Above the mage

Chapter 108 Wind Element

Ancient Capital.

This is the name of the airship stationed in Bremen's city square.

This is an airship whose ownership belongs to the Sean royal family. It is an old-fashioned airship that the Sean royal family purchased from the Igor family twenty years ago.

Even today, these old-fashioned airships from twenty years ago still manage to evoke a sense of awe.

In order to quell the riots caused by the "Hogan Ley Lines" as soon as possible, the Duchy of Sien dispatched this airship to Bremen City, bringing with it a court mage.

On its return journey, it carried with it many special goods unique to the Bremen region, including expensive items such as tea and minerals.

And several young people who originally belonged to Bremen and were preparing to go to Saint-Sien to "study".

On the first day of the Dark Moon, God, as Gerika's servant, boarded the airship for the first time.

At this moment, only six months have passed since Gaode came into this world.

And he is about to complete a "triple jump":

From Hogan to Bremen, and then from Bremen to Saint-Sien, the most prosperous city in the entire Duchy of Sien.

Amidst a series of wobbling and shaking, accompanied by the loud, fixed-frequency hum of the propellers, the airship slowly rose into the air.

Inside the submarine cabin.

The immense force of the ascent pressed Gao De's body firmly against the wall.

The feeling of blood rushing to the head and tinnitus is both familiar and strange.

After a while, Gao De, who had gradually gotten used to the feeling, looked down through the boat window.

People and buildings on the ground are slowly shrinking, turning into tiny black dots.

The outline of Bremen is gradually becoming blurred.

The hum of the propellers was particularly loud in the air.

Soon, the city's outline disappeared.

What you'll see next are endless primeval forests, rolling hills, and winding rivers.

Wherever they went, they found only desolate landscapes with few people.

After all, compared to the vast territory of the Principality of Sien, there are very few developed cities with large populations.

Gao De looked at the scenery from the boat window for a while, but the novelty quickly wore off, and the repetitive scenery became monotonous and boring.

He returned to his cabin.

Gaud, who took over Gerica's maid position to board the airship, was assigned to the lowest-ranking cabin, the one allocated to servants, located on the lowest level of the airship.

It was cramped and small, barely enough to fit a bed and a table, and then there was almost no room to even stand.

But Gaode is already very satisfied.

This is, after all, the Sean royal family's airship, not an airship specifically used for transportation or carrying passengers.

Besides, he's just someone who hitches a ride; he'd be lucky to even have a room, let alone a single room.

Gao De took out a bottle of basic magic potion and then placed his luggage under the bed in the cabin.

The Ancient Capital airship is a large airship that is over 300 meters long and nearly 70 meters high.

Although it is an old-fashioned airship from decades ago, its cruising speed can still reach 150 kilometers per hour.

At this speed, it would only take less than ten hours to travel from Bremen to Saint-Sien.

The enormous airship, the Ancient Capital, includes:

The airship includes an isolation compartment for storing buoyancy gas, a propulsion compartment for the propulsion system, a command compartment for the captain to operate the airship, a cargo compartment for storing cargo and supplies, a weapons compartment for equipping the airship with weapons, a maintenance compartment for repair and maintenance, and even an observation compartment for providing a better view.

Apart from these, the living quarters area is located.

Even so, the Ancient Capital airship still had a carrying capacity of over a thousand people.

Apart from the three young masters and ladies of the Haynes family, the passengers on the airship were all mages from Saint Sein City.

Furthermore, they are all formal mages, not 0-ring mages who are merely apprentices.

This made Gaode feel like he was in the same room as hundreds of tigers.

So he decided to stay in his cabin until he reached his destination.

With that thought in mind, Gao De drank the basic magic potion in his hand in one gulp and began his training for the day.

Gao De thought the journey by airship would be smooth sailing.

But as it turns out, even the skies are fraught with danger in this era.

boom!!

The airship suddenly began to shake violently.

The sounds of objects falling with a series of crackling sounds rang out, startling Gao De, who was meditating and practicing his spiritual cultivation, awakening him.

He opened his eyes, his gaze filled with astonishment: "What happened? Did we encounter a strong gust of wind?"

The next moment, a rapid and shrill alarm sounded from inside the airship, explaining everything.

"Attack! Attack! Leyline creature attack! All personnel, to your positions!"

Then, Gaode heard hurried footsteps coming from above the cabin roof.

He jumped out of bed, opened the cabin door, and ran out.

The walkway outside the cabin was not narrow; in fact, it was more spacious than the cabin itself.

Most of the people living on this floor are staff members wearing crew uniforms, and a few passengers who, like Gaode, are classified as "servants".

The crew members were running in small steps, each heading towards their respective posts.

"It's a fully grown wind elemental!"

"How did this thing end up on this route?"

"Nine times out of ten, they came from the Hogan ley lines. Wind elementals are never sociable; they move fast and are carried by the wind, so they can go anywhere!"

The crew members' furious voices rang out.

"The airship's protective magic array has been activated; I wonder how much more energy reserves it will consume this time."

It seems there is not much danger. Judging from the crew’s tone, they are not too panicked. They are more concerned about the energy reserves that need to be depleted for the protective magic array.

Gao De immediately understood.

He looked out the boat window, trying to capture the scene outside.

Although his cabin was at the very bottom of the airship, severely limiting his view, he could still clearly see the "wind element's" body.

Because it was so enormous, and it was circling around the airship.

As its name suggests, the wind element is composed of gales, shaped like a giant tornado, twisting and spinning.

He held a bow and arrow made of the same gale force, which occasionally emitted a deafening roar.

Each roar was accompanied by howling winds, stirring the surrounding clouds into a boiling ocean.

"Dala Bengba Bond!"

The wind element made a series of chattering sounds, but Gaode couldn't understand them at all.

Those are syllables unique to the language of the wind element, full of primal wildness and power.

Although it couldn't understand the language of the wind element, Gaode could sense the violent power and aura emanating from it, as well as the anger in its voice.

"Iris, this route now belongs to us. You strayed into our route by mistake, not the other way around!"

Immediately afterwards, Gao De heard the voice coming from his own airship, calm and composed, with an unquestionable air of authority.

"Boom! Boom!" The wind element remained extremely irritable and had no intention of giving up, instead responding with a violent outburst.

The next moment, Gao De saw it pull back the huge bow and arrow woven from the gale in its hand.

The arrow, trailing a swift tornado, hurtled towards the airship.

However, the magical patterns on the airship seemed to come alive, and a layer of magical light also emerged at the right time.

These magical lights intertwined, forming an indestructible magical shield that tightly enveloped the airship.

The tornado arrow struck the magical shield on the surface of the airship, creating a deafening roar.

Rumble!

The entire airship shook violently during the intense collision, much like a ship being battered by giant waves.

"You ungrateful beast!"

Immediately afterwards, Gao De heard an angry shout coming from inside the airship, filled with anger and dissatisfaction at the wind element's provocative behavior.

Rumble!

The specific details that followed were not clearly visible through the small boat window, as Gaode could not see them clearly.

He could only see outside the window, where colorful lights flashed continuously, and various magical lights collided fiercely, forming a magnificent battlefield in the sky.

The airship swayed constantly during the fierce battle, as if it might crash at any moment.

Every jolt of the airship made Gao De's heart leap into his throat.

He had neither a parachute nor any flying magic, so if the airship really crashed, he would only face certain death.

The feeling that his life and death were in someone else's hands made Gao De feel extremely uneasy.

(End of this chapter)