Of course, Rex would not object to Salin's insistence on keeping the pirates. Salin's idea was not bad, but there were some technical problems. The shape of the ship's bottom was designed to deal with the waves. If the alchemy ship was added to the bottom, not only would it slow down, but it would also affect the ship's balance.
Rex did not propose a more suitable suggestion, and only rejected Salin's design. He added a sturdy hook at the tail of the pirate ship, and used iron chains to fasten the stealthy alchemy ship made of coiled turtle to the back.
Even so, the alchemy ship would still affect the pirate ship's speed, and could even endanger the safety of the pirate ship when it encountered strong winds and waves.
The pirates on the beach were completely obedient now. Under Daniel's command, everything unrelated to the voyage was moved down from the ship. Large amounts of fresh water, dried vegetables, meat, and raw rice were moved ashore. There were not many valuables on the ship, and the pirates handed over a few hundred pitiful gold coins, which were sent back by Salin.
These gold coins were only worth a level-four magic core, but the pirates risked their lives to get them back. Most of the money was taken by the original pirate captain, and was buried on his island.
Within three days, there had been two heavy rains, and a storm brushed past the nameless Ghost Island, blowing the pirate's camp into a complete mess. Salin saw that Rex's alchemy ship was about to be completed. He went to the pirate camp, called Jupiter over, and counted the number of pirates.
Not everyone on the pirate ship was pirates. There were also some sailors who had been plundered. These sailors had no one to redeem them, so they could only live with the pirates. Actually, this was also the reason why the pirate team was maintained. No one was born to be a pirate. The four empires all had the same attitude towards pirates, and that was to sentence them to death.
These captured sailors had been on the ship for a long time. Even if they had not done anything, once they were caught, no one would tell if they were innocent or not. Over time, these sailors would also become new pirates.
Salin separated these sailors, and there were more than forty of them. These forty sailors were separated from the pirates by Salin. Salin needed sailors. These sailors had nowhere to go, and they had not completely become pirates. They were the people Salin needed the most.
Salin let these forty sailors take care of the four heavily injured pirates, while the rest of the pirates went into hard training.
Salin did not know how to cultivate Sword Qi. Even if he knew, he could not impart it to so many pirates. Although the cultivation of Sword Aura was not as strict as that of Magic, it was still something that could be inherited. Those below the level of a swordsman could learn by themselves, but once they became a beginner swordsman, they would need the special guidance of a teacher.
Salin specifically asked Jupiter to train these pirates in sword energy cultivation. Excluding those who were injured and unable to train, there were still 128 healthy pirates.
After inspecting the pirates' weapons and armor, Salin was a little disappointed. These pirates had decent skills, but their equipment was pitiful. He went to Rex and asked for more than a hundred sets of leather armor for the pirates. Their weapons had also been changed to shorter swords.
From Salin's point of view, if a battle at sea required hand-to-hand combat, the pirates would not have the upper hand. The pirates had catapults and heavy crossbows. After destroying the enemy's sails or rudder, they could attack at ease. If they had to jump onto the deck and fight hand-to-hand, as Rex said, these guys who were not very cooperative were not even as useful as a squadron of cavalry.
In any case, this was Salin's first batch of warriors. As a Magician, it was normal that he was not good at it. Both Shika and Neris could not help him. Shika was not good at positional warfare, nor did he understand naval warfare. Nelis was even less knowledgeable about this than Salin.
Salin did not ask Rex for help. He just let these pirates familiarize themselves with the new armor and weapons, and trained them every day on how to maintain them. He asked for another ten storage boxes from Rex. This kind of Qin Yin military equipment could only be opened by magic apprentices, and the space inside was not much different from the outside.
The only advantage of this kind of box was that it could be completely sealed, isolating the inside from the outside. The food stored inside would never rot, unless the box broke.
Salin chose ten young pirates to take care of these ten boxes. Of course, the boxes were filled with good dried meat, not the moldy stuff that the pirates stored. These ten boxes of rations could allow the pirates to last a long time at sea, and they would not lose their fighting power even if they could not fish.
Rex finally finished her alchemy ship and came to the seaside. Seeing that the pirates trained by Salin were starting to have some discipline, she just smiled. When they were really on the battlefield, the pirates would show their true colors as soon as their warriors attacked. Salin's training was only superficial. A real army needed a few years to form its fighting power.
In Qin Yin, the training of professional soldiers started from a young age. A boy would be taught martial arts at the age of twelve. At fourteen, he could start to practice sword energy. Generally, a child with not too bad aptitude could become a beginner swordsman at the age of sixteen, and could be trained as a regular warrior.
This had already taken four years. In these four years, the children had formed strict discipline, and a professional officer could command them as he pleased. The next four years were for battle formation training and cavalry training. Among these warriors, they also had to choose archers, crossbowmen, light cavalry, heavy cavalry, heavy infantry …
Salin's training was just child's play to Rex.
Rex called Daniel, and they went to the pirate ship to repair the main mast. With her five construct puppets and Daniel's undead creatures, she effortlessly lifted the broken mast and reconnected it. Rex only used a two-meter long metal sleeve to fix the mast again, and used Petrification to refine it.
Next was to deal with the internal structure of the pirate ship. This ship was built in the Cloud Stream style, and was a bit old. The watertight cabins were very sturdy, and there was a special cabin below for sailors to paddle.
Half of the ship's oars were hidden in the cabin, and there were two layers. They would only be moved when chasing enemies, and usually, they were driven by sails.
Rex removed the long oars from the double deck, and replaced the wheel oars for the pirate ship. Wheel oars were invented by Qin Yin, and were much more efficient than long oars. However, the materials needed to make them were expensive, and they were relatively complicated.
In fact, Rex had directly assembled the wheel oars that had already been refined. This kind of modification was not beneficial to the pirate ship at all. Structurally, the wheel oars would change the force bearing points of the pirate ship. If this ship had a lifespan of thirty years, after replacing the wheel oars, it would only be able to sail for five years at most before breaking down from the keel.
The heavy crossbow at the bow was removed, and replaced with a more precise metal crossbow. Rex did not add alchemy crossbows to the pirate ship. Those things posed a certain threat to magicians, and she did not believe in the power of contracts like Salin did.
There were stone cannons at the stern, which were advanced catapults. Rex took materials from the rocks on the island, and made more than two hundred large stone balls, which were also used to suppress the ship.
The freshwater cabins were reinforced, and the fresh water that Salin and Rex had made these days was poured in. Every cabin was cleaned with cleaning spells, and the original strange smell was gone.
The pirates were summoned onto the ship, and cleaned again with cleaning spells to ensure that there were no infectious diseases. Salin then gave the order to set off.
There were a few houses left on the Ghost Fog Island, all built by the pirates. The forty sailors and four pirates who had not recovered from their injuries were left behind.
They worked until late at night, and all the pirates were locked in the cabins under Shika's supervision. Rex began to transport her alchemy ship to the coast.
The shell of the Coiled Turtle had been completely cleaned, and special wheel oars were installed on its limbs and tail. The entrance to the head was completely sealed by a huge crystal. The entire ship did not have a traditional hatch. Rex created a teleportation circle in the belly of the turtle shell.
The reason why teleportation circles were expensive was because of the distance. For example, the distance from Bitter Water to Sacred Rock City was more than two thousand miles, and the cost of teleporting a living person was more than 100,000 gold coins. Just the cost alone would consume six level-six magic cores, and the cost would be more than 50,000 gold coins.
The teleportation distance was reduced by ten times, and the consumption of magic cores was reduced by half.
The teleportation distance of Rex's teleportation circle was only about three meters, and it was a two-way teleportation circle. The consumption was also reduced by half, and it could teleport ten people at a time. The cost was only a few hundred gold coins.
This design ensured that the sturdiness of the Coiled Turtle Alchemy Ship would not be affected by the modification. The ventilation was designed at the wheel oars, and it only needed to float on the sea.
Salin and Rex began to lay an ice road on the way from the platform to the coast. This time, it was relatively easy, because the ice road naturally sloped downwards. There was a long iron chain hanging on the Coiled Turtle Alchemy Ship. Daniel's undead creature, Peaches, became the coolie this time, pulling the iron chain and moving towards the coast with difficulty.
In the twilight, an undead creature that was more than ten meters long and had three heads was dragging the chains, making creaking sounds as it walked forward with difficulty. The weight of the Coiled Turtle Alchemy Ship was too shocking. Even though it was placed on the downward-sloping ice path, it still made Peaches' white bones make a terrifying sound, as if it would fall apart at any time.
The alchemy ship that was nearly thirty meters long was pulled into the water. Rex glanced at Salin and asked, "You're really not coming down?"
"I want to stay on the ship. I'm the captain. This alchemy ship doesn't need to be started now. You can control it by yourself, and let Neris follow you. "
"What about me?" Daniel asked.
"Of course you'll follow me." Salin laughed, thinking, I'm not at ease leaving you down there. There were too many strange things about necromancy. Daniel could break through to level-four at any time, and then in an enclosed environment, even Rex might not be able to control it.
"Neris, follow Rex. Remember to keep in touch."
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