Chapter 628
Chapter 161. Return (5)
“The flying ship has already been built, so the results are better than I expected.”
“Except for the few test drives with Valeria, you are the first flight. Know it with all its glory, for you’ve made things other bastards couldn’t even imagine! I will come after inspecting the aircraft, so please wait while talking about delays.”
“All right.”
Originally, the fastest way to get to Guigoksaeseong is to use the transfer gateway.
The ghost castle is in the Bement Empire, and the Bement Empire has the most moving gateways in the world.
Besides, since the current ruler of Beamont is Regent Dante, there were no procedural problems.
However, in the three years since Jin left, a lot has changed in the world.
“By the way, wouldn’t it be faster to use a movement gate?”
At Jin’s words, Valkas shook his head.
First of all, all movement gateways in the world became jammed.
“It is because of the chaos spread all over the world, young man. Originally, the movement gate became extremely dangerous only when it snowed and rained heavily, but now the ubiquitous chaos particles play that role.”
“In addition, all forces entered a cold war called a truce and closed all connections. I can’t use it anyway because of the chaos particles.”
Also, flying ships, which were considered exclusive to Ziple until Grenil appeared, are now quite common.
Not to mention Zipple and Kingelo (they were incorporated into Zipline along with the eastern part of the Empire, as Jin predicted), and even the imperial family received blueprints from them and operated a number of flying ships.
“If Kwaul-nim hadn’t completed the flying ship, he would have had to use the land and sea routes to Gogoksaeseong.”
“My lord, he has completed more than ten flying ships so far. They just beat and smashed all of them, saying that this kind of thing is trash. If it hadn’t been for the Gold Spinning Merchant, Tikan would have gone bankrupt already.”
“Anyway, a genius is someone who personally proves the conventional wisdom that a genius is an eccentric.”
In addition, there was a leap forward in the master of Jiple’s living golem and the imperial family’s mage Kingelo.
The subjects Jin saw in the Great Desert were engulfed in chaos and there were certain rules.
At that time, as Jin predicted, each force was strengthening the test subjects through their own ‘chaos control’.
Kingelo had the highest Chaos Control, followed by Ziffle and the Imperial Family.
However, each faction did not exactly know each other’s technological prowess.
Barkas and Gilly took turns explaining these things.
“By the way, the things I was worried about when I saw the Ziffle fleet in the Sota Desert happened exactly the same. I think it’s fortunate that the enemies haven’t added a few Kojek or Grenil-class ships yet.”
Unlike other forces, Runkandel is known to have only a few captured flying ships.
Although the Seven Birds have confirmed that they have kidnapped the ship builders, they have not been able to secure key personnel.
Even if the key personnel and all blueprints were secured, finding an engineer to produce them would be another matter.
No progress was made on chaos control either.
It was praiseworthy, of course, to train only pure knights in the midst of terrible living golems and modified humans, but it was undeniable that Runcandel was falling behind the times.
‘But there must be things the Prophet has arranged. If the family has already been taken over by the Prophet, they’re just hiding it…’
The blueprints and parts of the space-time device obtained from the Sota Desert are still in Tikan’s possession, even though they were three years ago.
And while Jin was away, Runkandel never aimed at Tikan.
‘If the gap due to technology was really serious, my mother would have pursued my colleagues even if they broke their promise.’
Jin said that he would complete both the blueprints and the completion of the machine through the Myungwang brothers, but it was not difficult for Rosa to notice as long as Kwaul’s research materials were continuously being supplied to Tikan.
‘But the reason I never pressed Tikan was because my mother thought it was okay. Or… not a mother, but a prophet.’
Since the technology of each faction has developed rapidly, Runcandel’s external status has been pushed to the third place after Ziple and Kingelo.
The perception of the people was definitely like that. Some even commented that Runkandel was a time-limited family with only days left to perish.
“If that assessment is true, it seems that Zipple would have put more pressure on Runcandel than if it was a truce.”
“Yes, Bocchan. The great powers still avoid serious friction with the Houses.”
“Because you are conscious of the existence of your father and the Prophet.”
There was still no news of Shiron’s expedition.
At least that’s what Tikan understood.
“Didn’t you say it was half a year ago that the Garden of Swords started controlling news about me?”
“Yes, Bocchan. Until then, articles were periodically published on the achievements of the young master and the progress of his training in closing. It felt like imprinting the status of the next family head on both the family members and the public. Now even newsletters that don’t belong to the family can’t publish an article about the young master.”
This was the reason Jin’s colleagues were worried about the case of Runcandel threatening Jin right before he came to Tikan.
It wasn’t just media control. Since half a year ago, Runkandel has completely sealed off the city of ‘Kalon’, where the sword garden is located, and has been hiding all the activities of the head of the family.
So, rumors are circulating that the fallen Joshua Runkandel has been reinstated. Or the rumor that Rosa usurped the throne while Chiron was away.
“As far as we know, a total of 7 explosions and earthquakes have been detected near Calon since the master left. I couldn’t confirm if it was a civil war or something else.”
“It is highly likely that it was a runaway caused by my mother’s demonization. If Tikan figured it out in the 7th episode, there must have been a lot more than that.”
It was difficult to guess the current state of the Garden of Swords just by hearing the story.
If Rosa was out of control and the command was in danger or civil war had spread, other forces would not have let it go, and if the gap in technology was serious, they would have touched Tikan, and if Joshua had been reinstated, it should have already been exposed in the foreground.
None of that was happening. That rather made Jin nervous.
Worst case is this.
The assumption that the Prophet has already taken control of the family, that its power is feared by other factions, and that the reason Runkandel has neglected to protect Tikan is only to check and add ‘new information’ that Jin will bring.
“…I’m sorry. We should have gathered more information before the lord came.”
“The world has changed much faster than I thought. I can’t be more grateful that all of my comrades endured without any deaths or serious injuries in it. Don’t talk like that Lord Barkas. Everyone did better than expected.”
Jin really felt like a miracle that all his friends were safe in a rapidly changing world.
“Anyway, it’s better to reserve all judgments about the family until you visit. Depending on the situation, I’ll have to either make more progress during the remaining six months promised by my mother or go back right away. Turn off the urgent fire called Smarion Proch.”
As the conversation continued until there, Kwaul announced that the aircraft inspection had been completed.
Following him to the ship building and sortie area prepared in the middle layer of Tikan, Jin couldn’t help but burst into admiration.
‘The scale is not comparable to the drying field of Sota Desert, but anyone will be able to recognize it at a glance. That the ships Kwaul-sama is making far exceed Ziple’s technological prowess at the time.’
Tens of thousands of cogwheels, machines that operate so elaborately that they look beautiful. Among them, in a spacious space prepared like an altar, the first masterpiece that Kwaul did not smash was showing off its elegant appearance.
It was not a large ship known to the world like the Kojek or Grenil other mass-produced ships.
“It’s small.”
“okay. The number of people on board is five, and the only firearm that can be loaded is one main gun, which is an improved version of the imperial mass-produced dragon spear.”
Because of this, Kwaul said that the firepower of the flying ship was poor, but the dragon spear was the strongest war weapon in the Empire until before the Sword Emperor’s Holy War.
Downsizing the mass-produced version of the Yongchang without deteriorating performance and installing it on a small ship was something that only Kwaul could do in the world.
In the first place, only Kwaul was able to produce a ‘small ship’.
“However, the performance of the built-in protection artifact is comparable to Enya’s flame barrier. It is an artifact like the definitive version of magic and magic engineering at the moment, created by Valeria and this body.”
Kwaul’s eyes turned red as he explained.
How many walls of magic and magic engineering had she broken before making this… At the moment of completion, even Valeria seemed to be in tears.
“You have worked hard, Mr. Kwaul. Here’s a handkerchief…”
“Fuck it. I just got cigarette ash in my eyes. Anyway, what is the official name of this aircraft? It’s a wavelength-tracking synchronous space-jumping ship. If you can easily define it in one word.”
“…You mean it’s a ship capable of teleportation?”
“Yes. It is also an object that overcomes all the shortcomings of the moving gateway, which has now become a symbol of the old era. It is a challenge to be solved in the future that such a huge power is required.”
Apart from the reliability of Kwaul, it was a story that was hard to believe before experiencing it firsthand.
Because it was so shocking.
“The name that Valeria and I gave is Red Owl.”
It seemed that Valeria was the only name given to her.
“That’s not going to happen, but the manual is inside, so check it out in case of an exceptional situation. Get on!”
Gin and Gilly Barkas went up to the Red Owl’s cabin with bewildered faces.
“Doesn’t it need to be manipulated separately?”
“The arrival and return coordinates are set to Guigoksaeseong and Tikan. When the launch pad is open, just press the button in the center of the cabin. In the blink of an eye, you’ll be in front of the Gukgoksaeseong. Also, invisibility is still under development, so when you arrive, pay attention to external exposure first.”
“Invisibility?”
“I don’t know when it will be developed. Anyway, keep in mind that on the day the Red Owl is damaged, Valeria and I will kill you no matter what.”
Deed Dedeuk…!
When Quawl opened the launch pad, he could see the endless sky and sea.
Then, when Jin carefully pressed the button in the center of the cabin, the red owl was engulfed in magic and vibrated for a moment, and the red owl began to rush with explosive acceleration.
Just like the order number 7 of the Pirate King Cosmos when he was a reserve rider, or faster than that.
Jin and his colleagues were stunned by the absurd acceleration, and for a moment, they felt their head go blank and their vision darkened.
A few seconds later when I opened my eyes again.
Jin and his colleagues blinked their eyes at the bleak landscape of Guigoksaeseong, seen through the cabin window.
“…really? Is this real?”
Even though I saw it with my own eyes and experienced it myself, I couldn’t accept it as reality for a while.
