This eighteen-ship fleet was the best performing for the Duchy before the next step in updating its warships.

The next step in updating the battleship is to use special materials, such as wood to create the Chaos Barrier space, various specially formulated metals, and Dao Gate Formation hidden in the magic pattern.

In this fleet, in addition to Smith, there is also a group of magicians who graduated from Asra Academy and took a ship to the side of Sun City. They were also all on the flagship, numbering ninety-six.

Asra Academy is divided into small classes, with twenty-four students in a class, and if there is a attrition, it will be replenished.

These students who went to Sun City were all over level twenty, and for this era of this world, their speed of advancement was quite stable. This is also why Asra Academy is not allowed to learn to advance easily, otherwise, there may be Epic Mages here.

These young mages, without Smith's conditions, could not relax in bed and browse the sea.

However, the young mages were very well-behaved and did not run around.

Goering didn't restrain these mages too much, except that some places on the ship were not allowed to go, and there were also places where soldiers were resting and it was strictly forbidden to disturb them.

After going out to sea, the weather along the way was good, and there were no storms.

Many mages watched the flying fish on the deck, and occasionally the naughty ones used the smallest arcane missiles to fight. These mages are able to control their magic with great precision, and are able to control the power of the arcane missile to the point where it does not hurt the flying fish, and it is tightly rolled in the air.

However, the flying fish is not a bird, and if you roll over, you will not be able to slide, and you will fall into the sea.

The mage laughed and had a great time.

Just as they were happy, the alarm suddenly sounded, and the mages were inexplicable, so they could only go back to the cabin in a huff, so as not to cause trouble to the fleet.

Smith was in the room, and he also turned on the commander's channel and saw the source of the alarm.

At the rear of the fleet, about three hundred miles away, a flying demonic beast appeared. This flying beast still sits on the back of this person.

Originally, following the fleet was a very rude act, and it could even be said to be a threat.

However, usually the combat distance of warships is within fifty miles, and the real mutual attack is even close to the distance of ten miles, and it is possible to strike accurately.

A hundred miles away, there is still time to prepare for battle.

This guy is three hundred miles away, and it's hard to say what he's going to do.

In this world, you can't kill others when they get close to you, this is not the reason for doing things for people. However, the army's fleet is different, that is, where it goes is classified as a secret.

After thinking about it, Goering came to Smith and said, "I want to send someone to persuade the guy who is following behind." ”

"I'm afraid he's unreasonable, right? Smith asked with a smile.

"Yes. ”

"Then I'll go along, if our people can solve it, I'll watch from the sidelines, if there is an accident, I'll take action, is that okay?"

"Thank you very much. "Goering had to show respect to Smith, no matter how old he was.

"How many people are you going to send?"

"Two six-pointed star airships, two flying battleships. ”

"Are there any ordinary airships?"

"Yes, it's just for moving goods, and it's much worse in combat, and it only has some self-defense functions. It's big, not to mention slow, it's not ready to be on standby, and if you want to use it, you have to assemble it temporarily. ”

"Forget it. ”

"You don't think it's good to communicate with the other party, right, the six-pointed star airship on our ship has the function of video playback, creating an illusion dialogue, and it's no different from the real thing. ”

"I don't know about the new airship. ”

"Just one, experimental, may have to make this kind of in the future. ”

"Alright, let's go. Smith didn't talk nonsense, and followed Goering and got on a six-pointed star airship. This airship is really new, with a magic array above, which is easy to enter and exit.

The interior space is also larger than the original airship, which can accommodate dozens of people, which is the use of new materials and new technologies.

There are still five people on the airship, and there is no need to increase this, but with the replacement of people, they all have special rest cabins, and they can also enter the illusion by lying in it. This airship can even provide magic nets to magic net mages, and the coverage is extremely large.

Another airship, along with two flying battleships, took off from the mothership, following Smith's airship.

Within a dozen seconds, the six-pointed star airship took off into the air, and its speed increased to more than 600 miles, and then it increased to a speed of more than 1,800 miles in a few seconds.

In less than ten minutes, Smith's six-pointed star airship stopped the flying demonic beast.

Smith also looked at it curiously, this flying demonic beast was more than twenty meters long, with a slender body, wide wings, no feathers, and a whole body covered with tiny scales.

Looking at the head, the flying monster looked like an ordinary python, and it had no horns, but Smith could sense that it had dragon blood in its body.

On the back of the flying demonic beast, a middle-aged mage wearing metal magic armor looked nervous, looking at the two airships that stopped him in front of him. Higher in the sky, two flying battleships slowed down and circled above 10,000 meters.

On the six-pointed star airship, Smith is not responsible for communication, and the person in charge of communication is a twenty-five-level female magician.

She released her image and volleyed in close to the flying beast.

"Your Excellency, I hope you will stop following our fleet, this is a formal warning. You can also say that the sea is so vast that anyone can walk it. But I'm not trying to make sense. ”

The female mage's expression was grim, and there was no room for manoeuvre.

The mage said, "Actually, I'm here to ask for help. ”

"Sorry, we don't do free things. ”

"Our fleet was attacked, took refuge on a desert island, stumbled upon you, and wanted to pay for it, so I asked you to help solve the problem. ”

The female mage did not dare to call the shots, so she had to contact the flagship.

Goering said: "Then let him come over, this person is a thirty-second level epic mage, the danger is not great, and his level of demonic beasts is even lower, I am afraid it is only level twenty." ”

Goering did this because the fleet had the task of testing functionality, in addition to going to the city of the sun to replace the old fleet. The journey was peaceful, not even the more dangerous monsters. Now that this kind of thing is encountered, it is not impossible to delay it.

Smith is also nothing serious, if he is in a hurry to go back, he can take a flying battleship.

Dozens of small boats were released on the mothership, assembled into a pontoon, and the mage's flying monster was arranged to land, and the mage followed the boat, but instead of letting him get on the flagship, he got on a fireship.

There are a large number of magic ballistas, giant magic muskets and magic cannons on fireships, which are used to attack enemy ships during melee combat at sea.

Now there are only two fireships in the fleet, and it is not yet known how effective they will be.

Goering received the mage, and the mage first saluted Goering and introduced himself: "I am the mage of the Golden Dragon Family of the Holy Thunder Empire, my name is Takot. ”

"I am Goering, the commander of this fleet. ”

Tacot glanced at Goering's coat of arms and said, "I'm sorry, but I don't know much about heraldry. ”

"Arcane Empire, Xia family. My lord, the Duke, may not be so famous. ”

With a sarcastic look on his face, Thacot continued to apologize, "Although I follow you, I really don't know which fleet belongs to. ”

"In the southern seas, the only one who can have such a fleet is my lord. ”

"It's my lonely and unheard-of, our marquis's fiefdom, in the northern part of the Holy Thunder Empire. ”

"It's also rare for the nobles in the north of the Holy Thunder Empire to come to this place. ”

"Because of the accident in the Holy Thunder Empire, the orcs in the northern wasteland have moved south, and many nobles have lost their territories and fled. ”

"How is it possible, you say orcs, not half-orcs?"

"Yes, God knows how those orcs came out, and the mages of the empire didn't find out when the world passage opened. There are too many orcs, and it seems that the entire empire can't fit it. ”

Goering said, "How are the people of your realm?"

"Alas......" Takat didn't want to speak when he heard Goering ask. But I still have to answer.

"In my duke's territory, there are tens of millions of people, and probably only more than a million have escaped. The entire dukedom has fallen, and we don't know how. I think half of them fled to the south. More than a million people escaped with the fleet, and the orcs did not have a fleet, otherwise more people would have died. ”

"Orcs, so powerful?" said Goering, who didn't quite believe it.

"There are too many of them, the main city defense battle of the duke's lordship, 30,000 elite soldiers, plus the duke's 1,000 guards, all died in battle, killing hundreds of thousands of orcs, but they just can't kill them all. Takot gritted his teeth.

"Oh?" said Goering, frowning.

"You don't know, the orc soldiers are more than three meters tall, even if they are not professionals, their attack power is quite powerful. The soldiers relied on their exquisite skills to fight, but when the battle spirit was exhausted, the strength of hand-to-hand combat was not as good as that of the orcs. The magic power of mages is not endless, I am not in the main city, I heard that the number of orcs lost is more than half a million. ”

"What about the mage group?"

"Most of the Duke's mage regiment died in battle, and many of them died when they were broken. ”

"And what do you want us to help you with?"

"The original plan wasn't ...... We hope that someone will contain us. When he escaped, he carried a million people with him, but the supplies that the Duke had stockpiled on the islands were difficult to feed them, and they might run out after a few years. This is still my duke's good at accumulation, leaving a back road, in the Holy Thunder Empire, there are not many nobles with a back road. ”

He was telling the truth, because the Holy Thunder Empire had few enemies, and the number of orcs was scarce, and they could not pose a threat to the empire in the northern wasteland.

And the Holy Thunder Empire is rich in products, and it doesn't need to be as energetic as the Arcane Empire to have a bumper harvest, and the natural environment is really excellent.

Stockpiling supplies on overseas islands is something that only survivalists do.

How could a normal person do this, after Tacott finished speaking, he was afraid that Goering would not believe what he said, so he also rubbed his hands.