“Are they travelers?”

“But it’s strange? They seem to have come from the southern direction.”

“That’s where the Antes Mountains are, no way. They must have lost their way a bit.”

Delphine and her companions were surrounded by simple countryside people with curious eyes.

Contrary to their worries, the villagers were not much different from the people of the Empire, from their appearance to their manner of speech.

The language was slightly different from the Imperial language, but it was like hearing a very heavy dialect.

Perhaps, just as the letters were similar, the pronunciation was the same.

“Excuse me… We would like to go to the Holy Kingdom. Do you know how?”

When Veli, who could speak the Northern Continent language, asked, the villagers responded with expressions as if they had heard an odd question.

“Well… You’ll have to take the train, right?”

At those words, Veli momentarily flinched.

‘Train?’

It was a word that all four of them were hearing for the first time in their lives.

Veli skillfully hid her confusion and asked again with an angelic smile.

“…Then, what should we do to take that ‘train’?”

“You have to go to the city, of course?”

“…Sorry, but how do we get to the city?”

Through a series of questions, they found out that the closest city with a train was Lübeck in the Pressen Kingdom.

In order to teleport, Lin had to have been to that place or at least know the coordinates.

After managing to find out the coordinates of the Lübeck train station, they left the village again.

Their expressions as they walked through the dense forest were the epitome of confusion.

“A train, what the hell is that?”

“Do we have to use that to get to the Holy Kingdom?”

“I don’t know. Let’s go and see first. We can also gather information in the city before entering the Holy Kingdom.”

Nodding their heads, they soon grabbed Lin’s arm.

“Then, let’s move.”

Delphine tightly closed her eyes at the bright light blocking her vision.

And just like that, a fleeting moment passed.

Baaaang!

At the loud sound that seemed to shake heaven and earth, Delphine was startled and opened her eyes that she had closed.

“Delphine, it’s dangerous!”

Lin quickly grabbed her waist and pulled her back.

At the same time, right in front of her eyes, a huge pile of scrap metal passed by with a loud noise.

“What is this…”

Clank, clank.

The long snake-like lump of metal made a strange sound and disappeared into the distance.

Delphine, who had not yet grasped the situation, gaped with a dazed expression.

“Damn it. That was close! What kind of coordinates did those people give us?”

Lin spat out a rough curse.

His large hand was still placed on Delphine’s waist.

‘Ah, our baby!’

Delphine, who came to her senses belatedly, hurriedly moved away from him in surprise.

Although it was now hidden by loose tops and pants, if he directly put his hand like this, he might notice that her belly had grown.

Delphine smoothed her clothes and quickly examined Lin’s expression.

Fortunately, he was still cursing the countryside people who had given them such a dangerous location.

Marian muttered with her mouth wide open as if it were fascinating.

“Is this… the place they called ‘train station’?”

They were in an unfamiliar space bustling with countless people.

People in clothes of a style they had never seen before in their lives passed by them in a hurry.

“No, that thing seems to be the ‘train’! To think there would be such a huge and fast means of transportation!”

Veli exclaimed with a rarely very excited face.

“I expected the science and technology of the Northern Continent to be more advanced, but to this extent!”

It felt like they had come to a new world.

Delphine looked around constantly with a dumbfounded expression.

“Look at that! It’s glass! They made the ceiling with glass!”

Marian also expressed admiration in a loud voice, finding it fascinating.

People passing by them sometimes laughed at them.

“Oh my, it seems like their first time seeing a train.”

“If they came from the countryside, that’s possible. They would probably faint if they saw a car at the international expo.”

Then Lin lowered his voice and soothed the three people who were extremely excited.

“…It’s better not to stand out too much, just in case.”

“Yeah. It would be good to change clothes first.”

The people here, regardless of gender, wore clothes that looked simple and practical.

Among them, only they were wearing the clothes they had worn when escaping from the Astrax Empire, looking like a group of ragged wanderers.

“Let’s get out of here for now.”

They hurriedly left that strange place.

Of course, they couldn’t help but keep turning their heads around in the meantime.

People passed by holding unfamiliar objects in their hands.

Since they all had phorsum attached, they were undoubtedly objects with some function, like the flashlights or lighters Delphine had seen in the Empire.

The only difference was that the phorsum embedded in the objects was very small.

Some were almost the size of a baby fingernail.

“The Northern Continent objects that remained within that barrier in the Empire must have been from three hundred years ago.”

Veli whispered in a low voice, unable to hide his interest and excitement.

“In the meantime, the magical technology here must have developed tremendously!”

‘What could that be used for?’

Delphine suddenly noticed a man holding a small, long gray object in his mouth and her eyes sparkled with curiosity.

Then, she made eye contact with the man who was sucking on that gray object like candy.

The man’s face turned bright red, seemingly embarrassed by the fact that an unfamiliar woman was looking at him.

“…Delphine. You’ll bump into something like that.”

Lin grabbed her shoulder and led her outside.

Not forgetting to slightly glare at the man whose face had turned as red as an apple.

As they exited the building, the world outside the train station was even more of a new world.

Buildings that soared high into the sky.

Perfectly paved roads that spread in all directions.

The streets were mainly traversed by carriages and horses, but occasionally, a very strange-looking wheeled object would pass by.

“…To buy clothes, we first need to get the currency of this place.”

They put on their cloaks and headed to a gold and silver shop, asking people along the way.

“This gold coin… It uses an anti-counterfeit method that was used only three hundred years ago.”

The owner of the gold and silver shop examined the gold coin intently with magnifying glass-clad eyes, making them tense for a moment.

But soon the owner laughed and placed the gold coin on the scale.

“If it were an artifact, it couldn’t be this intact. Some collector must have restored it!”

Fortunately, it seemed that gold also served as currency here.

No, it was clear that it was treated as even more precious and expensive than within the Empire.

They were able to exchange one gold coin for several silver coins used in this country at the gold and silver shop.

With that money, they bought clothes that looked moderately ordinary and then entered a restaurant, dumbfounded.

Veli, who ordered all the dishes on the menu at Marian’s request, whispered in an extremely excited voice.

“There will be so much to learn! As I thought, the world we were in was a narrow well!”

“You’re happy about that? I thought you were a weird kid since you were young…”

Marian shook her head.

She already had a headache at the thought of having to learn new things.

As they were whispering and sharing their amazement, the food they ordered soon arrived.

“Here’s your food, customers! …But are there four of you?”

“Yes. We can eat it all!”

Marian exclaimed happily.

As Veli translated again next to her since Marian’s Northern Continent pronunciation was still awkward, the man who brought the food laughed heartily.

“Haha. You’re foreigners! Where are you from?”

“That’s…”

Marian, who was stuffing bread into her mouth, rolled her eyes.

Then Veli quickly answered with a grin.

“A rural area located in the southern part of the continent. …We came from an island near the sea.”

“Aha. No wonder. Haha, then the city must be very unfamiliar to you! Our restaurant is a really famous place, you found it well!”

He was a very gregarious restaurant owner.

It was a time that was neither lunch nor dinner, so there were few customers in the restaurant.

Thanks to them ordering a lot of food, the owner seemed to be in a good mood.

It was the perfect situation to casually ask for various information.

Thinking so, Veli quickly curved the corners of her eyes and smiled.

“Actually, it’s my first time seeing a train too. How can such a huge thing move so fast, haha.”

“Haha. I was like that when I first saw it too!”

“Oh, you folks came from the countryside?”

Now Delphine’s ears were also getting used to the Northern Continent accent.

As a few customers in the leisurely restaurant joined the conversation, they were able to grasp the general situation of the Northern Continent.

Currently, the continent was shifting from a mystical era where gods, demons, and legends breathed, to an era of science and reason.

“It happened three hundred years ago, when the Saint, the child of God, was killed by an evil servant.”

“That’s right. After the Saint passed away, the power that resided in her bloodline spread into the air.”

“Of course, her descendants still emit aurum, but not as much as before.”

It meant that technology had advanced to efficiently use magic even with limited aurum.

Conversely, it could also be said that technology developed because the overflowing energy became scarce.

“Then… how are the descendants of the Saint doing?”

Veli casually asked.

Then a customer who was gulping down the beer Veli had served exclaimed in a good mood without any suspicion.

“Of course they are in the Holy Kingdom as living proof of the legend!”