Mage? Spell Engineer!

The battle between the two armies was a few days earlier than the Senate expected, so it coincided with the launch date. The wizard who sought Kano's opinion did not expect the chief to be so anxious: "The airspace has not been cleared of 'debris' yet."

"It doesn't matter. If there is an accident, I will take action." Kano stood up and stretched his body. It was already dawn, and he stepped into the elevator of the Starlight Torch Tower and reached the top of the tower.

The original observatory has been transformed into a command center and the main station of the ground detection station.

There are still sporadic battles on the battlefield in the suburbs of Valuana. Most of the airships have been damaged and withdrawn from the battle, but the airspace is still not calm.

The Empire's airships will not only drop bombs on the rear of the National Guard, but may also threaten the capital of the Republic.

Therefore, the airships temporarily requisitioned from the central port area have a very clear goal, and only one - to prevent the Empire's airships from crossing the Lane River defense line and prevent them from casting a shadow over the people of Valuana.

Although the Empire commander has decided to withdraw from the battle, the airship has not received the order to retreat. All the pilot teams were anxiously waiting for new orders, but the answer they received was that they had to cover the assembly and retreat of the imperial forces.

After all, this was a battle for air supremacy. Once the airspace was given to the enemy, the air force of the National Guard could in turn drop deadly bombs on the imperial army.

"Damn it, they really treat us as non-human beings." The pilots of the airships used to cruise at high altitudes, giving them the illusion that their comrades and enemies fighting desperately on the ground were ants that could not pose a threat to them.

Today, there are a group of guys who are not afraid of death. They are willing to risk the entire airship to send themselves a big bomb, which makes the pilots of the imperial airships particularly panic.

The imperial side is very scared, and the Valois in the sky are also very uneasy. There are many dwarves in it who were requisitioned together with the civilian airships, and the most effective killing of the old airships is to explode in the face.

Just when both sides were eager to retreat, but were forced to stalemate for various reasons, the unusual movement from the west of Valois City and the other side of the battlefield broke the deadlock.

"Hey, what is that?"

"New situation, alert!"

The sudden phenomenon made everyone suspend the attack. They began to cautiously stay away from unknown situations, and also gave both sides an opportunity to stop fighting at the same time.

What people saw on the battlefield was a brilliant light, which cut through the sky from bottom to top, and was particularly dazzling in the unclear morning of late autumn.

What was launched was naturally a starship.

On the surface of the ship, the magic circuit of the protective array was working. But the main light seen by the battlefield and the people in Valois City was the light blue tail flame of the engine at the bottom of the starship.

According to Rorschach's opinion, this ship was made into an axisymmetric shape as much as possible, like an overcut cigar standing up, and the most important power system was designed by the Thunderstorm Tower.

The fuel tank was loaded with processed passivated transmutation dust. The first task facing the mages was how to convert the energy carried in these substances into sufficient thrust.

At first, they thought of the explosive fireball. The continuous explosion of the fireball can certainly provide a pulsed reverse thrust, but researchers soon discovered that the process of fireball explosion is relatively uncontrollable and has a low upper limit.

The casters who are good at alchemy proposed that the light phlogiston produced by the dwarves is an excellent fuel gas before separation, and they need to pressurize the fuel gas to increase the thrust.

Of course, the starship fuel will not carry a heavy tank of water, but a full of passivated transmutation dust crystals, which will be divided into two parts: one is to be converted into water, and the other is to provide driving force for other magic solidified into magic arrays.

Now people can be sure that the simplest [Water Making Spell] is essentially a summon from the water element. However, whether the starship moves at high speed or enters the transmutation dust layer flow, it will have a serious impact on the spells involving teleportation.

The special water making method that Rorschach once taught and shared with the Star Tower mages in the secondary plane worked.

In the starship's engine, about one-third of the transmutation dust fuel is converted into water, which is first injected into the electrolysis chamber and subjected to the baptism of the six-ring spell [Chain Lightning]. These high-voltage arcs efficiently convert water into hydrogen and oxygen at an extremely fast speed. Due to the limited volume during the expansion process, a pressurization has been completed.

However, this is not enough. The mixed hydrogen and oxygen combustion gas will be collected in the pressure chamber made of fine steel before entering the combustion chamber. The second six-ring spell [Compression Orb] will take effect, raising these burners to extremely high pressure before ignition.

Then they burst out, rush into the combustion chamber and finally release heat and kinetic energy.

Originally, [Compression Orb] was a killing magic that created a compressed space, squeezed and destroyed the target of the spell or suffocated living things, but here it became the core magic circle of the engine, replacing the role of the turbine in Rorschach's previous life rocket engine.

After this series of transformations, the hydrogen and oxygen combustion gas, which was originally a perfect ratio, finally returned to the form of water in the combustion chamber.

The generated water is more like an intermediary substance. It is just that the process of electrolysis and then pressurization and ignition is used to convert the energy released by other transmutation dust into thrust. Its energy density and propulsion effect are far better than rockets fueled by liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.

Of the remaining two-thirds of transmutation dust, 70% was successfully converted, and the remaining 30% had to maintain the protection spell for all the cavities of the engine and release high-frequency [repair spells].

Of course, the wizard has not yet developed a complex and systematic aerospace technology. The main feature of the prototype starship is that it is powerful and can fly. This engine consisting of three major parts, the conversion electrolysis chamber, the pressurization chamber and the combustion nozzle, is designed to do its best.

At the same time, the transmutation dust collector array is also cooperating with the starship to open a "storm eye" for it. Compared with the flight cabin when Kano went to the sky alone, the starship is more than a hundred times larger, and the array at this moment is more than a hundred times larger.

The refinery behind the Empire's "Wall of Sighs", the collector group of Byrne, and all the collectors in Valois have all received notifications to adjust the target of the magic array. Some engineers do not know the real intention, but some have already understood it and looked up at the sky after the adjustment.

Unfortunately, it is no longer night now, and the stars cannot be seen twinkling, but the sky has still changed. It seems that the drastic changes in the transmutation dust layer flow have distorted the refraction of sunlight, and a brighter spot of light has appeared.

The starship continued to rise in the light until the light blue tail flame merged with the sky and the light spots. It and the passengers inside, the fearless pioneers among the mages, crossed the atmosphere of the main material plane and came to the sky.

Under the sky, there were soldiers fighting for their respective countries, and there were also ground station staff from all directions.

This was a project involving the entire magic guild. In addition to the mages of Valuvana, there were naturally spellcasters from other magic towers to cooperate. In fact, since most of the people in the Starry Tower were invested in the battlefield, there were many unfamiliar faces in the ground station in Kano's eyes.

In addition to the mages, there were also young people from Byrne. They were seconded from various universities and engineering colleges, and they were also an important part of the Rorschach support project. Even if they did not have the ability to cast spells, they had basic reading, writing, arithmetic and engineering skills, and could undertake many trivial matters.

For these students, this was also an unforgettable "internship experience".

Of course, sending it into the sky is only the first step. The next step, crossing the transmutation dust layer flow, is the most dangerous test. Both the passengers in the starship and the participants on the ground who are watching them in real time, can only maintain the greatest confidence and patience and wait silently.