Chapter 1233 A Quick Tour of Astoria


    Emma undid the straps and walked up to the windows from where she saw the millions of stars in the sky, shining brightly while they hid in the shadow of the earth.


    "It''s… beautiful," Emma couldn''t help but say.


    "This looks amazing," ra said. "Can we go out and check?"


    "Go out?" Emma turned around. "You will die out here. There is no air for you to breathe. I would try on my own, but I can''t do it with you."


    "There''s no air here?" ra asked with a weird look on her face. "Why would there be no air here?"


    "Because this is space," Emma answered. "All the air is gathered on the down there thanks to gravity. You know what gravity is right?"


    ra nodded slowly. She looked out of the window of the ship she was in now that they had entered a stable orbit around the.


    They were moving along the same direction of the''s rotation, and as a result, the scenery down below was moving at an incredibly slow speed.


    "This… is the world we live in?" ra couldn''t help but ask. Umbra was simrly surprised as well.


    "Yes," Emma answered. "Do you guys have maps? You might even recognize the continents."


    "Uhh… that right there," ra pointed to a cluster of inds that could be seen even so far up from here. "That must be the Sunken Lands."


    "Ooh, that''s the continent that was ripped apart to make Papa''s sword," Emma said.


    "What?" ra looked at Emma with a curious look.


    "Yeah," Emma said. "You know the sword my father has? The really strong one? It was made from a continent that used to be there. A really strong god-like figure destroyed it to make the sword."


    "Where did Ie from?" Umbra asked curiously.


    "Uhh, you came from…" Emma had to search around for a bit. "If I remember correctly, the Springwind continent must be directly opposite to the sunkennds, so it must be that one there."


    She pointed to a continent that was exactly in the opposite direction of the Sunken Lands.


    "How big is that ce?" Umbra asked.


    "Hey ship, can we zoom in on that continent there?" Emma asked.


    "Certainly!" the ship''s AI spoke in anguage that neither ra nor Umbra understood. Then an interactive image appeared, showing the continent.


    Emma quickly zoomed in, showing the continent on arger image as soon forests and cities became apparent. She quickly zoomed into a single city from the ship and showed it to the two.


    "This is one of therger cities as you saw. I don''t know where this is, but just the fact that there are thousands and thousands of cities should tell you a lot."


    "How… how big is this continent?" Umbra couldn''t help but ask.


    "If you wanna know the size of the continent, justpare it to the ce you came from," Emma said and quickly switched to an image of a ce forever covered in clouds.


    "This is the region where the beasts live," Emma exined. "As my father mentioned, it''s hundred and hundreds of kilometers long,rge enough to be considered the size of a decently big country."


    "And yet…"


    Emma zoomed out slowly at the region that was covered in clouds and continued doing so. The three continued watching as the region with the clouds became merely a small portion of the entire continent."


    "I… I didn''t know the continents were so…rge," ra said. "I definitely knew they wererge but… not thisrge. Seeing it all at once is so surreal."


    "I never even imagined anything could be thisrge," Umbra mentioned.


    "Hehe, we have yet to see the other two continents," Emma said and went around to show the two the Blueme continent and the cien continent.


    "There''s so much water in between the two continents," ra noted. "No wonder they don''te from this side."


    She then looked at the Galcien continent and saw a small mountain range on the bottom left region, which was her homnd.


    "That''s the Whiteowl region," she said. "Where I was born. How long will it take to go down there?"


    "A minute?" Emma said.


    ra gave a dry chuckle as she couldn''t believe it at all. Had she really gone from one continent to the other in such a short period of time?


    "I wonder if we can ever progress to reach what you have in our lifetime," ra said. "To go from one continent to another in a matter of minutes— no, seconds."


    "Well, you guys need to first start with a steam engine and maybe go from there," Emma said. "I won''t lie though. It is very highly unlikely that your world will ever develop to reach the same level as this one."


    "Discovery and inventione out of necessities," Emma said. "You are forced to learn to rub sticks to make fire when you suffer from the cold eternally. If you can just move your hand and create fire, you will never know that rubbing two sticks together can create fire."


    "Simrly, you guys have no need to create artificial light, as you can easily capture natural light and keep it working throughout the years," Emma said. "Unless something happens thatpletely changes the world, forcing it to stop depending on Essence, I doubt you will ever manage to reach anywhere in your lifetime."


    "I… see," ra said. Those were some harsh words to hear, but she understood what Emma meant.


    They went around the world for a while longer, looking at the continents multiple time, noting the important locations.


    "I think we''ve seen it all," ra said. "Can we go back now?"


    "See it all?" Emma chuckled. "We haven''t seen it all yet."


    ra and Umbra were a little confused. "What else is there to see?" ra asked.


    Emma waited for a second and pointed in the distance.


    ra turned to where she had pointed and narrowed her eyes to see. "Is that…"


    "Our next destination," Emma said. "The moon."