Watching the Magic Airship Model fly back and forth overhead, Xu Yi could not help feeling a little wistful.
This world really was different from Earth.
The existence of magic made many things far easier to develop than their corresponding industrial machines on Earth, and in many respects, they had advantages that those machines could never match.
Take the Magic Locomotive, for example. Although researching its engine had still taken a long time, thanks to the power of magic, the greatest advantage of the Magic Locomotive they had developed over cars on Earth was that it consumed only Magic Crystals rather than gasoline. It therefore produced no pollution, and exhaust emissions were not a concern at all.
At the same time, the Magic Locomotive used energy very efficiently. Refined Magic Crystals could be consumed almost completely without producing any impurities, which also greatly reduced wear on the Mana Engine and substantially extended its service life.
Of course, there were drawbacks as well. Compared with cars on Earth, the Magic Locomotives currently powered by Wind-Type Magic Engines still lacked power, so their speed could not yet rival that of cars. If he had to make a comparison, they were probably about on par with electric cars.
Still, development of Mana Engines had only just begun. Xu Yi was confident that he could gradually increase their power output and steadily improve the speed of Magic Locomotives.
Those were merely the advantages magic offered Magic Locomotives. In the case of the Magic Airship Model before him, its advantages over airplanes on Earth were even greater.
For any flying device on Earth, the first problem to solve was getting it into the air.
Throughout Earth's history, people researching all kinds of flying devices had endured countless hardships and racked their brains to devise all