Nass, inside the Floating City in its underground space.
Since he had nothing that needed making and had not brought Wolf Fish Canned Food as a gift, Abner did not meet Master Klaus. Instead, with Jane accompanying him, he simply toured the city, which looked almost identical to Morning Star City.
As I expected, only the surface structure is the same... The four major systems have been built too, but they're just for show. Even in the Forsaken Land of the Gods, they wouldn't be able to draw on divine power...
All in all, it's just an enormous model.
Still, it's enough to serve as a real-world anchor for the Floating City created by the All-Seeing Eye in the dream.
I wonder how much Master Klaus would want before he'd sell me this city... It is the work of more than a hundred years of his life, after all.
After thinking it over, Jane steeled herself and went to ask Master Klaus. Rather than taking offense, he gave her a clear condition:
"Whoever can make this city fly indefinitely and let me continue my research aboard it can have the Floating City."
Make it fly? Abner rubbed his chin. It was not impossible. Once he advanced to Sequence 3 and became a Dominator of Mysteries, he would be able to harness the forces of nature...
Making the Floating City fly would still be difficult then, but it would no longer be impossible.
After pondering it for a while, Abner set the matter aside. There was no rush.
He spent the rest of his visit as a tourist, with Jane showing him around the Floating City he had not had time to examine closely in Afternoon Town.
Good times never lasted long. On Monday morning, Abner waved goodbye to a reluctant