Ang wandered through many stalls in Aktoobe's marketplace and bought several materials he thought would be useful, but he never saw another ore with a texture like that translucent stone. This made him even more curious about it, and he vaguely felt that it might be hiding some unknown secret.
Aktobe City was built along the outer hills of the Santa Cruz Rainforest. Its layout rose from low ground to high, creating a distinctive sense of layers. Ang strolled through the city streets until he reached Aktoobe's highest point—the Temple Tower. The tower was one of the city's landmark buildings, and visitors could tour it for one Gold Wack. Ang paid without hesitation and climbed the stairs leading to the top.
From the top of the tower, Aktobe City lay spread out beneath him. Red roofs and gray walls filled his view, with winding streets running through them like veins, bustling with traffic and life. At the city's edge began the rainforest, its lush green seeming endless as it stretched to the horizon. Ang could not help but marvel. Although Aktoobe was already quite prosperous as an important southern border city, it seemed incomparably small beside the vast, mysterious Santa Cruz Rainforest. Standing there, Ang felt the oppressive force of nature. That green ocean seemed to be silently proclaiming its power and unfathomable depths.
He took a deep breath. The moist air carried a faint botanical fragrance, brimming with the rainforest's unique vitality. Ang's gaze passed over the city and fixed on that endless expanse of green, and an urge to explore rose within him. The Santa Cruz Rainforest, a place filled with the unknown and danger, seemed to be calling him to uncover its secrets.
The tower offered not only magnificent scenery; Ang could also see the boundary between