The next evening, Nolan, Yuna, Rogen, and Aisha left Peak City in a carriage and headed outside the city for the first test flight of Valkyrie's equipment.

When they were at the gates, they were stopped by the defenders, and some soldiers looked at them with scrutinizing eyes and asked:

"There's a war going on outside, and martial law is already under martial law inside the city, what are you going out for?"

Nolan poked his head out of the carriage and didn't explain much, instead pointing to the armband he was wearing on his left arm.

It was the armband of the independent combat squad of the Knights of Linfeng, and in addition to the regimental emblem of the Knights, the armband also had the unit number of 621 written on it.

It's actually Unit 621......

The soldier's face was different, and he did not question him any further, but gave him a military salute and let him go neatly.

The so-called Independent Combat Team 621 is actually a combat unit specially set up for Evelyn, the eldest lady of the Baihart family.

Originally, as Evelyn, she was not supposed to join the Knights and join the front line of the battlefield, but it was only based on her strong personal desire to participate in the war that this combat unit was set up for her alone.

Because it is the sister of the city lord who personally leads the team, this unit has a high level of independent combat authority, and no one would think that it would be easy to touch the moldy head of this army.

Under the signboard of "Unit 621", the carriage passed through the checkpoint smoothly and drove towards the outside of the city.

"Yes, you're capable now." Luo Zhen looked at the armband on his arm, and his face was surprised.

A month ago, he was an unknown alchemy apprentice next door, but a month later, he took advantage of the wind of war and joined the team of the most "second generation of officials" in the Knights.

This is enough to prove that Noren has climbed into the relationship of the Baihat family - this is the most powerful backer of Ringpeak City!

One can expect how high Noren's status in Peak City will climb in the future, and he is still only a young man of only seventeen years old.

"Ability?"

Nolan curled the corners of his mouth, "By the time the test flight comes, you'll be able to see what I'm really capable of." ”

Climbing relationships and seeking status, all of this is meaningless.

The only thing that can really make you stand firm in the troubled times and teach others to look at them is your genuine strength.

And the Valkyrie backpack will become the most powerful proof of his talent and strength.

The carriage traveled to an open field outside the city, which was some distance from Linfeng City, and was in a safe range that would not be harassed by the prairie people, which happened to be the location of their test flight.

Under Nolan's guidance, Rogen and Essia jump out of the carriage and help Yuna equip Valkyrie's backpack.

"Anyway, why are you here?" Nolan looked at Aisha.

"Poof! Is it too late to ask this question now! ”

Aisha wrinkled her nose and protested, "I'm not a vase, I can help too!" ”

Although she is not an extraordinary person and does not know how to manipulate puppetry, she has also learned some alchemy knowledge from Luo Zhen before.

Even if he didn't become an alchemist at the age of seventeen like Nolan, he still had the average level of an alchemy apprentice, and it was perfectly fine to help out.

Like now, she is in charge of the maintenance and maintenance of alchemy weapons, as well as helping Yuna put on the Valkyrie backpack.

Yuna stood still as Aisha helped her strap on the Valkyrie backpack, then fastened the harness, chest strap, belt, and leg straps for her, securing her to the backpack.

In the process, she subconsciously glanced at Yuna's pair of green bulges outlined by chest straps and straps, and then straightened her proud chest without a trace.

Hey, win!

“？”

Yuna wondered how Aisha straightened her chest, and thought it was because she had a sore back, so she said, "I can do it myself." ”

"Ah, it's okay, it's okay, that's all we can help you with."

Aisha hurriedly responded with a smile, and after a short period of comfort, he silently condemned himself in his heart.

Aisha, Aixia, where did your gratuitous desire to compare come from?

Fastening her backpack and strapping her boots again, Valkyrie gear was donned, and Aisha took a few steps back, leaving room for a heavily armed Yuna.

Yuna grasped the joystick in her left hand and mentally reworked the operation that Nolan had taught her in the morning.

The joystick of the Valkyrie's backpack is in the shape of a handlebar that is attached to her left wrist by a control cable, allowing her to hold it with one hand.

There are six switches on the handlebar, which are "Hover: Ascend", "Hover: Hover", "Accelerate", "Flight: Forward", "Flight: Move Left", and "Flight: Move Right".

"Flying Spell" was once considered one of the most unsuitable spells to make a magic channel, because it was different from ordinary spells in that it needed to be continuously activated and control the direction of flight.

After the wind mage casts the flight, he also devotes a part of his energy to control the flight, and silently reiterates the spell when necessary, and changes the flight state in turn.

This is not much of a problem for wind mages, as long as they practice diligently to increase their proficiency in spellcasting, but this is not the case for magic arrays.

The spell status activated by the magic circle is fixed, i.e., you can only select the magic circle that engraves the "Single Direction Flight".

Once activated, the circle can only fly in a fixed direction, and cannot turn around at any time by chanting spells like a real mage.

To this end, Nolan actually engraved three copies of the "Flying Technique: Forward" magic circle in the backpack, and fixed their spell generators directly behind the backpack, on the left and on the right side.

To fly forward, activate the "Flight: Forward" circle directly behind your backpack.

To move left, activate the "Flight: Forward" circle on the right side of the backpack.

To move to the right, activate the "Flight: Forward" circle on the left side of the backpack.

The "Hover" spell has also been split into two circles, "Hover: Rise" and "Hover: Hover", corresponding to two cast switches.

As a result, just three spells end up requiring six cast switches to manipulate.

Although it is a bit troublesome, there is only this solution for the time being.

When she was ready, Yuna nodded at Nolan.

Nolan flipped through the notebook he was carrying with him and said, "Now for the first round of testing, please activate the backpack, rise to a height of two meters and keep hovering." ”

Hearing this, Yuna pressed the "levitation: ascent" switch on the joystick, and the cyan circle unfolded on the soles of her boots, and the converging wind elemental slowly lifted it.

In fact, in the morning, she had already tried to successfully activate the Valkyrie backpack in the yard, but at that time, in order to prevent attention, she only did the lowest levitation, and familiarized herself with the suspension of her feet off the ground.

The feeling of being suspended in the air is completely different from stepping on the ground, and in addition to controlling the joystick, she also has to maintain her balance while levitating, which is really a technical job.

Upon visual inspection of a height of two meters, Yuna released the "Hover: Ascent" button and instead pressed the "Hover: Hover" switch to the end.

When the hover switch is pressed all the way down, it triggers the mechanism of the joystick, so you don't have to hold the switch all the time to keep the backpack hovering.

It's also easy to disable hover mode, just press it again to dismiss it.

"How does it feel?"

Nolan looked up at Yuna suspended in mid-air, "Can you keep your balance?" ”

"Yes." Yuna took a closer look at her state and nodded.

Floating in the air feels like stepping on a soft air cushion, and although there is a feeling of nowhere to focus, once you are familiar with it, at least maintaining balance is not a problem.

"Very well, let's make it harder."

Nolan bowed, "Accelerate as you rise, this time quickly stretch the height to a height of ten meters, hover over it for ten seconds and fall." ”

"Understood." Yuna took a deep breath and pressed the "Hover: Ascent" and "Acceleration" switches at the same time.

At this moment, the soles of her boots unfolded two layers of wind circles at the same time, and the updrafts that gathered under her feet became even more violent after being strengthened at an accelerated pace.

With just a "poof", her figure quickly climbed and flew to a height of more than ten meters in one fell swoop!

When the target height is reached, Yuna releases all spell switches and turns on hover mode when the ascent speed decreases.

At this time, Nolan and the others on the ground were the size of ants in her eyes, looking into the distance from above, the sunset had not yet completely set, the sky was a warm blue, wisps of flowing clouds, like the scales of a goldfish floating in the sky.

What a beautiful picture! Watching the sunset from the sky and watching the sunset from the ground are two completely different views.

That's what it is...... What does it feel like to fly?

The evening breeze ruffled the ends of her hair, and she felt like she was dreaming, she had never imagined that she would look down on this familiar and strange homeland from such a perspective, everything in front of her was a little dreamy.

"Yuna, it's time to come down!"

Nolan's shouts were heard below, and Yuna recovered from her stupor, turning off the hover mode and letting gravity pull her body.

When she was about to land, she clicked the switch of "Levitation: Ascent", allowing a momentary updraft to offset the speed of her fall, and she fell to the ground quickly and smoothly.

"Do you feel any discomfort up there?" Nolan asked, "Like nausea, dizziness, or breathing pain?" ”

"Nope." Yuna shook her head, "I feel good. ”

"Is that ......?"

Noren raised an eyebrow and ticked a tick on an entry in his notebook, "That's good." ”

For someone who had never been involved in flying and had no professional training, Yuna was surprised to have such a good performance on the first day of the test flight.

Even if it is a knight, not everyone can achieve her level, because the knight only represents the extraordinary strength of the physical body, and has nothing to do with psychological quality and flying skills.

Now he can assert that Yuna does possess extraordinary motor nerves, and is an out-and-out genius for cultivation and even combat.

On this side, he suppressed his surprise in his heart for the time being, and did not reveal it, but Luo Zhen beside him was dancing, obviously excited.

"Oh my God, you actually did it, she actually flew!"

Luo Zhen waved his hands and let out a laugh pretending to be crazy, "Hahaha, we have really created a single soldier flying device that can be used in actual combat, how powerful this is, who can resist it now!"

"Tell me how you did it, Nolan! How did you manage to squeeze so many flying circles into this little backpack! ”

"Don't worry, the test flight is not over yet."

Nolan smiled, "There's one more test, Yuna, and it's the last and hardest.

"There's no set standard for this test, you'll need to use all the spells on your backpack in the air to get the most out of your flight and figure out the limits of your suit's performance and your own handling.

"Now, imagine you're fighting an imaginary enemy on the ground, he's aiming his bow and arrows at you, and you're going to use the Valkyrie's backpack to dodge his attacks and fight back."

Nolan spoke in general terms, but Yuna knew what he meant.

Imagination, yes, what she has to do now is imagine.

To date, there has never been a precedent in the Roland Continent that has been able to drive nimble individual flying equipment to fight enemies in the air like her.

This means that there is no model for her to refer to, and how to maneuver in the sky and how to counterattack in the face of an attack depends entirely on her imagination of air combat.

This is a lesson that no knight academy will teach—perhaps in the future, and as a pioneer of air combat, her every move will serve as a model for countless successors.

It's hard to carve out a new combat genre, but it's cool, isn't it?

Yuna took a deep breath to calm her pounding heartbeat in her chest, then pressed the levitation rise and acceleration button.

The wind swept across the ground, and she flew into the air with Valkyrie's backpack, then arcing gracefully through the air.

Noren looked up, and the shadow that flew freely in the twilight was like the raven that passed before his eyes that night.

"I've always wondered where your unwarranted confidence comes from."

Luo Zhen stood side by side with him, looking up at the whirling trajectory in the sky, "But now I understand...... You're a fucking genius. ”

"I said, I only do what I am sure I can do."

Nolan said calmly, "The Valkyrie backpack is just the beginning, and we will invent more alchemy weapons in the future."

"They will reverse the course of the war and even change the power structure of the empire...... Whatever it is, we are destined to shock the world and go down in history. ”

"Leave your name in history...... Is this what you want? Luo Zhen sighed, "There are so many people in the world who are called geniuses, but there are very few who can leave their names in history-

"But if it's you, you should really be able to accomplish this goal, after all, being able to design this solo flying equipment is enough to make your reputation spread throughout the empire."

"Heh, then this wish is too superficial." Nolan shrugged his shoulders and smiled casually, "It's a historical honor that I can leave a name in history, not my purpose. ”

"Wow!" Luo Zhen listened to the music, "Praise you a few words, you are still crazy, today's young people really don't know what awe is." ”

Awe...... Is it?

Nolan looked down thoughtfully at his hands.

Human beings' awe of the world comes from the unknown, and self-confidence comes from mastery of the known.

But having possessed the Book of All-Knowing from the very beginning, he could comprehend almost everything he could get his hands on, and there was nothing that could hardly hold him apart from being unable to cultivate.

It took him ten years to rein in his wings, but he still couldn't learn to be forbearant and humble, and he couldn't fit into the circle of mediocrity.

In the end, he gave up, and he suddenly discovered a truth: the strong don't have to follow the rules, because they create the rules.

Yes, his desire is to be a real strong man.

From now on, the rules of the world will be set by me.