Above The Sky
Chapter 1128: 161: Hive City and the Rites of the Star Gods

Chapter 1128: Chapter 161: Hive City and the Rites of the Star Gods

The World Tree City was clearly not designed for Humans, but they have transformed it into a place suitable for their lives.

The more Ian and Anfa’s Knight Squad traveled towards the fourth layer of the World Tree City, experiencing various landscapes along the way, the more Ian was certain of this.

If Ian’s guess is correct, the essence of the World Tree City is a giant airship that stretches for tens of thousands of meters – not just a few thousand meters – its internal space is naturally quite spacious for a warship, but not very large for a city, especially the cross-section of the urban area, which is actually the size of an ordinary small town, much like the Imperial Capital.

However, the urban area is incredibly tall – each layer of the urban area is nearly three thousand meters high.

It’s apparent that this super giant airship was never designed for Humans; rather, it was designed for some organism with extremely slender structures, similar to vines or fungi, perhaps even capable of flight… possibly some moss or algae species, and possibly aquatic creatures because the original interior of the World Tree City could have been filled with water…

In short, it was not intended for human habitation.

Yet, Humans always manage to demonstrate their creativity.

Through millennia of transformation, by now, these expansive spaces reaching three thousand meters high are not devoid of anything; thanks to successive generations of Elves repairing and constructing, many platforms and hanging buildings are attached to the four walls of the urban area, intertwined with the giant metal framework of the city, forming an incredibly intricate vertical urban landscape.

If one must metaphorically describe it, it’s akin to a honeycomb.

The urban area inside the World Tree City resembles a giant honeycomb, where countless compartments, small buildings, public halls, and residential apartments are densely distributed in a three-dimensional manner. Looking up from the base of the city, one cannot see any dome, only layer upon layer of overlapping flyovers, the pedestrians come and go, and the metal framework supporting the city.

Along with various lights and energy flows.

The city is crowded, and naturally, the population is dense; the density of Elves inside the World Tree City even surpasses that of the Imperial Capital… no, it’s not even on the same level, the population of the Imperial Capital relative to its size is not large, each resident is carefully selected and even requires a residence permit to live there, so there are still quite open districts inside the city.

But in the World Tree City, aside from its honeycomb structure, the population is packed like a honeycomb as well, bustling and crowded under various neon sign advertisements, moving through the streets to their destinations.

Among them are brightly-dressed wealthy merchants and craftspeople whose pants have been washed to fading, but no matter how wealthy they are, they cannot walk casually inside the World Tree City; they can only helplessly queue one after another, navigating through one narrow bridge pathway after another.

So, what routes do the real power holders take?

The answer is to fly.

Amongst the numerous suspended buildings and supporting frameworks in the urban area are relatively spacious paths compared to the internal passageways of the city. These are the pathways the Elven aristocrats typically use.

The backpacks behind Anfa’s Knight Guard are jet flying backpacks, capable of utilizing wind Origin Quality to create a stable floating zone, as Ian and his party were surrounded by knights, flying steadily in the air, passing through the densely populated urban area.

Bustling. Prosperous.

Even Ian, coming from Earth, had to admit the prosperity of Canaan Moore’s World Tree City.

Inside the urban area of the World Tree City, various towering buildings abound; the honeycomb-like structure spreads the city’s layers across a three-thousand-meter height, stacking countless layers that expand a small town’s area into hundreds of layers, accommodating millions of people within each urban area.

And with so many people, the production of waste, the required material energy, internal and external ventilation channels, and even the maintenance of public order are all perfectly organized.

Ian saw in the corners of the city’s edges massive pyramid-shaped Worm Nests, from which numerous disc-shaped shells swarmed out, bustling underfoot of the people, cleaning every piece of garbage and stain, while their robust shells could withstand any trampling by the crowd, and even some children liked standing on them, laughing as the cleaning bugs carried them around.

The vast energy sourced from the Dyson Cloud and artificial sunlight stirred the wind, this wind derived from the natural operation of wind Origin Quality, and this operation was utilized by the people of Canaan Moore to form a complex network of wind pathways throughout all urban areas.

These wind pathways are precisely the aerial paths Ian and others walked, serving not only as convenient flying routes but also ensuring the World Tree City’s internal air remains clear, safely interacting with the external environment.

Likewise, the immense energy flow kept the inside of the World Tree City bright—here, nearly akin to the Xia Hui Command Agriculture Building, are planting areas where brilliant sun lamps emitted Origin Quality, densely planting numerous crops layer upon layer.

No wonder, while many expressed novelty, the Elves of Canaan Moore merely showed appreciation and interest in the agricultural building technology, for they had already seen similar designs long ago; it’s just that they did not have the necessity to specially design a building for planting…

Ian felt a sense of clarity when he saw the planting area. Certainly, the World Tree City is not lacking in resources; the immense Gaia Parkland surrounding it is filled with an incredible abundance of material, perhaps only second to the Quinor Plains surrounding the Imperial Capital with its weather controllers.