A bright silver Mana Sedan crossed the border between the Rulson Kingdom and the Stantin Duchy swiftly and smoothly, descending straight down the cliff that had once separated the two countries.
Moments later, it reached the Stantin Duchy section of Slu Road, officially entering the duchy.
An embankment dozens of meters above the ground supported the stretch of Slu Road just inside the Stantin Duchy. At its edges, the ground lay a full several dozen meters below, and looking out to either side from the car felt like speeding through the clouds.
Occasionally, the pointed tops of towering trees swept past, heightening the nervous feeling of being so far above the ground.
Raiden Hakane, the Candel Empire's ambassador to the Rulson Kingdom, lowered his window and leaned out to look into the distance, unable to help marveling inwardly.
"A road like this, as though it were built in the sky, is truly breathtaking. When I return to the Candel Empire, I must advise His Majesty to build a road like this in our empire too-and make it even bigger and more magnificent!"
Sitting to his right, Kennard smiled faintly, thinking that Ambassador Hakane never missed an opportunity to flaunt his pride in being from the Candel Empire.
The completed Slu Road had cost a total of 2.13 million gold coins. This section, which connected the top and bottom of the cliff and opened a route between the Rulson Kingdom and the Stantin Duchy, was only eight kilometers long, yet it had cost over eight hundred thousand gold coins-close to half the total cost of the entire thirteen-hundred-kilometer road.
That alone showed how astonishingly expensive it was to build a road that seemed to hang in the sky.
Ambassador Hakane had casually declared that he wanted the Candel Empire to build