"I'm thinking, if I told you every last detail, it'd be way too long. What do you want to hear about?"
Hearing Lin Xiaolu say that, Mint was quite cooperative. "The city itself? The Magical Girl Squad over there? Or me personally?"
"Tell me all of it. It's not like we have anything better to do."
Lin Xiaolu kept only her left foot on the ground, her right foot balanced on tiptoe, while she leaned over the magical device and looked at Mint. "I read about it in books before. The center of Yuewang City is a mountain?"
"Since you're interested, I don't mind. Just don't complain that I'm boring later."
Mint turned around, lowered her head, and took another two steps forward, changing several tiles near her feet to green. "Then let's start with Yuewang City itself—you were right just now. Yuewang City was built around a mountain. Right in the middle of our city is a mountain over a thousand meters tall..."
"Wuheng Mountain," Lin Xiaolu answered before she could finish.
"...That's right. Wuheng Mountain."
Mint was briefly choked up by the interruption, but she quickly continued. "A thousand years ago, during the Ancient Beast Calamity, a group of refugees fled into the mountains to escape Aberrant Beasts and survive in the wilderness. They hadn't intended to stay on the mountain for long, but after living there for a while, they unexpectedly discovered that as long as they lived within Wuheng Mountain, no Aberrant Beasts seemed to come searching for the scent of gathered humans."
"Technology wasn't advanced back then—or rather, there was barely any technology at all. There was no theory that could verify such a guess. But for those refugees, surviving the jaws of the Aberrant Beasts was already an enormous blessing, so they simply settled