Building a floating city sounded easy enough, the kind of idea that stirred people's blood.
But in reality, in any world of magic, floating cities were not something ordinary people could pull off.
They required not only profound magical attainment, but also enormous amounts of manpower, resources, and funding.
Even in Faerûn's Netheril Empire, renowned for its floating cities, building one was a task only the most powerful mages could afford.
And that was after the Netherese had mastered such black technology as the Mythallar and accumulated extensive experience in building floating cities.
But in World of Warcraft, in Dalaran,
building a floating city was practically an unprecedented proposal.
Although Ye Ting's suggestion had received unanimous approval, they immediately realized there was a huge problem.
How were they supposed to build a floating city?
Even novice magical apprentices could see that building a floating city was undoubtedly a massive undertaking.
For mages, making an object float was no difficult task. Levitation was merely the simplest first-circle spell; with nothing more than a feather as its material component, it could make a person float temporarily.
But what if the target of the spell expanded from one person to an entire city, foundations included?
What if the floating height rose from less than a meter above the ground to thousands of meters in the sky?
What if the duration increased from a few minutes to permanent?
Never mind what kind of powerful spell would be needed to accomplish all that—the magical power required alone would be an astronomical figure.
Of course, in the eyes of Dalaran's mages, every one of these difficulties could be overcome.
They believed in the power of magic, and they believed in their own wisdom.
But there was another problem they had to face.
Time.
It had already