A person's boots were 10 meter above the ground. And no, he was not standing on a higher floor of a building or its roof to be that high up. He was literally standing in the air.
So, they could also fly. Flying was as easy as like unwrapping a candy in previous world. Even Allen with his condition could float a little, however a small coughing fit would be ensured. It is unexpected to see someone flying when they had no encounter with the sort before. Even the group they fought with had no one who could fly.
Allen was walking with eyes searching for details of the city when suddenly the person in front of him stopped. He was also stopped because of it.
He stopped in time. But the person in the back was not so well-timed. He collided with Allen's back, and started to bark, hey watch ..."The voice stopped in its tracks. Not just him but the others stopped their conversation too. The city they had thought was without walls had near invisible walls.
The guard just signaled inside and the transparent wall parted. It was like a veil was lifted from a dream. The reality was. The city they had seen at first, seemed to be an illusion, a large illusion spell or the sort.
The poor image of a city they saw before matched their image of a city of an underdeveloped world. But seeing the current sight, they could not grasp head and tails of what was happening.
There were no stone roads. And they looked so clean that they glistened in the daylight, a little more polishing and they might even show reflections.
That was not the only amazing thing they noticed, but just the first one. The buildings were as tall as large sand dunes, and people were not selling their wares in the middle of the street.
Don't they openly sell things here. How would I buy things when I need in the future. As they gradually proceeded in the streets, they came across different shops. The group intently looked at things specially at things related to food. At some places they even saw people holding cooked food in their hands that smelled so good that one among them even went to steal from him.
The thing to be admired was his guts and to lament his memory. He forgot that the guards were still with them. He had just stolen from the person and two guards as if waiting for this went forward and struck on his head. And after beating him severely went back.
Strange was the thing that the person in question only got mere bruises in response to that. Not that they were hoping for him to be beaten dead. But taking in the situation till now, the people here proved to be considerably stronger than them, their vicious blows sent their head flying previously.
But now such severe beating only resulted in small injuries not worth mentioning, this seemed contradictory. The guards also didn't need to put on a show to frighten them anymore, they were already at their wit's end.
The group followed the guards obediently and kept their curiosity to themselves. Occasionally there would be noisy vehicles that would pass by them. The guards finally reached a building after so much walking, no one complained about the long walk, compared to hours long walk during the journey this was just a small exercise.
One guard left and entered the building. After a while the guard exited and told the group to enter inside. Saying this he left with the other guards leaving the group at their own discretion.
The door of building opened and a person with black and white attire motioned for them to follow. They were not very obedient now as some even harbored the thought of blending in the crowd, but they were too smart to do something foolish in the end.
Some entered earlier and some after some hesitation. The room was awash with light. This light seemed comfortable like the light of Sun, but was not of the Sun. The same person who showed them the way inside gave them some keys and said they were keys to their respective rooms.
Their rooms were the same as the number on the key. His key ended up of room 143. After looking at the key he searched for the manager of this place but couldn't find him and obviously the person before was not him.
Strange, according to my knowledge he should be overseeing things here. Maybe it's different here. But how would the owner manage his workers then. Do they use some spell that lets them see at long distances?
Then doesn't this mean someone could be watching us right now. At any rate he didn't reach his goal as he could not spot the owner anywhere. He could understand more if he became friendly with a person with position here. For now, understanding was enough.
He looked around to see room 143, but the person if guessing his intentions from his probing said they could reach their rooms by that lift at the corner. As he didn't want to take part in unnecessary pushing he stayed behind till the end. And entered only when a paltry amount of people remained.
He got in the back and let the other people come in front, after the lift was full, the door closed, they didn't panic as previously this would happen when others left. A voice in the lift asked where they wanted to go. This was new, they couldn't see the person whose voice they were hearing.
I was right when I thought someone was watching us, but why did they blow their cover. Is this done to intimidate us. The voice repeated and one person told his room number. The door soon opened but the decorations around were different.
The voice again sounded" Those whose room lies between 100 to 149, please leave at this floor". Oh, so I also get off here. But I wouldn't have known if it didn't tell.
Allen searched for his room and found it close to the end of the floor. He rotated the key once and the door opened. It automatically rotated backwards. He entered the room and it was really... neat and small. Everything was in place but a few steps covered the room.
Is it because of this space consuming furniture. My previous room was also this big so it feels comfortable. A bed with a futon, a cabinet and a washing room? Seems enough. He laid on the bed with his back to the bed.
They did say they would provide all "necessities" of life, looks like they really meant it. So, anything extra needs to be earned. Seems quite... impossible for me right now. I don't understand what kind was that food after all. But I really need to decide where I will go to.
Was the shop that sold cooked meat good or the one that sold sweet but I am not a fan of sweet things so meat but I did smell a good about near the fruit shop...
Soon sleep caught him in the middle of his planning and threw him into the abyss.
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