Chapter 81: Fantasy

Chapter 81: Fantasy

The Gardens are something I cannot even describe.

So far, my adventure in this fantasy world has been very close to a medieval fair but smellier. Daily life is made of ordinary people with weird skills. Nothing has felt extremely special besides the pointy ears all around me and the higher percentage of hot girls.

But when I first laid eyes on a greenhouse where special roots grow, it left me speechless. Its a building entirely made of glass, fully transparent, with a spiral-like structure of long rectangular containers, thin and stretched, full of earth, with one long rooty plant in each. You can see the roots pushing against the glass in some places, giving a very wormy feeling. The multitude of colors in the roots is exactly what you would expect from a place of magic.

The glass helps to keep the roots warm. There are only special roots in this building, and it was commissioned by Amorium fifty years ago. Its where the original Green Walk had started before they added new buildings and entry points. The glass is magical and enchanted to provide a higher density of Mana for the plants. Theres a crystal at the top of the building that can convert the solar rays to Mana. More than once, a thief has tried to steal it, but the place is so heavily warded that its basically a little fortress.

Its breathtaking, I say with eyes wide.

It is, Lucinda says while getting a bit closer and leaning on my arm.

Its one of those buildings you could only find in a genius architecture students master project on Earth. Something extremely impractical but so beautiful, it would definitely earn him a full mark cum-laude. In Italy they have this thing called the academic kiss for the most honorable students. In this case, the person who designed this place should get the academic make-out session.

Im not part of whatever Humans you are fighting with if you are worried about that.

Id like to know more about your past, Joey, Lucinda said while looking at me.

My past is a bit weird, but Ill let you in on the secret soon. I just need time. Going back to this beautiful building, whats its name? while talking, I sneakily draw Lucinda even closer to me. We are basically cuddling in the middle of the street now, and some people are shooting unfriendly stares at me.

Its the Amor Vitrorum, she smiles. It means

Love of the glass, or glasses, depending on if you mean glass as a general category or as individual parts, I say, almost in a trance.

You know Ancient Elven? she looks at me with surprise in her shining emerald-green eyes.

A word or two, I guess, I say while still staring into the distance at the magnificent building.