bdsm-fiction 4. Young man, your baggage is too heavy. [2-in-1]
4. Young man, your baggage is too heavy. [2-in-1]
After a long while, the Blue Dragonfly slowly emerged from the clouds.
Wendell's steam-powered flying armor followed closely behind, carrying the Triceratops whale's burning crystal, with two huge whale carcasses hanging from its feet.
It gives one a sense of absurdity, like a small horse pulling a large cart...
Roya glanced down.
I always felt that this silver steam-powered flying armor was too rudimentary.
With limited power and fuel, a half-shell body, and no differential engine to control the flying armor, how does it achieve unmanned operation and carry such heavy loads?
Looking at Wendell's posture and expression, he did not use any extraordinary abilities in his starting stance, but maintained a cool and elegant demeanor throughout.
That's amazing!
Luo Ya thought to himself, even if he didn't manage to hook up with a rich woman, hooking up with a powerful goddess would be great too.
He suddenly felt that with the goddess's protection, being an airship hunter wasn't so bad.
Moreover, after witnessing Wendell's extraordinary power firsthand, Roya's own buried extraordinary spirit was now burning brightly.
He couldn't wait for his extraordinary talent to fully develop naturally; he desperately wanted to awaken as an extraordinary being!
To awaken early, in addition to special training, a massive amount of fuel resources must be poured in.
He can only hunt burning spirits as a hunter...
"I never imagined I would become a hunter one day. Rather than being the prey to be hunted, I'd rather be the hunter and hunt others."
Thinking about it this way, Roya gradually developed some expectations for Wendell's airship and hunter team.
It flew for a long time.
Roya still hadn't spotted the Wendell airship in the clouds, and couldn't help but ask:
Where is your airship?
At that moment, Wendell was asleep in the passenger seat, his eyes slightly closed, and he only responded faintly:
"I'm waiting for you to assemble it."
Wait for me to assemble it...
Luo Ya's eye twitched slightly, and he shouted:
"Can't you wake up!"
Wendell fell silent, his pale, beautiful face, scarred yet serene and peaceful in sleep.
Roya had a bad feeling.
Could this woman really be a hunter for the first time?
How can two complete novices form a competitive aerial hunting team?
Fortunately, the Triangular Rainbow Whale was a Tier 3 Burning Beast. Even though it was dead, its Burning Crystals and remains could provide this newly formed team with a considerable amount of start-up capital.
The issue is……
"The nearest sky island is a thousand kilometers away. Aren't you tired of controlling your flying mech to drag a whale carcass?"
Roya murmured almost to himself.
Before the words were finished—
I was startled awake from my deathbed dream!
Wendell suddenly awoke, his golden eyes wide open, bloodshot, and he spat out a mouthful of bright red blood—
She fainted again after being sprayed.
No matter how much Luo Ya pushed and shook her, she didn't react at all.
Luo Ya was dumbfounded.
He stared at Wendell's holy, beautiful, and war-god-like armored body, unable to recover for a long time.
Is this woman putting on a brave face even when she's not?
Or is it that you're short on chakra like Itachi Uchiha?
Or perhaps, he was already seriously ill?
Very strong.
However, the battery life is poor, resulting in severe backlash.
Like strong.
No wonder she said she wasn't strong before and easily gave up the captain's position.
It turns out that the strength simply wouldn't allow it!
"Oh no!"
Suddenly remembering something, Luo Ya quickly looked down at the steam-powered flying armor beneath the ornithopter.
The silver flying armor, now out of Wendell's control, was being dragged by two heavy, blood-soaked whale carcasses as it plummeted into the vast sea of clouds.
"It's over..."
Luo Ya regretted agreeing too quickly.
He pushed Wendell's shoulder armor again, but there was still no reaction.
Damn!
Are we going to run away?
If I leave her behind... will she be eliminated immediately upon landing?
If I'm not dead, will she hunt me down?
As his gaze swept over the slowly falling whale carcass and burning crystals, Roya suddenly awoke.
This is an enormous fortune!
After a brief internal struggle, Roya decided to clean up Wendell's mess.
"Well, what can I do? I'm the captain..."
He piloted the Blue Dragonfly in a dive, rapidly pursuing the crashing steam-powered mech, and commanded via voice:
"Activate autopilot and follow the silver steam-powered flying armor below, maintaining a one-meter distance!"
After giving the voice control command to the Blue Dragonfly, Luo Ya unbuckled the omnidirectional seatbelt.
Standing up, taking a deep breath to overcome the dizzying fear of heights, I jumped from the cockpit of the ornithopter and landed steadily on the broad shoulder armor of the flying armor.
"call……"
Having gained a firm footing and gripping the protrusions in the armor, Roya's consciousness quickly took control of the flying armor.
He immediately snatched the dark blue, watermelon-sized core burning crystal from the flying armor and put it back into his own arms.
This was the first time Luo Ya had ever seen such a huge burning crystal.
It is similar in size and shape to a watermelon, but is significantly heavier.
The surface is covered with fascia, blood and qi are dissipated, and it feels slightly hot to the touch.
The condensation of burning crystals within its body signifies that the beast has officially entered a higher level, similar to a human awakening into a superhuman. Its superhuman ability may be a siphon-like energy absorption technique, which is countered by Wendell.
Judging from the concentration of blood energy emitted by the burning crystal, this triangular rainbow-whiskered whale is a third-tier burning beast.
Wendell killed a Tier 3 Burning Beast with a single sword strike, effortlessly and easily; the beast's level was no lower than Tier 5!
Before this, the strongest superhuman that Roya had ever seen was only at the third level.
"You underestimated her..."
Burning Crystals are highly concentrated pools of the blood and energy of Burning Beasts, and their value exceeds that of the rest of the Burning Beasts combined.
"This precious item...it can't afford any mishaps!"
Luo Ya immediately put the burning crystal into his backpack to reduce the loss of blood vapor from the surface.
Then, he climbed into the open cockpit of the flying mech.
Try to stabilize the flying armor's attitude and attempt to take off again.
In an instant, steam roared and thick smoke billowed...
It significantly reduced the speed at which the flying armor was falling.
But it didn't take off completely.
Theoretically, a steam-powered flying armor is a large wearable device with its own auxiliary power and weapons. It is highly mobile, adept at combat and high-speed flight, but not good at carrying heavy loads.
Previously, the flying armor was able to lift the heavy whale carcass entirely thanks to Wendell's extraordinary abilities.
"The Triangular Rainbow Whale is a flying beast. Its body was cleaved in two by a single sword strike, causing its blood and energy to leak out, which is why it is so heavy. If the sword energy pierces through the whale's head, the flying armor can easily handle it."
From this, Roya deduced that Wendell was not a qualified hunter and was likely an amateur.
Since things had come to this, Roya had no choice but to collect the whale's corpse because of Wendell's pretentious behavior.
"If the two pieces of whale carcass could be sewn together with rope, the vapors of the carcass would be trapped inside, which might generate some buoyancy and reduce the weight of the ornithopter."
A brilliant idea flashed through Luo Ya's mind, and he immediately put it into action.
He controlled the steam-powered flying armor, attaching the two heavy iron hooks from which the whale carcass was hanging at his feet to the underside of the Blue Dragonfly.
Then, the Blue Dragonfly was slowed down, its torque was increased, and the vertical load-bearing mode was activated.
He then controlled the flying armor, wielding a steam-powered sword, hooking onto a rough rein, and attempted to sew the two pieces of whale carcass back together...
The difficulty of sewing the corpse with flying armor exceeded Roya's expectations.
At the same time, he also has to constantly deal with attacks from flying fish, birds, and flying jellyfish.
After half an hour.
Luo Ya wiped the sweat from his forehead that hadn't had time to dry in the wind.
The Blue Dragonfly once again broke through the clouds and soared into the azure sky.
Wendell, in the passenger seat, was still fast asleep.
At the tail end, thick ropes dragged along the massive whale carcass, which had been painstakingly stitched together.
The crude stitching was still leaking air.
The iconic triangular head was stitched together so that the sum of its inner angles exceeded 180 degrees.
The whale carcass had shrunk to nearly half its original size.
However, the steam rising from the carcass, the escaping odor, and the blowing air created a delicate balance, causing the whale carcass to swell up again.
The bloated whale carcass not only provides considerable buoyancy, but also generates additional lift during high-speed flight.
Even the drooping whale wings were lifted up by the howling wind, resembling a pair of giant wings, swaying up and down.
So much so that when Roya piloted his steam-powered flying armor and followed behind the whale carcass, he did not provide any thrust to help him fly.
Luo Ya breathed a sigh of relief.
Looking at the whale carcass tamed by the ornithopter and the reins, a sense of accomplishment he had never imagined welled up within him.
Only now did he realize that perhaps...
This vast sky is where he truly belongs.
Roya quickly checked the amount of phlogiston fuel in his baggage. With the current energy consumption of the Blue Dragonfly and the steam-powered flying armor, it was enough to support a flight to five or six floating islands within a range of two thousand kilometers.
So he immediately turned the nose of the ornithopter around.
Flying eastward 1,600 kilometers away, to that market famous for trading in spirit fuel—
Blue Mist Town.
……
at the same time.
Wendell's dream.
The boundless silvery-white holy light enveloped the vast sea, but was blocked by the gray fog rising from the sea surface.
A dark, alluring female voice came from the depths of my heart:
"The legendary Saintess of the North Wind has fallen so low! Shed your armor, Wendell, and you will reclaim your former glory!"
Immediately, a towering woman with a bare upper body, surrounded by surging black mist, entwined black snakes, and eerie purple flowers, gradually materialized from the abyss of the nightmare.
Her features were indistinct, and only a pair of eerie, beautiful eyes, as deep and unfathomable as a cold pool, could be seen in the black mist. At the center of her pupils, a strange flower, intricately changing and stained with blood, was formed.
It makes one feel as if they've fallen into an abyss at first glance, suddenly losing their soul, yet becoming so engrossed that they can't extricate themselves.
Wendell's spirit, however, remained as indifferent as ice.
Even in her dreams, her tone remained unchanged, chillingly cold and aloof, like a cold wind brushing against her face.
"I am a woman; seduction is useless against me."
The alluring voice carried a bone-chilling malice:
"As powerful as you are, can you remain mediocre forever? Every time you use your power, your sacred body slides one step closer to the abyss, until it falls into the abyss, is possessed by my demonic soul, and transforms into a demon. A saintess fallen into demonhood, what a beautiful sight..."
I will conquer everything once more with your body!
"I'll say the same to you: your demonic body is being purified and possessed by my holy soul. A witch purified by holy light will only become more sacred, and I will use your body to purify the world."
Besides, you've already lost your freedom while trapped in the Temple of the Holy Maiden.
And I possess the sky.
Wendell's voice pierced through the mist and echoed in the holy light.
The witch's phantom twisted and swayed at the edge of the holy light, causing the flowers to tremble and emitting a chilling laugh:
"Hahaha, don't forget, this body of yours now belongs to me, and I am the one who owns the sky!"
You alone... can never suppress me!
The mechanic you sought help from is just a lonely young man; a man who craves intimacy will only push you faster into an abyss of no return.
Wendell's soul floated on the edge of a massive vortex of light and darkness, his consciousness gradually sinking, and he murmured as he drifted off to sleep:
"He's different."
……
Blue Mist Town is a market town steeped in the blood and gore of its prey.
It consists of a main street and countless huge slaughterhouses and animal training facilities.
Above the floating island, the air was filled with the clamor of voices and the heavy stench of beast blood. A pale blue blood mist that lingered all day long enveloped the town like a thin veil.
The town of Blue Mist got its name from this.
Upon arriving over Blue Mist Town, before the flying armor and ornithopter had even landed, Roya could already smell the distinctive, metallic scent of the blue mist, a mixture of rust and the stench of life.
In the passenger seat of the Blue Dragonfly, Wendell slowly woke up.
Her already fair complexion was now even more frosty, almost transparently pale.
Those deep golden eyes were dull and lifeless, as if they had just escaped from a long and heavy nightmare.
She stretched lazily, her voluptuous yet agile body forming a beautiful arc.
She took off the wine pouch from her waist and drank the rum in large gulps, which brought a faint blush back to her pale cheeks.
On the accompanying steam-powered flying armor, Roya removed his goggles and looked at the hovering ornithopter.
"You're awake?"
Wendell's eyes were unfocused, and he was deeply weary. His soul seemed to still be entangled in the embers of a nightmare, unable to fully return to reality.
She hasn't truly unleashed her extraordinary power in a long time.
For a calm, ruthless, genius mechanic with an Eastern face, being consumed by nightmares is worthwhile.
Mechanics can soar through the sky and fly to the east, and they are also the most restrained and eccentric type of people.
"Where is this?"
"Blue Mist Town, we need to sell the whale carcass to earn our first pot of gold so we can buy an airship suitable for long-distance hunting."
Wendell leaned over the convertible door and looked down.
His gaze swept over the massive whale carcass, meticulously stitched together with reins, and a barely perceptible hint of amazement flickered in his dark golden eyes.
"Although you're a mechanic, your needlework is surprisingly good. You deserve to be the team leader."
"The captain isn't an ox or a horse, so don't even think about slacking off."
Luo Ya spoke calmly.
After more than five hours of flight, the stitched whale carcass had shrunk by half again.
Luo Ya hadn't even made any money yet, and his phlogiston was almost gone.
Before long, several ornithopters took off, circling and scrutinizing the whale carcass like vultures that have smelled blood. The businessmen inside leaned out of the cabins and loudly inquired about prices from Roya and Wendell.
"Selling whale carcasses? Whale meat wholesaler, good prices!"
Upon seeing the whale carcass sewn together with reins, everyone added in astonishment:
"You lost your airship, and with just an ornithopter and a small flying machine, you actually managed to bring back a mangled whale carcass?"
"Sew a whale carcass back together with reins? You guys are geniuses!"
"This is a third-tier burning beast; it wasn't easy to retrieve it."
"Even shrunk in size, it's still this big. If you caught a live triceratops, it would be enough for you to buy a new airship."
"Are you still using the Rainbow Whiskered Whale's Burning Crystal? I'll buy it at a high price!"
"..."
When it was Roya's first time selling a whale carcass, he did not rush to agree to the deal.
They landed in the central square with the others and visited more than a dozen Spirit Burning shops.
Compare prices from three different vendors.
After half an hour.
Loya sold it for fifty-five gleaming gold clowns.
The whale carcass, along with the precious burning crystals, was packaged and sold to a traveling vendor with a non-local accent.
In the Blue Nest Dominion, 55 gold kilos can buy 55 liters of standard phlogiston fuel.
This means that the Blue Dragonfly could fly continuously above the sea of clouds for fifty-five days and nights, covering a distance of 200,000 kilometers, under normal circumstances when it was not engaged in combat or pursuit.
"It's good to be rich!"
.
Roya and Wendell walked side by side down Central Avenue.
Shops selling dismembered animals can be seen everywhere on the street, with blue blood spreading in the cracks of the stone pavement, and the stench is overwhelming.
Along both sides of the street, meat vendors selling meat dismembered animals can be seen everywhere.
Blue blood meandered through the cracks in the stone pavement, and the strong, fishy smell made people want to vomit.
Those massive armored vehicles paraded through the city, their drivers arrogant and reckless, completely disregarding the safety of pedestrians.
Luo Ya's sharp gaze swept across the crowd: some passersby were accompanied by armored guards, some were accompanied by fierce tamed beasts, and some were mechanical cyborgs with gears and firearms on their limbs and steam emanating from the back of their necks.
Only the Blue Dragonfly Armor, carrying a steam-powered flying armor, silently followed behind Roya and Wendell, standing out from the crowd.
A passerby only needed to glance at them to know: either these two didn't have an airship, or they had just damaged it.
As a mechanic, it's only natural that I don't have an airship.
As a hunter, not having an airship puts you at a disadvantage.
"Get out of the way, shorty, your luggage is too heavy!"
A rude rebuke rang out.
at the same time--
A hunter with a full beard drove a five-meter-tall Tyrannosaurus Rex armored vehicle with exaggerated exposed gears at high speed, swaggering through the city.
With a roar of steam, it crashed into the Blue Dragonfly armor.
This is an alien armor with a boiler power level of two!
In an instant, a sharp whistle pierced the air—
[Receives voice-activated signal and executes differential engine preset command: quick dodge, trip.]
In the blink of an eye!
As if it had eyes in the back of its head, the blue dragonfly slid sideways in advance, precisely avoiding the savage charge of the Tyrannosaurus Rex armor.
immediately!
The long, sturdy mechanical right leg shot out like lightning, positioned between the ankles of the Tyrannosaurus Armor's front and rear feet.
Boom!
With a muffled thud, the Tyrannosaurus Armor collapsed to the ground, its heavy body causing the ground to tremble.
Luo Ya pinched his lips and blew out a second sharp whistle.
[Received voice control signal and executed the differential engine's preset command: Block the enemy's exhaust port.]
The Blue Dragonfly Armor then inserted its thick, long cannon barrel into the exhaust port on the left shoulder of the Tyrannosaurus Armor.
The scalding, high-pressure steam was blocked and could only escape from the spare exhaust port located at the rear of the armor, making a comical hissing sound.
Roya turned around and walked calmly to the side of the cockpit of the Tyrannosaurus Rex Armor. Through the glass, he looked down at the panicked bearded hunter inside with a calm gaze.
"Standing tall is what truly matters."
The Tyrannosaurus Rex armor dared not move.
Inside the cockpit, the bearded hunter, his face ashen, barely dared to breathe, and frantically shut down the steam boiler.
The massive gears that had been spinning arrogantly on the shoulder armor slowly came to a stop, and the pitiful exhaust vent at the rear finally ceased spewing out white steam.
The entire street fell into a deathly silence in an instant.
All eyes are on this.
Most of the passersby on the street were experienced hunters.
Everyone knows that a steam-powered armor that can fight in an unmanned, voice-controlled state with such rapid response has an astonishingly powerful micro-differential machine inside, enough to buy an airship.
Moreover, it requires detailed calibration and a vast amount of training and practice to achieve this level of mobility.
Moreover, that armored vehicle was also carrying a steam-powered flying machine...
The crowd fell silent; no one dared to underestimate these two seemingly destitute men who had no airship.
Roya raised his hand and gently patted the cold cockpit glass of the Tyrannosaurus Rex armor.
Click!
The spare fuel tank on the side of the armor plate popped open.
A second sharp whistle rang out.
[Received voice control signal and executed differential machine preset command: Take away enemy armor's stored phlogiston.]
Blue Dragonfly then pulled out the cannon barrel, and slowly reached into the fuel tank to take out ten well-sealed standard fuel barrels, which were then steadily put into the storage compartment as if it were an easy task.
"I prefer my luggage to be a bit heavy."
Having said that, Luo Ya strode away.