Christian and the others quickly gathered in Salin's room. Most of them stayed in the temple and listened to Salin's orders or his explanations of magic.
Although working for a mage took up a lot of time, these people actually saved a lot of time. They didn't have to worry about gold coins anymore. Salin would provide them with the most basic training materials. If working for Salin brought them income, Salin wouldn't keep all of it. Instead, he would distribute a portion of it to his followers.
As a mage's follower, many of them were treated even better than minor nobles. A minor noble might be bullied by a big shot, but few people were willing to provoke a mage's follower. After all, you didn't just offend one person, but a group of people, and the leader of this group was at least a level-five great mage.
Salin pointed at the dozens of metal bottles on the other side of the room. "These bottles can store Restoration Water. In a month's time, you have to fill them up."
The mages looked at the bottles that were more than half a meter tall and did not show any signs of embarrassment. Restoration Water's healing effect was excellent, but it was only a level-one spell. An average level-one mage could make more than 20 bottles in a day. And depending on the mage's ability to control the elements, the production of Restoration Water was also different. Salin could make at least ten times more Restoration Water than an average mage.
Salin's task was too easy to accomplish. The mages just looked at the metal bottles curiously. The metal bottles were bronze in color and carved with countless fine magic patterns.
In reality, these bottles were used on battleships to store magic potions. The speed at which mages made magic potions back then was similar to how people made Restoration Water now.
Both magic potions and Restoration Water had a time limit. Even the Restoration Water made by Salin would be useless after a month. The ones made by an average mage could last about six days. In these bottles, the Restoration Water could be stored for a long time.
Salin only needed to reverse engineer Figaro's magic formula to understand the magic symbols on the bottles.
These bottles were the lowest level of equipment back then. Because they didn't have spatial attributes, they couldn't store too much liquid. But nowadays, there were very few equipment that could store magic potions. No mage would sell such things if they got their hands on them.
Salin's dimensional stone could preserve food, but it couldn't prevent the expiration of the Restoration Water. He was going to send people to welcome Rex and bring along a large amount of Restoration Water. It would definitely be useful. Even if Rex's army hadn't gone through any battles, there would definitely be many people who fell sick from the long journey.
Kushui County was in the middle of the Empire, and Salin's new city was already more than a thousand miles away from the northern border of the Empire. The difference in climate between the two places was too great, and it was inevitable that people would not be acclimatized.
"I want to arm a team of 500 people within a month. During this month, all of you will help me forge armor. Christian, you have to help me repair the chariot. "
"Magic chariot! Sir, can you fish the warship out of the water? "
"Of course." Salin did not explain to them how Neris had done it. This kind of thing could only be done by someone who was at least a Magic Shooter. In fact, even for a Magic Shooter, only a Magic Shooter with a strong foundation and extraordinary equipment like Jason could do it.
Many spells were restricted underwater, and the use of spatial equipment was also a huge problem. Only a demon like Neris, who was not afraid of water pressure and could operate spatial equipment, was suitable to salvage the sunken ships.
Usually, the way to salvage a sunken ship was to send people to the bottom of the water, tie a rope to the hull, place a buoy, and after confirming the position, use the magic power of a larger ship to pull the sunken ship up.
The capstan that consumed magic cores was also a monster that ate gold coins. This kind of salvage was costly, and it was easy to fail. There were also many strange ways to salvage, but they were all a bit troublesome.
The 12 ships of the East Sea countries had sunk more than a hundred miles away, and Neris had already gone to salvage them with the Winged Skeleton.
"Among these 500 people, more than half of them will be archers, and all of them will be barbarians. Then I will gather 200 swordsmen, all of them pirates that I have subdued, and they are barely usable now. The swordsmen of Seriger Island will not be mobilized this time. " Salin felt a little sad when he said this. Although he had killed those murderers, the death of more than a hundred swordsmen still made him very conflicted.
Those were more than a hundred swordsmen with decent strength who would not betray him, and they had all grown up on Seriger Island.
"Sir, how many mages are you sending?"
"Five hundred people … with two magic chariots, although it is a bit extravagant. Each chariot will have one great mage and four low-level mages. I plan to use the skeleton warhorses to pull the magic chariots, and each chariot will only need two skeleton warhorses. Christian, you and Daniel will go. If there are any problems with the skeleton warhorses, Daniel can help you. "
Salin thought for a while, and said, "Rex has a lot of mages under him, you don't have to compare yourselves with them. Let Geyi handle the welcoming."
"Geyi?" Daniel was a little puzzled. Geyi was also a pirate, and he was fierce, so his subordinates were a little afraid of him. Ever since he got Salin's support, Geyi no longer had any resemblance to the original skinny pirate. He studied hard every day.
"Yes, this person's ability to handle affairs is not bad, I plan to train him."
Everyone listened quietly. Salin was the youngest person in the room, but in this room that was more than 30 meters long, he was the center of everyone. These people had to rely on him to live a better life. Salin spoke of the things he had thought of one by one. His heart felt heavy. Because he felt this kind of trust. With so many outstanding people, he wanted to lead them to live well, and not let them die for him.
"Other than the magic chariots, make two ordinary chariots, and install flamethrowers on them."
Speaking up to this point, Salin hesitated, but still said, "In the future, if you can't avoid appearing on the battlefield, try not to use magic to attack directly, unless this kind of attack can bring huge returns. The battlefield is not a place for mages, but without us, those soldiers will die for no reason. What we need to do is to strengthen these soldiers with magic, so that they can live. So I will make a lot of low-level equipment, and the cost may be a little higher. You have to be mentally prepared, in the future, when the soldiers are training, I will let you participate. "
The room was silent, and snow floated outside the window. Large snowflakes smashed on the glass window, and the world was a silvery white.
Salin's clear voice sounded a little weak in the empty room, which was very suitable for his young identity. Daniel looked at Salin's calm demeanor and sighed inwardly. He had better sign a new follower's contract with Salin. If he didn't make a choice now, he might not have this opportunity in the future.
Daniel was already convinced by Salin. Although Salin's achievements today were inseparable from his teacher's support, if Salin didn't have the ability, so many mages wouldn't be willing to follow him. Other mages' life goal was to build a magic tower, but Salin already wanted to build a complete city at such a young age.
"I designed armor for the barbarians, and you have to help me too. The problem of weapons can be salvaged from the warships. The quality of the weapons in the East Sea countries is okay, so we don't need to buy them for now. "
A regular soldier carried more than five weapons, two long weapons, and three short weapons. Most of the East Sea soldiers died in battle without even a dagger on them. The weapons of these soldiers were all in the sunken ships, and as long as there were enough people, Salin could gather equipment for more than ten thousand people at any time.
The equipment for ten thousand people was not a small number. Viscount Guge from Salin's hometown couldn't gather it even if he risked his life. A baron only had a dozen soldiers. What Salin was doing here was actually already within the limits of the empire's laws.
But who could control him? After all, his city was built in Rex's name. Before Emperor Chanak's death, the upper house had already decided that Rex could have ten battalions of troops.
There were many cases where the nobles came up with all sorts of excuses to expand their private armies. Every private army had eight auxiliary soldiers, and those eight auxiliary soldiers had the same equipment as the private soldiers. They were the servants of the private army in name, but in reality, they were the nobles' main fighting force.
Although Salin only planned to send five hundred people to pick up Rex, an army of five hundred people was still a considerable force. Because there were no auxiliary soldiers among these five hundred people, they could really expand to two thousand people, which was equivalent to two flag regiments.
Only a first-rank viscount could have 500 soldiers. More importantly, Salin had a magic war chariot.
Magic war chariots were not rare, but they were definitely expensive. Among all magic-related items, they were probably cheaper than magic towers. In fact, magic war chariots were miniature mobile magic towers. They were also used to stabilize elements and enhance magic. As something developed for war, magic war chariots were for mages to use, and they also had a certain defensive ability.
On the battlefield, mages did not have strong survival abilities. There were countless swordsmen in thousands of troops, especially when tens of thousands of arrows were shot at the same time. The consumption of magic shields was very terrifying. Even ice patterned armor, which was famous for its defensive ability, could only last a few minutes.
Therefore, even a low-level mage would be protected by specialized swordsmen after being sent to the battlefield. And magic war chariots were the best equipment to protect mages.
If Christian led four low-level mages in the magic war chariot, at least five mages of the same level would be needed to fight him. It would be even more difficult to kill him.
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