Great Nobleman.

Chapter 2027 Starbound!
The next day, early in the morning.

I gradually woke up from my sleep.

He felt a soft touch rubbing against his cheek, making him feel a little itchy.

Brand tilted his head slightly to the right and rubbed his slightly itchy cheek a couple of times.

During this process, Brand slowly opened his eyes, and a strand of long golden hair appeared in his blurry vision.

Immediately afterward, Catherine's gentle "Young Master" rang in her ears.

He reacted somewhat absentmindedly for a moment, then responded with a soft nasal sound.

The sensation on my cheek has disappeared.

As vision gradually cleared, Catherine's face came into view.

A new sound began to gently echo in my ears:

"Should we get up? Or sleep a little longer?"

Hearing this, I glanced at the already bright sky outside the window and hesitated between staying in bed and getting up.

Brand eventually decided to get up.

—I'm going to check on the operation of the [Eye of the Sky] today!
Not long after.

With Catherine's help, he escaped from the ladies' tight bonds.

After getting dressed and washing up, I went to the terrace and enjoyed a delicious breakfast served by both Rowling and Catherine.

Brand opened a portal directly.

As Brand and Catherine stepped inside, a shift in light and shadow revealed the interior of a luxurious tent.

—This is their wilderness base in the northeast of the Blackrock Wasteland on the continent of Rios!

After stepping out of the camp...

In the open space outside, more than a dozen library members, along with Yersin, Andy, and Finn, were curiously watching the images on the empty projection screens placed there and discussing them among themselves.

We saw them arrive.

Andy smiled and said:
"Brand, Catherine, come and see!"

Your "Eye of the Sky Zero" is about to freeze solid!

Upon hearing this, they approached out of curiosity.

Rosalind, standing to the side, said with some dissatisfaction:

"What freezing? It's just that we encountered a turbulent area of ​​ice elemental flow."

Our "Eye of the Sky Zero" was completely unaffected.

As these words fell.

Brand also saw the live feed of [Eye of the Sky Zero] displayed in a third-person perspective on one of the empty screens:

At this moment, [Eye of the Sky Zero], which is enveloped by the wind element legion and continues to fly higher into the sky, is currently in a foggy environment with low visibility and dense ice element.

As it hurtled upwards at high speed, it created a visible, continuously swirling blue-ice-colored turbulence in this environment.

Seeing this, Brand turned his attention to the real-time monitoring data displayed on the other empty screens.

After examining it, Brand smiled and said:

"Isn't it going quite smoothly? All systems are operating normally, and the speed has only been slightly affected."

Upon hearing this, a young library staff member nearby proudly said:

"Our works certainly don't have problems that happen easily!"

However, you're a little late, curator. If you had arrived earlier, you could have seen the shrunken landscape.

At first glance, the entire land, except for some areas shrouded in clouds and mist, is completely visible.

However, we can't observe very specifically; the elements interfere with our detailed observation of the ground... Oh! Just like this!

The words have not yet fallen.

The empty screen displaying "Eye of the Sky Zero" abruptly changed.

Still enveloped by the wind elemental army, dragging its azure tail upwards, [Eye of the Sky Zero] continues to rise.

However, the environment around it suddenly cleared up. The blue-ice turbulence that had been disrupted and the surrounding mist all disappeared.

The background of the scene changed to an endless blue sky, with a bright sun shining in all directions above the sea of ​​clouds at the eastern horizon.

Upon seeing this, the library staff quickly called out and began to change their perspective.

Then, the camera pans downwards.

Below, a vast expanse of black earth, shrouded in a wisp of gray mist and stretching as far as the eye could see, came into view.

Upon seeing this, they quickly took out a map of the area near their current location and examined it, comparing it with some of the iconic environmental landmarks.

Brand discovered that the observation field of [Eye of the Sky Zero] now covers most of the vast [Blackrock Wasteland] and many surrounding areas.

Immediately afterwards, his eyes flashed with magical light, and he activated the [Telescope] spell to look at the overhead view on the empty screen, and then stared at the ground for a while.

Brand discovered that the densely packed elements had created a blurry curtain over the earth.

They can now clearly see the outline of the vast land below the Eye of the Sky Zero.

However, it cannot make the details clearly visible.

After trying various methods of long-distance observation and finding that the effects were minimal,

Brand gradually accepted this fact that he already knew.

In the simulated world, if the weather is good.

Brand is able to see everything clearly on Earth using a magical telescope outside of the planet Blue.

Even a butterfly fluttering and playing among the flowers.

But that's not possible in the real world they live in.

—The existence of elements and extraordinary powers makes many of the common sense principles of this world inconsistent with the ordinary simulated world!
It's not just that we can't see the details of the earth right now.

In addition, the current field of view of [Eye of the Sky Zero] is also problematic.

Keep in mind that the [Eye of the Sky Zero] has been flying straight upwards at a speed approaching that of a 'magician' all night long!

Only then can you see most of the Blackrock Wasteland?
This is clearly not abnormal!
Lost in thought, I glanced at the height parameters recorded on the empty screen next to me.

Then, it was compared with the current perspective, which can be described as 'narrow' and does not match its breadth.

Brand quickly arrived at a conclusion he had read about in books but had not actually verified:

At high altitudes, the density of space is not the same as near the ground!
Next, we retrieved the specific flight data of [Eye of the Sky Zero] from last night to now.

He sat down and began searching for useful data and calculating the 'spatial density' values ​​at different heights.

Incidentally, he also checked the elemental conditions that [Eye of the Sky Zero] had encountered along the way.

—Unsurprisingly, the average ferocity of the elements gradually increases with altitude!

Regarding this point, many years ago, mages arrived at a widely accepted theory based on their research into the elements:
Different elements in nature are intertwined and influence each other.

Among these, the earth element can make the surrounding elements relatively stable.

This is deduced by working backwards from the theory.

The further away from the earth's elements are from the ground, the more violent the elements will become.

Whether in the sky or on the sea, it's the same.

Of course, this situation is not without its limits.

From the perspective of the sky, the ferocity of the elements will stabilize after reaching a certain altitude.

If we move on to the next stage from here...

The density of common elements will decrease rapidly, while the density of [Star Element] will increase rapidly.

The sky will no longer be azure; instead, the starry sky will be clearly visible.

This boundary, located extremely high in the sky, was named by our early explorers as:
Star Boundary Line!
While recalling this knowledge, he took out his pen and worked out the calculations on the manuscript paper.

Not long after, he gradually stopped writing and turned to look at Andy, Finn, and Yersin, who were gathered around him, their eyes wide open.

Brand frowned belatedly, realizing what was happening, and said:
"Why are you here?"

(End of this chapter)