This was a world much like the Middle Ages, yet far better than the Middle Ages of reality. After all... this world was home to many other races, as well as systems and magic...
But that did not mean... transportation was highly developed.
The carriage traveled for who knew how long. The road was far from smooth, and the ride swayed and jolted constantly. After a while, it became rather uncomfortable.
Perhaps Lady Serras had long since grown accustomed to it, so she did not feel much. Fu Hua and Fei Lun, on the other hand, felt that walking would have been more comfortable!
No one knew exactly how long they traveled, but it certainly was not a short time. The carriage was not particularly fast, after all! Fortunately, no further accidents occurred along the way, so they did not waste much time before reaching their destination—the town where Lady Serras's residence stood.
The town was not small, though it could not be called particularly large either... Tall walls surrounded it on all sides. In this world, where dangerous creatures known as monsters ran rampant, people likely could not live in peace without such walls!
Notably... there were no buildings at all outside the walls. Ordinarily, even a town with outer walls would gradually expand beyond them as it developed.
Yet in reality, every building stood within the walls.
Perhaps anyone who tried to build a house outside would be killed by monsters first, leaving them no choice! Of course, aside from keeping out monsters, the walls were likely meant to stop bandits from outside from getting close. Watchtowers stood at all four corners of the outer walls, while soldiers patrolled atop them on guard duty.
In this world, monsters were not the only things that attacked humans. In fact,