HACS 148

The portal from Zefflin to the capital, Lohengrin, is always open 24 hours a day.

Other portals are sometimes closed a few times a year, or don’t open at all outside of vacation seasons, but the capital Lohengrin is completely full-open status.

Magic dynamos and magic crystals—there’s a subtle difference, but both are expensive. The cost of keeping the portal running all year round by pouring in these two power sources is over a billion rin annually.

Is that paid by taxes? No. The Lohengrin squeezes it out of the empire’s nobles.

Isn’t that taxes, then?

Hmm. It’s taxes collected from the rich, so what of it.

Besides, the Empire also gives some face.

Naturally, it’s free of charge, and more importantly, high-ranking nobles can travel back and forth to Lohengrin during the semester if their personal request forms are approved.

This was enormously popular among the nobility.

Simply put,…