Drives Too Fast? Flies Too Slow.

Monica looked thrilled as she reached out and opened a protective cover in the car, revealing a red button before them.

"Don't!" "No!" Zoe and Gaia immediately stopped her. "If you go street racing again, Lord Theus is going to revoke your driver's license!"

"Tch, boring." Monica snorted and reluctantly put the cover back down.

Strictly speaking, an internal combustion engine that used explosives as fuel was actually pretty orthodox.

The original inventor of the piston internal combustion engine was the Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens. He had intended to use gunpowder explosions to generate power, but he simply hadn't succeeded.

In other words, internal combustion engines had originally been developed to burn explosives. Their cylinders were driven by explosions. Using oil now was actually the path that had gone astray.

Considering that this world's technology tree had gone off the rails long ago, Theus didn't really care what the engine beneath his backside burned, as long as it didn't launch his backside into the sky.

The problem was that Monica's car was just too outrageous.

"Don't listen to their nonsense. This car is perfectly safe. It just accelerates a little fast. Mm, it takes about 0.4 seconds to accelerate from zero to one hundred kilometers per hour," Monica introduced proudly.

What did that level of acceleration mean? Even Blue Star couldn't achieve it.

Cars had to run on the ground, which meant they needed four wheels to provide friction. No matter how much horsepower they had, it was useless if the tires couldn't handle it. That was a limitation imposed by the laws of physics.

But Monica's car—

Put it this way: if she stood up to press the accelerator, the car could stand up and run too. Wheels? Friction?

Sure, but unnecessary.

During the test drive, the engine let