Sephiroth didn't expect the battle to end like this. He came here with the thought of dying, but Salin went straight to the root and destroyed the core of the Elemental Hand. The mages below had no unity and surrendered.
"Salin, mages like this are hard to control!" Sephiroth sighed.
"You're right. That's why I'm going to redesign the rules of the Elemental Hand."
"You're not going to disband the Elemental Hand?"
"Of course. I'll maintain the Elemental Hand in Alchemy City and create the Eye of Truth in Metatlin. Both types of mages have their own ways of survival. "
"This is the art of emperors!"
"I can't think of a good idea for now."
Sephiroth didn't bother to worry about Salin. The empire had always valued mages. After Alchemy City attacked his territory, Sephiroth understood that if the mages didn't manage them effectively, there would be trouble.
All the equipment needed time to be collected. Salin slowly moved the mages to the floating city and let the three elders of the Elemental Hand control them.
The mages of Alchemy City first envied the magic net when they got on the floating city. Then, most of them felt that the magic net wasn't their future. Dependence on it would make them lose their creativity.
Only a few mages expressed their desire to stay in the floating city. Of course, this wasn't allowed. But Salin said that there was a similar magic net in Daliang City that allowed mages to use all kinds of skills easily.
The magic net wasn't just for Necromancers. In fact, mages could also gain power in the magic net, but they were no exception. They had to give spiritual power and faith power to the God of the Weave.
Every time someone used the magic net, the God of the Weave would gain power, and this power was extremely pure. If one wanted to gain magic from the magic net, they had to maintain respect for it and not hide anything.
There might be false believers among the believers of other gods, but not the God of the Weave. Every use of magic was a transaction.
Salin was relieved to see that most of the mages of Alchemy City weren't tempted. The magic net had more advantages than disadvantages for mages. If it really spread among the mages, it would make magic stagnate. Now, although the power of the Myers Continent was weak, even Level-4 or Level-5 mages would often have creative spells.
Salin gradually cleared out Boder's Gate and let the floating city lead the captives to another nest in Alchemy City to receive the remaining thirty thousand Mages. There were more than a hundred thousand Controllers on the floating city. Now that they had the absolute advantage, Salin did not go there personally. He brought a few of his trusted aides and began to refine the divine weapon in Bode's Gate.
Divine artifacts had spirits, so it wasn't difficult to refine them. More importantly, Salin had an advantage that the nine elders of the Elemental Hand didn't have: he had soul energy.
Only with Soul Energy could one control Juno, the Artifact Spirit. Otherwise, even if the contract was signed, the Artifact Spirit would still have a way to escape the punishment of the laws and escape with Boder's Gate.
If he did not sign the contract and killed the weapon spirit, he would be temporarily safe. However, it would be impossible to completely refine the Bode's Gate.
Salin only managed to completely refine the Bode's Gate in January of the second year. At this time, the army of the Church had not even reached the borders of the Jialoulan Empire.
Prince Sephiroth returned to Sacred Rock City and did not continue to develop in his territory. He also had his own grievances. His territory was almost under Salin's control. There were two fleets stationed there and a Divine Nature Temple was built in the capital.
The good thing was that Salin did fulfill his promise and built two fleets for him. He also sent people to help him train the navy.
Qin Yin's navy had always been mediocre. Even if Salin's navy was not as good as Yun Liu's, their equipment was not inferior to Yun Liu's. The only thing they lacked was combat experience at sea.
The equipment that Salin promised Sephiroth was all in place. A large number of weapons and armor that he had eliminated were also given to Sephiroth as if they were free gifts.
Sephiroth didn't have a private army, but he could clearly see the situation on the continent. Without a private army, it would be difficult to maintain Qin Yin's stability. Qin Yin's power had been scattered and could not be gathered for the time being. The matter of Sacred Rock City was purely a matter of energy.
The mages on the Golden Plains did not really intend to rely on Sacred Rock City to control the empire. The Golden Plains was actually secretly controlling the elite troops of the four towns.
The elite troops of the four towns could be mobilized by Sephiroth as the commander. Once he was demoted, it would be illegitimate to mobilize them again. At this time, Sephiroth finally thought it through. With his position, it was not a problem for him to have a few elite legions.
The only problem was where the money came from. Buying equipment, food, paying the troops, and training. Sephiroth was not a corrupt official and could not gather so much money, so Salin did him a big favor.
In fact, Salin's economic ability was not as good as the Qin Yin Empire. His prosperity relied on hunting in the Frozen Sea and the mines in the north. Various materials consumed by the mages and warriors were mined and hunted by Salin himself.
The maintenance of the Metatlin Kingdom depended on the nobles and merchants who relied on him. These people were keeping the country running. Salin could not be the king of the Demon Plane. Since he wanted to develop in the Myers Continent, Salin could not get rid of his dependence on these people.
Bode's Gate was 66 meters tall and had a total of 730 parts. There were four of them. What Salin had occupied was only the smallest space.
Juno originally controlled four spaces, but it was difficult to open the other three because of Juno's rank. Salin was not in a hurry. He wanted Bode's Gate mainly to mobilize the army. Although the floating city was good, it was too big of a target and could not be used suddenly.
After Salin refined Bode's Gate, he did not immediately contact Sephiroth. Under Sephiroth's secret operation, the Druidic Church had already penetrated deep into the south of the empire and started to preach.
The Vatican was fighting at the border for no reason and could not advance against Qin Yin's mixed army. This was somewhat contradictory to the situation at the beginning. The ambush Salin prepared was useless.
Salin did not care about the reason. He had subdued the mages of Alchemy City, but he also had to give them a place to settle. The Metatlin Kingdom would not accept them. These mages were different from the mages of his own country. Alchemy City, a place with a strict hierarchy, was where these mages lived.
The difference between people was as big as the difference between humans and magical beasts.
In the southeast of Qin Yin, Alchemy City was in the best position. There were plains that produced food, a natural harbor, a defense line on the sea, and various islands. Among them, Salin had sent a small number of people to occupy the Devil's Horn. These people's mission was to monitor the bone dragon. If the bone dragon attacked the island, these people's mission was to escape.
This was an extremely dangerous mission. The lethality of the Bone Dragon was much greater than that of the sealed Raphael.
Salin's target was the bone dragon.
Taking back Alchemy City and rebuilding the Elemental Hand. On the surface, it was against his Eye of Truth, but in reality, it helped each other. It was difficult for mages to be on good terms with one another. Salin decided to set the rules of the game himself.
In the south in January, the weather was not good. The army Salin prepared to attack was only 30,000. They were all cavalry battalions formed by Sephiroth himself.
The rest of the troops had no humans.
Salin's soldiers were mainly demons. Now that the passage between the planes had loosened, they could summon large numbers of the undead. The Wing Skeletons had expanded another undead army.
In Sephiroth's 30,000 troops, each soldier was assigned three Controllers. This was a miracle in the history of war.
For the first time, there were more elemental professionals than warriors on the battlefield. Only Salin could provide such a numerical ratio. The Floating City carried more than a hundred thousand Manipulators to Alchemy City. Salin's army was carried by Bode's Gate himself to the Bone Dragon's lair.
Salin didn't send a vanguard this time. Instead, he let the Floating City float at an altitude of 30,000 meters and observe from above. Anyone who approached Alchemy City would be discovered by the bone dragon. After cultivating Soul Power, Salin knew what the difference in levels meant.
Even if he attacked with Bode's Gate, there would be no effect. For the bone dragon, there were no secrets in Alchemy City.
This time, Salin wanted to attack openly.
The Floating City now had enough power to deal with the bone dragon. Apart from the magic cannons below the city, there were also a large number of Thunder Dragon Spears at the edge of the city.
The power of these Thunder Dragon Spears should be slightly weaker than Salin's own equipment. But in terms of actual combat, they were large-scale equipment. The lightning and ice spikes they shot out were each thicker than the largest wheel of a car.
Additional effects such as freezing, anti-magic, and repelling were what these large Thunder Dragon Spears were best at.
These Thunder Dragon Spears were made from non-elemental crystals. Each was personally refined by Salin. With these things, Salin temporarily didn't have to worry about the bone dragon flying and destroying the Floating City.
If the bone dragon dared to fly, hundreds of lightning and ice spikes would attack it. If it flew in the air, the 100,000 Controllers could still calculate the bone dragon's flight path.
The biggest weakness of the large Thunder Dragon Spears in the Floating City was its attack range.
Salin's own Thunder Dragon Spears could attack targets dozens of miles away, but the maximum range of the large Thunder Dragon Spears was 15 miles. This was even worse than magic cannons. If he wanted to directly attack Alchemy City with such a costly thing, the Floating City would have to descend to a height of 15,000 meters.
Salin wasn't confident. He didn't know what kind of terrifying abilities the bone dragon had. He had to ensure the safety of his Floating City.
The Floating City once again covered Alchemy City. The sun in the sky was instantly covered, and the entire city became pitch-black. The half-dead wandering in Alchemy City couldn't help but look up. The sky had darkened. At the edge of the sky, a dozen miles away, there was a golden halo covering the Floating City. It had a faint hint of blood.
The bone dragon occupied the core of Alchemy City. The 100-meter-tall buildings had long been pushed down. The jagged white bones on the ground had built a dragon's nest. The bone dragon raised its head. The green phosphorescence in its eye sockets shone.
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