I Created Scientific Magic

Chapter 338: Chapter 326: The Empire’s Griffin Knights Cross the Border!

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After the light speed measurement experiment was completed, this year’s academic symposium also finally came to a close, yet the method of using gears for measuring distance continued to fascinate many.

What followed was the award ceremony held in the Sky Realm, where the nominees Fula, Glenn, and Yoland all received the Morning Star Medal without a hitch.

Lynn also once again obtained a Silver Moon Medal thanks to his light speed calculation experiment!

However, regarding this award ceremony, the wizards were significantly divided in their opinions.

Most wizards considered Lynn’s method of beam measurement to be nothing short of genius!

Although this one experiment alone was far from meeting the requirements for a Silver Moon Medal, being a bit more lenient towards a genius was not such a big deal after all.

Not to mention that the recipient had already received the Corona Medal before and thus was not likely to arouse envy.

Nonetheless, some wizards had their reservations about the magic star receiving the Silver Moon Medal. Despite the fact that Lynn’s experiment was extremely impressive, even stunning, the final result was merely the determination of the speed of light.

And such medals were usually awarded to those who had made significant contributions to Wizard Land, developed legendary magic, or made important additions to the existing magic system.

In their view, measuring the speed of light did not align with any of those criteria, and they felt that the council had set a poor precedent this time…

As the focal point of the turmoil, Lynn did not concern himself with either receiving praise or rebutting slander, continuing his research on basic elements and occasionally being pulled out by Rafael and others to become better acquainted with the archwizards remaining in Wizard City.

As for the interactions with the archwizards, Lynn did not decline. These were the elite among wizards, some of whom had won the Morning Star Medal or even the Silver Moon Medal multiple times. In a sense, they were the Newtons and Einsteins of this other world and the backbone of magical academia.

Three days after the academic symposium ended, all the members residing in Greenrill City received an invitation from the council, and Lynn was no exception. He was well aware that the purpose of this meeting was most likely to discuss how to deal with the Church’s impending invasion…

However, just before Lynn was about to leave, Darren, who should have been far away in Yeta, ran over in a flustered manner with his people.

“Headmaster, something terrible has happened!”

“What’s wrong, Darren?” Lynn frowned, already having some suspicions in mind.

“It’s an intelligence report from the Kingdom of Hadarata… Yesterday morning, those imperial troops suddenly crossed the border!” Darren said breathlessly, handing over a sealed letter.

This was much quicker than Lynn had anticipated… He pondered for a moment and then directly tore open the envelope. After reading it, his expression immediately turned very grave.

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One day earlier, on the border of the Kingdom of Hadarata, two massive airships were hovering a kilometer high in the sky on routine patrol.

As an honorable airship pilot, Hammy had dreamed since childhood of soaring through the sky as freely as the birds.

Yet Hammy, lacking magical talent, was well aware that it was an unrealistic fantasy. A hoe and a plot of farmland was all he could foresee for his future, and if he was lucky, perhaps he could buy a camel beast to save some effort while tilling the land.

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But everything changed after a new dean arrived in Iyeta two years ago!

Hammy put down his hoe and joined the newly established glass workshop because he could earn the wage of half a year in just one month there, and later heard that the dean planned to recruit some commoners to train them as airship pilots.

Hammy could hardly believe his ears when he got the news. To him, the airships that were bigger than a house yet could soar into the skies were among the greatest magical creations of the Wizards.

Allowing them to spend money for the experience was already an immense favor.

Could they, the magic-less commoners, really control such miraculous magical creations?

But despite his confusion, Hammy resigned from his workshop job without hesitation and joined the pilot training.

Besides figuring out how to control the enormous vessel, they also had to understand an alchemical device that always pointed towards the north or south, and they needed to learn arithmetic and arcane mathematics.

For instance, how to estimate the distance between the airship and its target using appropriate landmarks and some ‘simple’ formulas, which was just the most basic scouting subject.

Poor Hammy who had spent most of his life plowing the land, found the learning difficult and dizzying. According to some rumors, even some Wizards found this arcane mathematics challenging…

This effort undoubtedly brought him a very generous reward; his monthly wage went from ten silver coins to twenty and he didn’t need to toil day and night in the factory anymore, fulfilling his lifelong dream in another way!

So when he learned that Dean Lynn was going to select some airship pilots for a dangerous mission, Hammy didn’t hesitate to participate.

Half of it was to repay the dean’s kindness, and the other part was because during the mission, the wage would be doubled. If they happened to sacrifice their lives by accident, their families would receive a substantial compensation of ten magic Gold Coins, and they would be well-taken care of in the future, including free schooling for civilians.

Hammy and the other pilots undoubtedly undertook the mission with a do-or-die attitude, but after wandering around the kingdom’s border for more than a month, their tense spirits gradually relaxed, and they even began to feel that the Wizards’ warnings might have been somewhat exaggerated.

At the moment they were thousands of meters in the sky, all they had to do was to spot the imperial troops crossing the border from afar, scout for intelligence with a telescope, and then return to Iyeta to report. What could possibly go wrong…

Instead, patrolling back and forth in the same area for a month made Hammy incredibly bored. Although he loved the feeling of flying, circling the same spot had become tiresome.

In his mind, Hammy fantasized about how great it would be to fly to the other end of the world…

“Wait, Hammy, what’s that over there?” His assistant suddenly shouted as if he had discovered something.

Hammy immediately turned to look. In the distant sky, there seemed to be a golden cloud floating towards them.

The more he looked, the stranger it appeared…

Hammy used the telescope mounted on the airship to take a closer look. Then, his pupils shrank with realization. It wasn’t a cloud, but a large group of creatures with eagle-like heads and the hindquarters of a flaming lion. Their shiny golden feathers, illuminated by the sunlight, created a golden halo that made them look like a moving cloud from a distance…

Those were griffins, the Imperial Griffin Knights!