"Did you guys feel that just now?", A female mage wearing a tight-fitting magic robe hugged her chest and said, "It seemed like Archmage just passed by me. I even smelled a really nice manly scent!"
"Really?"
"Wow! As expected of Lord Space Archmage. He doesn't want to show himself, so we can't even see his face."
"Lord Space Archmage is amazing," The tight-fitting female mage said with starry eyes, "I wish I could move around freely like Archmage someday."
"I really want to marry Lord Space Archmage."
"He doesn't marry men!"
"Hmph! Who can say for sure!"
The girls hurriedly gathered around.
Although the male mages had displeasure in their eyes, they didn't dare show it.
They all lowered their heads and respectfully moved aside, making way for the invisible spatial mage to pass.
Ethan quickly passed by them and then arrived at the station for Dark Armored Beetles and other spatial transportation creatures. The moment Ethan pushed open the station doors, he was completely stunned by what he saw.
He had thought…
All the stations would be like No. 1123, with only a small room and a single Dark Armored Beetle.
But this No. 0079 station was so ridiculously huge that it was even larger than an airfield. Anyway, Ethan could barely see the other end of the station from where he stood.
And inside the station, there weren't just dozens or even hundreds of Dark Armored Beetles. There were also some giant centipede-like creatures with long bodies, and each section of these giant crawlers had a seat on it.
[Spatial Longworm: It grows one new body segment every ten years. It is said that the longest Longworm has a total of five hundred seats. Longworms not only have a strong carrying capacity, but are also extremely fast, making them the best divine beasts for wartime transportation.]
The Longworm in front of Ethan had about twenty body segments. Since it could only grow one segment every ten years, that meant this Longworm had already lived for more than a hundred years.
However, Ethan saw that the words written on the Longworm's carriage were 'Main City.'
Sure enough… These large-scale transport creatures only went to major cities with large populations.
As for other passengers traveling alone or in pairs, whose numbers were relatively small, they could only take ordinary Dark Armored Beetles.
Ethan walked over to a Dark Armored Beetle, took out ten spirit stones, and used the Art of Language · Mind Communication to communicate with it.
"Can you take me back to Magic Tree Branch No. 0010?"
"Screech!"
The Dark Armored Beetle moved its two antennae, seemingly nodding.
Then the Dark Armored Beetle quickly stuck out its tongue and rolled up the spirit stones in Ethan's hand. It even licked Ethan once to show its affection.
However, having learned from Alfred's example, Ethan naturally wouldn't let the Dark Armored Beetle do whatever it wanted.
Almost the instant the Dark Armored Beetle's tongue touched him, he immediately activated his Lord Domain and teleported onto the seat on the Dark Armored Beetle's back. Only then did he let out a huge sigh of relief.
The Dark Armored Beetle, seemingly because it hadn't managed to lick Ethan, appeared to feel a little sad.
But Ethan didn't care whether a bug was sad or upset.
As the Dark Armored Beetle flapped its wings and prepared to return to Magic Tree Branch No. 0010… Ethan took the opportunity to observe how the other mages dealt with the Dark Armored Beetles' disgusting move. After all, he would have plenty of occasions to ride these Dark Armored Beetles in the future.
He didn't want to get licked one day when his Lord Domain was on cooldown.
Just thinking about it made him feel disgusted.
Very soon, he discovered that the other mages all had their own tricks.
Some used umbrellas to block the Dark Armored Beetles' tongues. Others directly activated protective barriers to block them. There were even some who were incredibly fast, teleporting away the instant the Dark Armored Beetle tried to lick them, then teleporting back to their original position.
Anyway, this seemed to have become each mage's own specialty.
But thinking about it, it made sense.
Other than bartenders who desperately wanted to earn tips, there probably wasn't a mage or warrior who would be willing to undergo this kind of saliva baptism, right?
Uh… However, just then, Ethan discovered an exception: the Pigmen warriors.
And the Pigmen warriors seemed to quite enjoy this kind of baptism. Not only did they let the Dark Armored Beetles cover them in saliva, they even hugged the Dark Armored Beetles and refused to let go, desperately getting close to them.
'Well, fine!'
'There are always some weirdos.'
Everyone was free to have their own preferences, but that didn't mean everyone could accept them.
Clap! Clap! Clap!
As the spatial fluctuations grew stronger and stronger, the spatial gate soon changed from a single point into a huge door.
Then the Dark Armored Beetle directly fell into the directional spatial gate, while Ethan also memorized the spatial gate's frequency and the number of taps at the instant the spatial gate opened.
At this moment, he finally understood where he had gone wrong.
When Ethan had previously tapped the air with his magic wand, he hadn't controlled the speed properly when going from slow to fast, which was why he had accidentally opened No. 0079 instead of No. 1123. But this time, he had remembered it clearly.
Next time he opened Gate No. 1123, he definitely wouldn't get it wrong again.
However, Ethan's most urgent task right now was… Go back and upgrade the town.