For Roger and the Magic Goddess, distance was something that barely existed.
In the blink of an eye, they appeared at the northeastern corner of the Dawn Kingdom.
This was precisely the final stop where Delin, the Legendary Mage, had pursued his enemy, and also the area where he had encountered the black-robed people of the Tulip Kingdom.
To the Dawn Kingdom, this place was nothing more than wasteland. Yet if one could break through the ice and cross the strait, they would reach Lady Dream's Tulip Kingdom—the miniature nation said to have been built from dreams and to possess dozens of Legendary Mages.
"Should we go straight in?"
The Magic Goddess asked.
Lady Dream's death had been strange, the Tulip Kingdom's existence even stranger, and there had also been those peculiar black-robed people with special energy some time ago. The Magic Goddess wanted to investigate what exactly was going on.
However, since they had agreed that Roger would take the lead in this matter, she naturally would not overstep.
"Let's first take a look at the port the Tulip Kingdom has opened to the outside world. If we don't find anything wrong, we'll go deeper inside."
Roger gazed at the small island in the distance, a strange look in his eyes.
When he had previously observed from the Divine Kingdom through his authority, he had not noticed it, but there was something peculiar about the Tulip Kingdom.
What ordinary beings saw of the Tulip Kingdom from here was actually false, though not entirely false. It should be regarded as... a mirage.
Of the entire Tulip Kingdom, only a small reef truly existed in reality, just large enough to accommodate the sole port connected to reality, the one foreigners could visit.
Everything else existed in the layer between reality and