A dozen or so minutes later.
One moment, billowing yellow sand still surrounded them. But the instant they crossed the boundary ahead, everything changed. The endless sand vanished, replaced by a street lined with dilapidated buildings.
Lin En glanced behind him and poked his head back across the boundary, only to see the billowing yellow sand outside again.
"Holy crap."
Lin En was astonished.
"You've been hiding some serious skills! Is this a pocket world? Some kind of domain? You actually managed to claim a place like this as your territory?!"
It looked exactly like the pocket worlds in the fantasy novels he'd read-a space nested inside another space. Was this guy really that badass?
Seeing Lin En turn a suspicious gaze toward him,
Salgon hurriedly waved his hands with a (.;ﾟ;:益:;ﾟ;.) expression and explained:
"No! Absolutely not! You've misunderstood, Master! How could I possibly manage that? This is actually a phenomenon in the Spirit Realm! Space here isn't continuous, so lots of different regions can connect to one another. If you traveled normally, though, my territory might not even be within Clockwork City."
Lin En understood and gazed into the distance.
"Still pretty damn awesome, though. Holy crap, this looks like it's the size of a whole city!"
Salgon said with a (￣▽￣)／ expression:
"Exactly, Master! That's how I used to show off to people too-[beep]! But because space isn't continuous, my actual territory is probably just this street in front of us! Walk another kilometer and you'll be transported somewhere else! There's a cliff to the north, desert to the south, a void to the west, and turbulent currents to the east. Fall in and you die!"
"That's why this street is also called [Get Lost and Die Street]!"
Lin En: "..."
So this supposed lord was really