"Sorry for the trouble, Director Anluoxi."
Kallen thanked the director of the Teleportation Hall, who had used his authority to arrange an unscheduled teleportation for him. Otherwise, he would have had to wait another six hours.
The teleportation magic formation hall attached to the Church Administration Building was like an airport for the Church World. There were regular "flights" between major passenger hubs. For instance, there were three scheduled "flights" a day between York City District and Dinge District, with additional "flights" sometimes added as circumstances required.
Areas with fewer passengers naturally had fewer "flights." Services that ran once a week or even once a month were not uncommon. Sometimes reservations were required, and a service could be canceled if too few people booked.
Moreover, the Teleportation Hall did not serve only members of Our Church. It was open to outsiders, and people from other churches could buy tickets after filling out an information card.
Generally speaking, internal traffic from Our Church accounted for only a tenth of its normal operations, or even less.
Thus, although permanent teleportation magic formations were expensive to build and maintain, their actual returns far exceeded their costs for an Orthodox Order God Church.
This was not purely a matter of technology and cost. Deeper factors were involved: the greater a church's influence, the wider its sphere of power, and the closer its ties with other churches, the more comprehensive a "transportation network" it could build for itself, and the more profit it could reap.
An order like the Pamireth Church, which specialized in spatial forging technology, was not qualified to get involved. If it dared push such a project through, the Orthodox Order God Churches would rule that its spatial formation technology was immature and prone to accidents, or that it employed prohibited techniques