Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 357 Climbing 50km into the Clouds
Locke, accompanied by the old wizard Cord and the strange old man from Salvador, boarded the Sun Chaser airship.

The interior of the Silver Shuttle has many spacious areas, with bright silver corridors and magical lamps illuminating the space at intervals. There are many rooms, with each ordinary seat constituting a room.

Seating is divided into ordinary seats, third-class seats, second-class seats, first-class seats, and premium seats.

Led by the second-class wizard apprentices of the Sun Chasing Silver Shuttle Alchemy School, Locke and his companions passed through their work area, catching a glimpse of the kiln-like environment and various high-temperature, high-pressure transmutation arrays. They then entered the Sun Chasing Silver Shuttle's bright silver-themed living area, which was also where the wizard passengers resided.

The second-class wizard apprentice bowed respectfully to Locke and the others, saying, "My lords, the Sun Chasing Silver Shuttle is not only the name of this airship, but also the name of our alchemy school of wizards. What sets our school apart from other schools is that our base is this airship. Therefore, we live in the same area as the wizard passengers, except that we are in the work area filled with transmutation arrays, while you gentlemen live in a very comfortable living area."

"In the airship's living area, according to first-class standards, the three adults will have a seat in the library and a large flat in the airship's living area."

"If it's a first-class seat, you'll have a whole villa complex on the airship as your living space, since the three of you will be living on the airship for two months."

"There are also many mortal servants on the airship. The three of you can use them for any needs you may have. All mortal items can be supplied without limit."

"First-class seats also have special privileges, allowing them to order our school's third-class wizard apprentices to do things, while special-class seats have special privileges, allowing them to order our school's second-class wizard apprentices to do things."

Locke nodded indifferently to the second-class wizard apprentice of the Silver Shuttle Chaser, while the old wizard Cord and the wizard Salvador went to their respective rooms to put away their belongings.

Locke went to the so-called living area first and found the room he was assigned on the airship.

He opened the magic door to the room, and found that the room was exceptionally large.

Each individual room is connected to the others, forming a large space containing many objects, including some rather simple experimental devices.

The room was divided into a simple potion-making room, a simple alchemy workshop, and even a breeding room, as well as a small study, two bedrooms, two living rooms, and a general-purpose simple laboratory.

“Not bad, no wonder it’s a first-class room,” Locke said. “But this airship has a library, which should be for passengers to look up information, right? Let’s go take a look; maybe the information is free.”

Locke walked out of the room and closed the magic door. Various simple alchemical items were quite common on this airship. For example, there were some simple brooms, silver frisbees and boots on the corridor of the living area.

Locke knew that the broom was probably the alchemical flying broom, while the silver frisbee was a wizard's low-altitude flying device that had become popular in the last fifty years.

The boots were agile boots, which could increase walking speed when worn.

It can be considered a means of transportation, but it's actually not very practical for a formal wizard.

Therefore, Locke ignored the three means of transportation, walked through the corridor, and sat on the floating steps inside the airship. These were common alchemical products that could be used to ascend or descend in specific areas, or move left or right, and could also be combined to form aerial staircases.

The golems on the artificial sun of the Sun Chasing Silver Shuttle use these floating steps to pour raw materials into the core of the Sun Alchemy Array.

Locke stood on the floating steps, which immediately moved upwards towards the elliptical passage and stopped at a specific location. As soon as Locke stepped out, he saw a huge elliptical library.

Inside the oval-shaped library, many magical plants, such as pearl glass coconut trees, are planted, giving the library a very natural feel. There are also long-beaked albatrosses flying on the top of the library.

The library seemed to be the area with the most wizards on the airship. There were many long tables, and numerous formal wizards had selected their desired books and were consulting them. The old wizard Salvador, who had arrived at some point, glanced at many formal wizards with disdain, but his eyes lit up slightly when he saw Locke. "Wizard Augustine," he said, "the airship's library is a major feature. It contains many public resources that can be accessed free of charge; it's included in our ticket price."

"Although the information here is incomplete and the levels are limited, and many resources are outdated information from hundreds of years ago, it is rare to find a place where information can be accessed for free. Therefore, many wizards like to find a seat in the library when they travel by airship and look up information here."

"This is a feature of airships that has been left over due to the inertia of the times. In the past, many wizards traveled to other planes by void warships, and the journey often took a lot of years. So the White Wizard Association would set up some libraries to provide wizards with a way to pass the time. As you know, a wizard can sit in a library for a whole year without moving."

The Salvadoran wizard looked the library up and down, nodded, and said, "Not bad. The ecosystem within this library is quite good."

He took out paper and pen and started writing something. The wizard Salvador winked at Locke and whispered, "Actually, I also serve as a special investigator for the Environmental Protection Division at the White Wizard Association."

"The Environmental Protection Department is a wizard management department established by our Jungle Hand in cooperation with white wizards from various places. I need to secretly record the ecosystem inside each airship. According to the new airship management manual released five years ago, the green area inside each airship cannot be less than the minimum standard of 3%."

Locke was somewhat surprised; the power of the Hand of the Jungle was simply too great.

I really don't know who the big shot behind the Hand of the Jungle is.

Locke gave the eccentric old man from El Salvador a perfunctory reply: "Then you truly bear a great responsibility."

Just as the Salvadoran wizard was about to speak, the entire airship suddenly shook. Above the library was a transparent glass-like dome, through which the environment outside the airship could be seen directly.

At this moment, the airship had already taken off and was continuously climbing its altitude: one thousand meters, two thousand meters, three thousand meters... ten thousand meters... twenty thousand meters...

Locke's eyes had become strange, because after the airship had climbed to an altitude of 23,000 meters and passed through the clouds, it was still climbing higher.

In my previous life, the cloud cover in my world was generally below 15km, and it would never exceed 15km. Moreover, it would enter the stratosphere if it exceeded 12km.

But what appeared above the airship at that moment was actually a second cloud layer above the clouds.

The composition of the sky in the wizarding world is clearly completely different from the sky in my previous life.

The sound transmission arrays built into various parts of the airship emitted a message: "Passengers, the Sun Chasing Silver Shuttle is about to collide with the second sky. Please prepare yourselves. If the magical pressure becomes disordered, please do not panic."

"If your magical pressure becomes disordered for more than an hour, please contact us immediately through the servants in the airship. The potion master on board will come immediately to treat you accordingly."

"To reiterate, it is expected that in fifteen minutes, the airship will collide with the sky at an altitude of 50 kilometers. Passengers who are riding the airship for the first time, please do not panic. Symptoms of magic pressure disorder are normal."

Locke frowned. The second sky, what is that?
The old Salvadoran wizard said to Locke, "Breeder Augustine, let's quickly find a place to sit down, the tremors will get worse soon."

"The moment the airship crashes into the second sky is just like crashing directly into the earth. The second sky and our sky are essentially the skies of two different worlds, and there will be a situation where it crashes into the membrane of the world."

(End of this chapter)