Chapter 506: About the continent (1/2)
”Continent? Well, I only ever lived in a single city after moving there from my village, so I can only tell you so much from my personal experience… But that place is huge.”
Seeing that I was interested in the mundane affairs of the continent, this Eve-like girl moved a few steps away from the wall that she was pressing herself against only to push a specific brick on it.
Swosh!
Rather than the wall caving in as if in some secret movie about spies, it looked more like as if all the other bricks that made up this part of the wall turned into mist, before vanishing altogether!
Behind what was most likely an illusion, I saw a small room, filled nearly to the brim with all sorts of old books and scripts. Just a single scan with an energy vision revealed that most of them shone with way brighter light than any of the books that I noticed on the shelves before!
”Well, there is no point standing in the middle of the hall. This place is my study, come in.”
With all the tension that forced Celleria's body to be as stiff as a dried out stick disappearing, it was given that she was still quite scared of me, but at least she managed to accept the situation she was in.
In the end, just this off chance that she was somehow related to my fiancee made her one of the most important people for me to keep safe in this whole place. Yet, it wasn't something that I could just tell her!
”Okay then, I get that the continent is vast, especially when compared to this archipelago, with how to spread out its islands are. But I need more details. What are the customs of that place? What are the names of the nations? Cities? How does society work out there?”
Grabbing a stack of the papers from what used to be a couch and now was serving a role of storage for all the manuals that Celleria hid away from the open shelves of the hall. Fiddling with the papers for a moment, I made sure their content got recorded in my library tool before putting them away and sitting down on the spot that I just cleared out.
”Well, if it is about the city I lived in, it was called Skyheaven. As the capital of the Sky province in the Heaven Empire… I think you can see how it goes. For the other provinces, there were mountain province, sea province and abyss province, each with its own capital and culture. Truth be told, there are still some movements that aim to separate the empire and turn the provinces into states on their own.”
Hearing this explanation, I was starting to get the idea of how the entire empire was most likely formed. Just like the local sects, when the so-called barbaric tribes descended on the ancestors of the Vivaci nation, they most likely were just a bunch of different groups that banded together to get the fertile hinterlands of the continent for themselves.
The emergence of an influential figure that managed to unite them was most likely the sole reason behind the existence of a singular, political entity that governed most of the continent known to Celleria.As soon as such an expert would die, the fragile balance between various powers was bound to come to an end!