As we rounded a sharp corner made of jagged rock, I stopped in my tracks. Before me lay an ethereal city from another world, an immense expanse of ancient architecture half submerged in the eerie water and veiled by the lack of sunlight. The rough silhouettes of broken stained-glass windows caught the flickering firelight of the hundreds of lanterns that seemed to hang from the sky like stars and crumbling stones laid at the base of the snaking river. The buildings and small patches of land were connected by hundreds of small hanging bridges and pathways. Up above, thick moss and vines clung
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