The next day.
Yue Yang followed Old Spear behind the border troops returning to the capital for rotation. After boarding a small airship, he stepped onto a colossal flying warship, deep purple all over and shaped like a shuttle, two kilometers long from bow to stern, roughly five hundred meters wide at its broadest point, and three hundred meters tall. This enormous flying vessel, called the "Pelican," was nothing like the luxurious airships Yue Yang had ridden before. Even the largest airship would be no more than a tiny mosquito before a flying bird in comparison—pitifully small.
This flying vessel, said to accommodate tens of thousands of border troops with ease, was the skyborne carrier Old Spear had mentioned before.
It was a super warship that combined offense and defense.
It drew its energy from divine stones.
An inexhaustible supply.
It also held a record.
Ever since the two great gods Taiyan and Bingli developed and built the first flying skyborne carriers, not a single one had ever been shot down in battle.
Even Taiyan and Bingli themselves had fallen.
Yet not one skyborne carrier jointly created by the two had ever suffered a combat loss!
Skyborne carriers were also symbols of a divine kingdom's strength. The Eastern and Western Divine Kingdoms, the strongest among the Eight Divine Kingdoms, each possessed more than fifty skyborne carriers. Their largest "Super Overlord"-class skyborne carriers were said to exceed ten kilometers in length, span two kilometers at their widest point, rise over a kilometer at their highest point, contain more than a hundred decks, and hold cabins for over five hundred thousand people. They truly deserved to be called invincible super overlords of the skies, whose mere appearance would send enemies fleeing at the sight!
The Southeast Divine Kingdom's overall national strength was