If the air elementals were willing to help, they could actually carry people into the air.
But they certainly would not fly very fast.
Even a super typhoon of force eighteen only reached seventy-three meters per second.
That was not even as fast as a high-speed train, let alone a plane!
The sword flight in Chinese Paladin worked much the same way.
Standing on a sword and drifting leisurely through the sky-a relaxing trip that would not take you out of the province in half a day.
Herad wanted efficiency, at least enough to surpass a gryphon's flying speed.
So he decided to build a rocket to send himself there.
Goblin engineers had done this sort of death-defying thing before.
Despite all their aerial disasters, those little green-skinned fellows had indeed succeeded.
As controllable power sources, air elementals were far superior to explosive rocket fuel.
So Herad shaped a simple rocket out of granite.
Magically reinforced granite was stronger than steel and perfectly suitable as material for a rocket's hull.
Next, Herad had the air elementals blow wind inside the engine to test whether the rocket could fly.
A powerful stream of air blasted out from the bottom of the rocket.
The gale sent plant debris near the launch site swirling through the air.
Then the rocket successfully took flight, and it was quite stable.
Seeing that it really worked, Herad had the air elementals reduce their output and land it on the launch site.
The first reusable rocket in history was born, just like that!
Of course, most of the credit went to the air elementals' precise control of the airflow.
Both the rocket's test flight and its recovery went smoothly.
This deeply astonished the high elves watching nearby.
But Herad added two short wings to the rocket, making