Chapter 132: Up North (Part II)

"I want you to do it. I have already said it to you, and nothing else. Jason thought for a moment and then admonished, "Before you become a magician, try not to provoke the people of the Holy See." ”

Salin nodded, he understood the teacher's thoughts, after becoming a seventh-level magician, the magician could fly freely. Level 6 mages can also fly, but their speed and altitude are limited. If you become a level 7 magician, as long as you don't fall into the enemy's trap, you can still run if you can't beat it.

Saleen can now fly, but his altitude and speed are not as high or as Rex's, let alone as good as the Magus. Jason feared that Saleen would be able to fly, so he went to trouble the Holy See.

The battleship on Shrieg Island is a hundred meters long and must be activated by a magician. Jason assigned a fifth-level mage, a fourth-level mage, and six three-pole mages to each ship for Salin, so it was not a problem to travel day and night. If this warship was made by the nobles of the Qin Yin Empire, it would definitely cost more than one million gold coins.

A war horse is only a dozen gold coins, and the cost of this warship can buy 100,000 war horses, so it can be said that the fleet is the most expensive army. And like the cavalry troops, the cavalry warhorses need to consume forage, and the magically powered warships need to consume magic cores. The cost of maintenance in peacetime is not lower than that of cavalry.

And this is not yet the most expensive warship. Yunliu's main battleship was more than two hundred meters long and cost more than 10 million gold coins. Only a huge empire can afford such a fleet, and ordinary nobles can only look at the ocean and sigh.

Salin got three battleships at once, and he felt like an upstart. The ship's concealed oars kicked off and slowly sailed out of the gates of Shreig Island, and the pirate ship slowly rowed out of the reef, and Saleen asked Rex to take Neris to fetch the Rock Turtle Alchemy Ship.

Rex got on the pirate ship, only to learn that the alchemy ship had been sunk to the bottom of the sea by the pirates. Fortunately, Saleen calculated carefully, the sea near this island was very shallow, Rex returned to the battleship, took six three-pole magicians, dived to the bottom of the sea, and drove the turtle alchemy ship directly, keeping up with Saleen's fleet.

The speed of the magic battleship can be increased to eighty miles when fighting, and the speed of cruising is also about fifty miles in normal times, and the pirate ship is a little difficult to follow, and the turtle alchemy ship can only barely maintain this speed under the water. The mages who boarded the Rock Turtle Alchemy Ship were very excited, and Shreig Island had tried to build an underwater warship, but there were always various problems that could not be solved. For example, speed, but also the pressure that the battleship is subjected to underwater. The most troublesome thing is the problem of longevity, if you want to make underwater warships last for decades or even hundreds of years like surface ships, the cost will be ridiculously high.

If the cost is high, Srieg Island can also afford it, and the usual maintenance is the most troublesome thing. The magicians of Shreg Island have calculated that the cost of building a thirty-meter-long underwater battleship is greater than that of a capital battleship, and the maintenance cost is ten times that of the capital battleship.

So there are only a few underwater boats more than ten meters long on Tryg Island. Most of the time they are parked in the harbor, and such ships are in danger of encountering demonic beasts in the sea, and can only cruise near the islands, and cannot sail into the deep sea. The hull of the Akiba Alchemy Ship is made directly from the shell of an adult Akiba turtle, which is stronger than most metals, and weighs less than half that of metal. The exterior of the ship is inlaid with many crystals, and behind the crystals is a magic array, and the magic image from the outside can be seen inside the Iwaki Alchemy Ship. The four groups of magically powered oars have separate alchemy cabins, and even if two of them are damaged, they will not affect the progress.

The magic array in the control cabin of the core can change the weight of the Rock Turtle Alchemy Ship, and if you want to float to the surface, you need to consume a large amount of magic cores. It's just that if you go underwater, the consumption is much smaller.

Salin stayed on the flagship, because he was in a hurry, and he had not yet counted the personnel on the battleship. After taking inventory, he realized that what he had thought was too simple. Those pirates are indeed not much combat effectiveness, and the equipment on these three hundred-meter warships is what he wants.

The operation of the magic warship is a little easier than that of the sailboat, but there are also more than ninety sailors, divided into three groups, rotating day and night. The alchemical machinery that really drives the battleship forward is powered by the magic core, and without the magician, the battleship becomes a floating island on the sea. There is no way to move forward at all.

There were more than 200 fighters on the battleship, Salin looked at the roster, the standard equipment was 500 people, Srig Island could not provide so many swordsmen, and more than 200 people could barely maintain combat effectiveness in a boat.

In addition, there are more than a dozen alchemy apprentices on each ship, and these apprentices cooperate with swordsmen to operate magic stone cannons, magic alchemy crossbows, and some ordinary magic arrays. The four-story battleship was full of more than 800 people, but now there are only more than 300 people, and it looks empty.

The weapons on the battleship were also very different from those on land, with long spears exceeding seven meters and short weapons mostly knives, which were easy to maintain. There are no wooden compound bows, all metal crossbows with ratchets attached. These metal crossbows are made of high-grade materials that are not easily corroded by the humid air of the sea and are relatively easy to maintain.

There are also simple puppets on board, which are operated by magic apprentices to help sailors with things like cleaning the decks. Each warship is also equipped with a number of speedboats, and there is an ice store in the bilge, which can store a large amount of fresh fish and fresh water, etc. The sailors did not live in the bilge, but like all warriors, they lived on the first floor, which was occupied by a large number of alchemical machines, and few people were seen except for puppets.

Saleen asked for the blueprints of the battleship and studied them carefully, knowing that it would be difficult for those pirates to operate a magic battleship.

However, most ships at sea can't be powered by pure magic like the warships of Alchemy City. That's too expensive. These pirates could be of some use in the future.

After studying the ship's structure, Saleen began to identify the people on the ship. The roster has magical images, and the details of each crew member are marked on it.

The mages on Shreg Island seem to be experienced in managing warriors, and they don't look like mages who don't know anything about the world. The five boats went all the way north, and every day the magicians transmitted magical images through the magic array and asked Salin for instructions. Salin simply told the battleship not to stop and go all the way north.

Despite the vastness of the ocean, Saleen was worried about encountering a ship that was flowing through the clouds. In terms of performance, his current three battleships must surpass those bronze battleships that attacked Shreig Island, and even being outnumbered is not a problem. What Salin was afraid of was the giant battleship he had seen, that battleship was equipped with too many magic stone cannons, and the range was definitely much farther than Salin's ships, and if he accidentally collided, the only result would be to be sunk.

In addition to determining the location, the magic compass can also detect the enemy at a distance of no less than forty miles. After discovering each other at a distance of forty miles, the giant battleships of Yunliu will definitely send flying golems to slow down the escape of the Salin fleet. At that time, even if they scatter and escape, they will at least sink one ship by the Yunliu Giant Ship.

Therefore, Salin did not dare to make any stops, nor did he approach Qin Yin's coast, but just moved forward at full speed in the deep sea.

Every day, in addition to practicing, Salin opened the city structure drawings given to him by Jason in his cabin and studied them carefully. After a few days of research, Saleen finally figured out something. Whether it's Holy Rock City or Alchemy City. Or the city designed by Jason, which is essentially a complete giant magic array.

The city Jason designed was much smaller than both Holy Rock City and Alchemy City, but the principle was the same. The city Jason designed is distinguished by the fact that it relies on the thirty-six magic towers to form a huge magical network, not only increasing the power of the thirty-six magic towers, but also the area controlled by these magic towers, where each magician is equivalent to standing in his own magic tower.

Jason weaves a magic web with a magic tower that envelops the entire city. In this city, the consumption of all magic equipment is reduced to a minimum, and the power is increased several times.

The only flaw in this city is that in order to achieve the effect of this design, there can never be less than thirty-six magicians in the city.

There are only thirty-three magicians on Sleeper Island. Holy Rock City might be able to make up thirty-six, but those magicians wouldn't belong to the same faction. If you want to build a city as huge as Holy Rock City, and achieve this effect, you need at least 100 magicians.

It was only when Qin Yin founded the country that there could have been such a situation where so many magicians obeyed the orders of one person. Today's Myers continent is full of disputes within the Holy See, and it is impossible to build such an ideal city.

The city was clearly designed for Shrieg Island, and Saleen finally understood. Only the magicians on Shreg Island are so united, and there is still hope that there are thirty-six magicians.

The teacher is really calculating, even if Rex builds this city, if he wants to fully exert the city's combat effectiveness, he still has to rely on the power of Shreig Island.

But Rex is not a loss, this drawing is not a one-off, build one, Rex can build a second. And with experience, Rex will save a lot of money and time when building a second magic city. Compared to Holy Rock City, the construction cost of this city is much lower.

At least this kind of city Saleen dares to try to build, and the Holy Rock City cannot be replicated. Thinking of the towering black walls of Holy Rock City, and the huge magic clocks that dotted the city, Salin knew that his strength was too weak. It makes sense for the teacher to let himself avoid the people of the Holy See.

The distance from Shrieg Island to Phoenix in a straight line was more than 10,000 miles, and Saleen's fleet made a detour, and it was more than 14,000 miles by sea to reach it. The fleet is moving at a speed of fifty miles per hour every day, more than a thousand miles a day. That's it, and it took more than half a month to walk before Salin saw the land of the Myers continent.

To be exact, this is not land, just islands that bulge out of land. The islands are made up of tall and steep rocks, and only plants grow in the crevices of the rocks. Now that winter is approaching, the sea breeze is bitter, and the eyes are not only black and cyan rocks, but withered yellow grass and trees.

"Let's find a suitable place to dock first. "Saleen gave the order to the three battleships. There is no natural harbor here, and if you want to build a city near the sea, you need him and Rex to choose an address. Salin was in a good mood, after he left Ceylon City, the half a month had the smoothest time, without encountering a ship flowing with clouds and without a powerful demonic beast attack. There was no storm. Perhaps this heralds a good start.

[Note: I wrote some questions about the speed of sailing ships, don't delve into it, modern sailing ships can reach speeds of thirty-five knots, that is, close to seventy kilometers per hour.] The materials of the magical world are much stronger than reality, and the magicians themselves are equivalent to scientific and technological personnel, and it is theoretically possible to build a ship equivalent to a modern sailing ship, and the newly designed sailing ship will only take five days to cross the Atlantic, and the magic ship will not be too slow. Basically, when these things appear, I will look up a little bit of realistic information to deal with them, so that the things in the wizarding world will not be too outrageous]