Chapter 63: Magic Airship
The air flow blows in the face, and the surrounding scenery sinks rapidly.
Wren clung to the saddle and lowered his upper body slightly, so that he could stick to the griffin's back smoothly, feeling the overweight of the plane as it took off.
But it's much more exciting than flying!
Breaking off the ground, the griffin continued to climb upward, and the distant horizon spread out in front of its eyes, flying higher and higher, and the outline of the city of Longshande gradually came into view.
At first, Wren was a little nervous.
When it flies to a height of two or three hundred meters, the griffin no longer rises, maintains its altitude and flies forward, and becomes very stable when it sits on its back, without a little bump, and its hanging heart slowly lowers itself.
Wren looked down on the city of Longshand, felt the wind blowing, and an indescribable pleasure came to his heart.
He wanted to shout a few times to vent this strange emotion.
"Even if it's not as safe and comfortable, but flying on a griffin is much cooler than flying!"
By the time the mood had calmed down, the griffin had flown several kilometers, and the building of the Public Security Bureau had shrunk to the size of a palm.
"Fly so fast!"
Wren turned on the Soul Eye to detect the distance, and quickly estimated in his mind that the griffin's flight speed was about eighty kilometers per hour.
This is just an ordinary speed, and if the griffon is allowed to fly at full strength, it should be able to break through a hundred kilometers per hour.
Moreover, the griffon's endurance is very impressive, as a beast with magical energy, its endurance is stronger than that of horses, and it can fly continuously for more than three hours under weight, and after a short break to eat, it can continue to fly.
It is this stamina that allows the Griffon to fly long distances that makes the Gryphon the best flying mount and form a powerful legion of Griffons.
At this time, Wren heard a strange noise behind him in the strong wind.
Looking back, he saw old Martin riding another griffin after him.
The griffin was larger, weighing 1,500 pounds, with a wingspan of more than five meters and a faster flight.
In less than two minutes, the big griffin was chasing after him.
Old Martin sat on its back, wearing a windproof goggle, and said in a loud voice: "Don't fly too far, just train your riding here, and do as I have just taught you." ”
"Good. ”
Wren gathered up his mood and began to control the direction of the griffon's flight one by one.
Turning, sprinting, climbing, hovering, diving......
The griffon carried Wren and made various movements in the sky.
It was trained very well, and every time he received a command from Wren through a collision of his feet, he would follow it meticulously, and he did not make a mistake from start to finish.
After practicing for more than half an hour, Wren had adapted to flying and cooperated very well with the griffin.
"Alright, you've learned how to ride griffons. ”
"If you want to go further, you can come to me more often in the future, try to fly with each griffon a few times, so that they can get acquainted with your breath, and then you don't have to tie a safety leash anymore. ”
Martin Sr. said loudly, satisfied with Wren's training progress.
He had domesticated griffons in the Sheriff's Bureau for almost thirty years, taught griffon riding to hundreds of people, and had never seen anyone master it so quickly.
Many transcendents tremble with fear when they ride a griffin to the sky for the first time.
By the time you overcome your fear of heights, you will need to train at least three or four times to get used to this feeling of not touching the ground, maintain your balance, and master the initial riding skills.
His riding skills are not limited to griffins, and once mastered, as long as the difference is not too big, it can be applied to other flying mounts.
Wren thanked Martin Sr. for his careful teaching.
His eyes fell on Old Martin, when he was training just now, no matter where his griffin flew or what kind of changes he made, Old Martin and his big griffin could keep up with it step by step, and always kept at the side of ten paces away.
Wren was amazed by this flying riding skill, and he knew he had a lot to learn.
Old Martin wanted to go back and land, but when he saw that Wren didn't seem to have any intention of stopping, he let Wren move freely and circle over Longshand.
For the first time, Wren looked down at Lonsander from above, recognising the streets and buildings on the ground as he controlled the flight.
Because it flies very high, the griffin is not big from the ground, and it is about the same as an eagle falcon, so it does not attract attention.
Wren had never found out before that there was a person on the back of the falcon in the sky.
"Hornyton, Lane, Lowe, over there, the ...... of the Ferry Gren River"
The two of them continued to fly, very cautiously not crossing the Fereghua River into the Silver Star Zone, as Martin Sr. had warned before ascending to heaven that the Duke's Wizarding Tower was surrounded by a no-fly zone.
If the griffon is swept by the Eye of the Spirit on the Wizard's Tower, it will be frightened and throw the person off its back.
After flying for a long time, a black dot appeared on the horizon in the east, and then quickly zoomed in, and as the distance approached, Wren could see its appearance clearly from a few kilometers away, and recognized it at a glance.
"An airship!"
Wren had heard of airships for a long time, and sometimes he had seen airships flying from high altitudes on the ground, but he had never sat on them.
The shape of the airship in this world is similar to that of the previous life, with a pod hanging under a huge oval airbag, the overall length is about one hundred and fifty meters, like a flying ship, propelled by a steam propeller. On either side of the pod are wing-like sails, which flash with magical energy, blowing up and down with the wind, keeping the airship flying smoothly and at high speed.
"The magic airship, it's really not slow, it's about the same as a griffin. ”
Wren speculated that the airship had a speed of nearly 100 kilometers per hour, which was far inferior to an airplane, but in terms of comfort and safety, it was not much worse than an airplane.
He didn't know how much the magic airship would cost, but it was certainly very expensive, and not many people could afford to sit on it.
Most of the ordinary people of the empire chose to travel on steam trains, which were relatively cheap.
Anyway, Wren has never been on an airship in his life.
This thing is almost the exclusive means of transportation for the elite class, and the take-off and landing points are located in the Silver Star District, which is either rich or expensive, and has nothing to do with ordinary people.
The direction of the airship is just passing this side, and it is getting bigger and bigger in the field of vision.
With the help of his soul eye, Wren could already see the figures on the deck of the pod, and he originally wanted to admire the magic airship, but found that the people on the deck seemed to be arguing.
There were two groups of people holding weapons to confront each other, both of them were transcendental, and it seemed that a fight was about to start.
"What's the situation?"
Wren thought about it for a moment and decided to move closer.
He is now a member of the demon eradication team, a member of the Public Security Bureau, and is considered a legitimate sheriff, although he is usually responsible for handling cases related to monsters, but he has the right to govern all public security incidents that occur within the boundaries of Longshande.
Even if the airship has not landed and is flying in the sky, the sheriff has the duty to maintain order.
The two griffons flew towards the airship at high speed, drawing a large arc hundreds of meters away, turning the direction parallel to the airship, and then slowly approaching.
The people on deck also spotted the griffin, and they all stopped arguing and looked at it.
"Old Martin, don't land with the airship, I'll go up and have a look. ”
Wren found that these transcendents were very strong, and old Martin was old, and he was similar to ordinary people except for his riding skills, so it was not safe to board the airship.
"Go ahead, be careful. Old Martin admonished.
Wren controlled the griffin to get under the airship's airbag and landed on the deck with a thud.
When he stepped onto the deck, he found that there was an invisible force field blocking the air flow, blocking the strong wind, quiet and steady, and the deck was like a wide viewing platform.
Wren couldn't help but secretly praise, this must be another magical application of magic.
He didn't untie the safety rope, he sat on the back of the griffin, showed his ID card, and said condescendingly: "I'm from the Sheriff's Bureau, who are you? Do you want to do anything on the airship?"
On one side of the dispute was a luxuriously dressed aristocratic lady, an ordinary person, accompanied by four or five bodyguards, two of whom were guards and a gunman;
On the other side were two transcendents, the man in leather armor and carrying a longbow, with a long sword and a bundle of ropes hanging from his waist, apparently a ranger, and the woman in a magical robe, with a delicate countenance, very white skin, long hair tied into a ponytail, and the tips of the hair dyed green.
Wren's heart couldn't help but jump, this woman was a third-level shepherd, and her ranger companion was also a third-level herd.
Both of them gave him the feeling of danger.
When Wren revealed his identity, they just glanced at him, but remained silent. But the aristocratic lady exclaimed, as if she had seen a savior, "Your Excellency, I am Kena Hodgson, and these two ......."
Wren had not heard of the Hodgsons, nor was he interested in understanding why they were in conflict.
Judging from the words and deeds of this noble lady, it is nothing more than a little friction, and then you can't get along with these two foreign transcendents.
She didn't know it, but her bodyguard knew very well that these two people were not easy to mess with, and they couldn't say it in front of their employer, so the scene was deadlocked.
If they really fight, these two people only need one shot to get rid of all the bodyguards.
Next to the deck, there were a few people with embarrassed expressions.
They should be the managers of this airship, and among them are two transcendent people who are responsible for the safety of the airship, but due to the background of this noble lady, they can only verbally persuade and dare not forcibly stop it.
In addition to these people, there were also a group of onlookers on the deck, waiting to see the excitement.
Wren's eyes swept over the passenger, and he raised his hand to interrupt: "I don't care what happens between you, I can't do anything on the airship." ”
"If you don't listen, follow me to the Sheriff's Office. ”
He stared at the noble lady after he finished speaking, and it was obvious that this was said to her. She trembled with anger and pointed at Wren and shouted, "You know who I am......"
Wren had already seen that the two sides couldn't fight, it was just that this noble lady was losing her temper.
He didn't bother to listen any further, and jumped off the deck on his griffin and flew away.
The people on the deck were stunned, they didn't expect this sheriff to be so simple, come and go quickly, and stay for less than half a minute.
"If I knew it was such a trivial matter, I wouldn't have gone up. ”
"But it's not all for nothing. ”
Wren controlled the griffin to hover in mid-air, looking into the airship as if his gaze could penetrate the airship's pod and land on a passenger.
Just now, when he inadvertently swept by, he found a follower of Loshi on the deck.
Fortunately, the distance between the two was relatively far away, and the other party did not notice the marks of strife on his body, so he hurried away to avoid being exposed.
Wren remembered the man's appearance and decided to track him down when the airship landed.