Chapter 108

For example, the fox mages in the city who use magic to make the flowers in the green belts bloom longer.

For example, the vast temple square, and the enormous torches on it, and the beautiful fountains surrounding the torches!

Everything they saw on this journey gave these little cat girls, along with Cat Princess Lodi, the feeling of country folk entering the city.

It was just like a scene from the classics Lin Yan had read before his crossing: Liu Laolao entering the Grand View Garden!

Even until they reached the temple's outer gates, these cat folk had not yet recovered their wits.

Until the fox girl Qing Ling stepped out.

Qing Ling wore a pure white robe, and a white veil covered her face; perhaps due to long-term divine blessing, she radiated an unmistakable holiness!

Behind Qing Ling followed eight temple attendants.

These eight temple attendants all wore light white robes.

Do not underestimate them: the four on the left are all mages, the four on the right are skilled in swordplay.

Princess Lodi saw Qing Ling and her face lit up with joy:

"Sister Qing Ling!"

She had intended to rush forward and embrace Qing Ling, but seeing Qing Ling's attire, she hesitated.

Because Qing Ling had changed so much.

Her aura left Princess Lodi utterly awestruck.

The face hidden behind the white veil, though exquisitely beautiful, also radiated a divine aura.

This aura carried a sense of "keep your distance."

As if she did not belong to this mortal world.

She belonged only to the gods!

The Holy Maiden!

Only then did Princess Lodi understand the true meaning of those two words!

The fox girl Qing Ling, seeing Princess Lodi, showed no formality; she walked over, took Lodi's hand, and said:

"Little Lodi, it's been so long. You've grown even more beautiful."

Perhaps because Qing Ling's aura had become especially holy, even as a woman, Princess Lodi found herself reluctant to look directly at Qing Ling.

She said: "Sister Qing Ling, have you dedicated yourself to the gods?"

The fox girl Qing Ling nodded and said: "Yes, Lodi, I have devoted myself forever to the Great Lord of Flame!"

"Lord of Flame!"

Princess Lodi savored those four words.

Then she thought of the torches visible everywhere in this majestic city.

Even along the streets, torches appeared at regular intervals!

Those were actually "street lamps."

But they did not burn electricity.

They burned kerosene!

It was refined from coal mines.

These street lamps were lit only at night!

As for electricity, Lin Yan could produce it easily enough.

But the three races are now fully committed to building the City of Miracles; together, they number only two or three hundred thousand people.

They are already operating at full capacity.

They have no spare energy to produce electricity!

So Lin Yan delayed the advent of electricity.

In the City of Miracles, conduits for laying electrical wires have already been pre-installed.

Yes, Lin Yan planned to lay pipes underground rather than clutter the entire city with utility poles!

The advantage of a magical world is that many magic-infused materials conduct energy far better than those in Lin Yan's world before his crossing.

After being enchanted, the wires would suffer far less energy loss during transmission.

But that is all future talk!

Then Princess Lodi thought of something else.

Could this magnificent and beautiful city be the work of the Lord of Flame?

At that moment, the fox girl Qing Ling spoke:

"Yes, Little Lodi, as you see, the Lord of Flame turned the wasteland teeming with poisonous insects into fertile plains. Our fox clan, blessed by the Lord of Flame, emerged from barren forests and achieved today's prosperity!"

Then Qing Ling pointed to the neatly lined-up horsemen standing guard on the temple square:

"Two months ago, the horsemen sought to wage war against us. Under the glory of the Lord of Flame, we defeated the horsemen, and since then, the horsemen have submitted to the Lord of Flame and joined us in building this City of Miracles!"

Qing Ling's words left Princess Lodi's mouth slightly agape!

Beside Princess Lodi, the little cat girl's eyes widened as if they might pop out at Qing Ling's words.

Earlier, when she saw the horsemen, she had assumed the foxes had been conquered by them.

Now she learned the horsemen had been defeated by the foxes!

The little cat girl did not think Qing Ling was lying.

Because along the way, she had seen those elite-armored horsemen bow respectfully whenever they encountered Fox Clan Chief Ali.

In an instant, the little cat girl became deeply curious about the Lord of Flame!

After a long moment of astonishment, Princess Lodi said: "Sister Qing Ling, I remember the fox clan used to be the Black Fox Clan..."

Qing Ling said: "The Black Foxes were long ago defeated by us and now exiled into the forests. Yet many devout Black Foxes have now earned the right to come to the City of Miracles."

Sister Qing Ling added, "Everything wondrous you have seen is a revelation bestowed by the Lord of Flame."

Princess Luodi understood.

She too was filled with curiosity toward the Lord of Flame.

Beyond curiosity, there was a trace of reverence.

She had seen with her own eyes and heard with her own ears the Lord of Flame's power and miraculous methods.

What she had witnessed today struck her far more deeply than all she had seen in the past dozen years!

This city alone proved that the Lord of Flame surpassed all gods worshipped by the beastman tribes.