The lecture was being held at South City's most famous wonder, [Red Square Opera House].
You could tell from the name alone that it had been built with the help of good comrades drinking vodka. This wonder had been completed using materials from the nations around South City's Second Island Chain back in the day; even in the world of witches, it could still be called a wonder.
She—the comrades' pet name for it—possessed a spiraling outer structure that rose and widened like a whirlpool or a sea tornado. Every piece of sea wood and strange stone used to simulate the vortex represented the blood and tears of creatures from folded spaces.
Upon that massive circular arc stood a great number of opera houses that would be considered wonders in another world. Hailed as a miraculous structure, it drew scholars from everywhere, all hoping to rent the main opera house for academic presentations. Every year, hundreds of highly influential world-class awards, including the Sindra Prize, were presented here—though they occasionally went to Great Wall Castle in Europe instead.
She covered an immense expanse. Even if an entire Eightfold Island were placed at her center, it would be no more than a sailing ship swallowed by an endless great whirlpool.
Blue, ice-colored gemstone walls that imitated the ocean traced the shapes of countless currents, waves, and billows!
This unbelievable structure had consumed 8,124,000 tons of witch gold—roughly forty-two times the total amount of gold developed on Earth in a parallel world!
And though she was an opera house, with the comrades pouring out all their resources to aid her construction, she could withstand temporal tides head-on. She was also one of the proofs that South City's witches had conquered time and space.
Because she was so enormous and contained so many