[Eon's POV: ]
There were various amazing things in this place that I can name.
Some were even unbelievable, or mind blowing, or just outright sparkling... but, the one and only thing that was more interesting than anything else, the reason that gave birth to the unique phenomenon all over the island, the thing situated at the very centre of this place, was the reason I wanted to come here the most.
-Swiiiiiiiiish...
There were winds blowing in this place because of the presence of the various wind sprits, and they were pretty much also here for the same reason me.
"That's..."
"It's not supposed to be here, is it?"
"Nothing is supposed to happen and it still does, friend. There are things in this world that just does not make any sense at all and still, they do exist."
In front of our eyes was a lake... and yes, we were still inside a cave.
"Gorgeous..."
"Look at all these creatures."
"Pretty..."
They were mesmerised. They were gasping, and there was not a single one of them that was not amazed by the scene in front of their eyes.
"In my three years here as a student, I had not thought there would be a place like this one on this island."
"It's a given since no one is supposed to know about the existence of something so special, Cradle."
President Zodiac knew very well what the thing in the center of this place was. He had seen one such thing... one such being before if I'm not wrong, so he knew just how important it was.
"This is ineffable..."
Tia didn't have any words left to explain what she was feeling or what she was seeing either. It was just too amazing to her and to the other friends we had with us.
'There was a lake here, hidden in this cave that no one knew the actual location of.
There was a clear sky right above our heads as there was no ceiling to this place, and in the water of the cave was a small island upon which a single flower had bloomed to its fullest size.'
A flower that looked nothing like what we understand as 'flower'.
"Woh... look at that. Isn't that a Tiger?"
"Not just that, look in the water of that lake... I think I just saw a crocodile!"
"This place... what exactly is this place?"
The entire cave was filled with unique illumination stones of various colors that lit up the entire cave.
The water of the lake was full of creatures and the area before us as well, the vast land that we were standing on was filled with creatures of all kinds and types.
'Creatures that one can find on the mountains, creatures that one could find in the forest, creatures that were rare, and creatures that people didn't even know still existed in this day and age.'
This place was filled with all kinds of life, even in terms of green life.
"Is... is this place safe? Won't they... won't they hurt us?"
"No."
She was a fairy so she was undoubtedly going to go and see how this place actually looked beyond the physical realm but not everyone else had that privilege.
That's why all those who understood the significance of this place, this flower, was looking at her enviously.
"Haaaa... I think that's true."
And Tia also understood just how important this place was after listening to all of them.
"Huuu..."
An Elemental Helix.
Something even we did not have in the tower garden filled with plants even more rare than this one.
'That's why I wanted this one there.'
What motivated me to come all the way here with all these people, was also perhaps this very plant and desire to have it for myself.
But, since I obviously wasn't crazy enough to uproot this entire thing and take it with me with all these creatures and all those spirits filling up this place, I wanted to politely ask for some seeds of this special life.
And that wasn't going to be too easy...
'Thankfully, we don't need it right away.'
Obtaining these precious seeds that this unique flower only produced once in its entire thousands of years of lifespan would be difficult since I would have to convince the very flower that I was seeing right now that I was worthy of it.
'It was a unique lifeform, even though it looked like a weird spiral of crystals.'
It should almost be as intelligent as the ancient tree located in our academy garden, and as it was a gateway for the spirits, it had complete support from the spirit world as well.
It did not have any powers or skills of its own since it was only a flower at the end of the day, but it possessed its own intelligence.
And that simple fact made it more powerful than most other intelligent plants present in this vast world.
"So, everyone... why don't we all go and have fun by ourselves?
I'm pretty sure there are various things you all want to do now that we have reached the paradise and there's still a long while left for the dinner time."
Everyone had something that they wanted to do here.
Some wanted to go and check the kind of plants this place had. Some wanted to go and see the lake. Some wanted to swim over to the island somehow and see the special flower made entirely of jade green crystals, a testament to its wind elemental origin, while some just wanted to sit down by the lake and play with the pretty and interesting creatures.
I also had some things that I wanted to do now that we were here.
"We have quite a while in this place, so I'll tell you all a fun story while we have dinner.
You should go and have fun while you still have time."
I gave them a little smile, and that much was enough for them to understand what I wanted to convey.
"You're still hiding something, aren't you? Bastard?"
Especially since even Cradle was present here, there was no way they wouldn't catch my still smiling expression...
'One last thing was still left, and no, it wasn't the astral realm.'
That was going to be limited to only a few of us.
But still... I had hurried them to reach this place before night.
There was a reason behind that... a reason they were soon going find out about.