Diamond Megacity
A colossal, multi-layered megacity built around mining and trade, stretching endlessly in every direction. Towering skyscrapers rise above dense networks of bridges, aerial traffic, and flying ships, while vibrant streets overflow with people, markets, and glowing storefronts. The city expands vertically and deep underground, where vast mining districts fuel its economy, creating a living, chaotic metropolis that never sleeps.
The city was born out of necessity, not from a dream. The first settlers arrived by following the traces of an impossible deposit, a weave of rare minerals that seemed to have no end. They dug without a real plan, adapting to the rock, building platforms where there had once been only raw stone walls. Each time the underground gave way, someone chose to stay, to open a workshop, a dormitory, then a market. In this way, the city began to grow vertically, layer upon layer, until the surface was no longer enough and the structures started to rise toward the sky, reflecting sunlight on ever-taller towers.
As the years passed, the metropolis became an organized chaos. Suspended bridges connected distant levels, allowing people to move like blood through a gigantic body. Spaceships landed between skyscrapers, unloading goods and travelers, while flying vehicles crossed aerial corridors marked by lights and signals. Each district developed its own identity: crowded markets, stacked residential zones, and noisy industrial sectors. The city never slept, because somewhere, at any hour, someone was digging, building, or trading something that would shift the balance of the next day.
Deep below, however, the city preserved its true origin. The mines were not just places of labor, but sanctuaries of memory and power. There, stories were told of collapses narrowly avoided, of discoveries that made entire clans wealthy, of decisions taken in the darkness that shaped the future of the surface. Every new underground level was a gamble: greater risk, greater reward. And while above, the lights illuminated an advanced and chaotic civilization, below they kept digging, as if the city knew that its true strength was not what it showed to the sky, but what it hid within its depths.
