"Hello, ladies, excuse for a mont. To ensure your travel safety, please present your travel docunts before boarding."
In the quiet station, a neatly dressed conductor stood at the door of the train car, bowing to Erald Sparrow and her companions, "Please forgive my presumptuous reminder, but considering that so of you might be taking this special train for the first ti, I must advise against using false or forged docunts. This is no joke, as if discovered, it could affect your subsequent itinerary."
"Travel docunts?"
Hearing this term, Lin Xiaolu was taken aback, then looked at Erald Sparrow with so bewildernt, "Do we have such a thing? I don't rember it?"
Xia Liang and Bai Jingxuan also turned their gaze in the sa direction.
"Generally speaking, those who wish to travel to the Magic Kingdom must first apply to the local Abnormal Strategy Bureau, fill in their personal information and reasons for entry in detail, and attach a certain fee before the Abnormal Strategy Bureau can submit their application to the Kingdom Civil Governance Institute to be put into the review queue. Generally, one gets the result of the application within a month, and if approved, they will receive a temporary travel permit. Afterward, with this travel docunt, one goes to the Kingdom and it is collected when one leaves the Kingdom at the end of the period."
Erald Sparrow explained calmly, "However, that is the usual channel, we don't need that."
"Why?" asked Lin Xiaolu.
"Magical Girls holding a qualification certification badge can use their badge as a travel docunt, allowing them free entry and exit to and from the Kingdom."
Saying so, Erald Sparrow reached into her coat pocket and produced several cards, "For us, we just need to use our exam admission tickets."
The "us" she spoke of naturally included herself, as from this mont on, her identity to the outside world was no longer "Magic Girl Cui Que," but "Magic Girl Long Dan." As a "newbie Magical Girl" who hadn't yet taken her qualification assessnt, Long Dan theoretically didn't have her own certification badge.
She had already inford her juniors of this matter, only her explanation was that she "needs to return to the Kingdom for a secret mission and must conceal her identity." With the further credential of her identity as a Patrol Envoy from the Investigation Bureau, her juniors had no reason to doubt her.
"Let's see... Ah, so you're Magical Girls from Fangting City, Miss Bai i, Miss Jin, Miss Bo Xue, and Miss Long Dan, correct?"
The conductor, responsible for checking tickets, took the exam admission tickets, his eyes widening slightly as several Favo Runes faintly appeared on his pupils, evidently verifying the authenticity of the docunts.
He didn't react additionally to the identity of several Magical Girls; clearly, on a train that traveled between the Material Realm and the Kingdom, countless Magical Girls used it daily, and being a Magical Girl was not considered an uncommon identity: "Alright, the docunts have been verified and are all valid. I am terribly sorry for the inconvenience."
With that, he bowed slightly and moved aside, revealing the train door behind him.
Erald Sparrow took back everyone's exam admission tickets from him, counted them once again, and put them back in her coat pocket before leading her juniors into the train.
She remained unruffled, but her juniors behind her were ecstatic, looking forward with great anticipation, stepping eagerly into the train, eager to see for themselves what this train from the Kingdom really looked like.
However, once they entered, what they saw was just a small room a few square ters in size, with greenery covering everything from floor to walls.
"Is this... the train to the Kingdom?"
The sight in front of them caught the juniors by surprise so much so that Lin Xiaolu blurted out, "Why is it so small inside the train?"
No wonder she asked such a question, as this small room was indeed too small, and other than a crystal column placed in the center for an unknown purpose, there were only vines and green grass, not even a place to sit, looking nothing like what one would expect inside a train car.
"This is the transfer layer, not the train car."
Erald Sparrow glanced at Lin Xiaolu with slight exasperation, explaining as she took out her own ticket and stuck it on the crystal column in front of them: "Stick your tickets here, and then it will transfer us to the car we're supposed to go to."
"Transfer?" Though still puzzled, Lin Xiaolu still followed suit and stuck her ticket on as well.
Xia Liang and Bai Jingxuan did likewise.
Soon, the crystal lit up, and they felt the floor of the room tremble beneath them. Then, they felt as if the small room they were in started to move like an elevator.
"Since the train's route encompasses the entire Central City of the state as well as several larger cities within the Kingdom, the number of passengers during peak hours can be very high, and ordinary trains simply cannot accommodate so many passengers."
Erald Sparrow took her ticket off the crystal column and continued her explanation, "For this reason, the space inside this train has been modified with spells to ensure it has a much larger capacity, enough to fit nearly a hundred carriages."
"Also considering that so many carriages would be too many and ordinary passengers might take more than ten minutes just to walk to their own carriages, this transfer layer was added to take passengers to their proper place."
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