Flying through the air Noah couldn't feel the time, he could only look down and enjoy the view that came with it. The mountains that his father would occasionally hunt on and where he met Isan, to the forest he fought the Orcs in all the way past that to more endless land with small ant-like creatures running across it.

The hills soon passed under them along with the plains and creatures. It wasn't long before they were passing across another small settlement that looked just like Noah's village. a few boxes that could only be houses and one tall spire except that one seemed a little taller.

When they were flying over Noah could make it starting to light up and felt a strange feeling in his gut but it quickly passed and the lights of the spire dimmed. Isan noticed Noah looking apprehensively at the spire as if he was expecting it to light up again.

"Those are protection towers set up by the emperor and his friends when they took over the kingdom originally, the runes used on it are to difficult to decipher even by me or Hallan, only a duke or general would be able to figure out the magic that the Emperor posses at his fingertips." Smiling at Noah and then staring at the spire, pushing his chest out a little more.

Continuing to fly by in order with Hallan in the lead, it was a few hours before they saw any other signs of human life, they flew by lakes and swamps all the way to more plains and forest with the biggest trees Noah had ever seen. They were nearly as tall as the height Hallan originally managed to push off to!

After they passed to the ridiculously big forest they were soon able to see the giant tower Isan had talked about in the centre of the capital. Before that was the outer circle start of the capital, the outer ring of it. The fields of yellow, white and blue came into view, the start of buildings coming from the horizon as well.

They seemed a lot stronger than the houses at the village, which was made of a mix of heavy wood and light stone. These seemed to be all stone except the roof which was a type of wood. There were a few ponds every house which seemed to feed out to the fields and into the plants that were growing.

There wasn't much more than Noah or Nereem could make out from the skies but Isan talked about the circle as they approached and how this wasn't really one of the circles that counted in the capital. There were three circles more that actually counted to the capital. This outer-outer layer [Phili] was mainly crops that the capital would feed out to small villages that were having issues feeding themselves, or to fatten the dragons prey in the inner circle before they hunted.

They pushed on flying over at least 4 kilometres of fields and the occasional houses, but there was no view of a spire or wall insight. Noah turned his head as best he could to ask Isan about this.

"Ahh, you have good eyes, Noah. This layer has no such spire as there is a lot of faith put into our Dragon Troopers as well as the Knights of the empire that protect the citizens and help settle disputes if they can." Squeezing Noah's arm and pointing to the ground at a slightly larger building on the ground.

"Those are knight houses. Under that house is a tunnel that runs right around the outer circle so they can distribute knights to whatever area needs the most help at the time. They also have their lodging under there for when they are on duty." Noah's mouth opened as he processed what he had just learned. He couldn't fathom how much work would be needed to build such tunnel systems and housing.

After they flew past that outer ring and into the 3rd ring [Bernard], there was a tall stone wall about 70 metres tall and just under 30 metres wide, large enough for the dragons to walk along. Zooming by the wall and into the next layer where there were only houses upon houses. Houses built on top of each other and houses built out the side of houses, it looked like a maze to Noah from up here.

The buildings seemed to link into each other like a puzzle, pieces that shouldn't go together were forced to go together but there were quite often small spaces between the building that must have been the parks that Isan had mentioned the night before.

Noah wanted to explore and look around the dense compacted area, knowing he could get lost for days in the alleys and streets finding his way around would be like navigating the forest or mountains. No matter the challenge in that Noah wanted to have a shot at it.