Chapter 108: Wind Elemental

Gudu.

This was the name of the airship stationed in the city square of Bremen City.

This was an airship whose "property rights" belonged to the Saint Xi En royal family, an old-fashioned airship purchased by the Igor family from the Saint Xi En royal family twenty years ago.

An old-fashioned airship from twenty years ago, looking at it now, could still bring a full sense of shock.

This time, in order to quell the riots brought about by the "Hogan Ley Line" as soon as possible, the Saint Xi En Duchy dispatched this airship to Bremen City, bringing court magic users.

And when returning, it brought many special goods unique to the Bremen area, including expensive commodities such as tea and minerals.

As well as several young people who originally belonged to Bremen City and were preparing to go to Saint Xi En City for "further studies."

On the 1st of the Dark Night Month, Gao De sat on an airship for the first time as Jielika's servant.

At this moment, it had just been half a year since Gao De came to this world.

And he was about to complete a "triple jump": from Hogan City to Bremen City, and then from Bremen City to the most prosperous city in the entire Saint Xi En Duchy, Saint Xi En City.

Amidst a rocking motion, accompanied by a fierce, fixed-frequency buzzing sound of the propeller, the airship slowly rose into the air.

Inside the airship cabin.

The huge thrust brought by the climb pressed Gao De's body tightly against the wall.

The feeling of blood rushing to the head and ears ringing was familiar yet strange.

After a while, Gao De, who had gradually adapted to this feeling, looked down along the airship window.

The people and buildings on the ground were slowly becoming smaller, turning into small black dots.

The outline of Bremen City was gradually blurring.

The buzzing sound of the propeller seemed exceptionally loud in the air.

Soon, the outline of the city disappeared.

What could be seen next were continuous primitive forests, undulating mountains and hills, and winding rivers.

Everywhere he passed was desolate with sparse population.

After all, relative to the vast land area of the Saint Xi En Duchy, there were too few cities that had been developed and had population gatherings.

Gao De looked at the scenery through the airship window for a while, the freshness soon passed, and the repetitive scenery became monotonous and boring.

He returned to his cabin.

Gao De, who occupied the position of Jielika's maid to board the airship, was also assigned to the lowest-level cabin assigned to servants, located on the bottom floor of the airship.

Cramped and narrow, it could only accommodate a bed and a table, and then there was almost no space to stand.

But Gao De was already very satisfied.

This was, after all, the Saint Xi En royal airship, not an airship

Besides, he was just a passenger hitching a ride on an "airship"; it was good enough to have a room at all, let alone a single.

Gao De took out a bottle of basic mana potion and then placed his luggage under the bed in the sleeping cabin.

The airship *Gudu* was a large vessel over three hundred meters long and nearly seventy meters high.

Although it was an old-fashioned airship from several decades ago, its cruising speed could still reach 150 kilometers per hour.

At this speed, it took less than ten hours to travel from Bremen City to Saint Xi En City.

The massive *Gudu* airship included: an isolation cabin for storing buoyancy gas bladders, a magic power cabin for the propulsion system, a command cabin for the captain to pilot the ship, a cargo cabin for storing goods and supplies, a weapons cabin equipped with airship armaments, a maintenance cabin for repairs and upkeep, and even an observation cabin for a better view.

Only after all these were the residential cabin areas.

But even so, the *Gudu* airship's capacity still reached over a thousand people.

Aside from the three young masters and young lady of the Haines family, the passengers on the airship were all mages from Saint Xi En City.

And they were all official mages, not 0-circle mages hanging onto the title of apprentice.

This gave Gao De the feeling of being in a room with hundreds of fierce tigers.

So he decided to stay in his sleeping cabin and not come out until he reached his destination.

Thinking this, Gao De drank the basic mana potion in his hand in one gulp and began his daily cultivation.

Gao De had originally thought the journey by airship would be smooth sailing.

But facts proved that in this era, even the realm of the sky was filled with danger.

Boom!!

The airship suddenly shook violently. The sound of objects falling with a clatter rang out one after another, startling Gao De, who was meditating.

He opened his eyes, his gaze filled with astonishment: "What's going on? Did we hit strong turbulence?"

The next moment, a sharp, urgent alarm sounded from inside the airship, explaining everything.

"Attack, attack, Earth-Vein creature attack! All personnel to your stations!"

Afterward, Gao De heard the sound of hurried footsteps coming from the ceiling above.

He quickly jumped off the bed, opened the door to his sleeping cabin, and ran out.

The corridor outside the sleeping cabin was not narrow; it was even more spacious than the space inside the cabin.

Those living on this level were mostly staff members wearing crew uniforms, as well as a few passengers like Gao De whose status was "servant."

The crew members were running in short steps, each heading toward their own posts.

"It's an adult Wind Elemental!"

"How could this thing appear on this route?"

"Nine times out of ten, it ran out from the Hogan Earth-Vein. Wind Elementals have never been social; they move fast and drift with the wind—they could end up anywhere!"

The crew members' exasperated voices rang out.

"The airship's protective magic array has already been activated. I don't know how much more energy reserve this will cost."

It seemed the danger wasn't too great; from the crew's tone, one could tell they weren't overly panicked, but rather regretful about the energy reserves consumed by the protective magic array.

Gao De felt relieved.

He looked out through the airship window, trying hard to capture the scene outside.

Although the cabin level he was on was at the very bottom of the airship and his view was severely limited, he could still clearly see the "Wind Elemental's" body.

Because it was truly too massive, and it was circling around the airship.

The Wind Elemental was just as its name suggested; its body was composed of gale-force winds, shaped like a giant tornado, twisting and rotating.

It held a bow and arrow also made of gale-force winds in its hands, occasionally letting out a deafening roar.

Every roar was accompanied by the howling of the wind, stirring the surrounding clouds like a boiling ocean.

"Dalabengba Bangdebei!"

The Wind Elemental made a gibberish sound, but Gao De couldn't understand it at all.

Those were syllables belonging exclusively to the Wind Elemental language, filled with primitive wildness and power.

Although he couldn't understand the Wind Elemental's language, Gao De could feel the violent power and aura radiating from it, as well as the anger in its voice.

"Aries, this route already belongs to us. It is you who intruded into our route, not us who violated your territory!"

Immediately following, Gao De heard a voice from his own airship, steady and calm, with an undeniable majesty.

"Bengbalakabaxi!" The Wind Elemental remained extremely irritable and did not intend to let it go, instead making a violent response.

The next moment, Gao De saw it pull the giant bow woven from gale-force winds in its hands.

The arrow, carrying a fierce tornado, swept toward the airship.

However, the magic patterns on the airship's hull, as if coming to life, also surged with a layer of magical light at the right moment.

These magical lights intertwined, forming an indestructible magic shield that tightly wrapped the airship within it.

The tornado arrow struck the magic shield on the airship's surface, erupting with a deafening roar.

Boom! The entire airship seemed to become a ship battered by giant waves during this intense collision, shaking violently.

"You ignorant beast!"

Immediately after, Gao De heard an angry rebuke from inside the airship, filled with fury and dissatisfaction at the Wind Elemental's provocative behavior.

Boom! Gao De could no longer see the specific details through the small airship window.

He could only see outside the window, where colorful lights flashed constantly, and various magical lights collided intensely, forming a brilliant sky battlefield.

In this intense battle, the airship shook continuously, as if it might fall at any moment.

Every jolt of the airship made Gao De's heart jump into his throat.

He had no "parachute," nor had he mastered any flight spells; if the airship really fell, he would have no way out but death.

This feeling of having his life in someone else's hands made Gao De feel exceptionally uneasy.

(End of chapter)