nagpurpolice Chapter 1674 A Longer Moment
Chapter 1674 A Longer Moment
--- Lily ---
Lily blinked and realised that at some point Kat had started to move her around off to the side. "Um... Kat?" asked Lily.
Just those two words were enough for Kat to answer the mostly unspoken question. "Lily this is a public venue and we were standing in the very, very small entrance. Look, you can see a few other people around if you pay attention,"
Lily pouted at the amusement in Kat's voice as she looked around and saw Kat was correct. The 'glass' bridge had a few other couples on it off in the distance. The cavern really was huge when you considered what it was. The bridge had a bunch of corners and stretched out fairly close to the edges. There were around five couples that Lily could see... but there was one group of four people. She didn't know if that was two couples who had come together or if it was a set of four.
Shaking her head and recentering herself now that she wasn't quite so distracted by the sheer beauty of the place Lily asked, "What... what IS this place?" As soon as she did she could feel the grin Kat was projecting at the back of her head so Lily turned around to confirm, and give a raised eyebrow in response.
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Kat answered softly, knowing that Lily's ears were good enough and that neither of them wanted to be too loud around the other couples who were keeping things quiet. "I knew you'd ask that... so I didn't just find out about this date spot I also did two other things. The first was ask about the history of this place... and the other was make a small purchase." As she finished speaking Kat pulled a thin book out of her storage ring.
Glancing at it, Lily could see that it read 'The Mana Crystal Cave: Details and a complete History'. Lily felt her eyes widen as she started to giggle. "Hahaha Kat you really do know me so well. I'm sure that will be an excellent read later and a great way to remind me of this moment. Though... why did you ask about the history if you were going to buy the book?"
Kat grinned back, "Because I know you better then you seem to know yourself. Sure you can read the book later... but rather then just sitting here and enjoying the view I can ALSO tell you what I already know about the caves. It might not be as detailed but I did get a fair bit of info. If you're interested that is,"
"Of course I am!" insisted Lily as she turned back to facing the crystals and leant back into Kat's arms. "I'm ready to listen whenever you want to start,"
"Ha, I didn't expect you to be quite that eager but I suppose you did spend over ten minutes just staring at everything here," said Kat.
"All of the crystals here are nearly impossible to break. It's why the entrance is so small and there isn't really an exit. Strik, the one who found this place, got really lucky in finding a weak spot in the walls. Several people have tried to steal from this place since but all of failed simply breaking their tools in the process.
"Because despite all of the crystals here INDIVIDUALLY being worth so much money that you could likely buy up everything else in the town twice over... nobody is strong enough to break them. It's accepted as a fact that one of the main reasons this cave continues to survive, alongside it's beauty, is that it's questionably possible that it even could be mined at this point.
"While most of the ley lines have shifted and no longer cross through this area it is still has an exceptional natural mana flow that seeps more and more into the crystals. The fact that even attempting to mine a single crystal here would be so expensive makes it easy for the town to declare it a protected landmark and punish people for trying,"
"That's actually really cool. I mean, it sucks that you can't just trust people to protect this place for how stunning it looks... but... but I think maybe I prefer the fact that it can also protect itself? I think that's neat. I even like the fact that they didn't realise quite how hard it was to mine until later..." mumbled Lily.
Kat shrugged, "Yeah well... that's one of the things I question about the books. Did Strik decide to show the place off after realising that it couldn't be mined? Or did they really only find out about how tough this place was later. I mean, I've never heard of a 'ley line crossing geode' before but then again... it's not really something I'd look into,"
Lily frowned, "I guess it depends on how successful Strik was elsewhere... but considering the story mentions that Nyred insisted the place be protected I think it's more likely that Strik had plans to start excavating the place after showing off to his husband only for that plan to fall through. You could be right but eh... I doubt those two are still around to confirm or deny right?"
Kat nodded, "Yeah the place is owned by their kids,"
"Wait..." mumbled Lily.
"The first generation was adopted and later generations came about in the more normal way," added Kat.
"Cool... cool... um... is there any other neat stuff? Like when did the bridge come about? What is it made of? Because like... it looks like glass but it's too clear to be tempered... but then it's super solid? Like I imagine it's not going to shatter so what exactly IS it?" asked Lily.
Kat smiled and patted her girlfriend on the head. "I don't know that one off the top of my head... but I do remember seeing a chapter about the bridge in the big book. Do you want to read it together and find out now? Or save it as something to do later?"
Lily turned her gaze up at the stunning crystals that covered the place once again, and let her mind relax. "I think... I think if you don't already know it can wait until another time. For now I'm happy to just enjoy this place,"