[First update, fourth update today. Hey, be careful of radiation and food choices. Coastal readers, I wish you peace and health.]
Salin had the Winged Skeleton stay in the air for a moment. He took out the magic map and compared the location. They were still more than a thousand miles away from the Golden Plains. It would take ten hours for the fake undead dragon to fly slowly.
The fake undead dragon was covered in wounds. The Winged Skeleton hurriedly healed it, but it wasn't very effective. Its flying speed was getting slower and slower. Salin simply landed and found a flat ground. He took out the Elemental Magic Tower from his dimensional stone and brought Huojinna into the tower. Salin planned to familiarize himself with the Spear of Huojinna.
The Elemental Magic Tower had taken root. Although it couldn't grow roots like the Tree of God Magic Tower, its bottom could still petrify the ground and connect it with the earth. Outside the tower, the Winged Skeleton continued to heal the False Undead Dragon. The Winged Skeleton was quite satisfied with this new toy. The False Undead Dragon's flight was very stable. Moreover, the False Undead Dragon's Battle Prowess was not weak when it was alive. After becoming an Undead, it had gained a new ability, Undead Breath.
Inside the Elemental Magic Tower, Salin re-examined Huojinna's blueprints. He didn't miss anything, but it was a bit expensive to forge the Spear of Huojinna with seven white whale horns.
If the six barrels of the Spear of Huojinna shot at the same time, the six icicles would lock onto the target and have the attack power of a level-ten spell. Also, the cooldown time of this equipment was only three minutes. It was worth it even if it was expensive. Salin's family badge had high attack power, but he had to wait half a year to replenish it with lightning power every time he used it. This was when Salin had twenty-four thunder dragons. If it were someone else, it would take at least a year for the badge to recover its power.
However, Salin's long-range attacks had always been his weakness. His strongest attacks were all performed at close range. The more powerful the spell, the closer the attack range. For example, the Eye of Thunder and Crystal Finger both had an attack range of about ten meters, enough to defeat a level-ten powerhouse.
As a relatively sophisticated equipment, the Spear of Huojinna didn't have a long cooldown. Even Huojinna's own only had a cooldown of thirty minutes.
Salin rummaged through the materials that the Grand Master had given him and found a more suitable material. It was half a silver tuna spike. The spike was more than six meters long. The front end had been cut off by some unknown weapon, leaving only the back half. Six meters long was enough for Salin to refine.
He took out a Unicorn White Whale's horn and used it as the base for Huojinna's spear. Then, he released the water flame and began to refine it.
Salin wasn't familiar with the details of the Spear of Hockina, so he wasn't satisfied with it even though he didn't make any mistakes. At the very least, the spear was too long and wasn't suitable for a mage to use. It could be mounted on the Coiled Turtle Alchemy Ship.
The quality of the Silver Striped Tuna's spear was much higher than that of the Unicorn Beluga's horn. If it hadn't been cut off, it could've definitely been used to craft another Gray Memory level weapon. With great difficulty, Salin's Water Flame compressed half of the spear into a one-meter-long cannon barrel. There were six thin magic channels in the cannon barrel, which arranged the three-dimensional magic patterns.
This time, Salin completely unleashed his own creativity. He was more familiar with the transformation of the six elements than Huo Jinna. The locking device in the middle of the barrel was the remaining eye of the Silver Line Tuna. This thing's locking ability was very terrifying. When all six eyes were opened at the same time, as long as you had enough Spiritual Power, you could lock onto a target that was a major rank higher than you. Salin absorbed the refining ideas from the Gray Memory and made a dragon crystal for this eye.
Huo Jinna carefully watched Salin's refining process. She was also greatly inspired. In the field of alchemy, she was more than ten times more talented than Salin. But not to mention that Salin wouldn't teach her Water Flame Alchemy, even if he did, the possibility of her learning it was not high.
The difficulty of learning Water Flame Alchemy was so high that only Jason had this skill in the entire Seriger Island. Salin could learn it because he had a Water Elemental Body. It was a hundred times easier for him to learn water skills than any other mage.
This time, Salin refined the Thunder Mageweath in the cannon barrel of Hockina's Spear. The advantage of the Thunder Mageweath was that the cannon barrel's wall no longer had to worry about its structure degenerating due to firing icicles.
As for the other parts, Salin didn't make too many changes. The equipment designed by Huo Jinna was already close to perfection. Salin only created one more function, which was to refine a purple-gold sea urchin leather bag on the arm of his Demonic God Set, and then put the Spear of Hockina, which was only half a meter long, into it.
This way, he could use this weapon at any time, and it wouldn't be affected by the environment.
Salin tested it out casually, and took out the Spear of Hockina from the arm. The white shell behind the Spear of Hockina wrapped around Salin's arm, and it didn't affect Salin's movements.
This equipment was only half a meter long, and just happened to be longer than Salin's fingers. This made the Spear of Hockina look like a warrior's arm guard. The black and white mageweath interweaved, and it had a strange beauty.
Salin was finally satisfied. Although the attack power of the new Spear of Hockina was about the same as the first equipment, the material was more outstanding, and its lock-on ability was many times better. More importantly, this equipment could be upgraded, and the strength of the material was enough for Salin to use it until Level-16.
Salin put away the Spear of Hockina, and then said to Hockina, "Do you understand?"
Hockina nodded, and said, "I understand. If I were at your level and had such good material, I would definitely make a better one than you."
Salin choked, but he didn't mind, because Hockina couldn't understand his lightning mageweath at all. The lightning mageweath was hidden in the three-dimensional mageweath, and Hockina only thought it was a higher-level mageweath. She didn't know that Salin himself had understood the lightning rule.
Salin nodded, and said, "Even so, the Water Flame Alchemy will make the equipment stronger. Give me your Spear of Hockina, and I'll help you reforge it.
Hockina didn't refuse. Salin's main reason for staying was to reforge equipment for Hockina. He brought this female alchemist everywhere because he was afraid that Hockina would be in danger. He would first refine powerful equipment for her to protect herself, just in case something happened and he couldn't help her.
Hockina's value wasn't in fighting, but in helping Salin with alchemy. If Hockina led the alchemy factory, Salin would soon have more practical equipment.
Salin had shown Hockina his skills before reaching the Golden Plains, just to attract her not to leave. Although they had signed a contract, it wasn't a follower's contract. If Hockina paid a certain price, she could still leave. If the Glücos family of the Golden Plains tried to recruit Hockina, they would definitely be able to afford it.
There was a saying among mages — when knowledge is in front of you, you shouldn't turn away.
If Hockina saw Salin's Water Flame Alchemy, the Glücos family probably wouldn't be able to fool this alchemist with unlimited potential.
As for Hockina, Salin really wanted to recruit her. He couldn't use any other way to recruit such a genius, let alone use violence. At the same time, he understood Inpos a little. Inpos didn't want Hockina to participate in the war, so he drove her away, hoping that she could find a peaceful place to study and live quietly.
But Hockina didn't go to Cloud Flow City, nor Holy Rock City. Instead, she returned to Great Liang City, which Inpos didn't expect.
Hockina thought the same as Salin. Even if someone placed a mountain of gold in front of her, she wouldn't leave.
Salin took out a large amount of metallized steel rock to reforge equipment for Hockina.
The problem with Hockina's Spear was that it needed constant repair. It was a semi-consumable item. And the repair of the barrel was more troublesome. If he used metallized steel rock, the properties of metallized steel rock happened to be easy to repair.
Salin noticed the change in Hockina. This little girl who didn't seem to grow up was starting to have an interest in staying by his side. When Salin reforged equipment for Hockina, he still took out a large pile of his materials and went through them one by one.
Hockina's eyes sparkled when she saw the materials in Salin's hands, just like Nelis who saw her target.
Alchemists weren't greedy. Their greatest desire was to refine unique things in their hands. It might not be a combat weapon, but it had to be a magical equipment that was different from others.
For example, Hockina's Spear was completed by Hockina alone. There was no telling how much bitterness she had gone through. She didn't get any help from Inpos, so completing this equipment gave Hockina an unparalleled sense of satisfaction.
The strength and economic power that Salin had shown now were enough to attract Hockina.
Alchemists didn't have much of a desire to fight. Their way of training was completely through magical experiments and making all kinds of equipment and medicine.
"Alright, Salin. I'll follow you from now on. I won't leave." No matter how stupid Hockina was, she knew what Salin was doing.
"That's good." Salin wasn't embarrassed even though he was exposed. It would be strange if he didn't do this kind of thing.
"But I don't want to just make weapons. I need an alchemy lab, a very high-level one." There was a saddening emotion in Hockina's eyes. Salin understood that Hockina didn't want to lose her freedom. She was also attracted by her own things and felt helpless.
The world was in chaos. Alchemists like Hockina would either be recruited or destroyed. What she couldn't have, she couldn't fall into the hands of others. Even if Salin didn't do this, he would find a way to stop Hockina from working for others. Hockina didn't dare to go to Cloud Flow or Alchemy City because she knew her own value.
Being too valuable sometimes wasn't a good thing. Her contact with Salin made her feel that at least Salin wouldn't use violence against her. No matter what Salin did, he was an orthodox mage.
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
