Outside the Hayes castle, the air felt calm and refreshing against the skin. It carried the clean, salty scent of the sea, and the distant crash of waves rolled in like a soft rhythm.
The land under the Hayes clan's control stretched across the southern part of Auranel.
The continent itself was huge, bigger than the other two floating ones and packed with rich resources.
Most of this southern area was covered by three smaller seas, nothing like the vast oceans back on Earth.
For Julius, who had grown up on a round planet, the whole setup still felt strange.
This world was like two flat disks stacked together, with three floating continents above and four stationary ones below.
It worked somehow, even if it looked impossible. 'Flat-Earth believers would probably feel pretty smug here,' he thought with a quiet smirk.
Julius stood in the open ground, one hand gently holding little Rosel's tiny fingers.
