Perhaps because the matter was truly urgent, the group set out for the Royal Capital under Kureia's arrangements almost the very next day.
At first, Fang Li thought Kureia intended to use Teleportation Magic to send them directly to Erlord.
But Kureia dismissed that idea.
"Teleportation Magic requires a mage to have registered the destination in advance. Otherwise, it can only teleport people randomly. Although Erlord is a neighboring country, it is still abroad, and mages who have registered locations there are exceptionally rare. We can only travel there physically."
In other words, Kureia intended for them to travel by carriage.
More precisely, it was not exactly a carriage.
With an ordinary carriage, considering the horses' stamina and the exhaustion of a long journey, reaching neighboring Erlord would take at least around ten days.
That was why Kureia had not prepared an ordinary carriage for them.
It was a vehicle parked before the royal castle, plain in appearance yet exceptionally sturdy, with no wheels at all.
And it was not called a carriage because the creatures pulling it were not horses.
"Running Lizards! Those are Running Lizards!"
Like a girl who had spotted adorable little animals, Megumin immediately cried out excitedly upon seeing the creatures hitched to the vehicle before the royal castle.
Hitched to the carriage-like means of transport were two enormous frilled lizards, each as tall as an adult and walking upright on two legs.
Just as Megumin had said, they were monsters known as Running Lizards.
Though they were monsters, Running Lizards were herbivorous lizards and usually posed no danger. They would not even attack humans on their own initiative; upon seeing one, they would flee like ordinary lizards.
It was said that during the Running Lizards' breeding season, a large female lizard known as the Running