This spring, as hot air balloons lifted off one after another, Misty Town almost turned into a playground. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the middle of these hot air balloons with a diameter of tens of meters, the olive-shaped behemoth surrounded by iron scaffolding stands out.

Under Donner's command, diminutive dwarf craftsmen burrowed into the "airship", sewing partitions one after another. The smell of gum permeated the airship and beyond, even from the other side of town.

The cables that had been reserved for sewing the airship at the beginning were tied to large and small metal cages, which were fixed and connected one by one as if they were growing under the belly of the airship.

At the end of March, the town entered a foggy period, and by mid-May, when the fog ended, the townspeople realized that the airships in the open space next to the town were gone, and the scaffolding had been cleared.

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For more than a year, Sam has lived like a dream.

Once upon a time, the title of magician was unattainable for him, a farmer's child, and Sam's best vision of the future was nothing more than being able to become a helper of a noble lord's family.

Who would have thought that the Santan School of Magic would be open to civilians, and Sam, an ordinary peasant child, actually had outstanding magical talents, and in just three years, he was promoted to a mid-level magic apprentice.

However, none of this compares to what has happened in the last year.

During this year, Sam saw the real magic element, knew that the Magic Continent had been enslaving and oppressing Middle-earth, and knew what had happened to those genius mages who went to the Magic Continent.

In the defense base of the Special Administrative Region, known as the "Forbidden Land" next to Misty Town, Sam took the miraculous magic potion from Duke Vane and, along with more than a hundred companions, promoted to Bluebird Mage.

Thinking of this, Sam couldn't help but be glad that he had made the right decision—only he knew how nervous he was that afternoon when he decided to go to Duke Vane and join the war against the knight city-state.

However, all this is in the past, although he is now in the air at tens of thousands of meters, his legs will still involuntarily weaken, but Sam is full of confidence in this upcoming war.

"Regiment Commander, now the height is minus three hundred and thirty-nine, do you want to continue to decline?"

A loud debriefing pulls Sam's train of thought back from his memories to reality.

According to the operation manual compiled by Lord Duke, all the altitude readings on the hot air balloon are based on Misty Town, because the barometer can only be accurate to a height of 100 meters, so the reading of minus 339 is 33 kilometers and 900 meters below Misty Town, that is, it is about 36 kilometers away from the Knight Federation below.

Because the air pressure varies up and down with the climate, the last 100-meter reading is only meaningful for the change in the height of the balloon over a short period of time, as well as the difference in altitude between the individual balloons.

Sam glanced in the direction of the mothership, turned around and said, "Keep descending, keep the descent speed eleven, keep up with the mothership!"

Behind him, a boy of about sixteen years old extinguished the circle of flames marked with the number seven, lit up another circle with a slightly smaller diameter and the number eleven, and then looked towards the pointer at one end of the hot air balloon to confirm that the pointer was slowly approaching minus eleven, and then remained motionless, before shouting, "Descending speed eleven!"

Sam looked at the azimuth meter in his hand while checking the direction of the mothership, and after a while he turned back and said, "Fifteen degrees west-north, speed twelve!"

At this moment, a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl repeated Sam's command loudly: "Fifteen degrees west-north, twelve!" and slowly turned the lever that held the wind system circle in place.

I saw the hot air balloon turn at a small angle in the air and continue to chase in the direction of the airship.

Behind this hot air balloon, followed by a long string of hot air balloons of the same color and shape, marked with serial numbers from 1 to 30, and the numbers are more than 20 meters in diameter, even if they are far away, they can be seen clearly through the single-hole telescope in Sam's hand.

Each of these balloons has a capacity of four, including the captain, and is required to master the skills to control altitude, course and speed.

On the airship called the mothership, in addition to Donner himself, twelve children assisted him.

A total of 132 children, who have been trained at the SAR defense base for more than a year, have formed this unprecedented flying army.

Now, these brightly colored flying machines are lining up, dozens of kilometers north of Fog City, slowly heading north.

From time to time, Sam rubbed his palm against the placket of his robe, wiping away the sweat that was oozing from the nervousness, and the same nervousness made him cling to the iron fence with the palm of his hand at all times.

In fact, compared to the three subordinates who didn't dare to approach the fence at all, Sam was already brave.

Although the hot air balloon is more than 20 meters in diameter, the light iron cage hanging below it is only more than four meters in diameter, which is almost the size of a bedroom.

The wind came through the holes and blew on Sam, making his gray robes rattle. He didn't feel cold, though. Ever since he was promoted to Blue Bird Mage, he hadn't been bothered by the weather. It's just that the wind is a bit annoying, so much so that companions who are close at hand also need to speak loudly to hear each other clearly.

I don't know how long it took, but the sun gradually set in the west, and the sound transmission circle in the center of the hot air balloon safety cage suddenly sounded.

"Attention ships...... Attention ...... all ships" When Donner's voice sounded from the magic circle, the wind seemed to be lightened: "This test flight will implement the night flight plan, the cruising altitude of the mothership is minus 500, please stagger the altitude according to the serial number, and turn on the night cruise lights! The return time of this test flight will be scheduled for noon the day after tomorrow, and before the arrival of the transport ship, the mother ship does not yet have the ability to provide supplies to the ships.

"Captain, is there a problem?" the girl closest to the Circle of Voices shouted to Sam.

"No problem!" replied Sam.

There was no sound in the sound transmission circle, and it was obvious that the preparations before the test flight had been meticulous enough, and the captains of the other ships had no questions to ask.

At this time, the sun is gradually setting, and the magic lights on dozens of hot air balloons are lit up one after another, except for the fact that they flicker every few seconds, it is almost like stars that appear in the night sky in advance.

(I couldn't get up fast for the past two days, and it took me more than five hours to write these two chapters...... But I promise, there will be an outbreak this month! )