"You don't know?" Rex asked. "Then why did you give her 60,000 gold coins? Do you know how many people in Caucasus can feed with that amount of gold coins?"
"That's what Shika deserves, just like how we split the things from the Hell of Godly Punishment," Salin argued.
"Other than hunting, the main food for Caucasus is potato cakes. You can buy 500 grams of sweet potatoes for one copper coin. Mixed with wood flour, you can cook it up to two kilograms. Wood flour is even less valuable. You can buy 2000 kilograms of food with one and a half gold coins at most. If you give her this money, it'll be enough for her village to live for many years. "
"What's the point of saying all this? We're 2000 kilometers away from the coast. We don't even know if we can go back."
"I'm here. What are you afraid of?"
"Don't think I don't know that with your magic string, you might not be able to fly back with the flying speed of a level-six mage. There are flying magic beasts on the sea. Once you encounter them, you'll fall into the sea. It'll be hard for you to go back yourself. Take me with you. Heh … "
"I dared to come to the sea. How do you know I don't have a way to save myself?" Rex said calmly.
Hearing that, Salin suddenly had hope. All he did was do his best and leave the rest to fate. In his haste, he forgot that as the ruler of a country, Rex wouldn't come to the sea without a way out.
"What is it?" Salin finally lost his patience, and took the initiative to ask Rex.
"I have an alchemy blueprint for a special kind of ship. If we can find a small island and set up a lab there, I can even make a magic compass. Then we can go back to Alchemy City directly. "
"Can I see it?" Salin wasn't good at alchemy, but he had a good eye for materials.
"The blueprint is too big to spread out. Our problem is that this ship is too small. Once a storm appears, we'll probably die. Building a ship isn't as simple as Daniel making bone weapons. Salin, when the sun rises, follow the seabirds. Maybe we'll see land. "
As Salin listened to Rex, he suddenly flipped over and stuck his ear to the deck. He didn't use his perception, but listened quietly to the movements under the water. There were too many powerful magic beasts in the sea. If he used his perception, he could easily annoy the non-aggressive magic beasts. Salin listened to the strange sounds in the water and felt something huge approaching.
"Not good!" Salin's body bounced up from the deck, but it was Nelis who pushed him away. Under the deck, a thick tentacle pierced through the bottom of the ship and rolled towards Salin.
In midair, Salin activated the Ice Patterned Armor and the Water Patterned Shield on his body. The tentacle was thicker than a bucket, and Schica, who was steering the ship, threw a boomerang. With a squelch, the tentacle was cut open, and blue blood splattered everywhere. Seawater rose from the bottom of the boat, and the injured tentacle twisted it. The hole immediately became bigger, and seawater poured in.
"It's an octopus!" Daniel woke up with a start. When he saw the thick tentacles, his face turned extremely ugly.
The octopus was an extremely difficult magical beast to deal with. It had high intelligence, great strength, and a strong physique. There was once an incident where a giant octopus dragged a warship to the bottom of the sea. His skeleton puppets had almost no effect on this kind of magical beast. Seeing the tentacles writhing in the cabin, Daniel was the first to escape from the cabin.
On the deck in front of him, the two construction puppets were still rowing the boat, and the other was resting. Several huge tentacles reached out of the sea and tied the two puppets to the deck. With a loud crack of wood, the construction puppets were forced into the deck. These two weren't mutated puppets. Without Rex's command, they could only follow the most primitive commands and do the simplest actions.
Seeing that the construction puppets were trapped, Daniel gathered his courage and released the Flames of Death. Within the flames, nine skeletal puppets of different sizes floated, all green and shiny.
"Go!" Daniel pointed with his finger, and a skeleton puppet flew out of the Flames of Death. It instantly expanded to more than five meters tall and dove into the water.
Crack, crack.
The entire boat was wrapped up by the giant octopus tentacles. The tentacles contracted inward, trying to crush the boat. Salin knew that the boat couldn't be saved. He released an ice bomb backhand, directly hitting the place where the tentacle had pierced through the deck.
The tentacle was frozen on the deck, but in less than three seconds, the ice on the surface of the tentacle cracked. Salin took the opportunity to jump out of the cabin.
"Rex, watch from above!" After saying that, Salin jumped into the sea.
He followed behind the skeleton puppet and saw the giant octopus that was attacking the boat. The octopus could only be seen as a pitch-black shadow in the night. Its eight giant tentacles wrapped around the boat, and its huge head was covered with horny lumps. There were eyes on all four sides of its head, glowing with blue light. There were probably more than thirty of them.
This magical beast had excellent vision. Salin hid behind the giant skeleton puppet, and was also discovered by it.
A huge tentacle left the broken boat and whipped at Salin. If it hit him, it would be no different from being hit by the tail of a giant dragon. The giant octopus' tentacles were full of suckers, and there were sharp bristles on the outside of the suckers.
The skeleton puppet was in the shape of a giant skeleton. It held a longsword in its hand and faced the octopus' tentacle. Salin's body was covered by a Water Pattern Shield. He floated in the sea and calmly opened a level-five scroll.
Now was not the time to be thrifty. Although there were fewer scrolls after each use, what was the use of keeping scrolls if he died?
With a loud bang, the skeleton puppet's blade and arm were smashed apart by the octopus' tentacle. The sharp bone knife only left a moderate wound on the tentacle. The wound quickly closed, and only a bit of blue blood flowed out.
Salin's level-five spell was completed. Six huge ice blocks appeared around the octopus and struck at its center. Salin had once used this spell to kill a Bronze Sword Saint. Now that he was in the sea, this spell was even easier to use.
After a loud bang, a huge cube condensed together, forming an ice cage in the sea. The octopus' head was frozen inside, only dragging eight huge tentacles outside.
Before Salin could heave a sigh of relief, the eight tentacles contracted violently. Salin saw a strange scene. The octopus' tentacles became very small, and eight rather thick holes appeared in the ice cage.
This was a spell released by the scroll. After the spell was completed, Salin could not continue to control it. Ice Strike did not have any other changes. With this collision, the octopus that was supposed to be dead crawled out of the thick holes.
The octopus' head was thicker than a small boat. It squeezed out of the narrow holes just like that. Salin was dumbfounded.
He was not afraid of this octopus. With Nelis here, the two of them underwater did not reduce their fighting power. Rex was still in the sky, waiting for an opportunity to give the octopus a fatal blow. Salin just never thought that a creature's head could change shape and become so long and narrow.
Salin could only put away the second scroll he prepared. He released a dozen ice blades in his hands and flew at the octopus from three angles. The ice blades moved in a strange path in the water. The skeleton puppet that had lost its arm was sinking into the sea, giving way to the attack.
The ice blades drew a dozen arcs in the sea silently, then returned to one point and accurately hit the big hole that the octopus was trying to crawl out of.
The ice blades were extremely sharp. Some of the keratinized lumps on the octopus' head were cut open and immediately froze. Blue blood flowed out and stuck together with the huge ice cubes. The octopus' tentacles suddenly retracted into the ice cubes. The Water Pattern Shield on the surface of Salin's body also expanded into a huge bubble. He quickly floated to the surface of the sea.
In the cage formed by Ice Strike, the octopus' body expanded violently. Salin floated to the surface of the sea and shouted to Rex, "I can't trap it!"
The small boat was already broken. Sica was hugging a piece of the boat. Nelis was swimming beside her, staring at the octopus that was about to escape. Sica could swim, but her weapon was too heavy.
"Give me the stick." Nelis reached out to grab Sica's weapon. If Sica continued to carry this thing that weighed more than a hundred pounds, it would be very difficult for her to even float.
Sica was anxious and angry. She had not become a real battle priest, and there was no suitable beast soul in this stick. In the current situation, she could only give up this handy thing.
Nelis grabbed the stick and put it in her bracelet. At the same time, she took out a short axe and threw it to Sica. "Make do with it. Master is not in danger now. Be careful of other monsters."
Aren't you a monster? Sica took the axe and thought to herself. This axe was only about 20 pounds. It was too light. And it was very thin. The two-sided blade was not very convenient for Sica to use.
The sound of ice breaking reverberated on the surface of the sea. A thick whirlpool appeared in the water, stirring violently around the ice cubes. The pieces of the small boat were also attracted over. Nelis only needed to grab Sica and swim in the opposite direction.
Daniel was grabbed by a huge skeleton puppet. He was also trying his best to break free from the whirlpool. Rex looked down from the sky. The huge ice cubes were twisted by the whirlpool. Cracks appeared and it exploded from the inside. Salin continuously released white lines from his hands. They were level-two ice arrows. The consistency of these ice arrows was shocking. Salin was floating on the water now. If it were any other magician, it would be very dangerous even to release magic.
Rex saw an opportunity. Salin's ice arrows could not kill the octopus, but they effectively stopped it from expanding the whirlpool. The surrounding elemental waves slowed down. Rex did not care how Salin controlled it. She quickly took out her magic staff and released the two spells stored in it.
It was still a black and white intertwined ray. This time, it was not as fast as the one in Dragon Tooth Town. Rex could not complete this spell well. She could barely store it in her magic staff.
But this black and white ray was very powerful. Salin used the ice arrows to slow down the violent water flow of the octopus. Rex's black and white ray accurately hit one of the octopus's eyes.
The octopus's head spasmed quickly. Powerful spiritual waves were released. Rex felt a splitting headache. She lost control of the Wind Soaring spell and fell towards the sea.
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