After buying the clothes, Baiyi led the four furballs to the carriage and carriage store. After a few turns and a few caverns, he finally found the one that the owner of the clothing store had recommended.
Although it was called a carriage and carriage store, horses were not very useful in a place like this. Instead, they were domesticated flying creatures called skycruising rays. They looked like the rays found in the deep sea, but much, much bigger. An adult skycruising ray was as big as a living room, and its back could easily accommodate ten adults.
This strange flying creature was a specialty of Gouve. It was omnivorous, but it was very docile. Although it flew slowly, it was very stable. It was the earliest form of transportation that humans had tamed, and it was also the most commonly used form of transportation.
The carriage and carriage store, or rather, the skycruising ray store, was located inside a large cavern. A few giant skycruising rays were resting on the ceiling of the cavern. A few workers had ground their favorite dried seaweed into powder and sat on the backs of the smaller skycruising rays. They picked up some of the grass and sprinkled it into the air. The seemingly motionless skycruising rays opened their mouths and sucked in all the grass in the air, letting out cries of satisfaction.
This was the first time Baiyi had seen such a unique feeding method. He withdrew his gaze and looked at a bearded, middle-aged man who was walking towards him.
"A customer? You have a good eye! My skycruising rays are the fastest and steadiest of all! " The middle-aged man boasted. As if replying to his master's compliment, the skycruising ray leaned against the cave wall and let out a series of cries. It looked like it had been well trained.
However, no matter how fast a skycruising ray was, it could only fly for an hour at a speed that other birds could reach in a matter of minutes. That was why, despite its frightening size, it was actually at the bottom of the food chain in Gouve. It had no claws, no teeth, no magic, and it flew very slowly. A powerful bird of prey could easily slaughter its entire family. Therefore, it was best to cooperate with humans, which was why it was so easy to tame.
After negotiating the price, Baiyi hired a skyscraping ray and prepared to take the girls to the floating island near the sea. After paying, the owner whistled, and a skyscraping ray swaggered down from the cliff and floated in front of Baiyi like a sheet of paper.
"This is the strongest sky ray we have. I call her Hammerhead Shark." The shop owner patted the Skycruising Ray's smooth back, and a series of popping sounds could be heard. This creature's insides were basically hollow.
Tsk, this kind of creature whose combat power is not even comparable to a goose actually has such a mighty and domineering name. What a disgrace to the hammerhead shark race …
"Oh, it has the same name as Sharkie …" Mia walked up to the Skycruising Ray curiously and touched its skin. It was soft and cool to the touch. "It's smooth and comfortable," Mia said as she walked up to it.
"Miss really knows what's what! For Skycruising Rays, the better the skin, the healthier they are … "The owner looked at the cute Mia and started to explain to her.
The Skycruising Ray seemed to be quite intelligent. It knew that Mia was praising it, so it rubbed itself against Mia's body passionately. It did not use much strength, as if it was a little pet acting coquettishly.
"Sharkie is so cute!" Mia jumped on the Skycruising Ray's back excitedly.
When the other girls saw Mia's reaction, they too gathered around her curiously. Even Attie, who had the courage to take some dried grass from the waiter's hand, tried to feed the sky-cruising ray.
Baiyi, on the other hand, paid for the food when he saw the girls' happy smiles. The shop was at least ten percent more expensive than the other Skycruising Ray shops, but it was fine as long as the kids were happy. Money was meant to be burned, right?
When the whole family was seated on the Skycruising Ray, the giant creature spread its wings and swam out of the cave with its two tails swinging behind it. It slowly descended to the ground.
Although the process was slow, it was undoubtedly a novel experience for the children. They sat on the Skycruising Ray's broad back as they passed through the thick clouds that looked like cotton candy. An endless blue ocean appeared before them.
"It's so beautiful …" Mia exclaimed as she looked at the blue ocean beneath her.
"So this is the ocean …" Attie carefully laid on the Skycruising Ray's back as she looked at the ocean that covered the entire world. She could not help but say, "I used to think that the grassland was the widest place in the world, but now I know …"
Not only was the ocean beautiful, but they also passed by many floating islands of different sizes. Due to various reasons, these floating islands had different natural sceneries. Some of them had mountains and forests, some had lakes and rivers, some had lush green grasslands, and some even had a sea of flowers.
Every floating island was like a small independent world, and when these unique little worlds were combined together, they formed the magical and beautiful realm that was Gouve.
"It's so nice to see this place," Laeticia exclaimed. "It's so beautiful here. I don't even want to go back."
'It's only beautiful on the outside,' Baiyi thought to himself. Although he had always emphasized that this place was suitable for tourism, the truth was that he had not seen any tourists on his way back from the Mage Tower.
This beautiful world was, in fact, more dangerous than most people could imagine.
For example, the Skycruising Ray that had been flying steadily in the sky suddenly began to tremble, like a human trembling in fear or cold.
"Eh? What's wrong, Sharkie? " Mia's sharp senses told her that the Skycruising Ray was uneasy, so she quickly squatted down and stroked its smooth back. She did not notice that a black dot in the sky was rapidly approaching them.
Although the black dot was so far away that no one could see what it was, the fact that it could strike fear into the Skycruising Ray's heart even from such a distance meant that it must be the thing that these creatures feared the most.
"A dragon …" Baiyi stared at the black dot and said calmly.
However, he felt a little strange. The airspace he was currently in should be very safe in theory. This was an area with a large population, and it was also under the jurisdiction of the Dragon Knights. According to common sense, other birds of prey would be afraid of dragons and would not dare to come close. There should not be any wild dragons being let in here, right?
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