Castle in the Sky.
"Um?"
Suddenly sensing a gaze upon her, Alice, who had been sulking alone just a second ago, abruptly turned around.
The girl with her eyes closed glared fiercely at the peeping tom hiding in the shadows.
"who!?"
A fierce and volatile thought relentlessly probed behind her; Alice was determined to find that ungrateful spy!
If possible, find him and give him a good beating to vent the suppressed emotions in your heart.
"Who is it? Show yourself!"
Who's there?!
Get out here, you bastard!
However, to Alice's dismay, after several thorough searches, she still found nothing.
It was as if her previous perception was merely a paranoid delusion stemming from excessive tension.
However, Alice would never doubt herself; she couldn't possibly be wrong about her perception.
There must be someone watching me from the shadows!
Either the other party has an exceptionally high level of concealment ability, or the other party uses a very special method of spying.
"...You're not coming out, are you?"
After surveying the area within sight, Alice finally contracted her consciousness, covering the entire Sky City.
"snort!"
If you're not going to come out, then don't come out!
Since that's the case, then don't blame me for being impolite!
The crystal fell and stuck in the groove on the ground without any gap.
Buzz—
A loud buzzing sound echoed in the sky, and the residents who heard it were stunned for a moment before running away.
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"quick!"
"Hurry! Hurry! We're going to be too late!"
Powerful energy surged from the core of the Sky City, flowing wave after wave toward Alice's crystal.
Buzz buzz buzz!
The humming emitted by the crystal grew louder and faster, before abruptly disappearing at its peak.
The girl in the crystal raised her arm and pointed indifferently ahead.
"————"
The power that had been compressed to its limit was released at this moment!
Swoosh.
All sound disappeared, and only dazzling light covered the spherical space.
Silently.
The horrific destruction did not occur; from the outside, it appeared as if nothing had happened in this space.
The only change was that the sky city had vanished from its original location.
Faced with the inability to find the spy, Alice chose to use her power to move directly from the original location.
Since you're not coming out, I'm ignoring you.
Go play by yourself!
This wasn't out of fear, but simply because it was too much trouble.
Regardless of who is lurking in the shadows, as long as Alice remains in this city, no one can truly threaten her life.
Even the gods won't do it!
This is her sanctuary, isolated from all external perception and power.
But at the same time... this is also her cage.
As long as Alice controls the crystal, everything about her is connected to this city.
She is the city, and the city is her; no one can separate her from it.
Alice is the true master of Sky City, but... she is also a caged bird that she cannot escape.
The city can guarantee her safety, but only within the city limits.
She cannot leave this city even a step unless she is willing to abandon this crystal-made iron cage.
However, although it sounds pitiful, like Alice is a tragic protagonist who suffers torment every day, this cage is actually not really torment for her.
Alice doesn't resist the status quo; in fact, she even enjoys it a bit.
She is naturally reluctant to go out, especially when the outside world is very dangerous.
go out?
Why go out?
And what about now, after those uninvited guests arrived?
Is the outside world some kind of wonderful place?!
She has been in this world for many years; strictly speaking, she arrived here even earlier than those who call themselves gods.
Those lunatics were the ones who came later!
When Alice arrived, the world was still in harmony.
Undisturbed mortals were still developing their civilization step by step. At that time, they had just passed through the earliest stage of eating raw meat and drinking blood. Perhaps it would take another few hundred years for them to truly enter the dawn of culture.
When that time comes, she will be able to formally contact and communicate with that group of people.
Alice waited patiently, and the result... mortal civilization did indeed prosper, but not through their own efforts.
They relied on the charity of something called "the gods".
In the short span of a hundred years, Alice was merely dozing off when the lawless gods who followed arbitrarily transformed the world into their own shape.
If things ended there, there wouldn't be a problem; Alice could simply move to another place.
However... these gods overestimated their own will.
They began to become greedy without realizing it, and gradually lost control of their desires.
The gods have become rampant, wreaking havoc on the human world, and divine wars are constantly breaking out.
Legends are everywhere, and chosen ones are as common as dogs.
The frenzied war of the gods completely destroyed the laws of this world, causing the entire world to become distorted and completely changing the parameters of space warp. It will take another hundred years to calculate the results.
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