01 Airships and air thieves

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"Shake all the weight, let my unicorn rush...... Flying clouds...... Gallop the majestic ...... in the sky"

Kirin looked out the window at the blue sky while humming his favorite song. Although it had been two days since he took this airship, he still couldn't get enough of this infinite sky.

In fact, the airship he was aboard was called the Virgin, a high-class passenger ship belonging to the kingdom of La Velis, which regularly pit and fare between the royal capital Lingeil and the kingdom's southern border. Normally, the passengers of a high-class passenger ship like the Virgin are either dignitaries or wealthy merchants, but the Kirin is not the first two, but just a commoner.

Kirin comes from the Great Wilderness Village, a small village located on the western border of the kingdom, and the reason for the strange name "Great Wilderness Village" is said to be because the ancestor of the villagers was a god-man from another world, and "Great Wilderness" is the name of that place. Although after thousands of years, the ancestor of that god man has long been missing, his bloodline has been passed down in the Great Wilderness Village, and his blood is also flowing on the Qilin's body, and the rare pair of black pupils and black are the best proof.

Located on the border of the kingdom, the Great Wilderness Village is a "lawless zone" infested with monsters and thieves. In a dangerous environment, although the unicorn is young, it has already honed a strong martial arts. Originally, the Great Wilderness Village was not under the jurisdiction of the kingdom of Lavelis, and to the Kirin, the name of the royal capital of Lingeil was as distant as the story of the wandering poet. As for why he took this passenger ship to the royal capital this time, it was actually because of his brother.

Kirin's brother's name is Chechen, five years older than him, and like him, he was born in the Great Wilderness Village. Although Qilin didn't know what his brother was doing, it seemed that Chechen was serving in the army of the Kingdom of Lavelis, and his status was not low. Originally, since his brother was doing well, there was no need for Qilin to worry too much, but because Chechen hadn't written back for a while, Qilin was a little concerned, and just three days ago, he suddenly received a letter from his brother, which asked him to come to the royal capital once, but did not explain the specific reason.

Chechen enclosed the letter with a ferry ticket and a considerable amount of travel expenses, and did not give Kirin a chance to refuse. Fortunately, Kirin was also quite interested in the outside world, and there was nothing important in the village recently, so he accepted his brother's kindness, packed his luggage and went to the city designated in the letter, where he boarded the passenger ship to the royal capital, and then spent two days on the ship.

For Kirin, who grew up in a border village, flying in the sky in an airship is still the first experience in his life, so the first day is almost immersed in the joy of new experiences.

Except for the forbidden bridge, Kirin has run through almost all the airships, whether it is the huge propulsion oars in the bow of the ship or the magical floating mechanisms in the machine room, which makes him feel very fresh. However, his exuberant behavior fell into the eyes of other passengers, and he became the object of contempt and contempt of the dignitaries. Kirin, who had been immersed in the new experience at first, hadn't paid attention yet, but now that the initial excitement had faded, it was hard for him not to pay attention to the blatant contemptuous gazes.

Just as Kirin was pondering, an exaggerated voice suddenly sounded behind him.

"Ahh

With the malicious lines of direction, the Qilin's evil feelings were stimulated, and he aimed at it from the corner of his eye.

I saw a well-dressed, fair-skinned aristocratic young master turning out of the passage, showing a disgusted expression to the unicorn standing by the porthole.

"Really, you can't do even the most basic cleaning, what the hell are the Authority people doing with so much salary every year? If it gets the stench of hillbillies, it has to be washed off with vanilla......

The aristocratic young master said the lines that made the unicorn goosebumps fall all over the ground in an exaggerated voice, and then turned his anger to the body of his companions.

"You too! Erie! Calling Young Master Ben out, you didn't even prepare a private yacht, what kind of system is this! Do you look down on the Embrion family?"

“...... Yes, I'm very sorry. The one who bowed his head and apologized to him was a young man who was Svenwen.

The young man, known as "Yili", was dressed in plain white, with simple gold trim on the sleeves and neckline, and a corner of the pocket watch peeking out of his breast pocket. With a cautious appearance and a modest look, it was really difficult for people to feel bad, so the Kirin's gaze stayed on him for a longer time.

"In the future, I will ask my father to make good arrangements, Master Conrad, please believe that the Greine Chamber of Commerce has no disrespect for the Embrion family. Yili did not echo the other party's vicious words to the Qilin, but used a calm tone to appease the other party's feelings.

"Hmph, is that really the case......" The noble young master named Conrad replied noncommittally, then turned to the unicorn and ordered as if it were a matter of course: "Hey, untouchables, this young master wants to go over, get out of the way from there." ”

That arrogant attitude naturally aroused Qilin's anger, and he narrowed his eyes slightly.

In the battle with the monsters in the Great Wilderness Village, the Qilin had already mastered the skill of intimidating his opponent, and shot a sharp and unhesitating hostility from those dark pupils, penetrating the fragile spiritual defense of the pampered noble young master in an instant. Conrad's movements froze on the spot, and the young man next to him was also affected, and his face changed slightly.

"You...... What is that expression? Do you want to rebel against the nobles?" After the initial fear, Conrad reacted, glaring at the Kirin with a grim look, emphasizing his identity in a ridiculous trill. "Sue sù you, Ben...... Young Master Ben is the son-in-law of the Embrion family! Attacking Young Master Ben is tantamount to making enemies of the kingdom! You ...... Do you have the guts to do that?"

Qilin looked at the aristocratic young master in front of him wordlessly—limbs without the slightest muscle, a fragile body, and the appearance of not knowing the height of the sky and daring to show his teeth and claws to the strong, it was really difficult for people to have any other feelings except funny.

Facing the aristocratic young master who was trembling and threatening, Qilin didn't even bother to get angry, just gave a brief order.

"Get out. ”

The command without the slightest nonsense highlights the overwhelming strength of the commander. In the face of the coercion released by the Qilin, even the dullest people should understand the huge difference in strength between each other. Conrad's face quickly turned pale, and he looked around as if asking for help, but when the usual guards were not around, his head immediately drooped. Conrad glared at Kirin indignantly, and then reluctantly found a staircase for himself to go down.

"Count...... Forget it, if you continue to stay here, you will get the stench of hillbillies, so Master Ben should go to the deck and take a walk!"

"That's a good idea, Master Conrad. If you go to the deck now, it won't be long before you can see the view of the royal capital. Erie echoed Conrad, but before leaving with Conrad, he glanced at Kirin with a meaningful look and nodded lightly at Kirin as if apologetic.

After the two left, Kirin turned his gaze to the sky outside the window, and the sea of clouds passing by the airship was still so magnificent, but his mood was ruined by the scene just now. For Qilin, who grew up in Dahuang Village, aristocracy or something is a noun that has only been seen in books, like the kind of waste that has no power to restrain the chicken, and does not know the height of the sky, and it can't live for half a day in the "lawless zone". If the nobles in the royal capital were all like this, then Qilin really doubted how Chechen had endured it all these years.

“...... Huh?"

Kirin blinked suddenly, and as he looked into his field of vision, he could see that the clouds on the left side of the Virgin were changing.

It turned out that a huge ramming angle suddenly stretched out from the white clouds, and then an airship that had never been seen before burst out of the clouds. The airship was half the size of the Virgin, painted a gloomy black-grey, and in its hideous appearance, a black skull flag fluttered high, and the bow of the ship erected a huge ramming angle aimed straight at the Virgin, which was close at hand, and rushed towards it with the predatory degree of a wild beast.

"That's ......" Kirin frowned at the menacing airship, and just then, a strange whistling sound reached his ears.

The source of the whistling sound should be the airship, sharp and thin, with a faint murderous aura, as if it were some kind of ominous code. Kirin speculated on the meaning of the other party's whistling, but before that, what reached his ears faster was the terrifying screams that rang out one after another throughout the airship.

........................

The voice...... It's an air thief! It's a warning before the air thief boards the ship!"

"Air thieves? Why are there air thieves? Damn! Isn't this near the royal capital? What are the air forces doing?"

"Air Force, Air Force or something, I can't believe it for a long time! Didn't even Wang Duringeil be attacked a while ago!"

"What then? Escape...... Can you escape, or surrender......"

"I ...... I've heard that if you are willing to pay the ransom, you can save your life, but the woman will be ......."

"Ahhhhh

Panicked voices rang out everywhere on the passenger ship, and the well-dressed dignitaries turned into helpless lambs. Although there were also experienced crew members who tried to appease these distinguished passengers, they ended up being scolded as scapegoats.

The Virgin was thrown into chaos almost instantly, and that was exactly what the Sky Thieves wanted to do with their horns of warning.

"Air thieves?" Compared with these dignitaries who are used to flying airships, the unicorns who are riding airships for the first time are faster to adapt to the situation.

The so-called "air thieves", that is, bandit groups that use the sky as a hunting ground, usually target merchant ships and passenger ships to carry out robbery, and often attack cities and towns on the ground, and take plunder and do all kinds of evil wherever they go. For the people living on earth, the air thieves are the two major scourges along with monsters. Although Kirin's hometown is located in the "lawless zone" outside the jurisdiction of the kingdom, it has not been sacked by air thieves, so he is no stranger to these air bandits.

In fact, for the people of the Great Wilderness Village, compared to the many monsters active in the "Impossible Zone", the air pirate ship armed with flying technology is a greater scourge. Unlike monsters that can fight head-to-head, cunning air thieves will bombard the ground from the air first, and even the most powerful warriors will be helpless in the face of such a situation. After every bombing by the air thieves, what is left behind is the village that has been almost blown into ruins, so although the people of the Great Wilderness Village hate the air thieves very much, they have nothing to do with these bandits flying around.

For the Kirin, it was the first time that he had experienced a hand-to-hand encounter with an air thief in the air.

While the heart was beating with tension, there was an incredible sense of exaltation in the body.

He suddenly wondered if the martial arts he had cultivated with monsters as his opponents could have the same effect on the air thief......

At this moment, the Virgin, which was originally sailing smoothly, suddenly jolted, and the Kirin looked out the window, and now the flow of the surrounding clouds also accelerated significantly, obviously the airship was trying to get rid of the air pirate ship. But this trivial effort could only push back the time of the attack a little, and when the passenger ship for comfort met the air pirate ship built for the purpose of killing, its fate was already sealed.

By the time the Kirin had rushed to the upper deck, the pirate ship had caught up with the Virgin by an astonishing degree. The pitch-black ramming horn with the skull flag slanted into the belly of the airship from the left side, and with a violent tremble, two airships, one large and one small, joined in the air in a forced posture. Since the impact point chosen by the air thieves deliberately avoided the Virgin's chamber, the floating mechanism that continued to operate still provided enough buoyancy for the airship, so the two airships floated quietly in the air, providing the perfect stage for the air thieves' next killing.

The air thieves jumped onto the deck of the Virgin along the ramming angle, and then automatically split into two groups, one to pounce on the captain's bridge and the other to the passengers on the deck who had not yet had time to escape. The principle of the air thieves in dealing with their prey was quite simple, the worthless men were killed, and the young and beautiful women were left behind, stripped of their clothes and tied up, and left for later to enjoy slowly.

The gang of air thieves had a clear division of labor and ruthless methods, and while the first group had almost cleared the deck, the second group had also finished suppressing the bridge.

A handful of armed crew members and captains who tried to resist were killed on the spot, and the air thieves took control of the bridge and deck, leaving only a few dozen panicked passengers on the Virgin in the lower cabins, immobilized like lambs to the slaughter. The whole operation was swift and accurate, perfect as a drill, and all the thieves had to do was drive the captive airship back to their lair, and then they could feast on the women and the treasure inside.

Seeing that they had completely mastered the passenger ship, the air thieves who remained on the deck couldn't help but get ready to move. Because according to the rules of the air thief, although the treasure must be handed over to the boss for distribution, the air thief who robbed the woman can give priority to the use of the prey for a whole day -- you know, this high-class passenger ship is full of high-ranking officials and nobles, those noble ladies with fine skin and tender meat, and those delicate and delicate ladies, but they have never touched the high-end goods in their lives! As soon as they thought of this, the air thieves could not hold back their lust, and several quick air thieves had already kicked through the deck door and rushed into the cabin viciously.

The air thieves held their favorite scimitars in their hands, and the crescent-shaped blades were still dripping with hot blood, and the people who were already panicked were even more frightened and screamed when they saw the terrifying appearance of the air thieves. What kind of gentlemanly demeanor, what kind of ladylike temperament, all thrown out of the clouds, one by one just desperately squeezed back, crying and hugging tightly in the stern of the ship, without the threat of the air thieves, he gave up resistance first.

Of course, the air thieves could not have welcomed such a reaction, and they looked at the white and tender lambs with greedy eyes, but suddenly frowned.

They now, not all the passengers are lambs, in front of the cowardly flock of lambs, there is a black horse in the store.

........................

It was a young man with a rare blackness, dressed in coarse cloth clothes, and he could distinguish it from those well-dressed dignitaries at a glance.

While the others were desperately pushing backwards and cowering in fear, the young man moved forward slowly, his movements like flowing water, and the ferocity of the air thieves did not seem to be enough to make him hesitate a little.

Like a cheetah gently bent down before predation, the young man slowly moved his five fingers, and his eyes radiated cruel and exalted joy when he looked at the air thieves - if he was a seasoned warrior, he should be able to feel the young man's deliberately restrained murderous aura and be frightened, right?

They are a gang of evil air thieves, and in previous robberies, they have occasionally encountered such pretentious guys, and those guys have all become examples of killing chickens and monkeys without exception.

The six air thieves who broke into the cabin gave each other a secret signal with their eyes, and then moved their feet to surround the young man in the center, and the young man was in danger of being one against six in an instant. As for the dignitaries who had turned into lambs behind him, not only did they have the slightest desire to come out to help, but they cast gloating and even mocking glances at the youth.

The abuser's reaction fueled the abuser's arrogance, and the air thieves sneered and forced the youth in, who seemed to them to have nothing but to stand still and obediently let them cut down.

A bearded air thief stands at the front, he is the stormtrooper leader of the air pirates.

The bearded man raised the scimitar in his hand at the young man, and the sharpened blade made him squint his eyes triumphantly. He loved to hear the voices of people crying for mercy before they died, especially young and beautiful women, forty-nine of whom had died under this sword. In the past, he had always tortured his prey to the last breath, but when there were fifty worth remembering, he planned to hurry up and cut off the young man's head with a single sword.

The beard was distracted for about a second, but when he looked back at his target, the young man five paces away was nowhere to be seen.

Puzzled, the beard subconsciously looked around, but just as he turned his neck, a sudden force hit his stomach.

The force was so strong and fierce that his internal organs were shattered into minced flesh in an instant. The residual strength of his strength sent his body into the air, crashing through the four-finger-thick canopy, and scattering on the deck in a posture of flesh and blood, marking a red cross of negation for the air thieves' self-righteous hijacking operation.

The sight of the beard bursting through the deck like a cannonball had an indescribable impact on the spirit of the onlookers. Whether it was the air thief holding the knife or the passengers huddled in a group, they all looked at the black young man who maintained a palm-waving posture with an almost dull gaze. But on the other hand, the Kirin, who stunned everyone's mouth, also froze in place, looking at his right palm with an unbelievable gaze.

"It's a weak ......"

Because it was the first time to fight the air thief head-on, the unicorn was highly vigilant and unreservedly used all his strength, unexpectedly......

"It's so weak......"

Kirin couldn't believe that these little characters in front of him, who were trembling even raising their knives, were the vicious air thieves who were always riding on the air pirate ship and destroying the village to a pulp.

Compared to the monsters he usually fights, these air thieves are so weak that they are not in shape!

The strong hatred and even more disappointment on top of the hatred gave birth to a very destructive emotion in the heart of the unicorn. A roar of murderous and fierce energy pierced the air thieves' auditory nerves in the next second, and became the last sound they heard.

"It's too weak!"

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