In other words, they were floating in midair—the Hanging Gardens of Babylon truly hovered in the sky...!
"Surprised? Of course, it can't exactly be called fast."
Assassin's words carried a trace of pride.
The Empress of Assyria—Semiramis. Her Noble Phantasm, the "Hanging Gardens of Babylon," was practically an aerial fortress. However, it could not be manifested through magical energy alone. First, materials such as stone and timber from a specific region had to be gathered.
After gathering the materials, Assassin had to perform a lengthy ritual before the Noble Phantasm could finally take complete form. This was because the historical Empress Semiramis had never actually built the Hanging Gardens.
She had never even seen the Hanging Gardens. Yet she knew they had been engraved into her memories as a fantasy, and she possessed a sense of having experienced them. Though it was a mystical phenomenon born from later embellishment, the impression of "the Hanging Gardens built by the world's oldest assassin, the legendary empress" was simply too powerful.
The materials had to be gathered. First, genuine matter based on this real world had to be collected—timber, stone, minerals, plants, and water from the land where she had once lived.
She rearranged those gathered things and, through ritual, reached a true fantasy. It was a false reality, a Noble Phantasm that should have been absolutely impossible to exist.
That was why it bore the name "Babylon." To those who knew the truth, it was merely a subject of ridicule. After all, she had never built the Hanging Gardens. But vanity did not necessarily mean fragility. No, at the moment the materials were gathered and the Noble Phantasm completed, vanity had become reality, at least in this age.
Yet this garden clad in the mantle of fantasy was far more exaggerated than