Salin chased after a warship alone. He remembered the previous lesson. Four level-six mages had been killed by Shika and Nelis. If there was anything strange on the enemy's warship, he wouldn't be able to afford it. Therefore, when Salin caught up with the warship, he didn't land. Instead, he chose the rear deck, where there were no alchemy crossbows, and started bombarding it with magic scrolls.
On the fleeing warship, the soldiers and sailors were horrified to see that there was a cloud in the sky, descending to only a few dozen meters away from the deck. That cloud was continuously shooting out low and intermediate level magic. In the blink of an eye, the deck at the back had been blown to pieces, revealing the bottom of the ship.
The worst part was that the first of those spells had destroyed the ship's rudder. Without the rudder, the warship was like a headless fly, and it shook violently.
Magic warships were different from ordinary sailboats. For the sake of speed, they weren't very stable. If they weren't injured, or if they weren't traveling at high speed, there wouldn't be a problem. Now that the warship had increased its speed to the maximum, and suddenly lost the rudder, it couldn't fight against the current with just the streamline of the hull.
After Salin cleared the rear deck and made sure that there were no threats to him, he released water from the gourd and let it cut the warship.
Salin was very familiar with this, because when he was building Metatlin City, he used this water to cut the stone. After working on it for a few months, he polished his mental power to be extremely tough and pure.
He also learned this method from Rex. In Bitter Water Commandery, mages would use any method to practice magic. Life mages were an example. Even if it was cooking or cleaning, he would integrate it into his cultivation.
This kind of practice was very beneficial to mental power, and it could make the mages produce very natural physical reactions. At any time, the mages could quickly adjust their state, mobilize elements, and activate magic strings.
Magic was everywhere. That was the slogan of the mages in Bitter Water Commandery.
In the center of the warship, a huge sound amplifying magic array sounded. The steel armor of the warship was cut open by the current, and it fell into the sea bit by bit. The warship was about to disintegrate from the rear.
The low-level mages on the ship couldn't fly, so they could only surrender.
Salin sneered. Over a hundred swordsmen on my warship had also surrendered, but they were still abandoned on the deserted island by you. "As long as I see the East Ocean Coalition Army, I won't spare any of them.
He had dealt with the people of the Eastern Sea countries before, so he had a very intuitive understanding of these people. They were cunning and sinister, and they would not treat others sincerely. If you trust them, you'll soon have your comeuppance.
Moreover, these people have no sense of shame. Even if they surrender to you, they will betray you again. I definitely won't take my promise to heart. The people of Donghai only cared about immediate benefits. They only believed in what they could get.
At this moment, Salin did not care about the cries for mercy from the battleships on the surface of the sea. He only happily unfurled one scroll after another and cast spells.
A Mage who could only cast spells randomly wasn't a good Mage, but Salin's current goal was very simple. He wanted to use the safest method to sink the warship in front of him.
The scroll's casting speed was slow, and it cost a lot of gold coins, but it didn't consume Salin's Magic String. No matter what happened, he would be able to leave the battlefield while maintaining his peak combat strength.
If he was able to kill the three level-six Mages who had landed on the Dragon Skeleton Warship, it was not impossible that the other party did not have a similar method.
As long as he did not leave the protection of the clouds, unless the other party had Magic Shooters, they would not be able to do anything to him. However, very few Magic Shooters would go out to sea with the ships. Even if there were Magic Shooters in the Eastern Sea coalition army, they were currently on land, considering the problem of attacking the central region of Qinyin. It was impossible for them to search for a lost fleet on the sea.
The warship on the sea had lost its rudder and could not turn around. The dense alchemy crossbows on the front deck were no threat to Salin. Even if the warship could turn around, it could not be faster than Salin's flying speed. Salin kept attacking the rear of the warship, unwilling to expose his body to the attacks of the alchemy crossbows no matter what.
Alchemy crossbows that could threaten a level-five Great Mage were all very heavy and needed a fixed frame. On the sea, there were two types of crossbow weapons. Some were small and could be used by soldiers in close combat, while others were very large and could be used to fire arrows to burn the enemy's ships.
Alchemy crossbows were the most lacking against Mages. Generally speaking, if there were enemy Mages, their own Mages would naturally go up to deal with them. However, the level-six Mage on this warship was already dead, and there were no more Mages to protect the warship.
Salin felt a little pleased. The corpses of the hundred or so Swordsmen on the deserted island formed a shadow in his heart that did not dissipate for a long time. Even though he had sunk more than ten enemy ships and killed more than ten thousand enemies, Salin still felt sorry for those Swordsmen.
After all, he was a Mage who had climbed up from the bottom. He did not have the attitude of looking at ordinary people as ants. He was responsible for the deaths of those Swordsmen. If he had kept one of the two warships running, this would not have happened. Moreover, he had given the order to surrender, afraid that those Swordsmen would resist pointlessly.
Salin was not angry at all now, but sad. Those who followed him had died for nothing. If he could not make the enemy pay back a million times over, he did not know how to face himself.
After destroying all the defensive measures on the rear deck, Salin calmly released a few mutated Fireballs to set the warship on fire.
Without the metal shell and the protection of the magic seal, the warship, which had been built with large amounts of wood, quickly became a sea of fire. A few low-level Mages were still trying to extinguish the fire with magic, but once the flames weakened a little, Salin would throw another Fireball.
The people on the ship finally lost all hope, and some began to jump into the sea. However, this was not like the environment in the East Sea Kingdom. The seawater was bone-chillingly cold. Sailors who were familiar with the water would be frozen in less than a minute after jumping in. Even swordsmen protected by sword aura would not be able to hold out for long.
Salin did not chase after those who jumped into the sea. This place was still a few hundred miles away from land. Even if he wanted to swim back, it would take more than half a day. His body was a body of water elemental magic, and the seawater had no effect on him. Those people would only die sooner or later.
A figure flew out of the sea of fire, swaying. Salin saw that it was a level-four Mage in a gray robe. This Mage was covered in burns, and half of his hair and beard were gone.
A level-four Mage could fly? Although he was using the magic staff in his hand, this Mage's understanding of the wind element had definitely reached the level of a level-six Mage.
A very good talent. Salin stared coldly at this Mage.
The gray-robed Mage did not escape to land. He knew that the Mage hidden in the clouds in the sky would not let him leave. Also, the distance he could fly was very short. He would probably fall into the sea before reaching land.
The Mage came to Salin's cloud, his expression sorrowful. He shouted, "You! Why won't you give me a way out! "
Salin suddenly laughed. The Mage was using all his strength to maintain flight. He could not even use his mental strength to open the scroll. The cloud in front of Salin suddenly became transparent, allowing the gray-robed Mage to see his face.
The gray-robed Mage's voice stopped abruptly. He saw Salin's incomparably young face. Such a powerful Mage, and he looked less than twenty years old. No wonder he could not control his emotions. His murderous intent was so strong, even more ruthless than those powerful Assassins.
Since he was young, he would be easy to deal with, no matter how strong he was. The level-four Mage steadied himself and immediately changed his tone. "Honorable Mage, we have already surrendered. Please allow my companions to board the lifeboats. There are still four Mages and a dozen apprentices on the boat. Our emperor is willing to redeem them with money. "
The level-four Mage spoke cautiously, then flattered Salin.
"In your eyes, we are insignificant. Why don't you exchange us for some gold coins or rare magic materials?"
"I didn't want to talk to you at first." Salin paused. "There's something you haven't figured out. I didn't want to kill you. I wanted to never see you in my life. It was you who walked tens of thousands of miles by sea to come here. Since you're here, the outcome has already been decided. Either you die, or I die. As for money? Do you know how many scrolls I threw down just now? "
Salin said in a sarcastic tone.
The gray-robed Mage's expression immediately turned ugly. The scrolls Salin had thrown down just now numbered at least eighty, if not a hundred. Not counting the intermediate scrolls, Salin had spent tens of thousands of gold coins. And he did not seem to feel any pain.
"If you want to bribe me, you have to at least be richer than me." Salin casually took out a silver magic book, held it in his hand, and said, "Look at this. How much is it worth?"
The gray-robed Mage was completely speechless. A silver magic book, even in the legendary Alchemy City, was not something that could be bought with gold coins. With a silver magic book, a Great Mage had the opportunity to cast eighteen intermediate spells without consuming any magic strings.
Salin did not use the silver magic book, but used a one-time consumable to attack the warship. He obviously did not care about the immediate consumption.
He did not know that it was not that Salin did not care, but that he adhered to the concept of safety first. He would not use the magic book and magic strings unless it was absolutely necessary. If he could finish the battle with a level-one spell, he would never use a level-two spell.
Especially after Rex left, even in the shrine, under heavy protection, Salin was still very vigilant.
Salin's tone suddenly changed, and he said, "If you want to live, it's not impossible."
The gray-robed Mage was overjoyed. This young Mage still had a weakness. It was good that he could live. As for the future, if there was a chance, he would find a way to take revenge.
"I want the sea map and star map from the East Sea to the Myers Continent," Salin said with a smile.
The gray-robed Mage's mood instantly fell back to the bottom. He did not have such things. The sea maps from the East Sea to here were all in the hands of Magic Shooters, or in the hands of some powerful families.
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