By this world's standards, a fifth-tier magic caster was a Hero-class powerhouse, a one-in-ten-thousand existence. With Aisha protecting her, Aya's safety should not have been a problem.
Yet at this moment, the Hero-class magic caster Aisha was also in the room, sprawled on the sofa with an utterly exhausted look.
Normally, traveling from south to north across the Re-Estize Kingdom took a full day and night, but they had arrived in less than half a day.
That was because they had not taken the main roads. In fact, they had not traveled by land at all. They had flown here directly.
For Artoria, carrying Aya on this flight had been effortless; the mana she consumed was not even as much as what naturally regenerated. But for Aisha, this long-distance flight had nearly cost her life.
[Fly] was a third-tier spell, but it consumed a considerable amount of mana. She had also needed to stack [Speed Increase] just to barely keep up with Artoria's speed.
And that was with Artoria not flying at full speed and not using Mana Burst. Even so, her flying speed had posed an enormous challenge to Aisha's mana reserves.
If Aya had not replenished her mana once midway through, she probably would not have made it the rest of the way.
Aisha silently lamented, That white pegasus's speed... was truly terrifying. I should have listened to Lady Aya and flown over with them on Artoria's pegasus.
Aya had invited Aisha from the beginning, but considering Aya's special relationship with the white knight, the two of them would probably be all lovey-dovey in the air. Aisha would have been extremely awkward sitting between them, so she chose to fly on her own.
In fact, Aisha's guess had been completely correct. Artoria and Aya had spent almost the