Chapter 979 - Another Kind of Genius (1/2)

Chapter 979: Another Kind of Genius

Translator: TransN Editor: TransN

Everyone present witnessed it.

The glider fell down the cliff and out of their sight shortly after it left the runway. It happened so fast that no one had time to respond.

Roland also feared for their safety.

He had foreseen the possibility of all sorts of accidents during the trial. Although he had prepared more than one prototype in order to increase the flyer’s experience with as many trials as possible, he did not expect the first crash to come so early.

In theory, the glider was slow, low-loaded, and easy to control. A little wind was able to maintain its airtime, making it very friendly to a new hand. In fact, there were only a few mistakes that could make the flyer lose control of the aircraft. Roland had emphasized these points whilst explaining the principles. This time, Wendy obviously lifted the aircraft’s nose too high. As a result, the aircraft lost its original speed and started to drop.

Although the glider had lost its ascending speed, the situation could still be salvaged with appropriate actions.

As Wendy was capable of creating winds.

All she had to do was blow wind down towards the tail whilst reducing the wind that lifted the glider. This would force the glider’s nose down and therefore its body would regain speed.

Unfortunately, the wind Wendy applied to the main wings was too strong and abrupt. As a result, the glider flipped over and thus they had no choice but to abandon the aircraft.

Although the glider could be saved, Roland cared more about the safety of the flyers as there were no safety devices installed, such as seatbelts. In fact, the glider only contained an aluminum chair with two arms and a backrest to steady the flyers. It was easy to imagine what would happen when the glider was overturned.

Fortunately, Tilly did not leave everyone worrying for too long.

A few seconds later, she was holding Wendy’s arm and appeared on the edge of the cliff.

“Are you alright?” Roland asked anxiously.

“Don’t worry. We’re fine.” Tilly smiled and panted slightly. “In order to avoid being hit, I flew down a little to dodge it before ascending.”

Unlike Lightning who would significantly lose speed when she carried load, a witch who controlled the Stone of Flight would not lose speed even if she carried a person. Instead, the stone would consume much more magic power and become harder to control. Although Princess Tilly had made light of the situation, Roland knew that the rescue would not have been completed so easily without her remarkable control over the stone.

“My apologies… Your Majesty.” Wendy said, looking a bit frustrated. “You’ve spent so much time making that aircraft, but I…”

Roland comforted her immediately, “It’s not your fault. No one is born to know how to fly an aircraft. That’s part of the knowledge unknown to all of us. The materials of the glider were more valuable than the process of making it. As long as we can recover the wreckage, we won’t suffer a great loss.”

“We won’t?” Wendy asked.

“I can promise you that His Majesty is telling the truth,” Nightingale said as she suddenly appeared and faced her friend.

Wendy felt relieved. “I see… I’ll have another try!”

Roland was amused. “Is that another usage of the ability to detect lies?” He always felt that Wendy had worked too hard after she was appointed the head of the Witch Union.

“Don’t you want to rest?” asked Roland.

“No!” Wendy exclaimed.

“Well then, just keep in mind that safety comes first,” said Roland.

“Don’t worry brother. I got this,” Tilly said as she smiled.

…

In the end, it turned out that flying was not so easy to master.

The second trial did not last longer than three minutes.

Surprisingly, Wendy made great progress this time. She managed to successfully raise the glider to an altitude of nearly 50 meters high.

Unfortunately, as the glider was turning, the wings rolled too much.

Roland could see that Wendy had been trying hard to adjust the wind direction in order to re-balance the glider, however, this only resulted in a short unstable wobble before it dropped once again.