Chapter 623: Ocean (2)
This fleet of eighteen ships was the best performance before the Duke leader renewed the warship next.
The next step to update the battleship will be to use special materials, such as wood that creates chaotic barrier spaces, various special formula metals, and Taoist formations hidden in the magic pattern.
In this fleet, in addition to Smith, there are also a group of magicians who graduated from Asla Academy and took a boat to Sun City. They are also on the flagship, with ninety-six people.
Asla College is divided into small classes, with 24 students in one class. If there is a reduction in staff, it will be supplemented.
These students who went to Sun City all exceeded 20 levels. For this world and era, their progress rate was quite stable. This is why Asla Academy is not allowed to learn to advance easily, otherwise there might be epic mages here.
These young mages, without Smith's conditions, could not lie in bed and browse the view in the sea.
However, the young mages were very law-abiding and did not run around.
Goring did not have much restraint on these mages, but was not allowed to go to some places on the ship, and there were places where soldiers rested were strictly prohibited.
After going to sea, the weather was good along the way and there was no storm.
Many mages look at flying fish on the deck. Occasionally, if there are naughty people, they use the smallest arcane missile to fight. The magic control of these mages is quite accurate, and can control the power of arcane missiles to prevent flying fish from being injured, and it is tightly rolling in the air.
However, the flying fish is not a bird. If you roll for a while, you can't slide and then you will fall into the sea.
The mage laughed and had a lot of fun.
Just as they were happy, an alarm suddenly sounded. The mages were inexplicably able to return to the cabin in disappointment and not cause trouble to the fleet.
Smith also opened the commander's channel in the room and saw the source of the alarm.
A flying monster appeared behind the fleet, about 300 miles away. This person was sitting on the back of the flying monster.
Originally, following the fleet was a very rude behavior, and it could even be said to be a threat.
However, usually the combat distance of warships is within fifty miles. If a real mutual attack is even ten miles, it is possible to strike accurately.
It was a distance of 100 miles, and there was still time to prepare for the battle.
This guy was following three hundred miles away, and it was hard to say what he was going to do.
In this world, you can't kill others just by approaching you. This is not the reason for doing things for others. However, the army's fleet is different, and it's just that wherever you go is considered a secret.
Goring thought for a while and came to Smith and said, "I want to send someone to persuade the guys who are following behind."
"I'm afraid he's unreasonable, right?" Smith asked with a smile.
"yes."
"Then I'll go there. If our people can solve it, I'll watch it. If there is an accident, I'll take action. Will this be possible?"
"Thank you then." Goering had to show respect to Smith even if he was old.
"How many people are going to send?"
"Two hexagram airships, two flying warships."
"Are there any ordinary airships?"
"Yes, it's just used to transport goods. Its combat effectiveness is much worse, and it only has some self-defense functions. It's big and slow to fly, and it's not on standby at any time. If you want to use it, you have to assemble it temporarily."
"That's it."
"You don't think it's easy to communicate with each other, right? The hexagram airship on our ship has the function of image release, creating a illusion dialogue, which is no different from the real one."
"I don't know the new airship."
"Just one, experimental, and you may have to make this in the future."
"Okay, let's go." Smith didn't say anything nonsense, so he followed Goring and boarded a six-pointed airship. This airship is indeed a new style, with a magic array above, making it easy to enter and exit.
The interior space is larger than the original airship and can accommodate dozens of people. This is the use of new materials and new technologies.
There are still five controllers on the airship, so this does not need to be added. However, with the replacement, there are special rest cabins where you can lie inside and enter the illusion. This airship can provide magic nets to magic net mages, with a huge coverage.
Another airship, and two flying battleships, took off on the mothership and followed Smith's airship.
The six-pointed airship flew into the air within ten seconds, increasing its speed to more than 600 miles, and then it increased to more than 1,800 miles in a few seconds.
In less than ten minutes, Smith's hexagram airship stopped the flying monster.
Smith also looked curiously. The flying monster was more than 20 meters long, with long body, wide wings, no feathers, and covered with tiny scales.
Looking at the head, this flying monster is just an ordinary python and has no horns, but Smith can sense that the blood of a giant dragon is inside its body.
On the back of the flying monster, a middle-aged mage wearing metal magic 1 looked nervous and looked at the two airships that blocked him in front. Higher in the sky, the two flying warships slowed down and circled above 10,000 meters.
On the six-pointed airship, Smith was not responsible for communication, but the one who was responsible for communication was a level 25 female magician.
She released her image outward and approached the flying monster in the air.
"Your Excellency, I hope you don't follow our fleet again. This is a formal warning. You can also say that the sea is vast and anyone can walk. But I am not here to reason."
The female mage's expression was cold and there was no room for maneuver.
The master said, "Actually, I'm here to seek help."
"Sorry, we don't do free things."
"Our fleet was attacked and took refuge on a deserted island. I accidentally found you. I wanted to pay for it. Please help me solve the problem."
The female mage did not dare to make decisions, so she had to contact the flagship.
Golin said: "Then let him come over. This man is an epic mage at level 32. It is not very dangerous. His level of monsters is even lower, so he is probably only at level 20."
Goring did this because the fleet not only went to Sun City to replace the old fleet, but also had the task of testing functions. It was safe and safe along the way, and there were not even more dangerous monsters. Now that this kind of thing happens, it is not impossible to delay.
Smith is nothing big, and if he is in a hurry to go back, he can take a flying battleship.
Dozens of small boats were released from the mothership and assembled into a floating boat. The mage's flying monster was arranged to land. The mage followed the boat, but instead of letting him get on the flagship, he got on a firepower ship.
The number of magical crossbows, giant magic muskets and magic cannons on fire ships is large, and they are used to attack enemy ships during close combat at sea.
There are only two firecraft in the fleet now, and I don’t know how effective it is.
Goring received the mage. The mage first saluted Goring and introduced himself: "I am the mage of the Golden Dragon Family of the Holy Thunder Empire, and my name is Tacott."
"I am Goren, the commander of this fleet."
Tacott glanced at Goring's badge and said, "I'm very sorry, I don't have a deep understanding of heraldry."
"The Arcane Empire, the Xia family. My Duke may not be so famous."
He looked sarcastic, and Tacott continued to apologize: "Although I follow you, I really don't know which family the fleet belongs to."
"The only one who can have such a fleet in the southern waters is my Duke."
"It is my ignorant and my fief of our marquis is in the north of the Holy Thunder Empire."
"It is also strange that the nobles in the northern part of the Holy Thunder Empire can come to this place."
"Because something happened to the Holy Thunder Empire, the orcs in the northern wastelands moved south in large numbers, and many nobles lost their territory and fled."
"How is it possible, you said orcs? Not half-orcs?"
"Yes, God knows how those orcs emerged. The empire's mage did not discover when the world channel was opened. There were too many orcs, and it seemed that the entire empire could not hold it."
Goring said: "How are the people in your territory?"
"Oh..." Tacott didn't want to speak when he heard Goring's question. But he still had to answer.
"My Duke's territory has a population of tens of millions, and only one million escaped. The entire Duke's territory has fallen, and we don't know what exactly it is. It should be half of them who have fled to the south. These more than one million people escaped with the fleet. The orcs have no fleet, otherwise more people will die."
"Orc, so powerful?" Gorin looked unbelievable.
"There are too many. The Duke's main city defense battle, 30,000 elite soldiers, plus the Duke's 1,000 guards were all killed in battle, killing hundreds of thousands of orcs, but they didn't even kill them." Tacott said gritting his teeth.
"Oh?" Goren frowned.
"You don't know that the orcs' soldiers are more than three meters tall. Even if they are not professionals, their attack power is quite strong. The soldiers fight with their superb skills, but after the battle energy is exhausted, the melee force is not as strong as the orcs. The magic of the mages is not endless. I am not in the main city. I heard that the orcs have lost more than 500,000."
"Where is the mage group?"
"Most of the Duke's mage team died in battle, and many of them died when the rear ends were cut off."
"Then what do you want us to do?"
"The original plan was not...we hoped that someone could accommodate us. When we escaped, we carried millions of people, but it was difficult for the duke to support them on the island, and it might be exhausted in a few years. This is because my Duke is good at accumulating and leaves a way out. In the Holy Thunder Empire, there are not many nobles with a way out."
What he said is the truth, because the Holy Thunder Empire has almost no enemies, and the number of half-orcs is rare, so it cannot pose a threat to the empire in the northern wastelands.
The Holy Thunder Empire is rich in resources and does not require as much energy as the Arcane Empire to have a great harvest. The natural environment is really great.
Store supplies on overseas islands is something that survival crazily does.
Chapter completed!