for long.

Saleen was steeped in thought for a bit. If he wanted to fly, common magic nuclei would have sufficed. Magic power furnaces were capable of eating anything, regardless of energy levels. However, the cost of such a flight would be massive nonetheless, so he deemed it necessary to find a specific destination.

”Master, how about a trip to Alchemy City then?”

”No. The Floating City is still empty. I'd only head there if you're capable of forking out tens of thousands of enchanters for me right now,” Saleen replied to Nailisi. There were only 3,600 enchanters in the Floating City, making it wholly inadequate for taking on Alchemy City. There was no way he and his teacher alone would be able to overpower all of the top-notch powerful people in Alchemy City, as their city was armed with a large scale magic amplifier.

As for the 500 thousand lightning puppets, while they would have all of the advantages if taking on common professionals, their limited lightning powers would only render a few mages in Alchemy City temporarily paralyzed. That limited power was not enough to kill their enemies.

”Master, isn't this thing capable of doing space jumps?” Nailisi, of course, meant running away if they were unable to take down their enemies.

Saleen wore a bitter smile and gave Nailisi an answer without waiting for Jason to comment.

”This space-jumping magic array is not actually complete. In ancient times, humanity possessed detailed data regarding every space coordinate, but not even they would have been able to calculate how to move such massive equipment with pinpoint accuracy. If I were to use that magic array again, what would most likely take place is simply us getting teleported back to the interdimensional space. It would be lucky if things actually turned out that way. The worst that could happen would be us getting teleported to somewhere unknown. This is called sequential coordinates...”

”I get it...” Nailisi had begun to learn magic and had memorized countless magic terminologies.

Sequential coordinates referred to a set of coordinates a jump was made to if no specific coordinates were found, based solely on the memories of the Sky City.

The Floating City would most likely jump back to Myers Mainland in its first teleportation. That was something that both Saleen and Jason knew. This time, however, Saleen had no idea where the sequential coordinates would lead them to. If said coordinates prevented them from ever returning to Myers Mainland, it would be very troublesome. After all, Sky City was used specifically for traversing planes.

It was a common tactic of the ancient humans to have the Sky Cities carry the Ancients, transporting their troops to other planes.

Fuel costs for the Ancients were far smaller than for the Sky City, yet they were the most cost-effective standard equipment used for fighting within a plane. The standard operating procedure back then was probably to have one powerful human professional make it to the destination plane, who would then have calculated the detailed plane coordinates there, which were then transferred back to the Sky Cities.

Such coordinates were not meant for transporting several people, but landmasses at lengths measuring over 1,000 miles. Even if Saleen's mental powers were boosted ten times over what they were now, he still would not be able to make the calculations all on his own.

Furthermore, such space-jumping magic arrays were actually the most energy-efficient method for teleportation between planes. Teleportation done within the same plane was actually done by traversing two planes consecutively, enabling the teleported thing to return to Myers Mainland.

Such a design was not unreasonable. It was simply done due to safety reasons.

Ancient humans were capable of simply throwing a broken divine persona in to serve as fuel for their magic power furnaces. However, Saleen could not afford to spend like that. He was reluctant to even spend captured elemental creatures like that, let alone using divine personas as fuel.

”My liege, let's return to Nature City. Along the way, we can...” Eleanor gave Saleen a suggestion.

She did not finish her sentence. By ”along the way,” she no doubt meant raising Saleen's status in the minds of the adherents of the Nature Faith. Furthermore, there were doubts about Baudelaire's ability to perform as a pope. The very reason that Saleen did not get involved was to gauge Baudelaire's performance.

”Sounds good.” Saleen felt the idea to be a decent one. Pompeii City was the nearest destination, but there were hardly any humans there, so it would be a waste of effort. There should have been hundreds of thousands of adherents at Nature City by then. He could deliver some subliminal messages to the adherents of Nature Faith by flying there with his Sky City. This would also make it easier for the adherents to fall in the future.

Floating City gradually began to move. It was a huge construct after all. The activation process of the Magical Element Tower's flight abilities was extremely quick, but the Floating City was only able to fly at an initial speed of just over 30 miles per hour. It was fortunate that the fuel cost of such flight was far less than what Saleen had imagined it would be.