Chapter 84: Perilous Journey
CH84 Perilous Journey
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[A.N: This is a 2-in-1 Chapter sponsored by Calyddon and Forgotten_sage. Thanks for the gifts.]
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Alex found travel in this new world of his to be incredibly... inconvenient.
He hadn’t expected the existence of cars—he wasn’t that naïve—but he had at least hoped for trains in a magical, arcane-powered civilisation. Unfortunately, no such thing existed in Pangea, despite all its mystical advancements.
And if trains didn’t exist, then airplanes were clearly out of the question.
To be fair, long-distance transportation did exist. It just wasn’t nearly as convenient as what Alex had grown used to in his previous life.
Water travel was, perhaps, the most developed method of mass transit in Pangea. Sailing down rivers or coasting across oceans was a far better option than enduring the harsh terrain of the mainland. Magic-powered ships could traverse thousands of kilometres in a single day. There were even aquatic mount-beast services—cheaper, if considerably bumpier.
And if one wanted something even faster than land or sea, aerial travel was also available—technically.
There were no airplanes, jets, or even basic airships. But there were flying beast mounts. The classics: griffons, wyverns, and the like. There were also rarer and more exotic breeds like Sky Whales—used for cargo transport—and Winged Chimeras, often deployed as elite military mounts.