"Well, you can leave now." Salin and Geyi finished their request and drove the skinny pirate out.
Pondering in front of the alchemy table for a while, Salin began to redraw the alchemy blueprints. There were no immigrants in the city yet, and he had no more than ten blacksmiths on hand. Fortunately, the East Sea Expeditionary Force sent him a lot of weapons. Otherwise, he would have to wait for Rex to return to make it possible for all the soldiers to wear decent armor.
Neris sent the equipment retrieved from the sunken ship to the temple, and all the mages got busy. These armors and weapons were all soaked in seawater. If they were not treated, they would soon corrode and rust.
The armor of East Sea was somewhat similar to Yun Liu's. Both were leaf-style armor that needed to be worn with leather ropes. In this way, the maintenance cost of the armor would be reduced a lot, and there was no need for professionals to do the maintenance. The soldiers could dismantle and clean the armor themselves.
However, the armor of the generals of East Sea was worse. Most of the armors of the officers were gaudy and had a lot of unnecessary decorations. In terms of material, it was not much better than the armor of the soldiers. It was estimated that with so many countries in East Sea, there were not many mineral deposits. Unlike the Myers Continent, there were more than a hundred huge iron mines.
Among the armors that Neris fished out, there were a lot of copper. It was estimated that East Sea produced copper. Copper was more expensive than iron, but it was not as strong as iron when used to make armor. Besides, copper was heavier, and it was also a burden on the soldiers.
Most of the armor parts were made of some non-metal, and many were simply polished from the shells of shellfish in the sea. Salin hacked it with an ordinary steel knife, directly splitting the armor leaf and cutting the leather armor behind.
This armor's defense was very low! Salin was a little depressed. He didn't expect that with so much equipment, there were only a few hundred suitable sets. Most of the armor was suitable for the peasant soldiers, but if the elite troops were equipped with it, it would be a joke.
Salin had to gather all the mages and began to forge the armor of his own design. These spoils of war were not useless. At least the style of these armors was much better than Salin's design, and more suitable for maintenance.
The shells of the red krill were crushed, mixed with magic potions, added with gelatin, and refined into various armor parts with magic arrays. The shells of these magical beasts were even stronger after the refinement. Salin tried to hack again with the steel knife, and even with his strength of a senior swordsman, he still couldn't cut the armor.
The quality of the inner leather armor among the spoils of war was quite good. Coupled with the outer armor leaves that Salin had refined, its defensive power instantly increased by a hundred times. Of course, this kind of armor had almost no defense against heavy weapons. If the battle-axes slashed down, because the armor was connected by leather ropes, there was no overall cushioning ability, and the soldiers would definitely be seriously injured.
However, it was impossible for Salin to create advanced magic armor for all the soldiers. This kind of basic biological armor was close to pure steel armor in terms of defense, and could be easily enchanted. It was already an incredible invention.
That was Salin's original intention for making this armor. Rex had enough low-level mages, but when mages cast spells on soldiers, they were most afraid of the metal armor on the soldiers. Most metals didn't have elemental affinity, so it was a huge challenge for the mages to cast magic strings on the soldiers.
It wasn't that metal armor didn't mean that magic couldn't be enhanced. The problem was, if a soldier wore a full set of metal armor, and Salin cast Ice Armor on that soldier, the Ice Armor would freeze the soldier's metal armor, and the soldier wouldn't be able to move a single step.
The armor Salin had designed was different. The outer shell of the magical beasts had elemental affinity. Even a low-level mage could easily enchant the soldiers wearing this armor with magic. Now that Salin had a magic chariot, the mages could cast spells on the chariot, which saved a lot of magic strings.
The armor Salin designed needed a lot of shells of magical beasts. If it were someone else, it would be difficult to realize even if they had the idea. Salin had hunted a large number of level-4 red krill in the Frozen Sea, and now it finally came in handy. Most magic armors were made by carving magic patterns on the metal armor and filling it with expensive magic materials to have a certain elemental affinity. It was very expensive to build. Salin's armor wasn't cheap either, but it was too easy to repair.
After making a set, Salin left the armor making to the mages, and he started to redesign the weapons.
With the spoils of war as a reference, Salin's thinking had expanded a lot. He first designed the most important main weapon for the barbarians, the halberd. Halberds were very popular in every country, and were the favorite weapons of strong men. They had sharp thorns on the front and a long blade, which usually weighed more than 60 kilograms.
Such a heavy weapon could only be used by enemies wearing the ancient heavy armor that could disperse the impact. Otherwise, even if the armor didn't crack, the bones would be broken. If heavy cavalry used halberds, there was almost no armor they couldn't cut. The thorns on the front could also pierce the thickest part of the armor.
Considering that barbarians didn't like weapons that were too long, Salin shortened the halberd and lengthened the blade to maintain the weight. He also designed a small crescent on the other side of the blade. It was like a deformed halberd, but its ability to pierce armor was stronger.
Salin had his reasons for designing this weapon. On the battlefield, ordinary soldiers were very useful. The barbarians were strong, and it wouldn't be a problem to surround a high-level swordsman with such a weapon. A swordsman's sword aura couldn't defend against such a heavy weapon. Because the battlefield wasn't a private fight, and could be attacked from all directions, the swordsman's skills were relatively weak. If three or more barbarians surrounded a swordsman, he would meet a tragic end.
Back when Salin was still a low-level mage, he'd carefully calculated that it would only take about twenty soldiers in a suitable environment to kill him. The so-called suitable environment referred to an environment where mages couldn't use the terrain. Even low-level mages couldn't stop the soldiers if they swarmed forward on flat land.
If Salin didn't have the mysterious gourd and could use the Water Cut spell frequently, he wouldn't be able to face the siege of more than twenty high-level swordsmen. More importantly, Salin could fly now. No matter how strong a mage who couldn't fly was, he wouldn't be able to fight too many enemies.
Salin could fly, but the mages under him couldn't. That was why Salin didn't let his mages fight the enemies directly. Instead, he let the mages buff the soldiers with magic to increase their combat power. That was the role of mages on the battlefield.
Actually, Salin still didn't know the combat power of the armies of the various countries on the continent. When he saw the swordsman battalion in Rex's hands, he thought it was what all armies should be like. Later, when he saw Qin Yin's army in West Town of Holy Rock City, this impression deepened. But in reality, how many armies would have the strength of a swordsman?
Salin went to test the strength of the armor himself. His physical strength had reached the level of a senior swordsman, and he held a sharp steel blade in his hand. He slashed the armor at a vertical angle. The armor was cushioned by a stone platform. With one slash, unless it was truly enchanted with magic, he would be able to cut a hole in even iron armor.
It was precisely because of this misunderstanding that Salin had unintentionally built up a terrifying army. This kind of army had appeared before in the history of the continent. Every soldier was equipped with excellent weapons, but that was at least a few thousand years ago. Before the collapse of the Fourth Dynasty, the Royal Swordsman Battalion was equipped with this kind of standard equipment. Every soldier wore low-level magic armor.
Mages had a decisive effect on the battlefield, but to defeat the enemy, soldiers were indispensable. Salin wanted to arm every soldier to the teeth. In his army, even the support soldiers had to be able to withstand high-intensity battles. This was his idea. It was very unrealistic, but Salin was doing it bit by bit.
In the past few months, Salin had used some means to take over the armies of the two nobles who had submitted to him. The combat power of these nobles' private troops was not bad, but Salin couldn't integrate them into his own army for the time being. Instead, he let them train separately. In contrast, the pirates followed Salin wholeheartedly, which made Salin change his view of pirates.
Who didn't want to stand out? The pirates weren't stupid. They realized that there was a huge opportunity with Salin, so they trained with all their might. Salin wasn't sure, but the pirates were clear that no one else would invest more in them than Salin. Now, almost every pirate had two alchemy weapons, and their daily diet was mainly meat. All kinds of fish and prawns were carefully processed with expensive seasonings. These seasonings were usually used by nobles. Rex had left a lot for Salin, but Salin didn't know how to cherish it, and gave it all to the pirates.
The four magical beast swordsmen had reached the level of beginner sword saints. These four were quite strong, and had been teaching the pirates combat techniques. Now, every pirate had a double-edged machete. The curved blade was filled with sharp sawteeth. Such a weapon could only be maintained through alchemy. Otherwise, it would be destroyed after a few uses.
The most important thing Salin did was to provide the soldiers with sharp arrows.
All soldiers had to practice archery. Other armies didn't do this, and had to set up a separate archer division. Salin was different. At the beginning, Salin had to focus on defense, so bows and arrows became extremely important. As long as they held the city walls and used bows and arrows to shoot down, and had the advantage of terrain, Salin could defend the city even if he didn't have enough manpower.
At the same time, Salin had another advantage. All Caucasian and barbarians were good at archery, or had the talent for it. Now that Salin had obtained a large number of crossbows from the sunken ship, he could equip every soldier with a crossbow box.
Under Salin's leadership, a dozen mages could make more than 20 sets of low-level magic armor every day. These armor didn't contain any magic, but could be easily enchanted. A month passed in the blink of an eye. It was already March, and the weather hadn't gotten warmer. However, Salin had to send someone to pick up Rex.
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