Chapter 51: Heaven Valley City
Whoosh!
The whale-shaped ark began to fly very high, higher than the clouds at a speed that made it difficult for Aldric to see the scene below.
It roared loudly, louder than thunder.
It even produced shockwaves that pushed the clouds around as it moved.
Aldric didn’t expect this ark to be this fast.
It might even be faster than a commercial airplane on earth.
Below, he could sometimes see other cities, some large and some small.
The mountains stretched in the distance, looking like certain creatures were sleeping.
’How can people make a game like this?’ He wondered.
Little did he know that even people who were tech savvy didn’t understand how a game like this was made.
While relaxing and enjoying the ride, Aldric opened the messages where he received many messages from Jenny once again.
He opened the last message that was sent just a few minutes ago.
(How are you now? No one found or suspected you, right?) The woman was apparently just asking.
(No problem, I’m heading to Heaven Valley City now!) Aldric messaged her back.
(What? Are you serious?) The woman was apparently very surprised.
(No!)
(You!)
"..."
Although she was still sending messages, Aldric had stopped replying.
He began to focus on himself as he waited for the trip.
At this moment, he took out one Level 11 Monster Core.
His mind began to think about fulfilling the one million spiritual energy he had to fulfill.
The Level 11 Monster Core contained an enormous amount of spiritual energy, reaching 100,000 Spiritual Energy.
Only, relying on the Monster Core, he felt that it was too long.
In one minute, he could only absorb 1000 spiritual energies.
This meant that it would take him a hundred minutes to absorb the spiritual energy of a Level 11 Monster Core.
And for a million, then he would need a thousand minutes.
Just thinking about it gave him a headache, but this was what the game was like. The higher the power, the harder it was to advance to the next stage.
’Looks like I really need to focus on missions or buying potions,’ he thought.
Completing missions made him gain spiritual energy that was instantly absorbed by his body.
Of course, there was another way that was also fast, which was drinking potions.
The latter was the easiest and most effective way. The difficulty was buying the potion. They were expensive and rare, especially for the higher levels.
Aldric opened the marketplace to look around for such potions.
Unexpectedly, there were actually some selling it.
It was called a Level 1 Sky Flipping Potion. A Stage 1 Senior Magician who drank it would not only gain 1 Million Spiritual Energy, but even the Genesis Core would reach Level 2.
In other words, drinking the potion meant directly advancing to the 2nd Stage.
Only, the price left Aldric breathless.
500 Level 11 Monster Cores according to the market price, but in this marketplace, it was only sold for cash.
And if one Level 11 Monster Core was sold for cash, the price would be 70 Dollars.
70 times five hundred?
35,000 Dollars!
"Impossible, how can the price reach 35 Thousand Dollars?"
Aldric couldn’t think of an item price in this game that could reach this level.
If he got the potion, would he be able to drink it?
Clearly, he wouldn’t be able to afford it.
Time passed quietly. The moon above continued to move, no longer over Aldric’s head which meant it was already past midnight.
Over time, Aldric noticed many flying arks flying at the same time as his, heading in the same direction.
Some were even twice as big as his ark.
He could sense many people inside the arks. Most were passenger arks, there were almost no personal arks like his.
Since arriving in this area, Aldric slowed down his ark’s speed as the others also slowed down.
At a moderate speed, he could finally look down clearly.
The scenery in this area surprised him.
From above, he saw countless volcanoes, from small to large. Each of them was an active volcano with lava that looked as if it was about to explode inside their craters.
Just moments after Aldric observed the volcanoes, there was actually one that exploded, spewing lava and dust into the sky, piercing the clouds.
The air trembled slightly from the volcano’s eruption, yet below was a vast area. One volcano erupting didn’t seem to make a ripple. It was just a normal thing.
Plus, there were no humans around, so it didn’t matter if the volcanoes erupted.
Aldric continued to look down and then he spontaneously looked forward as he saw a dazzling light far ahead.
"The city!"
Just by looking forward, Aldric immediately saw a huge city, standing on top of the valley behind the volcanoes.
The city covered the entire valley with a vast land behind it.
It was a very fertile land with countless villages, seemingly endless.
He couldn’t see there clearly, so his focus was only on the city whose size was a bit too much in his opinion.
Cities in Europe were not as big as that city. It was on par with the biggest cities in East Asia like Shanghai or Beijing.
What was more interesting was that the city had no walls surrounding it.
It was connected with dozens of large roads that led nowhere.
"Amazing, only the largest city in the Eldorn Region is already this big, what about the more famous cities!" The Dead Fish and the Demon Horse were already at the front of the deck.
They looked at the city with amazement.
Within the city, there were many flying ark ports.
However, Aldric didn’t plan to land his flying ark at any port.
He lowered the ark’s altitude to only about a hundred meters.
After that, he opened a portal into the Space Artifact, letting it suck the ark in along with the clones inside.
He himself jumped off the ark.
The Dead Fish and the Demon Horse did not understand what was happening.
They were somewhat afraid of the portal, so they jumped after Aldric.
Just falling from a hundred meters high, it wasn’t so scary for them, let alone Aldric.
BANG! BANG!
They landed not long after, right in front of the city.
Only when they landed, they were made to realize one other thing about this city.
Apparently, the average building in this city had four to five floors, so they were taller than White Wind City.
"Elves, Goblins, Orcs, wow, there are other races here!" The Dead Fish and Demon Horse’s surprise did not extend to the buildings in the city, they were surprised again when they saw the different creatures.