Moxi looked up and surveyed the street with the same wonder she had felt when she first came to a human city centuries ago.
The atmosphere here was unlike that of any other human town.
"Hey, come take a look!"
At the entrance to a clothing store, a Magic Projection of a beautiful girl suddenly called out to her. It was only a recording on a loop and could not respond, but Moxi was still surprised by the way it drew in customers.
There were Magic Newspapers that moved and made sounds, little animated statues that human customers held with delight, and a Magic Projection called "Everyone's Singer" playing near the square. Even Moxi, who was used to elven nocturnes, sincerely admired the contestants' singing.
She had only spent a few years in the forest. Why did it feel as though centuries had passed outside?
Thinking back on what she had learned along the way, Moxi soon realized that the key to it all lay in Free City and the human lord who called himself the "Spider Queen's Holy Son."
She went to Teleportation Square first and joined the queue at the ticket booth.
"I'd like to go to Free City," Moxi said calmly when her turn came. She was dressed as a mercenary.
"Everyone here is going to Free City." The ticket seller behind the window smiled. "Lady, tickets cost two gold and seventy silver. Half price for anyone under a meter tall, double for anyone over two meters. Tickets are only valid on the day of purchase, and vouchers get you another ten percent off."
Allen World clearly could not adopt a simple "children ride free" policy. For one thing, would a two-meter-tall ogre child pay the child's fare or the adult's?
Portals consumed magic crystals. The farther