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"Master, why are you in such a hurry? Did you find something good?" Nelis asked Salin curiously. Salin didn't share his senses with her, so she couldn't see more than a hundred miles away.
"I'm going to save someone."
"Save people?" Nelis looked so excited that even Truman couldn't understand it.
"It's too annoying to kill people all the time. It must be fun to save someone occasionally." Nelis was eager. Everyone laughed, including Salin.
He didn't kill people all the time, but his recent actions were troubling him.
The Magic Furnace of the Dragon Skeleton Warship was fully activated. The warship rushed toward the storm at a speed of sixty kilometers per hour. This was not the fastest speed of the Dragon Skeleton Battleship. This hundred-meter-long behemoth could fly.
In less than half an hour, the people on the ship also saw the dark clouds in the distance. Through the alchemy binoculars, the towering waves were more than ten meters high. Only Mages were operating the Magic Furnace on the ship. There weren't many sailors. The soldiers following Salin were shocked to see this.
Fortunately, everyone knew the performance of the Dragon Skeleton Warship. There was a level-nine Magic Shooter on the ship, so they could just fly again.
The ten-meter-high waves were chasing a merchant ship ahead. This merchant ship had obviously been modified. It looked like an ordinary warship before. There were even two magic stone cannons on this modified ship that hadn't been removed.
This modified ship was extremely fast, but its defense was reduced. Not to mention the storm, even ordinary waves could affect the ship's navigation. In the huge waves, the merchant ship was already tilting. The hull of the ship was almost a hundred meters long, but it was seriously tilted. Ships had to maintain a perpendicular angle to the waves. If they were parallel, even an ancient warship would be in danger.
However, most warships had Magicians overseeing them, so they were able to survive the storms to a certain extent. The merchant ship in front of him could only afford to hire Magician Apprentices.
Crack … bang!
The hundred-meter-long merchant ship suddenly made a huge cracking sound. The bow of the ship pierced through the waves. Then, it trembled violently and disintegrated in the middle!
Salin immediately knew that the ship had modified the cabin in the middle to increase the cargo capacity and removed some magic facilities. There weren't many Mages on the ship anyway. This way, the cargo capacity of the ship would at least double, but it would be much less sturdy.
"Let's save them." Salin sighed. The merchant ship in front of him was flying the flag of the Scotia Empire, but it was not a warship. Even if it was a warship, they were not in a state of battle. He still had to save the sailors on the ship.
The Dragon Skeleton Battleship quickly adjusted its angle, and the huge bone wings on both sides unfurled. A metal hover cabin was released, stabilizing the battleship so that it could maintain a certain level of balance in the wind and waves. Then, more than forty kayaks were lowered on both sides of the deck. This was not a lifeboat. In the huge waves, the lifeboat would capsize.
The area of the storm was extremely large, covering more than a thousand miles of the sea. The center of the storm was calm and tranquil. In an area that was less than five kilometers wide, there were towering waves all around, revolving around the center of the storm, pushing forward. In this place, an ancient sailboat was advancing at high speed. The length of the sailboat was only 60 meters, the mast was tall, and the sail was tattered. On the deck of this ancient sailboat, there were rows of soldiers.
These soldiers were wearing rusty armor. They did not have masks, and more than half of the flesh on their faces had rotted away. There were almost no eyeballs in their eye sockets, and they did not have the soul fire of the undead.
In the hands of the soldiers was an ancient spear. The tip of the spear was more than a foot long, and the two sides of the spear were serrated.
In the sky above this sailboat, a strange huge eye was looking forward. The pupil in the middle of the eye was vertical, and it was filled with an evil aura. This eye had a diameter of half a kilometer. As it was flying at such a high altitude, it did not seem that oppressive.
All the elements around the huge eye were controlled, and the wind and waves could not invade it. The sailboat was moving at an unknown speed.
This eye was still flickering slowly. Every time it blinked, a huge wave would be stirred up in the distant sea. At the same time, the dark clouds in the sky were also rolling crazily, and the strong airflow produced a violent sound. The storm within a thousand miles seemed to have been triggered by this eye.
At the periphery of the storm, the merchant ship had already disintegrated. The sailors and merchants on the ship were at a loss. In such a storm, there was no chance of survival.
"Captain, there's a ship in front!" A few soldiers on the ship that had yet to sink pointed at the dragon skeleton warship in the distance. Under the shadow of the dark clouds, the huge dragon skeleton warship quietly waited, waiting for the arrival of the storm.
More than forty kayaks were thrown into the water, and only two undead were operating them. A Water Ripple Shield appeared on the kayaks, but it was different from the one Salin usually used. It was probably a level-two one. It was activated by a magic formation, and powered by magic cores. The kayaks were not fully inflated, and looked a little deflated. However, with the protection of the spherical Water Ripple Shield, the kayaks easily floated on the sea, and sailed towards the place where the merchant ship had disintegrated.
In the blink of an eye, the storm had engulfed the forty-odd kayaks. The kayaks shook violently in the storm, but they did not leave the water, and were stuck firmly in the water.
Although the storm was powerful, it was not an offensive spell, and the storm did not contain anything other than water. The kayaks passed through the waves and arrived next to the merchant ship. The merchant ship had already sunk, and only the deck was half a meter above the water. The cabin was already filled with water. If it weren't for the fact that half of the cabin was still sealed, the ship would have sunk a long time ago.
The undead threw out ropes. Seeing that the sailors and soldiers were about to drown, they did not care who they were, and were pulled onto the kayaks by the undead. Each kayak could accommodate more than twenty people, and they left after they were full.
At this moment, the storm had already visited the dragon skeleton warship. The dragon skeleton warship was shaking in the huge waves, and the bone wings on both sides were stuck to the water, serving as a balance. If it were an ordinary balance board, such a huge wave would have made it lose its function a long time ago. However, the bone wings of the dragon skeleton warship were automatically adjusted, and the waves couldn't break them.
The dragon skeleton warship was originally used as a flagship. Although it was powerful, the most important thing was to maintain safety, speed, and the ability to adjust. The dragon skeleton warship had the best teleportation array, magic formation, and nine magic furnaces. There were cabins on the ship that looked like space warehouses, which could hold a lot of resources. The metal cabin below the ship was submerged in the water, which was designed to deal with a large storm.
There were only a hundred sailors and a hundred soldiers on the merchant ship, and the rest were coolies. On the Myers Continent, sailors were also a profession with a relatively high salary, unlike the coolies on the ship. More than forty kayaks could rescue more than eight hundred people, and this merchant ship couldn't hold that many people.
The sailors and soldiers on the kayaks were dizzy from the jolting. The two undead in charge of the kayaks only knew to fix them to the kayaks with ropes, and then drive the kayaks back to the dragon skeleton warship.
Salin watched the undead rescue the drowning people from the front deck of the dragon skeleton warship. Neris had already dived into the sea, approached the broken merchant ship, and entered the cabin.
The warehouse was divided into several parts. Neris found the smallest warehouse, kicked it open, and saw that the small warehouse was full of boxes. Those were the space boxes that only Qin Yin's elite troops used. They were the same size as the outside, but the way they could hold things inside was different. They wouldn't be damaged, and the weight wouldn't be calculated.
No matter how heavy the things inside the space boxes were, the weight wouldn't increase. Therefore, the value of the space boxes lay in their attributes. These things were sturdy, and Neris could break them at will. However, she came alone, and there was no one to supervise her, so she simply put all the space boxes into the dimensional stone.
There were more than a hundred space boxes in this small cabin. After Neris put them away, she entered the larger cabin at the back. This cabin was stacked with ordinary goods. They were all huge wooden boxes, bound with metal wires, and sealed with lead.
Neris directly put the ordinary boxes into her bracelet. Her eyes were sharp, and she read the words on the lead seal. She was too lazy to move the low-value goods. This ship came from Scotia, and it was definitely a smuggling ship. The value of the goods on it had to be at least 100,000 gold coins to make this adventure worthwhile.
100,000 gold coins was not a small amount for the Metatlin Kingdom. Although Salin could hunt in the Frozen Sea, with the current situation, no matter how expensive the magic cores were, Salin wouldn't sell them.
The entire Metatlin Kingdom's economy was in a slump, and wealth could only be circulated within the country. Magic cores, metals, wood, and ores, which were sought after by merchants, were now stored by the royal family in the Metatlin City's warehouse after they were produced.
Neris barged into the next cabin happily. She thought to herself, Saving people is indeed an interesting thing, and there are so many benefits to reap.
After clearing most of the goods on the sunken ship, Neris sneaked back into the dragon skeleton warship. On the dragon skeleton warship, most of the people who had fallen into the water on the merchant ship had been rescued. There were more than 200 of them.
Salin had already returned to the cabin. He couldn't be bothered to meet these people. It was just a smuggling ship, and he could leave it to the Truman Sect.
More than 400 kilometers away, in the center of the storm, that huge eye was still flying forward. The ship below was lifeless, and the bow broke through the sea surface without making any sound.
The huge eye in the sky controlled the storm and gradually approached the dragon skeleton warship. Its flying speed was about 50 kilometers. If the dragon skeleton warship turned and left now, it definitely wouldn't encounter this monster. However, the dragon skeleton warship was busy dealing with the rescued people, and Salin didn't take this huge storm seriously. The dragon skeleton warship was still anchored in place.
The distance between the two parties was getting closer and closer. 400 kilometers, 150 kilometers, 100 kilometers …
Salin also found it strange. He felt that three hours had passed after he finished meditating, but the storm still showed no signs of stopping. The dragon skeleton warship was tossed about in the storm, but in fact, the turbulence on the ship wasn't that strong.
"Nicholas, do you feel danger?" Salin asked the old mage.
"No, Neris. What about you?"
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