'Yeah, well, whatcha gonna do?' Kyle thought with a shrug. 'I got a new start in this world with some cool powers, and now, I have to pay the price.'
'Harpoona Jakarta, or however you say it. I dunno. Haven't seen the movie in forever.'
'Anyway, I should focus on learning stuff about wind.'
After Kyle walked out of the castle, he took to the sky and looked around.
Hundreds of people turned their gazes to look at Kyle.
Flying people were extremely rare, and seeing someone take to the sky was a rare event. After all, the Duchess of Twilight rarely left her castle.
Kyle looked back as he scratched the side of his face. 'Kinda weird that I don't have to hide myself in this place. I'm just allowed to fly around, go wherever I want, and I don't have to think about being attacked.'
He looked at the people for a bit before he flew further up.
After just a couple of seconds, he reached a height where no normal person could see him anymore.
'Actually,' Kyle thought as he looked upward, 'I've never really seen the World Ceiling from up close. Sure, that green hawk brought me pretty far up, but I didn't really have the time to look at it.'
He ascended further while gazing upward.
It was currently evening, which meant that the sun was shining mostly onto the western part of the world.
'Speaking of, the sun here also rises from the east and sets in the west. That's the same as on Earth. Although it also kinda makes sense. Earth is used as a recruitment ground, as far as I've been told. They designed it after how the actual worlds work, as far as I know.'
As Kyle came closer to the World Ceiling, he noticed something.
The sky was changing color.
Earlier, it had the color of a darker blue with an orange hue since it was evening, but right now, it looked more greyish.
After some more flying, the space above Kyle completely changed color.
Now, there was just a purely silver surface above him.
Kyle approached the silver surface and put his hand on it.
'That feels weird,' he thought as he caressed the silver ceiling. 'This feels so smooth. It's almost like glass.'
'Even weirder, while I can touch it and see it, I can't feel it with my Ether Sense. It's like there's just nothing in front of me.'
This was a very strange feeling for Kyle since he could sense everything with his Ether Sense.
Everything was made of Ether, and Ether Sense sensed Ether. The feeling Kyle was feeling was similar to a person suddenly being stopped by a random, invisible wall. They tried to see any sign of the thing that was in front of them, but they just weren't able to see it.
It was strange.
'Is that how flies feel?' Kyle thought. 'They just go into your house and ram against windows over and over again.'
Kyle looked towards the west and noticed something peculiar.
'Huh, the sun's not illuminating my spot,' Kyle thought. 'Based on the angle of the World Ceiling, I should also be illuminated, but it doesn't seem to light up the World Ceiling.'
At this moment, there was a bright "floor" of light below Kyle as the focused beams of light of the sun passed below him.
It was like standing behind an open door and looking at the bright light of the hallway, entering the dark room.
While the silver ceiling seemed bright, strangely, it didn't seem to illuminate Kyle's body.
Kyle looked like he was standing in darkness, while the silver ceiling seemed to be illuminated.
'I've got some time to kill. Might as well look around some more.'
'Speaking of…'
Kyle looked to the east, and he saw someone in the distance.
Kyle flew towards the east for a while.
The black object Kyle saw was growing bigger and bigger.
Eventually, he came so close that he could touch it.
In front of Kyle was a humongous and massive black wall.
'The World Wall,' Kyle thought.
He remembered his conversation with Theodor when they had been traveling to Forthing's Hold.
The World Ceiling and the World Walls.
'Like, I can see how a ceiling could make sense, but why the fuck is there a wall?'
'It's confirmed that this is a planet, and it's round. I also know it's about 5,000 kilometers across, which is something in miles. Honestly, at this point, I don't even care about miles anymore. I've been hearing the metric measurements so much that I kinda lost feeling for the imperial one.'
Kyle remembered a small conversation he had had with Sebastian when that topic came up.
"One liter of water is one cubic decimeter, which is one kilogram. Warming one kilogram of water by one degree Celsius takes one kilocalorie. Water has a density of 1,000 kilograms per one cubic meter. One kilometer is 1,000 meters. One millimeter is a thousandth of a meter," Sebastian had said. "Everything's fucking connected and easy to calculate!"
Kyle had eventually just conceded.
'Anyway, world's round, yeah? So, why's there a wall?' he thought, looking at the black wall in front of him. 'Also, based on the map, the world is a perfect square. Yet, the planet is round, and there's a wall going around it. How do you build a square wall around a ball?'
Kyle used his brain to try to simulate what that would look like.
Was that even possible?
'Well, not with straight ones,' Kyle thought. 'If you bend the walls a bit, it should be possible.'
'If we build the northern wall around the north pole and the southern wall around the south pole, we could create something like that. Then, you just connect the walls with each other, and you've got a square.'
'However, that would leave some parts of the planet inaccessible. The north and south poles can't be reached, and there would be a long and thin streak going from the north pole to the south pole. It would look a bit like a guy holding a baseball with his thumb and index finger. Any part the hand or fingers cover is inaccessible.'
'Wonder what's beyond the wall,' Kyle thought as he looked at it.
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