Chapter 1360: Sky Garden, Mythallar Layout

Just at this moment, Angelin, who was looking around on the boat, suddenly asked:

"By the way, Ms. Lunaxisi, are we able to cast Scrying spells? It is a bit inconvenient to be on the boat like this."

To this, Lunaxisi's reply was—

"You can, but only within five meters of the Surface. Anything higher than five meters will attract the attention of the Patrol above, which might cause some unnecessary misunderstandings."

As she spoke, Lunaxisi even extended a finger and pointed toward the pitch-black night sky above.

Following the direction Maluxisi pointed, Xia Duo indeed saw a team of flying knights quickly sweeping past at a great height; however, while he could see them, the others just looked at nothing.

But after that, no one mentioned Scrying spells again; after all, when they were at Ailintar before, everyone had seen flying knights up close and knew of this tradition of the Elf cities.

……

As the boat entered the main stream of the Manda River, its forward speed increased slightly. Before long, Beilaila suddenly exclaimed: "Look at the river water!"

Hearing the sound, the male Mages, who had originally been focusing their attention on the white buildings of various shapes on both sides of the river channel, also lowered their heads one after another to look at the water surface.

"Eh, this water—"

"Could it be the purest Element Water?"

At this moment, Xia Duo also noticed the abnormality of this section of the river channel. Although the small waves brought about by the boat's movement could reflect the lights from the shore and even the distance, if one looked closely, one could discover that this water was pure and transparent, almost as if it did not exist.

As the boat traveled on the water surface, if it were not for those reflective small waves serving as a backdrop, it would be just like traveling in the sky.

In a sense, choosing a night tour was not a good choice for everyone; the light reflected by the small waves caused by the boat during the day would be obscured by the sunlight, and that would be true sky-sailing.

Of course, if it were daytime, perhaps everyone would have discovered this wonder long ago, but at night, if not for Beilaila's reminder, perhaps they would have had to wait for Lunaxisi to take the initiative to introduce it before they discovered it!

Regarding everyone's exclamations and various guesses, this time, Lunaxisi did not rush to explain, but instead wore an expression of watching the fun.

Seeing this, Xia Duo reached his hand from the side of the boat into the river water. As soon as the skin on his hand touched the river water here, a burst of joy and peace emerged in his heart out of thin air.

This was his bloodline rejoicing, being at peace!

At this instant, Xia Duo actually felt once again a kind of "independent and unchanging, moving in a cycle without exhaustion" elemental will, and it was also constantly sending out a call to him—

Embrace the elements, and you can obtain eternal freedom!

However, Xia Duo had not chosen to respond in the past, and naturally, he would not respond now. He forcibly suppressed the sense of closeness originating from his bloodline in the depths of his heart and quickly withdrew his hand from the river water.

Subsequently, a feeling of loss welled up spontaneously.

Having enjoyed the benefits brought by the bloodline, one naturally had to bear the disadvantages, or rather, the temptations brought by the bloodline; affinity for water and affinity for wind were unavoidable.

As long as it did not affect normal thinking and decision-making, Xia Duo did not intend to forcibly change it; after all, "the benevolent love the mountains, the wise love the water" was a natural orientation deeply rooted in the hearts of people from his hometown.

……

Soon, the boat traveled to a new body of water. Here, the river channel widened, and dots of starlight floated on the river surface. Xia Duo's vision was extraordinary, and he discovered those starlike dots one step earlier than the others; they were not created by Magic, but were flowers floating on the water surface.

Glowing star-dots, some red, some blue, some yellow, and some purple, various colors competed in beauty. When reaching close by, there were even bursts of faint fragrance wafting toward them.

And at this time, Lunaxisi's introduction finally came, "This is the Sky Garden of Evereska. Although it cannot compare to the true Sky Garden of Kemansuoer, it is also an excellent landscape! The star-dots in front are Night Sky Jasmine glowing. During the day, there are also Sun Rose competing with the sun for brilliance."

As the boat sailed into the interior of the garden, Xia Duo finally saw those Night Sky Jasmine clearly. Although their forms were light and they floated above the water surface, they were not rootless duckweed.

There was an extremely thin root connected to the vine-like plant floating on the water surface. Besides the Night Sky Jasmine and Sun Rose mentioned by Lunaxisi, there were other flowers and plants planted on it.

It was just that at night, the Night Sky Jasmine that could glow were more able to attract their attention.

……

The boat slowly passed through the Sky Garden, gradually leaving that dreamlike scene behind, but for a considerable stretch of the river channel, the river water remained pure Element Water.

The sky-sailing experience was truly quite good, it was just that it was not fully satisfying at night.

"There are some specialty shops of Evereska on the shore here, but it is night now, so they are not open. After the signing ceremony tomorrow, if you are still interested, I can continue to take you all to visit and tour."

Angelin, Luodite, and the others all agreed one after another; only Xia Duo remained silent. He was still thinking about the Sky Garden from just now, not because he was mesmerized by the scenery and the Element Water there, but because it seemed to be one of the core Nodes of the Evereska Mythallar.

If that were truly the case, then it was easy to understand why the Elves of Evereska wanted to maintain such a large area of pure water domain within the city.

Even if the Elves were extravagant, for things without benefits, they would mostly still think twice; that Sky Garden had existed for at least thousands of years, which was more than just thinking twice or ten thousand times.

If it were forcibly maintained, then the cost involved would not be something that a small city-state like Evereska would be willing to pay.

It was highly probable that it existed as a Mythallar Node; only in this way could it coexist with the Mythallar, thereby maintaining its long-term existence at a lower cost.

Even this Manda Water System where he was currently located was very likely a part of the Mythallar!

When Xia Duo was at Cloudtop Tower just now, he had specifically observed the surrounding terrain. Not to mention the mountain barriers in the distance, the valley of Evereska in the middle was also a very special existence.

How should he put it?

Xia Duo had a feeling that the current location of Evereska might have originally been a mountain peak, and later, the part of the mountain peak above approximately two or three hundred meters was all cut off.

And Evereska was built on this remaining mountain base!

Then the question arose: how could the Manda Water System that spread throughout the city flow at two or three hundred meters above the ground? Or perhaps, how could it exist?

If it were for the purpose of obtaining water, there were more convenient and lower-cost Magic wells, which could even achieve providing running water to every household.

Why force the creation of a flashy and impractical artificial river?

Except for the needs of the Mythallar, Xia Duo could not think of any other reason!

……

And subsequently, the next landscape the boat arrived at once again confirmed Xia Duo's conjecture—the Evereska Mythallar had the Manda Water System as its main body.