After speaking with Barn and confirming the progress of the airship project, Ang threw himself into the most demanding task of all—the rune engraving of the buoys.
It was an enormous undertaking.
The four airships required a total of thirty-two buoys. Each buoy had to be engraved with complex nested Rune Arrays, its rune channels filled with mithril, and then precisely enchanted so that the runes fused into one, allowing them to truly perform their functions of levitation and stabilization.
The entire Magic Workshop remained brightly lit day and night, while Ang worked almost without sleep or rest.
Whenever he grew tired, he drank Magic Potions to stay alert. When his body became exhausted, he drank stamina recovery potions. He only had a few brief hours of rest each day.
He handled the work personally. Every rune was drawn and engraved by his own hand, and he strove for perfection in every detail.
Meanwhile, Pri and the others had not been idle either.
They had already completed the rune filling and basic enchantments for the airship bodies, saving Ang a great deal of later integration work on the buoys.
Two months later, after the last buoy had been filled with mithril and received its final enchantment, Ang let out a long breath. Looking at the finished product, as though crafted by the heavens themselves, he smiled in satisfaction.
The tests after mounting the buoys went exceptionally smoothly. All four airships rose into the air without the slightest flaw.
At this point, Ang had thirteen usable airships under his command, enough to handle long-distance transportation, reconnaissance patrols, and even small-scale military deployments.
After completing this massive project, Ang finally relaxed completely.
He shut himself away to rest for three whole days, sleeping more than ten hours each day and thoroughly washing