The magical beasts called coins had low attack power and intelligence. Banchagana collected all of them into dimensional stones and returned to the cabin. Salin nodded, feeling more confident about this hunt.
Even if some key magical beasts couldn't be hunted, just catching the red krill would be enough to cover the cost. Helene could only come once a year. The income seemed to be more than 100,000 gold coins each time, which was already a great business. However, considering the cost, it wasn't as good as imagined.
The cost of a ship that could withstand the ice floes was close to that of a warship. Such a large ship required several magic apprentices to start, and the number of sailors wouldn't be too small. When fishing, one had to be patient to avoid powerful magical beasts and invest a lot of magic potions. Not all the red krill caught had qualified magic cores.
After the cost was shared, the net income might be tens of thousands of gold coins. For a ship, this kind of income could only be considered not bad in a year. Don't forget that in case of an accident, the compensation would be a huge sum. For example, at least three-quarters of the people on Helene's ship didn't come back, and the money she had to pay their families wasn't a small amount.
Helene could go back on her words, but the problem was that once she did, no one would dare to go to sea with her again, not to mention having swordsmen and mages following her.
Salin was different. All the costs were on this ship. The Coiled Turtle Alchemy Ship consumed as many magic cores as a hundred-meter-long warship. However, apart from that, he only needed to let Banchagana catch the red krill.
It was a pity that the Coiled Turtle Alchemy Ship would rarely be dispatched if the scale of the hunt was expanded in the future. Banchagana would also have to stay in the city and be responsible for defense. Salin didn't want his nest to be destroyed after a trip.
If this route was known, Salin would have to invest warships to protect the route. In that case, the cost would become high.
"Where were we?"
"I said, don't worry about the file. That magical beast is useless except for its teeth." Helene came back to her senses. Each of the hundred or so magical beasts could make at least eight shields. The advantage of such shields was that they could be made into magic equipment to defend against mages' attacks.
Magic attacks were ever-changing, but long-range attacks were usually fireballs. Especially on the battlefield, the starting distance between the two sides was very far, and some control spells required a relatively close distance, so there were fewer ways to attack with magic. This kind of shield was not very useful for cavalry, but it was very useful for heavy infantry.
The attack power of heavy infantry was not inferior to that of cavalry, but their weakness was that their movement speed was slow, and they could easily be hit by spells. With this kind of shield, the Heavy Infantry could gather together without worry and defend against the cavalry, or attack like a fist.
Salin didn't think so. He wanted to collect enough materials to equip the Gaugass Warriors with magic armor. With the blessings of the Priests and their magic armor, the Gaugass Warriors were very terrifying on the battlefield. Moreover, the mounts of the Gaugass warriors were Magic Wolves, which had great endurance and could run for over ten hours without stopping. With this magic armor, the Gaugass Warriors could travel long distances without the help of mages.
Make a shield? Salin wasn't that narrow-minded.
However, Salin heeded Helene's advice. Since the red krill had special materials that could be used to make bows and arrows, he wouldn't hunt for files. The number of files was too small, and the red krill was the most suitable magical beast to be hunted in large quantities. There were hundreds of millions of them in the sea alone, so he definitely wouldn't make them extinct.
Helene didn't hide anything and continued to explain the magic beasts she was familiar with. She also hoped that Salin would have a better way to hunt, so that she wouldn't have to invest so much money when she went north in the future.
After the five low-level mages meditated, they rested for another six hours before returning to the front cabin and standing in their positions. The Coiled Turtle Alchemy Ship was still controlled by the Winged Skeleton, heading north. In the event of an accident, the five low-level mages would immediately take over the control of the alchemy ship. Driven by mid-level magic cores, they could increase the alchemy ship's speed to the maximum.
The bone spirits in the spiritual pool were released, pushing the alchemy ship forward in the water. The alchemy ship's speed reached 40 kilometers per hour. Banchagana was sent out. His whole body was lying on top of the alchemy ship, monitoring the movements in the nearby sea. His combat power had decreased, but his mental power hadn't been weakened. His detection range was beyond the magic circle of the Coiled Turtle Alchemy Ship.
Suddenly, a dense group of magic beasts appeared in front of them, swimming quickly in the sea. Salin saw them clearly and said to the magic circle, "Banchagana, if there are no enemies nearby, hurry up and attack!"
Banchagana nodded and returned to his original form. His huge tail dragged behind him, and each of his six arms held a weapon. Then, he swam toward the group of red krill.
Although the red krill were level four magic beasts, they were very timid. When Banchagana swam toward them, the red krill were startled and scattered like a gust of wind.
Banchagana didn't chase them. His six weapons collided fiercely in the water, and visible waves spread in all directions. The waves of attacks enveloped all the red krill within a mile.
The red krill that were attacked bounced and immediately passed out. Banchagana's body turned into lightning. With the Dimensional Stone in his hand, he began to collect the prey crazily. The Dimensional Stone was spacious and stable, so Banchagana didn't have to worry about it. All he needed to do was open it with his mental power.
Helene and Ainphent were speechless. With this attack, Banchagana had gotten rid of hundreds of thousands of red krill. Even if only one out of ten red krill had a standard magic core, it was still tens of thousands of level-four magic cores.
What made Helene jealous was that Salin didn't need to use magic potions at all. He just solved the problem with violence. The cost was almost zero.
Salin secretly felt pity. The Three Lords couldn't be used for this kind of thing for a long time. Once his city was under attack, he still had to rely on the three of them for a short period of time. This time, they would have to leave the city base for at least two months. Salin could only bring Banchagana here with peace of mind while the Vatican hadn't sent any terrifying people.
This time, Banchagana obviously didn't act up. He controlled the range of his attack very well, and the alchemy ship wasn't affected. Although Salin had leveled up again, he didn't think he could resist Banchagana's weird attack.
Banchagana's speed was already too fast to be seen by the naked eye, but it still took him almost an hour to collect all the prey and return to the ship. Helene suddenly shouted, "Get out of here! A magical beast is approaching!"
The five Mages looked at Salin. Salin nodded, and the five of them immediately activated the magic array on the alchemy ship. The water outlets hidden on both sides of the alchemy ship opened. Water was sucked in from the front and sprayed to the back. The alchemy ship quickly turned around and fled the way it came.
On the magic compass, a red dot was approaching quickly.
Helene's voice changed. She shouted, "Sink, sink!"
This time, the Mages carried out the order directly. They knew the magic compass very well, and the red target was the most dangerous.
The Coiled Turtle Alchemy Ship kept sinking. Finally, it trembled slightly and landed on the sand at the bottom of the sea.
"What's that?" Salin saw that Helene's face was still a little pale.
Helene was still in shock. She panted for a while before saying, "Damn it, it's a prehistoric dragon beast. It's much more annoying than a dragon. It has no intelligence and only knows how to fight."
"Prehistoric dragon beast? Isn't that completely extinct? "Salin asked in surprise. Prehistoric dragon beasts had no blood relationship with dragons. The most knowledgeable Mages didn't know when they existed. They only found their bones in the sea. The Mages could only analyze that this thing was at the top of the world when it was alive, and it could treat any life as food. To put it in simpler terms, this thing was born as a level-nine creature.
Helene calmed herself down and replied, "It's not a dragon beast as defined by Mages. Do you know about the Abomination Dragon?"
Salin nodded. The Abomination Dragon was indeed annoying, but it was a land creature, and it was created by Black Mages. From the perspective of soul science, it couldn't be considered a branch of a creature.
The Abomination Dragon was a prototype of the prehistoric dragon beast, specially developed by Black Mages.
Salin didn't know about this. There was too little information about Black Mages in every country.
"This thing can dive five or six hundred meters at most, and then it will stop chasing." Helene touched her chest and gently rubbed it. Last time, her ship was attacked by a prehistoric dragon beast, and that was why it was damaged. Otherwise, it wouldn't have sunk on the way back. With the speed of her ship, the beasts they encountered later on shouldn't have been able to catch up.
Salin pointed up and asked, "How long will it stay there?"
Helene smiled bitterly. "At least half a day."
"Okay. You guys take a rest. "Salin let the five Mages rest, and the Winged Skeleton took control of the alchemy ship again. Banchagana had already turned back into a skeleton. Salin said, "You stay here. If there's danger and you can't escape, go out and fight the enemy."
After that, he took the dimensional stone and called everyone to the rear cabin.
There was a kitchen, a storage cabin, and a spare engine room. The kitchen was very big. Salin played with the dimensional stone and said, "It'll be very slow now. Since there's nothing to do, let's take a look at the loot first."
"I'll take a rest." Helene was used to seeing this kind of red krill. She was startled just now and was a little tired.
Salin nodded. Ainphent didn't leave. He watched curiously as Salin took out a meter-long red krill and put it on the table. This kind of beast looked no different from ordinary krill except for the natural magic patterns on its red hard shell.
The red krill's head was the foot-long spike, which was full of sawteeth. Salin took out a level-three magic core and rubbed it against the sawteeth, leaving a mark on the level-three magic core.
"So sharp!" Ainphent's expression changed. No wonder it took a lot of magic potions to hunt this thing. If it hadn't been dizzy, no fishing net would have been able to withstand the cutting of the spike.
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