Chapter 416
Kredian and the rest gathered at Saleen's room quickly . Most of them stayed at the temple to accept any assignment that Saleen gave out anytime or to listen to Saleen talk about magic related problems .
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Although a mage's job required a lot of time, in actual fact, these people saved a lot of time . They would not need to worry about gold coins as Saleen would provide them the fundamental materials for practice . To work for Saleen, if there was income, Saleen would not withhold all the money . He would distribute parts of it to his followers .
As a follower of a mage, many of them got better treatment than a lordling . A lordling might be bullied by a big personage, but there was hardly anyone that would be willing to provoke a follower of a mage . You did not offend one person after all, but a bunch of people . The leader of the people would at least be a grade-5 grand mage or above .
Saleen pointed at dozens of metal bottles on the other side of the room and said, "These bottles can store restorative water . You have to fill these up within a month's time . "
The mages looked at the bottles that were half a meter tall and did not show any dissent on their faces . The healing effect of restorative water was amazing, but it was only a grade-1 magic . A mediocre grade-1 mage could produce twenty portions and above in a day . According to the mages' ability on controlling elements, the production amount of restorative water would differ . Saleen's one portion of restorative water was at least dozens of times more than an ordinary mage .
The task that Saleen had given was too easy to complete . Those mages only looked at those alchemy bottles in curiosity . The alchemy bottles were bronze in color and there were countless tightly carved magic patterns on them .
The bottles were actually used in the warships back then to store magic liquid . The speed of the mages creating magic liquid back then was similar to their current speed of making restorative water .
No matter magic liquid or restorative water, they had their time limit . Even the restorative water that Saleen made would be nullified after a month . Those made by a normal mage could only be stored for about six days . In these bottles, restorative water could be stored much longer .
Saleen used the Figaro Magic Formula and calculated in reversal . He realized the functions of the magic symbols on the bottles .
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These bottles were considered the lowest grade equipment as it did not have space attributes and it could not store much liquid . There was very little equipment that could store liquid with magic attributes then . If any mage laid their hands on one, they would not sell it off .
Saleen's dimension stones could be used to store food, but they could not stop restorative water from expiring . When he sent people to usher Lex, bringing a huge amount of restorative water would be useful . Even though Lex's army might not have gone through war, for such a long journey, there must be people who fell sick .
Bitter Water Prefecture was in the middle of the empire while Saleen's new city was more than one thousand mile away from the border north of the empire . There were vast differences in weather for the two places and it was inevitable to find some of them not accustomed to the climate .
"I want to fully arm a five hundred person army within a month . Within this one month, I want all of you to assist me in making armors . Kredian, I need your help to mend magic chariots as well . "
"Magic chariots! Master, could you salvage the sunken warship?
"Of course . " Saleen did not explain to them about how Nailisi did it . If it was someone else, they would need at least a sorcerer to do so . Even if they were a sorcerer, they had to be a sorcerer like Jason who had strong foundations and bizarre equipment to be able to do so .
Many magics had restrictions underwater, even using a spatial equipment would be huge trouble . Only a demon who was not afraid of water pressure and able to control spatial equipment like Nailisi would be suitable for salvaging sunken ships .
A normal way to salvage from sunken ship would be sending people to tie the body of the ship underwater with a buoy . After confirmation of location, they relied on another bigger ship's magic force to pull up the sunken ship .
Capstan that used a magic nucleus was a monster that ate gold coins too . To salvage a sunken ship like that was huge and it could easily be failed . Besides, there were many weird ways to salvage a sunken ship, but all of them were troublesome .
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There were twelve sunken ships off island nations from the eastern sea underwater one-hundred miles away . Nailisi and the winged skeleton were already on their way to salvage them .
"Among the five hundred people, more than half of them will be bowmen and all of them will be Barbarians . Then, I will put together two hundred swordsmen, who are pirates that I brought under control and can be managed and put to use now . The swordsmen from Sregl Island will not take any action this time . " Saleen said and he felt a surge of emotions . He killed the murderers, but the death of a hundred swordsmen still made him feel badly .
They were one-hundred of capable and loyal swordsmen . They all grew up in Sregl Island since birth .
"Master, how many mages do you want to send?"
"Five hundred people… Accompanied with two magic chariots, although it may seem a little wasteful . Both chariots should have a grand mage and a grade-4 mage . I planned to use skeleton warhorses to pull the magic chariots and both chariots will need two of them . Kredian, you and Daniel will go . If there will any problem with the skeleton warhorses, Daniel can assist you . " Saleen thought for a while and said, " Lex has many mages on hand . You don't have to compare yourself with them . Regarding ushering, let Gurney take care of it . "
"Gurney?" Daniel found it strange as Gurney was originally a pirate too and he was so ferocious that even his underlinings were afraid of him . Ever since he had gotten Saleen's support, Gurney was different from the scrawny pirate that he used to be . He was learning as much as possible everyday .
"Mm, his capability to work is not too shabby . I am planning to train him . "
Everyone was listening quietly . Saleen was the youngest in the room, but in this room that was longer than thirty meters, he was everyone's center of attention . Everyone had to rely on him to live a better life . Saleen wanted to announce everything that he had thought through one by one as they weighed heavily in his mind . He felt good being trusted by so many excellent people . He had to lead everyone to live better and not send these people to death on his behalf .
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"Besides the magic chariots, we need to make another two normal chariots with flamethrowers . "
Then, Saleen hesitated but said, "All of you, if you have no choice but to appear on the battlefield in the future, try not to attack using magic directly . That is unless the attack is going to bring about a huge return . The battlefields should not be where a mage should appear, but without us those soldiers would die meaninglessly . What we need to do is, support the soldiers with magic and let them live . I would make a lot of low level equipment and the expense may be a little higher . You must be mentally prepared . During training of the soldiers, I would have all of you to participate too . "
It was quiet in the room and it started snowing outside . There was a big piece of snow on the glass window and the world was covered in white .
Saleen's clear voice sounded thin in the spacious room, which was suitable for his young identity . Daniel looked at Saleen's face that was relaxed . He sighed in his heart, "I should sign a new follower contract with Saleen . If I don't make a choice now, I might not have this opportunity in the future . "
Daniel accepted Saleen . Even though Saleen had such achievements that were inseparable from his teacher's support . If Saleen was not capable, there would not be so many mages that were willing to follow him . Other mages' lifetime goals were to build a magic tower, but Saleen already owned a complete city at such a young age .
"I designed armor for the Barbarians and I will need your help too . Regarding weapons, we could salvage some from the sunken ship . The quality of the weapons by island nations from the eastern sea are decent and we have no need to purchase any as of now . "
A regular soldier has more than five weapon on them, two of them are long weapons and the other three are short weapons . Most of the soldiers from the eastern sea did not even bring a dagger with them when they die in the battle . These weapons were all in the sunken ship . If there were enough people, Saleen could put together equipment for ten thousand people or above anytime .
Equipment for ten thousand people was not a small amount . Viscount Gugger from Saleen's hometown would not be able to put together that much . A baron only had dozens of soldiers and in actual fact, Saleen's action then had already broke the restrictions of the empires' rules .
Who would be there to discipline him? His city was built up using Lex's name after all . Before The Great Chanake passed away, it passed through the decision of the upper house that Lex could own an army of ten camps .
The nobles made excuses to expand personal armies . Every personal soldier came with eight auxiliary soldiers and they would have the same equipment as the personal soldier . Servant soldiers in name, but in reality, they were all the nobles main combat power .
Saleen only planned to send five hundred people to usher Lex, but a five hundred person army was not any small force . There would not be any auxiliary soldier among the five hundred of them . If they were to expand it, there would be two thousand people, which was two regiments .
Five hundred soldiers were something a First Viscount was entitled to . More importantly, Saleen had magic chariots .
Magic chariots were not rare, but definitely expensive . Among all the items related to magic, they were the item that was a little cheaper than a magic tower . In actual fact, magic chariots were like a miniature portable magic towers and their function was to stabilize elements and increase the power of the magic . As an item made for war, magic chariots were made for mage and at the same time they had a defence power .
On a battlefield, a mage's living power was not strong . Among an army of ten of thousand people, there were many swordsmen . When arrows showered down, the expense of a magic shield was terrifying . Even Ice Plate Armor that was famous for its defence powers could not withstand for more than a few minutes .
Even when a low level mage was sent on the battlefield, there would be swordsman dedicated to protect them while magic chariots were the best equipment to protect a mage .
If Kredian lead four low level mages in the magic chariot, there had to be at least five mages of the same level to be his match . To kill him would be even more difficult .
Qin Empire was called the magic empire . To conquer the Qin Empire, island nations from the eastern sea spent national power to make big amounts of magic chariots . Saleen took a few straightaway . If these chariots were to be pulled onto the land earlier, the ending of the battle would have been uncertain .