The Mighty Dragons Are Dead-Chapter 812 - 0809: Archipelago Map (Fourth update, Alliance Hierarch additional update 1/150)

Chapter 812 -0809: Archipelago Map (Fourth update, Alliance Hierarch additional update 1/150)

The construction of the Flame Origin Camp did not involve Liszt, as he and Ach spent the whole day studying the Whirlpool Entrance; when no traversal occurred, everything appeared normal.

Even when Ach unleashed Super Magic to communicate with the Magic Web, while the Magic Web appeared, there was no sight of the wormhole space that would tear through the Magic Web. Ach gave a relatively reasonable explanation for this: the Magic Web should not be deduced by common sense and there is no such thing as physical distance.

Liszt summarized it.

The world he was in could be described in three dimensions, so the Magic Web was an existence that transcended those dimensions.

Just as two dimensions cannot explain three dimensions, three dimensions naturally cannot explain existence beyond three dimensions. Therefore, the Magic Web that Ach communicated with, and the Magic Web torn by the Magic Teleportation Array, was only a certain dimension within the Magic Web, not the entirety… In short, it was such a mysterious principle.

“We must travel through the Great Whirlpool multiple times to gradually understand every detail of the Magic Teleportation Array,” Ach stated.

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“Then let’s go, let’s first go and map the Flame Islands!”

With that said, they immediately set off. After instructing Cross and others to continue building the Flame Origin Camp, Liszt mounted Little Fire Dragon Leo, holding Ach in his arms, and flew north.

Whirlpool Mountain was located deep inland in the eastern half of Flame Island; due to the irregular shape of the island, the linear distance to the northern coast was over five hundred kilometers. They started flying from the afternoon, maintaining an altitude over a thousand meters en route to survey the topography of Flame Island.

From their flying trajectory and the surroundings, the landscape of Flame Island was undulating with varied terrains.

During this time, they noticed several volcanoes emitting white smoke; however, as Leo excitedly flew towards them, he found that these volcanoes were dormant, with no magma exposed that he could merge with to absorb Volcanic Super Magic.

Moreover,

Liszt also employed the Dragon Eye Trajectory, examining the magical traces below them closely. He noticed several spots where magic feedback glowed, possibly indicating Magical Beasts, Magic Potions, and even Elves. However, he simply noted down the positions of the glowing spots and did not descend to collect them.

After all, Flame Island was his territory, everything there belonged to him, and he could retrieve them whenever he pleased.

Only the neighboring islands were the lands he planned to grant away. These large islands close to Iron Hoof Island could certainly benefit a dozen Marquises. And while Ach merely circled this part of the Flame Archipelago, he hadn’t yet explored more distant waters, so it was unknown if there were new islands.

Even if not, it was not an issue.

The Second Archipelago, now named by him as the Whirlpool Archipelago, could grant titles to a couple more Marquises without any issues, thanks to the Great Whirlpool Magic Teleportation Matrix, which ensured close connectivity.

As evening approached,

They reached the coast, with Leo returning to his own body and Ach taking on the role of pilot. Maneuvering shells and water tornadoes created swift, glimmering streaks across the sea surface. This time, he moved along the coastline, periodically using a sextant to measure bearings.

Recording every specific location of the bearings in a notebook, he gradually connected these points to outline the contours and area of Flame Island.

The survey was time-consuming, particularly because the weather on Flame Island seemed highly variable; it was sunny here and raining there, not conducive for direct sextant measurements. They had to rely on other methods, slowly figuring it out, or wait for clear weather to continue measurements.

Thankfully, as they became enmeshed in the tediousness of mapping, the Magic Platform communication facilitated Liszt’s management of the production and construction of his territory.

While Cross·Thorn and others continuously built up the Flame Origin Camp on Flame Island, Kenley Truth and her team tirelessly developed the Whirlpool Town Camp on Whirlpool Island.

Yevich, leading the Adventure Fleet, had set out with two other fleets towards the Flame Archipelago, ready to center their exploration around the archipelago and help reduce Ach’s mapping workload.

On Mind Island, knights were still laboriously mining.

At Iron Hoof City, through Marquis of Bull Tail’s continuous purchasing of serfs, after training, they were being dispatched to Black Horse Island; officials on Black Horse Island, following Liszt’s instructions through the Magic Platform, continuously built large ships named Flame Number while also preparing various materials using Thorn Wood and rubber water encasements.

If it wasn’t for preventing materials from being shredded by the Great Whirlpool, using some old ships for transportation would suffice—the Water Tornado at the Whirlpool Entrance would catch these large ships anyway.

In large projects like this, archmages played a much more significant role than Dragon Knights, who were only adept at frontal combat. Perhaps that’s why the Moon Empire had developed a brilliant civilization, yet the world under knights’ rule had now turned into a savage, backward system of part serfdom and part feudalism.

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Unfortunately, relying solely on Ach’s power was not enough to sustain such a workload or manage both ends. She could protect the outlet of the Great Whirlpool but was unable to stabilize its entrance.

The powerful killing force of the Great Whirlpool was immense; normal boxes and ships could hardly withstand it and had to be continuously fortified.

After all, the iron-deficient Duchy of Sapphire could only manufacture wooden ships.

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A week passed in the blink of an eye.

Ach had finally completed mapping all the islands surrounding the Flame Islands, much to the delight of Liszt, especially the size of Flame Island itself—it was a massive three million square kilometers, nearly a third the size of China.

The largest island on Earth is Greenland, covering 2.16 million square kilometers; Flame Island is a third larger than it.

Besides, there are eight other large islands over a hundred thousand square kilometers, three located in the northeast of the archipelago, and four in the southwestern seas. Another was discovered by the Adventure Fleet about a thousand kilometers away in the southeastern seas… Countless smaller islands, each less than a hundred thousand square kilometers, densely dotted the area.

During that week, while Ach was busy drawing maps, Liszt was naming the islands.

The major islands under the jurisdiction of the Flame Archipelago are (the map has been uploaded to Old White’s public account, searchable directly under “Bai Yihan,” subscribe to periodically receive writing materials):

The first large island, Flame Island, located in the center of the archipelago, covering three million square kilometers.

The second large island, Tulip Island, located in the southern part of the archipelago, one of the four large islands to the southwest, covering 450,000 square kilometers. Liszt had decided to grant this island to the Tulip Family—similar to how the original Sapphire Duke granted the 300,000 square kilometers Iron Hoof Island to the Bull Family.

The third large island, Giant Algae Island, located to the northeast of the archipelago, one of the three northeastern large islands, covering 280,000 square kilometers.

The fourth large island, Thorn Island, located to the southwest of the archipelago, one of the four southwestern large islands, covering 270,000 square kilometers.

The fifth large island, Mangrove Island, located to the northeast of the archipelago, one of the three northern large islands, covering 230,000 square kilometers.

The sixth large island, Gemstone Island, located directly west in the archipelago, one of the four southwestern large islands, covering 220,000 square kilometers.

The seventh large island, Phoenix Tree Island, located to the northeast of the archipelago, one of the three northeastern large islands, covering 170,000 square kilometers.

The eighth large island, Pea Island, located to the southwest of the archipelago, one of the four southwestern large islands, covering 150,000 square kilometers.

The ninth large island, Anchor Island, located deep in the southeastern seas of the archipelago, connected by a string of small islands resembling a ship’s thrown anchor, hence the name, covering 100,000 square kilometers.

The nine large islands together covered an area of 4.87 million square kilometers, and with other large and small islands, the total exceeded 5.3 million square kilometers. If including other islands such as the Whirlpool Archipelago, Midway Island, First Chain Island, Dragon Turtle Island, Three Islands, it would easily surpass 5.5 million square kilometers.

The total area of all the islands in the Duchy of Sapphire was merely about 2 million square kilometers.

“With such an area, if there are numerous mines on the islands, and a few resource dragons are raised, it would be enough for self-sufficiency, without having to launch a Pioneer Mandate every year like with Sapphire… Actually, just by riding the Formless Dragon, and with the healed Light Green Gemstone Dragon, a few years would suffice for self-sufficiency.”

Thinking this,

He summoned the Smoke Mission.

“Complete the quest, reward the lost Formless Dragon.”