[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-above-the-mage":3,"chapter-above-the-mage-above-the-mage-chapter-116":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Above the Mage!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2257120,4404,"Chapter 116: Wind Element","above-the-mage-chapter-116",116,"\u003Cp>Guduhao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is the name of the airship moored at Bremen City Square.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is an old-style airship whose ownership belongs to the Schain Royal Family, purchased twenty years ago from the Igor Clan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An old-style airship from twenty years ago still delivers a powerful shock when seen today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To swiftly quell the unrest caused by the Hogan Vein, the Schain Duchy dispatched this airship to Bremen City, bringing along court mages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On its return journey, it carried many rare goods unique to the Bremen region, including tea, minerals, and other expensive commodities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And several young people originally from Bremen City, preparing to travel to Shengxien City to “pursue studies.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the first day of Dark Moon, Gao De boarded the airship for the first time, posing as Jie Li Ka’s servant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, half a year had passed since Gao De arrived in this world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he was about to complete his “three-stage leap”: from Hogan City to Bremen City, then from Bremen City to Shengxien City, the most prosperous city in the entire Schain Duchy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amidst a swaying motion, accompanied by the loud, rhythmic hum of propellers, the airship slowly rose into the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the cabin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The immense thrust from ascent pressed Gao De’s body tightly against the wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sensation of blood rushing to his head and ringing in his ears felt both familiar and strange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a while, as Gao De gradually adapted to the feeling, he looked down through the cabin window.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People and buildings on the ground shrank slowly, becoming tiny black dots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The outline of Bremen City grew increasingly blurred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hum of the propellers sounded especially loud in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, the city’s outline vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What followed were endless stretches of primeval forest, rolling hills and mountains, winding rivers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everywhere they passed was sparsely populated wasteland.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, compared to the vast territory of the Schain Duchy, cities that had been developed and gathered populations were far too few.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gao De watched the scenery through the window for a while; the novelty quickly faded, and the repetitive views grew monotonous and dull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He returned to his cabin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gao De, who had boarded by occupying Jie Li Ka’s maid’s berth, was assigned the lowest-class cabin meant for servants, located at the very bottom of the airship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was cramped and tiny, barely large enough to fit a bed and a table, leaving almost no room to stand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Gao De was already satisfied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, this was the Schain Royal Family’s airship, not a vessel designed purely for transport or passenger service.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, he was just a hitchhiker—having a room at all was lucky, let alone a private one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gao De took out a bottle of Basic Magic Potion and placed his luggage under the cabin bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Guduhao airship was a massive vessel over three hundred meters long and nearly seventy meters tall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although it was an old-style airship from decades ago, its cruising speed still reached one hundred and fifty kilometers per hour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this speed, the journey from Bremen City to Shengxien City took less than ten hours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The enormous Guduhao airship included: isolated compartments for buoyancy gas storage, a magical propulsion chamber, a command cabin for the captain to pilot the airship, a cargo hold for storing goods and supplies, a weapons chamber equipped with airship armaments, a maintenance chamber for repairs and upkeep, and even an observation cabin for better visibility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only after these sections came the living quarters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even so, the Guduhao airship’s carrying capacity exceeded a thousand people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aside from the three young masters and ladies of the Hains Family, all passengers aboard were mages from Shengxien City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And they were all full-fledged mages, not 0-rank apprentices masquerading as students.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This gave Gao De the feeling of being locked in a room with hundreds of tigers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he decided to stay in his cabin until they reached their destination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking this, Gao De downed the Basic Magic Potion in his hand and began his daily cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gao De had assumed the airship journey would proceed smoothly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But reality proved that even the sky, in this era, was filled with danger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The airship suddenly shook violently. Clattering sounds of falling objects erupted one after another, jolting Gao De out of his meditation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He opened his eyes, startled: “What’s going on? Did we hit a violent air current?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next instant, a sharp, urgent alarm blared from within the airship, explaining everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Attack, attack! Vein creature attack! All personnel to your stations!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately after, Gao De heard rapid footsteps above the cabin ceiling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He leapt from his bed, opened the cabin door, and ran out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The corridor outside the cabin was not narrow—in fact, it was wider than the cabin itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those living on this level were mostly crew members in uniform, and a few passengers like Gao De, classified as “servants.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crew members ran in small steps, each heading to their assigned posts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s an adult wind elemental!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How could something like this appear on this route?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Almost certainly escaped from the Hogan Vein. Wind elementals are solitary by nature, move fast, ride the wind, and can appear anywhere.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crew’s frustrated voices rang out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The airship’s protective magic array is already active—this will drain even more of our energy reserves.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the crew’s tone, it seemed the danger wasn’t severe; they weren’t panicked, merely lamenting the energy cost of the protective array.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gao De instantly felt reassured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked out through the window, straining to catch sight of the outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though his cabin level was the lowest on the airship, severely limiting his view, he could still clearly see the wind elemental’s body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because it was enormous, and it was circling the airship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>True to its name, the wind elemental’s body was composed of raging winds, shaped like a colossal tornado, twisting and spinning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In its hands it held a bow, also made of wind, occasionally letting out deafening roars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each roar brought howling gales that churned the surrounding clouds like a boiling ocean.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Dala Beng ba Bangde Bei!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wind elemental emitted a jumble of sounds, but Gao De couldn’t understand a word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These were syllables unique to the wind elemental language, brimming with primal ferocity and power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he couldn’t comprehend the wind elemental’s speech, Gao De felt the wild power and aura radiating from it, and the fury in its voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Aires, this route belongs to us. You have intruded into our path, not we into yours!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately after, Gao De heard a voice from his own airship—calm, steady, and radiating undeniable authority.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bangla Kaba Xi!” The wind elemental remained furious, refusing to back down, responding with violent fury.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next instant, Gao De saw it draw back the massive bow woven from wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An arrow, trailing a swift tornado, shot toward the airship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the magical runes on the airship’s hull came alive, surging forth a layer of magical light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These magical lights interwove, forming an unbreakable magical shield that tightly enveloped the airship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tornado arrow struck the airship’s magical shield, exploding in a deafening roar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM! The entire airship shuddered violently, as if caught in a giant wave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ungrateful beast!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gao De then heard a furious shout from within the airship, brimming with anger and indignation at the wind elemental’s provocation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM! The specific details that followed, Gao De could no longer see clearly through the small window.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could only see flashes of brilliant colors outside, magical lights clashing violently, forming a dazzling sky battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The airship rocked continuously in the fierce battle, as if about to plummet at any moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each jolt of the airship made Gao De’s heart leap into his throat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had neither a “parachute” nor any flight magic—if the airship truly fell, he would have no chance of survival.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This feeling of life and death resting in others’ hands left Gao De deeply uneasy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1326,"2026-06-19T14:28:48.629Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","1487f9e89813911af995da3a54821563ba98449e028689ab692382cfa14c138b","above-the-mage-chapter-117","above-the-mage-chapter-115",529,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fabove-the-mage-cover.jpg"]