After they left the Deep Blue Illusion, two deep-blue spheres, a pale-gray sphere, and a box containing an upgrade module for the Clockwork Golem erupted from the vent.
"So these are tiny planes?"
"A whole country can actually fit inside a single sphere."
Although Kroya should have been able to do the same once he thoroughly mastered the Ark's inherited knowledge, seeing it so directly still surprised him a little.
However, once these things left the Sacred Spring Trade Guild's restraints, they would immediately become unstable. They needed a restraining device capable of holding their spatial structure in place.
Rather than open the box and inspect what was inside the Rainbow Grass right away, Kroya quickly opened a spatial gate back to his Mage Tower, then entered a platinum-colored room.
Shallow seawater lay here, with white sand beneath its clear surface. The walls had been coated with essence refined by Void Luminary, tracing out the Ark's Spatial Magic Runes.
An Air Coral grew quietly amid the surrounding magic.
It was not particularly tall, only about half a person's height, but every part of it shimmered with a different magical luster: platinum light from Void Luminary, azure seawater, scarlet flames...
And, most conspicuously around the Air Coral's roots, some deep-black yet wholly untainted Time Luminary power.
[Air Coral (Vast Sea Bubble · Space Folding · Time Luminary Contamination)] [This magic plant has absorbed and imprinted different powers. It is working to integrate them and make them instinctive.] [Within the bubbles created by this magic plant, space will be folded. Internal time will accelerate or slow according to the amount of Time Luminary power.] [This magic plant bears a "wish" and has received the blessing of the Sept-Terrion of Mirage. It is ascending to godhood.]
Kroya let out a soft