The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

Chapter 473 Arrival at the Federation
When Hamadi heard Ryan's agreement, even though he tried his best to hide it, the smile that he couldn't suppress in the corner of his eyes revealed that he was not as calm as his face looked. He hurriedly said:
"Mr. Ryan, please go ahead. As long as it does not violate the principles, I can guarantee that there will be no problem."

"Oh? That's great." Ryan smiled and nodded.

"I went to the Eagle Federation this time because I wanted to learn more about the situation in the Federation, so I wanted to travel around the Federation more freely."

Having said this, Ryan paused for a moment.

Hamadi's face turned serious, and he said, "Mr. Ryan, what do you mean by relatively free?"

As a secret agent, he was still very worried about the words "traveling around".

"Please rest assured, Mr. Hammadi. I will not go to the confidential military department of the Federation. Instead, I want to learn about the local customs and get to know more cities."

Ryan naturally understood the key point of Hamadi's concern and explained with a smile.

"That shouldn't be a problem, Lord Ryan," Hammadi said with a sigh of relief.

He planned to report the matter immediately.

After watching Hammadi leave, Ryan took out a map from the side.

The purpose of the conversation with Hammadi just now was naturally because Ryan wanted to investigate the ruins of the capital of the Goblin Empire.

So many years have passed, he needs to investigate whether the site has been excavated or has not yet been excavated by the federal government.

Moreover, this matter is not suitable for the Sword Bearer to intervene and investigate.

But even diplomats with immunity cannot move around in the territory of other countries at will, and Ryan needs such a privilege.

It seems that there shouldn't be any big problem now.

The map in front of him was the map of the entire Federation that Olena had brought for him from the Sword Bearer Headquarters.

Since the Federation has a large number of spies in the Empire, naturally, the Empire also has a number of eyes and ears in the Federation.

Ryan pointed somewhere on the map and said softly:

"It should be right here."

Looking in the direction Ryan's finger pointed, you can see that this is near a place called Retherod Canyon.

Ryan was basically certain that the location of the ruins of the Goblin Empire's capital should be on one side of the Reserlo Canyon.

Coincidentally, not far from the Reserlo Canyon, there is a large federal city called Zetaia.

"That's good. We can go to Zetaia in the name of sightseeing."

“I don’t know if he will pass by here.”

Ryan is not quite sure about the Empire's return visit route yet, but he can ask in advance.

For the next day and a half, Ryan did not schedule much work, but chose to spend time with his family.

The beautiful woman Jennifer and the barbarian girl Lagre are still busy with the Chamber of Commerce affairs in Munster and are not in the imperial capital.

However, Jennifer did send a letter, reporting on the recent developments of the Chamber of Commerce and that she had begun preparations for a new store in the imperial capital.

Claire was also not in the imperial capital. She followed her mentor from the Royal Academy to the Gnome province for training.

Early morning two days later.

The imperial capital's royal airship berthing point.

I saw a group of people seeing off a huge streamlined airship as it took off, and in front and behind the airship were three long-distance airships escorting it.

A fleet of seven airships in total was heading quickly towards the east.

On the airship.

In a luxurious cabin, Ryan was looking at the latest itinerary.

Due to the need for confidentiality, even Ryan had only just received the itinerary.

"First go to Westin, a big city on the west coast of the Federation, and then go to Antu Hall, the capital of the Federation."

"Hey, the last stop happens to be Zetaia, which is even more convenient."

"But this return visit is a little bit unusual." Ryan thought.

Because Ryan discovered that in addition to the 'Red Queen' Menia, 'Earth Pulse' Reginald, who he met last time, also joined the delegation.

This also means that, including him, the Empire's delegation this time has three epic fighters.

At a time when all the major cults were quite active within the empire's borders, it was a bit unreasonable to have three epic fighters in a delegation.

"Boom boom boom!"

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door outside the cabin.

"Lord Ryan, His Highness Menia asks you to come over." The servant outside the door bowed.

"it is good!"

Soon, Ryan and his attendants arrived at the cabin of the head of the delegation, 'Red Queen' Menia.

The door was open, and Menia, dressed in a red wizard robe, was sitting sideways next to the porthole, looking at the scenery outside.

As if hearing footsteps, Menia turned to look at Ryan, smiled and nodded, and said, "Ryan, here you are, sit down."

"Your Highness Menia." Ryan bowed slightly and said.

"This is mead from Anweimar. Try it. It has a unique flavor." Menia said, pointing to the amber-colored wine on the coffee table.

"Well, thank you!" Ryan took a small sip.

Sure enough, the mellow aroma of honey mixed with the refreshing taste of some kind of fruit brew lingered in Ryan's mouth.

"Ryan, do you still remember that three-headed sea dragon with a devilish tail?"

"Of course, the earliest thing I remember was you fighting off the three-headed sea dragon."

Ryan was in Meister at the time and naturally had a deep impression of the three-headed sea dragon with a devil's tail.

"Well, in about three days, after we arrive at Westin on the west coast of the Federation, we will cooperate with the Federation to kill the enemy together."

Hearing Menia's words, Ryan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, quite surprised.

"Your Highness Menia, do you mean that we should first go to the Federation's big city Westin to join the welcoming team, and then go to the Federation's west coast to destroy the three-headed sea dragon?"

Originally, he thought it was just a simple return visit.

Now it seems that the purpose of the empire's return visit is not simple, or rather, the significance of this return visit is more important than he expected.

"Yes, although we have repelled the attacks of the Demon Tail Three-Headed Sea Dragon on the coast of the empire many times, the other party relied on the convenient terrain of the sea and successfully escaped every time."

"After this period of time, the power of the Demon Tail Three-Headed Sea Dragon has gradually recovered. Now it has also learned its lesson and is attacking the east coast of the Empire and the west coast of the Federation in turn."

"This poses a great threat to both us and the Federation, so this time we will unite and completely defeat the other side. In a sense, this is also the first substantive cooperation between the Empire and the Federation."

"I see." Ryan looked enlightened.

Before, he was wondering why the Empire would allow Her Royal Highness the 'Red Queen' Menia to head the delegation to the Federation.

Because even as a return visit, the level is too high.

Now it seems that this is the reason.

This mission is not just a return visit, but has far-reaching cooperative significance.

Recalling what Hammadi said earlier, the increasingly severe environment has begun to force the two most powerful countries to cooperate.

"By the way, Ryan, you are also a fourth-level dawn wizard now, right?" Menia looked at Ryan with her beautiful eyes and said.

"Yes, Your Highness Menia." Ryan nodded. There was no need to hide this, and it was impossible to hide it.

"Well, in the battle against the Demon Tail Three-Headed Sea Dragon, try not to use your blood transformation. I have already suppressed the matter of the two-headed dragon during the last incident in Ferdinand Forest."

"Ok?"

Ryan couldn't help but look at Menia in surprise.

"What do you mean?" Ryan asked back.

"The inside story is quite complicated. You just need to remember this point. Try not to transform into a two-headed dragon, especially in front of the imperial family." Menia looked at Ryan deeply and said no more.

"Okay." Ryan nodded.

Ryan could naturally feel that the 'Red Queen' Menia had no hostility towards him.

In fact, from what the other party just said, it is not difficult to hear that Menia seems to have taken care of him to some extent.

"Not in front of the Imperial family?"

Ryan pondered over this sentence in his mind and immediately made some guesses.

"It seems that this is related to a secret of the imperial family."

A quarter of an hour later.

Ryan said goodbye and returned to his cabin.

Soon, he shook his head and decided not to think about it for the time being.

Since Menia reminded him so, he should try not to perform the transformation into a two-headed dragon in front of everyone.

In fact, for Ryan at present, since he mastered Dawn's killer move "Iron Forest", even if he does not transform, the difference in combat power is not that big.

This is also the meaning of Chenxi's killer move!

"However, as for attribute points, you should try to save as many as possible."

"Whether it's used to restore mental or physical strength, it's essential for combat." Ryan thought to himself.

Ryan came to the desk.

The desk is filled with various leather-making raw materials.

Before this, Ryan took into account that the journey to the Federation would take a long time, so he brought a lot of leather-making materials with him.

Taking advantage of the free time on the road, he can upgrade the professional level of leatherworking master, and then when it reaches almost level 10, he can switch to elf leatherworking.

Since Ryan's leatherworking master profession level has reached level 7, the experience points provided by the Moonlight Vest are no longer sufficient for a quick upgrade, so Ryan will try a new leather breastplate.

This leather breastplate called the Thornwood Vest, like the Moonlight Vest, is also a piece of leather armor commonly used by druids.

But in terms of effectiveness, it is more advanced than the Moonlight Coat. In addition to making it easier to hide in the jungle, it also has a protective effect similar to the Thornwood Shield. The raw materials required are one piece of Thornwood bark, one blood vine and four pieces of mature fur.

Of course, there are some other little things, such as beef tendon and so on.

But materials were not a problem. Before Ryan left Ferdinand Forest, the elves had prepared sufficient raw materials for him.

Ten minutes later, the system prompt sounded:
[You have made a Thornwood Coat, and your understanding of the relevant items has improved! ]

[You have learned a new skill - making a thornwood coat]

[Your skill in making thornwood coat is improved, experience value +12]

[You successfully made a thornwood coat, leatherworking master professional experience +10]

Shortly after the Imperial airship fleet set off.

Antuhor, the capital of the Eagle Federation.

In front of the door of a huge, pointed-roof building more than ten stories high, people dressed in white coats, looking like researchers, were coming in and out.

On the doorplate in front of the door, there are several large gold-plated characters written: "Eagle Federal Mechanical Research Institute".

Inside an office on the top floor, the decoration is simple, with only a few green potted plants on the dark red coffee table as embellishment, which seems to fit the old-fashioned and simple impression of researchers.

However, behind the dark desk was not a bald middle-aged man, but a young woman in a white coat.

I saw that the other person had wavy blonde hair, beautiful features, and looked to be in his early twenties. He was carefully reading a thick file.

"Boom boom boom!"

There was a knock on the door.

"Please come in."

"Lady Rebecca, the diplomatic department said that the delegation from the Dragun Empire has already set off. Should we also prepare to set off?" asked a young woman in a short suit and a hip skirt.

"No rush. Normally, it takes them three days to reach the west coast. But one day is enough for us to get there." Rebecca said without even raising her head.

"Okay! By the way, Lady Rebecca, the intelligence department said that Ryan, the key person to be won over by the Dragun Empire, will also be here this time."

"The intelligence department hopes that we can communicate more with them. It would be great if we could make them interested in our research and take the initiative to stay."

"Ok?"

As if she had heard a topic of interest, Rebecca immediately put down the information in her hand and looked up at her secretary with her beautiful eyes.

As the top genius institute of the Federation, and as a genius metal wizard in the early stage of level three crystallization, Rebecca Hayden knew very well the significance of a high-level metal wizard to the Federal Mechanical Institute.

Especially this person, she had heard about him from her mother a long time ago.

"That's good news."

"By the way, this time our research institute's mission is to deploy the newly developed 'Ajax' into actual combat, right?"

"Yes, Lady Rebecca."

"Have the others ready. We'll be leaving in an hour."

After three days of sailing across the vast summer sea, the imperial delegation finally arrived over the federal city of Westin in the early morning of the third day.

At this time, Ryan also walked out of the cabin, came to the side of the airship, and looked at the scene in front of him.

Compared to most of the county and provincial capitals in the Dragun Empire, which all felt like they were in the Middle Ages, Ryan felt that the Westin before him had almost taken the initial step into the Industrial Revolution.

All I saw in front of me were rows of city buildings and even more huge chimneys.

At this moment, black smoke was belching out of the chimneys, casting a dark and slightly depressing veil over the entire city.

Looking down along the chimneys, there were factories occupying vast areas of land. With Ryan's eyesight, he could naturally see clearly that early in the morning, a large number of workers in plain and worn clothes were coming in and out of the factories.

As for the city center area.

Although the crowds on the streets were still mainly filled with horse-drawn carriages, Ryan could already see that on some of the main roads there seemed to be some kind of bus-like transportation pulled by steam engines.

"Look over there, is this steam power?"

At this moment, many people gathered on both sides of the airship, and many people also saw the steam-powered locomotive.

"Well, it should be. The boats on the river seem to be the same."

"That's right!"

On the river that winds through the city center, you can also clearly see steamships coming and going, and their number accounts for a considerable proportion.

Although there are large energy furnaces in the Empire, their number is very small, while the Federation's steam power has almost been fully rolled out and applied to all aspects of people's daily lives.

The impact this scene brought to the people of the empire was naturally unparalleled.

(End of this chapter)