Airship?
The moment the term came up, everyone fell silent. They did not know what it meant, but taken literally... a ship that could fly?
"Indeed, we have no way to get close to the sea right now, nor can we build ships, but we can fly over it." Theus spread out the blueprints. "This is the airship I designed. It can travel through the skies. Other than being a little slow, it's quite good in every other respect... What are those looks for?"
The people in the room nearly had their eyes popping out. Ash was better off—she was a Banshee and had been born in the sea, so she did not particularly long for the sky.
But Chloe and Alexei... both of their hands had begun to tremble.
"The Empire doesn't have anything like this?"
"Of course not..." Chloe swallowed. "Are you serious? People can... fly in the sky?"
"Is that... difficult?" Theus scratched his head in confusion. Airships were indeed impressive technology, but simply getting into the sky should not have been that difficult, right?
"You haven't made hot-air balloons?"
"What are those?"
"You don't have any technology capable of flying into the sky?"
Chloe and Alexei immediately shook their heads together without hesitation.
"Humans are creatures of the earth. Forget ordinary people—even Transcendents have no ability to fly through the skies... Can this airship really take us into the sky?"
"Of course. The principle is actually similar to rising and sinking in water. As long as we find a gas lighter than air, it can pull us upward... You know what air is made of, right?"
Chloe still shook her head.
Theus sighed. The foundation of physics in this world had really gone off in a strange direction. After some explanation, the group gathered around the