Chapter 27: Journey to the East part 2
Continental Isle ‘shores’
Flying Fortress
In just a few days Sera Hawke started getting attacked and harassed by Wyverns. Distant cousins of dragons albeit not as intelligent but their bodies still contain resources that are uncommon enough for even superpowers in this world.
“alright people I will disable the shield on top of the Flying Fortress I want you to kill any and all stragglers that land!”
“yes my Lady!” replied by her servants
As soon as the shield was disabled Wyverns dive bombed the surface of the fortress to pick off some of its defendants for a quick meal but little did these Wyverns know that they were the ones being hunted.
“it must have been a very long time that a natural predator came around these parts to hunt Wyverns otherwise this things would not attack a Flying Fortress so blindly with such gusto” she said as she sat in her laboratory looking in front of her monitors.
All of her surviving servants have all broken through the Foundation Establishment stage and with this increase of power they could fly through the air with only one problem. And that is the sustainability of flying costs too much mana to fly and fight at the same time in prolonged periods,That is why either the defenders just stick to the ground as they hurl spells or use enchanted bows and arrows.
While Bellato and other servants who lean more to the physical aspect of magic flew close to the Wyvrerns to attack but glide down soon after while the ground forces make covering fire for them.
Wyverns are indeed somewhat powerful especially the adults but even then a grounded Wyvern is a dead Wyvern. The moment their dive bombing failed to snatch their targets they faced a plethora of spell from the defenders counterattacks.
The few dozen Wyverns could not even stand a chance against the coordinated attack of the defenders and that is without the mechanized jet fighters and Rail Guns joining the fight as Sera wanted to test and see the strength of her own force.
Sera was pleased to see that her investments in her test subjects paid off as the materials, ingredients and medicines were quite expensive if not rare just so she can test if it would harm the human body. Luckily for both Sera Hawke and the test subjects that the experiment is a staggering success.
She saw everything from the monitors and said “bring them in the laboratory for processing freeze them a little bit first so that their blood and guts don’t make a mess”
“yes my Lady”
After the fight sera enabled the shield once again and went to the kitchen to get some food as she would be too busy to eat later when she became immersed in her work.
There were only 30 Wyverns that could be killed or captured alive while the rest managed to escape most of them were adept in wind magic and fire magic which most probably inherited from their Dragon ancestors.
Their scales, bones, fangs, claws are more sturdy than steel while maintaining some flexibility at the same time being compatible with magic.
Its skin is very very smooth while being sturdy Sera can already imagine having clothes as smooth and as comfortable as Wyvern leather while still being highly compatible to magic.
“heh so much fashion potential as much as to its function” she thought as could not wait to hunt down more Wyverns to be harvested.
In the following days the Flying Fortress received hundreds of attack from Wyverns and due to their immense numbers Sera could not open the shield due to her fear that there would be casualties since her servants could not fly continuously and maintain air supremacy.
They could only open up the shield whenever there are around a hundred Wyverns attacking since this number is still within their tolerable range but just to be safe Sera deployed the mechanized jet fighters which mimics the designs of the jet fighters back on earth.
Most parts of the mechanized jet fighters are based on world war 2 design from earth but their power source and offense are heavily reliant on magic such as wind blade, fire ball and ice spear.
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The jets fighters engaged the Wyverns in combat in the air while the Knight Golems assist the servants in mid and close range combat. The fortress defenses like the Rail Guns fired non stop as they aimed at the Wyverns.
This type of battle has been happening for several weeks now and Sera is about to pull her hair out due to stress. At first she was happy that the Wyverns are coming directly to her saving her some time to chase them around. Only now she regrets it now that her fortress is being attacked relentlessly by this flying critters.
“Damn it, where are they coming from!? there is only a vast expanse of shallow waters here”
Sera took the Flying Fortress to the maximum altitude of 100,000 feet above sea level and beyond the clouds Sera Hawke could see a gigantic Island floating high above the clouds!
Since the speed of the Flying Fortress and the Floating Island seemed to be almost the same Sera could not find the chance to escape and decided to go on an all out offensive by deploying all of the mechanized jet fighters and supported by the Knight Golems and Sentinels while the Servants became busy transporting the dead Wyverns to be processed down in the laboratory.
This seemingly unending battle took 5 days to calm down at that point Sera Hawke and her servants are extremely stressed out and are dead tired on their feet. Wreckage of the Golems and jet fighters along with the piles of dead Wyverns littered the Flying Fortress, several structures were destroyed and half of her garden which is their current source of renewable food has been dug up by blast craters or have been trampled by the crash landed Wyverns.
Sera and the rest of her servants slept for a whole day without interruption while the Golems fixed the damages on the premises along with repairing and or recycling old parts from the mechanized jet fighters without the need of being ordered on what to do. Sera made sure that everything functions properly despite the possibility that she could not attend to her property for extended periods of time just like the Stone City back at the Untamed Forested Mountains.
Another week passed by and the Flying Fortress has been fully repaired even if some nicks and dings could still be seen in some parts of the structures they were fortunately negligible and Sera could not be bothered to fix everything to perfection. As long as things work properly exactly as intended she had no qualms about appearances.
At the distance of 5 kilometers Sera spied on the floating island through the jet fighters and had them transform into mechs as they made landfall to investigate the place. It did not take long for her to conclude that this place is extremely ancient to say the least judging from the stones and trees in the forest alone.
One can feel that this place has endured the vicissitudes of time, what bothers Sera Hawke now is if this floating island artificial or a natural phenomena of this world full of magic and strange creatures.
The island has a forest full of different trees with unique properties some fruits could be a medicine capable of increasing her strength and help her in cultivation while the other trees are simply sturdy, sturdy beyond reason for a piece of wood.
A quick scan shows an abundant amount of wildlife which is mostly comprised of magical beasts. Fortunately the current scouting mechs have not yet seen any creatures of lifeforms that exceed the strength of a Core Formation cultivator,
The current report of the scouts made Sera Hawke’s body tingle almost akin to an orgasm. Should it be proven that this floating island poses no danger to her, then she could easily claim this land as her own.
“Unbelievable! Who could have built this place? The trees are definitely planted with intention. So at the very least I can deduce that there have been some people here before but who?” Sera thought
She continued “ the trees could possibly come from the Elves but floating islands are not their forte as they wanted their feet firm on the ground, the Dwarves would not let this opportunity to pass by to fill this place with stone works and metallurgy, it could not be humans either as knowledge of magic to this degree has yet to be reached at the time could it?, and it was most definite that it was not the Elves and Dwarves working together in this case since the Dwaves guard their knowledge so jealously”
With this thought in mind Sera maintained alertness and readied herself for combat at a moments notice. Due to the limited numbers of the mechanized jet fighters she retrofitted the Knight Golems with temporary wings since Sera did not want to get too close to the unknown island and maintained the distance of 5 kilometers.
After a few more days of exploring Sera found out more information about the island.
“the number of magical beast species alone in this island is quite astounding not to mention the magical plants and mineral fields that is so rich they are sticking out of the ground! Now I’m definitely sure that this is someone’s property. If there are signs of recent human activities I would just take some 'souvenirs' back home and leave this place, but if it belongs to nobody…. hehehe!” she exclaimed
The floating island is currently crawling with Knight Golems not only scouting and searching for dangers that could threaten Sera Hawke but also signs of recent activities from the potential owners of this place.
As the days pass by the possibility that this place has long been abandoned has been increasing day by day but even then Sera never let her guard down since if this place is really abandoned then by logic there is no need to hurry and on the other hand by being careful she loses nothing. It was not like she is in a hurry to her journey towards the Eastern Continent.
At this time it has been a month since she discovered the mysterious floating island and she still has not found any signs of possible dangers or any recent activities of other people.
“maybe this is really an abandoned resource node?” she thought but clearly doubted herself a little
After weeks has passed and exploring most of the outer perimeter of the island Sera could wait no longer and gathered the Sentinels in her spatial pouch and entered Banshee as she decided to lead the investigation herself by personally going inside the floating island.
The Flying Fortress went closer and closer the floating island and ignored the sparse attacks of flying magical beasts. Sera is confident that even if several Nascent Soul level magical beasts appear she could fight them on a standstill and eventually win a battle of attrition because of the hundreds of Rail Guns supporting her from the Flying Fortress.
Even if the Rail Guns’ offensive strength could only be considered as a sucker punch by the Nascent Soul level beings. but still, being bombarded by several hundred sucker punches would still be a threat to their lives if they are not careful.
Back at their escape from Kaladia City this has been proven that Rail Guns could hit hard enough to push Nascent Souls back even if they were uninjured by the first few volleys the fact alone that they needed to defend themselves proves quite a lot.
“no wall carvings, no cave paintings, no ruins, no tools. What IS this place!?” sera said with a frown
“The plants is here clearly by design but this place have been abandoned for a very long time. The resources has been left unharvested”
There are many theories and explanation that instantly popped up in Sera’s mind but all of them are quite far fetched even for this world of magic.
As a precaution she took a small portion of each resources back to the Flying Fortress just in case somebody came and shoo her away or if some kind of magical beast suddenly awaken from its deep slumber or return from a very long flight.
“regardless if this place is safe or not I’d rather not risk it, with the amount of resources I have gathered it should be enough for me and my servants to breakthrough the Nascent Soul level and even have several extra portions”
She uprooted ancient trees since she needed to replant them and grow her own batch of magical plants for the future, the protruding minerals such as high quality Control Crystals and Mana stones were quickly harvested as well. But Sera was not greedy as she only took the few high quality ones while the rest were left untouched.
Sera wanted to hunt some magical beasts for her collection but due to the lack of time she just decided to leave it be. At the end of the day if this place did not have an owner Sera would be coming back to claim ownership of this place.
In this mysterious unknown floating island that for some reason creeped her out Sera decided to cut her visit short of this place short due to several unknown factors that she may be unprepared to face. And without further ado after the small but quite abundant harvest. Before leaving the floating island Sera Hawke left multiple tracking devices buried in various places to track this resource rich place.
She then steered the Flying Fortress to move in a different direction and in a roundabout way to continue her journey to the Eastern Continent.