Syllable! Syllable! Syllable!

Crisp applause rang out in the darkness, accompanied by a burst of magical flames that lit up one after another, levitating over the enclosed dockyard and casting a soft light on the ships that lay in the center of the hall. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"This is the first airship designed and built by our airship company - the Dawning!" Jennifer introduced Roland and Helena with a proud face.

Roland took two steps forward and looked at the streamlined silver airship closely, and couldn't help but be moved.

The most intuitive difference is that the airship in front of me does not have an "airbag" at all, it looks like a submarine, the silver-gray metal hull seals it from head to tail, and the facilities in the cabin can only be vaguely glimpsed through the portholes of the two rows of force fields.

"Jennifer, it's not like an airship...... It's a diving boat at all! Roland couldn't help but shake his head and complain.

"Hehe, Mr. Roland's words are really strange, from the Marquis of Hailan to the Marquis of Feizhen, even the Imperial Air Force is counted, as far as I know, most of the airships that have been put into production are of this shape, why do you think it doesn't look like an airship?" Jennifer crossed her arms and asked Roland, "Or what do you think a real airship should look like?" ”

"I'm talking about the kind of airship with huge inflatable bags and hanging pods underneath, haven't you seen it?"

"Airbags? Why use such a fragile and outdated device? Jennifer was dazed.

"The kind of device Mr. Roland is talking about sounds a bit like a hot air balloon." Helena interjected, "I've seen hot air balloons, and they have them in engineering colleges, where heated air floats, and people can observe the air pressure above the sea in a gondola to predict future weather changes." ”

"That's right! I'm talking about that kind of device, and I thought the airship was an oversized hot air balloon, and it seems that I got it wrong......" Roland laughed self-deprecatingly.

"What a strange idea! A hot air balloon is so primitive that it is used to observe the weather, but it is so large and heavy to make an airship? Compare our 'Aurora', with a deadweight of 50 tons, a crew of 10 people, and 50 passengers, not including passengers' carry-on luggage. What's more, the airbag is very fragile, in case of a raptor attack in the air and leaks, the airship will not be shattered! ”

Jennifer's merciless criticism made Roland deeply ashamed, so he had to raise his hand in surrender: "It's that I thought too simply, and made the mistake of a layman's self-righteousness." ”

In fact, he also knew that his real mistake was preconceived, and he used the airship structure on the earth to rigidly apply the airship of the Vares world, but ignored the essential difference between the two worlds: there is no magic and supernatural power on the earth, and technology is the basis of all inventions and creations; Varess is a fantasy world where magic and supernatural powers are common, and from the common idea of "ships flying in the air", technology and magic go in different ways, and the final solutions are very different.

Observing carefully around the airship, Roland used the perspective ability of the "Pupil of Destiny" to discover that the steel shell of the magic airship was also wrapped in a layer of complex alloy plates, which were engraved with dense arcane runes, forming a spell network that wrapped the entire hull, radiating strong magic fluctuations through the steel shell.

"Jennifer, how did you get such a big ironclad ship to float into the air?" Helena asks a question that Roland is also curious about.

"The principle is actually very simple, more than 500 'levitation techniques' are blessed on the shell of the airship, and the simultaneous activation of these levitation techniques is enough to lift the heavy airship into the air."

After listening to Jennifer's explanation, Helena nodded thoughtfully and stopped asking.

Roland frowned, not satisfied with Jennifer's answer, which seemed reasonable at first glance.

First of all, it must be admitted that Jennifer's description of the airship float principle is fine. The results of Roland's investigation with the "Pupil of Fate" also showed that the inner shell of the airship was indeed engraved with hundreds of "levitation techniques".

Levitation is a 2-ring change spell that controls a creature or object to float up and down, and is attached to an airship in the same way as an airbag - counteracting gravitational traction and providing a float power.

The level of the levitation technique is not high, and a level 3 mage can easily cast it. However, considering that a 50-ton airship requires more than 500 levitation techniques, the cost of piling up sand into a tower is not a small number, and the cost of spellcasting services alone is no less than 30,000 gold coins, and it is even more difficult to obtain hundreds of 2-ring spell slots. There are three main ways to do this: recruit as many casters as possible to cast spells cooperatively, or acquire a large number of levitation scrolls; If you don't have enough assistants and don't have enough money to buy scrolls, you can only extend the process of building airships, blessing a dozen levitation techniques every day, and spend a month or two gradually enchanting them.

Fortunately, Baiou Port is a commercial trading port, and not only the scale of money and bills circulation is huge in this hot land, but the business of spell banks is also very developed. A Chief Engineer and four mage assistants can work hard for a month to enchant an airship on their own spell slots alone. If you get the Spell Bank financing and borrow 500 2-ring spell slots, you can complete such a large-scale project as enchanting an airship in a maximum of three days on the premise of ensuring your energy and focus.

This is the great power of the Arcane financial industry, and in fact, the main business of new financial institutions such as Spell Bank is to lend money in "spell-intensive industries" such as airship manufacturing. The Yangbo family did not carry out spell banking of their own, but as a prince of the financial industry, the Yangbo family could provide credit guarantees for the airship company and obtain ample loans from Beacon Mountain, the Twilight Fund, or other spell banks.

But that's not enough to build a magical airship with practical value.

The problem is that the "levitation technique" has a flaw that is difficult to overcome - the duration of this spell is very short, usually measured in minutes, and the levitation technique released by a level 20 archmage can only last for 20 minutes, but the airship cannot be satisfied with just staying in the air for a moment and then falling headlong.

Such an airship is obviously not of much use, at best it is an expensive toy.

In order to ensure that the airship could cross mountains and seas, it was necessary to find ways to improve the "levitation technique" and extend the duration of the spell, which was the core technology of the airship design. (To be continued.) )