In fact, about the floating gliding function of the battleship, the mages of the research institute have also debated it for a while.

Some mages find this feature a bit too frustrating compared to the Luskan Ghost Pirate Ship's dive mechanic.

After all, stealth can allow a pirate ship to gain a series of advantages such as first strike, ambush, strategic transfer, etc., while allowing a sea ship to float in the air can only achieve temporary floating gliding, and the two are superior to each other.

Of course, it cannot be said that this function is useless, and the sea ship itself can gain a great advantage after getting rid of the resistance of the sea surface, whether it is fleeing under a disadvantage, avoiding group bombardment, or leaping pursuit.

The only question is, at what cost?

As a native of the Northlands, especially after seeing the floating city 'Soft Wing' of the Silver Moon Dragon Mother Veramarandais, who can not envy this permanent flight function.

And Levi's old friend, Silver Wing, didn't hide the principle of levitation.

The reason why it was able to maintain permanent floating flight was due to the two permanently solidified spell abilities that came with the artifact Alpine Crown in the Mother of Dragons' hand:

Focus Stone and Advanced Levitation.

The former is the ability to transform gems through spells so that they can permanently store magic gems that become a certain way of casting.

The latter's floating effect is directly constant on this Focus Stone.

Both are five-ring spells, but the Focus Stone is the cornerstone of Netheril's great development of magic channeling technology, but this spell seems to have been lost with Netherre's collapse.

Without this technology or the focus stone that has stabilized the advanced levitation technique, then the only way to do this is to find the elemental nuclei of large elemental life as an alternative.

But when Iggy pulled out a Stone of Connor, which Levi had taken from Nether's magic ship, all the mages who had opposed it turned against him.

Technicians.

With ready-made finished products, who wouldn't want to try out this exciting and crazy idea.

Now you can only do flying in the air, who knows if you can directly ascend to heaven in the future?

People have dreams, and academic mages who engage in technology are no exception.

And the magic ship that recreates the Nether era is the dream of almost all mages.

Even the magic ships of Nether's era were not developed by the Grand Arcanists.

After all, even in that era when the development of magic scholarship was at its peak, such a thing as a 'spaceship' was still too high-end.

Therefore, many high-end components and technologies relied on 'imports' or 'borrowing' at that time.

Even the entire ship is the trophy of the Grand Arcanists in other outer planes, take it back and develop it a little bit independently, and that will be our ship...

No problem.

Connor's Stone is in a way a finished product that has been processed with the [Focus Stone] spell.

What Iggy and what they have to do is to replace the constant spells inside Connor's Stone with a high level of levitation.

And then there is this ironclad ship that can 'spiral into the sky'.

It's a pity that Levi and Levi only collected six of them from the Nether magic ship.

Unless the mage group can one day reverse launch the [Focus Stone] spell from Connor's Stone, or use a large elemental crystal nucleus at any cost, the scale of the 'flying' ironclad ship like this will be limited there.

Just when everyone thought that Iggy's surprise to them was over, they saw Ig command a few crew members to bring over a tuna that was half a year old and still struggling.

"Is this...?"

Levi had a question mark on his face.

Just when he thought that Eagle was going to invite everyone to eat the grilled fish, two more crew members lifted a bucket attached to a metal support and fixed it under the belly of the fish in three or two clicks.

But soon their attention was once again focused on each other's words: "What I said before, whether it is the outer iron armor, the steam explosion alchemy device, or the floating wings, is mainly to protect the ship itself. ”

Hearing the first half of the sentence, Li Wei thought it was true, and at the same time couldn't help but feel a little funny.

This is the typical R&D idea of an academic mage.

In their consistent style, everything is focused on self-preservation.

Therefore, if the vast majority of academic mages do not conflict with their talents, the preferred school is generally the protection school.

Their philosophy is similar to that of some of Bluestar's heavy stream players:

You can't stand, where is the harm?

Alive!

"But blind defense can never achieve real victory. ”

Eagle turned on another light and shadow machine, which showed a scene of the deep sea, and continued:

"In the beginning, a mage proposed a deep-diving goblin bomb with an acoustic detection alchemist. ”

At the same time, the light and shadow meter shows a 'bucket' floating in the sea, and once the sound waves sense the approaching pirate ship, it automatically triggers a detonation.

Depth charges.

A similar artifact came to Levi's mind.

But this plan was quickly rejected:

"However, the cost of this deep-diving goblin bomb with a sonic detection alchemy meter is too high.

"And if the sonic detection alchemy is replaced with a physical firing pin, and the salvo scattering and covering method is used to attack the submarine, it is easy to be detected in advance and destroyed in a cheaper way, such as arcane missiles, walls of ice, etc. ”

"Oh, isn't this fish too big? It's a little hard to catch, ah!!"

I saw a crew member trying to hold the tuna and was slapped out by the tail of the big fish.

Just as it was about to arch into the sea, Eagle raised his hand and was a one-ring [Dominating Animal].

There was a glint in the tuna's eyes, and it fell silent.

It was Iggy who picked up the tuna as if it were dead, and said to everyone:

"That is, until another summoning mage suggested: Why don't we bind the trigger-type alchemy bomb to the medium-sized sea fish?, so that we only need to use a low-level spell [Domination Animal] that is only one ring, and we can give these sea fish attack commands. ”

On the other side, dozens of tuna loaded with goblin high-explosive bombs were seen swooping down towards the indifferent pirate ships, and then turning into wreckage with the pirate ships.

"As you can see, even tuna in the middle of the game have an instinct to avoid danger, they are fast and agile, and they are also highly deceptive, making them easy to attack if the enemy is unsuspected.

"All we paid for was the cheapest goblin explosives and a one-ring spell slot.

"Because it relies on fish as a weapon vehicle, and when it explodes in the deep sea, it is like a low muffled thunder, so we call it:

"Deep-sea torpedoes. ”

"Poof!"

Levi almost choked to death when he heard this title, and coughed twice in the strange eyes of everyone to hide his embarrassment.

Nima... What a god torpedo...

All right... In a sense, this is the real torpedo.

I don't know if hundreds of years later, this crazy bio-type weapon will be strongly condemned by the little animal protectors who are shaking and cold.

"It's okay, the name... It's chic, it's very figurative, you go on. ”

Levi waved his hand.

Eagle opened his mouth, he obviously sensed that his lord had just laughed, but after thinking about it, he didn't seem to keep up with the lord's laughter, so he had to spread his hands a little helplessly and said:

"I think it's probably a little bit of a problem that sometimes it's hard to come across large schools of medium-sized marine fish like tuna and swordfish.

"So, my lord, if we are going to use this weapon in large quantities, the first task of our navy going to sea in the future will probably be fishing. ”

Salted Fish Fleet, Strike!

At the thought of that somewhat funny scene, everyone laughed out loud.

"Well, I said, can't you try to breed?" Fischer asked, raising his hand.

But it was soon denied by the prepared Iggy:

"We have also tried this kind of farming in the past few years, and it turned out that it is feasible, but the cost is too high and the risk is uncontrollable.

"Medium-sized predatory marine fish such as tuna and swordfish, they always swim and hunt.

"So if you keep them in captivity, you first have to make sure that you have a very large range of fishing grounds, so as to ensure their survival rate.

"Secondly, the ratio of growth to consumption of this marine fish is extremely skillful, and a tuna fry grows to the size of 100 pounds, often consuming tons of feed.

"And a sudden storm can cost us everything. ”

"Okay. Fischer spread her hands, indicating that this kind of fish is really a pit.

Then the group discussed the feasibility of mechanical torpedoes and the modification of the ship, and set a schedule for tomorrow, and finally ended the inspection of the shipyard.

And the time had quietly passed until noon.

Li Wei was walking out of the dock with this ticket for his family, and the group discussed which hotel with a unique style to rest in, and by the way, solve the stomach problem.

It was originally a minor issue, but it became a matter of debate when a group of big men got together, especially without a female companion (Alley was ignored by them while snoring).

"I heard that a new [Sword and Rose] has opened in the harbor area, and the dancers in it are all big waves of slave girls transported from Kassanlin in the south, and they can also belly dance, do you want to see it?"

While talking, Fischer also learned to scratch her head in front of everyone, and the watermelon belly that shook was like a ball full of water bags, making everyone laugh.

But this kind of opportunity for the boss to pay for the blatant depravity, no one will let go when it is time to compete.

"What's so nice about the black skin, or are you addicted to playing Zhuoer!"

I saw that the corners of Holtz's mouth, which had been scabbed over his head, were a little crooked:

"I've heard that there is a bestiality in the southern district, and it is said that there is fresh milk every day... Suck and slip. ”

"Well, I've heard that bestials never bathe—" Kevin on the side resisted with some horror.

"......" Holtz's two wolf ears shrugged down on the spot.

Lucifer, who had always been quiet, made a rare comment: "Why don't we go to the big carnival held by the Temple of the Goddess of Love and Goodness?"

"The Great Carnival?" Levi couldn't help but think crookedly when he heard the name.

Seeing that he was misunderstood by his lord, Lucifer's face couldn't help but blush slightly, and explained:

"In a large city-state like Jishui City, in order to attract believers, various churches often hold some events on a regular basis, and some will hold such banquets.

"And the great carnival held by the goddess of love and goodness usually includes a grand feast of food, a comfortable jacuzzi, etc., and of course, there is absolutely no such blatant depravity.

If you exclude, of course, the more intimate feasts of love. ’

Lucifer added in his heart, and continued with a smile:

"I just think Levi's has worked hard for you, and if you just want to relax a little, this kind of banquet is not a good place to go. ”

"Eh, this is good! This can be had, a big carnival feast, and when you hear the name, you will be excited. Fischer suddenly became excited.

But when everyone looked at their own lord, they found that their lord's eyes were not quite right.

Following his gaze, he saw that not far away, a beautiful woman with long pale gray hair and dressed in a costume was also surrounded by a group of people, just approaching him.

Then he stared blankly at his lord.

The person who came was the owner of the Xialan Chamber of Commerce.

Charan Vilos.

"Gotta... There's nowhere to go now... Let's find a seafood shop to fill our stomachs first. ”

Fischer spread his hands to the crowd.

Before Levi could say anything, a group of dependents behind him had already run away.

On the other hand, without waiting for his own hostess to say anything, his little maid sold the hostess first.

"My young lady has an appointment, and all the financial and handover issues about the dock will be left to me. ”

The little maid on the side said to the dock merchant who was a little confused.

"This..."

The dock merchant glanced at the expression of this young lady Xia Lan, and hurriedly walked away with the little maid

In an instant, there were two bosses left on the dock who were also caught off guard...

"Aha, what a coincidence, long time no see. ”

Due to his lack of psychological preparation, Levi did not show any more sophistication this time than when they met for the first time.

"Hmm... I've just heard you say that you... What are you going to attend... The big carnival?"

Xia Lanwei Luosi raised her hand and brushed her hair that was tossed by the sea breeze, and the smile on her face was still as gentle and lovely as it was forty-six years ago.

It was as if decades had not left the slightest trace on her face.

It's just a matter of asking...

made Levi feel a little caught off guard and embarrassed:

"This..."

Just when Levi thought that the other party had misunderstood something, he heard the other party's next sentence:

"Yes... Take me with you?"

Xia Lanwei Luosi lowered her head with a slightly red face.

Levi's entire head froze.

Affection... She doesn't know!

......

In the distance, Kevin's pointed ears, who had just walked not far away, moved slightly, and he couldn't help but glance back at the lord who had just given him emotional guidance today.

"It's worthy of the silver dragon..."

"It's just... Ms. Charan Vilos... Is it so open?"