One Man Army - Chapter 154

Chapter 154

@Team Rush .

Khukhukhu .

Sang Hyuk was holding the key of the Ink-Black Dragon .

The way to control the Sky-grade Ship was simpler than he thought . It was not that difficult to control the Sky-grade Ship at least as long as you were competent enough to get a driver’s license .

Unfortunately, Sang Hyuk had never held the key of a Sky-grade Ship in his past life . Honestly, the Sang Hyuk of the past did not play much in the Middle Layer .

Sang Hyuk was only able to board a Sky-grade Ship for a few times because he had become a victim of an accident less than a year since the Skyway opened and the world was divided into Hagye, Middle Layer, and Heavenly World . ***

However, he roughly knew enough to operate his Sky-grade Ship . And because of that, he could skip the tutorial of the Sky-grade Ship operation .

Sang Hyuk grabbed the key of Ink-Black Dragon and slowly began to launch the Ink-Black Dragon into the sky . Currently Ilya (I think the author got typo and wrote Eli) was in the power room . She was making sure that the Magic Armor Dark Black Wings mounted in the power room was properly energizing and was ready to put in a ‘Magic Stone’, that was prepared beforehand, when the power gauge fell below a certain level .

Naturally, the Sky-grade Ship needed to be supplied  ‘energy’ to fly . If we talk about it like a car, the Magic Armor was an ‘engine’ . And the Magic Stone was ‘fuel’ .

Of course, Magic Stone was not the only fuel . If it was urgent, the power gauge went up even if he put in more advanced items .

However, the Magic Stone was the best fuel to use in terms of price and efficiency .

The person who will pilot the Sky-grade Ship and the person who will supply the power to the engine .

Ink-Black Dragon could only move with two people . Originally, Sang Hyuk was trying to make the ship more compact so that one person would be able to do both controlling and fueling… But, the ship ended up with a more complex structure than he intended, and the power supply could not be controlled remotely .

Thanks to it, the minimum number of passengers was 2 instead of 1 .

In this way, the bigger and more complex the ship, then the minimum number of passengers or the recommended number of passengers are increased .

“Let’s just take a light 15-minutes flight for today . ”

Flying the Sky-grade Ship to the sky was all about money .

The Ink-Black Dragon for example, to power the Ink-Black Dragon flight for one hour, it needs 30 pieces of Magic Stone even if you only used intermediate grade Magic Stones .

One piece of the intermediate Magic Stone was 100 gold, so it cost 3,000 gold for an hour of flight . It was roughly 180,000 won in cash .

In simple comparison, the fuel cost was much worse than the best sports cars . This is why it was hard for ordinary users to create a Sky-grade Ship .

Of course, because Sang Hyuk’s Ink-Black Dragon was high level, so that it devours more Magic Stones than the usual Sky-grade Ship .

If it was the Sky-grade Ship of the ‘solo’ size, which ordinary users dream of, it could fly with 10,000 won per hour for its fuel cost .

In contrast, for the quadra sized heavenly Sky-grade Ship, it needs about 500,000 won per hour, but it had about a 50 to 100 people capacity so it could not help but need that much fuel .

Sang Hyuk had been constantly gathering the Magic Stone from a long time ago because he knew this would happen . Even now, NPCs of Gold Mountain continue to steadily buy Magic Stones .

So, there would be no case of the Ship won’t fly because it lacks Magic Stones .

But today was the first time, so he was just going to check it out and end the flight shortly .

* * * *

The test flight was successful .

The overall performance was just as promised in the specifications, and he liked it . Even Ilya did a good job unlike during the dungeon attack .

Although he doesn’t know what will happen in case of an emergency during the flight, but at least it would be enough to fill the minimum number of passengers .

However, Sang Hyuk finished his test flight and started to think about the other problems .

That is…… not the minimum number of passengers, but it was a matter of getting the recommended number of passengers .

“Even with the minimum number of passengers I don’t have any problem with starting a voyage…… But when I think about it again, when I hunt Sky Whales, I definitely need a gunner and I need a way to deal with a lot of the parasites that live on a Sky Whale . Hmmm… After all… . Will that be the best?”

Actually Sang Hyuk has been having this problem for quite some time .

As originally planned, it would be correct to fill only the minimum number of passengers . Of course, it will be a little harder when hunting Sky Whales, but so far, it was somehow enough to do it alone .

It was not impossible . It was often used as an emergency vehicle if it needed .

But recently, the idea has changed a lot .

Especially after the Krakon event, he decided to receive Gye Baek and Dark Knight’s help .

“The sure thing is that both of them are trustworthy enough for me to turn my back to them and fight… . ”

Because of his previous experience, Sang Hyuk did not easily trust anyone . But now, if it was Gye Baek and Dark Knight, he can trust them .

It was Sang Hyuk’s style to not easily to trust someone, but once he trust them, he will keep his faith until the end .

“If I bring these two people aboard the Ink Black Dragon, then I’ve filled the recommended number of passengers…… . Gye Baek’s bombardment ability is undoubtedly an asset and at the same time, Dark Knight who can deal damage well, can be a great help in dealing with the parasites . ”

The benefits of getting them into Ink-Black Dragon were bigger than Sang Hyuk expected . Of course, there were disadvantages as well . But the advantages outweigh the disadvantages if things are adjusted properly .

“I don’t need any items below a certain level anyway . But Gye Baek and Dark Knight need such items . Then I give up most of what I don’t need and instead I just take with me some essential things . ”