At the heart of the Rain Realm, Locke exploited a loophole in the Rain Prayer system to reach the very center of the Celestial Realm. Ten Cabbage Magic Plants floated on the Heavenly River there, bobbing on its surface.
Locke stepped onto one cabbage, then walked to the Cabbage Magic Plant at the center. Only from there could he see what Witch Macedon normally saw.
The whole land of the Genesis Blue Lotus World lay within the lotus heart. And the Three-Realm Super-Scale Water Cycle encompassed more than the land, the sky, the ocean, and every river on earth. It also included the lotus leaves of the Chaos Blue Lotus itself.
A drop of water rested on the tip of each of the Chaos Blue Lotus's sixteen lotus petals. As the drops fell, they turned to vapor, became clouds, and entered the land.
But as time passed, fewer and fewer drops remained on the leaves. The water cycle had developed a serious problem.
Every river in the world spread out before Locke, as though he were looking at a three-dimensional world.
"So that's how Witch Macedon sees the world. To her, the world has another dimension beyond sky, land, and sea: its rivers. They're a world unto themselves, running through the sky, the land, the ocean, and even underground."
Sitting on the cabbage, Locke could barely contain his delight. He had found a loophole in Witch Macedon's Great Magic. The Rain Prayer system brought students into its core to study the changes in her three thousand raindrops and the world's rivers. That gave him an opening.
Through Witch Macedon's eyes, Locke examined her magic. Reading her three thousand raindrops revealed the basic forms of three thousand Second-Ring Spell Models. Her foundations ran deeper than his or Edgar's. Had he not