Iver and the others did not stop at any of the other oasis city-states. They headed straight for Holy Spring City.
Although they lacked enough food to fill Sha Sha's stomach, Iver, whose path was now balanced, could use the Shepherding Method. The energy contained in his flesh was far more potent than meat on the level of beef or mutton.
They traveled for nearly two days—if Leviathan had gone alone, she would not have needed even a day to fly there and back.
The main problem was that she had to pull the carriage while carrying several people. That made things much more troublesome... After all, Leviathan's talents lay in high-speed mobility and her ability to operate on land, sea, and air. Her advantages were in explosive bursts, while her load-bearing capacity and endurance were truly inadequate. Throwing the carriage a short distance in an instant would have been no problem, but pulling it while carrying so many people over such a long distance was genuinely exhausting.
The straight-line distance from Paradise City to Holy Spring City was roughly more than two thousand kilometers.
That was approximately four to five times Avalon's east-west span, and more than twice that of Iris.
Leviathan had carried a two-ton load through a powerful desert storm and reached the destination in just forty hours. She had already given it everything she had.
The other person who had given it his all was Iver—he had used the Shepherding Method three times along the way to replenish Leviathan's magic.
In truth, once should have been enough. It was just that Leviathan's "fuel tank" was too small, so they had to stop several times along the way to resupply.
At seven in the morning on July 3, they finally reached the outskirts of Holy Spring City.