Chapter 802: Sky Boat (Three Chapters in One)
Abel accompanies Count Marshall today, and tomorrow is the new year, and he did not attend the dinner at the royal palace in the city of Gomba, but was represented by Count Bennett.
The chefs have prepared a sumptuous menu for today's dinner, including several new dishes made by Bartoli herself.
On the last day of the year, there were quite a few people present, four griffin knights were present, Bartoli was the butler, but Abel still let her sit as a family member, and the Bodley knight who helped train the knights at Harry Castle was also invited.
"I'm glad that Abel is with you at Harry Castle, and the happiest thing I've ever done in my life is adopting Abel, remembering when he was a child, dressed in a simple knight's outfit his father gave him!" said Earl Marshall, with a look of remembrance in his eyes, as he raised his glass and chuckled.
Abel also remembered the events of that time, when he had only just been introduced to knight training, and it was at that time that he came to Harry's Castle.
Earl Marshall gave him all the love, treated him as his own child, and did his best to grow up.
"Whenever I see Abel, I think this is the best gift God has ever given me, and now he is king again!" Count Marshall turned to Abel and said, "I'm so proud of you!"
In Count Marshall's heart, perhaps neither a mid-level wizard nor a blacksmith grandmaster is as real as the king of the Duchy of Kamai.
This is also the normal thinking of the nobles, who have been working for a higher title all their lives, for which they can go to the battlefield and kill them, take off the heads of their enemies to show their merits, and exchange their merits for knighthoods.
"Drink!" said Count Marshall, raising his glass in the air.
"Drink!" everyone said loudly, raising their glasses.
Abel felt the atmosphere in the restaurant, and a sense of home rose in his heart, this was his home in this world.
He had consciously forgotten the home on the earth that was hidden in the depths of his memory, and regarded Hacheng Castle as his only home.
Family affection is like red wine in his hand, which makes people extremely intoxicated, and his soul has been immersed in this atmosphere, extremely relaxed, and it seems that all his thoughts have been left behind.
Just as he was relaxing and enjoying the atmosphere of the house, a strange aura emanated from his body.
Bartoli was the first to sense her master's aura, and then a white light appeared, and Wizard Morton appeared in the dining room.
Wizard Morton has not socialized with ordinary people for a long time, so although he was invited to dinner today, he still declined.
"Abel, this is?" Wizard Morton sensed the aura of promotion and immediately 'teleported' here, and found that it was Abel who was preparing to be promoted, and couldn't help but feel dizzy, how long has it been, and he has been promoted again!
However, Abel suddenly sent out a promotion aura, and there is no magical environment here, if he doesn't help, then this promotion opportunity will be wasted.
While Wizard Morton was thinking, Abel's druid soul had already taken over the control of the body, and of course, the druid soul did not dare to move the body too much, thus affecting the subsequent promotion.
The Druid's soul borrowed a trace of spiritual power to activate the 'teleportation' on the skill tree in the Hradik Block, and under the surprised gaze of the two wizards, Morton and Bartoli, Abel's body disappeared in place.
After several 'teleportations', he had returned to the top floor of the Magic Tower, which was the most suitable place to cultivate.
Wizard Morton couldn't figure out how Abel, who already had the qi of promotion, could use 'teleportation', and Bartoli was also extremely surprised, even in the dark world, there was no such precedent.
"What's wrong with Abel?" Earl Marshall hurriedly asked.
"Marshall, don't worry, it's a good thing!" replied Wizard Morton with a smile.
Abel's sudden performance just now made Earl Marshall worried, but when he heard Wizard Morton say this, he was relieved, and he thought that Wizard Molton, who was a teacher, was much stronger than Abel.
The four griffin Grand Knight Captains and Bodley Grand Knight Captains were not concerned about this, they noticed that Able took the initiative to use the 'teleportation' spell, what the 'teleportation' spell represented, all those in the Holy Continent who knew about wizards could clearly say.
Intermediate wizard, Abel turned out to be an intermediate wizard.
Abel's age is no secret in the Holy Continent, a sixteen-year-old mid-level wizard, what a terrifying thing.
Of course, what they are even happier with is that Abel's strength is good for the Principality of Kamai and the Harry family, Abel has been cultivating rapidly like this, maybe in the next thousand years, the Principality of Kamai and the Harry family will have a powerful wizard to rely on.
Think about the reason why the three empires are strong, in addition to countless knights, the most important reason is that the three empires all have their own family members who have become high-level wizards, and have always guarded the family and the empire.
Just as Abel's aura of promotion slowly dissipated, his wizard level had been raised to level twelve, and he had already caught up with the level of his teacher, Wizard Moulton.
And at this moment, the castle bell rang, the new year had arrived, and Abel ushered in the new year with a wizard promotion.
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The eastern part of the Principality of Kamai is the most precipitous part of the Rip Mountains, where there are no roads, and the entire Rip Mountains are all dwarven territory, so there are almost no people in this mountain range except for the dwarves.
Of course, there are also some adventurers who will sneak into the Rip Mountains, they are for the spirit beasts that survive in the Rip Mountains, and even for the elves in the Twin Moon Forest after the Rip Mountains.
These adventurers have to fight against the spirit beasts in the Rip Soil Mountains, and on the other hand, they have to prevent being discovered by the dwarves, and in the Rip Mountains, there is only one result of being discovered by the dwarves, and that is to be killed by the terrible mechanism.
The Lei Mai Adventure Team is a small adventure team composed of seven people, among them there are two knight captains, one junior wizard, and four senior warriors.
They like to hunt in the Rip Mountains, where adventures are less chaotic than in the Budapest Mountains, where you have to watch out for spirit animals, human adventurers, and orcs.
In the Rip Mountains, because there are few adventurers, just keep an eye on the dwarves, which makes them much safer.
Of course, the most important reason is that the Lei Mai adventure team is too weak, in the Budapest Mountains, it will be easily torn apart by any creatures it encounters, and there are no powerful spirit beasts in the Rip Earth Mountains, some are just some scattered spirit beasts running from the Twin Moon Forest.
Today, the Lei Mai adventure team had a good harvest, and obtained a crystal nucleus on the body of a wind spirit deer, which was immediately given to the junior wizard, and the other members of the adventure team carefully protected the junior wizard, let him meditate on the spot, and absorb this fresh crystal nucleus.
This is also the reason and condition why wizards will go on adventures with the adventure party, fresh crystal nuclei are the best tonic for wizards, which can greatly increase the mana in the body.
Just as the Lei Mai Adventure Team was guarding their companions to meditate, suddenly one of the warriors in the adventure team pointed to the sky in horror and shouted, "What is that?"
When the members of the Remai Adventure Team looked up, they saw three huge ship-shaped objects flying hundreds of meters in the air above the Sky of the Rip Mountains.
Even the most experienced captains had never seen what was flying, but they couldn't leave at this time, because their companions were meditating.
"Shield!" the captain shouted.
Two knight shields and four warrior round shields formed a semicircle to surround the entire team, and through the gap between the shields, the members of the Lei Mai adventure team carefully looked at the monsters in the sky.
"Master Bernie, there are adventurers down there, please give your order!" a dwarf bowed to Bernie.
"This is also a question, the Rip Mountains are the territory of the dwarves, these thieves will kill them directly!" Bernie said with a wave of his hand.
The Rift Mountains are the territory of the dwarves, and it is also the area separated by humans and elves, and the dwarves are the most famous in this area, Acropolis City, which is known by the name as a city that guards the Twin Moon Forest.
The Rip Mountains are a gateway for the Dwarves to protect the Elves, where they will kill adventurers if they spot them entering.
"Combat team, aim!" the dwarf shouted into a telecommunications device in front of him.
"Combat team received, aiming!" A voice came from the teleporter, and then the voice rang out again: "Aiming, request attack!"
"Attack!" cried the dwarf in a deep voice.
There are ten windows on one side of the huge hull in the sky, and each window can see the Repeating Strongbow, but only in the first window is a small group of dwarves manipulating the Repeating Strongjack.
At this time, the dwarf who was operating the Burst Strongjack had already opened the mechanism and sent out a series of crossbow arrows from the Bursting Strongjack Crossbow, shooting the seven-person adventure team on the ground directly through the ground.
The Remai adventurers didn't know what they encountered until they died, but the moment the crossbow bolt passed through their bodies, they guessed that it seemed to be a new weapon of the dwarves, and the most pitiful thing was the junior wizard, who didn't even know how he died.
"The target has been destroyed!" the intercom device transmitted the results of the battle to the command room.
"Abel should be very satisfied with this thing!" Bernie took out a space wine jug from his arms, took a sip of Grandmaster wine, and said to himself with a smile.
These three big guys are the Sky Boats that have just been completed, and the Gough family gave the first three Sky Boats to Abel as trade items, of course, Abel didn't know about this transaction at this time.
Bernie thought it should have been a surprise, a surprise between friends.
The Sky Boat will continue to fly through the Rip Mountains, eventually entering the Harvest City area from the Rip Mountains and reaching Harry's Castle from the air.
After a day's sailing, the Sky Boat finally left the area of the Rift Mountains, and when Bernie looked down from the Sky Boat, he found patches of ripe wheat growing in the fields above the ground.
"I look like I've done something stupid!" Bernie muttered, looking at everything on the ground.
He had also heard the news that Abel had closed the entire Harvest City, but he didn't expect this to be the case.
It's winter now, and the temperature has been even colder than usual recently, and at this temperature in this season, wheat is still growing in the fields that are about to ripen, and this news is estimated to make all the races in the entire Holy Continent crazy.
No wonder Abel assured him that if the Guff family was short of food, Able could help them.
"Tell them, tell them to take care of their eyes and mouths one by one, everything here is confidential, dare to say one more word, and kick out of the family directly!" Bernie turned to the dwarf beside him and whispered.
"Yes, young master!" the dwarf immediately turned and walked out of the command room.
Now that he had arrived, Bernie had no choice but to call the three Sky Boats to continue flying and fly straight towards Harry's Castle.
Harry Castle didn't think that anyone could enter Harvest City from an impossible direction, and the three sky airships were only discovered when they were still more than ten miles away from Harry Castle.
"Intruder, identify yourself quickly, or we will attack!" The threat in the air, of course, the first to arrive was the griffin knight, except for the four griffin knights who were patrolling, the other ten griffin knights all rose into the air, and the attribute Harry bow in the hand of the griffon knight No. 24 pointed at the sky boat in front and shouted.
Although Abel had an order to attack as long as he found an intruder, the sky ship in front of him was too strange, and this undisguised way also showed that it was likely to be friend and foe.
"Young master, the other party is pointing at us with a weapon, do you want to give them a look!" The dwarf beside Bernie looked at the griffin knight in the sky, and the attribute Harry bow in his hand gave him a great sense of threat, and he asked Bernie for instructions.
"What are you thinking, if I kill Abel's griffin, do you think he will fight for me!" Bernie patted his head, he couldn't imagine what was going on in his men's heads.
In fact, the people who came with Bernie this time were basically researchers, because the Sky Boat had just been built, and there was no time to train and use personnel, the people who assisted in sending the Sky Boat to Harry Castle this time were all temporarily helped by a group of personnel pulled by Bernie directly from the research institute.
Of course, the researchers didn't know what their mission was, and they never thought that the griffon knight they wanted to kill was Grandmaster Abel's.
Bernie suddenly thought of something at this time, and the griffin squadron of the St. Ellis Kingdom was attacked, and ten griffons were captured in Niyan City of the Orc Empire.
It was also the case that six orc high-level priests in Niyan City were killed, as many as dozens of orc warriors at the rank of great knight chief died there, and tens of thousands of orc elite warriors turned into dried corpses.
Although there was speculation that Abel was the work of all this, there was no evidence.
After the defeat of the powerful orc empire, it was once again hit hard, and it was directly closed to the country to recuperate, which was the result of the battle in Niyan City.
There are so many griffon knights in front of him, and it has already shown that Abel did everything, which is great news.
"I'm Bernie of the Dwarven Golf family, is Grandmaster Abel here?" Bernie said out of the command room, out on deck, and loudly towards Griffon 24.
Griffon 24 knew Bernie and knew that he was Abel's friend, so the attribute Harry bow in his hand was immediately put into the space bag, and then he made a gesture to the other griffin knights, and all the griffin knights also put away the attribute Harry bow.
"Master Bernie, please explain to Your Majesty alone why you are here, please stay where you are!" Griffon 24 didn't know what to call the Sky Boat, he parked the Griffin on the deck of the Sky Boat, and said with a salute.
The griffon's body was the size of a war horse, and there was nothing wrong with carrying the two of them for a short period of time, and Bernie's weight was not heavy.
Bernie also knew that it was a bit presumptuous to sneak into the Harvest City area this time, so it was better to go and explain to Abel first, he jumped on the back of the griffin, and Griffon 24 then stood on the back of the griffin, controlling the griffin to fly towards Harry's castle.
Abel had been attending to Harry Castle during the day, and when the three Sky Ships arrived, he knew about it.
The sky had always been his strength, but he was still taken aback when he saw the sky ship in the distant sky in Harry's castle, the blueprint and the real existence were two different things.
The huge airbag makes the sky boat look extraordinarily large, like a white cloud in the sky, and the hull below looks a little small in comparison with the airbags.
However, as long as you can see the ten windows open on that side of the ship, you can know how big the hull of this sky boat is.
"Your Majesty, Master Bernie is here!" Griffon 24 saluted.
Behind him, Bernie followed with some embarrassment, and Bernie was also blaming himself, and it was extremely rare to give gifts to him like this.
"It's hard work, you can step back first!" Abel nodded and said to Griffon 24.
Griffon-24 bowed back and disappeared through the gate.
"Abel, you can't blame me for this, I just want to surprise you!" Bernie said as soon as he saw that there was no one else around.
"Bernie, I really don't have anything to say about you, okay, you can find a way to keep it secret for me yourself!" Abel looked at Bernie helplessly, shook his head and said.
"Don't worry, all the dwarves brought this time are the most secretive dwarves in the family, and I have already ordered that no one will say anything about Harvest City!" Bernie assured, patting his chest.
"How did the Sky Boat be built?" Abel was still very curious about the Sky Boat, and he asked as he looked at the three Sky Ships in the sky.
"Of course, we've done our best to build three Sky Boats for you, don't be too few, you can only get three out of ten Sky Boats!" Bernie said proudly.
At the beginning, no one in the Gough family thought that Able would be able to refine ten parts of metallurgical materials from ten parts of materials, and the quality would be so high.
However, although the metallurgical materials of the Sky Ship are the most important of them, other materials are not so easy to find, and for countless years, the Dwarves have only collected the other materials needed for less than twenty Sky Ships.
Of course, there are only ten of the most precious magic circle materials, and there are now ten magic circle metallurgical materials.
This makes the cost of each skyship reach an astronomical amount, and a large amount of the materials in it are almost impossible for other races except the dwarves to obtain, and their preciousness is unimaginably high.
Being able to send three sky boats to Abel is a deal between Abel and the Golf family, and only a few people in power of the Gough family really know the secrets.
Because Master Bennett and Grandmaster Abel are the same person, this news has been kept secret.
For the sky boat to give Abel, the opposition among the dwarves is very small, one is because from master wine to grandmaster wine, Abel's wine basically controls the dwarves' biggest hobby.
Second, because of Abel's identity as a blacksmith grandmaster, there are not many humans who can make the dwarves identify with him, and the identity of the blacksmith grandmaster has been able to make the dwarves treat Abel as a fellow race.
The third is the watering system, a system that Abel did not care about, and its impact on the dwarves was beyond Abel's expectations.
At a time when the entire Holy Continent was suffering from a reduction in crop production and food shortage, the dwarves were able to maintain basic self-sufficiency by offsetting the impact of crop production due to the large increase in land under cultivation.
It can be said that Abel's prestige in the dwarf race has reached a peak, from survival, from hobbies, from the noble status, his reputation has penetrated into the dwarf life.
"Thank you, can you let these three big guys come down, I've only seen the blueprints, but I haven't seen the real Sky Boat!" Abel was very happy when he heard that these three Sky Boats did belong to him.
The Principality of Kamai is now under threat, with three Sky Ships, which can deter many countries that want to make a move.
Abel sometimes wondered if it was because he had been too low-key, so low-key that a mid-level wizard, a blacksmith grandmaster, an alchemist, and a great knight like him, his realm was threatened by the world.
Like the three major empires, they have more speculations about Abel's strength, although Abel's strength has been hidden in the fog, and all the achievements are rumors, but just these rumors have made the big organizations and empires dare not really touch Abel.
And only those principalities that are not strong will have the courage to try his strength.
Abel didn't want to use personal force to resolve the threat, with his current cultivation speed, maybe it wouldn't take many years for him to become a high-level wizard and eventually leave this continent.
He needs to make his family's realm look strong and make all the principalities afraid, not because he is there.
He was very satisfied with the air combat power of the Sky Boat, which was the easiest way to directly increase the strength of the Principality of Kamai.
It takes at least five to ten years to train a large number of knights, and decades to hundreds of years to train a wizard, but the Sky Ship can greatly improve the strength of the Principality of Kamai in a short period of time.
Bernie used a small signboard to contact the Sky Ships, but Harry Castle didn't have such a large place to dock them, so he had to choose to dock at a knight training ground outside the castle.
Although the knights in the castle and the wizards in the wizarding circle were very curious about the three big guys from the sky, there was no onlooker, and Abel's huge influence caused the ordinance issued by him to be enforced throughout Harvest City.
Secrecy is one of the most important ones, what you see in your eyes and what you hear in your ears must be kept secret, and don't inquire about anything that has nothing to do with you.
"Abel, please get on the boat and have a look!" Bernie said with a smile.
His smile was full of pride, this was the greatest wonder of the dwarves, a flying machine that could fly in the sky.
At this time, the Sky Boat did not completely hit the ground, it was about a meter above the ground, and it hovered in mid-air like this, and the accuracy of its control surprised Abel.
This kind of skyship, which is similar to the airship on the earth before, is far more maneuverable than the airship on the earth, and it is because of the flight control problem of the airship on the earth that this kind of aircraft cannot really be used.
And the three sky boats in front of them are almost at the same height above the ground, which shows their high maneuverability.
A door opened on the side of the Sky Boat, and a ladder came out.
The ladder is made of metal, the same material used for the hull of the Sky Boat.
The intricate blueprints immediately appeared in Abel's mind, and the material records of the hull came to mind, which were alloyed with fine iron and another very light metal, light iron, plus other precious metals.
Although it looks inconspicuous and all black, the hull made of these materials is enough to withstand the fire of crossbow arrows, which is a kind of material synthesis regardless of the cost.
Perhaps in ancient times, these materials were not precious, but today the entire hull is many times more valuable than the equivalent of gold.
Under Bernie's guidance, Able followed him to the Sky Boat, and when he entered the Sky Boat, the ladder behind him automatically retracted and the open hatch closed.
"Bernie, who's in control?" Abel asked casually.
"Spirit, there is a spirit on every Sky Ship, although it is just an ordinary Spirit, but it is enough to coordinate any affairs on the entire Sky Ship, and I will hand over the authority of the three Spirits to you later!" Bernie said with a smile.
"You're really generous, but I don't remember the blueprints that have spirits, so how could you think of putting them on them?" Abel asked curiously.
"Abel, we dwarves are not copying the design of the Sky Boat, the design has been in our hands for many years, and we have made some improvements to the Sky Boat, adding some technology unique to the dwarves. Bernie replied with a smile.
"It's good to have a spirit, at least it won't let people run away from the Sky Boat!" Abel also smiled and nodded.
He has been in contact with the spirit many times, and he himself has many spirits, and he knows some things about the spirit, like when he has the authority of the spirit, he has become the person with the greatest authority on the spirit.
If he wants to appoint a captain, then he can set the captain's authority to the operation authority, and there is no transfer or delegation authority, which makes the captain only able to control the Sky Boat himself, not transfer authority.
And the existence of the spirit also makes it possible for anyone to rebel if they want to rebel, then the rebel will be attacked by the spirit at the first time.
"Bernie, shouldn't the Sky Boat be a transport ship, how can there be so many repeating crossbows?" When Able walked into the Sky Boat, he saw ten consecutive crossbows on each side of the huge hull, and couldn't help asking.
These Burst Crossbows are not the ones held by small war puppets, each of these Burst Crossbows is mounted on a shelf that can be rotated up, down, left and right to attack enemies outside through specially set aside windows.
This makes the twenty continuous fire crossbows almost occupy more than half of the position in the hull, and the remaining empty space may be enough to carry some people, but if you want to transport goods, it is impossible.
"Abel, it's been a mess lately, this is my idea, help you install twenty repeating strong city crossbows on the left and right sides of the hull, four consecutive fire strong city crossbows in front of the boat and behind the boat, and the entire sky boat has twenty-eight continuous fire strong city crossbows, as long as you don't encounter a dragon, you can shoot it down!" Bernie pointed to the repeating strong city crossbow on the side.
"Thanks, Bernie!" Abel thanked.
Bernie's help saved him the hassle of modding, and these bursts of crossbows were enough for a small war.
"Of course, how could a great dwarf not think about the shipment of goods!" Bernie said with a smile on his head.
As he spoke, he led Abel to the stern of the boat, where there was a room, and as soon as he approached the door of the room, Abel sensed the fluctuation of the power of space.
Bernie stepped forward and opened the door of the room, inside was a space far larger than the hull of the boat, on the walls and floor of the room, densely drawn countless patterns, these are the space circle, and when the room was built, the space materials were mixed, which made the room a huge space warehouse.
"That's a big deal!" Abel had already marveled at how many times.
This kind of space warehouse that can be used by ordinary people, whether it is to load goods or transport personnel, is not a problem at all.
"When building the Sky Boat, the Gough family's order to the modifiers was to do whatever it cost, not to think about how much it would cost, we just wanted the best!" Bernie said with a smile when he saw Abel's surprise.
From the cabin to the deck, Able saw the exposed front and rear eight repeating crossbows, as well as the command room in the center of the deck.