Beneath the Red Dragon

Unlike other World Trees, which coexist with the World Origin, mutually relying on and strengthening each other, this time the World Tree Ovo forcibly extracts the World Origin for its growth, inevitably damaging the Greenfield Forest’s potential for further growth and plunging this world into a prolonged decline.

But in Karon’s plan, such sacrifices are necessary to achieve greater gains.

The world’s long-term decline is the sacrifice, while the towering structures that rise like mountains are the gains.

In the eyes of the group and the Mage Legion, they see islands floating in the sky, once the home of Bat-winged Flying Dragons and formed naturally from Fallen Star Dust that fell from the Star Realm to the Material World.

In scholars’ research, these islands formed from Fallen Star Dust possess adaptive magnetic fields. In worlds without rules isolating the underlying layers, they can float indefinitely.

This is destined to be the Golden Empire’s first Floating City.

With their natural floating ability, these islands only need an energy source to propel them, allowing them to roam the sky like Floating Cities, overlooking the land.

The experiments with the Floating Mage Tower before were in preparation for these floating cities.

After equipping these Floating Islands with Elemental Pools for energy, they’ll carry Mage Towers, patrolling the skies of the Golden Empire and establishing a formidable Iron Dome defense.

But on the largest of these Floating Islands now, instead of Mage Towers, it is equipped with hundreds of towering structures, each seemingly a hundred meters tall, with surfaces adorned with golden and Mithril rune traces, glowing in the firelight of night.

These are replicas of Energy Absorption Devices from the Knowledge Fortress, extracting world energy and Elemental Power. The flowing light on each Energy Absorption Tower signifies that during the past two months of continuous absorption, they have fully charged their reserves.

Viewed from above, the multitude of Energy Absorption Towers are situated at nodes of a vast Magic Array, similar to where mages once stood.

At the center of this Floating Island stands a thick cylindrical tower, piercing through from the island’s center, several kilometers thick. Its massive size is uniform throughout, like a drilled pipe standing upright.

The intricate array beneath each Energy Absorption Device is connected to this peculiar structure, forming a component of this vast Magic Array only fully visible from high above.

Next to these towering Energy Absorption Towers, many scholars and mages are diligently maintaining these invaluable creations of knowledge.

Additionally, five regiments of Hundred-man Squad Imperial Legion Warriors stand fully armed, guarding these extremely valuable devices.

To construct these Energy Absorption Devices, a significant portion of the Greenfield Forest World’s resources and half of the mined resources from small Elemental Planes were invested.

This achievement was made possible by the diverse races within the empire, utilizing a variety of talents to complete this colossal project within the planned timeframe.

The enormous gemstones embedded at the top of these Energy Absorption Devices are the energy cores from those small Elemental Planes.

This endeavor, almost consuming half the empire’s power, excites the Giant Dragons, who land proudly with outstretched wings upon them.

The Mage Legion directly casts spells, with Mid-Low Tier Mages descending onto the islands using Levitation Skill, lingering in admiration.

High Tier Mages find it even easier, with Magic Power at their command like obedient puppets, gathering wind beneath their feet to gently land.

Only the Ancestral Red Dragon stands in the skies, wings gathered, watching the white-haired Mage Lapus slowly rise and descend beside them.

”It’s truly unbelievable,”

Lapus’s eyes can no longer maintain their usual appearance, the shock and awe in his pupils evident even to a three-year-old.

”Such an extraordinary miracle reminds me of the ancient Magic Empire era, a powerful age existing only in memory,”

”Although it falls short of the ancient Magic Empire’s greatness, in this era, it already counts as a miracle for mages to admire and appreciate!”

The white-haired Mage Lapus sighed, ”Now only those powerful kingdoms on the Central Continent and the Human Empire can construct such grand spectacles, yet I never expected it to be recreated in your hands!”

The relationship between the white-haired old mage and the Red Dragon is more akin to collaborators, with a past familiarity, so the old mage’s attitude remains as it always was.

Karon’s massive head nodded slightly, and he laughed, ”What sort of miracle is this? What we are about to do next is what barely qualifies as a miracle, but are you sure you want to get on my ship?”

To Karon, the Floating Islands before him were merely grand scenes constructed using existing materials and knowledge, practical but not miraculous.

Only by carving a navigable path into the unknown can it be considered a miracle, an endeavor worthy of the name miracle.