Chapter 37: Strategically Significant Islands

When everyone looked up, they saw a dark shadow passing through the sky, casting a shadow of the boss on the ground, just enveloping the dock.

The Grand Magician of Truchi glanced at it and asked in shock, "What is this?"

Xu Yi smiled and said, "Just take a look." ”

After that, Xu Yi made an inviting gesture to the great magician of Truqi, directly added a wind resistance technique to himself, and flew towards the top of the cliff.

The great magician of Truqi looked puzzled and flew up with him.

Steele, who had the weakest magic strength among several people, now also had the strength of a sixth-level magician, and naturally also had the strength to use flying magic, so the group flew directly up, and after a while, they flew to the cliff together with the strange "black cloud" in the sky, and fell in the open space outside Xu Yi's private manor.

Steele, who was flying at the end, had just landed on his feet, and the "black cloud" in the sky fell right behind.

When it settled on the ground, everyone looked at it and found that this "black cloud" was a whole ellipse, about 30 meters long and less than 10 meters wide, in the shape of an olive, which at first glance looked like a ship.

"This thing...... Could it be a magic airship?"

Curiously, Grand Magician Truchi leaned over and circled around the magic airship, his face full of admiration.

"Camilla has mentioned to me before that your Chamber of Commerce is working on a magical airship capable of manned flight at will. However, when he mentioned it to me, he said that the magic airship you developed was only a few meters long, and it could only fit one person at most. Now this one ...... I think I can fit at least one or twenty people, right?"

"The authorized number of people is currently set at 18 people, but it has not yet reached 20 people. Xu Yi explained with a smile.

"That's pretty bad, too. The Grand Magician of Truchi couldn't help but exclaim, "Eighteen people." Even if the average person is fifty kilograms. It adds up to nearly a meal. Able to crash into something weighing a ton and fly in the sky. It's amazing how fast you can fly!"

Xu Yi laughed, thinking that the current loading capacity of this magic airship is less than a ton, which is enough to make the great magician Truqi so surprised, if he is allowed to see those large cargo planes on the earth, he can't scare his jaw out?

There was a sudden sound from inside the magic airship, and as soon as a door on the side that could probably accommodate two people to pass Guò side by side opened, Akali's figure rushed out of it.

"Grow up. We're back!" Akali waved vigorously at Xu Yi, her gaze swept over the faces of the others, and finally landed on Steele, who rushed over and took Steele's hand, shaking it and shouting excitedly.

"Steele, you should have come with us on the magic airship. I never thought I could look down at such a high altitude and be so smooth, it was incredible!"

Steele glanced at her, "It's not like you haven't flown into the sky when you've used flying magic." What are you so excited about?"

"That's different. Akali shook her head vigorously. "You can fly into the sky with flying magic, but you can fly at the highest...... It can't fly as high as a ten-story building. It's about 20 meters, less than 30 meters. But if you take this magic airship, you can fly hundreds of meters in the air at most! I tell you, looking down from a height of tens of meters and looking down from a height of several hundred meters are two different things!"

"Really?" said Steele, confused.

"Of course. Do you know that when I look down at a few hundred meters in the air, the people on the ground become so small as ants that I can't even see what they look like! When I look down from above, I suddenly feel so great!"

Although Akali had always been exaggerated, it was the first time for Steele to see her so excited about something, and he was immediately intrigued.

"Well, the next time this magic airship sets sail again, I'm going to go up and experience it too. Xu Yi, okay?"

Xu Yi shrugged: "You shouldn't ask me about this, but you should ask Evita." After all, she is the main person in charge of the magic airship project, and in this regard, she is the expert and has the most right to speak. If she agrees with you going up, then I'm fine. ”

Evita had just come out of the magic airship at this time, and when she saw Xu Yi throwing the question at herself, she smiled and nodded: "No problem." After these few realizations, I am sure that the safety of this magic airship has been guaranteed to a certain extent. Besides, Steele is a magician, so even if something goes wrong, nothing will happen. ”

Steele immediately looked at Xu Yi, and Xu Yi nodded: "Okay, since Evita agreed, then of course I don't object." ”

Ignoring the feelings of Steele and Akali exchanging feelings about riding the magic airship over there, Xu Yi walked up to Evita and asked in a low voice, "Is it done?"

Evita nodded slightly, reached into her arms, took out a thick piece of brown paper, and handed it to Xu Yi.

Xu Yi took it, didn't open it, greeted the great magician Truqi who was looking around the magic airship, and led a group of people into the manor.

Everyone entered the innermost room of the manor, and Xu Yi opened the brown paper that Evita had just handed him and spread it on the table in the middle of the room.

This piece of kraft paper is already not small when folded, and this spread spread out and covers the entire table, which is more than two meters long and more than one meter wide.

There were a bunch of messy lines and annotations drawn on the paper, and the great magician of Truqi leaned over to look at it carefully for a while at Xu Yi's signal, and was suddenly stunned.

"This ...... Looks like a map around here?"

"Yes. Xu Yi nodded and smiled, reaching out and dotting on the brown paper. "Look, this is Carrasga. Well...... When I took a small magic assault boat from the sea, I thought it was quite far away, but judging from the map, it didn't seem to be too far. Evita, what scale did you draw this map at?"

"It's about 1:500,000. ”

"1:50000......0? In this case, the straight-line distance between Carrasga Island and here is probably less than 100 kilometers. Xu Yi thought about it. Nodding. "That's right. It probably took more than two hours to get there with a small magic assault boat. That's pretty much it. ”

The great magician of Truqi looked at the map, and then at Xu Yi, his face full of puzzlement.

"Xu Yi, how did you get this map? and...... It's weird that you have such a detailed map, which includes not only the entire Duchy of Stantin, but even the Black Rice Heath to the north and the Sark Kingdom further north. ”

"How? I asked Evita to draw it in the sky with a magic airship. Otherwise, why do you think the map is so detailed, and the size is so standard?" Xu Yi asked with a look of course on his face.

"Hmm...... Very detailed indeed. As for the size standard...... It's really good, at least this one around here, it's exactly the same as what I've seen in the sky before. Grand Magician Camilla, who was lying on the map and studying carefully, also nodded in agreement.

Xu Yi smiled: "Maybe it's more accurate than when you look at it in the sky." Because you can't fly that high when you're in the sky, and you can't stay in the air that long, right?"

"That's right. "Grand Magician Camilla doesn't deny it. "When you fly high, you can see farther. This magic airship can fly hundreds of meters high, and even if I am a great magician, I can only fly up to a hundred meters, which is far worse than that. ”

When he heard Akali describe the flight altitude of the magic airship just now, the Grand Magician of Truqi was still a little skeptical, but now he heard the Grand Magician Camilla confirm it himself. The Great Magician of Truqi was even more amazed.

It's just a magical mechanical device that can fly higher than a great magician. It's also a bit subversive.

What's more, the speed of this magic airship is not slow at all.

Coupled with the fact that it can carry even people who don't know magic into the air, it's much more useful than a magician.

"Archmagician Truchi, come and see, this is the island of Carrasga. Have you noticed that the geographical location of Carrasga Island is very crucial?" Xu Yi's question pulled the Grand Magician Truchi back from his surprise.

"Hmm, what's the matter?" said the Grand Mage of Truqi after looking at the map for a long time, but he couldn't see what was going on.

He was born and raised on the island of Carrasga, and he never felt that the island's geographical location was critical.

"Look here......" Xu Yi stretched out his right index finger and first clicked on the location of Carrasga Island on the map, and then clicked several times on the coastline on the map. "Look, first of all, the island of Carrasca is less than a hundred kilometers in a straight line from where we are now. And then secondly, you look at it again, the island of Carrasca is even shorter in a straight line from the Black Rice Heath, not even a hundred kilometers......"

"Wait. The great magician of Truqi raised his hand and interrupted Xu Yi's words. "You said that Carrasca Island is relatively close to here, why do you mention the Black Rice Wasteland?

Xu Yi smiled slightly, nodded on the closest stretch of coastline from Carrasga Island in the Black Rice Wasteland, and said, "If you set up a port here, do you think it makes sense?"

The great magician of Truqi looked at the position Xu Yi pointed to, and his eyes suddenly lit up, and then immediately dimmed.

"It's not realistic. If there really is such a port, it will be very important for the island of Carrasga. But behind this is the Black Rice Wasteland, and it is also close to the most ferocious and barbaric orc tribes in the depths of the Black Rice Wasteland. If you want to set up a port here, it is simply impossible. ”

"There's nothing impossible about it. Xu Yi smiled. "Actually, I've been working on this for a long time. As long as we have a qiē shun lì, sooner or later we will solve these orc tribes that are the biggest obstacles, and then build this port along the way. ”

Grand Mage Truqi frowned: "You don't need to make such a big move, right? Those orc tribes are very strong, and they are still located in the depths of the Black Rice Wasteland, and it is too difficult to deal with them." If only for Carrasga...... Even I don't think it's cost-effective, so I might as well think of another way. ”

"No, Your Excellency the Grand Mage. I did this not only to improve the living conditions of the inhabitants of Carrasga, but of course this is a very important reason, but in my opinion, the most important factor in supporting me in doing so is the strong strategic importance of Carrasga. ”

"Strategic significance?" said Grand Magician Truqi looked at Xu Yi in amazement.

All he had heard about Carrasga, where he had been born and raised, had been negative, and it was the first time he had heard someone associate such a ranking as "strategic" with it.

This Xu Yi ...... Is he serious? (To be continued......