Some people say that the morning breeze in Fenris is sweet.
Because the air is filled with the smell of nectar flowers, this raceme-like annual herb is an important source of sugar in the Cloud Sea region.
But in fact, honey flowers are only grown in plain areas. The golden sea of flowers undulates along the coast of Cape Karl-Hain Bay, with no end in sight.
But in the mountains.
The morning wind carries a touch of coldness, mixed with a hint of the spirit of fighting and iron horses - the faint smell of blood, and the wind brings the smell of unextinguished embers.
Tian Lan sat down on the platform with blood on her face.
Jita was lying next to the huge crossbow machine, panting from exhaustion.
"I'm so tired. I'm almost finished." The former sighed feebly.
The lion man stood leaning on his sword, his fiery red mane spreading in the wind. He picked up his pipe, struck a match, and the flame flickered.
"You know, Ed, there's a story in the wind."
"Really? Then what does it say, Mr. Reid?" Fang Plover turned around and asked.
The Lion Paladin picked up the pipe, put the chew in his big mouth, and closed his gray eyes in contentment.
After a few sparks were ejected from the pipe, he smiled calmly: "Darkness lurks in the forest, battles and adventures, swords and swords, life and death fights, young people."
Fang Plover couldn't help but smile when he heard this.
He stretched out, looked at the night that faded away like light ink, yawned, and said, "It's far from a life-and-death struggle, Mr. Red, it's much less trouble than the trouble we encountered in Dolifen. .”
"If they had come an hour earlier, not necessarily."
Fang Yu was stunned after hearing this, and nodded solemnly. This was indeed true. If the night lizards had retreated a little later, they might not be able to hold on to their defense. But there was nothing we could do about it. It was outrageous to be attacked by two groups in one night anyway.
"Maybe our target was too big."
"You're not planning to sell Mr. Gray Rock, are you, Brother Ed?" Tianlan asked nervously.
"That's not the case." Fang Plover shook his head. The role of beasts of burden in the wild is obvious. Ordinary adventure groups may be fine, but for alchemists, they just want to bring an accompanying alchemy laboratory with them.
The alchemist is a profession that is made with money. Tools can improve the skill bonus of alchemy, and the laboratory can improve the environmental bonus of alchemy - and the more high-end magic tools and constructs are produced, the more high-end they need to be. production conditions.
Tools, devices, the environment, and the alchemist's own skills and knowledge are all indispensable.
In those later, large-scale production stages, alchemists even need excellent assistants. Those top-notch structures and magic tools cannot be completed by an alchemist alone, unless he has unlimited time to waste.
Of course, in the early stage, a Gray Ridge negative hill beast is enough for him, but in the later stage, if he wants to obtain a suitable production environment during travel, he still needs an airship.
And it has to be a big ship——
"But the beast of burden does attract too much attention. If we can't solve this problem, we have to find a way to strengthen the platform's protective capabilities so that we don't have to rush when facing more enemies."
"Then what do you think, brother Ed?" Tianlan asked.
Fang Yu shook his head.
Not far away, Luo Yu was standing with his hands on his hips, looking helplessly at the burnt right rear compartment. During the battle last night, the Night Lizard wizard hit this place with a fireball. Fortunately, no one was in the carriage at the time, and only some supplies were lost.
"How many things were lost?" Aitila asked him.
"Two beds were burned to ashes, along with several rolls of blankets and some personal items. Parker said his newly purchased dagger was lost, as well as supplies that had been temporarily piled here - mainly food."
"Has he lost his dagger again?"
Luo Yu shrugged.
Fang Plover came over and happened to hear these words, and couldn't help but touch his nose.
Luo Yu continued: "The bed is easy to solve. I will just make two more. We still have a lot of materials. We also have spare blankets. The main reason is that the loss of food is difficult to make up for."
"Is there enough food left for us to walk to Cloud Port?" Miss Elf asked again.
Luo Yu nodded: "Enough is enough, but it's hard to say if it happens again, Miss Attila."
Fang Plover also frowned and looked at the charred carriage - its entire outer wall and upper part had almost completely disappeared, leaving a big empty hole, and the remaining parts were scorched black.
Aitaria's elemental spells are divided into eleven levels like magic spells. Each third level is a level. Fireball happens to be the fourth level spell. In terms of the lethality of mid-level spells, ordinary wooden boards are impossible. The only way to defend it is to install a layer of armor on the outside of the platform.
But the problem is Mr. Huiyan’s load-bearing capacity. After the platform has been renovated to the current level, basically all the available load-bearing capacity has been used. If we want to further strengthen the structure, I am afraid we will have to reduce the materials that the platform can carry.
But this goes against the original needs of the team.
"Luo Yu, how much weight does Mr. Huiyan still have to carry?" He turned around and asked the other party.
"Less than 500." Luo Yu answered using the data in the selector system.
Fang Plover frowned.
500 is the quantified data in the system. In fact, it is not only the load, but also the space conversion ratio. To put it simply, this little load is not enough to complete the transformation of a carriage, and it is not even enough for key protection.
What's more, the platform cannot operate at full load. It needs to reserve excess load for unexpected situations. For example, if Mr. Huiyan injured his foot, he can't break down at a critical moment, right?
As for the number of less than 500, it is actually a bit too tight for the reserved load. When converted into measurement units on earth, the load is less than the weight of two people.
"Do you want to transform this platform?" Luo Yu heard the implication of his words and asked with some surprise.
Fang Yu nodded: "But it's difficult. As far as our level is concerned, Luo Yu, your design is already perfect. There is nothing faulty about the structure. The only way is to reduce the weight from the materials."
"Lower weight from materials?"
"For example, using magic black wood, the overall weight of the platform can be reduced by at least 30%, and the defense can be further improved. And from this alone we can save 2,000 to 3,000 pounds of load."
"Magic black wood?" Luo Yu glanced at him in surprise: "But that thing is very expensive. Do we have that much money?"
"The team's funds are barely enough now," Etila calculated silently, but she also looked at Fang Pliover: "It's just Ed, is it necessary? Don't you think this platform can't use such materials?"
"It doesn't necessarily have to be magic black wood. There are many special materials. What's more, we can also install a more powerful Guy floating engine." Fang Plover replied.
"Then we need a more powerful magic furnace, which is not cheap. Besides, I have calculated that this magic furnace is already the limit of this platform. If we further increase the power, we will not be able to withstand such a large amount of magic erosion. Luo Yu replied with a frown.
Fang Plover certainly understands that in this world, mortals are actually very fragile and cannot withstand the erosion of attribute ether.
In fact, it was precisely because of this fragility that people developed magic technology. Through the transformation of main core crystals with different attributes, humans, elves, dwarves, and the people of the wilderness of Lotao finally mastered the secret of etheric magic.
However, the transformation of the main crystal is not perfect after all. It is no secret that there is a spillover problem in ether erosion, so its users are required to have corresponding magical adaptations.
As the character level increases, magic power adaptability increases, physical fitness and other factors work together, so people can use higher-level magic furnaces and main core crystals.
But this is only in the case of a personal magic furnace——
Around the large magic furnace, magic power forms a circulation, and the ether erosion will be more serious. When the power is high enough, sometimes just the overflowing magic power is enough to tear a person apart.
In fact, on those large flying wing boats, the ship's magic furnace is usually placed in a dedicated cabin, mostly located in the middle and lower cabins of the ship.
There are two or three isolation layers on the outside of this kind of cabin, which are specially guarded by the chief mage on duty and are under strict protection at all times. But even so, accidents involving airships causing casualties due to the leakage of magic power from the engine room still occur from time to time.
Therefore, the simple, unprotected platform behind Mr. Gray Rock cannot be added casually if you want to add a magic engine.
Fang Yu also sighed after hearing this.
Indeed, it is not that simple to transform such a platform. At least raising a technical question is beyond his ability.
In fact, the problem of magic power spillover from the magic engine is not unsolvable. For example, installing a more efficient precision magic furnace. Although the former comes at the expense of efficiency, it is much safer than an ordinary magic furnace.
The other is a magic power drainage device, which collects the overflowing magic power and can also be used to store energy for the magic guide.
The last and stupidest way is to build an isolation cabin like a flying wing ship, but these methods are a bit unrealistic for him now.
Precision engines are a unique technology of the Oshu Empire. Although the technical methods have been circulated outside, even if Fang Plover was lucky enough to get the blueprints, he would not be able to meet the learning conditions with his attributes and knowledge reserves.
The magic drainage device is a high-end product. Not to mention its huge size, not everyone in Aitalia is capable of building this thing even if it is a master craftsman - it requires strong financial and technical support behind it, and a powerful person. With teamwork, there are only a few forces in this world that can install this thing on their main battleships.
What's more, if he has the ability to make a magic diversion device, it would be more cost-effective to just build a floating ship. Is there any need to waste time on transforming such a platform?
The last method is the simplest. There is no technical difficulty in isolating the cabin. All it requires is special materials such as lead and mithril, but it is cost-effective and too bulky.
You can't build a castle on Mr. Greystone's back, can you?
However, this difficulty did not make Fang Yu bow his head. Instead, it gave him a new idea.
He once promised Sylvide that he would help her fulfill her father's last wish, so he naturally knew that he would enter this field sooner or later.
Yes, in fact, the technologies related to platform transformation requirements are extremely related to Aitaria's airship construction technology, and can even be said to be the entry-level field of Aitaria's shipbuilding industry.
In fact, you only need to look at the related technical requirements to understand this - large magic engines, Guy generators, lift cabins, sophisticated magic furnaces and magic diversion devices.
In other words, most of the large-scale magic devices in Etalria today are actually for ships, and the beast of burden platform can actually be regarded as a small ship platform.
Like the Gray Ridge Negative Hill Beast, the size and load capacity of the platform on its body are actually roughly the same as some small boats. After realizing this, Fang Yu suddenly found that he could use this method to practice his skills.
Starting from the design and modification of the beast of burden platform, we gradually entered the field of designing and building aerostats.
He didn't know if his idea was correct, but he could vaguely see a brand new path in his heart. This path may not be so certain, but he believes that he will not gain anything in the process.
Since you cannot avoid this hurdle sooner or later, why not make some preparations as soon as possible?
After figuring this out, Fang Yu was not so anxious.
Although his mind was still spinning with the contradiction between the load capacity of the lifting platform and the limitations of the magic furnace, he couldn't come up with any ideas for the moment.
But since this is a long-term plan, he can achieve this goal step by step. He even thought that he might be able to ask Sylvide. After all, she was the daughter of her father and had a familiar background in a shipbuilding family. She should have any useful suggestions?
He then turned back to Luo Yu and said, "Anyway, let's patch up this hole first. I'll think of another way. It may not be necessary to do it all at once, but it can always improve Mr. Huiyan's protective ability more or less."
Luo Yu was stunned for a moment and glanced at Fang Plover in surprise. In fact, it was this that he envied the other party the most, as if no matter what the situation, the other party always seemed to be able to find a way.
This was true in Traveler's Rest, in Elpaxin and Dolifen, and he could feel this deeply even when he learned to control the clockwork goblin from the other party. In fact, if it weren't for those weird training methods that Fang Pliance found for him, he would never have been able to learn to control the clockwork goblin in such a short period of time.
Although the progress is still far behind the top combat craftsmen in the guild, it is at least faster than when he was working alone behind closed doors.
He is a trainee in Tapolis, and he is interested in combat craftsmen. He naturally knows a lot about the information in the community, and even masters some of the knights' unique training methods.
But he really didn't know where Fang Pliong's strange training methods came from.
In his spare time, he naturally found an opportunity to ask the other party this question. But Fang Yu just told him as a matter of course that he came up with it himself - because if a method has little effect, then there must be another way, but people haven't found it yet.
"It is not difficult to control a clockwork goblin. Most people should be able to do it. I think you, Luo Yu, should be able to do it too. If there is a problem, then there must be details that we have not discovered. As long as we start from this If you consider the problem in the right direction, you can always find some ideas, and the rest is a matter of trial and error.”
"Of course, if it involves dual control or even multiple controls, it does require some talent. After all, not everyone is suitable to be a combat craftsman. In fact, I still think that Luo Yu, you are more talented in elemental use. "
These are Fang Plover's original words.
At that time, Tian Lan joked that he was being used as a guinea pig, but Luo Yu didn't think there was anything wrong with this, at least now he had indeed learned to control the clockwork fairy.
From the bottom of his heart, he was actually very grateful to the other party. Of course, he knew that he was not a battle craftsman. But it is precisely because of this that he wants to realize his wish in a small way at the stage of being a trainee.
Maybe he will become an elementalist in the future, but at least for now, he can find satisfaction in his favorite field.
Therefore, after listening to Fang Yu's words, Luo Yu nodded slightly, without any doubt in his heart whether the other party could really do it.
However, Fang Yu was so focused on the transformation of this platform that he naturally did not notice the rich inner activities of this usually dull guy.
Since they had to stop to repair the platform, the team also needed to stop for a while to rest. He simply went to the forest and found Sylvide and Siesta who were cleaning the battlefield. However, before he could ask relevant questions, he came from the other side. Got some unexpected news there.
"Shesta saw someone coming from the direction of Emerald Pass."
In the team, the noble lady has the most say in the valuation of the loot. Therefore, after gaining Miss Elf's approval, she simply handed over the task of cleaning the battlefield to her.
She did not disappoint everyone. At least Fang Plover looked at the magic tools left by the night lizards in the hands of the maid. It looked like they were high-quality products. Even if they were a little damaged, they could be sold for a good price after being repaired.
But the words from Sylvide's mouth have nothing to do with these trophies at this moment.
Fang Yu was slightly stunned. This place was not close to Jade Pass. How on earth did the maid see someone coming to Jade Pass?
Sylvide seemed to know what he was thinking, and explained: "Shesta saw a small boat."
"A dinghy?"
Fang Plover was surprised. The boat was so deep inland that it might not be the boat released from the airship. It is a reconnaissance airship led by an adventure group. Such an adventure group usually has a large number of people.
When the enemy and ourselves are unknown, this is not necessarily good news. The only thing that is reassuring is that at least it will not be the Night Lizard.
"Perhaps they are people from the Rain Listeners Guild." He thought for a moment and suddenly realized: "I didn't expect that they are still behind us?"
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