Chapter 174: It’s not everyday we have a fox as a caretaker
[Master! Big water!]
After traversing the dry land for quite some time, the ground turned more lush little by little, with plants sprouting until it became a rich forest. It was thanks to the massive river that ran through the central plains to the northwestern region.
And what a river it was; stretching far and wide that people would need a ship to cross it.
"Whoa...that almost looked like a sea..." It was my first time seeing such a big river, easily dozen times wider than the one in the Lair. Should I transmorph in this place, I would be completely lost, swept away by the river’s consciousness. "Wouldn’t it be nice to travel through the water too?"
"I hope so," Natha replied with a smile.
"Hmm?"
"Oh, you don’t know, Young Master? We will use the river from now on, until we reach the port city," Arta told me, grinning at my astonishment.
"What--really?" I turned to Natha, eyes widened in excitement.
"Since there’s no place to land the airship on land, and since we’ll be staying long, we can’t just let it hover in the sky," he explained.
Ah, that made sense--there was a reason why this was an airship, because...well, it was basically a ship, and functioned just as well on the water, probably. I looked at the river below with renewed delight at the prospect of my own first voyage. And Jade was excited about my excitement, while the Salamander...
"Water...hmmm," the little gecko muttered as it perched on the railing, looking below like me.