When it was time to take off, Feng Chou lay flat on the bed in the guest room at the reminder of the stewardess, waiting for the arrival of the departure time.
A moment later, the airship suddenly began to vibrate slightly.
In Qiankun Pagoda's scan, there were two magic circuits in the airship that had begun to operate.
Inside the balloon at the top of the airship, there were three metal balls fixed on the central axis of the front and back of the balloon by brackets. These three metal balls had a golden luster and looked very much like gold. Feng Chou knew that in fact, this metal had nothing to do with gold, and its value was much higher than gold.
These metal balls should be made of an alloy of arcane copper, mithril, and a small amount of thorium.
This alloy was called arcane gold. Although its color was very similar to gold, it did not contain any gold components.
Arcane gold was an extremely precious arcane metal that had a very high magic conductivity. It was mainly used to make mid-level and high-level magic items.
These three arcane gold balls emitted a strong magical energy that was rapidly heating the air in the balloon in a way that Qiankun Pagoda could not understand.
This heating was not ordinary heat radiation, because the metal balls themselves did not heat up. Instead, it was a method that directly vibrated the air ions, causing the air in the hot air balloon to rise to a temperature of hundreds of degrees in just a few seconds. The magical beast skin balloon that had been enhanced by alchemy easily withstood the high temperature that was enough to ignite the leather.
Under the effect of the high temperature of hundreds of degrees, the balloon produced a strong lifting force, but this lifting force was still far from enough compared to the huge weight of the airship.
However, to Qiankun Pagoda and Feng Chou's surprise, the originally insufficient lifting force actually allowed the huge airship to slowly lift off the ground.
After repeated measurements, Qiankun Pagoda came to a shocking conclusion: the gravity on the airship had decreased to an unimaginable level.
Feng Chou and Qiankun Pagoda simultaneously focused their attention on the second extremely active magic circuit on the airship. There was only one explanation for this situation — the magic circuit in the keel of the airship was an anti-gravity magic circuit!
While Feng Chou was shocked by the inference, the Reincarnation Mirror appeared again and reminded him that he would be rewarded with ten thousand points of soul power if he turned in the files of the magic circuits on the airship …
After the airship ascended to a height of one thousand meters, the heating ball in the balloon lowered its power, and the air temperature in the balloon dropped. The airship stopped ascending.
At the same time, a magic circuit installed on a ring at the rear of the airship began to become active. A violent gust of wind gushed out from the metal ring, and the reaction force propelled the airship forward at an even faster speed.
After a few minutes of acceleration, the airship entered a state of uniform flight speed. Outside the door, the flight attendants reminded the passengers that they could move freely.
Qiankun Pagoda told him that the airship's speed had reached nearly one hundred kilometers per hour.
Feng Chou got up from the bed, walked to the narrow glass window at the end of the guest room, and looked out.
Looking down from a height of one thousand meters, everything on the ground looked very small. The chessboard-like city of Audric was gradually fading away.
Feng Chou looked at the scenery outside the window and frowned. The extra reward of ten thousand points of soul power could not make him happy.
During the two days in Audric, Feng Chou inquired about the situation of the Audric Magic Academy in detail.
He found that it was very difficult for him to join the Audric Magic Academy.
If a foreign mage wanted to join the Audric Magic Academy, he had to meet two conditions. First, he had to be an intermediate mage or a junior mage under the age of thirty. Second, he had to have a recommendation letter from an inferior magic school in his jurisdiction. Otherwise, even if he was a genius, the academy would not accept him.
Even if he joined the magic academy, he would have to sign an extremely strict soul contract with the academy if he wanted to obtain magic knowledge above the intermediate level. It was a contract made by the gods. If he violated it, his soul would be nailed to the walls of the City of the Dead in the underworld, wailing for eternity.
The Magic Academy was not a charity organization. They nurtured mages for their own benefit.
Not to mention that Feng Chou could not enter the magic academy at all, even if he could, he would not dare to sign such a soul contract. Feng Chou had too many secrets in his heart. He did not dare to expose his heart to the gods.
In other words, sneaking into a bigger magic academy to fish in troubled waters was probably not going to work!
Then, in half a year, where would he go to get enough information on intermediate level magic?
Feng Chou did not know …
When the magic airship left Audric City, the scenery below became a vast sea of trees. The human towns and castles were like isolated islands dotting the green sea.
Most of these isolated islands were distributed along the river. When the airship left the river, the area below had completely become a green field.
From noon on the second day, Feng Chou discovered that there were more and more isolated human islands on the ground, and the scale was also increasing. He knew that he was about to reach his destination.
Feng Chou's destination was the city of Adonis.
Adonis was a large city with a population of over three hundred thousand located in the upper reaches of the Alvindale River.
This city did not belong to any lord. It was a free city that belonged directly to the empire in name, but in reality, it was self-governing.
The highest authority in this city was the city council.
However, this world's council was completely different from the one on Earth. The members of this world's council were not elected by the citizens. Instead, they were nominated by the council members and voted by the council itself.
There was only one requirement to become a member of this world's council. You had to have great power. This power could be influence, money, magic, martial strength … any one of these.
Therefore, the city council was mostly made up of the nobles, clerics, high-ranked mages, merchants, union leaders, and other powerful people.
Under the council were the city hall, the court of appeals, the audit office, and other institutions that were responsible for the management of the entire city. The city also had its own City Guard.
The relationship between these free cities and the empire was very complicated. The empire had tax collectors in the city, and a portion of the city's taxes was collected as the price for the city's autonomy. At the same time, the empire's army was obligated to provide protection for the autonomous city.
Compared to a lord's city, these free cities were more tolerant and open, and the business environment was also more free.
The real estate that Feng Chou took from Baron Amborite was in Adonis City.
The former Baron Amborite anonymously bought a knight's manor in the suburbs of Adonis City, a villa in the city center, and two commercial buildings in the western part of Adonis City near the Alvindale River.
Feng Chou planned to go to Adonis City to try his luck. Perhaps the mage academy there would be more open.