The carriage doors closed, and the curtains over the windows were drawn. As President Lenormand pulled the lever, the locomotive actually began moving forward along the tracks in the underground passage without any further operation.
The whistle sounded overhead, while the wheels rubbed against the rails with a rhythmic clatter. With the curtains drawn, only the area ahead could be seen. Although President Lenormand had said the underground passage was less than two hundred meters long, Shade could clearly see the tunnel and tracks stretching onward into the depths of darkness.
Shade felt that this relic did not seem to be a spatial relic, because he had sensed no trace of spatial disturbance while the locomotive was moving.
After the locomotive traveled for ten minutes, the darkness of the passage receded, and the light of the Gas Lamps on the platform appeared ahead. The Keepers of Secrets from the Seer Association headquarters, who had long been waiting there, immediately prepared to receive the arriving train while guarding against the possibility that unfamiliar people might emerge from the carriages.
Fortunately, the journey had gone very smoothly. Compared to the spatial relics Shade had used in the past, this relic was indeed highly stable, though constructing an underground station was certainly troublesome.
They were now at the Seer Association headquarters in Lomari City on the Southern Coast of the Old Continent. This was also Shade's first visit to the city. As he stepped onto the platform, he thought of Myriad Aspects of Impermanence · Fate being not far from him, but President Lenormand clearly had no intention of showing Shade around the association headquarters.
After leaving the underground platform, the two followed an Old Keeper of Secrets who looked even older than Priest Augustus eastward along the platform before entering an iron