In the faint morning light, the straight, newly built road seemed gilded with a golden halo as one, two, three, then dozens of different smart vehicles drove out of the Sea Area.
The passengers and drivers varied from vehicle to vehicle, including humans, Magical Beasts, and Magic Plants.
One Golem vehicle looked like a large truck, its cargo bed loaded with white coconut trees rooted on turtles' backs.
Facing the breeze and the rising sun, they swayed merrily, even their leaves seeming to radiate joy.
They simply could not make any sounds; otherwise, they would certainly have been humming little tunes.
On another vehicle beside it, which looked like a moving castle, sat hundreds of Burrowing Mice, each with a separate room and private space.
As the huge, intricate, model-like castle moved along, they studied their specially made little notebooks with utterly serious expressions.
From a wider view of the entire convoy,
a careful observer would have noticed that only seven or eight vehicles carried people.
All the others were filled with Magical Beasts and Magic Plants.
Anyone who did not know better might have thought a fairy tale was playing out before them.
Some vehicles were bound for farm construction, others for a census across the Northern Frontier, and still others for Sean's homeland to intervene in the war. Their assignments were anything but trivial.
Yet the Magical Beasts and Magic Plants maintained the cheerful air of an outing.
Naturally, their mood rubbed off on the passengers.
One of those passengers was Melanie, the owner of the soothing lily, who had just left Reef Island after being received by Kroya.
She was holding her soothing Lily of the Valley, planted in a magical flowerpot, and gently touching its pink petals.
A soft, childish voice rang out. "Big sister~ Don't