After the enormous floating city arrived, it moored above the sea, occupying a vast expanse of space.
Dozens of floating cities of the same size drifted around the Absolute City, packed so densely they formed an archipelago in the sky. Even the dragons flying over the sea would let out a roar and turn back at the sight. Faced with such a terrifying witch fleet, no creature dared foolishly barge into it.
The small floating cities served as satellites in orbit, or resembled domestically distinctive artificial giant Sky Islands, enclosed within spherical shells imitating the sky to create cube-shaped worlds. Their academic name was the "Rational Universe of Round Heaven and Square Earth." These unique Chinese-style spells remained entirely mysterious to this day; every component spell was a closely guarded secret. Outsiders knew nothing beyond the name and academic designation.
—Once, an Archwitch had gotten lost and wandered into a construction site. She was "loyalized" on the spot. After fifty days of training, she declared her absolute loyalty and dedication to this great undertaking.
Jiang Han stood atop the outer city wall, looking at the barrier formed by the floating cities. Besides admiring the witches' immense power, another question rose in her heart:
Even floating cities were this damn impressive, so why had France still been pushed all the way back to Paris?
A capital's defenses should have been ten times stronger than a floating city's—that was the normal ratio. Back in the era before the legendary city-breaking spell Meteor Storm had been developed, attacking a capital could only be done by piling up witches' lives.
Of course, Germany had already conquered a quarter of the first layer of Hell's Abyss back then, so perhaps the German witches had been shouting, "Before the last demon and devil falls, Germany will