The First Day, Part I

The slip he held up had the number three boldly imprinted upon the surface. After showing it to everyone, he walked back to Mei Xilan.

“It seems we’ll be fighting second,” said Mei Xilan.

“Yeah. And we’re going against Qin Country. I don’t know much about them, other than they produce flying ships,” said Wu Jian.

Known as the country of ship builders, Qin Country was the only nation able to produce flying ships. Every nation who wanted a flying ship had to get one from them. A few countries had tried to reproduce flying ships by reverse engineering the feats used by Qin Country, but none have succeeded in making anything more than the most basic of ship. Qin Country zealously guarded the secret to their ship-building. The sealing arrays used in the production of airships had a powerful lock on it that prevented people from being able to see the full thing.

“That’s really all you need to know,” Mei Xilan said.