Capítulo 1580: Chapter 291: My Unyielding Fortress Can Fly Too!

“Floating city?!”

At this moment, even Ian couldn’t help but subconsciously take a deep breath.

Initially, when Ian saw a brand new city emerging in this place, he thought to himself, ‘The Empire’s Engineering Department really has some skills.’

Because on the map, there was originally only one city on this plain, and that city had been completely incinerated in the recent demon disaster. Based on Ian’s observation, he had already seen the ruins of the burned city, all covered with black soot and debris.

Right next to these city ruins, there was another city, along with many skyships nearby… It could only be a fortress city temporarily built by the Imperial Engineering Department to maintain local defense—judging by the level of armament of this city, Ian’s speculation was not wrong. Plus, it was indeed possible for a Sublimator to easily forge a city, creating a fortress in just a few days.

But then… it started flying?!

The city with a pitch-black base lit up with dense, orderly blue light patterns on the base.

These lights, though quite dim, controlled the surrounding moisture, gathering into vast white clouds, generating incredible buoyancy that lifted the entire city upward.

As the city was rising, the ground and the surrounding air, due to the operation of the inscription circuit, generated shockwaves as tangible as solid matter.

Dirt and white shockwaves swept over the plains and hills around them like ocean waves, blowing everything away except for the skyships protected by shields, forming a perfect circular ‘dust mist ring’ on the ground, with the city taking off at its very center.

Not just that.

As the floating city initiated, the West Frontier Plains slowly started sinking, forming a concave basin—an effect of the spirit energy field’s reactive force on the material world, collapsing and sinking this place. In the future, it would become a vast lake, yet another ‘stronger terrain’ on Terra.

Buzz buzz—a thousand-meter-high dust fog blocked the sky and sun, but the iron fortress broke through the fog and continued to ascend to the sky!

In just a few minutes, under the gaze of Ian and others, the entire city was lifted into the air by terrifying power, reaching an altitude of several thousand meters.

Though still below the skyships, it was also above some flowing clouds, because the bottom of this floating city was also filled with a large amount of cloud-like sublimated matter. So from the base looking up, one could only see a continuous field of white clouds unless closely scrutinized.

In a world that had never had such creations, who could have imagined that hidden within these white clouds was a steel fortress armed to the teeth?

“How was this created…”

Ian murmured, while beside him, Marquis Barton, watching the stabilizing steel city before him, softly said, “Of course, it’s the technology from the City of Knowledge—see those ‘hanging clouds’? That’s the technology used by the City of Knowledge’s ‘Heavenly Metropolis.’

“The entire Thousand Tower City of Cloudscape is built upon these hanging clouds; they can even lift mountains into the air, let alone a city?”

“Floating city…” Ian repeated the term, fully understanding what a marvel the ‘Heavenly Metropolis’ truly was.

But even so, he was somewhat incredulous: “How could the City of Knowledge share such critical technology with the Empire, my god, what technology did the Empire use in exchange…”

This sentence was never spoken aloud.

Because in the instant he voiced it, Ian realized what technology the Empire used for the exchange.

“The Imperial Capital? The Imperial Capital’s shield?”

Ian whispered, and Marquis Barton didn’t respond but nodded gently.

This was a pinnacle exchange.

The Empire exchanged the Imperial Capital’s shield technology for the City of Knowledge’s levitation technology.

Both sides got what they wanted: the fragile Thousand Tower City of Cloudscape gained a super shield sufficient to protect itself, while the originally ground-based Unyielding Fortress now had the potential to fly skyward!

The two sides were intertwining.

The skyships were gradually descending.

While the ‘floating city’ still maintained its levitation, even continuing to ascend.

Like a giant whale and sardines, or even plankton interweaving in the deep sea, the once-mighty skyships appeared insignificant against the floating city.

“Incredible…”

Ian gazed at this scene.

This was something that Earth’s technology could never achieve.

The ascension and descent of the floating city seemed like a regular test every few days, examining various data of the floating city.

After all, even in a world like Terra, with extraordinary power like Origin Quality Spiritual Energy and Aether, creating a floating fortress capable of countering planetary gravity was an extremely terrifyingly grand engineering endeavor.

God knows how long the Empire had been preparing and how much wealth they had expended… But no matter what, the instant it was created, many things were destined to be utterly changed.

During the descent, Ian silently gazed at the city.

Black base, blue patterns, and white clouds as the foundation, the magnificent iron city was surrounded by countless pure white flowing clouds. A visible spirit energy halo flowed across the surface of every building, with the power of inscriptions almost solidified into a physical form, rendering it indestructible.

It’s easy to guess that this Unyielding Fortress used extraordinarily powerful shield technology, akin to Silverpeak Territory’s Snow Summit and Xiahui City, if not stronger… The light shimmering from the grand and spectacular steel city as the sunset gradually descended in the evening environment made it seem like a second sun, everything was enveloped in sacred glimmers, like a realm of the Heavenly Kingdom.