What rounded the distant street corner and slowly approached their stop was not the familiar public carriage they rode every day, but a huge iron box painted white and green, with a square front, nearly three meters wide and tall, and a full five or six meters long!
Rectangular panes of faintly green glass were set into the enormous iron box to form rows of windows. They reflected the dazzling morning sunlight as it rolled steadily toward them, its entire body shimmering faintly green.
Everyone was instantly stunned by the bizarre sight.
Only when the enormous iron box stopped in front of them did someone suddenly come to his senses and shout, "I remember now! Isn't this the Medium Mana Bus the Xinfei Merchant Guild recently developed specifically to carry passengers?"
His reminder brought the others to their senses as well.
"Right, right! The Bunta Daily reported on it a while ago. How did I forget?"
"Haha, so this thing is the Medium Mana Bus. The picture in the Bunta Daily looked a little different, so I didn't recognize it."
"Exactly. You couldn't really tell what it was like from the picture in the Bunta Daily. Now that I've seen the real thing, hey, you know what? It looks a little clumsy with that boxy shape, but it seems pretty sturdy."
"Yeah, the Xinfei Merchant Guild made it, so it should be as sturdy as their other magic machinery, right?"
"Why don't we get on and find out?"
Those words immediately snapped everyone into action, and they hurried aboard through the open door at the front.
Once aboard the Medium Mana Bus, everyone immediately discovered that its interior was far more spacious than that of their old public carriage.
There had been more than a dozen people waiting at the