It was already pretty dark outside making it hard to see very far, but with Dean's improved vision from one of his multiple perfected techniques of the Kari assassination family and the lights inside the city, it wasn't very difficult to see Irinas.
In the distance, Dean could see a gigantic fortress.
The walls were probably over 40 meters high, and Dean could see several towers with an even more imposing height. The walls and the towers were nearly invisible in the shadows of night, and Dean guessed that they were probably black in color or maybe grey.
Gigantic bonfires raged on top of every tower, illuminating the entire city.
Dean could faintly see massive orbs floating right underneath the bonfires, but he didn't know what function they had; thus, he pushed that information to the side of his mind.
Irinas City was absolutely massive!
Dean guessed that the city was several kilometers wide.
However, all of that wasn't the most surprising and shocking part.
The most surprising part was the location of Irinas City.
Earlier, Dean and the five divers had already been riding the carriage on a road that seemingly rose into the air but Dean had never noticed such a thing since it only started happening on the last day when they were extremely close to Irinas.
The road was slowly extending further and further upward with nothing of similar height beside it since this morning.
At this moment, Dean finally noticed the change of balance and walked to the side, and he was only able to see water right down under the road. While the road kept extending upward, an ocean started appearing underneath it and kept going downward till it reached such a far away distance from Dean's height, expanding the difference in elevation between it and the road.
So, with a lonely road slowly extending towards the sky, where was Irinas?
Irinas stood on nothing but empty air.
It was a flying city that was dozens of kilometers wide.
Dean looked around but couldn't see any supporting pillars or mana fluctuations beneath or around the city.
This singular city looked like a gigantic rock extending upward from the ocean for over ten kilometers!
Irinas was like these ancient holy cities that Dean had read about in fantasy novels and seen in animes, castles, and heavenly lands that had been built in mid-air containing countless secrets and holding immense strength inside. However, in comparison to these holy cities, castles, and heavenly lands. Irinas was an actual city with millions of people residing in it.
Their sizes couldn't be compared.
A black, burning, solitary fortress that was in reality a city that overlooked seemingly the entire world.
It was a remembrance of human power over nature.
And this remembrance had been Dean's destiny and fate the moment he met with the Book of Immortality!
Irinas City!
Or rather say the gates hidden under it right in the deepest parts of the ocean!
Now Dean started failing to comprehend the things around him and digesting the knowledge of this world cause he finally understood why it was called Irinas City.
Iri was the Wind's God name, and Nas was the Water's God name.
Somehow, the City that gates appeared around or rather say beneath since it was literally hovering on top of the ocean, was named after two of the well-known gods in the world which were no secrets to anyone residing in it.
' Are gods divers or mages? Does the mage and warrior path even exist? Why is this structure of the world so complex? Holy fuck!' Dean racked his brain for several seconds but failed to reach a conclusion on the relationship between both subjects.
Were mages and warriors just kids playing in the garden while divers were the real deal who fought the war and grew stronger?
Then what about the gods and people who have strength in the mage and warrior path?
Are all of them unable to kill a diver if they tried to?
Did anyone ever try to kill a diver in the first place?
Dean's mind failed to comprehend all these different concepts, but as soon as his thoughts were about to wander to another place and ask Kerin about it, an answer to one of his questions delivered itself in front of him.
Swoosh!
It was the sound of an arrow that pierced the air with high speed aiming for the head of Lexi.
The arrow was flying at a speed untraceable to the human eye but thanks to Dean's training and techniques, he could more or less see it, even though a little blurry and hard to react to.
In the blink of an eye right when Dean noticed the arrow one kilometer away from him coming from one of the groups of people standing in front of him, the arrow had already been caught by Lexi.
To put it in a more descriptive scene.
The arrow never reached Lexi's body or interacted with it in the first place, it was instead grabbed by a pair of scissors that held it firmly tight in between.
Crack!
The arrow got cut in two halves as it dropped to the ground.
Right after, Lexi raised an eyebrow and looked in the direction where the arrow came from.
The group of people was three kilometers in front of them, and even though the distance might look far away, for divers like Lexi and Kerin, such a distance was nothing but a few steps if they chose to take action.
Dean also had no problems seeing that far thanks to his enhanced vision and silently stood there waiting for Lexi's response.
The red scissor sharper than a sword, closed on itself making a click sound, then, in a second, it vanished from Dean's sight.
It didn't take more than another second till it was back.
Alas, this time it wasn't alone.
The scissors were like literal pets or human beings, kind of thinking for themselves or acting by their own will.
A head was on top of its hilt as it made clicking sounds, then suddenly and after Lexi took a quick glance at it. The head was thrown in between the two sharp edges of the scissor and cleanly cut in half.
Subsequently, the scissor didn't stop at that action as it quickly began controlling the two halves of the lifeless head and placing it in between its edges, and in just a matter of two seconds, the head was already turned into minced meat.
Everyone who would look at it right now wouldn't be able to tell that this minced meat was a human's head if they didn't witness this scene right now.
' Was it really the scissors doing or Lexi's?' Dean didn't know which one was controlling the scissor but netherless, the sheer power, speed and strength of these scissors and especially Lexi the one obviously who summoned it was beyond his imagination.
Dean didn't fully understand who attacked, or why did they attack Lexi in the first place, but one thing he was sure of.
' I have underestimated the diver's power.' He thought as he gazed at Lexi.