Leo came out in tortollan form, and waved happily toward the portal, while not speaking out loud.
Just like the Cerro packs, his people could speak to each other mentally, and he had received a thread of awareness from the Elven City the moment that he arrived.
"Oh, that's cool, he's fully become the city. I like it.
That's a unique path for a turtle, but it's working out amazingly well for him, isn't it? It's even made him a Demigod."
The Elves looked confused as Leo fell silent, so Karl tried to explain.
"The turtle gets a bonus to its growth from the people living in the city on its back. It takes a massive amount of energy for it to do anything, and it may not know how to transform like Leo does.
So, it hibernates, or cultivates, depending on how you look at it, and your people actually provide the energy it needs by simply living on its back. The mana that you radiate, the excess life force of however many Elves are in the city, are fuelling its slow path to Divinity."
