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Chapter 121 - First off The Line

The airship loomed over us, it's scale was at least three times that of the Dragon. Its delicate curves sharply contrasted with its thick steel armor plates in a way that gave it an intimidating aura. The Ark was painted black with white dots to better hide against the night sky with its black sails open. I stood mouth agape.

"I- it's majestic." a tear rolled down my cheek. "From above you just don't grasp its scale."

I pointed at a worker. "Hey, where's yer foreman?"

The burly worker looked at me, clearly annoyed, "What's it to ya?"

"I'm the man who designed this thing, I'd like to inspect it." I said with an air of arrogance.

I felt a hand on my shoulder and I let out an ungodly high-pitched yelp. I turned around and met a human in a gray hard-hat.

"Sorry for scarin ya like that, I'm the foreman, name's Kakede, nice ta meet cha Mista Meiung."

[Kakede Herbo]

Without missing a beat I shook his hand and attempted a recovery. "Nice to meet you too Mr. Herbo."

"I'm honored ye know me, let's get on with yer guided tour." He pulled two hardhats from seemingly nowhere and put them on each of our heads.

"No need for that." Changeling armor replaced the helmet and I handed it back to him.

He led us to the entrance to the ship.

"First up, the cargo hold, ya put the entrance here fer ease of unloadin' 'n loadin' I presume."

"Yep."

We passed the cargo hold and met the foundry.

"Our own floatin' forge, there ain't no way we could keep the equipment 'gether with jus' spare parts. Down that way is the galley 'n crew quarters." He pointed to the starboard side. "And that way is our volatile storage 'n spare arms."

He lead us down another hall. "'Ere is the golem room, space fer husks 'n cores sep'rately, 'though the service ceiling of this bad boy is good 'nough that we could pro'ly get away with keepin' 'em together."

He took us a bit further in.

"An right here is the pride o' this ship, the helicopter deck."

The doors on the side of the ship opened downward and two helicopters landed.

"These things are called the MH19s, they say Ingen Meiung's girlfriend made them." One pilot saw me approaching and obviously knew I was Ingen.

"She sure did, what did you train on to get so good with the helicopter?" Laveki looked him in the eye.

"An old man was trying to make the same contraption a while back and we were going to use them, so we had a bunch of people train on his prototypes. Honestly the resemblance between the controls of the Helicopter and the Aerial Screw is uncanny."

"Well me an' the engineer best get goin, we got some more ship to tour." The foreman took us along through the rest of the ship all the way to the bridge.

"Last stop on this crazy train, the bridge is deep in the hull of the ship, no windows involved." He opened the heavy bulkhead that lead inside. "We use Displays 'n Recorders to see wha's 'round us."

"Alright, I have one question, why is the ship mirrored? Starboard and Port are switched. It doesn't really matter, but was there a particular reason?"

"Na, the workas probably mixed up theys lefts and rights at some place and stuck wit it."

"I guess it makes the ship unique, if it were me I'd call it something like switch or flip, Anyways, now that we're done here I think it's time we got back to work. Thanks for having us."

I grabbed Laveki by the hand and we made our way back to the helicopter.

"Let's grab a scan now that Fly Glass has seen the interior."

I set up a stand and put Fly Glass on it so it would stay in place.

"Inspect"

[Airship detected, scanning.]

More than an hour passed.

[Done!]

-Excellent Airship-

(Measurements)

Length- 300 meters

Width- 31 meters

Height- 20 meters

(Evaluation)

Aerodynamics- Great

Engine power- 240 horsepower x 8 (amount of engines)

Air Complement- 6 Helicopters

Armor- Fair

Crew Comfort- Great

Crew Capacity- 1200 people, 400 golems

Cargo- Great

Overall: Air Carrier and Troop Transport, able to safely unload troops without landing.

"That took forever, but the dynamic categories work at least. I am so proud of that. Plus the airship can hold double the needed helicopters and crew so we have to make half the amount of them."

"Yeah, not being told that there is no armament on a ship that you built for the tenth time is nice." Laveki had laid out a blanket and ran off for lunch soon after we set up.

"Now I just need one to evaluate your helicopters. Hehe."

"I already have you, no enchantment measures up."

"Well, now that we know it works, let's go tell Kursattle." I secretly loved the praise, but I knew the enchantments would only ever be as good as I am because I made them.

I ordered Fent to carry the compressed helicopter as we portaled to the front door of the capitol building.

"Hey Jerry, Ben, Just need to see the president." I flashed my Presidential Engineer badge at them as I passed, they let me through without challenge. Once I was inside Kursattle's office, I set down Fly Glass. "Here, I just have two more designs and the shipyard."

"Good, don't forget the christening tomorrow."

"Wait, it's TOMORROW?!" I shouted "I thought it was next week!"

"Calm down, it's hardly a public speaking event, you just have to be there and say the name aloud while breaking a bottle on it with the captain."

"No no! That's not the problem! I was supposed to be done with work by next week so I could spend my time making personal inventions! I was gonna show some off at the christening!"

Kursattle looked at me sternly. "You wanted to hijack a christening of your own design, for your new designs?"

"Yes."

"Get out of my office before I give you more tasks." Kursattle rubbed his temples in frustration.

"Yessir"