For ordinary people, building a city was an extremely difficult task. It often took more than a decade or even decades to gradually form a scale. Mages were different. When a large number of mechanical marionettes were activated, they could build a model of the city in a very short time.
Salin now had more than twenty mages here, and even more magic apprentices, who could operate more than a hundred mechanical marionettes. These mechanical marionettes, which were taller than two people, could only do simple work, but it was enough. The forest west of the coast needed to be cut down. The mages commanded the marionettes to use huge metal saws to chop down the towering trees. The wood was directly processed with magic, and could be used to build houses in the future.
The trees here had grown for who knew how many years. Trees over three meters in diameter could be seen everywhere. The wood was hard and delicate. When the mages mined the wood, they didn't completely cut down the forest according to Jason's blueprint. They left a large number of plants in advance.
Some of the trees in the forest had reached the limit of their growth, so the mages simply extracted all the water in these trees, ending their lives prematurely. This way, they could directly carve houses on the trees, and then dig holes in these withered treetops to plant flowers and seeds.
This kind of treehouse was extremely popular among the nobles. It was warm in the winter and cool in the summer, but normally, such thick trees couldn't be found, and the size was limited.
The beasts in the forest were driven out, and the mages didn't bother to kill them. After cutting a path in the forest, the mages began to let the marionettes dig down to lay the underground part of the city.
This was an extremely heavy work, and Salin couldn't help much. He and Neris simply processed the white stones on the coast.
Salin didn't know the Earth-style Decay spell, so he could only use the Water Cutting spell stored in his gourd to cut the stone, which wouldn't be too fast. He wasn't in a hurry, and treated it as practicing magic. Neris didn't have her own work. She commanded the marionettes left by Rex to mine the stone with brute force.
The strength of the marionettes was incomparable to that of humans. They were all made of metal and didn't know fatigue. After changing into alchemy tools, huge metal gears were installed on the arms of the marionettes. They spun rapidly, cutting gullies on the white stones.
In the process of mining, Salin's ability to control the flow of water became more comprehensive. Originally, he had relied on the rapid flow of water and friction to form a water-like rope, using the twisting force to cut the target. Now, he was facing a huge and flat stone, and even the six-meter long water could not wrap around it. Salin began to experience the vibrations caused by the rapid flow of the water. The arrangement of the elements intensified the power of the vibrations. On an area the size of a needle tip, there were actually tens of thousands of tiny sawteeth spinning rapidly. As long as he increased the intensity of the vibrations, even if he didn't use the water to entangle and twist them, he could still cause great damage.
The six-meter-long bluish-green stream became more and more condensed. Salin controlled it as he pleased, as if it were a longsword with countless sharp edges. In the end, Salin simply used the stream to hack. On the white shore, only a green shadow could be seen fluttering beside Salin.
At the beginning, every time Salin hacked, he could only cut a finger-deep mark. As his understanding of the flow of water deepened, every time he hacked, he could cut nearly half a meter deep into the white rocks. Moreover, this speed was still increasing. The bluish-green stream consumed very little mental power. Salin's two mutated Water Pattern Shields were fused inside, and the bluish-green stream and Salin's soul seemed to have a wonderful connection. Salin often used it for five or six hours before needing to repair it.
Neris simply stopped and no longer commanded the marionettes. She stared blankly at Salin and said, "Master, you look like a swordsman now."
Salin also suddenly discovered this point. By controlling the flow of water to cut, he could make this magic exist for a long time. Wasn't this like a swordsman using sword energy to attack outside the body?
Swordsman? Swordsman couldn't condense sword energy for a long time after leaving the body, unless the Swordsman broke through to Level Nine. However, such a person had never appeared on the Myers Continent.
Salin had once studied the principles of sword energy, and he had a deeper understanding of this combat skill than most swordsmen. In terms of basic theory, his own flow of water was not only magic, but also had a little attribute of sword energy, and that was vitality.
This vitality was left by Goddess Myers, and also Salin's own. With vitality mixed in the magic, Salin could control this magic so freely, and the consumption was so low.
Understanding this, Salin controlled the flow of water and directly pierced into the white rocks like a spear. The end of the flow formed a sharp angle, and part of it was like a spearhead composed of water elements. This time, the six meters long flow completely entered the rock, and Salin himself was startled.
After the flow drilled into the rock, it deflected its angle, drew an arc, and drilled out again in another place, directly creating a passage in the hard rock. This saved more energy than directly chopping. Salin already had an idea in mind. He drilled the flow of water into the rock again, and after more than a meter deep, he made a turn, drilled to the side, and drilled another meter deep. Then, he controlled the flow of water to drill up, and drilled out of the ground. At this time, the flow of water could already be connected from head to tail, and with a forceful twist, stone chips flew everywhere.
On the flat white rock, a one and a half meter deep and one and a half meter wide cut appeared in front of Salin's eyes.
Salin laughed loudly, he had never been so happy. Although he knew that if he used the water elements in the gourd to create the Water Puppet, he was already satisfied.
When the Water Puppet released magic, it still consumed the magician's own magic string. But this flow of water only consumed a little mental strength, and it could be maintained for a much longer time than the Water Puppet.
Moreover, a new elemental arrangement had begun to appear in this flow of water, and it was gradually integrated into the special magic pattern on the gourd. As the flow of water vibrated, a subtle electric light began to appear.
This electric light didn't have much attack power, and even a bug might not be electrocuted to death. But this was an extremely significant beginning. As long as Salin continued to train, sooner or later, this flow of water would also contain the power of thunder and lightning.
If this gourd was used to create a Water Puppet, perhaps a puppet covered in lightning would appear. After one strike, even Salin's strength would be exhausted. Although the power was great, the result wasn't wonderful.
After Salin discovered the change in the flow of water cutting, he no longer processed the stone on the shore with Neris, and once again dived into the sea, and began to practice this magic under the crescent-shaped peninsula.
Salin didn't need to use magic in the water, and could breathe freely, which allowed him to practice underwater for a long time without being discovered.
After mastering this technique, Salin's progress sped up. This natural harbor was calm and tranquil, not even a single fish could be seen. Salin let Nelis follow behind him. If the cut stones were larger, he would let Nelis put them into her bracelet.
This white stone itself didn't have any magical properties, but after being solidified by magic, it would become a very good defensive material. Salin cut the rocks from top to bottom along the shore, cutting off all the protruding rocks near the sea.
If these rocks hit the bottom of a ship, even an ironclad would not be able to withstand it.
Salin's ships weren't too big, and Cloud Flow's main battleship had a draft of more than ten meters, which was very terrifying. Salin also wanted to have a ship like that in the future. The water in this harbor was so deep, he simply cleaned up the rocks at the edge of the peninsula that were fifty meters deep. Anyway, his speed of cutting the rocks was already very fast, and it wouldn't take half a year at all to deal with the dock and the parts of the peninsula that needed to be cut.
After working for half a day, Salin was a little tired. He didn't continue cutting the rocks, but dived deeper to see how deep this harbor was, and if there was anything he could use at the bottom of the sea.
After diving for about a hundred meters, Salin already felt very pressured. He simply released a Water Pattern Shield, and a huge water bubble wrapped around him. The circular magic shield took all the pressure, but it was even more difficult to dive. The huge buoyancy of the water bubble itself made Salin somewhat helpless.
He had shrunk the bubble to its limit, but the resistance of diving was still extremely great.
Salin had no choice but to change into the Ice Patterned Armor, remove the Water Patterned Shield, and continue diving. Salin knew that he was a Magician after all, and it was already impressive that he could dive so deep underwater. Neris followed behind Salin without any embarrassment. It was said that in Yunliu, there were people who specialized in picking pearls who could dive 300 to 500 meters deep into the sea. If he had the time, he really should practice fighting underwater.
If he could dive that deep, he would have one more way to escape. Even if a Magic Shooter was underwater, the power of magic would be limited. Moreover, Magicians could no longer control their movement speed.
Salin's swimming skills were comparable to those of fish. After he changed into the Ice Patterned Armor, his body immediately became nimble, although the pressure was still great.
The seawater here was extremely clear, but light would be refracted when it entered the water. At such a depth, vision was already extremely blurry. Salin relied on his ice-cold vision to not be affected much, but he still released his powerful perception to investigate the situation under the sea.
After diving for more than two hundred meters, Salin saw a circular hole in the white stone wall. The hole was extremely smooth, and it even shone with a silver light.
Salin turned back and waved at Neris, then took a step forward and carefully entered the two-meter-wide hole.
The widest part of the peninsula was only four to five hundred meters, and it was slightly wider under the sea, about a mile thick. Salin dived for more than ten meters and entered a spacious cave. The stone walls of the cave flickered with silver light, clearly presenting the scenery inside the cave in front of Salin.
In the middle of the cave, there was a bulge of black stones, forming a circle. In the center of these black stones, dozens of red eggs were placed on top.
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