Chapter 37 The Island of Strategic Significance

Everyone looked up, only to find a black shadow passing by in the sky, casting a large shadow on the ground, just covering the pier.

The great magician Truchi glanced at it, and asked in amazement, "What is this?"

Xu Yi smiled and said, "Go and see."

After all, Xu Yi made an invitation gesture to the great magician Truchi, directly added a wind control technique to himself, and flew to the top of the cliff.

The great magician Truchi looked puzzled, and also flew up.

Steele, who has the weakest magic power among several people, now also has the strength of a sixth-level magician, and naturally also has the strength to use flying magic, so the group of people flew up directly, and after a while, they chased after the strange sky in the sky. The "black cloud" flew to the cliff together and landed on the open space outside Xu Yi's private estate.

Steele, who was flying at the end, had just landed on his feet, and the "black cloud" in the sky followed him down.

When it settled on the ground, .s. everyone took a closer look and found that this "black cloud" was an overall ellipse, about 30 meters long and less than ten meters wide, in an olive shape. At first glance, it looked like a cloud. Something like a boat.

"This thing...is it a magic airship?" The great magician Truchi approached curiously, and circled around the magic airship, his face full of admiration.

"Camila mentioned to me before that your chamber of commerce is developing a magic airship that can carry people in the air at will. But when he mentioned it to me, he said that the magic airship you developed is only a few meters long and can only hold people at most. One person. Now this ship... I think it can hold at least ten or twenty people, right? A lot of words"

"The approved number of people is currently set at eighteen, but it has not yet reached twenty." Xu Yi explained with a smile.

"That's incredible." The great magician Truchi couldn't help but exclaimed: "Eighteen people. Even if each person weighs 50 kilograms on average, it's close to the weight of a meal. It can hit something weighing one ton. Flying in the sky. It's amazing to be able to fly so fast!"

Xu Yi laughed, thinking that the current loading capacity of this magic airship is less than one ton, which is enough to surprise the great magician Truchi. scared off?

Suddenly there was a light sound from inside the magic airship, and as soon as a door on the side that could accommodate two people passing in parallel opened, Akali's figure rushed out from inside. "Master President. We are back!" Akali waved vigorously to Xu Yi, her eyes swept across the faces of other people, and finally landed on Steele, and rushed over to grab Steele's hand , while shaking, shouted excitedly.

"Steel, you should have come on the magic airship with us. It was so exciting! I never thought that I could look down from such a high altitude, and it was so smooth, it was simply amazing. It's unbelievable!"

Steele glanced at her: "It's not like you never flew into the sky when you used flying magic. What are you so excited about?"

"That's different." Akali shook her head vigorously. "Although you can fly into the sky with flying magic, you can fly at the highest... It's not as high as a ten-story building. It's about 20 meters, less than 30 meters. But if you take this magic airship, but It can fly up to a height of several hundred meters! Let me tell you, looking down from a height of tens of meters is completely different from looking down from a height of hundreds of meters!"

"yes?". Steele was a little puzzled.

"Of course. Do you know? If you look down at a height of several hundred meters, the people on the ground become as small as ants, and you can't even see them clearly! When I looked down from above , I suddenly feel that I have become so great!"...

Although Akali always used exaggerated words, it was the first time Steele saw her get so excited because of one thing, and he immediately became interested.

"Okay, next time this magic airship sets sail again, I'll go up and experience it too. Xu Yi, is that okay?".

Xu Yi shrugged: "You shouldn't ask me about this, but you should ask Evita. After all, she is the person in charge of the magic airship project. In this regard, she is the expert and has the most say. If she I agree with you to go up, then I have no objection."

Evita just came out of the magic airship at this time, seeing Xu Yi throwing the question to herself, she nodded with a smile: "No problem. After these experiments, I am sure that the safety of this magic airship has been guaranteed to a certain extent .Besides, Steele is a magician, even if something goes wrong, nothing will happen."

Steele immediately looked at Xu Yi, and Xu Yi nodded: "Well, since Evita agrees, of course I have no objection."

Ignoring Steele and Akali's exchange of feelings about riding the magic airship, Xu Yi walked up to Evita and asked in a low voice, "Is it finished?".

Evita nodded slightly, reached into her arms, took out a thick piece of kraft paper, and handed it to Xu Yi.

Xu Yi took it, but didn't open it to look at it. He greeted the great magician Truchi who was looking around the magic airship, and led a group of people into the manor.

Everyone entered the innermost room of the manor, Xu Yi opened the kraft paper Evita handed him just now, and spread it on the table in the middle of the room.

This piece of kraft paper was already quite small when folded, and when it was unfolded, it even covered the entire table. It was more than two meters long and one meter wide.

There were a bunch of messy lines and marked words drawn on the paper. The great magician Truchi leaned over to look at it carefully for a while under Xu Yi's gesture, and was suddenly taken aback.

"This... seems to be a map around here?"

"Yes." Xu Yi nodded and smiled, reaching out and tapping on the kraft paper. "Look, this is the island of Karaska. Hmm... When I took a small magic assault boat from the sea, I felt quite far away. From the map, it doesn't seem too far away. Evita, this map At what scale did you draw it?"

"It's about 1:500,000."

"1:500000? Let me see... In this way, the straight-line distance between Karaska Island and here is probably less than 100 kilometers." Xu Yi thought for a while. Nod. "That's right. It takes about two hours to go there with a small magic assault boat. It's almost this far."

The great magician Truchi looked at the map, then at Xu Yi, his face full of puzzlement.

"Xu Yi, how did you get this map? And... why did you get such a detailed map? Apart from the vicinity here, it also includes the entire Principality of Standing, and even the Black Rice Wasteland in the north and more. The coastline of the Sark Kingdom in the north has it, which is too strange."

"How did it come about? I asked Evita to use the magic airship to draw it in the sky. Otherwise, why do you think the map is so detailed? And the size is so standard?" Xu Yi asked back with a face of course.

"Well... it's really detailed. As for the size standard... it's really good, at least the area around here is exactly the same as what I saw in the sky before." Camilla, who was lying on the map, studied it carefully. The teacher also nodded in agreement.

Xu Yi chuckled: "Maybe it's more accurate than when you look at it in the sky. Because you can't fly that high when you fly in the sky, and you won't stay in the air for so long, right?"

"That's true." The great magician Camilla didn't deny it. "If you fly higher, you can naturally see farther. This magic airship can fly hundreds of meters high, and even if I am a great magician, I can only fly up to 100 meters. Compared with this It's not far off."  …

When I heard Akali describe the flying height of the magic airship just now, the great magician Truchi was still a little dubious, but now I heard that the great magician Camilla personally confirmed it. The great magician Truchi was even more surprised.

It's just a magical mechanism that can fly higher than a great magician. This is too subversive.

More importantly, the flying speed of this magic airship is not slow at all.

In addition, it can even bring people who don't know magic to high altitudes, which is much more useful than magicians.

"Magician Truchi, look, this is the island of Karaska. Have you noticed that the geographical location of the island of Karaska is very important?" Xu Yi's question pulled the great magician Truchi out of his surprise back.

"Huh? Why is it important?" The great magician Truchi looked at the map for a long time, but he couldn't see what happened.

He was born and raised on the island of Karaska, but he never felt that the geographical location of the island was important.

"Look here..." Xu Yi stretched out his right index finger, first clicked on the location of Karaska Island on the map, and then clicked on the coastline on the map several times. "Look, first of all, the straight-line distance from Karaska Island to where we are now is less than a hundred kilometers. Then, secondly, if you look at this again, the straight-line distance from Karaska Island to the Black Rice Wasteland is even shorter, even less than One hundred kilometers..."

"Wait." The great magician Truchi raised his hand to interrupt Xu Yi's words. "You said that Karaska Island is relatively close to here. Why did you mention the Black Rice Wasteland? Is there any significance?".

Xu Yi smiled slightly, and nodded on the coastline closest to Karaska Island in the Black Rice Wasteland, and said, "If there is a port here, do you think it is meaningful?"

The great magician Truchi looked along the position where Xu Yi was pointing, and his eyes lit up immediately, but then dimmed immediately.

"It's unrealistic. If there is such a port, it will be of great significance to Karaska Island. But behind this is the Black Rice Wasteland, and it is also close to the most ferocious and barbaric land in the depths of the Black Rice Wasteland. Several orc tribes. It is impossible to set up a port here."

"It's nothing impossible." Xu Yi smiled. "Actually, I have already started to solve this problem. As long as everything goes well, sooner or later we will solve these orc tribes that are the biggest obstacle, and then build this port smoothly."

The great magician Truchi frowned: "There is no need to go to war like this, right? Those orc tribes are very powerful, and they are still located in the depths of the Black Rice Wasteland. It is too difficult to solve them. If it is only for Karas Kashima... Even I think it's not worth it, so I might as well think of another way."

"No, Your Excellency the Great Mage. I did this not just to improve the living environment of the residents of Karaska Island. Of course, this is also a very important reason, but in my opinion, those who support me, In fact, the most important factor lies in the strong strategic significance of Karaska Island.”

"Strategic significance?" Grand Magician Truchi looked at Xu Yi in astonishment.

All the evaluations he had heard about Karaska Island, the place where he was born and raised, were negative, and this was the first time he had heard someone associate a ranking like "strategic significance" with it.

This Xu Yi...is he serious?

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