To put it bluntly, the Giant Demon Island is a toll station that "eats the sea by the sea", because of its geographical location is very important, guarding the "Bagel Strait", the main road from the North Bay to the meteorite ocean, and the merchant ships must pay 30% of the profits as tariffs, otherwise they will be plundered by it and lose all their money. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, once Baiou Port successfully completes the layout of the air route with the help of airships, and directly skims the strait from a high altitude, saving this toll fee, it is equivalent to an increase in profits by 30%, which chamber of commerce can resist such a temptation?

"Lord Kraken, we must not sit idly by and watch the airship company grow and grow, once this bad trend spreads, other city-states will also follow the example of Baiou Harbor to invest in the airship industry, and when the time comes, most of the maritime trade will be changed to air routes, which will greatly affect the income of our Giant Demon Island!" Maximian took off his tricorne hat and suggested to Kraken with a solemn face: "We must immediately make a strong statement and resolutely resist the airship company in Port Baigull!" If negotiation does not solve the problem, I propose to start a war for this, up to the complete destruction of the airship company, the execution of all researchers, the burning of design drawings, and the suppression of this evil trend at all costs! ”

"Maximian said it well, such opportunistic practices must not be tolerated!"

"We have been committed to the peace and prosperity of the North Bay for many years, and we have treated passing ships with courtesy, and since it is a matter of course to pay customs duties when passing through our territory, it is shameless for those cunning merchants to be ungrateful and insatiable in their vain attempt to evade customs duties by such despicable means!"

"Those who try to break the rules must be severely punished to follow suit!"

Most of the generals were indignant and spoke out in support of Maximian's proposal.

Kraken was unmoved by the crowd's feelings, and thought for a long time with a gloomy face, shaking his head slightly.

"The airship is a genius invention, and destroying it is an attempt to cover up the original mistake with a bigger mistake, Maximian, you can protest to the authorities of Baigull Harbor, but the wording should be slightly modified - we are not against the development of airships, nor against the air transport industry, but the airship company must take into account our interests, and it is a reasonable demand to share fifty percent of the shares of the airship company, if Lyubov rejects my kindness......" Kraken's eyes turned cold, and his words revealed murderousness, "Then send troops to blockade Baiou Harbor, What we can't get at the negotiating table, we will fight for it with battleships! ”

"Baigull Harbor is protected by a mysterious lock, and it may not be realistic to capture that well-defended city." Storm Singer whispered.

In the atmosphere of excitement, although her voice was low, her intention to sing the opposite tone was very clear, which was particularly harsh, and immediately attracted everyone's displeased eyes.

Kraken glanced at her and said lightly: "I don't need to completely conquer Baigull Harbor, as long as you control the airship company, seize all the technical data, and don't harm the researchers, their minds are valuable assets, no matter what method is used, be sure to invite them to settle on the Troll Demon Island, no matter what kind of treatment Lyubov gives them, I will give them double, provide for them well, and ask them to develop the most advanced airship for me instead of the Yangbo family, understand?" ”

"Understood!" Maximian and others responded in unison.

After arranging the affairs of the island, the nine demon generals left separately, and Kraken returned to the summoning hall and ordered the blessed angels to surround him.

Kraken placed a red zircon and thirteen silver rods on the altar, and then began to cast a spell and chant prayers, and the nine-ring spell "Astral Projection" was released, using herself as a model to replicate a purely spiritual "Astral Body" and project it onto the ethereal Astral Boundary.

At the same time, Kraken swung the legendary Siren Scepter, and many tentacles exploded in all directions like fireworks, each of which entangled a blessed angel and led them to the astral plane.

After a momentary trance, Kraken and her Blessed Angel Guards appeared in the void. The silver-gray canopy of the sky is like a spider web with dewdrops, it seems empty and lonely, and the stardust tumbling in the distance is like a silver cumulonimbus cloud, and occasionally a cloud of colorful light blooms, and then it fades again, which is the dimensional vascular that leads to other planes, also known as the "multicolored pond".

The astral plane is a purely spiritual plane. There is no fixed gravity here, and when you need to stand firm, you can imagine gravity pulling under your feet, like the main plane of matter; And when you're trying to fly in a certain direction, you just need to imagine that there is gravitational traction in the same direction.

The astral plane is also a very dangerous place. This is the intermediary between the main material plane and the other outer planes, and most of the plane's teleportation spells work the same way - first send you to the astral plane, and then use the astral plane as a springboard to open the door to another plane.

Therefore, in this seemingly empty and lonely starry sky, you may encounter beings from any plane, and you may even encounter gods, abyss lords, and even great demons from hell.

The astral plane is also the place where the bones of the gods are buried after the fall. It is said that in a mysterious place in the astral plane, there is a battlefield where the gods duel in ancient times, and after the decisive battle between the old and new gods, the battlefield will become a cemetery for the bones of the defeated.

Of course, gods do not really die, even if they have lost the support of faith, lost their divine power and priesthood, they can still retain a faint trace of divinity, so that their bones will not decay, become floating objects with slight fireflies in the vast astral boundary, and even turn into a cold and dead planet.

It is also possible to give birth to new life in the corpses of gods, but most of them are extremely vicious "gods", and even the true gods are afraid of them, and mortals are almost doomed to die when they encounter them.

The Astral Plane is not only a passer-by who comes and goes, there are also resident residents here, but most of them have a bad reputation, such as the Mind Flayer who takes pleasure in extracting human brains was once the original inhabitant of the Star Plane, and created a huge and evil "Mind Flayer Empire" in the endless void, extending the claws of colonization to all planes of the multiverse, and the Mind Flayer living in Varess today are also the colonists of the original empire.

Today, however, the Mind Flayer Empire has long since collapsed, and it was the equally notorious Giss Yankees who caused the collapse of the empire. These martial ronins were once slaves of the Mind Flayer Empire, and later, under the leadership of the leader "Guise", overthrew the former slave owners and established a pirate empire that crisscrossed the astral plane.

As if history was repeating itself, the Gyrsyankees' empire had also collapsed due to internal strife, and now the Gyrsyankees, who live in the astral plane, have split into large and small pirate gangs, nominally loyal to a single Lich Empress, but in fact they are all powerful and powerful on one side, and there is no complete imperial system.

Kraken appeared above a floating island in the astral plane, her astral body looking indistinguishable from her physical body, except for a thin silver line more than five feet long trailing behind her head.

Kraken carefully pulled up his long hair, blending the silver thread into the strands to hide it. This silver thread is the link between the astral body and the main body, if the Kraken's astral body is killed, the soul will follow this silver line back to the main body located in the Coral Palace, and there will be no damage, but if this silver line is cut off, she will really die.

With the silver thread in order, Kraken unleashed a teleportation spell to summon the minions hidden behind the nebula.

It wasn't long before a strange battleship pierced through the nebula and sailed towards her, a slender and streamlined hull that resembled a shark and covered in silver-gray armor, like a Gise cruiser. (To be continued.) )