"Another 1,000 kilometers ahead lies Primordial Pole Mountain in the Southern Frontier..."
Aboard the flying boat, Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian stood in its command cabin, gazing out over the vast mountain ranges below.
The mountains beneath them were thick with forests, their peaks rising and falling in endless succession. They looked perfectly ordinary, yet beneath that tranquil facade lurked immense danger.
In the Southern Frontier, the area within a radius of over a thousand kilometers around Primordial Pole Mountain—an expanse of a million square kilometers—was one of the Southern Frontier's ten most notorious deathlands.
No sooner had Bai Suxian finished speaking than a string of reports rang out from the crew members piloting the flying boat in the command cabin.
"Report! The effectiveness of the flying boat's Levitation Gold power system is declining abnormally..."
"Detected extremely powerful gravity from the ground. It is affecting the flying boat's flight attitude. Forward speed has dropped by ten percent..."
"The onboard horizontal spinning top has malfunctioned!"
"The rune navigation disc has failed..."
Hearing those reports, Zhang Tie made a snap decision. "Bring the flying boat to a hover. Reverse immediately and withdraw from the danger zone..."
Zhang Tie knew how to pilot airships, and he had even commanded them in the Selnes War Zone. Commanding an airship was much the same as commanding a flying boat. The instant his order was given, the flying boat halted, then began to retreat. Only after backing away thirty kilometers did everything aboard return to normal.
Zhang Tie shook his head. "This Primordial Pole Mountain really is damned strange!"
"If it weren't, how could the surrounding region be counted among the Southern Frontier's ten great deathlands? Any metal object that enters the range of Primordial Pole Mountain will be affected. This is still the mild area—the