The spirit boat descended through the cloud layers, the turbulence shaking the hull slightly before smoothing out as they entered the localized atmospheric array of Azure Cloud City.
The sight that greeted them was nothing short of magnificent. Azure Cloud City was not merely a settlement; it was a testament to the defiance of gravity and the pinnacle of formation arts in the Myriad Reefs Sea Domain. A colossal landmass, easily fifty miles across, floated suspended three thousand feet above the churning ocean. Massive chains of spirit-iron, each link the size of a house, anchored the floating island to the seabed miles below, though the true work was done by the humming anti-gravity arrays embedded in the city's bedrock.
