The Golden Throne

All the students heard that Liu Feng had a personal coach and displayed signs of jealousy. They were all trying to get a ticket, while Liu Feng was cruising through the lines.

Liu Feng and Amelia got to the platform, where stood a gigantic train. This was the final train that Liu Feng had worked on before leaving. It was huge, and looked like a monster. Well, of course it did. Liu Feng knew that this was the train that would represent the entire city of Dilheim, so he could not skimp on even the lightest detail of this one train. He had the interiors built like a suite, and the exterior look like the biggest and baddest thing that anyone had ever seen. Amelia looked at the train with her mouth wide open.

"Close your mouth. It is not good for a princess to look like that.", Liu Feng reminded her.

Amelia quickly closed her mouth. "Well, I am certainly impressed by this, but what other cards could you possibly have?", she said. She was clearly grasping at straws. As the princess of Elvan, the country that usually comes up with the magical devices of the world, she could say that she saw almost everything in the world that was special, and almost nothing could actually surprise her, and impress her. Of course, that was till now. The train that Amelia saw just opened her mind to endless possibilities.

Liu Feng snapped his fingers in front of her eyes.

"What are you doing? Stop day dreaming. We have to go know."

"Nothing, I was just thinking about something."

Liu Feng laughed and they went into their coach. The coach just shined inside. Everything was brand spanking new, and everything felt like it was for living, and not for travel. There was a sofa, three beds, cupboards, a kitchen, and so many more intricate details that could never be found on any transportation vehicle. The coach was first class, and it was basically a house on wheels.

"How did you get the water running? You can\'t have a water tank moving above the train  right?"

"Well, that is a secret. I can\'t just reveal all of my trade secrets, can I? Let us go to the dining cart. I am starving, and didn\'t want to eat the cafeteria food on the last day."

"Well, you thought that packaged pickled was the better choice?"

"Packaged pickles? We take pride in serving only fresh food here Amelia dear. Please do come, it is just an hour\'s journey, so let us make the most of it. Let us find a good window\'s seat in the dining cart before it is gone. There are a lot of passengers on this train, and maybe on or two are clever enough to realize which is a good seat and which is not."

They went to the dining cart, which was sparsely populated, as Liu Feng predicted. Liu Feng selected a table with a window on the right. It was a table for two. A waiter came up to them, and gave them a piece of paper.

"What\'s this? It has numbers and , oh wait this is the price? So the dishes and their prices are listed here? Such an ingenious idea! Well, all of these have meat in here, so I will pass. Elves are the closest to nature, and we will never tarnish our body with meat like you humans. I will have some vegetable soup.", Amelia gasped in excitement.

Liu Feng laughed and said, "Cancel that order please. We\'ll have two salads with ranch as the dressing please."

The waiter nodded and left. "Vegetable soup? There are much better ways to eat vegetarian. You have much to learn.", Liu Feng said to Amelia.

The waiter arrived a few minutes later with two bowls of salad.

The salad was pretty basic. There was just lettuce, some onions, croutons, and the most important of them all, ranch dressing. The cuisine of Dicain was completely based on meat, and it was quite boring and irritating to Liu Feng, who enjoyed eating vegetarian every now and then. So, to fulfil that wish, he gave a plan to Sir Nicholas, who made sure that everything went exactly according to that plan.

Amelia was skeptical, but Liu Feng reassured her, "Don\'t worry, I am not a big fan of meat either. It is only lettuce and a few other vegetables. You don\'t need to worry."

Amelia took a bite, and her eyes sparkled. "What is this? It tastes so good!"

"It is called salad dressing. Elvan is always welcome to buy it in bulk from Dilheim. It is not available anywhere else."

"Hmph. Even now, on vacation, you are trying to exhort us. You have already shown us your true face, Liu Feng.", she said as she continued eating.

"Extortion? Since when was trying for a business deal called extortion? I was just trying to improve my own city. Don\'t you have those feelings for your own country?", Liu Feng countered.

Amelia devoured the salad in minutes, before regaining her posture. "That was good. I didn\'t expect you to have more surprises Liu Feng. I am looking forward to the city then."

Liu Feng smiled and nodded. It was now that the train started moving. At first, the dark silhouettes that were seen by them, which were the buildings of the campus, were moving by slowly. They left the academy in a few minutes. Amelia looked disappointed.

"Of course. You had to sacrifice speed to make this all happen.", she said.

"Sacrifice speed? Watch to your right, and keep watching for about five minutes. What speed sacrifice? This is the fastest transport that you can find in all of Dicain, by my estimation.", he said, haughtily. Liu Feng had worked on this project tirelessly for a month. How could he allow someone to trash it?

Indeed, after a few minutes, the train\'s speed increased considerably. The shapes in the windows changed constantly, and Amelia was shocked.

"How are we moving so quickly? There are so many people on such a huge train. What beast can possibly move a carriage this big this quickly?"

"That\'s where you are wrong. A beast is not moving the train. This thing that is moving the train is this.", Liu Feng said tossing up a magic stone.

"The secret is the magic circle. Why bother about this? Look at the view.", he suggested