The fare from Tianlan City to the Central Capital was not the nine pounds and fifteen pence Cheng Yu had guessed, but fifty Origin Stones.
That was half of Cheng Yu's entire fortune. Watching Heru and the others present their identification and use the Teleportation Array for free, Cheng Yu desperately wanted to tell the staff guarding it that he had come to offer tribute too.
When he opened his eyes again after a flash of light, a visual feast awaited him.
Unlike the wild grandeur of the Demon Capital, the Central Capital, as the capital of the Humankind Heavenly Dynasty, was extravagance taken to its utmost. Although most of its buildings were wooden, Cheng Yu still felt as though he had stepped into a city of the future, only one steeped in Humankind's unique historical heritage and culture.
Tianlan City was bustling too, but it felt very young. The Central Capital was different. Although Cheng Yu was not looking down upon it from a god's-eye view, even standing within it, he could feel the city's distinctive weight of history.
It was like an old man who had lived through the ancient wilderness and still stood tall.
The streets teemed with people and traffic. Perhaps because this was the heart of the Humankind Heavenly Dynasty, the people on its streets were all the more diverse. Unlike the distinctive populations of the human cities he had visited before, here there were the laid-back, the hurried, the wealthy, the ruthless, and countless others.
It seemed that every sort of person Cheng Yu had encountered on his journey so far had a counterpart in the Central Capital.
Floating islands of every shape and size dotted the sky, bearing all manner of palace-style buildings. From time to time, squads of aerial knights flew past