Chapter 1583: Chapter 292: Your Floating City Is Nice—Now It’s Mine

When the power of the Floating City was first showcased upon the earth.

Dragon Island, Mahdi… also known as Immovable Fortress Ian, was deep in thought.

“The Empire has created a Floating City.”

He remarked to Dragon Island, where two Dragon Kings communicating with the Abyssal Dragon could undoubtedly hear his words: “This non-magnetic levitation anti-gravity technology, apart from the Cloudview City I’ve yet to see, is only possessed by Dragon Island… it’s somewhat similar to the technology True Dragons use to lift their bodies for ultra-high-speed flight.”

[This isn’t the technology of True Dragons]

The Galewind Dragon King said: [The Spark and Alien God obtained by the City of Knowledge come from two different civilizations, one of which originates from the People of the Storm within a Gas Giant Planet. The so-called Cloudview is actually their ‘defense line’ against the gravity of giant stars and supergiant storms.]

[You know, the storms of a gaseous giant star are enough to swallow several Terras, hence they are not counteracting but utilizing it — they employ an Aether Field to mitigate the interaction between their habitat and various forces. Simply put, they temporarily detach their city from ‘gravity’]

This is actually easy to understand.

It is widely known that planets rotate on their own axes, and their speed is quite fast. Moreover, planets revolve around stars, and those speeds aren’t slow either.

Humans aren’t ‘thrown’ away because they move in unison with these colossal objects. However, similarly, humans are also constrained by the ‘forces’ these massive objects possess.

To transcend planetary gravity and become a satellite, one needs the first cosmic speed. Similarly, to escape a planet and its local Solar System, a higher second or third cosmic speed is necessary.

Only by reaching this speed can one transcend all influences and gain ‘freedom,’ the power of free action.

This is challenging. Especially for a civilization within a gas giant star, their inherent material structure isn’t very robust, and the gravity and strong winds they face are even more terrifying. They cannot, like humans, stand firm, launch rockets, and send spacecraft into the stars.

Therefore, utilizing the unique Aether technology of the Terra Universe, they developed an entirely new method.

That method is mitigation and submission.

Mitigate the forces exerted upon them by these colossal planetary and stellar bodies. Submit to the planetary ecology and the forces exerted upon their city.

——As long as the influence of gravity on the city is isolated, the city can stably hover in the stable zones of the gaseous giant, instead of sinking deeper into the planet.

——As long as they submit to atmospheric impacts, no matter how terrifying the hurricane, it can at most push their city around, but not destroy the interior.

And their means of reaching the stars is not burning flames to reach space but ‘staying put,’ letting the stars naturally drift away from them, then using a simple yet intricate method to directly arrive at a specific space, and then reconnect with everything to anchor themselves.

Unlike humans who increase rocket thrust and build walls for defense, this is a completely alien logic.

The reason the Floating City can float is that it isolates the planetary gravity’s effect, requiring only a single force to propel it upwards.

Moreover, the speed of the Floating City can be very fast—by slightly isolating the gravitational pull of the planet, it can move along a fixed orbit at the speed of the planet’s rotation.

“So outrageous?”

Ian was shocked: “Doesn’t this mean that as long as it’s on the same rotation orbit, the Floating City can launch an attack at any time?”

[It’s not that simple. Controlling absolute and relative spatial coordinates’ temporal calculations is something the Terra People are far from mastering. Even the thing you built in the Domain of Void cannot compute the conditions of this Cradle. ]

The Galewind Dragon King slowly said: [Even the People of the Storm who developed this technology cannot completely sever their connection with everything — their development is akin to directly leaping past all prerequisite technologies and lighting up the ‘Curvature Engine.’]

[This is not impossible, but even the Curvature Engine has anchor points in real space-time, preventing it from drifting aimlessly through the universe… The Floating City is the same; unless it doesn’t mind being flung by the planet’s movement, it can only resist gravity and slowly fly under its own power.]

“The Dragons can do it, can’t they?”

Ian initially wanted to say ‘this is already incredible’, after all, the Floating City moves slowly but is still a moving fortress, easily taking it to unknown heights compared to something immobile.

But he quickly caught on to the meaning behind the Dragon King’s words: “The migration of the Dragon Group is curvature navigation, the Blazing Suspended Star Dragon is the coordinate for the Dragon Group… It is the True Dragon guiding and calculating these coordinates!”

[Yes]

The Galewind Dragon King gazed at Ian, his tone deep and meaningful: [And you, possessing the Divine Marrow of Scorching Light… when you reach the Fifth Energy Level, you’ll have the ability to calculate the universe’s spatial and temporal absolute and relative coordinates… this is the beginning of the Curvature Engine.]

[By then, combined with the Ether Furnace Core you already possess… Ian, you might become the first human on this land to obtain the power of the ‘Second Generation Mentor True Dragon’!]

Ian should have been happy, but now he was lost in thought.

He recalled the Light Dragon he rode along the Dying Star Path… riding the dragon, steering stars to explode, merging into the light.

It indeed wasn’t slow, but compared to faster-than-light curvature navigation, why not use it?