Three hundred years later, after expending vast amounts of energy, the underground factories of Elysia finally established connections between the various Prime Material Planes.
Inside a huge conference hall, thousands of blue projections hovered.
The leaders of thousands of regions had all projected themselves to Elysia. They exchanged information with one another, rapidly advancing Floating City technology.
In fact, many of the Arcanists here were Wizards from the Wizarding World.
With the Wizards' help, Floating City technology had advanced by leaps and bounds, improving with every passing moment.
In the conference hall, an Arcanist who looked like an old man, with a ring of bushy white beard, held his right palm upward. A massive city appeared above it as a projection.
The city was hemispherical, with countless buildings clustered across it. It could be called a gigantic human metropolis! A few pipes were exposed beneath the hemisphere, with surging energy roaring through them. In the projected diagram, immense tides of energy even rose and fell.
"What a magnificent masterpiece! The Deities held Mages back far too much. The Deities exploited the Magic Web to cripple the Mages. If the Deities hadn't interfered during the Ancient Era, and the Mage System had continued to develop, perhaps we would have left the world long ago!"
The old Arcanist, his hair and beard white, spoke with growing bitterness.
The other projections nearby nodded one after another, deeply agreeing with his view.
As the Arcanist System spread, the Arcanists became ever more convinced that if they had led the world, they would have left it long ago and reached the Endless Void.
The Arcanist System kept expanding. There was no longer any need for Wizard spies to fan the flames. The Arcanists themselves had begun to oppose the Deities!
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