179 City of Desire (1/2)

”Your majesty”

Don and Arrora were teleported into a dark room and welcomed by a woman wearing a feather hat.

”You're one of Joel's people”

”Yes, your majesty, I'm Yi Shu”

The woman bowed and motioned them to follow her towards the door.

Don and Arrora followed Yi Shu as she opened the door and led them to the hall where Don could see the festival celebration outside through the window.

”They are celebrating the dungeon opening, your majesty, in a few hours, the dungeon doors will open for the champions, so your majesty, my lord, do you need me to get you anything before we leave?”

Yi Shu had no idea that the youth beside Don is Arrora as Don shook his head.

”No, we don't need anything, should we leave now?”

”Of course, your majesty, please follow me”

The city of Desire was built at the base of a modest mountain called Red gem mountain and was truly an ever growing sight. Its grace was matched by the backdrop of cascading waterfalls which had helped shape the city to what it is today.

The climate these waterfalls brought were of great importance, but they were also influential when it came to architectural designs as the vast majority of buildings mimic the falling waters of those waterfalls, sometimes by having their own man-made waterfalls.

The skyline was sprinkled with elegant towers and there was no place on earth with anything like this. Science and development were flourishing in Desire and it had attracted a lot of attention. New cultures had left their mark not just on education, but also upon the city's identity. What historically was a city of little diversity had grown into a large melting pot and it's this that unites the thousands of zenith people to this day.

Yet the people of Desire were cold towards foreigners and tend to welcome them with annoyance. They feel foreigners could pollute and suppress the city's well being.

Stepping outside the building, Don and Arrora put on their hoods and followed Yi Shu through the crowd.

While following Yu Shu through the labyrinth of a street, Don looked at the tall glass building with awe and astonishment. He had seen many cities in the divine continent but then, he didn't want to build structures like these.

After getting used to being a king, when he noticed the elegant towers, fountains on side of the pavement, and the poles along the road to light the city at night, he wanted Everlight to look like this city or look even prettier than this city.

As far as he could see, it was not a pipe dream but he had the dwarves, the best engineers in this world to accomplish his wish, plus with the elves, who could enhance the beauty of the kingdom with their landscaping talent, he had the means to surpass the City of Desire.

Strangely enough, he couldn't see a single being from the other races among the crowd, everywhere he turns, he could only see the humans.

”Move out of the way at once”

Don heard someone shouting from behind and a sound of horses galloping towards in his direction. He turned back to see a carriage attached to four pegasus racing through the crowd and a girl and a youth standing on the carriage.

The people who were quick enough jumped out of the way as the people who weren't getting shoved by big hand made of life energy.

Arrora saw the hand sending people flying away and most of them looked badly injured while some of them had broken their hand or leg due to them hitting the wall before falling down.

”Dani”

While the carriage was running at a full speed, Arrora saw a small child in the carriage's path and a woman rushing at the child. Seeing the carriage hadn't slowed a bit, Arrora wanted to save the mother and child but when she took a step forward, she was pulled back by Don.

”Don't”

Just when Arrora thought the child and mother were going to be crushed by the pack of pegasus or pushed away by the hand, the carriage suddenly stopped.

”Look, it's master Jonathan Coldfield and miss Serena Coldfield ”

The crowd pointed at the black-haired youth and the girl who got out of the carriage. The youth seemed to be in his early or mid-twenties and had a toned body. Despite the crowd's murmuring of admiration, Jonathan looked calm and had a smile on his face.

The girl was a 20-26 year-old young girl. She had arched eyebrows and a delicate oval face. She was very beautiful as in this world or in the divine continent, female cultivators were very beautiful because they cultivated purer bodies. She was a charming natural beauty and certainly didn't need to put make-up on.

However unlike Jonathan, her eyes didn't make her look very amicable. Her eyes were filled with flames of anger as she walked toward the mother and child.

”Forgive me, my lady, he's”

Before the mother of the child could finish her sentence, Serena slapped her with a force to leave the hand impression on the woman's face.

The atmosphere had become death silence when they saw this

”Is that how you take care of a child? let him run around like a blind puppy?”

The child looked terrified as she continued

”What if I didn't stop the carriage at the right time? What if he got lost in the crowd? Take your child and get out of my face before I punish you for being such a careless mother”

As she said, Jonathan drew a symbol in the air and touched the child's face and his touch made the child go to sleep instantly.

”He had seen enough for today, he will wake up tomorrow without having any memories of this incident”