But as they continued to fly forward, the space around them suddenly became directional, as if a gravity force suddenly appeared on their bodies.

If nothing unexpected happens, the direction of gravity should be where the Eternal Furnace is, and the further forward you go, the stronger this force will become.

"Sure enough, this matter is more difficult to solve than we thought at first. According to the strength of this force, I'm afraid we need to accelerate to at least Mach 20 to have a chance of breaking out."

After trying twice, Carl allowed the force to pull him back to a certain limit and told Hope and Midris his thoughts.

The two birds chirped clearly. Although Carl did not understand the language of the beasts, he used his psychic powers to immediately understand what they wanted to express.

"Not for now. When I first built the spaceship, I didn't consider allowing it to reach a speed of Mach 20 in such an environment. Mach 20... Even Ultraman can't reach this speed in the atmosphere!"

After saying the first half of the sentence, Carl complained in his mind about his estimated escape velocity.

In a world with magic, there are definitely many more people studying space shuttle technology than those studying how to accelerate spacecraft and missiles.

After all, the former is just too convenient, and although the latter has a kind of powerful beauty, it is not on the subject of most mages.

Seeing the silence, Hope turned into a flying bird and landed on Carl's shoulder. He tilted his head and called twice, as if asking Carl: "What should we do?"

"Let's go back to the spaceship first. If it doesn't work, just abandon the spaceship. The Shuttler still has a chance of reaching this speed."

After comforting Hope, Carl returned to the Shuttle with the two birds.

"Did you find anything?"

As soon as she landed, Nia asked anxiously.

Although everyone seemed to have accepted the possibility of living here for the rest of their lives, who would really be willing to return to the main plane if they could? Before Carl could explain, Hope and Mitris, who had returned to their original forms, had already recounted what Carl had just said.

After hearing this, Nia fell silent.

For the vast majority of mages, this is not good news.

"I will try to use my knowledge to help you improve the aircraft engine. Although the School of Transmutation focuses on alchemy, it also has transfiguration and other development directions."

Clenching her little fists, Nia looked at Karl with firm eyes.

This look made Carl feel guilty, because he himself was not sure that he could modify the spaceship to this extent.

"Let's try to renovate it first, but don't hold out too much hope for now. As the saying goes, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment."

After giving everyone a heads-up in advance, Carl maneuvered the shuttle back to the main body of the spacecraft.

Afterwards, Carl and Nia retreated to study, while the rest of the people began to work hard to practice their skills to prevent their strength from deteriorating.

…

On a deserted floating island, Tina, who had just woken up from a dream, looked around in a daze, her mind a little confused.

She felt as if she had dreamed of the sun, but there was no sun in the Elemental Plane of Air.

"It's very rare for a person to dream about something beyond their cognition. This dream must be unusual!"

Suddenly, Tina seemed to have thought of something, and she quickly got up and started rummaging through her adventure backpack.

This backpack is made of three dimensional bags. The opening in the middle is large, and the openings on both sides are small. It can hold many more items than ordinary dimensional bags.

Soon, Tina found the giant notebook in the backpack, and then dragged the notebook out from the largest opening of the backpack with some effort.

"The sun in the dream, guidance? Could it be that there is a clue to some treasure in this giant notebook left by our ancestors?"

When Tina thought of this possibility, her eyes almost sparkled with excitement.

The giant's treasure is one of the most famous treasure legends among all the planes, and Tina, who is wandering aimlessly, just needs a clear goal.

After soaking up the sudden joy for a moment, Tina took out some more things from her backpack and started to assemble them.

"I remember that in my dream, the sun seemed to be over here... and then..."

Tina placed a strange-looking compass-like object on the ground and turned it back and forth, as if measuring something.

However, after a long time, Tina still couldn't figure out the measurement.

"Woo~, if I had a good instructor, this wouldn't happen! Forget it, let's just fly over there!"

Frustrated, Tina put away the compass, put on her backpack, and got back on her glider.

After finding a rough object as a reference, she started the glider and flew into the blue sky again.

The cool wind blew her light golden hair again, but Tina now had her own direction to move forward.

Amid the roar of the glider's engine, Tina crashed straight into a cloud of mist and then flew out of it.

In this way, Tina enthusiastically embarked on her first treasure hunting journey, and this flight lasted for a week.

…One week later…

It turns out that treasure hunting is not a thrilling journey from beginning to end.

Especially treasure hunting in a vast and sparsely populated place like the Elemental Plane of Air.

For a whole week, Tina broke into the monster's lair and was chased by hippogriffs and demon bats.

However, until now, she has not found a clue that can clearly indicate that there may be giant ruins in the direction she is heading.

If she hadn't occasionally seen the sun in her dreams, Tina would have given up her original idea long ago.

But even so, she had serious doubts about her initial decision.

On this day, she was flying the glider as bored as usual, preparing to continue heading towards the position of the sun she had dreamed of last night.

After a long period of flying, she no longer felt the novelty of flying a plane, but her flying skills became more and more sophisticated, and she could even make quite fancy evasive maneuvers in the air.

"Ha~yawn~, is this really the right thing to do? Am I going to spend my entire life trying to find a giant treasure that doesn't actually exist? Should I turn back now? Maybe life on the floating island isn't as boring as I first imagined..."

Looking at the sky ahead, Tina talked to herself, and her mental state seemed somewhat worrying.

But just as Tina turned the joystick slightly and tried to turn, a shrill cry came from the sky from far away.

Before Tina could react, a figure mixed with white and brown quickly came to the side of her glider and pecked through the right wing of the glider with its sharp beak.

It was a griffin, a griffin trying to hunt.

(End of this chapter)