Chapter 102: A Verdant City
A Verdant City... what did it look like?
Clayton always had this thought at the back of his mind once he learned of the existence of Verdant Cities.
And finally, he could satisfy his curiosity.
...
New Phoenix, Verdant City.
New Phoenix loomed in the distance, like a grotesque combination of the past, the present, and the future all entangled in a single city.
Skyscrapers towered into the sky, fused with gnarled trees, their bark pulsing with Embers, roads writhing like veins under the Nexus’s pulse.
Now closer to the Verdant City, Clayton’s Territorial Sentience pinged Ashen Covenants’ Ember Witches, their matriarchal rituals even more vivid.
Like Clayton hoped for and didn’t dare dream of, the Verdant City, New Phoenix was a thriving ecosystem of humans. Not just Awakened.
From the little that Clayton could see, the humans living here already adapted so much to the concept of the Genesis Protocols and what it brought; Aspects, and Aspect abilities that they integrated it into daily life.
From the little things like making coffee to public transportation, to even the defense of the city whose main component was a gigantic 50-meter tall wall, all of it had Awakened imprint written all over it.
Awakened with Aspects related to the Earth joined part of road construction crews, some mending damages to roads while others were busy mapping out new roads, tunnels under the city, underground structures, and even railways.