Although many of Lassman's puppets used "round" wheels as a power output method, most of them used spider legs, horse legs, or other oddly-shaped designs. This was naturally because the "magic crystal" was difficult to stabilize. If the stability of the stabilizer was insufficient, then the result of using the wheels was that the vehicle would not be able to control its own speed, and eventually lose control and crash into each other. Therefore, these things could only be collectively called "vehicle puppets" and not "cars" …
After countless lessons, only Ballenner and the Moffett Academy, which were best at puppets, dared to use round wheels, and they were also the hot favorites to win the competition. In order to let the "stabilizer" dissipate heat adequately, all the vehicles were basically exposed with various kinds of heat dissipating metal pieces and even liquid-cooled metal pipes. These "vehicle puppets" were generally more than two meters tall, and every one of them had seven or eight mages constantly adjusting them.
What about Roddy? He directly placed the "Firebolt" on a cart and used four horses to enter the arena. When he came in to verify the participation procedures, the "Firebolt" covered with a huge gray cloth made it difficult for people to associate it with a "vehicle puppet".
Because in terms of size, the "Firebolt" was like a cat squatting next to an elephant.
The mages in the audience gradually understood Roddy's identity, but this made their discussion even more heated. A "rich man", a "nouveau riche", who would believe that he would be competitive when he insisted on participating in this competition without any preparation?
"There are still five minutes before the competition begins. Contestants, please make your final preparations!"
As Roddy removed the gray cloth on the surface of the "Firebolt", the audience instantly burst into laughter. There was no other reason: this vehicle puppet was too small, and even the stabilizer could not be stuffed inside. Furthermore, it was using round tires. Was it going to crash into the arena at the beginning of the competition?
"But although this thing is not reliable, its appearance is really simple."
"Three wheels? Moffett Academy's' Karen No. 5 'uses eight wheels. This strange-looking thing will probably be finished in less than a kilometer. "
"I bet five hundred meters. It doesn't have any heat dissipating device. It will directly destroy the magic circle after running five hundred meters. This is impossible."
Listening to the discussion around her, Evelyn turned her head and said to Doris, "Looks like your plan will succeed soon. Men who fail always want someone to comfort them, don't they?"
Doris immediately nodded with a charming smile.
However, while most of the mages were laughing at Roddy, Speaker Jeremy, who was at the front of the audience, frowned slightly. He stared at Roddy's tricycle. As a Puppeteer, his senses allowed him to tell that the item was highly complete. It was definitely not a toy that had been put together at the last minute. Furthermore, the Firebolt looked simple, but in fact, the complicated mechanism was wrapped inside. All that was left on the outside was a simple and streamlined shell and tail fin. The only thing that could be seen was the "suspension" structure of the front and rear wheels, but Jeremy was quite far away and couldn't confirm what it was. He still had to control the floating space tower later, so it wasn't convenient for him to go over and check.
Not far away from him, Barrenna's Senator Rotica stared ahead with listless eyes. It was obvious that his mind was not on the competition. After all, the words "selling all cobalt mines" had been too damaging, and he hadn't been able to sleep well for the past few days.
The power system and Magic crystal of Roddy's Firebolt were verified by the referee on the spot, indicating that it was allowed to participate in the competition. When Roddy personally pushed the tricycle to the starting line, the surrounding spectators naturally burst into laughter.
The crowd on the floating space tower gradually quietened down. As the announcement of "One minute until the start of the competition, all unrelated personnel are to leave the arena" rang throughout the arena, the tower also began to enter the energy infusion stage. With a muffled rumble, the ground where the entire audience was started to rise, and under Jeremy's control, it floated steadily at a height of 20 meters.
"Countdown begins!"
There was no slogan or countdown. Instead, they used a row of magic lamps that floated in front of the arena. These lamps changed from red to orange as the magic circle switched. At this moment, all the "vehicle puppets" were emitting all kinds of roars. The drivers on the vehicles were also tightly gripping the control stick in their hands with full concentration.
Five seconds later, all the lamps were suddenly extinguished, signifying the official start of the competition.
There was no intense start like in Roddy's impression of an F1 race. The remaining 47 construction puppets in his field of vision first emitted a deafening noise after their energy was transferred through the stabilizers. But after a long time, no one really rushed out. Instead, all the puppets began to move slowly like an elderly person in a wheelchair.
That was because the intense energy transfer from the Magic crystal had to first be "stabilized" by the stabilizers. Therefore, the loud noise was basically emitted by the rapidly operating radiators. The heat rose up, causing the air above the puppets to distort.
After the energy was stabilized, the construction puppets with many "legs" started to move the fastest. Their footsteps produced a piercing sound of friction on the floor, and they quickly broke away from the main formation, quickly forming the first group.
Behind them, the wheeled construction puppets of Barrenna and Moffett Academy, started at a steady pace, like a slowly accelerating train on the track. The third group was made up of the contestants from the small countries whose names Roddy could not remember. Of course, this included Roddy.
In fact, Roddy did not start at all. He reclined in his seat and rested his arm on the diamond-shaped leather armrest, looking at the messy "main group" in front of him in a daze. Because he suddenly felt that driving the "Fire Crossbow" to participate in this kind of competition was a bit like shooting a mosquito with an anti-aircraft gun.
The length of the entire square was about 600 meters. More than a minute had passed, and the spider puppet in the lead was the first to enter the track. The huge puppets behind it were left behind by 30 to 40 meters. Obviously, because of their heavy weight, the acceleration process was greatly slowed down.
"Maybe it will perform better when it speeds up?"
Roddy guessed, but he also felt that this thing could not reach 60 kilometers per hour even if it accelerated to the top. But he could clearly see that some of the machines used something similar to a "gearbox". It seemed that Lachman's industrial research should be better than the Kingdom of Karen's, right?
At this time, only his car was left on the starting line. When the last construction puppet disappeared around the corner of the track, the audience on both sides began to laugh unabashedly.
The Floating-Space Tower in the sky also rose and began to chase after the construction puppets in front of it. Obviously, these mages had already decided that Roddy was just here for show.
"Tsk tsk, the whole journey is 93 kilometers, almost catching up to the Fifth Ring."
Roddy sighed to himself. He put down the specially designed "handbrake" and pushed the starting lever. When the charging crystal buzzed to life, he fixed the two adjustable shock absorber in "street mode". Then he held the steering handle with his left hand and pulled the "accelerator" lever with his right.
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