Transport Circle

As the Long Xiang Continent is so vast, it is impossible to employ the standard methods of travel such as winged bird. Thus, the use of the transport circle comes in handy.

Transport circles utilise spirit stones. The farther one wants to travel, the more energy is consumed. Since the spirit stones needed to cast the circle are not easily available it drives the costs up.

While transport circles for short-distance travel is plentiful, long distance travelling especially between the South to the North of the continent was rare and extremely costly. In the entirety of the South, Naye City is the only city that had a transport circle to the North.

In addition, transport circles charge fees for every use, based on the distance travelled. Some unscrupulous people use this to trick travellers into paying extra if the traveller did not pay attention or learn how the data of the circle was used.

For example, they wouldn’t tell that the transport circle could go straight to the desired destination, instead advising the unwary traveller to take the one that reaches another place, then from that place they’d have to transfer to another circle to transport to their end goal. This way they could charge a higher cost as the traveller was forced to go by a longer distance route.

Other times, they would watch out at the gate and observe who was a first timer to the city. They would introduce and guide the traveller to the transport circles for a certain fee.

Some of the transport circles do not open more than a hundred times in one year. Sometimes it was only opened one time per month.Transport circles bring in a lot of revenue for cities which have them.

Description
“The ground they were standing on was a huge square. The square was as big as a hundred basketball courts and in the central point there was a beautiful round stone platform. The stone platform was about ten meters wide and was engraved with complex ancient patterns. It was also surrounded with fist-sized spirit stones which contained an enormous amount of energy.”

“When the ancient pattern under their feet began to dance like musical notes, You XiaoMo could feel a different kind of energy rising. This majestic energy was coming from the circle under their feet. It started to flow out, quickly covering everyone.

Two days’ time was not long, but it was not short either. You XiaoMo’s five senses had fallen to a numb state, if one didn’t have a certain mental strength then they wouldn’t be able to handle it. That was also the reason why people didn’t want to use long distance transport circles.

Although this was the first time he was sitting in the transport circle, and for such a long time and that, You XiaoMo did not panic the slightest.

Two days later, that weightless feeling dispersed, and their feet finally landed on the hard ground. You[…]”