Chapter 1 Did It Work?

Shi Feng looked at the mana surging wildly from the power source before him, a little nervous.

The most difficult part of building an airship was the power source. Once that was solved, the rest would be much easier. It was just a matter of manpower, but with the strength of the Candlelight Trading Firm, building one airship, let alone two or three simultaneously, wouldn't be a problem.

As the surging mana calmed, a power source covered in magic arrays appeared before Shi Feng. The surrounding mana was involuntarily converging towards the power source, and the sheer amount of mana increased the mana density in the room considerably.

"Great! It's done!" Shi Feng's face lit up with joy.

This wasn't the first time he had created a power source. If the creation failed, the power source's mana would be unstable, but if it stabilized, it meant the creation was a success.

In other words, building the Scarlet Dragon Airship was now a certainty.

Moreover, the mana density in the room was beyond his expectations, far exceeding even a third of what was needed to create a Bronze-rank Guardian Puppet's power source.

The power source was the heart of the machine, and the machine's strength largely depended on this heart.

Shi Feng immediately appraised the power source.

System: Congratulations to player for creating a Bronze-rank Airship Power Source. You have gained 1,000 Forging Proficiency and 40 million experience points.

"The Dragon Blood Crystal's effect is this strong?" Shi Feng's eyes burned as he looked at the system appraisal.

He had originally thought that successfully creating it would be good enough, but the Dragon Blood Crystal had forcibly upgraded it to a Bronze-rank power source.

The power source was the heart of the airship. Generally, Bronze-rank airships used Bronze-rank power sources as their core. If a common-rank airship were equipped with a Bronze-rank power source, it would definitely improve the airship's tier. After all, the materials used to build Bronze-rank and common-rank airships weren't that different; the main difference was the power source.

Thinking of this, Shi Feng immediately told Melancholic Smile to speed up the creation of the remaining parts.

Finally, after spending more than twenty hours, everyone completed the remaining parts of the airship. After receiving these parts, Shi Feng didn't assemble them inside the Candlelight Trading Firm. Instead, he used the Seven Luminaries Ring's teleportation to bring Melancholic Smile to a vast stone forest plain within White River City's jurisdiction.

Airships weren't small. They were larger than sailboats and couldn't fit inside a forging room. A very open space was needed. To prevent others from finding out, he could only choose to assemble it on this deserted plain.

There were many parts to the airship. Normally, assembling them would take a day or two, but for Shi Feng and Melancholic Smile, who were already Advanced Forging Masters, it would take much less time. Especially since Shi Feng had the Soul Flame, which made the assembly even faster.

The two of them spent just over ten hours, and the airship was assembled.

A mechanized airship, over sixty meters long, nearly twenty meters tall, and entirely crimson, stood before Shi Feng and Melancholic Smile.

"This is an airship?" Melancholic Smile looked at the airship she had personally assembled, still finding it hard to believe.

It was too magnificent!

Even just looking at the Scarlet Dragon Airship from a distance gave people an indescribable shock.

Just imagining this steel behemoth flying in the sky, with those huge Transcendental-rank flying mounts looking like mere infants, and the Scarlet Dragon Airship's eight magic-guided cannons and one magic crystal main cannon, players and monsters alike would be insignificant.

Shi Feng also looked at the Scarlet Dragon Airship, deeply moved.

Scarlet Dragon Airship, Advanced Airship, Maximum Capacity: 130 people, Durability 50,000/50,000, Tier 3 Advanced Defense.

Item Storage: Can store 20,000 slots of items, 800 unstackable items.

Skill 1: Magic Shield, absorbs up to 50 million damage, lasts 10 minutes, cooldown 10 minutes.

Skill 2: Magic-Guided Pulse Cannon, range 4,000 yards, deals Tier 4 Destruction damage to a radius of 50 yards, cooldown 45 seconds. (Equipped with eight cannons, can be increased to twelve)

Skill 3: Magic-Guided Spirit Force, range 5,000 yards, deals Tier 4 Peak Holy damage to a radius of 200 yards, cooldown 5 minutes.

Skill 4: Mana Domain, disrupts mana within a radius of 2,000 yards, weakens magic damage from below Tier 4, increases speed by 30%, lasts 5 minutes, cooldown 20 minutes, consumes 300 magic crystals per activation.

Because the power source had reached Bronze-rank, the assembled Scarlet Dragon Airship had also reached Advanced level, possessing speed surpassing Transcendental-rank flying mounts. The cannons' power and defense had also increased by one tier, giving it the strength to contend with Tier 4 Mythic monsters.

In his previous life, if his guild had had such an Advanced airship, the outcome would have been very different. Even if they couldn't challenge the super forces of the time, they could at least make first-rate guilds wary. Tier 4 experts would have to run.

"Guild Leader, if the super forces on Dragonheart Island knew we had the Scarlet Dragon Airship, they would all be green with envy," Melancholic Smile said, clicking her tongue as she looked at the Scarlet Dragon Airship's stats.

Having built the Hell Chariot, she understood the power of the Scarlet Dragon Airship.

Ignoring the terrifying cannon power, the Tier 3 Advanced armor alone made Tier 4 and below attacks useless. It could be said that without Tier 4 Legendary power, the Scarlet Dragon Airship couldn't be harmed at all. And even if they reached Tier 4 and could harm the Scarlet Dragon Airship, with its 50,000 durability, it would take a long time to destroy it.

"They'll do more than just be envious, they'll probably go crazy over it," Shi Feng said with a smile.

Melancholic Smile was a Lifestyle player, not an adventure-fighting player, so she didn't understand what an airship that could contend with Tier 4 Legends represented.

It meant that players could freely traverse most parts of God's Domain without the many restrictions of flying mounts and without worrying about those powerful flying monsters. Whether it was taking players to level up or transporting the increasingly precious unstackable materials, it would bring unimaginable advantages.

Unstackable materials were no longer limited to creating various war weapons, buildings, and ships. Even players' weapons and equipment were starting to use unstackable materials, especially those Level 100+ Mithril-grade weapons and equipment. More and more unstackable materials would be used to make them, which was why maritime transport trade was so prosperous and Level 100+ Mithril-grade weapons and equipment were so expensive in his previous life.

"But building this Scarlet Dragon Airship consumed too many materials. With our current material collection ability, even if we go all out, it will probably take six or seven days to gather the materials for the second one. As for the materials for the third one, it will depend on luck," Melancholic Smile said, filled with confidence in the Scarlet Dragon Airship.

If they could manufacture a large batch now, Zero Wing would definitely be able to dominate in God's Domain. However, the Scarlet Dragon Airship's manufacturing materials were too precious, and some materials were unstackable, making transportation quite troublesome and time-consuming. If it weren't for the Candlelight Trading Firm headquarters having a lot of stock, they probably wouldn't even be able to build this first Scarlet Dragon Airship.

"In any case, try to collect as much as possible. The more we can build now, the better," Shi Feng said.

Just as Shi Feng finished speaking, a message notification suddenly rang in his ears. The message came from none other than Unyielding Soul's Guild Leader, Dark Sin, who was also the maritime guild secretly controlled by Zero Wing in the Apocalypse Empire.

After opening the message sent by Dark Sin, Shi Feng couldn't help but frown slightly.

"Guild Leader, what's wrong?" Melancholic Smile asked curiously, seeing that Shi Feng's mood was obviously not good after reading the message.

"There's been some trouble with the Freedom Alliance in the Ending Sea, which has caused problems with the materials that Unyielding Soul has been transporting from the Ending Sea, as they've been cooperating with the Freedom Alliance," Shi Feng said slowly. "The Freedom Alliance is now inviting representatives from various cooperating guilds to go there, and Dark Sin hopes that we can also send a representative to see what's going on."

Unyielding Soul had always been Zero Wing's guild for secretly collecting and transporting various maritime resources, especially the materials from the Ending Sea, which included many materials for making ships and Level 90+ Dark-Gold weapons and equipment.

If the materials from the Ending Sea couldn't be obtained, the loss to Zero Wing would be considerable, which was why Dark Sin hoped that he could send someone there.

"Then I'll go. These materials are related to the Candlelight Trading Firm's various products. If they're gone, the Candlelight Trading Firm's income will definitely decrease significantly," Melancholic Smile proactively suggested.

"Forget it, I'll go. You should prioritize collecting the materials for building the Scarlet Dragon Airship; that's the top priority," Shi Feng shook his head, planning to go there himself.

The airship was Zero Wing's top priority. It was not only related to income but also to the control of Cold Spring Canyon. Otherwise, simply relying on the Knight Order's five thousand people to control the vast Cold Spring Canyon would be a pipe dream. The airship's mobility was unmatched, even surpassing flying mounts by a large margin. Not to mention combat power, it could easily crush Tier 3 experts.

And in terms of collecting materials, he couldn't compare to Melancholic Smile. After all, Melancholic Smile was already familiar with the Candlelight Trading Firm and various channels.

"Then I'll arrange for the members to collect the materials now," Melancholic Smile didn't say anything else. Shi Feng, as the Guild Leader, was naturally more suitable to represent Zero Wing, and she didn't have that much energy to handle this matter while collecting materials.

Afterward, Melancholic Smile took out a Return Scroll and returned to White River City, while Shi Feng also used the Epic-grade backpack to store the Scarlet Dragon Airship and headed straight to the Apocalypse Empire.