A Medium Mana Bus crossed the newly built reinforced concrete bridge spanning the Sandy River, which was over a hundred meters long and ten meters wide, then stopped at an equally new station and checkpoint two kilometers from Bunta City's north gate.
Sevi stared out the window with his large, bright blue eyes, his face full of excitement. The station was bright and clean, and despite the surging crowds, everything looked orderly, without a hint of chaos.
It had taken four full days to travel more than a thousand kilometers from his hometown in the north of the Kingdom, first by horse-drawn carriage and then by Magic Locomotive, before he finally reached Bunta City, the place his sister had described countless times. Sevi had been a little worried about whether he could adjust to life here.
But just crossing that magnificent bridge had already opened his eyes, instantly making him feel lucky to have come to a city like this.
Now, seeing this enormous station, something he had never seen or even imagined before, and watching Medium Cargo Magic Locomotives stream in and out, Sevi felt all the more certain that Bunta City truly was the most advanced metropolis his sister had described, a city an entire era ahead of everywhere else.
Even Anvilmar City, where he had stayed just the previous night, seemed merely a little more prosperous to Sevi. In terms of sheer impact, it fell far short of the Bunta City before him.
Both the smooth roads stretching in every direction outside the station and the endless flow of Magic Locomotives of every kind made it clear that this was a city unlike any other.
What struck Sevi even more was how everyone here seemed lively and full of energy, moving as swiftly as the wind. They