Starfall 833, July 1, on the edge of the Naka Mountains in the Far South, late at night. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The stars twinkle in the clear night sky of the northwestern mountains, and the dry air currents from the east sweep away all the floating clouds, and the twin moons in the sky are emitting a striking silver glow, covering the earth with a thin veil.

With a slight hum, a large object streaked smoothly and quickly across the sky, unleashing waves of magical power that cast a bleak shadow over the hills on the edge of the mountain range.

The floating battleship Gale Wind, which has broken away from the Naka Mountains in the far south and the mountains in the west, is moving towards the far sea further south.

And at the railing at the very front of it, a dark-haired man was looking down on the land.

"That's good."

He whispered, "I didn't expect me to be here again." ”

Since the departure from the Imperial Capital eight days ago, the people have experienced nine large-scale teleportations - the Southern Fortress Group, the Rooney Sky Island, the Iron Mountain City, the Kingdom of Shia, the Kingdom of Xibo, the Edge of the Central Black Forest, the West Mountain Chamber of Commerce Alliance, the Great Hollow, and finally the Nako Mountain Fortress Group, so far, they have finally arrived at their destination, the Far South.

Fifty percent or more of the land in the Far South is covered by dense jungles, where there are countless elven tribes and insect nests, and most of the homes of all kinds of strange creatures are located in it, rather than the steppe hills of the jungle, which is the territory of the human kingdom, and the two get along well, and even have a common parliament to deal with each other's problems.

Joshua looked down at the dense jungle beneath him, and he knew that behind the dense branches and leaves of the trees, there must be countless eyes silently watching this floating warship, including eagles, beasts, and naturally humans and elves.

He knew very well that this land was both familiar and unfamiliar.

Because this is where the warrior once struggled, in his previous life in the jungle of the Far South, he worked alone in various dungeons and tasks, gradually gained fame, gathered a lot of friends around him, and finally formed a large warband, although he always complained that this kind of thing is a waste of time, but everyone knows that the warrior just complains, there are so many like-minded partners, his heart is still very happy.

Now that he is back on this land again, he can't wait.

"Zizizi, zizi."

Behind Joshua, there was a murmur like electricity, and a set of armored figures that could only be called huge nodded slightly, as if in agreement with what he had said before.

Turning around, Joshua looked at the armored figure.

"You understand?"

Smiling and patting the opponent's breastplate, the warrior turned his head again and looked into the distance: "It seems that your intelligence is not as low as it was at the beginning, Hatsu. ”

This three-meter-tall, gigantic armored humanoid was the primordial steel elemental created by Joshua with the power of power a few days ago.

After the past few days, the mages on the ship have absorbed a lot of magic power, and the steel element that fuses a lot of metal has become larger and larger, from the original height of more than two meters, to the current three meters three, it also imitates Joshua's magic armor, and covers the weakness of his head with a helmet, this huge body contains a flow of magic far beyond the past, and the strength has also changed from the original silver beginner to the silver middle, which is enough to compete with the warriors who can release their fighting spirit.

In addition, Joshua also noticed that the wisdom of the first horn also matured over time.

This steel elemental, as his own dependent, seems to be born to understand a lot of things that the warrior knows, and when it was first born, it did not react, just because it was a blank sheet of paper at that time, empty of knowledge but unable to use, but as the days passed, the meaningless murmur of the first horn took on a lot of meaning, and the steel element was able to understand human conversation.

Joshua didn't continue to care about the change in the first number, in his opinion, it was a good thing that the intelligence and strength of the steel element were getting stronger and stronger, and since it was a good thing, then there was no need to pay too much attention to it.

And in the interior of the ship.

The black-haired boy made his way down the steel passage of the battleship, he walked through the corridor, ascended the stairs, and then opened the door to the outside world and came to the deck of the battleship.

When he looked up, he saw the conspicuous figures of the warrior and the steel elemental, standing at the railing at the front of the battleship and looking out at the distant scenery, the black and red light streaks on the first body's body were flickering calmly, and Joshua's back seemed to blend with the black night sky.

"Wearing this black coat again...... Can't you just change the color? ”

Whispering a complaint, Rin was no stranger to his master's aesthetic dress, he looked around, and found that he didn't find his sister and half-dragon, it seemed that he should still be resting in the room, since the black became smaller, Hotaru seemed to have regained his enthusiasm for taking care of the horses, and began to keep pestering half-dragon, which has hardly stopped for a week.

"Master!"

Shaking his head and putting aside the thoughts in his heart, the black-haired boy trotted all the way towards the front of the empty ship, while Joshua, who was wearing a black coat that had never been changed by Rin's belly, turned sideways, smiled and nodded, "What, Rin, you also come to see the scenery together?" The moonlight is indeed beautiful tonight. ”

"No, Miss 3 just sent me a report on the status of the territory for the last week."

Shaking his head slightly, the black-haired young man held a report full of dense small characters in his hand, and asked with some hesitation: "I think the master should want to see it...... Do you need it? ”

"Absolutely."

Taking the report from Rin's hand, and patting the black-haired boy's little head with appreciation, Joshua roughly swept the complicated words on the report, and his heart suddenly understood.

"Brandon and Verdani, have they already come over and picked up their two children? What else is left...... Ha. ”

Blinking, the warrior was a little dissatisfied: "Do you really think of me as a child?" Rin - Tell Miss 3 to return all the rewards and express her gratitude, just wait for me to go back and say it myself. ”

In addition, in fact, it is not a big deal, Brandon and Verdani have already exterminated the vast majority of cultists and dangerous monsters in the Moldovan territory, and Atanis and Lolanda have already swept away all the dangerous factors in the Moldavian territory before this, plus with the care of No. 3, there is no problem in the entire territory.

Of course, No. 3 is also complaining in the report about why she was not brought with her in this operation, and she also wants to see the floating warships in this world.

Actually, it's not impossible, but everyone has now arrived in the Far South, and it is impossible to return, so go and pick up No. 3.

Returning the report to Rin, Joshua saw that the black-haired boy also wanted to see the Far South, a land that was very different from the North, so he asked Hatsura to place him on his shoulder, and at that moment, the warrior suddenly turned his head to look at the darkness at the end of the field of vision far away.

"It's a dragon curse."

He muttered to himself, "It's only been a long time since I left the guard area of the Nako Fortress, and I'm here so soon." ”

"---Woo! Woo! Woo! ”

Minutes later, the Gale blared a shrill siren, and in the ship's control room, rapid reports and reactions followed.

"There's a high mana reaction ahead!"

"Preliminary proof is that it is a flying mad dragon cluster, the number is one hundred and twenty-four!"

"Can you circumvent it?"

"No, there are also groups of wyverns on the left, and there are a lot of them."

As the most elite people in the Empire, even sent to pilot this floating warship, these crew members are very calm in the face of today's abnormal situation, they calmly report information to each other, and pass the results to the captain.

"Two hundred and twelve mad wyverns in all."

After pondering for a while, the middle-aged captain with a strand of gray hair on his temples said in a low voice, "It's not much. ”

"It's only two hundred and twelve mad dragons."

Similarly, on the deck, Joshua read out the number of distant clusters of dragons, and he shook his head, looking a little disappointed: "Not even an appetizer. ”

The thought of going back inside the ship didn't even cross the warrior's mind, he was still standing at the front of the Galewind, looking into the distance.

"Master!"

Behind him, the hurried footsteps of the silver-haired girl were heard, and she shouted with a hint of excitement: "I heard the siren—are you ready to start fighting?" ”

Hotaru was followed by a group of black giant horses, with a silver pendant hanging from its chest, even if the black was made smaller by the shape-changing pendant, it looked a little listless, and the eight consecutive days of air life made it somewhat adapted to the high altitude, but there was no way to make the half-dragon completely get rid of seasickness.

A god machine and a dragon ran in front of the warrior so quickly, the silver-haired girl simply hugged Joshua's waist neatly, she raised her head, and asked expectantly, "Do you want to make a move?" ”

"Roar." Hei also screamed a few times at the same time, and a glimmer of light flashed in the golden dragon's eyes.

"Of course not."

Facing two pairs of expectant eyes, Joshua shook his head decisively, and he replied seriously: "Too little." ”

"Obviously a lot of ......"

Being rejected so simply, Hotaru silently let go of the hand holding Joshua's waist, turned around and wrapped her arms around Hei's neck, and she said a little unwillingly: "These are more than two hundred flying dragons." ”

"Roar." Black, who was hugged, nodded in agreement.

"Perhaps."

Nodding undeniably, Joshua said calmly: "If I am still at the gold level, even if it is a gold high level, these two hundred flying dragons are worth my attack - but I am already extremely willing, and these flying dragons in front of me do not have a single gold-level leader." ”

Speaking of this, the warrior shook his head and said: "Slaughter is such a thing, let's leave it to the battleship, those mages want to collect combat data but they want to go crazy, they will be more active than us, Hotaru, you just stay here and watch." ”

After saying that, Joshua picked up the silver-haired girl by the waist, and then put it on the shoulder of Hatsuno, who leaned over slightly, just right, and Rin to the left and right.

"I want to see what this ship of mine is capable of."

At this moment, a translucent light curtain appeared in front of Joshua's eyes, and the mages who controlled the battleship were contacting him, and they respectfully asked the Earl if he wanted to return to the inside of the ship.

How could the warrior go back, he replied without hesitation that even if the fight began, he would enjoy it outside.

After receiving this reply, it seemed that he understood Joshua's character, and the battleship no longer asked for extra information, so he began to prepare with all his might.

In the distance, the mad wyverns sensed that there was an aura in the air that did not belong to their own clan, so they did not hesitate at all, and flew in this direction with all their might, as the existence that had already been completely swallowed up by the mad dragon disease, the eyes of these wyverns flashed with chaotic blue and purple light, they were not afraid, even in the face of real dragons, they would attack forward without the slightest impact.

The speed of the floating battleship is very fast, the speed of the wyvern is also very fast, and the speed at which the two are close to each other is twice as fast, and in just a few minutes, a large group of wyverns appeared at the end of the field of vision, shaking their wings, and even using natural magic to speed up.

At this time, the floating battleship was also ready, and with a sudden loud humming sound, the two magic energy furnaces began to speed up, and the huge magic power followed the pipes leading to the various parts of the ship, transmitting to the places they needed to reach.

"The target is locked."

"The Mana Focus Cannon has been warmed up."

"The alchemy cannon is in good condition and ready to be used at any time."

In the command room, the middle-aged captain listened to the report that came step by step, nodded solemnly, and then he decisively ordered: "Start charging." ”

"Yes!"

With the slight movement of magic and the sound of steel gears, four large, mirror-like crystal ports emerged from behind the variable armor on the side of the floating battleship, and they were like four indifferent eyes, firmly locked on the swarm of dragons flying rapidly in front of and to the left.

"Calculate the shelling parameters, analyze the wind direction."

"Detect the point with the highest energy value in the Wyvern cluster."

"Aim, charge!"

With a decisive command, the magic energy focusing cannons on both sides of the Gale began to gather a dazzling pale red light, so powerful that even Joshua slightly looked at the energy gradually converged in the center of the crystal port that seemed to be a concave mirror, forming a scorching ball of light, but the flying dragons in the distance did not sense this, these crazy beasts lost their keen instincts, and still rushed towards the floating battleship according to their original tracks.

And in the command room, a smile appeared on the corner of the captain's mouth, and he ordered in a deep voice: "Launch!" ”

Suddenly, four thick pale red eyes erupted from the four crystal ports, passing through the cluster of wyverns in an instant.

In an instant, dozens of wyverns were completely engulfed by this pillar of light and turned into nothingness, and most of the other wyverns around the pillar of light were also scorched by the terrifying heat, and fell to the ground screaming.

But they weren't the worst, being evaporated without knowing it and just losing their wings weren't painful, the most painful were the wyverns on the periphery.

The pale red pillar of light lasted less than two seconds before it ended its launch and entered the next charge, but its residual energy detonated other elements in the air, and suddenly, there were four huge explosions in the sky above the edge of the Nako Mountains in the far south, and this explosion swept away in all directions with a high-temperature steam that was enough to melt metal and a violent shock wave, and the residual aftermath hit the magical energy shield on the periphery of the floating battleship, causing ripples.

"Awesome."

Looking at this scene without changing his face, Joshua had already seen many floating battleships firing in his previous life, but this time his feelings were completely different, he smiled and nodded: "It is worthy of my battleship." ”

Just these four magic energy focused cannons are equivalent to four gold-level mages using mass destruction spells, although according to pure power, they are not as good as Verdani's glorious power, but Verdani is a war mage who specializes in war, and her spell power is originally greater than that of ordinary mages, so it cannot be used as a comparison standard.

After this round of blows, the Wyvern Cluster, which originally numbered two hundred, suddenly only a few dozen old, weak, sick and disabled remained, but even so, these crazy beasts had no intention of giving up, but continued to pounce on the battleship.

The four magic energy focusing cannons had been slowly withdrawn, and what was revealed was the muzzle of the alchemy cannon ten times larger, but this scene Joshua was not interested in watching, he didn't pay attention to these remnants of the flying dragons, but turned his head to look at the sky.

Under the silver-white moonlight, the huge size of the floating battleship cast a pitch-black shadow on the ground, and the light of the twin moons was turning slightly red, as if it was a sign of something.

The translucent magic light curtain once again appeared in front of the warrior's eyes, asking Joshua whether they would go to the Far South Kingdom for a supply first, or fly directly to the Far Sea Sacred Mountain, without the help of the teleportation circle on the way, and most of the territory was occupied by the dragon, and someone needed to make a decision.

For fighters, naturally, there will be no second answer to this.

"Let's go."

He looked calmly into the distance: "Go to the Holy Mountain." ”

"That's where we're fighting."