Unexpectedly Gifted Contestant (Extra Chapter for Alliance Leader "Dreamlike Helplessness")

During the testing, a minor unexpected incident allowed the two testers to take a crucial step forward ahead of schedule, building up experience in judging the wind and controlling the hot-air balloon's vertical movement to adjust its position.

When the two formally conducted this test later on, they were clearly much calmer, and their operation became far steadier as well.

Even so, quite a few unexpected situations still occurred during the tests over the following days.

The wind direction was different in each air-current layer. In fact, even within the same layer, the wind might be blowing east one moment and then start blowing north the next.

Under these circumstances, the first day's test was mainly meant to let them get used to flying with the wind in a hot-air balloon. Thus, even if they flew about wildly with the wind and their takeoff or landing points were completely off, it did not matter.

But later on, that obviously would not do. They had to keep themselves within a certain area.

This meant that the two hot-air balloon operators had to constantly confirm the wind direction and then adjust the balloon's altitude.

After all, wind was the most elusive thing of all. When they had been flying wherever the wind took them, they had not felt how difficult it was. But once they needed to exercise relatively precise control, they immediately found themselves in a flustered mess.

"Keep calm. What you need to do isn't fight the wind, but feel it..."

In this era, trying to control the wind was undoubtedly a foolish idea.

During the training over the next few days, the two operators had become proficient at taking off and landing, but they still flew about in the sky in a complete mess.

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