The next day, the sky was clear. The wind was strong, blowing to the southeast.
Many people gathered around the square early in the morning. The soldiers blocked the crowd of onlookers from the outside, and several luxurious chairs were placed around the fire platform. Count Babenberg sat on one of the chairs, and behind him stood Amy dressed as a guard.
It was obviously very cold, but Count Babenberg kept wiping the sweat on his forehead with his sleeves. He turned around pretending to ask for water, and when no one was paying attention, he lowered his voice and begged Amy:
"Um...can I just stay here for a while?"
"No. If you don't go up, the island republic will be suspicious."
Count Babenberg leaned back in his chair and stared nervously at the vehicle on the platform. Just yesterday, under Amy's coercion, he expressed to Patisipachio his "strong desire" to fly together on the aircraft. Patisipachio was worried that he could not find the courage to board the aircraft to monitor Parace. As soon as the people of Ersus heard that Count Babenberg had come to apply, they happily agreed.
Soon after, Count Babenberg, "accompanied" by Amy, will fly into the sky in that vehicle, and have a friendly and intimate exchange with the legendary Paracelsus in the air. Paracelsus was carefully protected by the island republic, and this was the only chance to contact him.
Count Babenberg tried to persuade Amy to give up this plan: "Is it really okay for you to go up too? I heard that the last experiment...did a chicken die?"
Amy didn't even move her eyelids: "Both dogs and sheep are alive, but we are much stronger than sheep."
Seeing that he failed to convince Amy, Count Babenberg could only vent his anger on the soldiers of the Island Republic: "What are you doing standing here stupidly? Go and check that thing carefully a few times! If I fall, your governor I can’t spare you!”
The crowd was suddenly forcibly separated by a group of guards who broke in. A luxurious carriage passed through the crowd and stopped in the center of the square. Two maids helped the potbellied Patisipaccio out of the carriage, followed by a short, fat man with a red nose.
Patisipachio got off the carriage and walked towards Count Babenberg. Amy heard him and the fat man behind him arguing.
"According to the plan, I am the only one flying today, and no other personnel should be temporarily loaded!"
"If it can only carry one person, then what's the point of this experiment? The Qiqiu Empire's fleet is coming soon, and I don't have time to carry out the experiment according to your plan step by step."
"But the risk factor for manning is too high..."
"You dare to sit on it by yourself, why are you afraid of a few more people? Are you trying to take this opportunity to escape?"
"How is it possible? You also saw that the wind is southeast today. If you want to run, the dye will fall into the sea after it is gone..."
While he was talking, Patisipachio had already arrived in front of Count Babenberg. He pushed the fat man forward, and then said to Count Babenberg with a smile: "Introduction, this is our protagonist today, Paracelsus, who controls the element of fire!"
Amy was disappointed to hear that the fat man was called "Paracelsus" by the governor of the island republic. Although after listening to Joseph's words yesterday, she had probably guessed that the "Paracelsus" rumored this time was not the same girl she was looking for, she still had a glimmer of hope before seeing her face with her own eyes. of.
After calming down her disappointment, Amy looked at the fat man carefully again. Since it is not the girl, then this fat man should be the real Paracelsus mentioned by John de Rupisisa and Joseph Duchene. According to what they said, Paracelsus was an extremely powerful magician. But Amy didn't look like it. She tried her best but could not feel any magical flow from Paracelsus. There are only two possibilities: either his magic level is beyond what Amy can perceive, or he doesn't know magic at all.
Paracelsus failed to persuade Patisipachio, so he set his sights on Count Babenberg.
"Are you really going to fly up with me? It's not fun. Except for those inspired prophets, no one has ever flown into the sky. People have wanted to build towers to reach the sky. As a result, I was punished by the gods. I’m not sure if the gods will be angry this time.”
Count Babenberg was overjoyed and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to legitimately retreat. But Amy didn't give him a chance to speak at all: "We don't believe in the Abrahamic Church, and your God can't punish us."
"Paracelsus, don't say anything more." Patisipachio said impatiently, "Time is running out, let's get started."
Paracelsus had no choice but to take Count Babenberg on the circular vehicle. As the bodyguard of Count Babenberg, Amy naturally followed.
The soldiers of the Island Republic began to light a fire under the platform, and the hot air flow caused the cloth bag in the center of the ring to gradually bulge.
Count Babenberg nervously grabbed the rattan on the edge and shouted to Paracelsus beside him: "I don't want to fly into the sky for no reason. What is the structure of this vehicle? How is its safety? ?”
"As you can see, the entire structure is just the ring we are sitting on now, plus the cloth bag in the middle. In order to fly into the sky more easily, the weight of the vehicle has been deliberately reduced. It is made of rattan, maybe not It’s very reliable. When the cloth bag in the middle is filled with hot air, it will pull the rattan rods to fly up. As for after leaving the ground, it depends on a heating device installed under the cloth bag for continuous heating.”
"Heating? I don't see any firewood here!"
"It's not heated with firewood. It's too heavy and the effect is not good. The dye used is a liquid that will automatically burn when exposed to the air. It doesn't have a name yet, so let's call it Ocean Fire - yes Yes, this liquid is not very stable and may explode at any time, so please be mentally prepared for this."
"Will it explode? I quit! Let me go..."
Before the word "go down" was uttered, Earl Babenberg felt the murderous intent shooting out of Amy's eyes. He quickly changed his words: "Let me control the heating device, so this thing doesn't explode!"
Paracelsus gave Amy a meaningful look.
"Indeed, I should design the vehicle under the pocket next time, but I'll leave it like that this time. I'm going to fly, and I don't even think about it now!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the crowd of onlookers suddenly burst into exclamations - the huge balloon that had inflated to the extreme steadily and powerfully pulled Amy and others slowly away from the ground.
