The Defeated Dragon

This chapter is a reward plus more for "Horse feeding sheep”.

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After precise positioning of the sextant, the Agate pen swings effortlessly, drawing a rudimentary flame archipelago topographic map on the notebook.

The Flame Islands are not those islands that are very dispersed and do not span a very large area of the sea. It looks like the kind of broken Oracle preserved in a museum, where a complete tortoise is shattered into many pieces and put together —— of course, Lester prefers to call it a shattered shell.

The tortoise shell was too low, and the shell grade immediately went up.

Again, this shell is like an elliptical leaf with two tips, a middle circle, and a northeastern-west-southwest direction. Three large islands in the northeast corner, each approaching the area of Iron Hoop Island according to Archer; in the middle is the giant Flame Island, where the Whirlpool Mountains are located in the eastern center of Flame Island.

In the south-western corner, four large islands form the edge of the shell and, together with Flame Island, surround an inland sea.

Of course, this is just a rough map, and many areas are carved out, not carefully positioned, and the size of the island and the area of the sea have not been calculated. To complete the smoke task of mapping, it will take a long time to find the lost Invisible Dragon.

Anyway.

The islands are called the Flame Islands, but the surrounding seas cannot continue to be called the Bibbo Sea, and Lester simply named it the Sea of Shellfish.

All offshore areas under the rule of the future Flame Nation are called the Sea of the Shell.

“Brother, the Whirlpool Mountains are deep inland on Flame Island, more than 500 kilometres north, south and east.” Archer is good at mathematics, mastering Professor Lester's knowledge of her plus or minus four arithmetic, as well as primary schools such as Kaifeng.

But with the upward mathematical knowledge, Lester has long forgotten that one-dollar quadratic equations are not necessarily solved, let alone functions like cos, sin, and power.

But he remembers a lot of the formula for area -- rectangle is “long” by “wide”, parallel quadrilateral is “high” by "bottom”, triangle is “high” by “bottom” by half, trapezoidal area is “high” by “up and down long” by half, circular area is π times “radius” square.

In addition.

There are also abstract image areas that need to be cut to complement so that they become similar rectangles, triangles, etc.; or grid lines can be drawn to calculate the area of the grid the image occupies, and then added up.

As soon as he handed these formulas over to Arjun, Arjun expanded them to become an important tool for studying magic arrays and astronomical geography. Therefore, Archer can easily calculate the distance from the Whirlpool Mountain to the sea and conclude that each route will not be less than 500 kilometres.

“Five hundred kilometers is fine, allowing Leo to fly at full speed, about three or four hours to the beach.” Lister pinched his finger and said.

But it was rare to come to the Flame Islands, and Lester was not prepared to go back, and he had to map the size of the islands in the Flame Islands.

Completing the smoke task is more important.

This is about the whereabouts of an old friend, the Invisible Dragon - the smoked herb meal he always carries, waiting for the Invisible Dragon to come to the banquet and eat the dragon's soul fruit.

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Leo landed and chewed the magic and auxiliary medicine that Lester stuffed into his mouth.

Listerine and Acura outline his idea of building a firewood city: “The city must be built, and the Whirlpool Magic Transfer Array must be developed. The problem now is that entering and exiting the Whirlpool is very dangerous, and many fragile materials cannot remain intact. ”

“A curtain magic array can be arranged at the mouth of the vortex to slow down boats crossing the great vortex. ”

“But even if the ship slows down, it will still fall into the mountains. ”

Archer thought seriously: “I heard my brother tell the story of opening a canal between the two seas. The sea level is different and can be used to drain and fill water through different valves to achieve navigation.” The Canal story she tells is actually the Panama Canal that Lester whispered in her spare time.

But Lester was obviously wrong to remember that the Atlantic Ocean is the same as the Pacific Ocean.

The Panama Canal will rely on the lag of the river only if it cannot be excavated directly by geological influences, rising and descending in such a way that the vessel can pass smoothly. The Three Gorges Dam in China is also such a water-closed canal, and the world's earliest water-closed canal is the ancient Chinese spiritual canal.

I don't know what I'm talking about, Lester, and I nodded, “That's right, that canal is using gates to drain water and fill water to complete staircase navigation. So what you're saying is, you're going to build this canal on a whirlpool? I'm afraid not. It's not possible to dig a canal at a height of 3,000 meters. ”

“But magic can, Acura can design a water column magic array that can be lifted and lowered from the vortex cave, relying on the mountain arrangement, about thirty water column magic arrays that fall a hundred meters vertically can complete navigation. ”

“Even so, the resources consumed are likely to be astronomical. ”

“When Archer completes the control of the ice attribute, he will drill down on the changes in the nature of the soil attribute, and then use the soil magic to completely transform the mountain body and reduce resource loss!” Archer said ambitiously.

She has read the magic book by Kenny Truth from the Iron Ridge Kingdom, which contains magical masterpieces from the days of the Moon Empire.

It was said that there was a “canal in the sky” leading from the capital of the Moon Empire to the western edge, supported by a magical formation. However, the Sky Canal has long been extinguished in the historic Long River, and many magicians have tried to prove the existence of the remains of the Sky Canal, but have not yet found it.

Therefore, Archer would very much like to design a small "Sky Canal” for the Whirlpool Mountains.

She is also a wizard, an ancient wizard can do it, why modern wizards cannot do it. She has read magic books about the ancient Moon Empire, and the stories in them are all unbridled. Makes her very emotional, for a magician, only unexpected can't do it.

It is only a pity that the era of the advent of magical civilization is long gone.

Lester was not so optimistic. With the shrinkage of the Magic Net, it was difficult for the Magic Array to draw more magic from the Magic Net. It needed to be arranged with a variety of precious magic materials.

The resources consumed are absolutely astronomical figures, and now he is tired of raising both dragons, reluctant to grab a pioneering order several times a year.

It's not realistic to spend more resources on canals.

But he didn't sweep Archer's enthusiasm either: “Then wait for you to complete the early transformation of the elements of the soil properties, and then develop the Great Vortex magic portal in depth… Now figure out how to use the Great Vortex transmission resources to develop this vast archipelago as soon as possible. ”

Archer is not a very tall man: "Brother, can you do this, build many seaships like the Flame, carefully reinforce them, then accumulate resources and people, and then send them to the great swirl. Archer crosses first, catches the big boat with magic at the edge of the vortex, and then unloads it on the side? ”

“You mean the Flame as a disposable conveyance? ”

“Well. ”

“It's still a little extravagant, but it's a lot less expensive than transporting resources across the ocean, but it's a lot of trouble for you and me. ”

“Hee-hee, I hope my brother doesn't feel tired, but Archer is looking forward to crossing the great swirl again and studying the magic transmission line. It may not be long before Archer can lay a new magic formation himself and a transmission formation from Black Horse Island to Flame Island! ”

Lister laughed, "The Sky Canal” is not reliable, that's the best solution: “I'll wait and see. ”