Chapter 654: Eternal Energy: Is Perfection Worth the Price?
Back in the palace’s library, his eyes sparkled as he turned the parchment without wasting a second.
The orange phoenix feather scratched the yellowish surface, blueish lines sketching one rough design after another. Of course, he began by focusing on utility. After all, the blessed land’s strength was its ecosystem and abundant qi. He couldn’t lose them just to turn it into a flying bastion. But altering the formations after a brief two months of study?
He rapidly frowned. ’I can’t change its form too much. It’ll be supermassive, though.’
In terms of scale, the palace could be compared to the College of Alchemy and Transmutations, the surrounding fields to Alkemia Al-Nur’s bustling city, and the forests and mountains were slightly broader than the desert. Back then, he had taken three days to cross it in Arun’s carriage, so it was by no means small.
And the wider the target, the harder it was to protect. Especially for something airborne. But solutions already hustled in his mind.
He added a curved line over the circle representing the blessed land, then a line far below. ’No one will threaten it if I fly high enough.’
He spun the quill between his fingers, then tapped on the parchment, adding two words: oxygen and cold. ’The blessed land produces its own oxygen. As long as I don’t let it disperse in the surroundings, it should be fine. In fact, the best would be to isolate it from external contaminations altogether. Hmm. A mana barrier won’t suffice. A layered protection melding mana and qi?’
His eyes lit up as he enveloped the circle with a blue and gray barrier. Planning the first for isolation and the second to regulate the blessed land’s life force, he left a vacuum in between, then filled it with cannons.
’What bastion doesn’t have weaponry,’ he snickered before he shook his head.