Mobile City Travel Guide

"No rush, Mr. Li, please take your time."

In the lord's room on the top floor of the Starfire, Peter was carefully instructing Li Xin.

Before the two of them lay an open book, "A Beginner's Guide to Magic".

After the dwarves gave them permission to pass, the Starfire continued its journey through the mountains. Since they had nothing better to do, Li Xin sought out Peter and began trying to learn about magic.

After Peter's explanation for more than ten minutes, he finally understood what magic in this world was all about.

Magic is a system that has existed in this world since birth.

Like gravity and electromagnetism, it has existed alongside the world since its inception.

All living beings are born with magical power within them. Magical power is to magic what "chakra" is to ninjutsu in Naruto.

The so-called "spellcasting" consists of three steps: mobilizing the magic power within the body, shaping it with willpower, and releasing it through chanting.

To restore magical power, one can do so through rest, sleep, meditation, and other methods.

“Of course, we can also recover by drinking alchemical potions,” Peter said, pulling a small glass bottle containing a pale blue liquid from his pocket. “However, this stuff is quite expensive; an average person's monthly salary can only buy two or three bottles.”

After practicing for several hours, Li Xin began to try casting magic.

Following Peter's instructions, he closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and focused his attention on his body.

"Is this... really okay?" he wondered doubtfully.

Unexpectedly, I actually felt a faint, warm, trickle-like thing flowing slowly from deep within my chest, along the meridians of my arm, all the way to my fingertips.

Gathering, compressing, shaping... As he softly chanted, a tiny blue spark suddenly bloomed at his fingertips.

"It really works?" he exclaimed in disbelief, staring at his fingers and examining them over and over again.

For a moment, his brain began to race.

If the Starfire could master magic, it would be equivalent to possessing an unimaginable power, or even a completely different development system that runs parallel to technology.

Since they themselves can think of this, human civilization will naturally think of it as well—it is likely that in the long journey of traversing countless worlds, human civilization has already taken the essence and discarded the dross of countless worlds, using this method of learning from all sources to make itself unprecedentedly powerful!

Without realizing it, he began to understand more and more of what Bishop David had said.

"Strange..." He tilted his head, staring at Li Xin's fingertips, his brows furrowed. "The entire procedure was correct, so why is your spell so weak?"

"Huh?" Li Xin turned around and looked at him in surprise.

Peter opened the book, *The Beginner's Guide to Magic*, and pointed to a page—it depicted a hand with a palm-sized, blazing flame burning at its fingertips. Next to the illustration was the caption, "A Beginner's First Spell - Example."

"Normally, it should be this big." He gestured with his fingers, about the size of an open palm. "Everyone's like this, but yours is..."

After a moment of silence, Li Xin began to seriously discuss the reasons with Peter.

The two repeatedly deduced and verified, from spellcasting gestures to spell syllables, from meditation postures to breathing rhythms, and even thoroughly studied "The Beginner's Guide to Magic".

Ultimately, they came to a shocking conclusion.

Li Xin wasn't lacking in talent or magic. On the contrary, he had absolutely no talent or magic. And it wasn't just him; everyone on the Starfire was like that.

As for why he was able to cast spells, it was because of the naturally magical environment of this world. The earth, the air, the sky, the water... the omnipresent magic of this world endowed him with a small talent and the possibility of casting spells.

After figuring this out, Li Xin returned to her room and leaned back in her chair, somewhat discouraged, staring blankly at the ceiling above her head.

It turns out that all of these humans were Muggles who knew nothing about magic.

However, he also came to a realization.

If human civilization were to stay in this magical world for decades or even centuries, multiplying and gradually adapting to and integrating into the environment, they might become as adept at magic as the native inhabitants.

But this is impossible, because the permitted stay is only three months. Once the countdown reaches zero, human civilization will be transported to another unfamiliar world, one whose fate remains uncertain.

"So, it's probably impossible to learn the magic system on the Starfire," he thought to himself. "After all, no matter how many enchanted tools and magical crafts we collect, it's completely useless for us Muggle types who know nothing about them."

Just then, he suddenly realized something, and his expression changed slightly.

Since it's an environmental issue, wouldn't it be possible to gradually cultivate people's talents and magic power by simulating and establishing a corresponding magical environment on mobile cities, thus slowly developing a magic system?

At the same moment, somewhere in the world.

A human kingdom is burning fiercely.

The firelight illuminated half the sky, thick smoke billowed, and ruins, wreckage, and corpses littered the ground.

It was not destroyed by the demon king's army, nor by other races, but rather...

Amidst a series of roars, hundreds of mobile human cities slowly rolled in.

Compared to ordinary mobile cities, their appearances are incredibly diverse. Some are filled with biological organic matter from the inside out, wriggling like living creatures. Some emit a faint, radiating green light, leaving heavy traces of pollution in their wake. Some are covered in tentacles and eyeballs, exuding a distinctly exotic style... Almost every mobile city is unique.

The humans in each city are also distinctly different. In the bio-cities, their skin is covered in fleshy growths, scales, and keratin, and their pupils are long and narrow like snakes. In the radiation-filled cities, the humans are entirely eerie green, emitting high levels of radiation with their breath. In the Kree-like cities, the humans are covered in tentacles and eyeballs.

On the decks of each city lay mountains of loot: magical tomes, enchanted artifacts, runestones, staves, alchemical potions—this was the reason they chose to slaughter this kingdom.

"Awesome! This time it's a magical world!"

Amidst clenching his fists and cheering, a city lord turned his head to look around at the mobile city beside him.

"I imagine quite a few people will be switching systems like I am this time, right?"

As soon as the words were spoken, many of the mobile cities underwent astonishing changes. They rapidly collapsed into irregular, viscous, slowly writhing clumps of mud, and began to frantically and greedily seize the essence of this world.

Then, these mobile cities began to reshape themselves. They quickly transformed into magical palaces, with intricate, blue-glowing magical circuits throughout. Even the atmospheric composition, gravity, and humidity of the entire city were adjusted to perfectly simulate an environment identical to that of the magical world.

The humans in the city also transformed into humanoid creatures covered in magical runes and loops.

Gathering, compressing, shaping... as they chanted softly, powerful spells of various elements were released one after another.

And so, amidst the raging ruins of the burning kingdom, one magical mobile city after another rose from the ground, like strange and beautiful flowers blooming on the ruins.

The most prominent feature on their front is the emblem of the organization to which they belong.

It was a flower in full bloom, with petals of all shapes and sizes—some like gears, some like wings, some like crystal clusters, and some like runes. They overlapped and clustered together, like countless worlds gathered into the shape of a flower.

Two words are clearly written in the very center of the flower.

"All realms".