A strange world

Chapter 1398 32. The first passengers of the magic train

The Lake of Ten Thousand Lakes has beautiful mountains and rivers and abundant water plants.

If you look down from the sky, the endless lakes look like broken mirrors from the gods, scattered across the vast land.

Now, all of this is filled with ambition and hatred,

Lady Winter ignored the Perkins family who came to greet her and looked into the distance, sniffing the air.

"The breath of chaos..."

The battle of Lake of Ten Thousand Lakes has been going on till now. More and more forces have been drawn into the war, even the Paladins are not immune. It is obvious that the Chaos Cult is exerting influence on it.

When the gods lose contact, it means that the existence that maintains order disappears and chaos arises.

Although the Chaos Cults also believe in their own gods, they don't care and only care about whether they can spread chaos.

Lady Winter withdrew her gaze and looked at the Perkins family and the group of believers who were coming from afar.

"Who are you?"

The Perkins family also noticed them, gave up greetings for the time being, and started to look.

The bishop, wearing two golden belts on his chest, led the congregation to Lady Winter and saluted her.

"I am Rael Avery, Archbishop of the Church of Fortune in the Lake of Ten Thousand Lakes region. The church will cooperate with all actions of the Son of God in the Lake of Ten Thousand Lakes."

Lady Winter gave a smile that melted her frost.

It seems that his action to repay Xiao Annan for helping him manage the commercial street is easier than he thought...

Should we add some personal feelings and give little Annan a surprise?

…

Sltovice.

In front of the City of Innocence Station, Olmedo and the Lord of Siltovis, nobles, and envoys attended the grand opening ceremony.

Annan did not attend because of the damn sense of ceremony - the Imperial Etiquette Department believed that the negotiation location should be held in Liberty City to be formal enough, so private meetings were prohibited beforehand.

It's almost the same as how no matter how much fun a couple has, they have to separate the night before their wedding.

Facing the officials from the Ministry of Etiquette and the Ministry of Finance from Montreal, the nobles of Siltovis behaved very reservedly, except that they regretted not being able to see Annan.

Annan originally made his fortune in Silstovis, and he is deeply tied to this place, so elements of the Free City can be seen everywhere.

Olmedo comforted them by saying that once the railway was opened, it would only take two days to travel between Liberty City and Siltovis.

The messengers stood in front of the magic train and were listening to the officials brought by Olmedo introducing the train and railway.

The envoys from the Ministry of Etiquette were satisfied with the specifications and data of the trains and rails, which had a neat and beautiful feel.

The envoy from the Ministry of Finance listened quietly to the people of Liberty City introducing the passenger capacity, cargo capacity and benefits created by the magic energy train after it was opened to traffic.

In terms of attitude towards the Free City, the delegation was divided into two distinct groups - one group was close to Annan, and the other group was impartial, or perhaps with some prejudice.

After all, Director Youde of the Ministry of Finance was arrested as soon as he returned to Montreal. Even if you have a grudge against Youde, at least you should show that you share the same hatred for the enemy on the surface.

The proposal to take the magic train to Free City was an arrangement made by officials close to Annan.

Near noon, Olmedo led the delegation onto the magic train and sat in the first carriage.

The magic train has a load capacity of twenty trains, but only ten were loaded during the trial run, and all of them were "VIP seats" - there were opposing booths in each carriage, vases fixed on tables covered with floral cloth, and with the spacious windows, it felt like spring.

After the delegation boarded the train, the station began to let in the nobles and wealthy businessmen who had bought tickets and were looking for something new.

Among them are Xina and Suni.

"Hurry up, the magic train is about to start!" Xianna, who was walking in front, kept looking back to urge Suni, fearing that she would lose her.

"It's just right that it's open now, so we don't have to go..."

"Don't you want to see Annan soon?"

Suni walked lazily and yawned: "No, I'm thinking about you."

“So much nonsense…!”

Xianna looked embarrassed and annoyed, and she grabbed Suni and dragged her to the carriage. Because they were worried about the departure, they squeezed into the wrong carriage, and the conductor took them to the second carriage and found their seats.

The sunlight coming in from the window makes people drowsy.

Suni half-closed her eyes, while Xianna looked around, full of novelty and anticipation.

"Why are you so listless? You're even sleepier than you were in the academy." Xianna said disdainfully, "If it weren't for me, you'd still be attending classes in the academy. How could you breathe the free air outside!"

"If it weren't for you, I would still be sleeping in the academy." Suni put her arms on the table and yawned.

Xianna didn't bother to care about her. She had already come up and started looking around.

Other passengers were also looking around and touching things curiously.

In the cabin of the magic locomotive, the conductor held the control lever, staring out the window without blinking, sweat coming out of his palms uncontrollably.

"Get ready to go!"

At exactly twelve noon, after counting the number of people, the stationmaster signaled that we could set off.

"May His Majesty Annan bless you, and may everything go well...!"

The captain pushed the control lever hard, and his whispers were drowned out by the group of magic runes that suddenly lit up.

On the control panel, the mithril pointers representing the power, energy, and output of the magic energy machine swung to the right at the same time, pointing to the red area of ​​the crystal scale.

The improved magic energy machine gushed out a powerful force that was completely driven by machinery. The group of precision gears arranged on the wall were like mechanical creatures that had been resurrected. They began to vibrate from the thumb-sized teeth on the bottom layer, and the ripple-like kinetic energy spread upward along the lines, driving more and more gears to turn.

The magic train moved the distance of a speck of dust, then a hair, an ant, a finger, and a step—

Bang-bang-bang-bang-bang

Woo——

The magic train on the platform gradually accelerated, and a magic flute imitating the sound of a steam whistle sounded, carrying more than three hundred tourists away from the platform.

The passengers, all staring at the scene outside the window, cheered in unison.

…

Olmedo closed the door between the carriages with a smile.

The cheers were blocked out.

The first carriage was very quiet. No matter what they felt inside, the imperial officials just looked out the window quietly and took out their notebooks to write and draw.

The magic train is faster and smoother than expected.

The magic train left the platform and traveled to the outskirts of Sltovice.

At first the speed was not fast, only comparable to that of a carriage full of goods, but as more and more areas of the magic circuits in the magic energy machine were activated, the speed of the magic energy train became faster and faster, until it became a constant speed at which the output and energy recovery were close to a balance.

The scenery outside the window passed by quickly. On the left was the vast coastline, and on the right was the endless wilderness.

It is winter now, with only bare rocks and soil. But when spring comes, the ocean becomes lively, the wilderness is covered with fragrant grass, and the warm wind blows into the car, I wonder how beautiful the scene will be.