"..."
It took a long while for Laofen to finally recover from her initial shock.
"Oh my goodness!"
"That's amazing!"
"Is this... some kind of spatial expansion magic?"
"It can expand the inside of a carriage this much, and people can live in it too?!"
"A living room, a dining room, a bathroom over there, a bathtub, and several bedrooms... Your carriage is practically traveling with a fully equipped palace!"
"This is incredible!"
Like a curious little cat, she began wandering around the living room, touching and examining things as she let out one astonished exclamation after another.
She'd been complaining that the place was cramped earlier, but look at it now. It could fit five of them easily—and probably wouldn't even feel crowded with another fifty!
"Absolutely!"
"It's amazing!"
Connie and Laviine were just as astonished. They exchanged a look, saw the same disbelief in each other's eyes, and stopped fooling around. Then they both set off to explore.
"Laviine!"
"Look over there!"
"Wow!"
"And over here—"
Connie ran her hand over the exquisite reliefs on the wall. Once she realized they weren't illusions, she marveled again.
"No wonder Frieren invited us over..."
"This is incredible!"
"How did they even do it?"
"How much mana and control would it take to maintain such a vast, stable expanded space?"
Laviine, meanwhile, was more interested in how it worked. She tried to analyze the magic, but soon gave up.
"It looks extremely stable. There aren't any signs of spatial distortion or mana instability."
"This kind of construction technique..."
"I've never heard of anything like it!"
She and Connie had attended the same magic school, but they'd never studied, seen, or even heard of magic like this there.
"..."
As for Elle, she stood with her arms crossed, surveying the space. She