Mars had changed.
Gone were the barren landscapes, the silent, dust-choked plains that stretched endlessly beneath a cold, lifeless sky.
The Eternal City now stood defiant against the desolation, a monument to human resilience and ambition, fueled by both science and mana.
The city sprawled outward, a gleaming fusion of ultra-modern architecture and mana-infused design, forming a harmonious blend of technology and mysticism.
Towering skyscrapers of polished steel and glass curved elegantly toward the skies, their facades pulsing with the glow of mana-reactor cores, each structure an autonomous powerhouse of sustainable energy.
Hovering transport pods zipped through the air, sleek and silent, weaving between enormous bridges suspended high above the ground.
The roads—if they could even be called that—were no longer paved paths of concrete but levitating platforms, shifting in real-time to accommodate foot traffic and vehicles alike, especially ones that carried resources.