Floating World, City of Truth.
This extraordinary city, which had sole dominion over the Floating World, rested upon a black creature shaped like a jellyfish. The creature was so enormous that even a hundred island whales combined could not compare to it.
This jellyfish-shaped species was a unique feature of the Floating World—the Floating Ones. The Floating One that bore the City of Truth, a city with an irreplaceable status in the Southern Wizarding World, was the king of the Floating Ones, Kalapuye.
Ever since the first chairman of the Council of True Knowledge had conquered Kalapuye, the City of Truth had stood upon his back for three thousand years, roaming the Floating World.
At this moment, Kalapuye was drifting slowly beneath the starry skies of the Floating World.
Just then, a luminous body like a comet suddenly emerged from the void and streaked past Kalapuye's side.
Kalapuye's enormous, moisture-filled eyes clearly reflected the luminous body.
"Long time no see, little Floating One~" A slightly teasing voice came from within the light.
Kalapuye had been puzzled when he first saw the luminous body, but upon hearing the voice within it, he slowly closed his eyes again, seemingly unwilling to pay it any heed.
"How heartless. I'm the current chairman, at least give me some face..."
The luminous body sighed and spoke no further to Kalapuye, instead flying toward the City of Truth on his back.
At this time, in the center of the City of Truth, within a pitch-black palace guarded by countless Floating One tentacles.
The empty palace was steeped entirely in darkness. Its only source of light was the bloody glow in the eyes of the skull atop the throne at the front of the hall.
Seated upon the throne was a woman in black aristocratic robes. One