Volume 4, Chapter 37 – Teleport

It didn’t take long for the three of them to arrive at Baronet Eli’s suburban farm. The surrounding environment had already changed from dense housing to rural wooden houses that were only visible at a distance. As far as the eye could see, there were only farmlands. Not only that, but the vehicles passing by on the road had also changed from horse-drawn carriages and dragon-carts to slow-moving ox-carts.

Interestingly, it wasn’t just farmers in straw hats working in the fields, but also elf mages holding staffs and chanting spells.

According to the explanation of the nearby villagers, these magic-casters were apprentice mages sent periodically from the Elf Towers for training. Led by their teachers, they used natural magic to increase the growth rate of the crops. Although Fia was very curious about what kind of magic could accelerate crop growth and was tempted to go over and listen in, if she were to do it herself, she would surely make the crops grow wildly. So, Fia maintained the princess’s dignity.

After all, crops were not like other things. Once they grew too much, their taste would become terrible. She couldn’t treat food like a toy.

“Even though I was mentally prepared, I didn’t expect it to be this dilapidated…”

Gazing through the rotten wooden fence, Fia lamented with a troubled expression.

Due to time constraints, Fia hadn’t had time to notify Baronet Eli, so he hadn’t cleaned the place. The farm in front of them had clearly been abandoned for a long time. The mansion by the roadside had half-collapsed, and the pasture in the distance was overgrown with yellow weeds as tall as a person. It had been at least ten years since anyone had lived here.

This farm was originally the property that Baronet Eli had given to his only son. However, his son had died in a shipwreck, and the baron, overwhelmed with grief, was unwilling to continue living in this sad place. However, the selling price of five thousand gold coins was too high, so the farm had been abandoned like this.

“It’s a pity the mansion has collapsed, otherwise we could have let the witches move in directly. From the looks of it, just clearing the man-high weeds in the farm will take a lot of time. Where does Your Highness plan to set up the [Transmission Beacon]?”

“Let’s go in first. We can’t set it up on the road.”

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With that, Fia was the first to cross the low fence. Then, she cleared the way with [Wind Blade] at its maximum length. Amidst a high-frequency buzzing sound and flying weeds, the path ahead was quickly cleared by Fia.

After passing the half-collapsed house and reaching a deeper part of the farm, she finally took out the bipyramid that was emitting a faint blue glow from her storage item.

So far, Fia had crushed two [Transmission Beacons], one in the basement of the Witch Hall in Byrne City, and the other on the way to Blossom. The reason she had to use a precious beacon on the road was because it had a limited range. Without a relay station, she, in Blossom, would not be able to sense the beacon under the Witch Hall, and thus would not be able to teleport.

“If the apprentice mages from just now saw you clearing the way like this, Your Highness, they would surely doubt whether the magic they are learning is real.”

Looking back at the path that was ten meters wide and over five hundred meters long, Anastasia couldn’t help but give a wry smile.

“By the way, I’ve been meaning to ask, Your Highness, can this teleportation item also transport people?”

“As long as it’s something I’m touching, it can be teleported with me. The cost is a slight increase in mana consumption.”

“Mhm, very safe.” Milu nodded her head emphatically, with great certainty.

Anastasia tilted her head in surprise. “How do you know, Euphimilu?”

“I was Master’s first.”

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As she spoke, a blush appeared on Milu’s face, although her expressionless face did not look shy at all.

“The first person to be teleported with me,” Fia added, clarifying Milu’s ambiguous words. She didn’t know if Milu had done it on purpose, or if her language skills were just not developed enough to express herself more clearly.

A few days ago, when Anastasia was asleep and Fia was on night watch, out of boredom, she had secretly used the insects, slimes, and the eight-legged horses pulling the cart on the roadside as test subjects, teleporting them back and forth between Silvar and the Witch Hall. The result was that besides being unsteady on their feet, as if they were drunk, there was nothing abnormal about them.

And just as the experiment was about to end, Milu, who had woken up first, had discovered Fia secretly conducting experiments. She had volunteered to separate her short-haired self and give it to Fia, letting her take the short-haired Milu to the Witch Hall. As a result, the short-haired Milu didn’t even experience the dizziness, and traveled back and forth between the two places safely, as if nothing had happened.

The dizziness seemed to be only related to one’s constitution.

“Then I will also return to the Witch Hall with Your Highness.”

“Together.”

Like a couple in love, Milu linked her arm with Fia’s, her head nestled against her.

Fia pushed her head away with a wry smile.

“If an outsider saw you like this, Milu, they would surely think we are close sisters. Let’s separate for a moment. I have to leave a coordinate here first.”

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Placing her right hand on a small piece of the lower part of the bipyramid, Fia gently rotated it, pulled it off, and then crushed it with force.

With a snap, a small amount of mana dissipated into the air, and the position where Fia was standing was recorded. To prevent the people of the Witch Hall from accidentally building a wall in this position in the future and causing her to teleport into it, Fia specially used [Dragon’s Tooth] to make a circle around it as a mark—although she felt that even if she did teleport into a wall, it would be the wall that was damaged, she had no desire to experience what that would feel like.

“Alright, give me your hands.”

Holding the bipyramid with [Telekinesis], Fia extended her hands to Anastasia and Milu. After a cold and a warm hand, two completely different feelings, grasped hers, Fia selected the coordinate in her mind and, with a thought.

[Teleport].

In an instant, the scenery before their eyes distorted as if being sucked into a vortex. Then, as if they were moving at high speed, countless colors like glass shards flashed past them, and a feeling of floating appeared under their feet, as if they were standing on a deck. Anastasia and Milu subconsciously gripped Fia tightly, but this unsettling scene only lasted for a few seconds.

The background of withered yellow weeds changed to a lush green plain, and the familiar Lantern Stems stretched out before them into the distance.

“This is… the road we came on?”

“Mhm. It seems the time it takes to teleport is related to the distance. The capital is not far from here, so it took a very short time. Don’t let go, Anastasia. We’re going to do it again soon.”

“Ah… I understand.”

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Although they had just been holding hands normally a moment ago, Anastasia now suddenly seemed embarrassed, not only lowering her head but also her palm becoming a little hotter.

Could she be shy?

It was better to interpret it as her being uneasy. Otherwise, she would feel embarrassed too.

Comforting herself, Fia used [Teleport] again. And unlike the few seconds it had taken to reach the destination just now, the journey from the relay station to the Witch Hall took a full half a minute. Just as Anastasia was beginning to wonder if something had gone wrong with the magic, the floating feeling under her feet and the surrounding white, fragmented images finally ended.

—What came into view was Friede, her hair damp, her ample chest almost bursting out of her white bath towel.

The sudden appearance of someone beside her naturally startled Friede. However, she was a Sixth-Rank practitioner after all. After seeing that the newcomer was Fia, she placed her right hand on her chest and let out a long sigh of relief, as if she had just survived a catastrophe.

“F-Lady Fia?”

Seeing Friede’s just out of the bath appearance, Fia couldn’t help but blush—Friede’s gentle, Asian-style face had a different kind of charm—she turned her face away and said awkwardly.

“Mhm, it’s me.”

“Your Highness… could it be that you set the [Transmission Beacon] in the bathroom?” With a complex expression, Anastasia nodded with difficulty, yet thoughtfully. “I-I see… so Your Highness likes this kind of style…”