The following morning was taken up with Medici, signing magical contracts and ironing out our agreements and boundaries. He was immediately taken to the alcohol storage place to pick up the alcohol he bought.

‘Really a money tree.’

I asked how he was going to pick all these things up but apparently, he had already bought the latest Udonavon storage device that wasn’t even on the market yet. 

Apart from that, things had started to get busy as the various dignitaries had already started building out their residences on the lands they bought. A large number of labourers had already come and bought up a large amount of rooms in some of the hotels and motels I owned. A lot of them had to be issued temporary ids that would be revoked when they finished their work. 

‘Well, that's that.’

I was going to a meeting with the builder of the resort city I was building on the coast of my territory. In order to make it a premier vacation spot, I had to make the place as visually pleasing as possible. 

I had decided that the resort will be divided into upper and lower hotels/accommodations based on the price you are willing to pay. And I will make sure that price is worth it. 

I made the snap decision to add the floating sections of the city and that means I will have to do some complicated magic to get them there before attaching a whitefyre orb to power them indefinitely and I was going to get that all done today. I had already spent some time creating incredibly large and powerfully dense whitfyre orbs that were a major improvement of my original design. Now I just needed the floating flat surface and I knew just how to do that. 

‘I do have some mountains that are barren of precious metals and gems, they would be perfect.’ I made sure to scan the whole territory prior to any building. One has to know what they are working with.

I walked into the meeting area and a dwarf was there waiting for me.

“You took your time, didn’t you boyo? You know how expensive I am and you’re still late.” 

I looked at the dwarf in front of me. He was shorter than the average human with brown hair, eyes and a scruffy looking beard on his gruff face. He was the owner of the building company and an experienced builder himself, some might even say the best. He was also quite a few centuries old. 

“I apologize for my tardiness.” I nodded to him as I sat across from him. 

“So, what do you mean by upper? I looked at the plans and I can't decipher what it says.” I nodded at that. 

“I am going to create a floating section of the city that hangs a few hundred feet from the ground. My plan is to make the centermost floating city a hotel/casino experience while the four cardinal floating satellite sections will be personal residences. I’ll auction them to prospective buyers eventually.” He looked at me with an indiscernible expression before just nodding at me. 

“So? When are we going to get this done?” He finally asked.

“Now.” I stood up and created a portal that led to the mountainous region in my territory. I walked through the portal and looked back to see that he still hadn't followed me through. 

“Well?” I looked at him as he hesitated before entering the portal and arriving at the mountain range. 

“How are you going to do this?”

 He asked while looking at the range. The mountains were huge, extremely huge and I had already selected five adequately sized mountains for this very purpose. The one I’d put in the middle would be the largest and the satellites would be a little smaller. 

I took a deep breath then exhaled. 

‘This is going to be the most intensive magic I’ve done in this life.’ 

I closed my eyes and brought up the magic formula in my mind. It was purpose built to sever a mountain at a specific point, the base for this, and float and flip it, leaving it suspended for a few hours until the magic spent runs out. I’ll use that time to etch an improved version of the floating array I had previously designed all those years ago on the mountain. The array will not only hold the mountain up perpetually, It would also create a field that surrounds the mountain that prevents anything from falling.

I allowed my mana to flow outward and form magic circles of varying sizes that interconnected with each other. The mountain in front of me took on a soft bluish glow as it lifted off a seemingly flat surface for quite a few feet before orienting itself upside down. I took a portal to the now flat surface of the upside down mountain and allowed my magic to carve in on the array on every surface of the mountain. It took a few minutes but after a while, all that was left to do was place the improved whitefyre orb in the center and connect it to the circuit. 

I lifted my arm with my palm facing upward and the orb appeared as if from a different dimension.

‘Inventory spell, ever useful but tricky.’ I had to anchor the inventory space I opened to myself and it required a lot of mana to do. 

The orb that came out was as tall as I was and glowed with an intense light because it generated untold amounts of magic continuously. I floated the orb down to the center of the array and connected it to the circuit. The array glowed an intense blue as the effect took place, before dimming and hiding in a different dimension. 

‘Don’t want anyone to possibly decipher it.’ I looked around the flipped mountain that was big enough to house a small town and smiled. 

‘One down, four more to go.’ In the next few hours, I completed the four ‘satellites’ to the main mountain and went down to meet the master builder. He had been just silently watching me all this time. I walked over and turned to see the five floating mountains, all powered by their own orb. 

“It’s magnificent.” He finally broke the silence.

“Yes, I know.” We kept staring at them for a while before he finally broke the silence. 

“How are you going to get them all to the building site?” I turned to him and smirked.

“You’ll see.”