On the morning of January 2, 998, inside the secret ruins of Iowa, the original wall of the Algae Tank had disappeared and was replaced by the original carved stone wall.

As more and more merfolk followed Rand completely to death, the layout of this magically independent underground relic was also changed: all the merfolk were placed in an exclusive underground cave water layer, which was like a small thermostatic lake, and hundreds of large and small rock pillars were erected in hundreds of thousands of square meters of water surface, which allowed the water layer to have a space more than ten meters high and could be filled with sufficient air, and above this water layer was the Iowa Mountains rock formation at an altitude of thousands of meters.

Rand drew some lighting patterns and life patterns on the rock pillars and top slabs to ensure that the merfolk were comfortable in the water layer.

Many of the magic algae tanks in the ruins were scattered into several rectangular caves by the rand, and the blue water left by the legendary creature spirit bead a few years ago has a strong promoting effect on these magic algae, especially the dozen seeds that the legendary panda man Xiu Ming gave to the rand, after breaking the shell and germinating in the jellyfish, it is growing rapidly after adding the blue water, and it must be moved to a higher and larger sea tank.

In addition to signing some kind of magic agreement with himself, there are also a few diehards who were directly planted with demon algae by Rand, which has become a typical example of intimidating other sea monsters.

And early this morning, after paying homage to the temples of Iowa and communicating with the orc and half-orc priests, Rand took Xiu Ming to visit his underground "aquarium".

After seeing the mermaid cave, the seaweed tank, and the sea monster pool, the legendary pandaman sighed: "I heard that many people in the imperial capital regret that you were born 1,000 years later, and now I am beginning to agree with them. ”

Rand smiled and said, "Thank you for your affirmation, Your Excellency. ”

In the last 1000 years, many strongholds and cities of the sea beast clan and the sea elves have been invaded by the sea god lineage, and the two clans have reached a precarious point, if it weren't for the dragon clan in the ocean, they really have no vassals in the ocean, and have to protect the two clans, I am afraid they would have been completely wiped out by the mermaids.

For the empire and the dragons, the appearance of Rant, whether on land or in the sea, has curbed a considerable decline for them, and the two will naturally make similar sighs.

"Your Excellency, however, I would suggest that it is best to bring some of the seaweed to Your Excellency, the last time He came, he showed me his form thousands of years ago, when He was clearly more prosperous than he is now." Rand really didn't have the vocabulary, because the spirit plant was not a demon plant, but more like a small ecosystem.

"I think he just needs more demonic algae to add to his body."

"Please rest assured, I have already reported to His Majesty Jinghe, and we will carry out the operation in the near future," the panda man nodded, he understood the current problem of the spirit strain better than Lante, "But there are some things that still need your cooperation, I need to customize some demon pattern containers for you to transport these demon algae, and send them to Honglongyan along with other ordinary containers." ”

After several times of planning, Jinghe thought that instead of letting his subordinates secretly smuggle it, it would be better to send some of the demon algae into the Red Dragon Rock with great fanfare in the name of transporting seafood, anyway, those lazy dragons didn't bother to care about what was in the magic pattern cabinet at all.

For Xiu Ming's words, Lan Te naturally fully supported it, after all, every task of Red Dragon Rock has rich rewards.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Rand asked a question: "Your Excellency, yesterday the fire reminded me that if I could have a device that could stay in the air for a long time, I would be able to avoid the threat of the sea and monitor the entrance and exit of the fjord for a long time. ”

"Hmm......" the pandaman thought for a moment, then said, "There is indeed something like you said in history, there was an empty pontoon in the Goblin Age, the size of a warship, which could stay in the air for a long time with wind magic. ”

"Ah, there's such a thing!" Rand was amazed, but he already knew it in his heart, after all, the two former demigod goblins in the family, he brought it up today to want to know Honglongyan's attitude towards the airship.

"In fact, as early as after the fall of the Goblin Age, various city-states tried to restore those empty ships, but whether it was an elf, a dwarf, or a human empire, they never succeeded." "It's not just because of magic, it's more important that it's very difficult to process empty boats. ”

The panda people told Rand that the dragons, as the masters of the sky, did not take the slow airship as a threat at all, but actively funded the Empire's research and development of the airship, after all, there were special dragon airships in the Goblin Era, which were specially designed to provide rest and supplies for the dragons who traveled long distances in the sky.

However, the Goblin Age airship is not the hot air balloon of Rand's homeland, it is more like a sea ship with sails hanging on the sides of the hull, and the airship at the end of the empire even has a special magic furnace inside the wind system circle on its sail to provide magic power.

"In other words, the difficulty is still in the magic furnace?" Rand said subconsciously.

"The magic furnace of the empty ship is not a difficult point," the pandaman shook his head, "At the end of the Goblin Empire, at least dozens of empty ship magic furnaces were built, and these magic furnaces did not need to reserve magic power, and even the power was very limited, and they could not be used in the city or the magic tower, so there have always been several such magic furnaces in the empire and the Red Dragon Rock. Just because a bird has a heart doesn't mean it can fly.

The same is true for airships, the construction of airships in the Goblin Age is very complicated, in addition to the magic furnace that drives the magic patterns, the real difficulty is the various magic patterns on its hull, the processing of the hull, and the temperature, air pressure and magical environment that are guaranteed in the air. ”

"So that's ......" Lan Ling nodded, although he already knew that there were empty ships in the Goblin Era, but he didn't understand why the Human Empire couldn't be reproduced, originally he took it for granted that it was an energy problem, but when he heard the panda, there was obviously a hidden secret.

Seeing that Rand was so interested in the airship, Xiu Ming said with a smile: "But I suggest you go to the Imperial Capital Academy of Magic to visit the mechanical workshop there."

They have been researching Goblin Age Empty Pontoons for thousands of years, collecting the wreckage of more than a dozen empty pontoons and working to restore the best of them. ”

When it comes to the Imperial Capital School of Magic, Rand is not very unfamiliar, but he has never been to the so-called mechanical academy: "Huh? And this kind of thing, I've been there a few times before, but I've never heard of it. ”

"Yes, because you always like to spend time with elves, and the mechanical academy of the school of magic is full of dwarves and halflings, and they don't like the elven race very much."