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Chapter 469

Day 106 – Afternoon, the Theocracy, Road

Amid the wide grasslands, wheat fields began to appear, with scattered houses, and beyond that, villages and towns could be seen here and there, until finally we entered the first city. Holy West, the fortress city that serves as the eastern transportation hub of the Theocracy. It housed the Theocracy’s eastern garrison and church troops, a military city, but more than that it was the essential crossroads through which every road from the east passed.

　And so, we lined up in the long queue for passage. The sheer out-of-place aura of our intimidating horse and the eight-car train of heavily reinforced, pitch-black carriages was staggering! Because right in front of us was a genuine church carriage, a simple wooden one pulled by just two ordinary horses. Compared to other stagecoaches, it was certainly quite splendid, but still nothing more than a normal carriage. The