Chapter 298 Jin, departs (2/2)

“Jin-nii, take care. Give my regards to Rai-nii.”

“Jin-sama, please take care.”

“Jin, take care. Come back from time to time, alright?”

“Onii-chan, have a good trip…”

After being escorted by Elsa, Mine, Martha and Hanna, Jin headed towards the shelter.

The workshop’s warpgate would have been fine as well but since it would feel kinda weird, he went all the way to the shelter.

In front of the shelter, Kaina village’s gatekeepers, Land A to Z were lined-up.

“Master, we are the ‘Land’ squad, we are in charge of the protection of Kaina village.”

“Ohh, good job. Then I leave Kaina village to you while I am absent. I will head out for a bit.”

“Yes, please leave it to us. Have a good trip, master.”

And so, Jin vanished inside the shelter.

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In Serroa kingdom, northward of the provincial city, Bololon, an uninhabited wasteland spread out. It’s name was the Bololon wasteland.

As far as the eye could see, it was full of boulders, some which were even 50 meters tall.

It might be easier to think of the landscape as that of a small scale Arizona, which comes up in western films.

Among all these boulders, one was noticeably bigger and had an entrance to a cave at the bottom.

“Hmmm, so this is the Bololon wasteland.”

“Yes. I have probably been here about 8 times before.”

Reiko muttered.

It was that time warp gate behaved recklessly and Jin had gone missing, when Reiko used the same method to search for Jin all around the world.

“At that time, I appeared out in the sky and barely landed but due to one of the part of the warp gate being damaged, I somehow managed to make it back to the lab but had to dispose of the warp gate.”

However, the areas it had been used at could come in handy later so Laojun tracked what faint magic it had left and dispatched an air force golem to identify the locations. And then installed the warp gate once again.

If there are points like this, it would make travelling through the continent much easier. Although Jin and his staff will be the only people using it for a while.

And for this reason, the halfpoints of the warpgate’s teleportation were also being studied. For security purposes.

[First in line is the aircraft carrier ‘Hodaka’. It has plenty of space inside so, when used as a relay point, even if by any chance, enemies land on it, they would not be able to go through to Hourai island.]

Laojun explained it like that to Jin. Jin said ‘that’s fine, I will leave it to you’ and gave his approval. That system will probably be done quite soon.

The carriage, which had Jin and Reiko, ran southwest of the wasteland.

“Hmmm, he also installed a compass, eh? As expected of Laojun.”

On the ingeniously camouflaged carriage steering console, a compass was also installed.

“The highway runs from the east to the west, so if I just keep going southwest, I will come upon it.”

Jin kept the carriage at ‘golem horse’ mode and fixed the speed to be at 50 kmph. The highway should come into view within an hour.

“Father, I can see it.”

Reiko raised her voice. To her eyes the highway, which spread about the horizon, was visible. And so, Jin lowered the carriage’s speed.

Even Jin knew that running a carriage at 50 kmph would be out of place.

But even then, the carriage’s speed exceeded 20 kmph.

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Bololon and Ganiz had only about 30 kilometers between them.

Reinhart’s carriage was going along at ease.

After all, it would take about a day at most to reach the border, on the other side of which was their motherland.

“Reinhart, good weather we’re having today.”

Lining up the carriages side by side, Matheus started talking to Reinhart.

“Yeah, feels like the full bloom of spring. Don’t you feel sleepy?”

Opening up the carriage’s window, as Reinhart said jokingly to Matheus,

“Haha, true. I would feel sleepy on the horse. For better or worse, I am a soldier, after all. I wouldn’t even doze off on a horse by mistake.”

Answering with that, he deliberately surveyed the surroundings. And then, his face got stiff.

“Reinhart, hasten your carriage.”

“What happened?”

“…An unknown carriage is coming this way from the wastelands.”

Hearing that, Reinhart opened up his other window and looked outside. But contrary to Matheus’ expression, Reinhart’s one was of joy.

“Matheus, that is a friend of mine.”

“What?”

“I told you before, right? The magi craftsman I got to know and befriend along this trip. No, I guess now he is the Honorary Magi craftsman of Egelia kingdom. That is Jin Nidou’s carriage.”

“Say what? That’s his?”

“Yeah. Who else can make such an exquisite golem horse?”

Bathing in the afternoon sunlight, the silver-colored golem horse shined brightly, pulling the aluminum carriage behind it. Controlling such a horse was a golem made of iron.

“Oiii, Reinhart!”

From that carriage, Jin himself set out and was waving towards them.

“Oii, Jin! It has been so long!”

Reinhart also got out through the window and waved back.