Everyone looked up, only to find a black shadow passing by in the sky, casting a shadow on the ground, just covering the dock.
Archmage Truchi glanced at it and asked in horror: "What is this?"
Xu Yi smiled and said, "Just go and have a look and you'll find out."
After that, Xu Yi made an invitation gesture to the great magician Truchi, directly added a wind control technique to himself, and flew up the cliff.
The great magician Truki also flew up with a puzzled look on his face.
Steele, who has the weakest magic power among the group, now has the strength of a sixth-level magician, and naturally has the ability to use flying magic, so the group of people flew directly up, and after a while, they chased the strange thing in the sky. The "black clouds" flew to the cliff together and landed in the open space outside Xu Yi's private manor.
Steele, who was flying at the end, had just landed with his feet, and the "black cloud" in the sky followed him.
After it settled on the ground, everyone took a closer look and found that this "black cloud" was an overall oval, about thirty meters long and less than ten meters wide, in the shape of an olive. At first glance, it looked like Something like a ship.
"This thing...could it be a magic airship?" Archmage Truchi walked over curiously and circled around the magic airship, his face full of admiration.
"Camilla mentioned to me before that your chamber of commerce is developing a magic airship that can carry people anywhere in the sky. But when he mentioned it to me, he said that the magic airship you developed is only a few meters long and can only hold One person. Now this ship... I think it can hold at least ten or twenty people, right?"
"The approved number of passengers is currently set at eighteen, but it has not yet reached twenty." Xu Yi explained with a smile.
"That's incredible." The great magician Truchi couldn't help but exclaimed: "Eighteen people. Even if the average person is fifty kilograms, the total is close to the weight of a meal. It can hit something weighing one ton. It’s amazing how fast you can fly in the sky!”
Xu Yi laughed, thinking that the current load capacity of this magic airship is less than one ton, which is enough to surprise the great magician Truchi. If he were to see one of those large cargo planes on the earth, his jaw would still be broken. Scared
Suddenly there was a soft sound in the magic airship. As soon as a door on the side that could accommodate two people passing through opened, Akali's figure rushed out from inside. "President. We are back!" Akali waved vigorously to Xu Yi, her eyes swept over the faces of the others, and finally fell on Steele. She rushed over and took Steele's hand. , shaking and shouting excitedly.
"Steele, you should really go on the magic airship with us. It's so exciting! I never thought that I could look down at such a high altitude and still be so stable. It's so exciting. It’s incredible!”
Steele glanced at her: "It's not like you've never flown into the sky when using flying magic. Why are you so excited?"
"That's different." Akali shook her head vigorously. "Although you can fly into the sky with flying magic, the highest you can fly... It can't fly as high as ten stories. It's about twenty meters, less than thirty meters. But if you take this magic airship, it's up to You can fly hundreds of meters in the air! Let me tell you, looking down from an altitude of tens of meters and looking down from an altitude of several hundred meters are completely different!"
"Yeah?". Steele was confused.
"Of course. Did you know? If you look down at a height of several hundred meters, the people on the ground become as small as ants, and you can't even see them clearly! When I look down from above , I felt so great all of a sudden!”…
Although Akali had always been exaggerated, this was the first time Steele had seen her become so excited about something, and he immediately became interested.
"Okay, next time this magic airship sets sail again, I want to go up and experience it. Xu Yi, okay?"
Xu Yi shrugged: "You shouldn't ask me about this, but ask Evita. After all, she is the person in charge of the magic airship project. In this regard, she is the expert and has the most say. If she If you agree to go up, I have no objection.”
Evita had just walked out of the magic airship at this time. When she saw Xu Yi throwing the question to her, she smiled and nodded: "No problem. After these several experiments, I am sure that the safety of this magic airship has been guaranteed to a certain extent. . Besides, Steele is a magician, so even if something goes wrong, nothing will happen."
Steele immediately looked at Xu Yi, who nodded: "Well, since Evita agrees, of course I have no objection."
Ignoring Steele and Akali's exchange of feelings about riding the magic airship, Xu Yi walked to Evita and asked in a low voice: "Is it done?".
Evita nodded lightly, reached into her arms, took out a piece of thick kraft paper, and handed it to Xu Yi.
Xu Yi took it but didn't open it to look at it. He greeted the great magician Truchi who was looking around the magic airship and led a group of people into the manor.
Everyone entered the innermost room of the manor, and Xu Yi opened the piece of brown paper Evita had just handed him and spread it on the table in the middle of the room.
This piece of kraft paper is already quite large when folded. When spread out, it covers the entire table, which is more than two meters long and one meter wide.
There was a bunch of messy lines and annotations drawn on the paper. At Xu Yi's instruction, the great magician Truchi leaned over and looked at it carefully for a while, and was suddenly stunned.
"This... seems to be a map of the area around here?"
"Yes." Xu Yi nodded and smiled, reaching out and tapping on the brown paper. "Look, this is Carrasca Island. Hmm... When I took a small magic assault boat over the sea, I thought it was quite far away. From the map, it doesn't seem too far away. Evita, what about this map? At what scale was it drawn?"
"It's about 1:500,000."
"1:500000? Let's see... In other words, the straight-line distance between Karaska Island and here is probably less than a hundred kilometers." Xu Yi thought for a while. Nod. "That's right. It takes about two hours to get there with a small magic assault boat. It's almost that far."
Great Magician Truqi looked at the map and then at Xu Yi, his face full of confusion.
"Xu Yi, how did you get this map? And... what did you do with such a detailed map? In addition to this area, it also includes the entire Principality of Standing, even the Heimi Wasteland in the north and further north. It’s all along the coastline of the Sark Kingdom, which is so strange.”
"How did it come about? I asked Evita to use the magic airship to draw it in the sky. Otherwise, why do you think the map is so detailed? And the size is so standard?" Xu Yi asked matter-of-factly.
"Well... it is indeed very detailed. As for the size standard... it is indeed very good. At least the area around here is exactly the same as what I saw in the sky before." Camilla, the great magician who was lying on the map and studying it carefully, also Diandian agreed.
Xu Yi chuckled: "Maybe it's more accurate than when you see it in the sky. Because you can't fly that high when you fly in the sky, and you won't stay in the air for that long, right?"
"That's true." Camilla, the great magician, did not deny it. "The higher you fly, the farther you can see. This magic airship can fly several hundred meters high, but even a great magician like me can only fly up to a hundred meters. Compared with this Not even close.”…
When he heard Akali describe the flying height of the magic airship, Archmage Truchi was still a little skeptical, but now he heard Archmage Camilla confirm it in person. Archmage Truchi was even more surprised.
It's just a magical mechanical device that can actually fly higher than a great magician. This is too subversive.
More importantly, the flying speed of this magic airship is not slow at all.
In addition, it can also be carried to high altitudes by people who do not know magic, which makes it much more effective than magicians.
"Great Magician Truqi, come and see, this is Kalaska Island. Have you noticed that the geographical location of Kalaska Island is very critical?" Xu Yi's question pulled the Great Magician Truqi from his surprise. Come back.
"Huh? What's the key?" Great Magician Truchi looked at the map for a long time, but couldn't figure it out.
He was born and raised on the island of Kalaska, but he never felt that the island's geographical location was important.
"Look here..." Xu Yi stretched out his right index finger, first clicked on the location of Kalaska Island on the map, and then clicked several times on the coastline on the map. "Look, first of all, the straight-line distance between Kalaska Island and our current location is less than 100 kilometers. And secondly, if you look here again, the straight-line distance between Kalaska Island and Black Rice Wasteland is even shorter, even less than 100 kilometers. One hundred kilometers…”
"Wait a minute." Archmage Truqi raised his hand to interrupt Xu Yi. "You said that Kalaska Island is relatively close to here, so why did you mention the Black Rice Wasteland? What's the point?"
Xu Yi smiled slightly, pointed at the stretch of coastline closest to Kalaska Island in Black Rice Wasteland, and said, "Do you think it makes sense to set up a port here?"
The great magician Truchi looked along the spot where Xu Yi clicked, and his eyes suddenly lit up, but then dimmed immediately.
"This is unrealistic. If there is such a port, it will indeed be of great significance to Carrasca Island. But behind this place is the Black Rice Wasteland, and it is also close to the most ferocious and savage people in the depths of the Black Rice Wasteland. It is simply impossible for several orc tribes to set up a port here.”
"There is nothing impossible about this." Xu Yi smiled. "Actually, I have already been working on solving this problem. As long as everything goes well, sooner or later we will solve these orc tribes that are the biggest obstacles, and then successfully build this port."
The great magician Truki frowned: "You don't need to go to war so much, right? Those orc tribes in many words are very powerful and they are still located deep in the Black Rice Wasteland. It is too difficult to deal with them. If it is just for Karas Kajima... Even I think it’s very uneconomical, so I might as well think of other ways.”
"No, Your Excellency the Great Magician. I am not just doing this to improve the living environment of the residents on Kalaska Island. Of course, this is also a very important reason. But in my opinion, those who support me in doing this, In fact, the most important factor lies in the strong strategic significance of Kalaska Island.”
"Strategic significance?" Great Magician Truchi looked at Xu Yi in astonishment.
All the comments he heard about Carrasca, the place where he was born and raised, were negative. This was the first time he heard someone associate a ranking like "strategic significance" with it.
This Xu Yi... is he serious
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