Chapter 861: Cardinal
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Chapter 861: Cardinal
Dark Reach was far too gloomy for Sages taste and he did not enjoy associating with the fish-people there. The few hed met with were likely bad examples of their race, but when combined with the eternal realm of darkness he didnt want to spend any more time there. He left Dark Reach, traveling through a Transportation Formation towards the next area of the Depths he was interested in. After a flash of light he resisted the after effects of the transportation, recovering in less than a second from the shock to his system. The longer the distance that was traveled, the more harsh the effects of the transportation. The distance hed just moved was likely enough to kill a normal mortal, which helped explain why there were so many normal people living in such strange locations. They were likely the descendants of those who got trapped in one of the cities and couldnt leave without becoming powerful and earning a fortune. After thinking about it, Sage realized that for those who wished to live the life of an ordinary mortal, the Depths was a very nice place. The ban on fighting removed at least one of the worries a mortal might face. If they could get past the feeling of confinement, living your whole life in a single city, then was it really that bad? At least they didnt have to worry about getting murdered for serving tea that was slightly too cool to an angry cultivator.
His own curiosity stopped him from ever wanting to settle into a single city like that. Maybe a local might find the extreme diversity of cultivators and people that left and entered the city to be a perfect sampling of the greater world, but Sage felt like it would only make him more curious. The origin of this chapter's debut can be traced to N0v3l--B1n.
Leaving the transportation room he found himself in a large hall that reminded him of a viking longhouse. There was a pair of long trough-like fire pits, splitting the room into thirds. Each third of the room seemed like a different location. To the left was what seemed to be shops, they used long tables and chests to separate themselves from the foot traffic that was moving near the fire pit. To the right were sleeping areas, with sidewalls to delineate separate rooms, but only curtains in the front to allow the heat from the fire to reach them. In the center were various restaurants, using the fire pits for their cooking. It was especially an interesting sight when he took a closer look at the fire pits. They werent using wood or coal, and instead the flames were coming from some sort of oil.
Sage found someone selling information and bought everything they had, sending it to the Inner World so he had instant access to the knowledge. Without delay he hopped into the hole which he now knew was not in the ground, but cut into the ice. He descended through the layer of ice that was more than a hundred feet thick and into an extremely blue layer of ocean. All around him the roots of the huge trees above sunk into the icy water. The roots reminded him of mangroves in a swamp, except this place was not warm and the water was especially blue and gel-like rather than dark and murky. A whole ecosystem had formed around the roots of these trees and despite the freezing temperature, there were many plants and animals clinging to the roots of the huge trees.
He also knew why this city was not on the bottom of the sea like many of the others. The basic informational scroll explained that the Sea Empress had her home nearby and any settlement on the sea bottom was found to be an eye-sore and destroyed immediately. She was too lazy to care about a few explorers and hunters, but she did not tolerate any settlements. Since the resources in this area were still extremely lucrative, they had to suffer in the arctic surface area and travel a comparatively longer distance to reach the richer resources.
The people of the Gelid Blue had to suffer a long and very cold commute.
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Chapter 861: Cardinal
Dark Reach was far too gloomy for Sages taste and he did not enjoy associating with the fish-people there. The few hed met with were likely bad examples of their race, but when combined with the eternal realm of darkness he didnt want to spend any more time there. He left Dark Reach, traveling through a Transportation Formation towards the next area of the Depths he was interested in. After a flash of light he resisted the after effects of the transportation, recovering in less than a second from the shock to his system. The longer the distance that was traveled, the more harsh the effects of the transportation. The distance hed just moved was likely enough to kill a normal mortal, which helped explain why there were so many normal people living in such strange locations. They were likely the descendants of those who got trapped in one of the cities and couldnt leave without becoming powerful and earning a fortune. After thinking about it, Sage realized that for those who wished to live the life of an ordinary mortal, the Depths was a very nice place. The ban on fighting removed at least one of the worries a mortal might face. If they could get past the feeling of confinement, living your whole life in a single city, then was it really that bad? At least they didnt have to worry about getting murdered for serving tea that was slightly too cool to an angry cultivator.
His own curiosity stopped him from ever wanting to settle into a single city like that. Maybe a local might find the extreme diversity of cultivators and people that left and entered the city to be a perfect sampling of the greater world, but Sage felt like it would only make him more curious. The origin of this chapter's debut can be traced to N0v3l--B1n.
Leaving the transportation room he found himself in a large hall that reminded him of a viking longhouse. There was a pair of long trough-like fire pits, splitting the room into thirds. Each third of the room seemed like a different location. To the left was what seemed to be shops, they used long tables and chests to separate themselves from the foot traffic that was moving near the fire pit. To the right were sleeping areas, with sidewalls to delineate separate rooms, but only curtains in the front to allow the heat from the fire to reach them. In the center were various restaurants, using the fire pits for their cooking. It was especially an interesting sight when he took a closer look at the fire pits. They werent using wood or coal, and instead the flames were coming from some sort of oil.
Sage found someone selling information and bought everything they had, sending it to the Inner World so he had instant access to the knowledge. Without delay he hopped into the hole which he now knew was not in the ground, but cut into the ice. He descended through the layer of ice that was more than a hundred feet thick and into an extremely blue layer of ocean. All around him the roots of the huge trees above sunk into the icy water. The roots reminded him of mangroves in a swamp, except this place was not warm and the water was especially blue and gel-like rather than dark and murky. A whole ecosystem had formed around the roots of these trees and despite the freezing temperature, there were many plants and animals clinging to the roots of the huge trees.
He also knew why this city was not on the bottom of the sea like many of the others. The basic informational scroll explained that the Sea Empress had her home nearby and any settlement on the sea bottom was found to be an eye-sore and destroyed immediately. She was too lazy to care about a few explorers and hunters, but she did not tolerate any settlements. Since the resources in this area were still extremely lucrative, they had to suffer in the arctic surface area and travel a comparatively longer distance to reach the richer resources.
The people of the Gelid Blue had to suffer a long and very cold commute.
Chapter 861: CardinalDark Reach was far too gloomy for Sages taste and he did not enjoy associating with the fish-people there. The few hed met with were likely bad examples of their race, but when combined with the eternal realm of darkness he didnt want to spend any more time there. He left Dark Reach, traveling through a Transportation Formation towards the next area of the Depths he was interested in. After a flash of light he resisted the after effects of the transportation, recovering in less than a second from the shock to his system. The longer the distance that was traveled, the more harsh the effects of the transportation. The distance hed just moved was likely enough to kill a normal mortal, which helped explain why there were so many normal people living in such strange locations. They were likely the descendants of those who got trapped in one of the cities and couldnt leave without becoming powerful and earning a fortune. After thinking about it, Sage realized that for those who wished to live the life of an ordinary mortal, the Depths was a very nice place. The ban on fighting removed at least one of the worries a mortal might face. If they could get past the feeling of confinement, living your whole life in a single city, then was it really that bad? At least they didnt have to worry about getting murdered for serving tea that was slightly too cool to an angry cultivator. His own curiosity stopped him from ever wanting to settle into a single city like that. Maybe a local might find the extreme diversity of cultivators and people that left and entered the city to be a perfect sampling of the greater world, but Sage felt like it would only make him more curious. The origin of this chapter's debut can be traced to N0v3l--B1n.Leaving the transportation room he found himself in a large hall that reminded him of a viking longhouse. There was a pair of long trough-like fire pits, splitting the room into thirds. Each third of the room seemed like a different location. To the left was what seemed to be shops, they used long tables and chests to separate themselves from the foot traffic that was moving near the fire pit. To the right were sleeping areas, with sidewalls to delineate separate rooms, but only curtains in the front to allow the heat from the fire to reach them. In the center were various restaurants, using the fire pits for their cooking. It was especially an interesting sight when he took a closer look at the fire pits. They werent using wood or coal, and instead the flames were coming from some sort of oil. Sage found someone selling information and bought everything they had, sending it to the Inner World so he had instant access to the knowledge. Without delay he hopped into the hole which he now knew was not in the ground, but cut into the ice. He descended through the layer of ice that was more than a hundred feet thick and into an extremely blue layer of ocean. All around him the roots of the huge trees above sunk into the icy water. The roots reminded him of mangroves in a swamp, except this place was not warm and the water was especially blue and gel-like rather than dark and murky. A whole ecosystem had formed around the roots of these trees and despite the freezing temperature, there were many plants and animals clinging to the roots of the huge trees. He also knew why this city was not on the bottom of the sea like many of the others. The basic informational scroll explained that the Sea Empress had her home nearby and any settlement on the sea bottom was found to be an eye-sore and destroyed immediately. She was too lazy to care about a few explorers and hunters, but she did not tolerate any settlements. Since the resources in this area were still extremely lucrative, they had to suffer in the arctic surface area and travel a comparatively longer distance to reach the richer resources. The people of the Gelid Blue had to suffer a long and very cold commute.
