Path of light

Chapter 507 508. Set sail 2

When the magic airship entered the Partington plane through the portal, the huge hull floated in the air and slowly passed through the mirror-like door. The strong sense of oppression made the mixed elves around the central square hold their breath at the same time, and everyone stared intently. Looking at the huge thing in front of him, it seemed to appear out of thin air.

The next moment, tsunami-like cheers came from around the central square.

Then the magic airship emerged completely from the portal and hung in the air thirty meters above the ground in the central square.

The entire airship even smelled of a strong sea smell, and there were clear traces of corrosion left by seawater on the outside of the hull.

Roy stood on the bronze argali horn on the bow of the ship. A group of portal guards saluted after seeing Roy. Some of the mixed-blood elves around the central square seemed to recognize Roy standing on the bow of the ship.

I don’t know who yelled ‘Boss Roy’ first, and then the voice kept getting louder.

When all the mixed-blood elves around the square called out this name, the sound surprised the old dwarf Mags standing on the driving console.

He did not expect that such a young half-elf could have such a high voice in the main elf city of a plane.

The four dwarf apprentices are currently leading the mixed elf warriors to control the angle of the sails to keep the magic airship suspended in place.

The magic airship rose from the central square to a height of two hundred meters and stopped.

In the Partington plane, there is only a vast forest around Padstow. The sea of ​​trees formed by this forest seems to have no edge at a glance.

Padstow City is the center of the entire forest. The big trees here are densely lined with tree houses. The woods on the entire hillside are like this, and they look very large.

Unexpectedly, as soon as I emerged from the portal, I entered an elf city, and it was also a gathering place for mixed-blood elves.

The old dwarf Mags, who was standing in front of the control panel, even had some imagination at this time. If he could open a hotel in this city full of tree houses, it would be best if there was a small wine shop below the hotel. , that would be wonderful.

As I get older, sleeping in a tree hole should be more comfortable than sleeping in a cellar...

…

The magic airship stayed over the central square for two quarters of an hour before flying towards the airport terminal being built outside Padstow City.

This magic airship will not stop at Padstow. This time it flies to the unfinished airport terminal. It also needs to use the real data of the hull to come to the airport for comparison, lest the built airport cannot accommodate this magic airship.

Padstow City's airport terminal is located on the edge of the city.

The airport terminal was transformed from a giant oak tree, but it is not yet completed. The platform and internal stairs for docking the magic airship are still being renovated.

With the assistance of the propulsion device, the magic airship took more than an hour to cross half of Padstow City.

This giant oak tree, which is more than 100 meters high, is absolutely outstanding in this forest. The entire crown of the tree is almost completely separated from the sea of ​​trees, like a huge green umbrella sticking out of a piece of green grass.

When the magic airship approached, a group of mixed-blood elf craftsmen were repairing a horizontal branch.

They hoisted the pruned branches to the ground with ropes, covered this horizontal branch, which can almost be called a bridge, with a thick oak board, and added fence handrails on both sides of the oak board.

This oak board passage is paved to the end of the horizontal branches, and there is a very neat cut section at the end of the horizontal branches.

This is the docking point for the magic airship...

"Ah, is this the airport terminal that is about to be completed?" The mixed-blood elf warrior on the ship looked at the giant tree in front of him and commented in surprise.

In fact, Roy was a little surprised because it was his first time here.

Previously, he only heard from Captain Berkeley that he helped Roy choose a giant tree on the outskirts of the city that could be transformed into a tower.

But Roy never thought that this giant oak tree would be so tall...

"This tree is really big. The place where we stopped is just one of its horizontal branches."

"The only inconvenient thing is that this is a suburb of Padstow."

Although the parking spots on the terminal platform have been built, no shock absorption and anti-collision have been installed yet.

The magic airship didn't dare to approach it at all.

Because even with the slowest translation, the force of the magic airship's collision is still very terrifying at the moment it touches the terminal.

The old dwarf Mags talked eloquently to the mixed elves around him. These mixed elves will soon be responsible for driving this magic airship, so the old dwarf Mags is currently undergoing assault training:

"An excellent captain needs to be able to clearly judge whether the magic airship transformed from a three-masted sailboat will cause damage to the magic airship when it slowly approaches. If the preparations for berthing are not done well, the side of the ship will be damaged. Once the side is close to each other, minor cracks may occur, or in more serious cases, the entire hull may be smashed.”

"If it is a larger aerial giant ship, you need to be more careful. Generally, it is enough to hover at close range. Since the giant ship has better stability in the air, you can set up a sampan on the ship and connect it to the tower. "

A mixed-blood elf student asked: "Teacher Mags, do we want to stop?"

The old dwarf Mags waved his hand and said, "Forget it this time. The purpose of our coming here was to see if the reserved space in the tower was enough to park this magic airship. Now it seems that I was completely overthinking. This natural airport does not need to consider the parking space problem of magic airships."

"If there is no problem here, we will go to an apple orchard in the suburbs here." The half-blood elf student pointed to a location outside the city of Padstow with the map display stand in his hand and whispered.

"Our magic airship has only two propulsion devices. Now it is in the trial stage. There is nothing to say about flying like this. Normally, try not to use the propulsion device as the main power to fly. Our flight route is between the two airport terminals. After leaving the tower, try to rise directly to the height of the wind flow layer, then fill the sails, sail in the wind flow layer with the help of wind power, and land at the airport terminal until you reach the destination. Try not to make such short-distance flights at ordinary times, which will consume a lot of magic crystals." The old dwarf Mags explained patiently.

The half-blood elf student couldn't help asking, "Teacher Maggs, can this magic airship fly into the high-altitude wind layer?"

"No problem at all."

The old dwarf Maggs patted his chest and assured.

Then Maggs began to introduce to several half-blood elf students how to make the magic airship quickly rise into the wind layer, how to deal with various emergencies during the rise, etc.

This group of half-blood elf students have not yet experienced sailing in the wind layer. Although the old dwarf Maggs has been explaining how to enter the wind layer and how to leave the wind layer, for them, this kind of paper talk has no memorable points at all.

However, these half-blood elf students are serious and studious, and they will take notes meticulously.

...

After the magic airship slowly flew to the apple orchard on the outskirts of the city, it hovered over the woodland.

Roy and the old dwarf Maggs used the hanging basket to get off the magic airship. A carriage was waiting in the orchard. The half-blood elf coachman saw Roy and the old dwarf Maggs coming over, and quickly jumped off the carriage and opened the door of the carriage.

Roy took the old dwarf Mags into the carriage and let the carriage take them out of the apple orchard...

The carriage was running in the forest road, and the trees outside the window kept sliding back.

"Can your four students control this magic airship?"

Sitting in the carriage, Roy couldn't help asking the old dwarf Mags.

"Yes, each of them has independent sailing experience."

"However. Controlling a magic airship to sail at high altitude is not something that only an excellent captain can do. It also requires a group of crew members with rich sailing experience. Once entering the wind flow layer, adjusting the angle of the sail is not a simple matter."

The old dwarf Mags muttered as he sat opposite Roy.

"I hope that through this voyage, these elf students can grow up quickly."

This time, the old dwarf Mags got off the magic airship in the apple orchard in order to rush back to Partington Island to preside over the magic airship transformation project there.

Accompanied by Roy, the old dwarf Mags successfully returned to Partington Island through the portal.

…

Mags left the four dwarf apprentices on the magic airship. The next leg of the voyage was for these four dwarves to explain how to fly at high altitudes…

Roy returned to the apple orchard on the outskirts of Padstow alone.

Rambo was already in charge of the loading of supplies in the apple orchard. The piles of wooden boxes were filled with elf biscuits and dried fish, as well as a large number of apples and breadfruits waiting to be loaded on board.

Dozens of half-blood elf warriors stood on both sides of the ship, lowering ropes one by one, using the cranes they wore to hoist the supplies up and move them into the cabin.

Rambo looked at the huge monster floating in the air and said to Roy excitedly:

“Is this the magic airship you modified on Partington Island?”

“Well, when the route between Padstow and Plateau City is opened in the future, most of the supplies can be transported by magic airships.” Roy replied.

"Is this the power of goblin technology?" Rambo rubbed his sore neck, still unwilling to look up...

"Now it can also be called dwarven technology. The most important floating device and propulsion device on this magic airship are from the dwarven country!"

"With this big guy, it will be much more convenient to transport supplies in the future." Rambo sighed.

Roy on the side shook his head and whispered: "Transporting supplies is only one of its abilities. This time I also ordered 40 ship-mounted magic cannons from the Imperial Merchant Group. Once installed on the magic airship, it will become a war fortress. At that time, if the group of fishmen want to leave the Sun Island Bay, it depends on whether I am willing."

Rambo stared at Roy with wide eyes, thinking about such a behemoth floating in the air and constantly bombarding an island. Just thinking about it makes him feel a little chilling.

"Please prepare some more elf biscuits and other food in the warehouse. The demand for food in Plateau City is increasing. Before Sun Island Bay is recaptured, this demand will continue to increase. Therefore, the materials transported from Padstow City to Padstow Plateau should still be mainly food and daily necessities." Roy told Rambo. As the person in charge of the Padstow City Material Transfer Station, Rambo needs to be responsible for some material procurement work. "Don't worry, leave the things here to me." Rambo put on an attitude that you can rest assured that I am here. ...

Since the floating device on the magic airship was always in operation, the magic airship would burn more magic crystals for every day it stayed, so Roy did not stay in the apple orchard outside the city of Padstow for a long time.

When the magic airship was fully loaded with supplies and the twelve floating devices were all in operation, the magic airship could be held steadily...

Roy gave the order to the four dwarf apprentices on the ship to set sail.

The floating device on the magic airship was fully opened, and the magic light almost overflowed outside the magic pattern array. At this time, the magic airship began to slowly rise into the air.

In the captain's room of the ship, Roy smiled and asked the dwarf apprentice who was holding the steering wheel steadily:

"In the dwarf country, are there magic airships between almost every city?"

Roy's words immediately attracted the attention of the mixed-blood elf students around him, and everyone's eyes fell on the dwarf apprentice.

The dwarf apprentice smiled innocently. He was probably very young. Only the beard above his lips was braided, and his chin was still bald, which looked funny.

However, this dwarf apprentice had a gentle personality and liked to talk.

"In fact, this kind of magic airship is rare in our area..."

Roy was slightly startled by the dwarf apprentice's answer. After all, it was a production base for floating devices. How could there be no magic airships there?

"Why?" Roy couldn't help asking.

The dwarf apprentice talked freely:

"The main reason is that our cities don't need it very much. Our cities are on the mineral veins, and they are almost all semi-underground cities. There are mineral veins connecting these cities, and many of the mineral veins have been dug through by us. In fact, underground rail trains are more convenient than this kind of magic airship, but the construction cost is very high, and underground operations have a little threshold for construction teams. It seems that only the dwarf country has underground rail trains."

"As for magic airships, you will know how much magic crystals this kind of transportation consumes in the future, and the biggest problem restricting magic airships is air supremacy!"

"Thunderbirds often appear in our place. As long as they are targeted by that kind of fourth-level magic beast, as long as it releases a lightning in the air, it can shoot down a magic airship... So we don't have an airport terminal, and there are no magic airships."

"The place where magic airships are really popular is the Green Empire. There are airport terminals in every city there, and their routes almost weave a network across the entire empire..."

Roy listened carefully.

The dwarf apprentice told a world that was completely different from the Elf Continent, which made Roy very interested...