Chapter 114: The Witch Riding a Flying Broom

Holding the sample, Lan Qingyou directly headed to the third floor.

Picking up the magic broom resting on the third floor, she installed this thruster sample onto the side of the broom head.

Subsequently, Lan Qingyou pulled out the gear adjuster, installing it on the inner side of the question mark shape at the very top of the broom.

Because the interior of the disc utilized a spring structure, the connection wire would automatically pull taut after being drawn out. Even if it was pulled out slightly too far, it would automatically retract back, meaning there was no need to worry about the excess connection wire looking sloppy or dragging along.

She could only remark that The Chariot truly lived up to being a mechanical fanatic. She merely briefly mentioned it, and the other party knew exactly what she wanted.

The potions had been well spent.

After finishing the thruster's installation, Lan Qingyou carried the broom down to the second floor and began to test it out.

Presently, apart from the water channels diverted down from the third floor and the herb field, nothing had been planted on the second floor yet. The hundred and eighty square meters of space was plenty to serve as her testing ground.

Lan Qingyou took out a magic crystal crafted by The High Priestess and jammed it into the thruster's slot to charge it up.

According to what The Chariot said, one point of energy was consumed per minute, while the defective magic crystals crafted by The High Priestess had an upper limit of providing 800 charge points.

In other words, a single magic crystal could liberate Lan Qingyou's hands, allowing her to fly for roughly 13 hours without expending any of her own mana.

To Lan Qingyou, this was something she truly needed far too much.

That's right.

What Lan Qingyou wanted was exactly an item capable of providing her with propulsion power.

Previously, she had always relied on her hands to provide the motive force, but the drawback was incredibly obvious too.

For one, it required shuttling back and forth between objects.

If she were purely suspended in midair with absolutely nothing to borrow force from, she felt she could just stand there until she starved to death.

Another reason was that this method would occupy one of her hands, drastically reducing her combat power.

This was especially true after the day her palm was pierced by the Night Swallow, leaving her with no choice but to use her remaining hand to provide propulsion power.

It was practically equivalent to both hands being crippled. Naturally, Lan Qingyou would think of a way to eliminate such an immense drawback.

Originally, she hadn't come up with any ideas. In the end, upon entering Tarot Villa, she instantly encountered a mechanical fanatic like The Chariot.

And just like that, the problem was instantly resolved.

In the future, she, as a witch, merely needed to sit atop her flying broom and input mana.

A witch. A witch flying on a broom.

Calling her the Flying Witch was perfectly reasonable, right?

Thinking this way, Lan Qingyou successively cast the Light Object Spell upon both the magic broom and the thruster.

Combined, the two items didn't even weigh twenty-five catties, placing them squarely within Lan Qingyou's carrying capacity.

Leveling the magic broom, Lan Qingyou sat onto it sidesaddle, subsequently adjusting the gear to the 1st gear.

Whoosh—

The thruster's two exhaust ports spewed out a gentle, soft breeze. Lan Qingyou's body swayed slightly, and the broom slowly propelled forward.

Because there wasn't a dashboard, Lan Qingyou had no idea what the specific speed was.

But based on feeling, she guessed it was around ten yards.

It was very slow, but also exceedingly stable, without any sensation of being pushed back.

After flying for one minute, Lan Qingyou put on her glasses to look, discovering it had indeed consumed one point of energy.

Furthermore, because its weight was eliminated, Lan Qingyou merely needed to control the question mark end by pulling it up or pressing it down, and tilt her body left or right, to perfectly control the magic broom's flight direction.

Thus, she activated the 2nd gear.

This time, the speed increased noticeably, jolting forward instantly.

If Lan Qingyou didn't have the Light Body Spell protecting her and reducing her weight to nothing, she estimated she might have been thrown right off on the spot.

After one minute, two points vanished.

The 3rd gear was even more incredible. The speed was so fast that Lan Qingyou directly smashed into the wall, and one minute directly consumed 4 points of energy.

Good heavens, 4 points of energy. No wonder The Chariot mentioned it was a bit draining on energy.

However, the speed was genuinely fast, making it exceptionally suitable for traveling purposes.

Moreover, flying through the sky would shorten travel times by a considerable margin compared to traveling on the ground. Going anywhere would be a straight line between two points, without all those winding detours.

It was just that her own mana couldn't quite keep up.

Even with an energy consumption of 4 points, the 800 points from the magic crystal would still allow her to use it for a little over three hours.

But with both the magic broom and the thruster activated simultaneously, coupled with the consumption of her own Light Body Spell, inside and out, it would still deduct two points of mana from her every minute.

Her current 220 mana points were only enough for continuous flight lasting slightly less than two hours.

It seemed she still needed to upgrade more and add more points into Spirit.

Only this way could her mana points rise.

It was just that the space right now was slightly small. Once the mana tide ended, she would go fly outside and see what it felt like to soar across the boundless, expansive sky.

The Tower: "What are these speeds? I feel the speed discrepancies between the three gears are immensely huge."

After 'test flying' for a period of time and having her fill of fun, Lan Qingyou returning to the third floor. Sitting down, she took out her card and asked The Chariot regarding the thruster.

The Chariot: "If calculated according to Blue Star's vehicle speeds, 1st gear is roughly 10 kilometers per hour, meaning around 2.8 meters per second. 2nd gear is roughly 50 kilometers per hour, meaning around 13.89 meters per second. 3rd gear is roughly 100 kilometers per hour, meaning around 28 meters per second."

The Tower: "The output is actually quite massive."

The Chariot: "But the consumption is equally massive, consuming 4 points per minute."

The Tower: "Is it massive? I feel this tiny bit of consumption doesn't even count as an issue to us, right?"

The Chariot: "Haha, I suppose. At the very least, this consumption is nothing to you and The High Priestess."

Indeed. Since one could produce mana potions, and the other could produce magic crystals.

At the very least, these two wouldn't face any restrictions whatsoever concerning mana.

Lan Qingyou expressed her agreement regarding this, subsequently sending the other party a photo of her magic broom with the thruster installed.

The Chariot: "What did you install it on this thing for?"

After looking at the photo, The Chariot felt somewhat puzzled.

Originally, he assumed Lan Qingyou wanted a thruster to tow something. In the end, he never expected she'd mount it onto a broom.

The Tower: "I'm a witch, so naturally I have to fly riding a broom, right? This is a classic stereotype after all!"

The Chariot: "No, its output cannot achieve the degree of 'flying' you're speaking of."

As a mechanical fanatic, he naturally knew about the legend of 'with enough thrust, even a brick can fly'.

But he understood the items he created very well.

Let alone providing enough thrust to make a brick fly, the thruster's engine would have difficulty even breaking past a 100 km/h output.

The Tower: "Haha, this involves my talent! But there's nothing I can't say. My talent is a talent capable of making people and objects fly, which is why I can fly in the midair."

Anyhow, Helles had already witnessed matters concerning her flight in midair, thus Lan Qingyou openly and generously described her talent in extremely broad terms.

The Chariot: "If that's the case, why don't I just improve it further so you can fly through the sky even more comfortably."

The Chariot thought that since the other party was an existence capable of flying through the sky, couldn't he install some extra things onto it?

That's right.

This kid was using Lan Qingyou as his experimental subject.