Salin flew high with Neris, and stopped after flying for about four to five hundred meters. He did not continue to fly higher. Although it was winter, the northern sky was cloudy and it was snowing.
Salin was afraid of the appearance of winter thunder, even though the possibility of it appearing was extremely small.
Mages had a saying — Be careful of being struck by lightning if you fly too high. This originally meant that if a person climbed too high, it was easy for them to fall too badly. However, the root cause of this saying was that mages were afraid of lightning.
As long as it was cloudy, mages would control their flight height to be below five hundred meters. If he flew too high, it would be easy for him to attract lightning attacks. The speed of lightning attacks was too fast for mages to react at all. Moreover, magic shields were pitifully weak against lightning. Until now, except for the secretion of the Thunder Dragon, mages had no way of creating magic equipment that could defend against lightning.
Five hundred meters was not low. Looking down from this height, there was already the outline of a city on the white coast. Tens of thousands of undead worked day and night. The underground part of the city had long been excavated, and several spacious roads had been paved. A large number of houses had been built.
The happiest were the pirates. Being a pirate would not make a fortune. Apart from the pirate captain, most of the pirates would either be captured and hanged, or die in poverty and illness. Salin caught these pirates, but gave them a home instead of a stronghold on a deserted island. Some of the pirates also knew how to farm. The land in the north was extremely fertile. Even if they could only plant it once a year, the harvest would not be too bad.
The mages of Seriger Island were very familiar with managing these pirates. Salin guessed that many of the swordsmen on Seriger Island were originally pirates, but were captured by the mages and became good citizens.
Smoke curled up from the pirate settlement. Salin saw some pirates setting up steel furnaces and starting to forge iron from the sky. Most swordsmen were unwilling to wear leather armor, unless it was made from the skin of high-level magic beasts. However, most pirates did not dare to wear iron armor at sea. Now that they had to live on land temporarily, the pirates were forging armor for themselves.
Salin found that even a group of pirates had talents. Forging armor was much more difficult than forging ordinary swords. There were actually many people in this ship who could forge high-level weapons. If these people did not become pirates, they would be able to do well in Sacred Rock City. It was a pity that he could no longer go to the Empire to make a living.
Salin did not stop at the coast. He flew north with Neris. Twenty miles to the north was the river. Most of the fast-flowing river was frozen, and only the part near the mouth was exposed. If the weather in the north reached December, even the sea would freeze. If the harbor did not cast magic, all the ships would be frozen in the ice.
After flying more than a hundred miles to the north, Salin saw another river.
"Why is there no one living on such a vast land? I think this is a good place for Caucasians to live, "Salin pointed to the land below and said to Neris.
The north was indeed bitterly cold. If not for the Cloud Walk spell, the cold wind would have frozen Salin's blood. But for the Gaugass people, the Gaugass region had several months of snow and ice every year, and the land suitable for farming in the Gaugass region was scarce. It wasn't as good as the vast plains here.
There was also vitality hidden in the pure white snow. Salin saw a pure white fox jumping in the snow, chasing after its prey. This white fox's body was petite and cute, with only a little bit of black on the tip of its tail.
A level-four magical beast! Salin identified the fox's breed. It was a rare level-four snow fox. Salin had no intention of hunting it. He had a large number of high-level magic cores in his Bestowed Ring and Demon Ring. A level-four magic core was not enough to make him lose his composure.
The fox chased for a while, then pressed the prey under its claws. He did not know what kind of mouse it was.
The snow fox ran towards the hills with the prey in its mouth. Further north, Salin heard the howling of wolves.
Magic wolves were the most adaptable magical beasts. From the south to the north, there were traces of them everywhere. Some magic wolves could even be tamed by humans. Even if one was not a Magician, one could command a magic wolf to help hunt.
Salin walked for a long time in the surrounding two hundred miles and found a few suitable places for humans to live. He had his own selfish motives. He did not want the Vatican to take advantage of the Caucasians. But if the Caucasians wanted to live well, it was best to live near the city he had built. Of course, Salin had to consider Sicar's village first.
No one knew if the war would spread here in the future. Although the Caucasian warriors were brave, without the help of Magicians, they would not be able to defend against a regular army. Salin wanted to move Sicar's people to this safe place instead of following Rex's plan to let all the Caucasians settle on the inland plains to the west of the city.
It would be fine if the Vatican did not attack. If they did, that would be the first place to bear the brunt of the attack.
The Phoenix Duchy was not a barrier, and there were not many decent talents in Phoenix. Otherwise, Salin would not have set his sights on this land in the north. Being close to a powerful duchy was not a good thing for his development.
After finding a few suitable places to live, Salin brought Nelis to patrol east. East of the coast was the mountain range. After choosing the location to build the city, there were no more gaps in the north-south mountain range, and it was getting higher and higher. Salin flew in the air and released his perception, probing the mountain provocatively.
There were no people here, but there might be powerful magical beasts living here. Salin now had the Cloud Walking Spell, and was no longer afraid of magical beasts on land. Among the flying magical beasts, there were no powerful ones, except for dragons.
A hundred miles into the mountain, Salin did not go any further. There were magical beasts living in this mountain, but they did not respond to his provocation. Judging from their breath, the level of the magical beasts here would not be too high. The highest one would not exceed level-five.
Among the Caucasians, although powerful warriors like Sicar were not common, there were a few warriors in every village, enough to deal with magical beasts below level-five.
But there were too many magical wolves here. Most of them were in groups of three to five, running tirelessly in the snow. If they were not magical beasts, ordinary beasts would not waste energy like this. Hunting magical beasts had a high success rate, so there was no need to worry about wasting energy.
Salin had been flying for a few hours and was a little tired. He landed with Nelis and shot a pheasant with an ice arrow.
After spending a long time with Rex, Salin had developed a habit of carrying seasoning and cutlery with him. These things were the easiest to poison. Rex was not being unreasonable, but he had been instilled with a very strict concept of safety since he was a child. Salin also knew that some poisons were very toxic, often killing people within minutes of being poisoned. Without a mage or mage around, it would be too late to save them.
Nelis caught the pheasant and skinned its feathers. Salin picked up some dry branches and made a bonfire.
This ordinary pheasant was very fat and tender. It was just winter, and the pheasant meat still had the aroma of grease. Roasting it on the fire, it immediately attracted several magical wolves.
The northern magical wolves were slightly larger, nearly three meters long, including the tail. Salin and Nelis lit a bonfire in the col with their backs to the wind and snow. The pheasant was placed on the bonfire, and the aroma filled the air. Two groups of magical wolves came to the side of the col and peeped in.
Salin and Nelis did not care about these magical wolves. There was a great disparity between the levels of magical wolves. Some mutated breeds could reach level-six, and ordinary ones were only level-two. There were nine magical wolves in these two groups. Only one was a level-three magical beast, and the rest were level-two.
Low-level magical beasts did not release magic at all when hunting. The two groups of wolves peeped outside and seemed to feel that the two strange creatures were not easy to deal with, so they hesitated and refused to enter the col. But the pheasant was also very tempting. The magical wolves did not retreat, as if waiting for Salin and Nelis to finish eating and see what benefits there were.
Salin laughed. He was in a very good mood today. Seeing the reluctant appearance of the few magical wolves, Salin even forgot that they were dangerous magical beasts. He asked Nelis to take out the dried meat and throw it to the magical wolves.
"Master, do you want to tame such low-level magical beasts? They are not as useful as snow foxes. "Nelis was very reluctant.
Salin laughed. "These magical wolves are very cunning. We have to let them get used to the existence of humans, or they will bring trouble to the Caucasian villages."
"What kind of trouble would there be? Someone like Shika can kill hundreds of magical beasts like that. I think she is more like a magical beast. "Nelis muttered, but she still took out the dried meat from her bracelet and threw it to the magical wolves in the distance. After absorbing the dragon Tiago's power, her explosive power was not much different from Shika's. This throw was more than a hundred meters away. The magical wolves all retreated, letting the dried meat fall on the snow.
"Warriors like Shika aren't common among the Caucasians. There are too many magical wolves here. Fortunately, they are not violent magical beasts. As long as they understand the power of humans, they will not attack the villages. "
"If you feed them meat, they will think you are weak. How can they understand the power of humans?"
"Feeding them is to let the magical wolves familiarize themselves with the existence of humans. As for making them afraid, isn't it easy? Take out Tiago's skin. That bit of dragon aura can make them run more than a hundred miles away. "
Of course, the magical wolves did not understand what Salin was saying. A young magical wolf first tried to smell the dried meat and licked it with its tongue. Behind it, a larger magical wolf slapped it aside with its paw and smelled the dried meat suspiciously.
Salin grabbed a handful of magic powder and threw it into the bonfire. The bonfire roared, and flames rose four to five meters high. The few magical wolves retreated in fright.
"Look, aren't they afraid?" Salin laughed proudly. Magical beasts were also afraid of fire. The cost of his powder was less than a silver coin, but it could make nine magical wolves tremble. Magical beasts were always easier to deal with than humans. Salin was most satisfied that there were no humans nearby.
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