Someday Will I Be The Greatest Alchemist?

Chapter 291: The floating island in a sea of clouds

A while after passing through the Demon Continent and coming out to the ocean, low, heavy clouds hung over us. The weather worsened, so I raised the altitude of the Ouranos to go above the clouds, and left it suspending in the sky to stop for the night.

So the strong wind at high altitude wouldn’t set the aircraft adrift, a barrier was activated around the Ouranos. And so, the aircraft stabilized as though it had landed on the ground.

「Fua~ Good morning, Sophia.」

「Good morning, Takumi-sama.」

When I woke up, the airspace around the Ouranos that stayed afloat in the air was so clear which was unthinkable from yesterday’s weather, the low and heavy hanging clouds were gone, and the sun was rising from the horizon.

「Hmm, as expected, staying suspended with a barrier active the entire night consumes a lot of magic power.」

As I supplied magic power to the large magic crystal installed into the Ouranos, I checked how much magic power was consumed overnight.

「Ah, Takumi-sama, I will supply magic power too.」

「Please allow me to replenish it as well.」

With Maria and Sophia contributing, the outrageously large magic crystal was filled to the brim with magic.

「Master (Husband), breakfast preparations are complete.」

「Thank you, Marnie. Let’s have breakfast?」

「「Okay.」」

The Ouranos stayed parked in the sky as we finished breakfast, which was when Akane and the others woke up.

「Fuah~ Morning~」

「Morning, Akane.」

「Good morning, Iruma-sama.」

「Good morning, Valkan-san. Did you sleep well?」

「Yes, I was able to sleep soundly.」

Basically, the people of this world get up early, so by the time the sun rose in the horizon, everyone was up.

Well, it looks like one person hasn’t woken up yet, but I won’t say anything about it.

「I apologize for the bother my son is causing.」

「Not at all, I don’t see it as a bother.」

Valkan-san kept apologizing and apologizing, but he wasn’t at fault.

Yes, the only one still in bed was Bart-kun.

「It was not my intention, but it is my failure for having spoiled him because he is my only son.」

「Still, compared to his attitude at the beginning, I think he had become considerably docile.」

As the only son of the Valkan-san who acted as the chief of the Aligerous Tribe that lived in the solitary island, he was an arrogant fool when we first met, but it’s a fact that he’s gotten a lot better after power leveling.

「Nay, he had an argument with Berkut yesterday, and today he has yet to awaken, I’m ashamed as his parent……」

「……ha, haha, it’s fine. People change.」

「I suppose if you say so, but……」

I wished for the wrinkles on Valkan-san forehead to fade as I headed to the cockpit to escape this awkward situation.

The Ouranos once again accelerated to cruising speeds, and the search for the Sky Island resumed.

Since we kept the speed down, we expect to reach the airspace that Sylph told us about by tomorrow noon.

According to Sylph, the Sky Island was being set adrift by the wind as it slowly loses control. At the rate it’s going, the island takes 5 years to slowly do one revolution around the world.

I asked Sylph for the current location of the Sky Island before we left, but I expect it to be slightly off.

Just like yesterday, the Ouranos suspended at sundown, and just to be sure, we took turns replenishing the magic crystal and sleeping.

Then, at around noon of the next day, the Detector MD had a response from a large object close to 3000m above sea level.

「……could that be it?」

When I took the Ouranos up to 3500m in altitude and headed to the location shown on the Detector MD, a giant island floating in the sky appeared right ahead.

「……amazing.」

「Sophia, could you call Valkan-san?」

「Y-yes, right away.」

I asked Sophia, who was overcome with surprise at that spectacle, to call Valkan-san, the only person who knows the Sky Island.

I lowered the speed of the Ouranos as we approached the giant island suspended in the sky.

「Oh ohhh! Surely, that is our birthplace. The land where we had been separated from our tribe, this is no doubt the Sky island!」

Cheers rose as the other tribesmen looked out the window when they heard the voice of the tearing Valkan-san who was rarely worked up.

「Woah! That’s amazing! Is that the Sky Island!?」

「Shut up, Bart! Don’t shout so close to my ears!」

Bart-kun and Berkut were bickering loudly as usual, but their other tribespeople were deeply moved as they gazed longingly at the Sky Island that their parents’ generation lived in.

~Volume 6 END~

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Note: Thank you all for your patience with regards to my reasons for delays recently. Unfortunately, I always take a 2 update break whenever I complete a volume (contains usually 50+ chapters of nearly-consistent updates) and that is now. The next update will be after a week. I truly thank each and every one of you for your patience, understanding, and support! I hope to see you all soon!