Calamity Dragon, Starting with the Cultivation of Knight Families

Chapter 133 Dawn City Airship, the Eager Bishop

Dawn City.

After his first dungeon adventure with a hundred people, York had a good night's rest after the banquet.

The next day, York had just gotten up when he was met with a report from one of his subordinates.

York immediately headed towards the military camp in the lower quarters of the city lord's mansion.

In the military camp on the lower half of the mountainside of Dawn City, several airships were currently parked in an open area.

There are a total of forty-eight airships.

All of it came from the spoils captured in Copperhammer City about ten days ago.

Complete and intact, not one missing.

I remember when York led his soldiers to Bronzehammer City, everything was quiet in that troll city.

Apart from the thousand or so trolls left behind by His Majesty to test the soldiers of Dawn City, there was no one left alive in the entire troll city.

The trolls died in incredibly bizarre ways.

They all seemed to have died completely in a dream.

It was absolutely terrifying.

It's important to know that while Copperhammer City isn't very large, it also doesn't have a large number of trolls.

But at least it's over 50,000.

But all these trolls, including several high-ranking ones, died mysteriously in their dreams.

This ability is truly terrifying.

Fortunately, after learning that all of this was Lin Ke's doing, both the soldiers of York and Dawn City felt more awe and excitement.

During the subsequent transport process, Dawn City moved almost everything that could be moved from Copperhammer City.

Everything that couldn't be moved was eventually burned.

Forty-eight airships, and even some airship workshops, along with unknown magical artifacts from Copperhammer City—Dawn City had all the magical beasts that could be moved back with their help.

The whole process took about three days.

Subsequently, both airships and other magical creations became the subject of research for a group of sorcerers under York of Dawn City.

Well, good news has arrived today!

When York arrived at the open-air military camp where the airship had landed, the three sorcerers immediately went to greet him with joy.

"Lord City Lord!!! Great news!"

"We can finally operate these alien airships!"

"Please look!"

The warlock Milton looked unusually excited as he spoke, glancing behind him.

At that moment, the sorcerer in an airship placed his hand on the center of a ring-shaped mark at the front of the airship.

The next moment, accompanied by the sudden disturbance of magical winds around the airship, the airship slowly lifted off the ground.

Although the speed was not fast, it only rose two or three meters.

But this was just out of fear of causing damage due to improper operation the first time. Therefore, after just one operation, the sorcerer quickly controlled the airship to slowly land back on the ground.

"Great! This is indeed good news!"

"Sir Milton, well done. But could you tell me more about these airships?"

"This kind of thing has never appeared in our Auckland mainland before, it's really intriguing."

York looked very pleased and satisfied, and immediately asked a question.

Upon hearing this, Milton calmly and unhurriedly began to explain:

"Indeed, such a creation has never appeared on our Auckland continent before."

"However, in principle, this kind of thing is similar to alchemy."

"However, compared to magical artifacts made through alchemy, this thing is still much more sophisticated."

At this point, Milton left everyone in suspense, saying:

"However, before that, I would like to ask the city lord to guess what level of magical artifact this airship would be in your opinion?"

York was taken aback, then took a closer look.

"It shouldn't be worse than a mid-tier magic item, after all, it's such a big thing and it's the main tool of combat. If it doesn't have the power of a mid-tier magic item, then it really has no value."

"Moreover, it looks like this thing is designed for airborne troop transport, so its main function is probably transportation, right?"

"However, perhaps it's not just that?"

"It's a pity. If it weren't to avoid any potential threat to Dawn City, we could have kept a few troll aliens alive. Asking them about it wouldn't have made any difference."

"As for human slaves and servants, they have no access to such things and are even less likely to know about them."

"As for the humans from the settlements we rescued earlier, their estimated power of the so-called magic cannons should not exceed the mid-level in my opinion."

York slowly revealed his guess.

But the warlock Milton just smiled and shook his head.

"Lord City Lord, your guess isn't entirely wrong."

“But Lord City Lord, you have completely underestimated the power of these magically created airships.”

“Under normal circumstances, these airships can indeed produce magic cannons with a power level of mid-tier, but that is only under normal circumstances.”

"After several days of careful sensing and inspection, we have discovered that the magical energy in the core of these airships is enormous. Furthermore, based on the magical output of the magical imprints, these airships are certainly capable of launching damage comparable to that of high-level magic."

"However, this process requires time to gather magic power, and it cannot be cast continuously, but this is similar to high-level magical power!"

"Not to mention, this kind of airship is actually very easy to operate, but it requires adaptation and learning."

"To fully master the operation of the entire airship, we estimate that it will likely require the cooperation of at least ten advanced sorcerers."

"Moreover, this also requires energy similar to that of high-level magic crystals to power these airships."

"This brings us to another creation of the trolls: the many spire-like structures we saw back then and the high-magic crystals stored inside."

The warlock Milton slowly began to recount everything he had learned about the airship. He even described the conclusions and findings his colleagues had reached in recent days while analyzing the trolls' magical creations.

Magic Airship
The mage tower is condensing magic crystals.

The industrial approach combining trolls and other elements has been initially analyzed by Dawn City.

While the analysis has been completed, it will obviously take a considerable amount of time to fully master these technologies, or even to build mage towers and magic airships.

But in any case, this is a great thing for York.

Forty-eight airships?

Does this mean that Dawn City currently has forty-eight high-level beings?
Even if it's slightly inferior, it's still pretty much the same.

However, the fact that airships require enough sorcerers to operate is indeed a problem.

Theoretically, a ship needs ten rank-one warlocks, but that's just theory; more might be needed.

Forty-eight ships would require four hundred and eighty people to enter the ranks.

Just kidding.

Dawn City simply cannot afford to raise the funds now.

Of course, just because it's not possible now doesn't mean it won't be possible later.

After all, dungeons have already appeared.

Given enough time, York and Dawn City might only need a year or two.
In the continent of Auckland, knights are similar to professional warriors in this world.

The warlock is similar to the mage class in this world.

In one year, more than 30,000 humans can awaken.

Leaving aside other professions and considering the difficulty of job advancement at level 10 in the dungeon.

York felt that the difficulty of reaching the level of over four hundred rank-up warlocks was still somewhat challenging.

After all, the dungeon isn't a welfare institution; changing jobs involves challenges involving deaths.

But no matter what, we definitely have to give it a shot.

With this in mind, York began to think carefully about how to cultivate enough mage professionals in the shortest amount of time.

As usual, let's awaken enough mage professionals first.

Let's set a target of one thousand mage professionals for now.

Once there were a thousand mage professionals, the focus was on having them level up in dungeons.

And so he took on the challenge of changing jobs one after another.

If once isn't enough, then keep training.

However, the mortality rate in lower-level dungeons shouldn't be higher than 50%, right?
A thousand mage professionals should be enough.

With these thoughts in mind, York did not stay in the military camp for long.

In short, after encouraging the sorcerers present, he returned to the city lord's mansion and began preparing to issue a recruitment order for all citizens of Dawn City to enter the dungeon for adventure.

York has a lot to do next.

In short, he felt that there wasn't enough time in the day.

While York was still working hard to expand Dawn City, on the other side, in the Swamp Territory of Auckland, Lucia encountered a headache some time ago.

York and Lucia's frequent departures from the swamp territory every three months had already attracted the attention of the bishops of the Church of Truth.

At first, they might have been able to hold back from asking.

But it's been over a year already.

They received no divine pronouncements, while the lord and Lucia received them frequently.

This is so weird.

Anyone with eyes to see would know that the Yorkes must be doing something rather secretive.

This kind of thing definitely involves the gods, so they shouldn't ask, but that doesn't mean they lack ambition.

As devout believers in the truth, the bishops found it increasingly difficult to tolerate being abandoned by the oracle of 'Linco'.

So, after several attempts, all six bishops approached Lucia that very night.

“Madam, we have come here with no ill intentions. As believers in the truth, we simply wish to share the burdens of our Lord and Your Majesty. Is such a matter causing you distress?”

"Of course, if this is Your Majesty's wish, we have nothing to say, but we hope that you can understand our feelings."

"For the past year or so, you and the lord have been busy with His Majesty's divine decrees, and we have all seen it. Your hard work goes without saying."

"However, if possible, please put in a good word for us before His Majesty. If it is really difficult, please also convey to His Majesty our desire to share the burdens of our Lord."

A bishop looked at Lucia with a helpless expression, his face even showing a hint of pleading.

Upon hearing this, Lucia felt helpless as well.

She could understand the bishops' feelings, but Dawn City was of great importance, even involving monsters and dragons.

Is this something that these bishops should know?

If these bishops were vicious and menacing, Lucia could ask Linco to 'grant them death' without any burden.

But these bishops are not evil; in fact, they have been diligent and conscientious in protecting the swamp territory for over a year.

This put Lucia in a difficult position.

However, her predicament was noticed by Lin Ke, who had just ended the private chat on the forum and was surveying his territory with his consciousness.

Therefore, Lin Ke was unable to directly notify Lucia.

However, they immediately dispatched the forest wolves stationed at the swamp mine to deal with the situation.

"At least there are two high-ranking ones. These bishops are just sitting around doing nothing anyway, and now they can finally be put to good use."

"Then let's use it. It's just a waste of breath to make up a story."

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(End of this chapter)