Chapter 315: Rex's Departure (Part I)
Chapter 315: Rex's Departure (Part I)
Unbeknownst to Salin, he had a good dream in the morning. Pope Dinisio had a nightmare.
Pope dreaming is a rarer thing than a magician. The spiritual power of the magician is condensed and not infected by foreign objects, but the spirit of the Pope is protected by the gods, and such a thing as a nightmare has not happened to Dinisio for more than fifty years.
So Dinisio took this matter very seriously, and the young mage in the dream, leading the army of the Alien Plane, destroyed the Plain of Radiance. This is definitely a hint from the gods to watch out for someone yourself.
The problem was that no matter how much Dinisio valued the dream, he couldn't publish it in the form of an oracle. He had to think of another way to solve it.
Quietly contacted the people in the Inquisition, the Pope issued one task after another, and tens of thousands of personnel from the Holy See Headquarters and the Inquisition Headquarters were sent out to quietly infiltrate the other three empires. These people have only one mission, to find an evil young mage and send his news back to the Holy City. No one is allowed to do it privately, let alone be known by this mage that the Holy See is looking for his traces.
The Pope did not seek the help of the Seven Divine Envoys in this action. Faka was still missing, and Pope Dinicio felt a little wary in his heart.
For the huge Holy See, this matter did not cause much turmoil, the front line was tight, and Garulan was the largest principality, which had already caused the Tangulas Empire and the Holy See to invest millions of troops. With more than one million troops, there is still a huge logistical support, and the front has been unable to enter the border of the Qin Yin Empire, and it is already winter, which makes the Holy See a headache.
Fortunately, most of the Titan Principality has been captured, and the army of the Yunliu Empire has retreated, stubbornly guarding the Yunliu border. The Yunliu royal family did not have the ability to fight back on land, so they let Yunliu's three fleets set off to harass the coast of the Tangulas Empire, ready to attack the coastal cities at any time.
Metatrine City, where the winter is so cold that the city's construction has stopped. The population of the city has actually exceeded 500,000, which is a huge number, but fortunately, Salin has purchased a large amount of grain, and looted a batch in Side Star City, and the freedmen who have taken refuge have no worries.
Inside the temple, led by Neris, the construction of Castlevania has begun.
The port south of Metatrin City was seven hundred miles away from Metatrin City, and it would take ordinary warships more than ten hours to reach it, and the Dragonwreck battleship was moving at full speed. It is also a six-hour sea journey. The speed of the Bone Battleship is also very fast, but it will take more than eight hours to arrive.
The white stones, which are a specialty of the area around Metatrin City, were sent to the construction site of Castlevania again and again by relying on the dimensional stones of Salin. Salin realized that the white stone of Metatrin was a precious building material. The hardness of this thing is comparable to that of steel rock, and the only drawback is that it is difficult to directly bless magic. The Three Kings summoned a large number of skeletons to work as coolies, and those purchased slaves from the East China Sea had to do more detailed work.
The blueprints of Castlevania provided by Triss have been altered by the mages of Shrig Island, making the project more and more massive.
During the construction of Metatrin City, a huge amount of stone was left because of the bulldozing of huge rocks, the excavation of drainage channels underground, and the large underground warehouse. These stones are stored in warehouses and can be used directly. But Castlevania was so large that Saleen had to continue mining stone outside the city and send it to the construction site of Castlevania.
The stone must be enough, and the first thing that Castlevania started to build was the Demon Summoning Array.
To establish Castlevania, Saleen did not discuss it with Rex, and even if Rex, who is a royal family, agrees, he will not participate in this matter. Saleen is clear. Therefore, the materials that need to summon the array must be provided by himself.
The most in Salin's hands is the magic core, but he doesn't have many materials needed to build the magic array, so he has to let Neris solve it by herself. Neris has more materials on hand than Sarin, but she still has to discuss with Wingskull to borrow some materials from WingsSkull before she can make up the materials needed for a demon summoning array.
This is a summoning array with a diameter of six hundred meters, and there has never been such a huge magic array on the Mers Continent. This summoning array must also be sealed, that is, a building with a space span of six hundred meters and no pillars must be built on the magic array.
Space. Such a building is difficult for even a magician to construct. As a last resort, the core of Castlevania City shifted a distance of more than ten miles to the mountains, and chose a mountain peak that was abrupt on the plain, and directly carved the demon summoning array in the mountain peak.
Salin had to take matters into his own hands and took all the mages of Shreig Island with him. After using his magic to probe the underground part of the mountain, Salin cut a hole in the top of the mountain with a stream of water that reached the core, and began to expand outward inside the peak. All the magicians had to probe at the same time to see if the load-bearing parts of the mountain were solid, and they had to keep reinforcing them with magic.
Salin and other mages are working on the development of the magic array, and Daniel also commands a large number of undead to help with the construction.
At this time, the undead sent by the winged skeleton sent back a message that the undead had discovered a secret supply point in the East China Sea Route, which was an island less than a hundred miles in radius. The island is more than 7,000 miles off the coast of Qinyin, and its location is relatively close to the dangerous sea, and it will be hit by hurricanes for about ten months of the year.
Although Salin still had nearly ten warships available, he could not participate in the operation of Alchemy City to find a route. He had no choice but to let the Winged Skull continue to watch. Find the next supply point, and lead the magician to build Castlevania as soon as possible.
In the blink of an eye, the year came to an end, and the foundation of Castlevania was finally laid, and it took more than three months to lay the foundation with tens of thousands of undead and slaves working at the same time, which can be said to be very slow. However, considering the cold weather, Saleen was fairly happy with the progress of Castlevania.
It is a city with a diameter of twelve miles, and it is huge. There are traces of magic in almost every inch of the foundation, and the mages under Saleen have grown in strength by leaps and bounds in this kind of high-intensity work.
Only then did Salin understand how important it was for Rex to set up a life mage in Kushui County back then, and it was impossible for a mage not to make progress if he integrated magic into his daily life.
Metatrin City, April is spring, and you can really farm until the end of May. After the foundation was built, Saleen was free to return to Metatrin City, and when he returned, he received the news that Rex was leaving.
Salin rushed directly to Rex's county palace, where the swordsmen were packing their bags and changing into brand new armor. Ready to go, if Saleen comes back a day or two late, I'm afraid Rex is already gone.
In the study, Rex was sorting out paperwork, she had been in Metatrin City for more than a year, running a lot of business, and she had to deal with it before leaving.
Seeing Saleen coming, Rex called for tea and stopped his work.
"You're leaving?" Salin was a little anxious, Metatrin City was short of manpower right now, and Rex was there. There was always some help, and she often sent her officials to help Salin. Otherwise, with Daniel's ability, it would be impossible to control such a large city.
"Don't worry, Salin, the official of the palace, I will leave you half, I will just take that elite swordsman battalion. Leave 10,000 people to help you defend the city, plus the more than 50,000 people you have trained in more than a year, it will definitely be enough. ”
Saleen calmed down at this time, and Rex was not going to leave completely. "Are you in a hurry to leave for the border?"
"No, I'm taking these 10,000 people to the border, and I'm going back to Kushui County. The Tangulas of Carlouland have attacked, and I will attack the Papal troops from behind the path behind Kushui County to cooperate with the offensive on the front of the Garudan border. ”
"When will you come back?" asked Salin, reluctantly.
"What are you in a hurry, at most a year and a half, I will definitely come back. Rex replied with a smile, but Saleen was a little disappointed. A year and a half later, my teacher was almost coming over. Rex meant that the cooperation between the two would continue. But that's not what Saleen wanted to hear.
Rex smiled, and she suddenly fired an ice arrow spell and shot at Salin, who subconsciously used an ice pick technique to cancel out Rex's magic.
"Salin, you think I'm not coming back?"
Sarah's face flushed, and Rex's movements reminded him of the situation when the two of them were in the Divine Punishment Territory, and they practiced magic together for a long time. I haven't forgotten it, and neither has Rex. It turns out that there is still Rex in his heart, but because of his identity, he has never wanted to think about such a thing.
Shika had already seen it, so he ...... So take yourself first.
His reaction to Rex was much slower than Schika's. It's been a year since Rex suddenly announces his departure, and he doesn't feel it.
"Saleen. After I left, I left behind a battalion that was not as capable of field warfare as my elite swordsman battalion, and if there was an enemy attacking Metatrin, use the forts on the periphery to consume its sharpness, and never seek field battles. Your army, even more so in the field, simply retreat into the city. In the same year, the trade route from Metatrin to Phoenix has also been opened, and there must be people who are thinking about this route, and you can always look for a reason to go to war there. I swallowed the Side Star City and Mars City, where more than 5,000 troops are stationed, and if you have manpower, you can replenish some of the past. ”
"I know. Saleen couldn't think of anything to say, Rex was leaving, but he still left a lot of wealth for himself.
"Duchy of Phoenix, you don't want to touch any other city except that trade route. There is my army on the front line of Side Star City, and once there is trouble, you can pay attention to the communication of the news. Holy Rock City has organized millions of troops, to attack Garulan, you don't want to enter the forces, wait for a war, the most important thing for you is to continue to open up the wilderness, build small towns, and recruit the victims of the war. ”
"What about you?"