Chapter 3067: Wind Accumulation Sprint, Ground Effect Flight

When it comes to flight posture adjustment techniques, Xia Duo is not exactly outstanding; after all, he is actually controlling an unfamiliar Golden Dragon body. But when it comes to the ability to control airflow, he can confidently say that he is not inferior to a Golden Dragon!

Among the bloodline abilities he awakened is Wind Element Control, which happens to cover airflow control, and even goes deeper.

Just now at the starting point, Xia Duo saw other Golden Dragons using Dragon Wing Armament to assist in breaking the wind, which is indeed less strenuous than doing it himself, but the main reason is still that Golden Dragons have an upper limit to their airflow control.

They are different from Xia Duo; they do not possess bloodline abilities related to the wind element and can only rely on Magic or equipment for assistance, but they can only slightly optimize the flight environment.

Yet Xia Duo can go as far as reconstructing the nearby wind field, and even while flying at high speeds, he can manage to create a more suitable environment for himself.

When Xia Duo arrived before the Irregular Wind Field, Xintuosi was already reminding him to slow down, but he did not slow down in the slightest; instead, he gave the other party a confident look and then charged straight into the wind field's range.

The next moment, Xia Duo actually had a feeling of sudden stalling; the strangely changing airflow shattered the Wind Element Domain he had maintained from the starting point until now.

The surrounding airflow seemed to be under the control of someone else, becoming uncontrollable.

Fortunately, Golden Dragon flight does not rely solely on airflow; even in a vacuum, a Golden Dragon can fly. It was precisely thanks to this motive force that Xia Duo barely stabilized his Wind Element Domain, though his speed inevitably dropped.

And at that time, Xintuosi, who had entered the Irregular Wind Field before him, had already caught up. The domain he maintained was not stronger than Xia Duo's, but by relying on his own superb flight posture adjustment techniques, he made up for it in areas where the elemental domain could not reach.

Xintuosi had already begun to move, and Xia Duo could not drag his feet too much; he hurriedly adjusted his posture to follow Xintuosi, while also constantly observing the other party's various responses to the irregular airflow.

Among those individual events, what Xia Duo is best at is not the Large-angle Return, but rather the Ultra-low Altitude Flight; this event is also the only one where he is able not to drag Xintuosi down.

Although he has only been in contact with this sport for a very short time, Xia Duo has already fallen deeply in love with it; flying with the wind is truly comfortable!

The reason is very simple: he made full use of the Ground Effect Flight Principles, greatly increasing his flight speed, and because he flew lower, he drew unanimous cheers from the Golden Dragons watching the race from high altitude.

He even utilized the wind field in reverse to accelerate; this scene made Xia Duo extremely impressed.

In the wind tunnel, headwind, side-slanting wind, and other fixed-direction airflows appeared from time to time, sometimes for only an instant, sometimes lasting for several seconds. Xintuosi also kept reminding him, continuously increasing the intensity of the instruction.

Weila is actually quite fast; she has already lapped us at least ten times.

Although the Golden Dragon City District's City-wide Grand Slam periodically designs different races, the design logic is indeed roughly fixed; the beginning will go through all the individual events once, which is also to liven up the atmosphere for the participants.

Large-angle Return is actually just turning, similar to a shuttle run on the ground, but because it is a flight race, it is impossible to achieve a 180-degree turn like a tight "U" shape; instead, it requires tracing a relatively large semi-circular trajectory.

If the race did not restrict Magic, then this stage should be the simplest for Xia Duo; as long as he uses a levitation Spell to reconstruct his own gravity and inertia, even a straight 180-degree turn would not be impossible.

After saying this, Xintuosi flapped his wings, and his speed visibly increased.

At the very beginning, the wind tunnel constructed by Xintuosi was calm, but upon noticing that Xia Duo was under no pressure at all, it soon began to become "leaky."

The Irregular Wind Field in the race soon ended, and they arrived at the Large-angle Return stage.

This was likely the only highlight moment for Xia Duo in this race.

Originally, to perform a 180-degree return during high-speed flight, the speed would change drastically; usually, one needs to decelerate first and then accelerate. If one does not decelerate, the radius of the return trajectory might become ridiculously large.

Watching Xintuosi's figure rapidly move away and then become smaller bit by bit, Xia Duo sighed helplessly in his heart; the gap is truly too large.

Fortunately, Xia Duo had already come into contact with Wind Accumulation Sprint when he was learning to fly as a dragon; besides being used in Large-angle Returns, it can also be used during headwind flight.

To return at the fastest speed, one must decelerate first, but they start accumulating wind power while decelerating, and then use this temporarily accumulated wind power to perform a short burst of acceleration during the turn.

……

And now, Xia Duo is still following behind Xintuosi, learning how to perform a Wind Accumulation Sprint.

Although the Golden Dragons have not studied the Knowledge of inertia, they have also groped out similar laws.

Afterward, it is the Composite Event.

Very soon, Xia Duo completed all the fixed wind field training, but that was only a beginning; the real Irregular Wind Field is even more complex, and there is not much time left to train now.

At the same time, he also used the Wind Element Domain to conduct more meticulous observations.

Under these circumstances, Xia Duo could not help but feel a bit worried. Fortunately, the first lap was nearing completion, so he hurriedly urged Xintuosi to hurry up and catch up, telling him not to worry about him anymore.

As he spoke, Xintuosi also lunged forward, flew in front of Xia Duo, and began to open up a wind tunnel; in fact, this is just constructing a relatively stable wind field behind him.

"Xia Duo, I will open up a wind tunnel in front; you follow behind and pay attention to my movements. I will gradually increase the difficulty; tell me in time when you reach your limit."

Afterward, in the Composite Event, Xintuosi still took him to fly together and taught him relevant techniques, but because he dragged his feet too much, Weila, who had caught up from behind, encountered us before we had finished the first lap.

However, merely finishing the whole course is not his goal; he also wants to fly as fast and as stably as possible.

Xintuosi was so confident in Xia Duo participating in the Headwind Racing previously, largely because Xia Duo had mastered the Wind Accumulation Sprint technique quite well.

It is a competition to see whose trajectory during the turn is shorter.

Afterward, under Xintuosi's lead, Xia Duo paid attention to experiencing events like Ultra-low Altitude Flight, maneuvering obstacle avoidance, and acceleration rings, while also temporarily cramming the response techniques for these events.

"Hmm, then I'll go first. Since this is your first time participating in the City-wide Grand Slam, don't think about any rankings; being able to finish the whole course is enough to win the respect of all your opponents."

Because both sides are flying at high speed, from the overall view, it looks like a tunnel.

Although doing this will also lose a certain amount of speed, it is still much faster than not using a Wind Accumulation Sprint.

Among the Golden Dragons, the Wind Accumulation Sprint has elements of both Magic and technique, but it leans more toward technique.

A full lap behind!

"You are a full lap behind Weila; if you don't catch up, you might really not be able to catch her."

This is actually a bit similar to a sailboat sailing against the wind.