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Chapter 096
🕑 Added 2024-04-22 10:14:43 +0000 UTC--
Chapter 096
Kira came to visit the blonde’s domain to see the progress of Ellie’s magic teachings and what she had created there. Overwhelmed by the forest her daughter made, Sophia then decided to show the queen her powers inside the domain and what she’s capable of when not holding back. She wanted her to realize just how massive the potential of magic really was and how little they were utilizing it.
“Alright, let’s start with the less impressive-looking work of mine before we get to the main attraction!” Exiting the portal, Sophia addressed the queen in an excited tone.
“W-Wha—?!" Kira wasn't even able to finish a single word before she was overwhelmed by the sight in front of her—or rather, below her.
The trio arrived on a ten-meter-wide rock platform that was floating in the air roughly one kilometer above ground. Looking down, a massive lush-green plain stretched as far as the eye could see. Which, thanks to being so high up and there not being a curvature in Sophia’s flat domain, was quite a lot. Multiple hundreds of kilometers a lot. It looked the same as the plain Ellie learned the first bit of earth magic, but it was simply going on forever. Every now and then, a couple of trees, as well as some smaller lakes in varying sizes, could be spotted here and there. Compared to the area where the princess did her training, there were many more colorful flowers spread all over the grass.
“So high!” Ellie was a lot less shocked and excitedly took in the sights. “So colorful, too!”
“This is a bit of a side project of mine.” Sophia ignored the flabbergasted queen and patted the smaller tiger’s head while also making sure that she wouldn’t get too close to the edge and fall down. “Whenever I have some excess magic after playing around all day, I dump it all here and use it to grow the plain. I don't really have anything in mind for it, but I really want to fill as much of this place as possible to get rid of the white nothingness. We’re in the middle of the biome right now, and it spreads around 1,000 kilometers in each direction. Though, it’s continuing to grow as we speak, so it’s more of a rough estimate.
“1-1,000?!” The queen didn’t seem to stop being shocked anytime soon.
“Might be getting close to or slightly above 1,2, actually.” The blonde nodded.
“Y-You’re trying to tell me that this plain is 1,200 by 1,200 kilometers wide?!”
“Not quite.” She lightly shook her head. “It’s a circle with a diameter of around 2,400 to 2,500 kilometers. No corners and stuff.”
“That only marginally makes it better!” Calming down wasn’t an option yet. “It’s hard to convert because it’s more rectangular, but that probably could be close to one-third of our entire continent and more than half of the combined size of our kingdom!”
“Thanks for telling me how much bigger it still has to become!” Sophia gave her a thumbs up. “I’ve been wanting to have a point of reference!”
“That’s not the takeaway here!”
“It sure is~.” Sophia thought otherwise.
"Ellie thinks so, too!" The little tiger joined the blonde. Not that she had any idea what was going on, and she just liked the flower field below them.
“This is way too much!” Kira pointed down. “No one should have so much power that they’re able to create something of such a size!”
“You should see Mira’s place. It’s probably many sizes of this entire world. She just called me weak when I complained about making this place was hard.”
“She’s the overseer of magic, though!” The queen didn’t let that argument count. “You aren’t!”
“Exactly!” Sophia nodded. “That’s why my place is much smaller and more humble than Mira’s. Also, if Ellie had focused on landscape rather than trees, she could’ve easily created a way over 200 kilometers wide plain, as well.”
“Let’s go!” The little princess raised her arms in anticipation.
“Later~.” The blonde smiled at her.
“Yay!”
“Do you want to create your own forest?” Sophia looked at the queen again. “Your magic power should be good for a low double-digit kilometer radius, as well. After all, as it’s a circle, it gets much more taxing the bigger the radius is, but it's rather easy to create something with a smaller but still impressive size.”
“Even I could do a ten-kilometer-wide forest?!" Kira raised her voice.
“It should be a good bit more than just ten.”
“N-No way!” She couldn’t believe it. “That’s way too excessive!”
“That’s magic for you~.” Sophia didn’t see an issue with that.
“I am so envious of how easygoing you are.”
“So, the queen’s royal forest project go?”
“Let’s reschedule this to another date…” Kira was having a hard time.
“Sure thing!” Sophia smiled at her. “Okay, if not that, how about we get to the main attraction now, then?”
“Main attractions?!” The queen didn’t seem to like the sound of that.
“Like I said, this was just a warm-up.” The blonde pointed at the massive flowery plain below them. “There’s another place I created where I really went all out with my magic. This place is nothing compared to that.” She gestured down once more.
“I have a bad feeling about this!” Kira took a few steps back. “I’d like my sanity to stay with me if possible.”
“Don’t worry, it’ll only be minor damage to your sanity~.”
"It's the frequency of how often we receive damage from you that is the issue!"
“…” Sophia had nothing to say there. Instead, she simply opened another and pointed at it. “Let’s go!”
“Let’s go!” Ellie 100% was on her side.
“Fine.” Kira hung her head. “Be aware of the fact that I’m going to tell Menzor about your terraforming skills, and we'll get back to you when we're planning a new city or want to use some land that isn't quite perfect."
“Sounds fun!” It didn’t have quite the effect on the blonde the queen hoped it would. “Alrighty, this way!” She pointed at her portal before grabbing Ellie’s hand to guide her through it.
“…” Saying nothing and just bracing herself, Kira eventually followed after her.
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“Yay, back to the floaties!” Ellie’s eyes started sparkling the moment she noticed that they went to the countless floating islands above the blonde’s incredible cherry blossom forest.
“Remember, don’t get too close to the edge!” Sophia just smiled at her.
“Okay!”
“What is this place?!” The queen got loud instead. “Why are there islands floating in the air everywhere?! How, too?!”
“That’s just what islands do~.” The blonde got a little cheeky. “They float around!”
“They do not.” Kira shook her head.
“Fair enough.” She shrugged in return. “Magic islands float around. Better?”
“Marginally.”
“You sure are hard to please.”
“Haa…” The queen let out a sigh in frustration. "Answers, please! What even are magic islands?! Just adding the word magic to everything doesn’t mean it suddenly makes sense!”
“According to Mira, it absolutely does, though.” The blonde scratched her cheek. “Though on another scale, I had the same reaction as you many times already when it came to her stuff, but all she ever says is, because of magic. That's all I get, too.”
"That doesn't mean you have to make me suffer from a lack of information, too!"
“Well, there’s nothing I can do, though?” Sophia shrugged. “I don’t know how magic islands work, either. I just know that magic is incredibly amazing, so when she told me that making an island float is an easy task for magic, I was easily convinced.”
“Mhmm…” The queen paused for a moment while looking around. “I saw you doing unbelievable things before. The war, the lake, the plain from earlier… Even Ellie made a forest that shouldn’t have been possible according to common sense, especially for a four-year-old whose magic awakened a few days ago.”
“Ohh, she’s starting to believe!” The blonde gave her a thumbs-up. “Also, don’t just focus on the floating islands. How about you get a little closer to the edge and take a peek down. That’s where the real show is.”
“You know that every royal has been taught to become extraordinarily wary when being told to step closer to an edge, you know?” She raised an eyebrow.
“You know I could simply grab you and throw you off myself? Ignoring my magic, I am WAY stronger than you. There’s no need for me to resort to such cheap tricks.” Sophia slowly shook her head after hearing this.
“That was an attempt on trying to make you think more about your wording of things…” Kira let out a short sigh.
“Not going to happen.” The blonde stared right at her. "Many have tried, and even more have failed.
“Someday, someone will be successful.” The queen could only hope.
“And you think magic is unbelievable, huh?” Sophia’s expression got even more cheeky.
"Spare me with you sass-, WOW!" Kira got closer to the edge of the island they were on and was immediately shocked after looking down. “Okay, ignoring the island parts, I can see what you mean! This is insane!”
“Ehehe~.” That was all the blonde wanted to hear. “I’m quite proud of it!”
“I’ve never seen weeping cherries and blossoms as colorful and vast! It doesn’t quite pack as much of a punch as Ellie’s massive weeping cherry on a small scale, but the entire picture is just… perfect.” She was overwhelmed as she continued to look at the never-ending sea of trees below them and how they slowly changed colors from pure white to pink to violet to purple all the way to almost red, seemingly going on forever before eventually disappearing from sight behind a few hills in the far distance.
“Even Mira was envious of my creation!” Her voice became smug again. “Well, she made many things incomparably more amazing, but I have the best cherry blossom forest~.”
“The bestest!” Ellie agreed, as well.
“Wow.”
As she needed a moment to gather her words, the queen and the others took a short break to take in the sights some more.
Comments
Virnor
I want to tell the rest of the girls that Sophia is mind-breaking Kira
Libery
Maybe the trees got sky high and continued growing, until they broke the spelling? And my fault. It was lakes of varying sk9izes
Teanam
how did that even happen? xD
Libery
Ok, trees of varying sk9izes?
Nicke H
perfect lmao. Kira´s san value dropping rapidly :D
