The Malera fief was a secluded place without any particular tourist attractions. It had been like this in the past as well. Since it was in a place far away from any of the five Demon King Castles, Eugene had never visited this place in the past.

Leaning on the railing of the hotel terrace, Eugene looked down at the street with idle eyes.

He suddenly felt that the world really had gotten a lot better.

He was staring down at the street from dozens of floors above. The black road had dark-power cables running beneath it. The paved road had been made using a special material with a high conductivity for dark power. On a road like this, various dark-power vehicles were racing along at high speeds.

[Unlike yesterday, when it rained, the sky today will be very clear and blue. It will be warm during the day, but please be careful of temperature variations. A bit past noon, you should be able to see the view of the Dragon-Demon Castle passing through the sky to our east….]

The weather forecast was being broadcast from a screen in the living room.

Even in the Magic Kingdom of Aroth, magic wasn’t as thoroughly blended into daily life as it was in Helmuth.

…Though now that he’d become used to it, it wasn’t all that surprising.

‘Three hundred years ago, it would have taken five years just to travel this far,’ Eugene thought.

They hadn’t had anything like a warp gate, and of course there hadn’t been any dark-power vehicles either. Ordinary horses weren’t very useful for traveling through these lands because of their fear of demonic beasts, and only trained war horses were calm enough to be used as mounts. There had also been many demonic beasts and demonfolk who were blocking the way forward back then.

In this day and age, there weren’t any issues like that. Were there still demonic beasts? They had seen a few of them while traveling. In the vast grainfields of Helmuth, Eugene had spotted giant demonic beasts plowing out new fields, and he had also seen a few being used as...