Everyone looked up, only to find a black shadow passing by in the sky, casting a large shadow on the ground, just covering the dock.
Great Mage Truchi glanced at it and asked in shock, "What is this?"
Xu Yi smiled and said, "Just go and take a look and you will know."
After that, Xu Yi made an invitation gesture to Great Mage Truchi, directly added a Wind-Riding Spell to himself, and flew up the cliff.
Great Mage Truchi looked puzzled and flew up too.
Among the several people, Stille, who has the weakest magic power, now has the strength of Level Six Mage, and naturally also has the strength to use Flight Magic, so the group of people flew directly up. After a while, they followed the strange "black cloud" in the sky and flew to the cliff, landing in the open space outside Xu Yi and Private Manor.
Stille, who was flying at the end, had just landed with his feet, and the "black cloud" in the sky followed him.
After it settled on the ground, everyone took a closer look and found that this "black cloud" was an overall oval, about thirty meters long, less than ten meters wide, olive-shaped, and looked like a ship at first glance.
"This thing... could it be Magic Airship?"
Great Mage Truchi curiously walked over and circled around Magic Airship, his face full of admiration.
"Camilla mentioned to me before that your chamber of commerce is developing a Magic Airship that can carry people anywhere in the air. But when he mentioned it to me, he said that the Magic Airship you developed is only a few meters long and can only hold one person at most. Now this ship... I think it can hold at least ten or twenty people, right?"
"The approved carrying capacity is currently set at eighteen people, but it has not reached twenty yet." Xu Yi explained with a smile.
"That's amazing." Great Mage Truchi couldn't help but exclaimed, "Eighteen people. Even if the average person is fifty kilograms, the total weight is close to a meal. They can hit something weighing one ton and fly in the sky. They can fly so fast. This is simply amazing!"
Xu Yi laughed, thinking that the current load capacity of Magic Airship was less than one ton, which was enough to surprise Great Mage Truchi. If he were to see those large cargo planes on the earth, would his jaw drop?
Suddenly there was a soft sound inside Magic Airship, and as soon as a door on the side that could accommodate two people passing in parallel opened, Akali's figure rushed out from inside.
"Sir President. We are back!" Akali waved vigorously to Xu Yi, his eyes swept over the faces of the others, and finally landed on Stille. He rushed over and took Stille's hand, shaking it while shouting excitedly.
"Stille, you should really go up to Magic Airship with us. It's so exciting! I never thought that I could look down from such a high High Altitude, and it's so stable, it's incredible!"
Stille glanced at her. "It's not like you've never flown into the sky when using Flight Magic. Why are you so excited?"
"That's different." Akali shook his head vigorously. "Although you can fly into the sky with Flight Magic, it can only fly as high as... it can't fly as high as the tenth floor. It's probably twenty meters, less than thirty meters. But on this Magic Airship, but High Altitude that can fly up to several hundred meters! Let me tell you, looking down from a High Altitude that is tens of meters away, and looking down from a High Altitude that is hundreds of meters away, are completely different things!"
"Really?" Stille was a little confused.
"Of course. Did you know? If you look down from a High Altitude of several hundred meters, the people on the ground have become as small as ants, and you can't even see them clearly! When I looked down from above, I suddenly felt that I had become so great!"
Although Akali has always been exaggerated, this was the first time Stille saw her getting so excited about something, and she immediately became interested.
"Okay, next time this Magic Airship comes back, I want to go up there and experience it. Xu Yi, okay?"
Xu Yi shrugged. "You shouldn't ask me about this, but ask Avita. After all, she is the person in charge of the Magic Airship project. In this regard, she is the expert and has the most say. If she agrees to let you go up, then I have no objection."
Avita had just walked out of Magic Airship at this time. When he saw Xu Yi throwing the question to him, he smiled and nodded, "No problem. After several experiments, I am sure that the safety of this Magic Airship has been guaranteed. Besides, Stille is Mage. Even if something goes wrong, nothing will happen."
Stille immediately looked at Xu Yi, and Xu Yi nodded. "Well, since Avita agrees, of course I have no objection."
Ignoring Stille and Akali exchanging their feelings about riding Magic Airship, Xu Yi walked up to Avita and asked in a low voice, "Is it done?"
Avita nodded slightly, reached into his arms, took out a piece of thick kraft paper, and handed it to Xu Yi.
Xu Yi took it, without opening it to look at it. He greeted Great Mage Truchi who was looking around Magic Airship, and led a group of people into the Manor.
Everyone entered the innermost room of the Manor. Xu Yi opened the piece of brown paper that Avita had just handed him and spread it on the table in the middle of the room.
This piece of kraft paper is already quite large when folded. When spread out, it covers the entire table, which is more than two meters long and one meter wide.
There were a bunch of messy lines and annotations drawn on the paper. Great Mage Truchi, at Xu Yi's signal, leaned over and looked at it carefully for a while, and was suddenly stunned.
"This... seems to be a map of the area around here?"
"Yes." Xu Yi nodded and smiled, reaching out and tapping on the kraft paper. "Look, this is Karasga Island. Well... when we took the Small Mana Speedboat over the sea, it felt quite far. From the map, it doesn't seem too far. Avita, at what scale did you draw this map?"
"It's about 1:500000."
"1:500000? Let's see... In other words, the straight-line distance between Karasga Island and here is probably less than a hundred kilometers." Xu Yi thought for a while and nodded. "That's right. It takes about two hours to get there with Small Mana Speedboat. It's almost that far."
Great Mage Truchi looked at the map, then at Xu Yi, with puzzled expressions on his face.
"Xu Yi, how did you get this map? And... why did you get such a detailed map? In addition to this neighborhood, it also includes the entire Stantin Duchy, and even the coastline of Black Rice Wasteland to the north and Sark Kingdom to the north. This is too strange."
"How did it come about? I asked Avita to use Magic Airship to draw it from the sky. Otherwise, why do you think the map would be so detailed? And the size would be so standard?" Xu Yi asked matter-of-factly.
"Well... it's indeed very detailed. As for the size standard... it's really good. At least the area around here is exactly the same as what I saw in the sky before." Great Mage Camilla, who was lying on the side and studying the map carefully, also agreed.
Xu Yi chuckled, "Maybe it's more accurate than when you see it from the sky. Because you can't fly that high when you fly in the sky, and you won't stay in the air for that long, right?"
"That's true." Great Mage Camilla doesn't deny it. "If you fly high, you can naturally see farther. This Magic Airship can fly several hundred meters high, and even my Great Mage can only fly up to a hundred meters, which is far worse than that."
When Akali described the flying height of Magic Airship, Great Mage Truchi was still a little skeptical. Now that Great Mage Camilla confirmed it himself, Great Mage Truchi was even more surprised.
But a Magic Machinery device can actually fly higher than a Great Mage. This is too subversive.
More importantly, the flying speed of this Magic Airship is not slow at all.
In addition, it can also be used by people who do not know magic to bring High Altitude, which is much more effective than Mage.
"Great Mage Truchi, come and see, here is Karasga Island. Have you noticed that the position of Geography in Karasga Island is very critical?" Xu Yi's question brought Great Mage Truchi back from surprise.
"Huh? What's the key?" Great Mage Truchi looked at the map for a long time, but couldn't figure out what happened.
He was born and raised on Karasga Island, but he never felt that the location of Geography on this island was important.
"Look here..." Xu Yi stretched out his right index finger, first clicked on the position of Karasga Island on the map, and then clicked several times on the coastline on the map. "Look, first of all, The straight-line distance between Karasga Island and our current location is less than 100 kilometers. And secondly, if you look here, the straight-line distance between Karasga Island and Black Rice Wasteland is even shorter, even less than 100 kilometers..."
"Wait." Great Mage Truchi raised his hand and interrupted Xu Yi. "You said Karasga Island is relatively close to here. Why did you mention Black Rice Wasteland? What's the point?"
Xu Yi smiled slightly, pointed at the stretch of coastline closest to Black Rice Wasteland from Karasga Island, and said, "Do you think it makes sense to set up a Port here?"
Great Mage Truchi looked along the spot where Xu Yi was lit, and his eyes suddenly lit up, but then dimmed immediately.
"This is unrealistic. If there really is such a Port, it is indeed of great significance to Karasga Island. But behind this place is Black Rice Wasteland, and it is also close to the most ferocious and barbaric Orc Tribe tribes deep in Black Rice Wasteland. It is simply impossible to establish a Port here."
"There is nothing impossible about this." Xu Yi smiled. "In fact, I have already been working on solving this problem. As long as everything goes well, sooner or later we will solve these Orc Tribe tribes that are the biggest obstacles, and then successfully establish this Port."
Great Mage Truchi frowned. "You don't need to go to war in such a big way, right? Those Orc Tribe tribes are very powerful and are still located deep in Black Rice Wasteland. It's too difficult to deal with them. If it's just for Karasga Island... Even I think it's very uneconomical. I might as well think of other methods."
"No, Sir Great Mage. I am not just doing this to improve the living environment of the residents on Karasga Island. Of course, this is also a very important reason. But in my opinion, the most important factor that supports me in doing this is the extremely strong strategic significance contained in Karasga Island."
"Strategic significance?" Great Mage Truchi looked at Xu Yi in shock.
Regarding Karasga Island, the place where he was born and raised, all the comments he heard were negative. This was the first time he heard someone associate a ranking like "strategic significance" with it.
This Xu Yi... is he serious?