Chapter 388: The Cost to Climb
Max stood at one of the ledges that overlooked the city inside the mountain.
“It’s amazing,” he stated as Tanila stood beside him, nodding.
“Makes you wish you were a dwarf, doesn’t it?”
“No, then I’d be shorter,” Max replied, elbowing his friend. “Still, this is beyond what I had expected.”
Before them was a vast open area, all lit up like the sun, with a clouded section hidden and not in the center of the five-mile-wide area.
“That’s where the tower is,” Batrire said as she pointed to the section that seemed to shimmer in the middle of everything. “It runs up into the mountain and out the top of it.”
Nodding, Max remembered the crude drawing that had done this view no justice. He had seen it as a kid in school, but here he was, standing on one of the twenty floors that were carved around this open section.
Below were buildings, each one also cut from the mountain’s stone and no more than three or four stories tall. This created a puzzle-like view of buildings that stretched out around them.
Like a giant circle, there were stairs and ramps all over the sides, leading to the different floors and sections of the capital.