If Rorschach were to understand the current affairs of Bair, he would be able to deduce many things just by looking at this silver-white speedboat.
Unfortunately, it wasn't just him, the other residents of Saul wouldn't be able to understand the news of a competition thousands of miles away, let alone the results of an insignificant speedboat race.
The Silver Flying Fish was a modified speedboat. The long and narrow ship didn't have any weapons, but it had a powerful engine. It was said that when it sprinted at full speed, it was like a flying fish gliding on water.
It was the double champion of the Kua Straits Type 3 Speedboat race, and was famous locally for its speedboat speed. It had priority in all of Bair's waters.
This priority wasn't because it was the fastest, but because … it was a possession of the royal family of Bair. It was the vessel of Princess Seviala, known as the Virtuous Lady of Bair, the treasure of the country.
As the seventh princess of Bair's royal family, she was only 19 years old this year, but she had already been in politics for 6 years. Her other brothers and sisters weren't very reliable, and she was one of the top three candidates for the next royal family.
In this era, the major countries all had their own military traditions. The weak personal strength of the prince would be eliminated from consideration as a successor right from the start. However, even though Seviala didn't have a military position, she was extremely skilled in politics, diplomacy, and economics. She had displayed her abilities in several major events and had vaguely earned the title of Virtuous Queen.
In a country rich in knights, this wasn't an easy task.
Due to historical reasons, this country revered wise kings. Thus, even though Seviala was favored, she had many enemies in the country.
But this time, she had just completed a private diplomatic mission. She had brought along the semi-artifact illusion amulet, chosen a unique personal appearance, and boarded a cruise ship to return home. She had even checked in on her own ship, and was on the way for a vacation. But in the end … she was probably cursed.
Fortunately, when the attack happened, she was sunbathing on the deck, and reacted immediately.
Although she was ambushed by assassins along the way, and two of her four knight squires were sacrificed, she still managed to find a way to escape … and successfully deceived a group of seemingly capable cannon fodder.
That's right. When Seviala saw how these people were still able to chat calmly amidst the chaos, she couldn't help but think of the strongest ancient knights among her dragon knights. They were able to remain calm at all times.
It was just that the odd half-wood spirit youth had a rather peculiar gaze, as if he could see through everything … But since everyone was on the same boat, they could only work together.
And now, it had been confirmed that all the attackers had turned around as soon as he escaped from the cruise ship. It seemed that he had implicated others again.
"I'm sorry. I don't have any other way now. If there's a chance in the future, I'll make it up to you."
She felt apologetic in her heart, but she wouldn't reveal any flaws. The young Seviala hadn't lived long enough yet.
But when he saw the scene in the hangar below, his apologetic feelings disappeared.
"… My silver war god!"
Right in front of her was a disassembled "corpse" of a water magic armor. Meanwhile, the culprit was still complaining to her.
"Tsk, damned rich people. They actually bought such a useless piece of magic armor."
At this moment, even Seviala, who had always been known for her good temper, felt her anger rising as she watched her beloved magic armor shatter into pieces.
However, Rorschach, who was currently disassembling the magic armor's components, truly thought so.
In the textbooks that he had studied, there was an introduction to water magic armors. They were truly useless.
In order to make it easier to travel at high speeds underwater, the water magic armor's lower body was that of a boat, while its upper body was that of a human. From afar, it looked just like an African driving a canoe.
Since the lower half of the armor needed to be equipped with large equipment such as underwater motors, magic engines, rudders, and so on, this type of magic armor was often unable to be heavily armed. However, the most useless aspect was still its functionality.
If you wanted combat strength, a heavily armed water magic armor would be able to fight underwater and on water after being waterproof. The only downside would be that it would be slightly less mobile.
If you wanted mobility, why didn't you just use a water magic armor? Flying in the air would be much faster than moving on water.
In the end, water magic armor became a transitional product. Only a few manufacturers were still mass producing it … so that surfers and rich people could enjoy the feeling of speed on the sea.
With a human body and a boat body, no matter how much one fell, nothing would happen. Even a novice would be able to fly.
Therefore, even though this little toy was basically unarmed and had mediocre performance, the materials used and the design were all very particular. As a luxury item and a nobleman among magic armors, the average person wouldn't be able to afford it.
"My Kalapor's 20th anniversary limited edition! There are only three of them in the entire world …"
This limited edition magic armor that was worth enough to buy a fast boat was disassembled into components just like that. Seviala couldn't even do anything about it, and this was only the beginning.
"Burp, what kind of wine is this? It tastes terrible."
As if he was thirsty, Rorschach directly took out a bottle of red wine from a small cabinet on the side. However, he spat it all out after just one sip.
"… You country bumpkin! This is Abyss wine that has been aged for 30 years. Just the materials alone cost more than the equivalent amount of gold! "
Unfortunately, Seviala could only continue to try her best to maintain the smile of a merchant and pretend that she didn't care at all. However, the twitching corners of her eyes revealed the secret in her heart.
"My real leather cushion! That's not a towel!"
"… Interior, can you leave the interior for me? That's a foreign nibbling handkerchief, not adhesive tape. It's all ruined."
"That's high-grade fuel mixed with inferno dragon blood … Forget it, do whatever you want."
"Stop looking around. There's nothing there except underwear. Why are you looking at me like that? Isn't it normal to have women's underwear on a boat? "
Seviala didn't say a single word, but her heart wasn't calm at all. The scene in front of her was constantly testing her patience.
Although her rationality told her that her life was the most important right now, seeing her beloved item that she couldn't even bear to use being taken out, destroyed, and used so casually … It was really a question as to how much of a woman's ideals existed.
"You two brats. I won't lower myself to your level."
If one only looked at their outer appearances, Ariel and Rorschach who were rummaging around and tearing apart things really did seem like two brats.
Finally, Seviala couldn't bear to watch any longer and went to the upper deck so that she wouldn't be annoyed by them.
But what she didn't know was that when she finally turned around and went upstairs, Rorschach couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"Ha, I really thought that she wouldn't be able to control herself and would rush over to tear me apart."
It would seem that her self-righteous illusion didn't have any effect on Rorschach at all. In fact, it even made Rorschach feel like he was intentionally teasing her.
Rorschach relaxed for a moment before he turned his attention back to proper business. Whether or not this magical armor could be magically modified would directly affect their lives.
"It's about time for the first test."
"Wait a moment. Let's make some safety preparations first."
"You're still worried about your own craftsmanship? It's not like we have magic energy pools. If you can't do it, you can go upstairs. "
"No no no, I'm referring to … Hermit, is Su Nanna still in the water? Why can't she learn it? It's fine, it's fine, I was just asking … Alright, let's start the test. "
Spellcasters had always been known as the masters of the battlefield.
The reason was actually very simple. There were two major advantages that determined everything.
First, they had a long shooting range. Only they could hit you, but you couldn't hit them. A war machine with zero consumption was naturally popular.
The second advantage was the most important one — a large killing range.
Snipers and rangers were able to shoot from far away. In fact, sharpshooters who specialized in shooting far exceeded ordinary mages. However, they were still unable to dominate the battlefield. The second advantage was actually very important.
Only with a large killing range could one truly defeat and destroy an army. Sporadic sniping would hardly affect the overall situation.
The treasure of the new generation of mages — Mage Magic Armor — also strengthened this ability.
An abundant mana pool and a long-range casting support system not only increased the killing power and killing range, it also solved the greatest weakness of a spellcaster — a lack of stamina.
A spellcaster with Mage Magic Armor was the king of war, the indisputable core of the battlefield.
And now, Rorschach's group was beginning to dismantle this king of war.
"Mana network connection OK."
"Dual nervous system construction complete. Beginning testing. 3, 2, 1, OK, no problems."
"Mana pool … No, the pipes need to be rebuilt."
"The second seat isn't comfortable to sit on? Just make do with it. After all, it's that merchant's treasure. You didn't see how much heartache he felt when we dismantled it. "
"What? It's because that stinky man used it that he's unhappy … Yep, I'm afraid that the truth is a little different from what you know. Aren't your dragon eyes able to see through illusions? What? He doesn't have any illusions … That's interesting. It's really an ordinary toy that can deceive dragon eyes. "
Rorschach and Ariel were the two main engineers, while Isabella and Sophie were the two mages from Star Knight Academy. Overall, the modifications went quite smoothly.
And thanks to the fact that they were towing this excellent racing boat, at least until the boat ran out of fuel, the pursuers would only be able to see the boat's exhaust. Rorschach was able to safely modify the Mage Magic Armor.
Actually, the modification of the Mage Magic Armor had already begun from the moment they entered this racing boat. After Rorschach proposed a modification plan for the Mage Magic Armor, Ariel confirmed that it was feasible. Several Star Knight Academy mages worked together to modify the Mage Magic Armor. Together with an excellent water magic armor, the modification process, which wasn't too difficult to begin with, went quite smoothly.
"… Will modifying this single-person Mage Magic Armor into a two-person Mage Magic Armor really solve our current problem?"
Sophie was unsure. Although this was theoretically possible, there was no precedent for this at all. Was it really worth wasting precious time on escaping?
"I'm sure, I'm sure. Don't you know that I can't lie?"
Rorschach was quite confident in himself, but it was difficult to say how much of his confidence would be true. This was a backup plan for the most dangerous moment. Back then, the Mage Magic Armor expert's evaluation was that "the theory is reliable, but the success rate in a real battle is no more than 30%." But now, since there was no plan with a higher success rate, they couldn't just sit around and wait for death.
As for how they would explain themselves to the others if they were "confident" that they would fail? They would think about it again if they failed. Perhaps they wouldn't even need to think about it if they failed.
The current problem was that the pursuers behind them would be impossible to deal with with with just the few people on this little boat.
With a war machine like the Mage Magic Armor, they would be able to throw out powerful attacks to eliminate the pursuers. But here was the problem. Although they had a good boat, they didn't have a licensed driver.
There were many mages on this boat, but they didn't have a single AOE cannon that they needed right now.
Ariel, the owner of the Mage Magic Armor, was a powerful Dragon Bloodline Mage. However, she wasn't very skilled at long-range magic. She mostly relied on the God Equipment Book of Ten Thousand Spells for her large-scale magic.
After successfully advancing to level 5, Ariel's Dragon Bloodline awakened once again. Although her physical appearance didn't change much, her Strength and Constitution had greatly increased. The strength and duration of her Dragon Bloodline Transformation had also increased … Fine then, it was quite obvious that she was leaning towards becoming a melee mage.
Considering her Dragon Bloodline, this was indeed the best choice. And in order to match her abilities, the Red Lotus Armor had already been modified twice. She removed the heavy defensive armor and added wings, mobility, and combat weapons … It couldn't be said that there was a problem with this choice. It could only be said that she was indeed getting further and further away from traditional mages.
Although her natural talent ability, Dragon Breath Destruction, was quite powerful, it obviously wasn't suitable for the current battlefield. She didn't have any suitable spells to use on such a battlefield.
Sophie was an elemental summoner. Summoned creatures would have limited abilities in such a situation, so she was eliminated from the very start. Although Isabella was also a mage … Yep, let's move on to the next mage.
Rorschach was capable of using forbidden spells. Rorschach's signature disaster-type magic would be incredibly powerful in terms of both damage and radius. Although he would need to rely on his God Equipment Tome to cast this forbidden spell, it would still be bound to him … but this place wasn't Ansolion.
Gold Elf mages could use abilities that wood spirit nature mages couldn't use. Rorschach had spell models but couldn't use them. Meanwhile, Ariel had the ability to cast spells but didn't have any suitable spell models.
"It'll be fine if the two of them work together."
This seemingly ridiculous idea actually gave me a way to think about it.
Originally, it would be incredibly difficult for two mages to work together to cast a spell. But, having two mages each provide a part of their power, making it so that only one person could cast a spell … It was possible to first consider transforming them into two-headed ogre mages. Under normal circumstances, this would be completely impossible.
However, the tools used by humans were originally the means to turn the impossible into the possible.
The mature technology of mage magic armor would allow the magic armor to fuse with the mage itself. The magic armor's mana pool would become the mage's external source of mana. The two of them would become one.
And, this seemingly ridiculous idea was to modify the magic armor so that a single-user magic armor could be used by two users.
The two users would connect with the magic armor and finally become a single mage, successfully casting a spell.
This sounded quite complicated, but the basic principle was to have Ariel use Rorschach's disaster-type forbidden spell through the magic armor's system.
This type of modification had never been done before (because there was no need for it. Anyone who could cast a spell could simply enter the magic armor). It had only been left as a possibility in an emergency plan.
"There's no problem in theory, but it'll be quite difficult to actually use the theoretical results on the first try."
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