Chapter 338: Chapter 326: The Empire’s Griffin Knights Cross the Border!
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After the light speed asurent experint was completed, this year’s academic symposium also finally ca to a close, yet the thod of using gears for asuring distance continued to fascinate many.
What followed was the award ceremony held in the Sky Realm, where the nominees Fula, Glenn, and Yoland all received the Morning Star dal without a hitch.
Lynn also once again obtained a Silver Moon dal thanks to his light speed calculation experint!
However, regarding this award ceremony, the wizards were significantly divided in their opinions.
Most wizards considered Lynn’s thod of beam asurent to be nothing short of genius!
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Although this one experint alone was far from eting the requirents for a Silver Moon dal, being a bit more lenient towards a genius was not such a big deal after all.
Not to ntion that the recipient had already received the Corona dal before and thus was not likely to arouse envy.
Nonetheless, so wizards had their reservations about the magic star receiving the Silver Moon dal. Despite the fact that Lynn’s experint was extrely impressive, even stunning, the final result was rely the determination of the speed of light.
And such dals were usually awarded to those who had made significant contributions to Wizard Land, developed legendary magic, or made important additions to the existing magic system.
In their view, asuring the speed of light did not align with any of those criteria, and they felt that the council had set a poor precedent this ti…
As the focal point of the turmoil, Lynn did not concern himself with either receiving praise or rebutting slander, continuing his research on basic elents and occasionally being pulled out by Rafael and others to beco better acquainted with the archwizards remaining in Wizard City.
As for the interactions with the archwizards, Lynn did not decline. These were the elite among wizards, so of whom had won the Morning Star dal or even the Silver Moon dal multiple tis. In a sense, they were the Newtons and Einsteins of this other world and the backbone of magical academia.
Three days after the academic symposium ended, all the mbers residing in Greenrill City received an invitation from the council, and Lynn was no exception. He was well aware that the purpose of this eting was most likely to discuss how to deal with the Church’s impending invasion…
However, just before Lynn was about to leave, Darren, who should have been far away in Yeta, ran over in a flustered manner with his people.
“Headmaster, sothing terrible has happened!”
“What’s wrong, Darren?” Lynn frowned, already having so suspicions in mind.
“It’s an intelligence report from the Kingdom of Hadarata… Yesterday morning, those imperial troops suddenly crossed the border!” Darren said breathlessly, handing over a sealed letter.
This was much quicker than Lynn had anticipated… He pondered for a mont and then directly tore open the envelope. After reading it, his expression imdiately turned very grave.
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One day earlier, on the border of the Kingdom of Hadarata, two massive airships were hovering a kiloter high in the sky on routine patrol.
As an honorable airship pilot, Hammy had dread since childhood of soaring through the sky as freely as the birds.
Yet Hammy, lacking magical talent, was well aware that it was an unrealistic fantasy. A hoe and a plot of farmland was all he could foresee for his future, and if he was lucky, perhaps he could buy a cal beast to save so effort while tilling the land.
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But everything changed after a new dean arrived in Iyeta two years ago!
Hammy put down his hoe and joined the newly established glass workshop because he could earn the wage of half a year in just one month there, and later heard that the dean planned to recruit so commoners to train them as airship pilots.
Hammy could hardly believe his ears when he got the news. To him, the airships that were bigger than a house yet could soar into the skies were among the greatest magical creations of the Wizards.
Allowing them to spend money for the experience was already an imnse favor.
Could they, the magic-less commoners, really control such miraculous magical creations?
But despite his confusion, Hammy resigned from his workshop job without hesitation and joined the pilot training.
Besides figuring out how to control the enormous vessel, they also had to understand an alchemical device that always pointed towards the north or south, and they needed to learn arithtic and arcane mathematics.
For instance, how to estimate the distance between the airship and its target using appropriate landmarks and so ‘simple’ formulas, which was just the most basic scouting subject.
Poor Hammy who had spent most of his life plowing the land, found the learning difficult and dizzying. According to so rumors, even so Wizards found this arcane mathematics challenging…
This effort undoubtedly brought him a very generous reward; his monthly wage went from ten silver coins to twenty and he didn’t need to toil day and night in the factory anymore, fulfilling his lifelong dream in another way!
So when he learned that Dean Lynn was going to select so airship pilots for a dangerous mission, Hammy didn’t hesitate to participate.
Half of it was to repay the dean’s kindness, and the other part was because during the mission, the wage would be doubled. If they happened to sacrifice their lives by accident, their families would receive a substantial compensation of ten magic Gold Coins, and they would be well-taken care of in the future, including free schooling for civilians.
Hammy and the other pilots undoubtedly undertook the mission with a do-or-die attitude, but after wandering around the kingdom’s border for more than a month, their tense spirits gradually relaxed, and they even began to feel that the Wizards’ warnings might have been sowhat exaggerated.
At the mont they were thousands of ters in the sky, all they had to do was to spot the imperial troops crossing the border from afar, scout for intelligence with a telescope, and then return to Iyeta to report. What could possibly go wrong…
Instead, patrolling back and forth in the sa area for a month made Hammy incredibly bored. Although he loved the feeling of flying, circling the sa spot had beco tireso.
In his mind, Hammy fantasized about how great it would be to fly to the other end of the world…
“Wait, Hammy, what’s that over there?” His assistant suddenly shouted as if he had discovered sothing.
Hammy imdiately turned to look. In the distant sky, there seed to be a golden cloud floating towards them.
The more he looked, the stranger it appeared…
Hammy used the telescope mounted on the airship to take a closer look. Then, his pupils shrank with realization. It wasn’t a cloud, but a large group of creatures with eagle-like heads and the hindquarters of a flaming lion. Their shiny golden feathers, illuminated by the sunlight, created a golden halo that made them look like a moving cloud from a distance…
Those were griffins, the Imperial Griffin Knights!
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