It has been said that the morning breeze of Fenris is sweet.

Because the air is filled with the smell of nectar, this raceme-shaped annual herb is an important source of sugar in the cloud sea region.

But in fact, the honey flowers are only cultivated in the plains, and the golden sea of flowers undulates along the coast of the Cape Karl-Hain bay, and there is no end in sight.

But in the mountains.

The morning breeze has a faint coldness, mixed with a hint of the meaning of Jin Ge Iron Horse—if there is no bloody gas, the wind brings the smell of unextinguished embers.

Sky Blue sat on the platform with a bloody face.

Kita lay next to the huge crossbow machine, also panting with exhaustion.

"I'm so tired, I'm almost done." The former sighed weakly.

The lionman stood leaning against his sword, his fiery red mane spreading in the wind. He picked up his pipe and lit a match, and the flame flickered and darkened.

"You know what, Ed, there's a story in the wind."

"Really? And what does it say, Mr. Red? Fang Yu turned around and asked.

The Lionman Paladin picked up his pipe, put his mouth in his big mouth, and closed his gray eyes comfortably.

After a few sparks erupted from the pipe, he smiled indifferently: "Darkness lurks in the forest, battle and exploration, sword and sword, life and death, young man." ”

Fang Yu couldn't help but sigh when he heard this.

He stretched, yawned as he looked at the faded night, "Far from a life-or-death fight, Mr. Red, it's much less of a problem than we had in Doriffin. ”

"If they had come an hour earlier, it wouldn't have been."

Fang Yu was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and nodded solemnly, this is true, if the night lizards retreat a little later, they may really not be able to hold the defensive line. But this is also something that cannot be helped, and it is outrageous to be attacked twice in one night anyway.

"Maybe we're aiming too big."

"You're not going to sell Mr. Graystone, are you, Brother Ed?" Azure asked nervously.

"Not really." Fang Plover shook his head, the role of pack beasts in the wild was obvious. A normal adventuring party may be fine, but for an alchemist, it's just a matter of taking an accompanying alchemy lab with them.

Alchemist is a profession that is made out of money, tools can increase alchemy's skill bonuses, and laboratories can increase alchemy's environmental bonuses - and the more high-end the magic guide and construct crafting, the more high-end crafting conditions are required.

Tools, devices, environments, and the alchemist's own skill and knowledge are all indispensable.

When it comes to those late, large-scale productions, alchemists even need excellent assistants. None of the top-notch constructs and wizards can be done by an alchemist alone, unless he has an infinite amount of time to squander.

Of course, in the early stage, a Gray Ridge Negative Hill Beast is enough for him, but in the later stage, if you want to get a suitable production environment during your travels, you still need an airship.

And it has to be a big ship—

"But the beast of burden is too much of an attention, and if we can't solve this problem, we have to find a way to strengthen the platform's protection so that we don't have to scramble against more enemies."

"Do you have any ideas, Brother Ed?" Azure asked.

Fang Yu shook his head.

Not far away, Luo Yu was folding his hands on his hips, looking helplessly at the charred right rear carriage, and in the battle last night, the night lizard wizard hit this place with a fireball spell. Fortunately, there was no one in the carriage at that time, and only some supplies were lost.

"How much was lost?" Attila asked him.

"Two beds burned to ashes, as well as a few rolls of blankets and some personal belongings, which Parker said he had lost from his newly bought daggers, and supplies that had been temporarily piled up here — mostly food."

"He's lost his dagger again?"

Luo Yu shrugged.

Fang Yu came over just in time to hear this, and couldn't help but touch his nose.

Luo Yu continued: "The bed is easy to solve, I'll make two more, and we still have a lot of materials." Blankets are also spare, mainly because the loss of food is difficult to compensate. ”

"Is there enough food left over for us to walk to Yunligang?" Miss Elf asked again.

Luo Yu nodded: "Enough is enough, but it won't be easy to say if you come like this again, Miss Atira." ”

Fang Yu also frowned at the charred carriage - its entire exterior wall and upper part were almost completely gone, leaving a large hole in the air, and the rest of it was also charred black.

Aitalia's elemental spells are divided into eleven rings like magic spells, each third ring is a level, and the fireball spell is exactly the fourth ring spell, in terms of the lethality of medium-level spells, ordinary planks are impossible to defend against, and the only way is to add a layer of armor to the outside of the platform.

But the problem is Mr. Limestone's load, the platform has been transformed to the current extent, and the load that can be used is basically all used, if you want to further strengthen the structure, I am afraid that the only way to reduce the materials that the platform can carry.

But this is contrary to the original needs of the team.

"Luo Yu, how much weight does Mr. Limestone still have?" He turned back to the other and asked.

"Less than 500." Luo Yu replied with the data in the Summoner system.

Fang Yu frowned.

500 is the quantified data in the system, in fact, it is not only the load, but also the space conversion ratio. To put it simply, this little load is not enough to complete the transformation of a carriage, and even the key protection is not enough.

What's more, the platform can't operate at full capacity, so you have to reserve extra load for unexpected situations, for example, if Mr. Limestone has a foot injury, you can't break down at a critical time, right?

The number less than 500 is actually a bit too tight for the reserved load, which is less than the weight of two people when converted into a unit of measurement on the earth.

"You want to revamp the platform?" Luo Yu heard the meaning of his words and asked with some surprise.

Fang Yu nodded: "But it's difficult. As far as our level is concerned, Luo Yu, your design is already perfect, and there is nothing to find fault with in the structure, and the only way is to reduce the weight in the material. ”

"Weight loss from materials?"

"For example, with Magic Blackwood, the overall weight of the platform can be reduced by at least thirty percent, and the defense can be further improved. And from this alone, we can save 2, 3000 loads. ”

"Magic Blackwood?" Luo Yu looked at him unexpectedly: "But that thing is very expensive, do we have so much money?" ”

"The team's funds are barely enough right now," Attila silently calculated, but she also looked at Fang Yuan, "It's just Ed, is it necessary?" Don't you think the platform doesn't use that kind of material? ”

"It doesn't have to be magic blackwood, there are a lot of special materials, not to mention that we can also add a more powerful Guy floating engine." Fang Yu replied.

"Then you need a magic furnace with more power, it's not cheap, not to mention that I have calculated, and now this magic furnace is already the limit of this platform. If we increase the power even further, we won't be able to withstand that much magic erosion. Luo Yu replied with a frown.

Of course, Fang Yu understood that in this world, mortals were actually very fragile and could not withstand the erosion of attribute ether.

In fact, it is precisely because of this fragility that people have developed magic technology, and through the transformation of the main core crystals of different attributes, humans, elves, dwarves and the wilderness people of Rotao finally grasped the mystery of the magic power of the ether.

However, the transformation of the main crystal is not perfect after all, and it is no secret that the aether erosion has a spillover problem, so it requires its user to have the corresponding mana adaptation.

As the level of the character increases, the adaptability of mana increases, and the physique increases, so people can use higher-level magic furnaces and main core crystals.

But that's just the case of a personal magic furnace—

Around the large magic furnace, the mana forms a circulation, and the aether erosion is even more severe, and at a high enough power, sometimes the mere overflow of mana is enough to tear a person apart.

In fact, on those large airfoils, the ship's magic furnace is usually placed in a dedicated cabin, most of which is located in the middle and lower compartments of the ship.

The exterior of this chamber has two or three isolation layers, which are specially guarded by the head mage of the shift, and are under strict protection at all times. But even so, there are still accidents in which airships are killed or injured due to the spillage of magic from the engine room.

Therefore, the simple, unprotected platform behind Mr. Gray Rock is not something that can be added casually if you want to add a magic engine.

Fang Yu also sighed when he heard this.

Indeed, it is not so easy to transform such a platform, at least a random technical question is a bit beyond his ability.

In fact, the problem of magic power spillover from the magic engine is not unsolvable, for example, the installation efficiency of the precision magic furnace, although the former at the cost of loss of efficiency, but much safer than ordinary magic furnace.

The other is a magic drainage device, which collects the overflowing magic and can also be used to store energy for the magic channel.

In the end, the stupidest way is to build an isolation compartment like the flying wing ship, but these methods are a little unrealistic for him now.

The precision engine is the unique technology of the Ottorian Empire, although the technical means are circulated outside, but even if Fang Yu is lucky enough to get the drawings, with his attributes and knowledge reserves, he will not be able to meet the learning conditions.

The magic drainage device is even more high-end, not to mention the huge size, even at the point of master craftsman in Aitalia, not everyone has the ability to build this thing - it requires strong financial and technical support behind it, and it needs a strong team to cooperate, and there are very few forces in this world that can install this thing on the main battleship.

What's more, if he has the ability to make a magic drainage device, it would be more cost-effective to build a floating ship directly, and he would waste time transforming such a platform?

The last solution was the easiest, there was no technical difficulty in isolating the chamber, and it required nothing more than special materials such as lead and mythril, but it was inefficient and too bloated.

You can't build a castle on Mr. Limestone's back, can you?

However, this difficulty did not make Fang Yu bow his head, but made him have a new idea.

He had promised Sylved to help her fulfill her father's last wish, and he knew in his heart that sooner or later he would enter this field.

Yes, in fact, the technology related to the need for platform modification is extremely related to the airship construction technology of Aitalia, and it can even be said to be the entry field of Aitalia's shipbuilding industry.

In fact, you only have to look at the technical requirements for it - a large magic engine, a Guy generator, a lift module, a precision magic furnace, and a magic drainage.

In other words, most of the large-scale magic devices in Aitalia's contemporary era are actually mostly used by ships, and the beast platform can actually be regarded as a small ship platform.

Like the Gray Ridge Negative Hill Beast, the size and load of the platform on its body are actually roughly the same as some small boats, and after realizing this, Fang Yu suddenly found that he could use this method to practice his hands.

Starting with the design and renovation of the pack beast platform, we gradually entered the field of designing and building floats.

He didn't know if he was thinking correctly, but he faintly saw a new path in his heart. The path may not be so certain, but he believes he won't get nothing along the way.

Since you can't avoid this sooner or later, why not make some preparations as soon as possible?

Thinking of this, Fang Yu was not so anxious.

Although his mind was still spinning the contradiction between the carrying capacity of the lifting platform and the limitation of the magic furnace, he couldn't come up with any ideas for a while.

But since this is a long-term plan, he can achieve it step by step. He even thought that he might be able to ask Sylvede, after all, the other party is also a female stepfather, the background of a shipbuilding family, familiar with it, what useful advice should he have?

Only then did he turn back to Luo Yu and said, "Anyway, let's make up this hole first, I'll think of another way, maybe it's not necessary to be in place all at once, but it can more or less always improve Mr. Limestone's protective ability." ”

Luo Yu paused for a moment, and glanced at Fang Yu with some surprise. In fact, it is this that he envies the other party the most, as if no matter what the situation, the other party always seems to be able to find a way.

This was true at Traveler's Rest, at Elpahim and Dorifin, and even when he learned to manipulate the Clockwork Elf from each other. In fact, if it weren't for the strange training methods that Fang Yu found for him, he really wouldn't have been able to learn to control the clockwork fairy in such a short period of time.

Although his progress was still far from that of the top combat craftsmen in the guild, at least it was faster than when he was working alone behind closed doors.

He was a trainee in Tapolis, and he was interested in combat craftsmen, so he naturally knew a lot about the materials in the community, and even mastered some of the Order's unique training methods.

But he really didn't know where Fang Yuan's strange training methods came from.

In his spare time, he naturally found an opportunity to ask the other party this question. But Fang Yu just told him that he had come up with it himself—because if a method had little effect, then there must be another way, but people had not yet found it.

"It's not difficult to control a clockwork goblin, most people should be able to do it, I think Luo Yu you should be able to do it too, if there is a problem between them, then there must be details that we haven't discovered. As long as you consider the problem from this direction, you can always find some ideas, and the rest is a matter of trial and error. ”

"Of course, if you need to involve dual control or even multiple control, it does require some talent. After all, not everyone is suitable to become a combat craftsman, in fact, I still think that Luo Yu, your talent in elemental envoys is higher. ”

These are Fang Yuan's exact words.

At the time, he was jokingly called by Sky Blue to use him as a guinea pig, but Luo Yu didn't think there was anything wrong with that, at least now he did learn to manipulate the clockwork fairy.

From the bottom of his heart, he was actually extremely grateful to the other party, and of course he knew that he was not the material of the combat craftsman. But it is precisely because of this that he wants to realize this wish of his own at this stage of trainees.

Maybe he'll become an elemental envoy in the future, but at least for now, he'll find satisfaction in his favorite field.

Therefore, after listening to Fang Yu's words, Luo Yu nodded lightly, and there was no doubt in his heart whether the other party could really do it.

However, Fang Yu was concentrating on the transformation of this platform, so he naturally didn't notice the rich inner activities of this guy who was a little wooden on weekdays.

The team needed to stop and recuperate for a while due to the need to stop and repair the platform, so he simply went to the forest to find Sylved and Shesta, who were cleaning up the battlefield, but before he could ask any questions, he received some unexpected news from them.

"Shesta saw someone coming from the direction of the Emerald Pass."

In the team, the noble lady has the most say in the valuation of the loot. Therefore, after gaining the approval of Miss Elf, she simply handed over the work of cleaning the battlefield to the other party.

She did not disappoint everyone, at least Fang Yu looked at the few magic guides left by the night lizard people in the hands of the maid lady, and they were fine, but they were a little damaged, but they could be sold for a good price if they were repaired.

It's just Sylvid's words, but they have nothing to do with these loot at this time.

Fang Yu pouted slightly, this place is not close to the Jade Pass, how did the maid see that someone came from the Jade Pass?

As if sensing what he was thinking, Sylvid explained, "Shesta saw a dinghy. ”

"A dinghy?"

Fang Yu was taken aback, the dinghy was so deep inland, it might not be the dinghy released from the airship. It is a reconnaissance airship brought by an adventure group, and the number of such an adventure group is generally not small.

This isn't necessarily good news when you don't know who you are, and the only thing that's reassuring is that at least it's not a night lizard.

"Maybe it's someone from the Rainhearer's Guild." He thought for a moment and suddenly realized: "I didn't expect them to be still behind us?" ”

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