Above The Sky
Chapter 571 - 571 540 UFO

571: Chapter 540: UFO…

No, it’s a Floating Stone Aircraft!

(2/3) 571: Chapter 540: UFO…

No, it’s a Floating Stone Aircraft!

(2/3) On the flight platforms, various types of flying vehicles and large transport aircraft were taking off and landing, creating quite a busy scene.

However, Terra had not made any significant breakthroughs in the field of massive transportation, or rather there was no need for it— all transport aircraft had a wingspan of only about fifty to sixty meters at most.

There were a total of eight flight platforms in the Imperial Capital, located at the entrance and exit of the Central Urban District, resembling the character for ‘early’; the part of the character that looks like ‘sun’ served as a vertical takeoff pad, while the cross-like part was the accelerated flight channel.

Of course, it wasn’t exactly the character for ‘early’, it was just an analogy.

It was part of the national logistics system of the Imperial Capital, a project that the Former Emperor had wanted to construct but never completed; now it was finished under Axel’s leadership.

The railway circle surrounding the Imperial Capital, along with the giant transport vehicles, ensured the supply of materials for the entire core urban area around the Imperial Capital.

Air transport was faster and could bring in resources from farther away; the authorities in the Imperial Capital were even considering adding four more large flight platforms to increase throughput.

Even so, the cost of things other than food in the Imperial Capital was very expensive.

And now, Ian, together with the Fairy Miss, and Tres’s squad, had arrived at the second military flight platform.

Then, he saw a UFO.

What is a UFO?

Plainly speaking, it is an unidentified flying object, which in a certain era on Earth referred specifically to the spacecraft of aliens, mostly disc-shaped with a thick center and thin edges.

And there, right in front of Ian, on the second flight platform of the Imperial Capital, was a flying craft that perfectly matched all the characteristics of a UFO—a disc-shaped flyer.

It was immensely large, with a diameter of over forty-five meters, its central area being an octagonal prism which was probably the observation cockpit, while the lower half was for transporting goods, hanging two tracked off-road transport vehicles— the entire disc-shaped flyer was thus silently hovering mid-air, extending a telescopic staircase, waiting for Ian and others to enter.

Ian was stunned for a long time; the thoughts, ideas, jokes, and various speculations that flashed through his mind could have made an ordinary person faint in an instant— but in the end, he still couldn’t figure out what was going on.

“Maybe this is some extraterrestrial legacy that was obtained during the previous era?

Because it is really handy, so it became universally equipped, and now the Terra civilization continues using it…”

Ian racked his brains guessing, but still did not understand why: “But why a disc?

How does it fly?

I don’t see any propulsion nozzles…

Maybe it would be feasible in space, but inside the atmosphere, doesn’t a disc-shaped flyer seem unreasonable…?”

While the young man was deep in thought, he noticed something.

That was, although there were no nozzles around the edge of the disc-shaped flyer, there were quite a few ‘Inscribed Floatstones’.

Floatstone, a peculiar mineral, has an entire series from low power level to high power level and quite many derivatives.

Ian’s Fairy Wings were made using ‘Levitating Dustsand’ and ‘Coldlight Floater Stone’, two floatstones related to Water Attribute Essence; they could unleash tremendous propulsion through the burst of Essence.

Generally, all floatstones were not greatly affected by gravity.

This was a substance that could, in normal circumstances, ignore one of the four fundamental forces.

Of course, not entirely, but the fact that it could superficially ignore part of it was already extremely absurd.

—Hey.

I’m being foolish, trying to discuss Earth’s physics in Terra.

Seeing the floatstones, Ian was immediately relieved because the shape of the UFO made him remember his previous life, making him forget that this world had superhuman forces like Spirit Energy and Essence.

The four fundamental forces?

Pffft.

Only Earthlings would care about that.

Who knows how many fundamental forces exist in the bizarre universe that Terra inhabits?

At the very least, Spirit Energy and Essence must be related to something unique in this universe, and so far Ian had not observed anything unrelated to Spirit Energy and Essence, be it materials or phenomena.

Even if Spirit Energy and Essence were originally one, this also suggests that at the very least, there’s a fifth fundamental force in Terra, a power of such level that supports all the extraordinary phenomena in the Terra universe.

But such things were far from what Ian could research at the moment.

After calming his emotions, the image Ian presented outside was actually just a very ordinary country bumpkin’s astonishment—no matter how talented he was, he still came from the remote area South Ridge.

It’s quite normal to have never seen the high-end floating stone aircraft of Imperial Capital, right?

At least Tres didn’t spot any flaws, he just smiled and said, “What do you think, quite shocking, isn’t it?

I was also shocked when I first saw it.

This is the new aircraft from the fifth-generation Sky Armor development group.”

“Originally, they planned on using the properties of floatstone to make the sixth-generation aerial armor suits, but they found out that the Alchemy Furnace Core couldn’t be miniaturized.

Forcing it to be small reduced the propulsion strength and durability below expectations—floatstone power units are more suited for operation outside the atmosphere, but that’s the dominion of True Dragons.”

“I don’t know much more than that, as many of the Armor Troop’s information is top secret; we only know some outdated news.”

“I can only say, it is indeed beyond my expectations.”

This time Ian wasn’t pretending; he really hadn’t expected it: “Are we taking this thing over there?”

The answer was, of course, affirmative.

The power of the floating stone aircraft was quite high, although difficult to miniaturize.

Its quiet operation was especially suitable for secret mission transportation or surprise assault insertions.

Ian and his group entered with Tres’s squad.

The Fae seemed quite indifferent to the shape of the aircraft as they had already seen countless peculiar-shaped flying machines; a mere disk shape wasn’t surprising to them.

Looking closely, indeed.

On the flight deck, there were many different types of flying vehicles: flying cars, cigar-shaped small airships, and regular fighters; but most were rows of Sky Armors, seventy-eight in total, among which three were obviously more powerful leaders’ machines.

The armed force on this flying deck alone was probably enough to start a small-scale war.

“Technology really has advanced, huh.”

Ian looked at those large and heavy triangular fighters that conformed to normal aerodynamics but were quite ponderous, and couldn’t help feeling like he’d walked into the wrong place: “Why are there so few fighters?

In terms of speed, the velocity of this shape of aircraft should be faster, right?”

“You mean the high-speed mobile fortress (MA)?” Tres looked at those giant fighters and nodded, “That’s true, they are also very powerful; high firepower and fast speed, but they cannot utilize a Sublimator’s full power like Sky Armor does, nor can they quickly land to support ground troops with a combined assault from the air.

Therefore, they are only useful for repelling Dragon Beasts and massive-scale wars.”

“However, I’ve heard that the reason our sixth-generation aerial armor is so difficult to produce is because they are developing a transformable fighter armor, regularly a mobile fortress, turning into armor when low-altitude suppression is needed, incorporating the strength of both forms.”

“But whether that’s true or not, who knows?”

After all, Tres was a junior member directly under Deputy Commander Frostmark, not short on sources, just that he spent too little time in the Knight Order of Inspectorate to know more than a vague outline of many things.

But this was already more than enough; Ian felt it was outrageous and couldn’t help thinking: “A transformable fighter?

Terra is really a magical place…”

In fact, for the locals, there was nothing magical about these things; they were merely Sublimators’ big toys.

Ordinary people trying to pilot these metal monsters would only end up crushed by the acceleration—Terra People were indeed very strong, but for the super high-speed Sky Armors that cruise at twice the speed of sound as a matter of course, it was somewhat laughable.

—Why so effortlessly make a bunch of machines with great flying power in Terra?

—Of course, because they don’t need to consider human tolerance, only the mechanical limit!

“The mechanical design philosophy of this strange place is different from Earth’s, after all, the ‘human’ as the core is no longer the same species.”

Once he settled on this idea, Ian shook his head slightly: “No wonder Terra’s culture and moral values are so different from Earth’s.”

With this in mind, they boarded the floating stone aircraft together.

Minutes later, after confirming all passengers and cargo were aboard, the floating stone aircraft, carrying two transport vehicles, quietly took off into deep space.

Headed for the Avak region at full speed.