Start with Island Lord

Northeastern coast of Paddlefish Island.

Rosen was lounging on an undeveloped stretch of white-sand beach, a large carton of ice-cold bitters beside him.

Bitter winter wheat is unpalatable, but when used to make wine, it has a unique flavor that is endlessly memorable. Especially after being chilled, it is a great drink in summer.

Rosen held a large glass of ale, paired with smoked dried fish, fried sweet beans and other special snacks. He was enjoying the moist and cool sea breeze and enjoying the beach and blue sea. It was very comfortable.

But of course he wasn't there to enjoy it.

On the sea in front of him, two banshees were performing various difficult flying maneuvers.

Sometimes they dive at high speed, sometimes turn around at large angles, and sometimes climb at large angles, showing extremely superb flying skills.

While the two women were focusing on flying, Rosen carefully collected the two women's mana fluctuations, airflow fluctuations around their bodies, and their precise wind control skills.

In short, as long as it is flight-related data, he will collect it and transmit it to Laifu to train the flying skills of other worlds.

Of course, for the mechanical and cumbersome action of collecting data, as long as the parameters are set in the early stage, Laifu will do the rest.

Rosen's own attention was actually at Crescent Castle, more than thirty kilometers away.

He was checking various intelligence collected by the Island Intelligence Bureau through the eyes of Puppet No. 2.

The first piece of key information.

‘Aaron supports a large number of weapons and equipment in Dawn City, including a batch of large-caliber rune artillery and various new individual flame staffs. ’

‘The Storm Fleet is urgently transforming its warships and training fort mages, and it is estimated that it will be able to achieve combat effectiveness in three months. ’

In the intelligence, the parameters of the two new weapons were also specially marked.

‘The rune cannon has a caliber of 15 centimeters and a maximum range of 2.5 kilometers. It uses fragmentation blasting bombs and can complete one round of reloading in 10 minutes. The total number of aids exceeds 500. ’

This is stronger than the most powerful artillery on the island, and the number is quite large.

‘The individual flame staff uses flame charging to release continuous fireballs, with a maximum range of at least 300 meters and a number of at least 10,000. ’

The performance is slightly worse than the Lightning Crossbow, but charging is simpler and the quantity is also very large!

And this was the support squeezed out of the gap under the dual pressure of Kaa and the Empire of Radiance.

This is evident from this, Aaron's huge capacity for magical creation.

Rosen secretly sighed: ‘It’s such a huge thing. ’

If Aaron had not been a drag and fully supported the Duke of Dawn, Rosen would not have dared to make such a jump.

Look at the rune cannon again.

If it forms combat effectiveness after three months, even if it is equipped in a sail battleship, it will be enough to pose a certain threat to the Blackstone battleship.

Of course, the Blackstone battleship can rely on its huge speed and maneuverability advantages to make most of the opponent's attacks fail.

But the opponent has a large number of warships and a lot of artillery. If you really use your bastard fist, it is still possible to hit the warship.

Rosen once again lamented: ‘As long as the generation difference in weapons is not large enough, scale can make up for quality. ’

What Paddlefish Island currently lacks most is scale, and the biggest advantage of its opponents is scale.

He continued to read the second piece of information, but it was a battle report from the North and the South.

‘The Southern Allied Forces are gathering. The main force is the Dawn Legion, with a total of 30,000 people. The fifteen counties have an average of 5,000 legions, and the combined military strength exceeds 100,000. ’

‘At the current pace, the entire army will be marching north in three months. ’

"One hundred thousand troops, that's a lot."

After three months of reorganizing the army, it was obvious that they were really waiting for the navy to achieve a joint attack on land and sea.

Also three months later, the second batch of warships on Paddlefish Island was launched. Although they went all out to expand the dock, they could only launch 8 ships, totaling 13 ships.

The number is still too small. If there is a sea artillery battle, I am afraid there will be battle damage.

Of course, Northern County is also forming a coalition force, and Rosen also has detailed data on hand.

‘The ten northern counties each sent an average of 7,000 troops. ’

‘In addition to traditional weapons, there are a total of 5,000 lightning crossbows of various types. There are 600 two-wheeled small-caliber rune artillery pulled by horses and 3,000 rounds of shells. ’

Naturally, all the new weapons were provided by Paddlefish Island, which gave the Northern Army Count the confidence to fight against the Southern Allied Forces.

But these weapons have been provided by Paddlefish Island with great effort.

One is because the assembly line of the magic factory is not yet perfect, and there are too few skilled magicians and workers.

Second, because the entire industrial chain is incomplete, final production capacity will always be limited due to this or that kind of intermediate materials.

With the opening of new routes, it will be greatly relieved, but if you want to compete with Aaron for production capacity, you still can't compete for the time being.

Looking at the data comparison between the two sides and looking at Weilan's terrain map, Rosen focused on the location where the northern and southern armies first exchanged fire.

"Hmm~ If there really is a fight, Shire County will be the first to become the battlefield."

The terrain of Weilan is high in the northwest and low in the southeast. The transition point between mountains and plains is the Shire County.

If the Southern Alliance captured Shire County and controlled the outlet of the Broken Gold River, it would be equivalent to strangling the Northern Alliance by the throat.

It not only cuts off the main trade route between the northern county and the outside world, but also can rely on it to move northward step by step and drive the entire northern county into the sea.

Of course Northern County understands this, so Bochar must die.

"If there is a war between the north and the south, the most critical battle should take place in the Dragon Song Valley in the southern part of Shire County."

Rosen once visited Longyin Valley and made detailed records of the valley's terrain, which were then stored in Laifu's database.

He called out the terrain, observed it carefully, and came to a conclusion.

"If a war breaks out here, it will definitely be an extremely cruel battle of mincing meat. With the current weapons and equipment of both sides, I'm afraid that tens of thousands of horrific casualties will be inflicted on the first day."

"If this battle ends like this, Weilan will definitely be seriously injured, so we must not fight."

How to stop it?

Rosen has prepared three trump cards.

One of them is already prepared, and it depends on the timing to play it.

The other two are still trying to condense, but three months is enough.

'Hua La~~Hua La~~'

The girls were tired of flying, and their mana was almost exhausted. They flapped their wings and slowly landed beside Rosen, regaining their human form.

It was Neferoniya and Laertris, mother and daughter.

In order to fly better, the two girls were not wearing clothes, and after regaining their human form, they were too lazy to put on clothes.

Anyway, it's summer now, and this is an uninhabited beach. Except for Rosen, the true king of the banshees, there are no other men present.

The two girls walked to Rosen, who had already filled two glasses of iced beer: "Girls, you've worked hard~~"

'Putong~Putong~'

The two girls sat on the beach next to Rosen, one on the left and one on the right. The crystal sand was stuck to their sweat and evenly stuck to their plump and crystal white jade skin, just like glutinous rice balls with white sesame sticky on them.

"Rosen, we've been flying every day for almost three months. Do you understand?"

Neferoniya took a big sip of beer, breathed a sigh of satisfaction, and then picked up the dried fish and ate it.

Rosen smiled and said, "The girls' flying skills are too exquisite, and their control of the wind is simply flawless. Of course, I'm slow to learn."

"But after watching for so long, I've learned almost everything."

Since he brought Neferoniya back to the White Sturgeon Island, he has let the two girls fly for more than an hour every day for nearly three months, and has collected a large amount of flight data.

Lai Fu's flight-related abilities have been trained to an extremely high level.

The mastery of wind magic has naturally reached a near-perfect level.

Maybe a little worse than Neferoniya, but much better than Laertlis.

After Laertlis drank the beer in one gulp, she snuggled into Rosen's arms and drew circles on his chest with her fingers.

"Rosen, are you sure you can really make a flying magic weapon?"

"Of course, I already have a very mature idea, and the two ladies have taught me so much. Lily, don't make a fuss."

Pushing away Laertlis's hand that was moving all the way down, he grabbed a handful of white sand and used Transfiguration to transform it into a fixed-wing aircraft.

Of course, it was not a jet plane, nor a propeller plane, but a rune plane that directly controlled the strong wind.

"I plan to design the flying magic weapon so that it can carry two people. One person is responsible for flying, and the other person operates the weapon."

"It looks weird. It should be able to fly, but it must be very inflexible."

Neferoniya used her pearly toes to poke Rosen's calves one by one, and even tried to poke the leg hair, causing Rosen to keep dodging. When he couldn't dodge, he simply clamped her feet tightly.

"It's indeed inflexible, but because of the fixed shape, the flying speed can be increased very high."

"And because there are high-strength transparent materials outside, including the wizard's cabin, it can also fly very high without worrying about the impact of high-speed violent airflow."

"Finally, I added a combustion chamber that burns special fuel, which can convert a large amount of flame power into wind power through the conversion array, thereby greatly increasing the endurance."

This last step requires superb skills in converting and controlling the wind.

It was an ability that Rosen didn't have before, but now he has it.

Neferoniya still didn't understand: "It takes a long time to practice to control the wind. You built the rune plane. I'm afraid it will take a long time to practice to have a wizard who can control it skillfully?"

Rosen smiled: "No, as long as you are an intermediate wizard, you can control it. If there are sisters who are willing to fly it, I am very welcome."

As he said, he hurriedly reminded Laltris in front of him: "Don't get sand in, it hurts."

Once he accidentally got it in, but it was uncomfortable for a while.

Laltris smiled, condensed a pure water spell to carefully clean the sand stuck on her body, and then questioned.

"Rosen, flying is difficult. The faster you fly, the harder it is."

Rosen nodded in agreement: "It is indeed difficult. Hmm~"

But he was blocked by Laltris, so he changed to whispering to the mind in the group.

"But I am also proficient in puppetry. I will build a flying puppet to assist the magician in completing most of the flight control actions."

"Flying puppet? What a great idea!"

Neferoniya was immediately very curious. Seeing that her daughter was pestering Rosen, she couldn't help but scold her.

"Lily~ Take the steamed bun out of Rosen's mouth and let him talk properly!"

"Okay, Mom." Laertris did it with a wronged look on her face.

Neferoniya said: "Puppetry is the ancestral skill of the Iron Dragon Clan, so your puppetry must be very powerful."

Rosen smiled and said: "If Niya wants to learn, I can teach you."

Neferoniya's eyes lit up: "Of course I want to learn, but I heard that puppetry consumes more mana. If you build a flying puppet, wouldn't it increase the mana consumption?"

This is inconsistent with the original intention of saving mana.

Rosen nodded: "It will indeed increase a little, but not much. In addition, I have built a total of two flying magic tools."

"One with a flying puppet, for powerful mages to use, the advantage is that it is easy to control, can perform various difficult flying movements, and has a high top speed."

"The other one does not, and the power supply method is also changed to a propeller similar to the Black Stone battleship. The top speed is much slower and the flight is clumsy, but the advantage is that it does not require much mana, and low-level mages can control it for a long time."

The first one is a magic plane unique to the alien world, which is considered an advanced second-generation machine.

The second one is a fixed-wing propeller plane that is very close to the earth, which is a basic first-generation machine.

In terms of aerial combat ability, the former naturally crushes the latter.

"This magic weapon should be difficult to make, right? And it must be very expensive, right?"

Neferoniya has been studying the knowledge of the land human race at the magic center recently. He has studied very seriously and has understood the cost, manufacturing difficulty and other considerations.

Rosen shook his head: "It depends on the situation. Those who have mastered the tricks of flying can fly no matter how they build it. Those who don't know the tricks will fall to the ground no matter how they build it."

"Just like when the Banshees first learned to fly."

This involves the fine control of aerodynamics and wind power, which is a huge threshold.

Rosen was not very good before, but now he has learned it from the two Banshee Kings.

Because the threshold is so huge, and the three major kingdoms of the Wit Continent have not heard of related research for the time being, once he builds the plane, he can maintain the equipment lead for a long time.

"As for the cost, it is not high, far less than the Black Stone Battleship. After all, the size of the flying magic weapon is much smaller than that of the battleship, and the consumption of materials is much less."

Neferoniya understood and nodded in agreement.

"You are right. Children have to fall dozens or hundreds of times before they can learn to fly, but once they learn it, they will never forget it for the rest of their lives, and they will never fall no matter how they fly."

Seeing that his daughter kept pestering Rosen, she also felt like growing grass in her heart, but there was only one position, so she could only wait in place.

Rosen naturally felt it, laughed, and activated the Transfiguration.

There was a burst of thunder on the beach, which lasted for more than half an hour before it stopped.

Why only more than half an hour?

Because Rosen changed to a high-speed heavy artillery with a larger caliber and faster firing rate, and the artillery fire became more intense.

When everything calmed down, it was already more than three o'clock in the afternoon.

There was still some time, and Rosen planned to go to the Aircraft Research Bureau hidden in the mountains first.

If there is no powerful weapon to cooperate with the airplane, the absolute power is actually very limited, but it can have a huge psychological deterrent to the ground army.

Because in this era, airplanes are assassins who come and go freely and can easily achieve decapitation strikes!

Therefore, once the island builds a rune airplane, it doesn't need many, just a small team, to gain a huge strategic advantage.

This is his second trump card to stop the war.

But because there are no relevant talents on the island, although Rosen had the idea of ​​building an airplane very early and secretly established a research bureau very early, the investment was not high, and it was a state of day-to-day progress for a long time.

But after more than half a year of hard work, he has also achieved a lot of results.

At present, he is also the director of the Aircraft Research Bureau, and has gathered about 100 refiners and 200 manufacturing craftsmen in various fields.

This group of people can use the existing resources of the island and cooperate with Rosen to turn his ideas into actual products as quickly as possible.

I thought I would be busy for a while after arriving at the research bureau, but as soon as I arrived at the secret cave in the mountain, I received a ciphertext intelligence.

The island intelligence bureau forwarded it to Rosen's lightning bracelet through a secret channel. Only Rosen knew how to decrypt the ciphertext. The content is:

'Are you the Baron of the White Sturgeon Island? '

Rosen looked at the ciphertext and sighed in his heart: "Ah~ As expected, you can't hide your identity once you show up."