Ch20.Wow!

I am currently walking down a long wide road, after leaving Stratos Town I was expecting to have to travel through the countryside or scarce dirt roads at best, but no; this world's travel circumstances are surprisingly advanced, or I suppose unsurprisingly since magic can basically do anything.

The main road I am currently on has about 50 lanes with different side roads going in different directions each with different purposes. The structure of the side roads can also be very crazy, some just randomly go underground or some bridges just pop up to take you to different roads, it's insane!!

There are plenty of people traveling on the roads, but I haven't seen a time where there has been any traffic yet, there aren't enough people traveling on the roads at one time to accomplish this. I don't know if I will see any when I get closer to a Major Town or Large City, but I hope not, traffic sucks regardless of where you are.

Nobody seems to have any trouble navigating these roads, there is no need to interfere with others on the road so you don't see many accidents. If an accident is close to happening, magic is used to avoid it. Most of the carriages are magical so they all have emergency escape mechanisms like teleporting, flying or even earth diving, It just goes to show how amazing Magical is, I can't wait to start learning more about it.

On my travels I have seen quite a few strange people, some are short and stocky with large beards, some are slim and tall with long pointed ears, some have wings or animal features and some even walk on 4 arms and can only talk if they roll over on their back. Most of the people I have seen are human but it would seem there are many different races in this world and Stratos town was probably just a human town. I definitely have to find out more about this when I get to the Major Town.

I have been traveling for about a week so far and have yet to reach a main city, I have passed a few off turns that lead to smaller towns similar to Stratos Town, you can tell weather a Town is small or large depending on the size of the road that leads to it, for example Stratos Town only has a double lane that leads from the main road to the town, but in the case of a Major town there will be at least 10 lanes that lead to it, this is most likely due to the amount of people that constantly travel to and from larger Towns.

I have been really tempted to stop over at some of the towns I passed to explore and see what it's like there, but I have to hold myself back as I have a deadline and I have to get to Academy City before the tests start. I need to quickly reach a Major Town or City so that I can buy some Magical Carriage or something that will let me travel faster.

As I am running down the road I finally see a turn off that has about 10 lanes or so, I assume this will lead to a Major Town, I take the turn off and sprint towards the town, I can't wait to see what this place looks like!

As I approached the town I saw a small line of people entering the town on a variety of different vehicles, most of them were human, but I also saw a few others in the line that looked quite different, obviously they weren't human. I got in line and waited to enter the town, it was quite strange to be walking in a line with only other vehicles, but nobody seemed to pay me much attention, I guess this is probably a normal occurrence.

As I got to the front of the line and when it was my turn I was told to stand on a stone platform, the platform was covered in countless strange runes and lines that interconnected, as I stood on it, the lines started to glow a bright white light. After the light faded, the gate guard looked at something in his hand and just nodded his head signaling to me that I could go ahead and enter the town.

I have no idea what that was about, I don't think it's a good idea to ask the guard as he seems quite busy, I don't want to piss him off. I will find someone in town to ask about it as well as some questions that have been bugging me lately, like what is up with the different races and where exactly I am, hopefully I can get a World map or something.

After entering the town I took a look around in amazement, it is completely different from Stratos Town, this place has a variety of different buildings everywhere, they all look completely different and their placing is completely illogical. Like there are some massive skyscrapers which look similar to the ones from earth except they have very weird shapes. One tower has a thin base but the higher the tower goes the thicker it becomes, another one looks like an upside down triangle and there's even one that looks like a bunch of balls stacked on top of each other.

It seems that people here can use magic to solve all construction technicalities so they just build whatever they think looks the best.

As I am walking around looking at all these weird buildings in amazement, I accidentally bump into an old man, I snap back to attention, "Shit sorry old dude, that's my bad, I wasn't really paying attention to where I was walking."

The man visibly annoyed replies "Yeah Yeah, whatever, just pay more attention to where you walk." After saying that he turns around and walks away.

As he was walking away I quickly grabbed his shoulder and said, "Hey hold up, do you know if there is anywhere that I can get some information from, I really need to buy a Carriage and get a map if possible."

He just snorts and says, "There is an Information Hub at the center of the town, you can find out whatever you want there."

He then shakes my hand off and walks away faster as if he wants to get away from me as fast as possible, I mean I can't really blame the guy I look very odd with my bald babyface and massive body.

I then slowly make my way to the center of the town while taking in all the sights, I really want to know how these buildings work, they must use a ton of interesting Runes, I also need to see if there are any rich people around that I can target for some quick cash if I don't have enough to pay for everything I need in this town.