Magic High School.

All this information lingered in his mind. He had thought about it before, but there was nothing he could do; the information was too scarce, and he knew nothing. So, with the attitude of "since I'm already here," he watched what his elders were doing.

And now...

"I live in the past. Was that lifeless ruin that Xiaoye and the others saw the future?" Li Ge silently stared at the letter in his hand. He picked up a pen and began to write rapidly on the paper…

Then, he looked at the bed and saw that familiar place. They didn't have many romantic moments together, but Xiaoye seemed to remember many of his little habits, such as his liking to sleep against the wall.

So she often slept in the middle of the bed, leaving a gap between herself and the wall for him to lie down in.

Li Ge often complained that they seemed to have entered the state of an old married couple even though they had only just begun. This was usually something only childhood sweethearts who grew up together would experience, and she never expected that the two of them would actually have this feeling.

He couldn't figure out why.

But he knew that the middle of this bed was very likely where Xiaoye was right now. They were in the same space, but at different times.

and so……

"Smack!" Li Ge slammed the back of the paper filled with information onto the middle of the bed. The paper disappeared!

Li Ge was overjoyed. Sure enough, he had found a loophole in this world, a loophole that arose because his domain was connected to Xiao Ye's!

Then, he received another note.

"As I expected. After you handed me the paper, it turned into a pile of mud, and anything that came from your side to mine decayed. So, why don't you try a different method, leaving it in place with a stone, or perhaps within the domain?"

Finally, they returned safely.

Li Ge looked at the paper, and then he lay down on the bed.

"Ah, really, I never expected that just going home to take my aunt away would lead to such a trap. Are you spying on me right now, Lord Destiny?" Li Ge said slowly, looking up at the sky.

There was no response. Li Ge suddenly realized that he was in the world of mental images, where even the will of heaven could not bypass him without him noticing.

"So, you're trying to lure me to the sky, aren't you?" Li Ge smiled, having already seen through Tianyi's little scheme and connected many things together.

It's not easy for me to fly into the sky, but what about Xiaoye's side?

He immediately had an idea. Quickly, he created a stone slab and began to carve words on it.

"Could you guys help me figure out what I'll encounter when I fly into the sky and out of the atmosphere? Be careful, take precautions..."

……

"Wait, look what I found!" Valerie pieced together a pile of stones and saw Li Ge's familiar handwriting on the stone slab, which had been ravaged by time and was no longer legible.

"Help me fly out of the atmosphere and see..."

The group slowly read the text aloud. At that moment, they looked once again at the small workshop that resembled a hot air balloon manufacturing operation.

So, in the past, Li Ge was making hot air balloons? But why would he make hot air balloons? It couldn't be that he thought he could use them to escape the world's crisis, could it?

After exchanging bewildered glances, the group decided to go up into the sky to take a look.

After all, for Li Ge, flying out of the atmosphere was no easy feat. He didn't possess any techniques for flying, and he couldn't even stand in the air.

But for them, it's a different story.

Whether it's the Holy Light Pegasus or the flying magic of the fairy lady Daphne, it can be done with ease. With sufficient breathing reserves, breaking through the atmosphere and reaching the outer atmosphere is not difficult at all.

In reality, the atmosphere of this world isn't very suitable for life. An ordinary person would probably struggle to breathe within minutes, and suffocate within ten minutes. But they still don't think it's a big problem.

and so……

"I'll just fly up there and take a look. Flying to almost the height of the atmosphere in one go shouldn't be too difficult, right..." she said, after all, she was a legendary-level being, and her physical strength was still considerable.

So, after a few simple preparations, the group sent Miss Fairy up to take a look.

“Based on my basic calculations of this planet, the atmospheric altitude of this world is approximately… ninety-one kilometers…” Yi Lian calculated.

"Huh? This thing can be calculated?" Valerie asked in shock.

“It can be calculated, but it’s inaccurate. After all, the atmosphere doesn’t disappear immediately; it becomes thinner and thinner at higher altitudes, and there’s still an atmosphere at altitudes of hundreds of thousands of meters, but at that point it’s so thin that there are only a few atmospheric atoms in a few square kilometers,” Yi Lian explained. “This data only represents the altitude of the atmosphere that we can barely perceive.”

“Okay, I’ll fly to about 91 kilometers and take a look.” Daphne didn’t seem to have any reservations.

Soon, she began to chant. This chant lasted a full half minute, and then, almost tangible wings of light appeared behind her. She continued chanting.

An ancient incantation rang out, and after another ten seconds or so, a protective shield, like a thin film, appeared on her body.

Yilian, Xiaoye, Valerie: "..."

No wonder traditional mages are being phased out; battle mages are the mainstream now. Traditional mages sometimes spend tens of seconds on their incantations and spells, even combining them with hand seals—sometimes it looks like they're just waving their hands around…

By the time you've finished forming the hand seals and chanting, the battle mage will have already teleported in front of you and killed you ten or eight times over...

Okay, actually, each has its advantages and disadvantages. The advantage of traditional mages is their versatility; as long as you learn enough, you can become a mage who knows a little bit about everything. On the other hand, battle mages specializing in Noble Phantasms are more like extreme specialists.

If we look at it from the perspective of a six-dimensional radar chart, a traditional mage is more like a small hexagonal warrior whose six dimensions are all roughly equal, while a Noble Phantasm mage is more like a mage who excels in one or two top-tier aspects but is lacking in the others.

Of course, now is not the time for the traditionalists and the Noble Phantasm faction to undermine each other.

The next moment, Miss Fairy flew suddenly into the sky, even creating a sonic boom cloud at the end.

Soaring into the sky at Mach 1!

"She should be able to reach the edge of space in about ten minutes, and the return trip will be even faster. We should know the result in about half an hour," Yi Lian said.

However, not even half an hour passed. In just a few minutes, the fairy fell down. Her aura was clearly chaotic, as if she had seen something indescribable.

"What's wrong? What happened?" Xiaoye asked hurriedly.

“The sky…the sky above is blocked!” she said, panting heavily, her chest rising and falling with each breath.

The others immediately told her to rest for a while, and then they understood what was going on.

Above the sky, at an altitude of about twenty kilometers, there is a transparent barrier that envelops the entire planet like a giant glass dome.

Then, Daphne even tried using the light wheel to cut through the barrier, but she was met with a counterattack and nearly crashed, her fate unknown...

In that instant, the group realized something was wrong. A barrier shrouded the sky...

Why does this thing exist, and what kind of existence is it that can cover the entire planet's sky like this?

“Oh, right, there’s another thing, I don’t know if there’s something wrong with my perception.” Daphne paused and added, “I feel like even at over twenty kilometers above, the air doesn’t seem to be that much thinner, and the temperature and atmospheric density haven’t decreased much either…”

"Does this barrier also lock the atmosphere firmly within it?" Yi Lian said the next moment.

"I'll give this intelligence to Li Ge first." Xiao Ye herself didn't understand this kind of knowledge very well. She was actually half-illiterate, and having never systematically studied scientific knowledge, she was completely confused about this kind of knowledge.

But she was sensible enough to remain silent and pretend she knew what she was talking about. However, it was clear she couldn't get involved in the physics-related matters, so she decided to go and pass on information first.

……

Soon, Li Ge received the information verified by her friends.

Upon seeing the news about the barrier in the sky, and how it almost locked up the entire atmosphere, one of his ideas was confirmed in that instant.

"I see, I see. So it wasn't about keeping them in captivity, but rather a form of protection, is that right?" Li Ge said slowly.

So that explains why the Holy Empire had so little knowledge of space exploration.

After all, the entire sky was sealed off. Twenty kilometers above, there was a barrier that even Daphne's holy light couldn't shake, and would even provoke a counterattack. Therefore, it's estimated that anyone who wanted to explore the sky long ago was blocked by this barrier.

After failing to break the barrier no matter what they did, they gradually gave up on spaceflight, and eventually the entire empire's airborne equipment consisted only of helicopters and fighter jets.

Perhaps countless people have died trying to break through this barrier, only to find themselves in vain…

They were completely confined in cages.

And within this cage, there is also a rampant blood-thirsty disease...

Really are……

Li Ge didn't know how to look at his parents, who were now extremely excited because of Li Ge's technical support. They were building hot air balloons, filled with boundless desire for the future and exploration, and yearning for the unknown beyond the world, hoping to break through the sky and find the entity that would "dominate" them.

Or perhaps, this is simply a father trying to find a way to cure his child's special illness.

“A barrier, if it’s a barrier…” Li Ge began to murmur.

So, can the domain break through this barrier?

Even if the realm can't do it, then what about the power of "Ezeus"?

Li Ge looked at the clown mask in his hand. He now possessed the power of a god-king for three minutes at a time, and this time the power wasn't even that of the sea god-king from the ditch, but the power of Ezeus.

Legend has it that the Greek god-king who ruled over the sky and fertility was the ultimate Old Man Pedrone, capable of single-handedly defeating the entire world. Li Ge remembered watching an animation called "The Legend of Olympus" when he was a child in his previous life.

That was probably the name; he'd almost forgotten. He still remembered the great Greek hero, Hercules, with twelve lives, who was being tossed around like a top by Zeus, like a wooden stake.

At the very least, I can use the power of the God-King for 3 minutes at the end.

Update around 8 AM tomorrow

Sorry, I need to adjust the time difference; the update will be at 8 AM this morning.

Chapter 302 Sertu Diplomacy

The following day, construction of the Thunder Giant Balloon began in full swing.

It's absolutely impossible to make a balloon fly out of the atmosphere using science and technology, but magic can, and the probability is quite high.

Furthermore, Li Ge obtained information from Xiao Ye and the others that the entire planet was trapped inside a barrier shaped like a large bowl, with even the air compressed within it.

On a normal planet, the atmosphere is a thin veil surrounding the surface, becoming thinner as you ascend. But this planet is different; if the barrier completely locks in the air, the entire planet might resemble a giant inflated balloon.

This means that even at a certain altitude, the air pressure may not drop as much as one might expect.

In this light, it seems that even if I were not there, these wise yet foolish elders might still be able to create balloons that could reach the sky barrier, thus touching this false sky.

Then, perhaps, they triggered the counterattack program of this barrier. Even Daphne, a legendary genius of the traditional sciences, showed signs of difficulty after consuming this counterattack program; their parents would probably have perished after consuming it.

Those who survived may have relied on Albion's levitation spell to stay alive. But those who survived did not accept this outcome.

So Albion went mad. Perhaps for the next seventeen years, he desperately gathered all the special powers he could to break through this false sky, even if it meant becoming a demon, even if it meant killing his former companions.

Li Ge felt that she had deduced the truth of the matter.

Looking at Albion, who was still in university and seemed fearless, he was currently preparing gas canisters for the hot air balloon. One canister after another was strung together, and he made a simple device to provide a stable and slow power source for the hot air balloon.

"Alright, at this rate, my device can last for more than twenty hours, which should be enough for us to fly to the ends of the sky." He smiled as he looked at the device he had made and did a simple test.

“Alright, Albion, we’re almost done making the balloons too, just one last step: enchanting them!” Rean smiled, raising his fist. Albion seemed to realize something as well, and similarly raised his fist.

Two fists, one big and one small, collided, and the two laughed heartily. There seemed to be a friendship between them that others couldn't understand.