Chapter 354: Chapter 349 Floating Airship’s First Flight (Big Chapter)_2
Currently, sales are only radiating around Green Shadow and Luoxia, as well as areas surrounding Lin City like Heng City and Shuo Lake. Despite the nurous rchant teams running back and forth, the goods are hardly enough to et the needs of the local Awakeners.
Due to transportation issues, it’s even impossible to open a new sales area in Jing City.
Tang Yu had considered using Floating Chariots for transportation, yet even if the Floating Chariots were filled with Space Backpacks, they couldn’t transport much cargo at a ti, and it was impossible to fit large items into the Space Backpacks.
The number of Floating Chariots was also very limited. Each cost up to two hundred thousand Source Crystals (converting materials to cost price), so rare materials could only be accumulated slowly. Up to now, the Territory only had about a dozen, half were given to the Ard Departnt, the Intelligence Departnt took four or five, he himself also needed to keep at least two, and then he had to spare a few for followers out on missions…
There were no Floating Chariots available to spare for transporting goods.
“Floating Airships are different, they cost over two hundred thirty thousand but have much greater carrying capacity than Floating Chariots. It’s just that, given our current finances, even by cutting corners, we can hardly build a few.”
Tang Yu frowned.
The treasury had been fluctuating between the alert and crisis lines; even though he owned a mine, he was barely holding on.
The inco from the Source Crystal Mine was stable at several tens of thousands of Source Crystals a day, and Resource Point One, after deducting the maintenance costs of defense structures, could also bring in a small twenty to thirty thousand a day. Sales of rune equipnt across various regions, combined with inco from the Spirit Space and Martial Arts Hall, had now beco a major source of inco, varying from tens of thousands to over a hundred thousand Source Crystals.
However!
Building one defense structure cost thousands of Source Crystals, the expensive ones tens or even twenty to thirty thousand; setting up a defensive line suggested spending millions. Expenses on followers and employees were not small either, requiring an expenditure of at least a few hundred thousand Source Crystals weekly. Moreover, each activation of his newly constructed battle system cost tens of thousands of Source Crystals yet could only maintain operations for less than a minute…
“The last ti I thought the battle system was perfect, it could even compete against Transcendents, but I indeed overlooked the most important Consuming Crystal issue.”
Compared to upgrading the Territory, summoning adventurers, and refreshing the market didn’t seem to be much.
Floating Chariots, Floating Airships, and other costly Vehicles—if it weren’t for the fact that most of the materials were collected by the Investigation Corps, which reduced production costs—we probably couldn’t have built so many.
Tang “owns a mine but is actually broke” Yu gave a wry smile, “Once the Floating Airships are verified to be capable of inter-regional flight, I must sell goods around the world… Lorraine said that the Awakeners in Jing City are quite wealthy, let’s choose Jing City for our first stop!”
Between thoughts,
the black walls of the Equipnt Area were already visible in the distance.
…
The Equipnt Factory Area was not small, and the Level One city wall originally built had now beco the inner wall. The exposed cold gun barrels at the top of the wall intimidated anyone with ill intent; also, Awakeners from the Guardian Corps patrolled back and forth 24/7. If a spy occasionally infiltrated the Equipnt Factory Area, they would be quickly caught.
Further out was the endless third layer of the city wall, towering, solid, standing on the wilderness up until half the mountain in the line of sight, enveloping the original mountain ring-road and using the terrain to block any invading Demonized Beasts.
When Tang Yu saw a Flying Demonized Beast approaching, it was imdiately shot down by the anti-air cannons on the wall, screaming as it fell from the sky. An Awakener from the Guardian Army imdiately jumped down from the wall—Tang Yu lost sight due to the wall blocking his view, but he could guess they were collecting the Source Crystals and important materials from the Demonized Beast’s body.
During the city guard period, seized items needed to be handed over to the Army, but they also earned so contribution points as “extra earnings.”
“Director, you’ve finally arrived; let’s go check out the Floating Airship now,” Kevin said, walking quickly towards him, his long white beard fluttering in the wind, followed by a few others.
There were core mbers from the Equipnt Departnt and so from the Logistics Departnt.
Tang Yu recognized a few vaguely familiar faces… 70 to 80 percent familiar.
“This is managed by the Equipnt Departnt; you must have seen the Floating Airship many tis before.”
“It’s not the sa,” Kevin said enthusiastically, “I’ve never seen a Floating Airship fly!”
…
The Floating Airship being such a large and high-security device, its construction area was definitely not here but situated up in the mountains…
They quickly reached the rear of the Equipnt Departnt, near the mountain, before them was a slope of at least seventy-eighty degrees, and an alloy gate appeared.
Tang Yu extended his spiritual power forward, and the verifying light quickly turned from red to green.
The alloy gate opened, Tang Yu stepped inside.
…
The passageway was lined with walls made of tal, and Source Power crystal lamps were embedded in the semi-circular ceiling, casting a soft light.
Yang Wei and several core mbers from the Equipnt Departnt and the Logistics Departnt followed behind a few significant figures, slightly reserved.
He had once been the lowest-ranked handyman, and because of his small stature and malnutrition, he even earned less than others. However, now he had beco the head of the rune workshop and had purchased many support potions through the Awakening Loan and the Excellent Employee Reward Fund—he had successfully awakened.
Earning up to 280 a week, having achieved the third layer of Awakening, and possessing rune craftsmanship close to that of an interdiate rune master, his was truly a handyman’s counterattack, reaching the peak of his life.
However, Yang Wei still acted very cautiously, tiptoeing as he walked, careful not to make too much noise.
Walking ahead were the truly important people.
Apart from Minister Kevin, he was unfamiliar with the other two. Minister Chen was known as the big manager of the Sanctuary, and the young man, both handso and authoritative, was Director Tang, a dragon seldom seen.
A towering figure who had established Green Shadow, he was now leading them to the Floating Airship manufacturing area.
Yang Wei was aware of the existence of floating airships, but this was his first ti entering this place.
Reserved yet unable to contain his excitent.
What technology did the floating airships utilize?
How were the rune arrays connected together?
What were the features of its structure?
How magnificent would it be?
…
All of them were Awakeners, moving swiftly.
After walking straight forward in the passageway for a while, it turned into an incline upwards, a road wide enough for trucks to pass through.
A few minutes later, they erged from the tunnel, and the view abruptly opened up.
Yang Wei’s mouth fell open slightly.
They had arrived at a platform set in the mountainside; the trees here had been cleared, the ground leveled and paved with a thick layer of concrete, stretching out vast enough to equal more than a dozen football fields combined.
The edges of the mountain cut sharp and smooth like a knife, perfectly vertical at ninety degrees.
But what attracted the most attention was ahead—a huge floating airship, over fifty ters long, side facing them, with puppets underneath it that looked as tiny as ants.
At first glance, the floating airship resembled a narrow warship with large cannon-like engines protruding from both sides. If viewed from directly front, the whole airship appeared like the letter V with legs stretched out on both sides, firmly resting on the ground.
The exterior of the floating airship was coated in deep blue-gray armor, not overly hefty, equipped with nurous powerful weapons, its unique design style and grand appearance awe-inspiring.
People seeing the floating airship for the first ti stood there, stunned.
“Yang Wei, go check the rune patterns on the right linkage, Huang Ming, you check the left…” After giving them a few minutes to recover, Kevin imdiately assigned tasks.
“Yes, Master!”
Yang Wei, along with three other core mbers of the Equipnt Departnt, walked near the airship, their hearts filled with a reverent attitude.
Kevin flicked his white beard and quickly boarded the floating airship, laughing like an eighty-year-old child.
Tang Yu walked around the airship a few tis, growing more satisfied with each pass.
This was only a small floating airship; the dium and large ones would undoubtedly be even more spectacular and incredible… of course, that would wait until he was able to build them.
It was indeed from an incredibly glorious era before the Third Epoch, leaving behind these precious designs.
Even the vast Mage Alliance was incapable of manufacturing them.
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