Isekai Adventure in the Dimensional Cube

Chapter 1736 - 1175: I’ve Been Waiting for You for a Long Time

According to Aleye and Leo, although their group had already arrived in the Hidden Land, the place where they landed was still in the border region of the Hidden Land.

Going from the border region to the core area naturally wasn’t a journey that could be completed in a day or two; even if they flew the entire way, they would probably have to fly for at least a month.

If it were only Reiger alone, even if he traveled the whole way using high-speed movement, he would likely still need several days.

Fortunately, with Aleye and Leo leading the way, this entire segment of time was directly saved.

The group flew for only a little over an hour before arriving at a city.

This city was quite large in scale. Even though it was a city located in the border region, it was rather prosperous; even if it could not quite match the capitals of the many nations Reiger had seen before, it was not far behind.

Because there were no conflicts and no wars in the Hidden Land, and it had always been peaceful, the residents—free from internal strife—put their whole hearts into building up the Hidden Land. Not only had they created those miraculous landscapes amid the external natural world, the cities where people lived had also been developed into bustling places.

With inheritance stemming from an ancient Magic civilization, the magitech of the Hidden Land was far superior to that of the outside world. As a result, they had long since used various magitech methods to resolve resource issues; whether in terms of living environment or living conditions, they had pushed things to nearly the extreme.

Thus, here in the Hidden Land, there were basically no suffering, impoverished commoners; in a sense, it truly was a kind of utopia.

In such circumstances, Aleye and Leo led the group into the temple branch of this city.

"The temple has branches in every city, responsible for managing and maintaining that city."

Aleye explained this to Reiger.

"And within every branch of the temple, there is a teleportation Magic Array that connects directly to the headquarters."

The purpose of this trip was precisely to make use of the teleportation Magic Array within this city’s temple branch to go straight to the temple’s headquarters.

After learning this, Reiger also fell into thoughtful silence.

"It seems the magitech of the Hidden Land is even more advanced than I imagined."

In the Source World, where magitech was likewise extremely advanced, teleportation Magic Arrays were basically only set up for ultra-long-distance teleportation and had not reached the level of being popularized among the common people.

Otherwise, when Reiger had planned to head to Mistg, the Karedohart Empire would not have needed to dispatch a floating Magic-guided Battleship, spending several days to send him there specially.

By contrast, in the Hidden Land, although it also hadn’t reached the point of being spread among the general populace, the temple, as the sole governing body of the Hidden Land, was able to set up teleportation Magic Arrays within its headquarters and the branches in each city. From this alone, it could already be considered to surpass the Source World.

After all, this meant that personnel from the temple could use the teleportation Magic Arrays to instantly arrive at any city in the Hidden Land. Even a floating Magic-guided Battleship could not compare to this convenient means of travel.

As he thought this, Reiger in fact did not know that the reason the Source World had not achieved the same thing was not because they were incapable, but because conditions did not permit it.

Since they were already able to erect ultra-long-distance teleportation Magic Arrays, setting up short-distance teleportation arrays would naturally be even less difficult, not more.

But unlike this world, the Source side also had a reverse world—the abyss.

To prevent the abyss’s invasion and persecution, the three holy swords had long since sealed the plane, making passage between the Source World and the abyss extremely difficult.

On top of that, due to the special dual-structure of "front and back" for the world, the spatial stability of the Source World was actually far higher than that of the Akasha Continent.

In view of this, performing teleportation within the Source World was in fact far more difficult than it was here on the Akasha Continent.

If it were only ordinary use of Space Magic in general situations, it would not be greatly hindered; but for a semi-permanent project like erecting a teleportation Magic Array, the difficulty would increase sharply.

One case is opening a passage temporarily and squeezing through; the other is laying down a passage that will last for a long time. To say nothing else, just the procedures required would become much more complicated.

Unless they were to do as the abyss did, using blood sacrifices and similar magical rituals, paying a huge price to shorten and hasten the completion of the project, then trying to set up teleportation Magic Arrays in the Source World would not be impossible, but thinking of popularizing them for everyday use would be nothing but wishful thinking.

Therefore, the teleportation Magic Arrays that already existed in the Source World were all extremely expensive to build, and each activation also required a very high price.

For example, when Reiger was teleported last time from the dwarves’ station to the other side of the Nanierga Giant Wall, that single teleportation alone needed to consume nearly half of the Magic Power contained in one Mana Treasure Bead.

In other words, once that teleportation Magic Array was activated, just one round trip was enough to almost declare a precious Mana Treasure Bead scrapped.

As for how precious a Mana Treasure Bead was, one only needed to look at Aleye, who was practically drooling and nearly losing her rationality, to understand.

Even the scabbards of holy swords like Marfa and Moslo were only forged from Mana Metal; Mana Treasure Beads, on the other hand, would only be born within large Mana Metal Mines, and only one would appear in several hundred years. They were crystals formed from the purest Magic Power within a Mana Metal Mine, countless times more valuable than ordinary Mana Metal.