After comforting Maryl, the night had already grown deep.
He escorted the blushing Maryl back to her room.
Only then did he summon [Hell Dark Nightmare: Hamis].
Then, riding Hamis, he entered the [Nightmare Traverse] state, which allowed a speed of 1,350 kilometers per hour.
Once activated, the skill could be used for four hours before requiring only one hour of cooldown rest.
But that was not all. Zong Shen immediately had Hamis activate [Low-Altitude Flight] as well.
The effects of the two skills could stack.
This raised the flight speed of [Nightmare Traverse] to 1,750 kilometers per hour.
[Low-Altitude Flight] also lasted four hours, though its cooldown was two hours.
With both skills stacked, Hamis could travel as far as 7,000 kilometers over the next four hours.
And Zong Shen's destination tonight was Akaru Holy Light Church, 7,472 kilometers southeast of the territory.
After the stacked effects of [Nightmare Traverse] and [Low-Altitude Flight] ended, he could still have Hamis continue onward in normal flight.
It would not be much slower, and covering the remaining four hundred or so kilometers would be easy enough.
Akaru was a small town, one that had belonged to humanity during the ancient era.
According to the information he had found, it was actually smaller than even the smallest present-day Bang City.
It had been under the jurisdiction of Stratholme, one of humanity's five great main cities at the time.
It was also one of the garrison cities mentioned by Hugh Ferguson, the Heavywall Soldier Zong Shen had found in the Land of Buried Bones Ruins.
After more than ten thousand years of change, it had long since become rubble buried beneath the soil.
Those ruins had been abandoned for many years and had become a place the local natives avoided.
The nearest village was