Magic stone good, food good. You're ready. "
"General, are you sure you're okay? Stop flying and getting in trouble again."
"It's okay, Vargas. It's a new type of balloon that's been improved since our last failure. No, balloons may not be quite the same."
"Are you sure you're okay? I don't know if it's a new model, but this time, the enemy might come while the general is gone."
"Well, it's okay. This time, the test flight was also successful, and there was no problem."
"Absolutely, really. Well, if the general says that, we can't stop it any longer. Follow me."
"Oh, thank you, Vargas."
The slow-moving Menmen.
I decided to go check it out with my own eyes.
The Menmen who are currently heading north march with an estimated 40,000 troops.
And the route goes through several noble territories.
Originally, nobles or knights in the territory would not authorize the movement of troops of other nobles.
After all, we don't know when or what the army will do.
Perhaps on the way to Fontana, another nobleman's house may be attacked.
Alternatively, they may loot villages and towns on the route in the name of securing food.
It is clearly too dangerous.
But the Menmen kept going north while allowing such dangerous military passage.
That is because the House of Menmen is an exceptional nobleman.
If the army were to approach us, it would be very damaging.
In that case, even if you have some problems, you may find it better to allow passage.
There are other reasons.
It had to do with Fontana or the presence of Barca.
The Fontana family territory has continued to expand rapidly over the past few years.
The House of Ulk, which ruled the adjacent territory, was cut off and cut off.
And even on the other side, the Arbarest family has been defeated to the point where they can weaken their forces to the point where they cannot use their superior magic.
This is what a noble family located south of Fontana territory thinks.
Fontana's next target must be my territory in the south.
If so, the Menmen's behavior is not bad this time.
This commotion, which began with the King's presence, makes sense for the Menmen to defeat Fontana.
After all, the Menmen don't share any territory with Fontana.
Fontana and the end of the war open, and even if Fontana is defeated, the territory gained becomes an enclave and less manageable.
Then we might be able to target fishermen for profit.
Alternatively, Fontana loses and becomes immobile.
If they don't have the power to target their territory, it's easier to deal with them.
In other words, considering the danger of the Menmen's army passing through their own territory, they think it would be more profitable to quietly allow passage.
That's why the Menmen are coming through the territory of other nobles to Fontana with their faces open.
But on the contrary, the story is different.
It will not be easy for Fontana's army to march south.
Especially since the creation of the three new positions, the southern nobles have firmly closed the gates of their territory.
At first, it became increasingly difficult to obtain the information on the Menmen family.
That's why I'm going.
There is no Sekimo, through the empty path.
Yosolo!
"What is that, Ars?
"No, I don't know, but is it like a sign to leave? So, what do you say, Paine? How comfortable is this new ride?"
"That's right. That's right, it's my first time flying in the sky, and I'm scared... But it's more stable than I thought."
"Well, there's not much wind today. Not much, but maybe more. Yeah, I'll tell you what, if you throw up, throw up outside."
"Hey, don't say that right after you start flying, Ars."
Move the sky for House Menmen's reconnaissance.
That's why I got into a new balloon and jumped into the sky.
Rather, it may be said that it is no longer a balloon.
To put it bluntly, it is not a balloon, but an airship.
Well, it's a small airship that's not that big.
Instead of being rounded like a balloon, the inside of an oval cloth, like a rugby ball, is heated with flames coming out of the flame ore.
It is larger than a previously made balloon, and the basket is large enough to accommodate more than 10 people.
Why did you make the balloon an airship?
There was a reason for that.
It is about the free way of flying in the sky.
An air balloon is one in which the air in the cloth is heated and buoyant.
But the way to get around is to leave it to the air flow.
The atmosphere is complicated by its current conditions.
We had to read the airflow and adjust the altitude of the balloon to take on the flow of air flowing in the direction we wanted to go.
But such a complicated method cannot be learned overnight.
Now, I wondered if the flow of air in the direction of travel could be accurately read while adding power.
The way out was an airship.
But it's a little different from a normal airship.
Normally, the buoyancy of an airship uses gas that is lighter than air.
However, hydrogen was the only floating gas I could get right now.
Electrolytic decomposition of water with a thunderbolt sword obtained from the Arbarest family will separate it from oxygen and hydrogen.
There was also a proposal to collect only the hydrogen in it and make it the buoyancy of the airship.
But I rejected the idea.
There is instability in which hydrogen gas reacts with air.
If we crash with an explosion while we're flying, we won't be able to help.
Therefore, I refused to use hydrogen on the airship.
However, the shape itself was changed to an elliptical sphere airship.
Because I did remember that that shape also had the advantage of gaining buoyancy when moving through the sky.
A small heat source that uses flame ore but achieves super thermal power.
Use it to light an airship like a balloon.
Then power the airship.
That said, the power was not to use fire.
It was more primitive.
Billy's newly created flying service beast.
We've got him on board.
Let's call the bird-type mission beast that tracks people with the smell I've seen so far a tracking bird.
The tracking bird was big enough to stop on my shoulder.
But the newly hatched flying beast was bigger than that.
A bird servant beast with green hair about 1m in length.
Is this a fairly large category of birds?
But even at that size, I couldn't fly with a man on board.
But it was different to connect to an airship.
An airship that gained buoyancy by heating the air with flame ore is floating in space.
Objects floating against gravity can be said to have become lighter in weight.
In that state, I was able to pull the spaceship by flying multiple new beasts together.
Apparently, this beast is not good at recognizing smells like tracking birds, but it seems to have different characteristics.
It means that you are very good at reading the air flow.
In other words, I was able to fly the sky with a pretty powerful technique of floating the spaceship in space with flame ore and moving it by the Service Beast.
This was not a normal bird, but a feasible method because it was a service beast with the nature of recognizing and obeying what people said.
In the meantime, let's name this service beast Windward to distinguish it from a tracking bird.
In this way, I was able to fly aboard a new airship to where the Menmen would be.