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Salin might have been determined to get the heart fragment of the Puppet God before he went to the Abyss King City. Because if his Puppet World domain absorbed this thing, it would immediately become incomparably powerful, even surpassing his water elemental domain.
But Jason told Salin with facts that only what he created was the most perfect. For a mage, the importance of a domain was self-evident, and the degree of perfection of the domain determined the mage's understanding of the Rules after advancing to level-13.
According to Salin's judgment, the Puppet God was definitely not a deity above level-15. Although the energy contained in the heart fragment tempted Salin, he had the Mana Furnace. Any magical core, gemstone, or even elemental creatures could be turned into pure energy after being thrown into it.
The value of a large Mana Furnace was about the same as this fragment. In half a year at most, the alchemy factory in Metatlin City would be able to manufacture another Mana Furnace, and they would be able to manufacture a large-scale Mana Furnace at the rate of one every six months. As long as there were enough materials, Salin would not lack energy output methods and equipment.
The Grandmaster didn't think that a Magic Furnace was anything special, so he gave Salin all the manufacturing methods of Magic Furnaces, including the various models, sizes, and levels.
If not for the scarcity of materials compared to ancient times, Salin could now make all the Mana Furnaces. In ancient times, this thing was originally used by low-level professions.
At that time, the powerhouses could tear planar passages with their hands, so they did not need these things.
Salin said to Nelis, "Do you think Glen is trustworthy?"
Nelis shook her head. This level-10 mage was too neutral and peaceful. This kind of person would not care about anything. Only he himself was the center of the world. This was Nelis's view after understanding human nature.
"He wants the islands on the periphery of the Frozen Sea. Now that I have warships patrolling there, it will be difficult for him to get them. But once I fight with the Ironblood Grand Duke, his people will easily occupy all the mineral veins. So, Nelis, send someone to Lianyun City and say that I want to meet with the Ironblood Grand Duke. The location cannot be controlled by either party, and he can choose. "
"Master, who should I send?"
"Nelis, of course not you. The Ironblood Grand Duke may not be willing to ally with me. The person who goes will always be in danger."
"Then let the Water Puppet go."
"Alright." Salin gradually let Nelis make some decisions. He could not let Nelis be his bodyguard all the time. Sooner or later, Nelis would have to be independent. Now, Nelis often acted on her own because she had this need.
Nelis often acted on her own because she had this need.
He had to let Nelis have a sense of responsibility, and not just loyalty.
The Winged Skeleton received Salin's message and rushed back to Metatlin City on the same day. Over at Ceylon City, the battle was basically over. There was no need for the Winged Skeleton to continue helping there. Viscount Guge had already returned to Ceylon City and was recruiting troops with great fanfare. Of course, it was all paid for by Salin.
Guge was a person with average strength and was not good at currying favor. Otherwise, he would not have spent so many years in Ceylon City and failed to bribe the Imperial Capital's Elder Council. Guge was a very rare talent. But he was good at defending. In other words, as long as Salin built Ceylon City and gave Guge's people and money, Guge would be able to defend his territory.
To Salin, this kind of person was a very rare talent. Guge would arrange the people he sent to Ceylon City. No one would feel wronged. Guge could even take care of most of his people. In some sense, Guge had the style of an ancient noble and some abilities.
The Winged Skeleton returned, but Magic Tooth was not so fast. The Winged Skeleton returned to Metatlin through the teleportation formation, but the mechanical undead controlled the ancient warship and had to go by sea. However, the ancient warship did not need to return directly to Metatlin Port. Salin asked the mechanical undead to wait on the route to the Frozen Sea.
Near the Frozen Sea, there were countless small islands within tens of thousands of miles. When Salin wasn't here, Jason had built a large number of warships and controlled the islands with mineral veins. There were now more than six hundred Metatlin battleships in the periphery of the Frozen Sea, all of them controlled by demons.
Although this power could not compare to the Cloud Flow Navy, it could not be compared to the navies of the other empires. Moreover, all the Metatlin warships were equipped with magic cannons. There was a small magic net with familiars acting as magicians.
Level-10 powerhouses were not afraid of these warships, but those below level-10, even level-9, could not show off in the Frozen Sea. Not to mention, they had to deal with the large number of demons and the powerful equipment of Metatlin City.
The Devil's Horn only knew that Metatlin City had a powerful navy outside the Frozen Sea. They did not dare to invade. They sent Gran here to find out more about Salin.
Salin deployed troops in the temple and decided to set up a trap. As long as the Devil's Horn's flying warship dared to appear, they would immediately sink it. Salin did not know how powerful the Devil's Horn was, but looking at Gran's attitude, it should not be stronger than the Iron Blood Grand Duke.
Three days later, Salin made the arrangements and called Gran again to discuss the deal.
Gran wanted 600 ships of ore. Obviously, the Devil's Horn did not have 600 ships, so the value of this deal was calculated according to the volume of 100,000 cubic meters per ship.
Salin suggested that the deposit was too little, but Gran did not mind. He simply took out more than 60 pieces of the Puppet God's heart. This was half of all the pieces. The other half would be handed over when Salin's ore was obtained.
Salin still refused, saying that he had to be responsible for the safety of the goods from the Arctic to Metatlin City. It would cost a lot to mobilize warships. He was right. The warships of Metatlin City were all powered by magic power. They used magic furnaces and used magic cores. Although the consumption was 90% less than a simple mechanical warship, a warship still cost tens of thousands of gold coins to go out to sea.
Helpless, Gran could only take out millions of magic cores to pay for Salin's protection fee.
Only then did Salin mobilize a total of 10 warships to escort the armed merchant ship out to sea, straight to the periphery of the Frozen Sea.
Gran went personally, but Salin did not follow. He arranged for Zola to bring Eleanor and two level-10 Mages from Seriger Island to escort the ship.
The two level-10 Mages wore white robes. Salin did not know what method Jason used, but he could not see the level of these two Mages. He only thought that they were low-level level-3 Mages. These two Mages were hidden among the Great Mages on the ship and were inconspicuous.
Salin arranged things here and bid farewell to his teacher, Sicar. He went alone to the top of the continent north of Metatlin City. There was a shrine there.
The Water Puppet brought back news that the Ironblood Grand Duke had declined Salin's invitation. He only said that he had no plans to continue attacking Qin Yin. If they wanted to cooperate, it would be at least a year later.
This result surprised Salin, but it was good news that the Ironblood Grand Duke did not completely reject him.
To the north of Metatlin City, there were two shrines left behind by the Goddess. One of them was in the sea, so Salin was not in a hurry to explore it. However, the other was on land. Although there were no cities in the Northern Wilderness, there were an unknown number of professionals training there.
Salin was in a hurry to excavate this shrine because he planned to separate his Puppet World Domain and Elemental Creature Domain and make them into two pieces of equipment. Once the Puppet World Domain was separated, even if he added the heart fragment of the Puppet God, it would not be as convenient to use as it was now.
Salin drove the Elemental Magic Tower from Metatlin City alone, heading straight for the shrine in the north of the continent. The mageweath of the Elemental Magic Tower quickly repaired itself, and its flight speed was still more than 300 miles. Salin did not waste the elemental creatures, and only used magic cores as power to throw them into the magic furnace.
In a little more than a day, Salin arrived at the region where the shrine was located. It was not a big plain, covered in primeval forest. After Salin's Elemental Magic Tower landed near the coordinates, he used the magic compass to search.
The dimensional passage where the shrine was located was exactly 15 miles north of where the Magic Tower landed. Salin put away the Elemental Magic Tower and went straight to the coordinates.
The northern forests would lose their leaves in winter, and only a small number of magic plants still had thin needles hanging on the treetops in the snow. The location that Salin found was already covered in snow. This was the northernmost part of the continent, and the climate was cold. Winter came two or three months earlier than in Metatlin City.
Salin simply released the Elemental Magic Tower again to suppress the dimensional passage, and then released the domain to attract all the nearby snow outside the Magic Tower, forming an ice castle.
The puppets were stationed in the castle, and Salin entered the dimensional passage alone. Speaking of which, he did not come alone. At least the 3,600 Familiars in the Elemental Magic Tower could help him fight. The Water Puppet Lawson could also control the Elemental Magic Tower when he left.
Not long after Salin entered the dimensional passage, an expedition team appeared outside the ice castle. This expedition team was composed of six people, led by a Warrior in gorgeous leather armor. The other five were two Mages, one Archer, one Caucasian, and one Assassin.
The leading Warrior was not old, and the oldest of the five people he commanded was only a level-seven Magic Shooter in his thirties. When this team approached the ice castle, they were not discovered by the puppets because the puppet world was not controlled by Salin. These puppets would not attack explorers unless they were attacked.
"Huh? Why is there an ice castle here? " The Assassin was scouting ahead with a magic compass in his hand. His profession was Magic Assassin, which meant that he had changed from a magic apprentice to an assassin. Because there was no hope in learning magic, many people switched to other professions. Such an Assassin could also use low-level equipment, such as a magic compass.
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