Chapter 312: Talent Vacancy (Part 1)
Salin's turtle alchemy ship went north after leaving the coast for thousands of miles, and indeed there was no trouble. Feilett and Lanni chatted with Salin most of the time, and Salin deeply felt that she was still too young.
At the beginning, I thought Enni was already very thoughtful, and compared with his parents, Enni was really simple.
In December, Salin's Pan Turtle Alchemy Ship returned to the northern waters and bypassed the Lianyun City area, the alchemy ship dived underwater for thousands of miles without disturbing the battleships of Lianyun City.
Salin benefited a lot from talking to the Ferrets, so he didn't care if he was delaying a day or two underwater.
While on the boat, Salin was very relaxed and felt that his magic string had increased. Unfortunately, there was no qualitative change, and there was still a big gap between him and his advanced magician. Even so, his current magic string is more than twice that of a mage of his level.
On this day, the Pantule Alchemy Ship stopped and leaned towards the shore. However, it arrived at the natural port 700 miles south of Metatlin City. At that time, Salin knew that there were mineral veins here and could make magic crystals, but inadequate manpower, he never came here to mine, but just asked the Dragon Skeleton Warship to come to patrol from time to time.
This time, the construction of this natural port has begun.
This place is 700 miles away from Metatlin City and will not freeze until the end of December. The Dragon Skeleton Battleship can get ashore, but other ships cannot. The Rock Turtle Alchemy Ship was discovered when it was close to fifty miles away.
The Dragon Skeleton Battleship dropped two small boats outside the port and approached the Pan Turtle Alchemy Ship. Seeing that it was this boat, the boat took a circle and drove back.
Seeing that the guard was not strict, Salin frowned. The Winged Skeleton said, "Master, there is a way to identify the warships. In Metatlin City, I imitated the appearance of the Alchemy Ship of the Round Turtle, made several small tugs to transport goods, which they all recognized."
"Go ashore and take a look, Uncle Feret, come together." Salin also knew that his life in Metatlin City was short, and it was good that they could do it now with the winged skeletons. In the plan, Salin was designed according to the military port. Whether it is a familiar ship or not, it must be carefully inspected before entering.
Salin walked onto the deck and accompanied the Ferrets. Nania did not come up below. She had participated in the design of this port and had no sexual interest.
When the alchemy ship entered the port, he saw that there were only a few small boats in the port. The defense facilities on the shore were good. Salin's Eye of Elements saw more than twenty magic stone cannons. In addition to the magic stone cannons, countless dark rooms were also carved out on the cliff in the distance, which were the positions of the alchemy crossbows.
The port has a crude facility, but on both sides, more than twenty miles apart, there are two castles rising from the sea. These two tall castles are simply carved from two stone mountains.
Salin calculated with a brief calculation. Each of the two castles could live in a scale of ten thousand people. At the top of the castle is a magic tower that has not yet been completed. According to normal circumstances, a castle of this size will have at least two thousand troops garrisons. However, these two castles are purely military chemical fortifications that protect the harbor and interdependent with the city behind it. Then the garrisons can exceed five thousand, and the two castles are ten thousand troops.
Craftsmen, magicians, servants, and auxiliary soldiers fill the remaining gaps.
"The City Lord is here! The City Lord is here!" The people who were still working on the dock were noisy, but the winged skeletons showed their flags on the ship.
"Sir, you came back so early!" Salin's boat docked, and Ge Yi brought people to welcome him.
"Hmm? Why are you here?" Salin was a little surprised to see Geyi here.
"Mr. Daniel said that this place is very important, but I will not encounter any enemies for the time being, let me stare at it." Ge Yi said excitedly. Daniel also began to trust him, which means that he began to truly enter Salin's core circle.
"How is the urban construction?"
"Three, those three old guys didn't come here. We used slaves and the speed was a bit slow. At least next summer, the new city would be able to live in this new city." Ge Yi was talking about the Three Kings. Salin was not there and Enni was not there. Those three guys were hiding in Metathrin City without the help of the Three Kings, there was no one to command the three guys, so they could not get a large number of undead spirits.
"How dare you slacking off your work? Hey..." Salin thought to himself, after I advanced to the magician, I will not be afraid that these three guys will fight to the death. Now I will tolerate them first.
Geyi took Salin and others to the west, and only saw the newly built city was more than ten miles away. This city was a waste of time. It was built outside a valley more than two miles wide. After the mountains on both sides were rested, it was a fortress. However, this was a closed terrain, and the army could only attack from the seaside. There were mountains everywhere, and there was no other way to go.
If there were no roads here, Salin would not have chosen a location to build Metatrile City seven hundred miles north. It was a hundred times easier to defend here than Metatrile City.
"Why didn't the dock be built?" Salin's Eye of Element could see clearly the entire port and the open space in the hundreds of bungalows. He did not see even the underwater dock, but only roughly dug out a deep-water port that he didn't know what to do.
"Sir, the shipyard is built here first. If we want to build a fleet, we don't have so many sailors." Ge Yi replied.
Salin knew very well that the end of this place was to build a shipyard and a factory for refining and synthesizing magic crystals, not a place to pass and spit goods. But the progress of this work was too slow. Didn’t it buy a large number of slaves? The prisoners in the East China Sea should be used in large quantities, but it was deserted everywhere, and it seemed that they were not too slow and had no intention of being anxious.
"Sir, there is no hurry here."
"Why aren't you in a hurry? Alas..." Salin stomped his feet. He could not expand on land for the time being, so he could only build a city in this wilderness. However, if he could find a waterway to enter the countries of the East China Sea, he would immediately need a fleet. There were also many islands in the northern waters, all of which were occupied, and hundreds of ships were needed to guard it.
These islands are also supply points on the sea road to Metatrim City from the south. There was no Metatrim City before, and these islands were not valuable. Their own cities are now thriving in trade. From now on, a large number of merchant ships will travel north every summer. How could Alchemy City not be concerned about it?
If Alchemy City or Lianyun City occupy these islands, it is equivalent to blocking the route and collecting some taxes, and your business will be greatly affected.
The road access to Metatlin City is too far away, and it takes two thousand miles to get to Phoenix. Only by taking the sea route can you quickly trade with Qinin. If the sea route is controlled, Metatlin City will be difficult to become a commercial center.
Lianyun City once sent warships to harass Metatrim City, but was defeated by the Dragon Skeleton Warship. The people of Lianyun City may not be willing to do so. They only have one Dragon Skeleton Warship and two Srieg Island warships. It is difficult to attack Metatrim City, let alone guard hundreds of islands.
Daniel is not an adult, and he doesn't understand the importance of the sea, so he actually put all his strength into building Metatrium City, and he was pitiful to the new city. Fortunately, he walked it himself, otherwise he wouldn't know that this was the case here.
Salin was not in the mood to watch it any longer. He said to Ge: "You should have a lot of free time here. I will send someone to come over to build a city. You should hurry up and practice swordsmanship. If you don't become a swordsman, you will never have a chance, and you won't think about how old you are."
Salin was less than 20 years old and scolded Ge Yi, but he looked like an old man. Ge nodded and said, "Sir, I am indeed not suitable for this matter. But if you are not here, Lord Daniel dares not assign this task to others at will."
Ge Yi was grateful that if he had not become a quasi-sword saint at the age of forty, he would have been a sword master in his life. His talent was not outstanding, but Salin could give him a good teacher and work hard, so he had this opportunity.
"Okay, in two or three days, I'll send someone over here, and you'll go back to Metatlin City. Well, construction has just begun here. Stop and give me the drawings. I'll take them back and redesign them." Salin ordered, and Felette watched from the side, just laughing.
"Uncle Ferret, why are you laughing at?"
"Sarin, you're too anxious. Also, if you want to accomplish great things, you have to use more people and don't be suspicious."
"Uncle said," Salin thought to himself, it seems that I still have to go and find the earl Joey to introduce to him. An earl can definitely manage a city. Joey said that the earl can trust him, so... then use it.
After getting on the ship, Salin was listless and the sound of winged skeletons sounded in his mind: "Master, I can take my time with the warship matters. The bone warship must be controlled by the undead from time to time. Most of the structures are the same as those of the magic warship. The weapons can also be arranged with magic stone cannons. I reserved a turret. If the part of the undead manipulation is removed, I will be able to create a batch soon."
"Where is the sailor?" Salin asked depressedly.
"Master, even if you have time, it will be difficult to recruit suitable ones. Just train them yourself. Didn't we buy a lot of slaves from the East China Sea? Let me control them and I will definitely be obedient."
It had to be like this. Salin thought to himself that even if he hired sailors, he could not use them on the warships. Even Rex couldn't help with this. Kushui County was located inland and had no river, so he could not train sailors.
Seven hundred miles, the Alchemy ship of the Pantule Alchemy ship took six hours to arrive. The coast here was frozen. The Alchemy ship of the Pantule Alchemy ship was sneaking down from the sea. Salin saw under the crescent peninsula, building an underwater fortress, and a large number of undead were cruising under the water, monitoring the port without any four corners.
The turtle alchemy ship passed by, and the undead followed, and the winged skeleton laughed, "Master, I'm going to protect you, okay."
"These undead?"
"Master, it was not summoned from the undead plane, but made by me."
"You! Can you create undead?" Salin asked in surprise. It is OK to create undead, a level nine-level undead mage, and the winged skeleton can create undead at only level seven. It is obviously a bit out of common sense.
Chapter completed!