Dawn, Thorns.

This remote town at the foot of Cage Mountain is now a bustling place.

In addition to the fact that it is the "outpost" of the Cage Mountain Command, another more important reason is that the forward training camp of the Sky Knight Academy is located here.

In order to meet the huge expenses of the air knights, the engineering team built several wide hardened concrete roads here, connecting the north-south arteries to the northernmost harbor of Dawn. Naturally, the abundance of resources also caught the attention of the Dawn merchants, and after losing the two trade routes of Wolf's Heart and Eternal Winter, the Grey Keep became their best hope of profit, providing everything from freight to alcohol.

In just over a year, the town has grown several times, with taverns and inns that were previously only found in big cities springing up and spreading around the heart of the town.

This change is most evident in Tilly, who often flies through the sky.

If you look down from the sky before the snow falls, you can clearly tell the outline and composition of the town – the most dreary are the aboriginal houses, the roof tiles that have been mottled dark brown and blue-gray after decades of wind and sun. There were few of them, and they still maintained the original appearance of Thorntown, and on the periphery of it, the colors suddenly became varied.

The new houses consisted of low-rise wooden buildings, stone bungalows, and even some of them were cement brick houses. Apparently, after the Grey Keep passed on the calcination technique to Dawn, some nobles and merchants had embraced and experimented with this new building material.

The snowfall brought by the Evil Moon has now weakened the difference between the old and new districts, but the general change in the town can still be discerned from the messy layout of the latter.

Probably the border town also evolved step by step in this way.

After sending away Vanilla and Broken Sword, Tilly threw herself into her daily training - there were nearly forty Skyfire II improvements according to her advice, and more than twenty old-fashioned Type 1 aircraft, and the Sky Knight had become a force to be reckoned with in the army.

In fact, the counteroffensive of the First Army was so smooth that it was inseparable from the air cover of the biplanes. The Skyfire was a much greater threat to the dinosaurs than the anti-aircraft machine guns, and without an effective means of penetration, the artillerymen could safely use the range advantage to bombard the Devil's outpost and withdraw from their positions before the enemy encircled them. As long as the high-level devils do not appear, it will be difficult for the enemy to approach the front of the First Army.

Whenever a combat mission is carried out, dozens of Skyfire will glide across the runway in the form of elephant walks, taking off sequentially at minimal intervals, and the rumble of the engines can be heard clearly even from a small town. Such a spectacular sight is difficult to describe in words, and even the cavalry charging in a cluster is completely incomparable. Anyone who witnesses such a scene will have a new understanding of the power of the Grey Keep.

And this scene has also become a great spectacle in Thorn Town, and many Dawn nobles have heard the news to verify the legend of the Sky Knight for themselves. Gradually, even on the day of the ordinary drill, the roofs of the flat buildings around the take-off and landing field would be filled with crowds, watching with great interest the posture of this group of steel giant birds soaring into the sky.

Tilly also inquired that those locations with a good view were charged.

Of course, the development of the Sky Knight Academy is not without obstacles, at least compared to the production of the Skyfire, the problem of the slow increase in the number of pilots has been revealed little by little.

After all, its recruitment threshold is there, not only requires a certain cultural foundation, but also has the physical fitness to adapt to flying, and only after meeting it can it enter the next step of training, as for how long it will take to participate in actual combat, it all depends on talent. The kind of student Tilly who usually performs well in practice, but when he arrives in the sky, he has also encountered several students, and in the end he can only go to the logistics brigade to do his best.

If it weren't for the change of the Skyfire II from a two-seater to a single-seater, which temporarily alleviated the problem of lack of pilots, the Air Knights would now have to face the dilemma of having only airplanes but no pilots.

In this regard, she has no better way than to continue to expand the scope of recruitment and increase the number of prospective students.

Fortunately, my brother also attaches great importance to the Sky Knight, and more importantly, he will hardly refuse her proposal, which should be improved by the next batch of Preparatory Cadets when they arrive in Thorntown.

It will not be until noon that the intensive test flight and landing will come to an end.

As a transcendent, Tilly doesn't need a lunch break to recuperate, and during the time she takes off her role as a mentor, she often chooses to fly alone for a while, both to validate some new ideas that arise during her teaching, and to enjoy flying.

This time, though, she noticed something unusual in the warehouse area of the landing field.

Neither the cadets nor the ground crew immediately dispersed, but gathered around the storeroom, as if they were attracted by something.

Soon, a guard reported the situation to her.

"Your Royal Highness the eldest princess, it seems that a batch of new supplies has been sent over by Wudong, and I need you to check it out. ”

"New supplies?" Tilly raised an eyebrow, she didn't remember that was on her agenda today. It's just that the two places are thousands of miles apart after all, and it's not surprising that Neverwinter has made temporary adjustments.

Arriving at the warehouse area, everyone made a way out of the way, but before she could see the goods, she heard a familiar shout.

"Mistress Tilly!"

I saw Moriel running over and throwing her arms into her arms with open hands.

Tilly rubbed the little girl's head helplessly, only to realize that it was the magical servant who was in charge of unloading the goods. The latter, inflated like a blue balloon, carefully "swallowed" the crates on the steam truck, and then slowly transported them into the storeroom.

So, that's why everyone is here?

Wrong...... Not exactly......

When Tilly set her eyes on the long crate, she realized that the answer wasn't that simple.

There are three cargo boxes, and judging from the cold metal material of the box, these boxes are clearly the same as those of the Tianhuo, but the size is much larger, and the overall appearance is more slender. And the surface of the two sides is painted with bright red moire, like a pair of open wings.

It may seem like a pointless thing to decorate on a shipping case, but precisely because of this, it is something that makes it so special.

Tilly's heart jerked.

"By the way, do you have any requirements for the color of the fuselage? Since there are no specific requirements, how about red?"

Roland's words echoed in her ears.

"What's the difference?"

"Generally, the protagonist who dominates the sky uses this color. 」

The ground crew had skillfully lifted the fixing bolts on the first cargo box, and as the sealing plate was slowly lowered, there was a burst of amazement in the crowd.

I saw a never-before-seen meching appear in front of everyone.

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