"Why does it feel so eerie here," Xida said with her hands on her chest. After passing through a short corridor, everyone is now flying together on a cube towards the core of Laputa.
However, the core of the Sky City is completely different from the garden above. It is not as sunny and full of vitality as the building above. Instead, it is a huge dimly lit space. The entire space is very empty, with only some cubes full of patterns.
Stones are suspended in space.
In addition, the walls around the entire space are made of such stones, arranged neatly, just like the printing plates arranged during movable type printing. There are only one or two square gaps in some places.
Judging from the size and shape of the gap, it should be left behind after the rocks currently suspended in the center of the space flew out.
The cube under their feet went down all the way, and did not stop until it reached a corner at the bottom of the space. At this time, Ryan once again used the power of the Rose Madonna to summon the shadow of the pendant, and a stone slab next to it disappeared, revealing
a door.
After everyone walked in, the ground moved downwards like an elevator. At this time, the surrounding environment was no longer pitch black, but instead revealed stripes of blue light, which looked full of technology.
"The location where we are now has strong magic defense and extremely complex magic reactions." Ryan said after sensing the surrounding environment, "I think this place should have only a very high level even when the Sky City was at its peak.
A small number of people will be allowed in."
"This may be the control center that my grandma told me can only be reached by the Laputa royal family." After arriving at this place, Hida also recalled some things related to this place.
"How long has it been since no one came to this place? It feels like the whole space is occupied by tree roots." Balu complained loudly. After falling to the bottom, the door in front of him opened, but a tree root as thick as an arm blocked it.
The door was closed so that no one could get out of the elevator.
"Don't worry," Ryan said, reaching out and touching the tree roots to start the communication. Soon the tree roots came to life and stood aside. Except for the tree roots blocking the way, there were usually obstacles in the entire corridor outside the elevator.
All the tree roots where people moved were moved aside, forming a smooth road leading directly to the main control room.
"Wow! It's really magical. Is this the power of magic?" Balu and Shida exclaimed in a low voice at the same time. Ryan walked out of the elevator first and said: "Okay, now you two hurry up and follow. This is amazing.
It’s not just the power of magic. If you want to be as good as me, you need to have a deep understanding of nature and achieve a harmonious coexistence with nature.”
"Sounds very powerful." Balu shrugged and pulled Shida to follow. They walked along the cleared road through a long and narrow corridor and came to another wall. At this time, the tree roots were
An arch was built in front of the wall, accurately marking the location of the door.
"Can plants do this? Especially when the magic of this world is not that active." Hermione looked at the arch made of tree roots in front of her with some confusion and asked.
"Other plants in the world may not be able to do this, but the giant tree we just saw can." Ryan gently stroked the arch made of tree roots and said, "This tree can only grow after absorbing a large amount of special energy.
To the extent that it has exceeded the limits of the tree itself, don't forget that there is a powerful energy source in this place, which can cause great changes in this tree."
"This change has other aspects besides body shape." Ryan summoned the phantom of the Rose Madonna to open the door as he had done before, and turned his head and said to the others, "For example, I just felt this
A big tree has now developed its own mind. Although this mind is very vague and not even a complete soul. But I believe that in time this big tree will turn into a tree man with wisdom."
"This is probably the reason why after this tree communicated with you just now, its reaction has exceeded the upper limit of ordinary plants." Hermione nodded in understanding. Sometimes powerful energy sources do make those
Ordinary creatures mutate. At least before, they had seen many creatures that mutated under the stimulation of strong energy sources in the radiation world.
While they were talking, the wall in the arch made of tree roots slowly opened to both sides, and a beam of light leaked out from inside, illuminating the entire dark corridor.
After the stone door was completely opened, Ryan and the others discovered that all the space inside the door had been completely occupied by plants. The roots of the big tree enveloped the entire room, and at the same time, a cocoon of golden light was formed in the room.
.
There is a kind of herbaceous plant growing on the ground that is almost as tall as a person. The roots of these plants are straight, and only the top 1/3 has a few egg-sized leaves. They grow densely on the ground of this house.
, occupying all the ground.
"The flying stone crystal should be in the cocoon formed by the tree roots." Ryan pointed to the spherical space formed by the tree roots in the middle. "I can feel the powerful energy released there."
Needless to say, everyone present could feel the power in the cocoon. Even people like Balu or Shida who didn't know magic at all felt that the light emerging from the gaps in the tree roots shone on them and made them physically weak.
It seems a little lighter than before.
At this time, Ryan pulled out his wand and pointed it in the air, and began to release a natural and friendly spell. Soon a green ripple caused the head of Ryan's wand to fly out and sweep across the entire space.
After coming into contact with the green ripples, the herbaceous plants retreated to the surroundings as if they had been activated, taking away some of the mud at their roots. Soon, a stone path was revealed in the grass leading directly to the light cocoon formed by the tree roots.
When everyone followed the stone road to the big cocoon formed by the tree roots, some tree roots separated to both sides, revealing a blue transparent octahedral crystal floating in the air. In everyone's sight, this crystal
It is constantly rotating in the air, releasing light and energy outwards.
"What a powerful magic power!" Standing in front of this crystal, Ryan sighed in a low voice. In his magic perception, the crystal in front of him was like the sun, releasing a large amount of magic power to the outside world, but when he left the flying stone crystal and walked aside
After sensing a black stone platform covered with cuneiform writing for a while, Ryan frowned.
"This is?" Hermione watched the change in Ryan's expression and walked to his side, then took out her wand and cast a few detective spells on the edge of the stone platform. As someone who followed Ryan and experienced a lot of top alchemy techniques,
People, she quickly discovered something was wrong around her. "This method of energy utilization is too crude."
"What is rough use of power?" Balu, who was confused by the exchange between Ryan and the others, asked. "What do you mean by what you are saying now?"
"Ah, by the way, let me give you some protection first. Although short-term exposure to the magic radiation in this place will not cause any serious harm, sometimes it is better to be cautious." After speaking, Ryan waved his hand to
The two children put on a layer of pink protective shields and said to the two curious children who poked the protective shields with their hands. "This is to protect you and prevent you from receiving excessive amounts of magic radiation."
."
After taking good protection, Ryan explained, "To put it simply, the flying stone crystal in front of us is a great miracle. It has powerful energy inside to maintain flight and the operation of the entire city in the sky. But ancient Laputa
People's use of this energy is really too rough. It can be said that this city in the sky is a typical example of how powerful the power is."
"It's rough, but we feel that this city in the sky is already like a miracle." Hida subconsciously retorted, probably because as a descendant of the Laputa royal family, she subconsciously defended her ancestors.
"I'm not saying that your ancestors are not great," Hermione reassured with a smile. "But the characteristics of this world prevent you from mastering magic like us. Instead, you only have a rough understanding of magic through various props.
And it is inevitable that it is not in place. In fact, your ancestors are already very powerful for being able to do what they are doing now."
"However, if the use of magic power is far more perfect according to the technology we have mastered, I think we only need 1/5 of the current size of crystals to maintain the operation of this city in the sky."