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The grayish-blue doors stood open, revealing stone steps leading all the way down, with a railing formed from a row of stone pillars.
Beyond the railing spread orange-red clouds. Far beyond them lay a gently surging expanse of deep blue with no end in sight, a deep blue that gave off the sound of rushing waves.
The sea.
The deep-blue sea, gently surging, boundless, and seemingly holding endless life, appeared before the eyes of the City of Silver's Exploration Squad. It was no longer a record in ancient books, nor a combination of words spoken by an outsider.
The sea, shimmering with patches of golden light, and the light that filled every corner once again met Colin's and Lovia's eyes.
It was no longer far away. It was now within reach.
As members of the previous Exploration Squad, this was not their first time seeing this sight, but it still shook them to their souls. They instinctively held their breath.
Klein did not interrupt the two City of Silver demigods' thoughts. He merely stepped through the doors ahead of them, looked around, and began searching for the people of the two cities.
There were nearly twenty thousand of them. By Klein's most immediate reckoning, that was the entire population of a secondary school, teachers and students included. It would take at least a rubber-surfaced sports field with a four-hundred-meter track to hold them all.
The coordinates the Hidden Sage had given also covered an area. As far as he could see, there was only an endless beach outside. Klein scanned it briefly before withdrawing his gaze and deciding to follow the remaining outer walls of the Giant King's Court, searching as he walked.
*I wonder what happened during this time from the perspective of the people of the City