God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 478: I Need to Go Back and Check the Situation

The personal flight device testing went incredibly smoothly.

That afternoon, after installing the protective shield, Apprentice personally experienced it—a perfect recreation of the personal flight device from the Tech Lab.

"Viscount Roster, our personal flight device testing succeeded. We can start trying mass production!"

After flying repeatedly several times, Apprentice immediately contacted Viscount Roster.

Viscount Roster, having just finished dealing with Rail Transit General Company matters, was instantly delighted: "I’ll return to Roster territory tomorrow!"

Rail Transit General Company had lots of things to handle, but most of them needed to be dealt with by the managers scattered across various regions. He, the main person in charge, had it pretty easy now.

At least for the current stage.

He figured when the various rail sections needed to completely merge into one, that’s when he’d need to get busy.

Southern Development Corporation also had some matters to handle, but compared to the personal flight device, they seemed insignificant.

After confirming this, Viscount Roster immediately summoned a dragon and had himself delivered back to Roster territory express-style.

Looking at this cone-shaped device in front of him that kind of looked like a top, needing four claws to support it after landing on the ground, Viscount Roster’s face kept showing traces of confusion:

"This is the personal flight device you guys built? Why does it look like this?"

"We need to inscribe tons of anti-gravity runes. This shape is the optimal choice."

Apprentice had no intention of making excuses and directly explained the design concept: "Honestly, our initial idea was to make a pair of steel wings, similar to a dragon’s."

"Later we discovered that relying on flapping wings for flight, supporting a human would require making something way too big."

"Using runes wasn’t very practical either."

"So we switched approaches—could we make a flight device similar to a magic-powered vehicle?"

"At first we made flight devices shaped like magic-powered vehicles, but during that process we discovered all kinds of drawbacks..."

"Based on various data feedback during the experimental process, we eventually refined it into its current form."

"We used tons of anti-gravity runes, lightness runes, wind runes..."

Listening to Apprentice’s introduction, Viscount Roster, who’d initially felt the design was a bit unusual, started feeling a kind of beauty unique to magic-tech industry.

He just wasn’t sure if this was a filter or if it was really like that.

"Can you take me for a flight? Since it was developed, there haven’t been any failures?"

After watching for a while, Viscount Roster suddenly suggested.

He didn’t actually understand this personal flight device, but so what? Leaving professional matters to professionals was his consistent approach.

He trusted Apprentice’s ability and character.

"Of course. Since we built this version, we’ve test-flown it seven times. Every time went smoothly. So far we haven’t discovered any problems."

Apprentice immediately nodded without hesitation: "But for your safety, I suggest having a legendary magician follow you. That way there definitely won’t be any problems."

Viscount Roster wouldn’t gamble with his own life. He immediately agreed.

He had way too many things to do. He didn’t want to die that quickly right now.

Normally he already kept a legendary magician by his side.

Soon Viscount Roster, along with his bodyguard and pilot, boarded this flight device.

The anti-gravity runes activated, the flight device started rising vertically, the four claws automatically retracted. After reaching a certain height, other runes—like wind runes, propulsion runes, etc.—activated, and it immediately took off.

Viscount Roster gave several more commands. The pilot changed angles in the air several times...

"How long did it take you to learn to pilot this personal flight device? I feel like you’re already on par with well-trained griffin knights. With the weapons mounted on this personal flight device, you should be able to easily take down griffin knights."

After feeling uncomfortable for a while, Viscount Roster turned his attention to the pilot.

He rode dragons regularly now, and he’d even ridden Nidhogg the Dragon of Despair. As for griffins and giant eagles, he was super familiar with those.

He knew very clearly what level the people who commanded these giant creatures had reached!

But the performance this flight device was showing now already exceeded the stability of riding those giant creatures. Speed probably exceeded giant eagles too, though still couldn’t match dragons.

As for comfort, there was nothing to say—not a bit of wind could get in.

Viscount Roster was absolutely certain that once various personal flight devices hit the battlefield, they could definitely become the most powerful and advanced aerial force of this era.

Except compared to dragons. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

But nobody could demand that a person piloting a personal flight device go up against dragons, right?

"I trained on the ground for about a week. As for actually taking to the sky, this is my fourth practical flight."

"..."

Viscount Roster stared blankly at him, unable to process it for a moment.

He could clearly confirm this pilot definitely wasn’t lying.

This was way too crazy!

Just one week to reach the level that ordinary griffin knights took 10 or even 20 years to achieve.

If that was really the case, didn’t that mean the biggest issue with forming a personal flight device army right now was just that this was a brand new product and pretty complex, so it might need more time and could be mass-produced?

And then there was the fact that upfront costs might be a bit high.

But was that important?

Not important at all!

Humanity had realized the dream of flight!

An ordinary person, after a short period of training, could achieve flight as long as they had enough wealth.

This was absolutely making history!

No, no, no, not just that. If personal flight devices could be manufactured this way, then why couldn’t they build flight devices that could hold more people in the future?

He wasn’t asking for the aerial fortress he’d envisioned, but as long as it could carry a few dozen people in flight, it could completely replace the special services Dragon Delivery currently offered.

When he returned from outside, to save time, he’d often just have dragons send him straight back.

That cost was huge—regular people couldn’t afford it.

If there was a type of flight device that could carry dozens of people at once and they started mass-producing them, couldn’t they perfectly take over that task?

The flight device kept flying in the sky for nearly an hour before Viscount Roster had the pilot bring it down.

"I can tell you guys put massive effort into this flight device."

Viscount Roster looked at the experimental staff in front of him, his face full of appreciation: "Besides the benefits already mentioned, I’ll give you all an extra bonus as a reward."

"I hope you’ll keep up the good work and develop even more powerful Magic Conductors."