High Above

"Floating City?!"

At this moment, even Ian couldn't help but take a deep breath subconsciously.

At first, when Ian saw that there was a brand new city here, what he thought in his mind was 'The Imperial Engineering Department is pretty good'.

Because on the map, there is only one city in the plains of this area, and this city has been completely burned in the demon disaster not long ago. According to Ian's eyesight, he has long seen the ruins of the burned city. , dark and full of soot and debris.

And right next to the ruins of this city, there is another city, and there are many airships next to it... This can only be a temporary fortress city built by the Imperial Engineering Department to maintain local defense - look at the degree of armament of this city , Ian’s guess is not wrong. Moreover, the sublime ones can really build a city easily, and it takes only a few days to build it.

As a result... it flew? !

The city with its dark base now lights up with dense and regular blue light pattern circuits.

These lights are quite dim, but they control the surrounding water vapor and gather into large white clouds, creating incredible buoyancy and lifting the entire city upwards.

That is to say, in the process of the city levitating upward, the earth and the surrounding air generate a shock wave like a substance due to the operation of the inscription circuit.

The mud and white shock waves swept over the surrounding plains and hills like ocean waves. Except for the airships that had been protected by raised shields, everything was blown away, forming a square on the earth. A circular 'dust mist circle', and in the very center of this circle is the city that is taking off.

More than that.

With the activation of the floating city, the Western Plains area began to slowly subside, and a sunken basin was slowly taking shape - this was the reaction force of the incredibly strong spiritual field on the material world. Here, Now it has collapsed and collapsed. In the future, it will become a vast lake and become another 'powerful landform' on Terra.

Buzzing - Thousand-meter-high dust fog obscured the sky, but the steel fortress broke through the fog and continued to rise toward the sky!

In just a few minutes, under the shocked gaze of Ian and others, the entire city had floated into the sky with the help of terrifying power and reached an orbit several kilometers away.

Although it is still under the airship, it is also above some flowing clouds, because there is also a large amount of white cloud-like sublimated material at the bottom of this floating city. Therefore, if you look up from the bottom, you can only see a continuous field without distinguishing carefully. white cloudscape.

In a world where there has never been anything like it, who would have thought that there is a steel fortress armed to the teeth hidden in this white cloud?

"How was this made..."

Ian murmured to himself, while Marquis Barton on the side watched the City of Steel in front of him with emotion as it stabilized its orbit. He whispered: "Of course it's the technology of the City of Knowledge - did you see those 'hanging clouds'? That's knowledge. The technology used in the capital of ‘Tian Tiandu’.”

"The entire city of Yunjing Thousand Towers is built on these hanging clouds. They can even lift mountains into the sky, let alone a city?"

"Floating City..." Ian repeated this word, and he already fully understood in his mind what kind of wonder the so-called 'Heavenly City' was.

But even so, he was still a little unbelievable: "How could the City of Knowledge share such important technology with the Empire? Oh my God, what technology did the Empire exchange for..."

The words were not spoken.

Because the moment he said it, Ian wanted to understand what kind of technology the empire used for exchange.

"Imperial Capital? Imperial Capital's shield?"

Ian whispered, but Marquis Barton did not reply, but nodded slightly.

This is a peak interaction.

The empire exchanged the shield technology of the Imperial Capital with the levitation technology of the City of Knowledge.

Both sides got what they wanted. The fragile City of Cloud View had mastered a super shield that was enough to protect itself, while the immovable city that originally stood on the earth now has the possibility of flying into the sky!

The two sides are crossing paths.

The airship was gradually descending.

The 'Floating City' still remains suspended and is even rising.

Just like giant whales and sardines, or even plankton intertwining in the deep sea, the originally huge aeroboat looked so small in contrast to the floating city.

"Incredible..."

Ian stared at the scene.

This is something that is difficult to achieve with Earth’s technology.

The takeoff and landing of the floating city seems to be a routine test every few days to test various data of the floating city.

After all, even in a world like Terra, with extraordinary power such as the source of spiritual energy, ether, it is still an extremely terrifying project to build a floating fortress that can resist the gravity of the planet.

God knows how long the empire has been preparing for this, and how much wealth it has consumed... But no matter what, the moment it is created, many things will be completely changed.

On the way down, Ian stared at the city in silence.

With blue lines on a black background and white clouds as the base, the majestic steel city is surrounded by countless white flowing clouds. The surface of each building has a spiritual halo visible to the naked eye. The power of the inscription circuit has almost condensed into a solid body, making it indestructible.

You can all guess that this fortified city definitely uses extremely powerful shield technology, just like Silver Peak Leader Snow Summit and Xia Hui City, even more powerful... Overflowing from the majestic and spectacular Steel City Its rays of light make it look like a second sun in the evening environment as the setting sun gradually sets. Everything is surrounded by a holy shimmer, just like the realm of heaven.

This is the Empire's secret weapon...a floating fortress.

"Compared to the city, the empty boat is like a tiny mosquito floating on a table large enough for twelve people to eat."

Ian whispered: "No news has been leaked. The empire's intelligence work is so powerful..."

"Don't underestimate the research of the Gnostic Institute."

Marquis Barton touched his beard and said leisurely: "If you want to keep it secret, it is indeed a good way to start directly with the mind and soul. Since the Black King era, the empire has been doing a lot of research in this area."

"I can't even make subtle hints. You can't tell until you see it with your own eyes - I'm a third-level person. How could those engineers and technicians involved in the specific construction violate it?"

"What's more, they may not know what kind of spectacle they are creating... After all, a special steel fortress, even a moving steel fortress, is not uncommon on this land."

indeed so.

Ian knew that the Cangtian Royal Court was quite good at building large-scale land operation facilities, and even built many mobile cities. The place where their Royal Court was located was a solid steel mobile fortress.

As for the so-called restrictions of Marquis Barton, it is obviously something similar to soul induction and thinking suggestion. However, the soul seal mastered by Ian must have a soul. Ordinary people may need to use another version of thought induction, which is a bit troublesome.

The empire must have mastered similar technology, so it was able to create such a strategic wonder without anyone else!

Soon, the airship landed, Ian and Marquis Barton stepped off the airship, and the floating city also began this test operation and began to move slowly.

"The celestial phenomena and atmosphere around here have been distorted by the sublimation technique."

Marquis Barton said: "Looking from a distance, this place is a hazy white mist. Even if you look down from Dragon Island, you can only see the outlines of the two cities - only we, the invited nobles of the empire, can see with our own eyes the lower reaches of the empire." The power of a generation of strategic creations.”

"Floating City Fortress. This is the flag we will raise during the big counterattack!"

Accompanied by the sonorous and powerful words of Marquis Barton, an entire aerial armor took off from the floating city and cruised around, setting off a harsh sonic boom of thunder.

Buzzing - Along with the hair-raising spiritual energy fluctuations sweeping across the gray-blue sky, large areas of densely packed fluorescence light up from the floating city. Ordinary people cannot see clearly, and they may think that the city is surrounded by light and dust. , but Ian could clearly see that those small glowing dots were all layers of shields.

The looming force field shield formed a perfect circle, protecting the entire floating city in the center. This light hung at the top of the sky, showing unparalleled majesty.

"Oh my god..."

On the other side of Ian and Marquis Barton, an Eastern nobleman looked up at the floating city above his head. The middle-aged nobleman's eyes were blurred: "So this is the foundation of the imperial capital... No wonder, no wonder Governor Bai Ji is not worried at all. , not panic at all..."

"As long as there are two such fortresses suspended above the mountains, even if the Cangtian Royal Court has a million troops pressing down on the territory, I will still have the confidence to defend the pass and even counterattack the Great Plains!"

The person who said this was none other than the Marquis of Eastern Territory, Marquis Kelma, who was under the Grand Duke of Eastern Territory and guarded the border.

This great nobleman with the bloodline of the 'Snake of the Earth's Lungs' and the 'Flame Python' can naturally tell at a glance that the shield defense power of the floating city has reached the point where it is impossible to break through the peak of the third energy level, and the fourth level The energy level also requires accumulation of energy, or a special offensive bloodline true form to break through!

Although it sounds like a floating fortress that can be broken open by a fourth energy level is not very powerful... but it requires a fourth energy level to fight. Is it possible that the empire does not have a fourth energy level to protect it?

With the support of the floating fortress, the empire's fourth energy level can definitely suppress other incoming fourth energy levels!

There are two floating fortresses suppressing the mountain pass, which is equivalent to having two unbeaten fourth-level energy blocking the entrance and exit. It is no wonder that Marquis Kelma would express such emotion.

Under the pressure brought by the floating fortress, the situation of the war will be changed - the condescending floating fortress will be able to easily suppress all the fortresses and fortified cities on the ground, and rely on the solid fortifications to communicate with the enemy. The situation in which resources are used in a flesh-and-blood grinding mill battle will also be quickly eliminated.

But that's not the end.

"wind?"

On the ground, Ian suddenly looked around. He felt the unusual flow of air - but soon, he raised his head and looked at the sky.

The floating city is still the source of this anomaly.

The dust mist that spread thousands of meters into the sky and the blue clouds above the dust mist. At that moment when the setting sun had disappeared and the twin moons were rising, a dazzling white light suddenly lit up in the base of the city that was exuding bits of blue fluorescence. light spot.

The terrifying driving force that is enough to push the floating city to an altitude of several thousand meters is now controlling the surrounding winds from all directions, converging towards the center of the floating city's base.

swirl. A whirlpool of endless winds and destructive power formed in the sky and cloudscape.

Everyone looked up.

Whether they were big nobles or small soldiers, whether they were gathered refugees or imprisoned prisoners, they saw everyone around the southern part of the Western Plains.

In the center of the sky, there is a bright beam of light falling from the sky, piercing the layers of clouds and falling straight to the earth——

No, more than one.

There are second, third and even fourth and fifth paths!

A total of eight serial wave cannons composed of ultra-high-speed and ultra-high-temperature wind beams fell from the bottom of the floating city and intertwined between the sky and the earth, forming an extremely spectacular scene - for a time, tornadoes and thunder rose above the earth, In the overly violent wind, even the thunder caused by the shock wave was torn into pieces.

Facing the roaring shock wave, Ian raised his hand to support the shield, while Marquis Barton stood calmly, but his eyes were extremely excited, even though the light at the bottom of the floating city was dazzling. It was enough to blind someone's eyes, but he still stared closely.

"The test was successful. The Spiritual Wind Wave Cannon is an experimental weapon derived from the proton impact weapon of the civilization of the previous era... The secret held by the Cangtian Royal Court has finally been cracked by us!"

The shield and voice were overwhelmed by the terrifying shock, and only Ian could hear the old man's gratified and excited words to himself: "I knew that His Majesty's experiments couldn't only be boring things - look, this is us The glory of the empire!"

Glorious or not, Ian doesn't know. Ian only knows that the yield of this thing is at least equivalent to the simultaneous explosion of eight 120,000-ton tactical nuclear bombs - all the light radiation in it is converted into pure high temperature and shock wave, and the lethality is within the radiation resistance of all personnel. The continent of Terra is probably more terrifying than nuclear bombs.

In the depression of the earth that originally collapsed due to the deep space of the floating city, there are eight more deep pits. Golden lava and rock steam are rising from them, pulling out a golden-red fire pillar between the sky and the earth.

Groups of aerial armors broke through the turbulent wind, like a silver cloud made of metal. They moved in an orderly manner with the floating city, surrounding the city, and moving toward the ground one after another. Wave salvo.

The coordinated volleys of air and sky armor were indeed extremely powerful in the past, like countless meteors piercing the sky, but compared to the bombardment of the strategic-level wave artillery from the floating city, it still seemed too petty.

However, even so, this attack can still help the floating city drive away all enemy troops and strong men who may be approaching.

This is an exercise - an exercise aimed at all the great nobles and backbone personnel of the empire, giving them the belief that they must win.

Even Ian couldn't help but have a thought in his mind at this moment.

——Feiyandi and Cangtian Royal Court, what can they do to stop such a terrifying floating city?

As for Junling Castle...

I'm afraid it will really be destroyed, right?

As for his own immovable city...

"fine."

Thinking of this, Ian became more energetic: "The empire's floating city can fly, and my immovable city can also fly! Everyone can fly, I didn't lose!"

Of course, the truth is this. Suppose that the pilot that Inaga II wanted Teacher Hilliard to be was the flying Immovable Fortress pilot... If the late emperor's plan was true There is something so outrageous.

That seems to explain a lot of things?

For example, the current defenders are refusing to allow Fudo Castle to connect to the Imperial Capital. Perhaps it is because Fudo Castle will automatically turn on flight mode when it enters the depths of the Imperial Capital?

Although it is basically impossible, something similar must have happened.

"Something big is going to happen..."

Marquis Kelma let out a long sigh. After the initial excitement, the nobleman's expression became solemn: "The Eastern Territory has never received news about the floating city in the past, which is enough to prove its secrets - but now, the imperial capital has kept this secret Take out the strategic fortress of the bottom box."

"What is going to happen next? Will our Lord Protector of the Territory finally be dissatisfied with his prestige as a 'keeper of the Territory' and want to expand his territory and become a great emperor?"

Although dignified, his expression was excited. It was obvious that Marquis Kelma was an iron-blooded imperialist - this was not uncommon when the Eastern Grand Duke of this generation was still a young boy and the emperor was a land defender who had accumulated power for a long time.

"As expected of the Sun Bird Family..."

Compared to Marquis Kelma's thoughtful thoughts, the other imperial nobles who were invited here did not think too much. They just sighed secretly: "Its power is vast and boundless, shining like sunlight on the whole territory... Your Majesty is really... The road to greatness is great, I am already looking forward to seeing the extremely angry expressions of the kings of the Flying Flame Land when the floating city is driven to Komobasa (the main city of Nirmasas bloodline)!"

Not to mention, if the floating city really reaches the depths of the Flying Flame Land with the protection of several fourth-level people, then without the fifth-level taking action, all the bloodline kings will have to join forces to knock it down— —And if they don't join forces, the floating city will definitely blow up half of Komo Basa.

By that time, even if the floating city fell and scattered on the spot, the Imperial people would still be rolling on the ground laughing.

——The floating city is most powerful when it falls from the sky with the entire overloaded ether furnace!

By then, the remaining half of Komo Bassa will also be swallowed up by the brilliant white light.

"How about it, Ian, do you feel the surprise?"

With pride in his eyes, Marquis Barton smiled, and Ian nodded solemnly: "It was beyond my expectation - I originally thought it was a nuclear fusion warhead or something, but I didn't expect it to be a floating city... Spirit Wind wave cannon, this thing is probably much more powerful than a nuclear warhead."

Although Marquis Barton didn't know what a fusion warhead was, he could vaguely understand that it referred to some kind of strategic weapon of a pre-era civilization, so he smiled and said: "After all, Terra today has absorbed a large amount of pre-era civilizations. After adopting the technology of civilization, it has also blazed its own path in the way of sublimation and inscription. Although it is still inferior to the civilization of previous eras in many aspects, it may not be weaker in terms of war weapons!"

——This is not something that can be said with a proud tone!

Ian couldn't help but glance at Marquis Barton, but this enlightened and shrewd old nobleman didn't think there was anything wrong with what he said.

This is the twisted thing about Terra... They really don't think it's a big deal that the destruction is far beyond the tolerance of civilization.

Anyway, the most powerful fifth level can survive, most of the sublimates can exist, and the 'essence' of civilization can be preserved, so we can wait for the rest to be discussed after victory.

Ian shook his head slightly.

——Sure enough, there are too many weird gadgets in a place like Terra. Although its technological reserves seem to be rich, even the civilization of Terra in the previous era cannot completely compare... Compared to Terra, which has a lot of fire technology, La Zhuguo, his own technical reserves are not enough!

Gotta keep going! I have to continue searching for more technologies!

Not only those strategic technologies with destructive power, but also the life technologies of pre-era civilizations and related life technologies of other civilizations must be held in hand... A truly healthy civilization is definitely not only destructive, it definitely has Comprehensive supporting technologies and facilities can restrain these horrific killings and allow technology to be used by people!

and……

"The Capital of Knowledge... It seems like it's time to find a channel to go to the Capital of Knowledge to check out the situation!"

It has to be said that Ian's feeling for the City of Knowledge has gone up to a higher level at this moment, and he is becoming more and more curious about what this neutral force, which is said to have collected most of the knowledge on the Terra Continent, actually has!

exactly.

The city of knowledge.

The Lord of the Quest Tower, the Mentor of the Thousand Towers, and the 'Road Builder' Corizion Quest also wrote a long letter.

However, this long letter was not written to Ian Yinfeng.

Instead, it was written to Mahdi Rivengu.

as well as……

Isengard Ellen.

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