To meet the Fairy Queen, anyone without an affinity for the Path of Beauty needed another fairy to guide them.
Even if Merlin could teleport directly to the Fairy Kingdom, he still had to follow this basic principle.
—Because the Fairy Queen was not in the ordinary Material Realm.
She was closer to being inside a painting, a song, or a work of art. Only those with eyes capable of seeing "beauty" could find the path to meet the Fairy Queen.
But Merlin had a good relationship with the fairies because he often played with them. So he could also use a cheating-like method and have the fairies take him there. Since the Fairy Queen had not stopped them, it was essentially the same as giving her tacit approval.
The fairies crowded around Merlin as they moved forward.
The Fairy Kingdom was beautiful, like something out of a dream.
It had all kinds of fantastical colors that the Material Realm could never imagine—mushroom houses over twenty meters tall, pumpkin carriages speeding across the ground, wheat fields flowing like liquid gold, sunlight that was always bright, and huge blue, purple, and green glass tiles covering every building.
These fairies were only about a dozen centimeters tall, roughly the height of an adult's palm.
They had no gender, but all of them had beautiful and adorable features.
The fairies wore only a single garment each, with different colors and styles for every one of them. Some wore nearly transparent skirts, some wore pure-white dresses, and others wore dashing shirts and trousers like gentlemen... They chose their clothes entirely according to their own whims.
The one thing all fairies had in common was the crystalline, glowing butterfly wings behind them. When they flew, they scattered luminous dust known as Fairy Dust.
These little