Ljosalfgard was a gigantic orchid, its tallest pistil soaring into the sky, more than thirty kilometers high. The royal palace stood at its very tip.
Slightly lower was a ring of splayed stamens, like towers, housing the various government departments: the import and export trade department, the carnival organizing department, the tourism department, the entertainment methods research department, and so on.
This city was not a building shaped like a flower. It was an actual giant plant, merely not as large as Yggdrasil and without any self-awareness.
Its slender petals glowed with a faint orange light, forming the city walls and elevated bridges within the city. One petal had been stretched endlessly outward, becoming an arched bridge across the mead moat before spreading over the ground and transforming into Queen's Road, extending for hundreds of kilometers and cutting across the entire dimension.
Beneath the orchid were branches, leaves, and roots, a dense mass of lush green. The residents of the royal city lived within these tubular giant leaves, as though residing in green skyscrapers.
Although the Light Elves were a grand alliance of many races, their population had never been large. They had also once been massacred by the Dark Elves, so naturally, traffic congestion and housing shortages were not issues here.
"It doesn't look like there was any fighting." Diana drew her sword and shield, adjusting her breathing as she prepared to act. "Let me finish off these ugly monsters."
"Don't. No rush. They're just ordinary Trolls; we can kill them whenever we want." Su Ming tugged her arm, signaling her to remain calm. "I'm curious about what these guys are saying. The royal city doesn't even have a gate, yet they aren't entering and are chatting by the moat instead? Cloak, stealth mode. Take us closer and float