The ancient city was not far from the spatial entrance. Before long, the magnificent granite city wall loomed before them.
The collapse of the alternate space was not uniform in every direction. On the other side of the city, the collapse had already spread across nearly a third of the urban district, but here by the spatial entrance, its progress was clearly much slower. Even now, this section of the city wall remained largely intact, along with part of the area outside the city, which was still stable. They had to admit that this saved Hao Ren and the others a great deal of trouble, sparing them from having to navigate the perilous, shattered fissures of the collapse.
"...It really does carry the atmosphere of that era." Vivian tilted her head back to gaze at the towering city wall. "It's just impossible to tell from the style which mythical city-state it belonged to. I don't remember it at all."
Lily glanced at Vivian. "Weren't you supposedly a living fossil from the Mythical Era? How can there still be things you don't know?"
"There were too many cities that briefly flourished at the height of the Mythical Era before quietly vanishing. Even I couldn't possibly know all of them." Vivian shook her head. "Humanity's productivity was still extremely low back then. On top of that, all kinds of Mythical Monsters and ferocious beasts ran rampant, making the living environment incredibly harsh. Almost every magnificent city built in those days depended on the protection and guidance of some nonhuman being—in other words, an ancient 'god.' Granted, those 'ancient gods' usually only wanted to make their own lives more comfortable, and their rule was always brutal, but it had to be admitted that without them, these magnificent cities would never have existed. Yet