147 Chapter 147 - Range

The dark elf flew past Norland’s sky. She was flying toward Norland’s borders.

Looking down from above, Norland resembled a circle. The center of the circle was the most imposing building, the Sage Tower. Then, it continued to expand to four square spires forming a square shaped border. This was Norland’s first central district. The Farucci’s Mansion was built in this district.

When the dark elf flew past this district and arrived at the commercial district by the Hearthstone Tavern, she could see the magic network signal dropping by two bars.

The commercial district the Hearthstone Tavern was in belonged to Norland’s second central district. The four advanced magic academies were all built in this district. Norland’s two theaters, the Norland’s National Theater and the Weissenasche Theater, were also in this district.

Even at night, this district would be filled with light emitted by the illumination technique. Because of that, the dark of the night was practically unpresent in this district.

When the dark elf flew past the Weissenasche Theater, the chatter from the crowd was completely replaced by the rumblings of the arcanotech gears and the pounding of the iron hammers.

With the Weissenasche Theater as the dividing line, if one was to continue south to the external-most district of the city, one will reach the arcanotech workshops. This district was cut through by a river flowing through Norland, the ‘Gear River. ‘

The source of the river wasn’t any mountain or another larger river. Instead, the river emerged from underground. It could be said that this river served to prove the existence of the ancient magic civilization that lies beneath Norland.

“How did things go?”

Joshua walked over to the window still to ask the crow lady.

“After passing the Gear River, the magic network’s signal disappeared completely,” said the dark elf.

“Gear River?”

Joshua remembered when he met Ciri’s older sister Hyrlan, her alchemic atelier was right beside that river.

“The city of Norland’s most important river. If it could reach that place… let me think about it. I think this should be the case.”

Ciri had lived in Norland with her family for five-six years. As such, she could be considered a local too.

She took out a white piece of drawing paper and drew five overlapping circles on it. In those circles she drew sketches of buildings and indicated place names. Then, she drew a horizontal line going between the second and third circles.

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“A conservative estimate would be about a third of the overall area? It’s still too small…”

“Publicize?”

The dark elf pondered about Joshua’s words. If they didn’t know what it was, no mage would be willing to accept an unfamiliar magic into their mind. Furthermore, even though the majority of the mages in Norland believed in the God of Order, not all mages do…

“Ynor and Miss Gallolei will be able to handle that matter,” said Joshua.

“Eh…”

Ynor who was dozing off suddenly jolted awake the moment he heard Joshua mentioning his name.

Ynor tidied up his skirt in a panic and got up from the sofa. He looked around uneasily like a startled squirrel.

When Joshua mentioned the name ‘Gallolei,’ a sound something colliding onto something sounded from outside the door. It seemed like someone had fallen on the ground.

“Miss Gallolei, please don’t eavesdrop outside. You can come on in,” Joshua spoke to the door.