[Hint, the main storyline is still related to the 24 temples of Myers. It won't be about continental disputes. After all, it's a story about mages. If the pace has been slow recently, I apologize. I'll try to return to the original pace this week.]
"My grandfather had more than 40 ships. The largest one is about the size of your warship."
Aesop's words made Salin jump. For a pirate to own 40 ships, this was not a small force in Qin Yin. Did Lianyun City have 40 warships? Probably not.
"More than 40 ships? Then how did you degenerate into a mage and not inherit the family business? "Salin couldn't help but ask.
He wasn't joking. If he could inherit 40 ships back then, he wouldn't have chosen to be a mage no matter what.
A broken fisherman's ship was worth a few hundred gold coins, and a pirate ship was worth more than 10,000 gold coins. If he had 400,000 gold coins, the little beggar would never have set foot on the path of magic.
"Sigh, my grandfather had a good relationship with several powerful pirate groups, which gradually threatened the security of dozens of countries. So the emperors of these countries hired the Assassin League to deal with them. "
Salin felt that what he heard was extremely fantastic. The emperor hired the Assassin League to deal with the pirates. If the nobles of Qin Yin heard this, they would laugh their heads off.
Aesop continued with some grief and indignation, "These emperors were the ones who made my grandfather a pirate, and then they hired the Assassin League to deal with him. They are simply untrustworthy."
Aesop's words made Salin a little confused. It turned out that the emperors hired people to be pirates.
In fact, this wasn't strange in the East Sea. There were too many countries there, and fighting each other would greatly damage their strength. In the end, other countries would take advantage of them. So the emperors would specially create pirates to harass other countries and rob their goods to enrich their own treasuries.
Some pirates became so powerful that they would even kill their own emperor and establish a country.
"My grandfather had a spy in the palace. After receiving the news, he fled with his closest subordinates and lived in seclusion in another country." Aesop began to talk about the glorious deeds of his family and began to talk non-stop.
Salin hurriedly interrupted him, "Get to the important point. How can I go to the East Sea?"
"Ahem …" Aesop was a little embarrassed and quickly changed the topic. "To cross the Sea of Storms, the key is to change the route in different seasons. Even so, there is a certain amount of risk. This time, the expeditionary force lost one-fifth of the ships, and only a few of them were sunk by magic beasts. Every formation will have a temporary flagship. The alchemy telescope on this warship will record everything along the way. All the information is stored in the gem at the core of the telescope. When we reach the destination, the gem will be replaced.
Isn't this the same? Salin had dismantled the East Sea alchemy telescope and found nothing useful.
"However, the base of the large alchemy telescope has been inlaid with gems for many years, and part of the material has been assimilated with the gems. As long as the base isn't damaged, I can recover the information within. Of course, he couldn't use magic images, but he could determine the time, position, and angle of the starry sky. That I know., my grandfather, I can't.
"Isn't he a pirate?"
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"It's going to be very troublesome to calculate." Salin did not want to dwell on that useless topic. He had keenly captured the key point.
"Yes, it is. It took us five months to get here from the East Sea. We actually changed routes several times. To recover the information on the pedestal, we need to use the Karma Formula … Figaro's Formula. "
Salin didn't change his expression. He had mastered the method of quick calculation, but for other mages, recovering magic information with the Figaro's Formula was a huge amount of work.
Aesop didn't know that, so Salin could use this reason to squeeze more information out of him. Salin said, "Five months of magic information will take at least fifteen years to recover. Do you think I have time? "
Salin was right. Recovering magic information would take at least six times the time of recording. Of course, this was when one person did the calculation alone. If more mages with the Figaro's Formula could be gathered, the speed would be much faster. This kind of calculation didn't have to be done by one person.
But mages with the Figaro's Formula had to be at least level-six. Under normal circumstances, there wouldn't be so many great mages doing this kind of time-consuming work for one person.
This kind of calculation didn't help the magic itself other than increasing mental strength. It was worse than killing a bunch of people who were about to become Magic Shooters wasting their energy on this.
Only low-level mages would do the boring data recovery. But in that case, the number of low-level mages needed would be a terrifying number. Even Rex couldn't provide so many low-level mages.
"No, no, no. Sir Salin, listen to me. This kind of calculation can be done with the help of a magic array."
"Magic array? Doesn't that consume a lot of magic cores? "Salin asked with a smile.
"It doesn't have to be magic cores. Magic arrays can be driven with raw stones, especially low-level ones like this."
"Raw stones?"
"A type of calcite. It can only replace low-level magic cores. I know there's a mine nearby. The ships that you've sunk are here to occupy this mine. Otherwise, you wouldn't have brought so many mages with you. "
Salin's expression immediately turned serious. This news was too important. It was enough to save Aesop's life. On the Myers Continent, the role of magic cores was irreplaceable. Although the raw stones Aesop mentioned could only replace magic cores below level-three, it was precisely these low-level magic cores that mages lacked the most.
High-level magic cores were rare, but very few people used them. There weren't many Magic Shooters on the entire continent. But low-level magic cores were different. Mage Qin Yin estimated that there were more than 100,000 of them. Every low-level mage was eager to get low-level magic cores, not high-level magic cores.
The East Sea people actually found a substitute! And there was a mine near Metatlin City!
This was not just a matter of getting rich overnight. Since the East Sea people found this mine, they would obviously occupy it. If he wanted the raw stones, he had to fight the East Sea expeditionary army first.
This news was far more important than the East Sea route. If Salin wanted to send a fleet to the East Sea, he would need at least ten years of preparation. But this raw stone would immediately ignite a war.
"Are these ships sent by the allied forces to search for raw stones?" Salin repeated his question.
"Not really." Aesop didn't dare to hide and told Salin the truth.
It turned out that the East Sea expeditionary army had been arguing endlessly about who should be the commander. Only the royal family of one of the countries knew about this mine. This royal family controlled about thirty ships in the fleet and brought a large number of mages. They had originally planned to come here privately to mine.
This time, the excuse for the six warships to leave Lianyun City was to find the lost ships, which were the twelve ships that Salin destroyed. Because there were a lot of resources on those twelve ships, especially the magic war chariots. So this move did not attract the attention of the other royal families.
"How long can this secret be hidden?" Salin looked at Aesop, trying to find something from his eyes.
Aesop calculated in his heart and replied after a while, "I can't be sure. You sank the warships sent by the crown prince, but one escaped. He may know about this in a week. But even if he knows, he won't publicize it. With his character, he will choose to take a piece of Phoenix land when the situation is stable and separate this mine from the land occupied by others. If he continues to send warships here, it will affect his position in the allied forces. "
Salin thought in his heart, Even if he immediately sends troops here, I can't let him get this mine. The use of low-grade magic cores was too great, and they were basically the ones used in wars.
"Aesop, I think you should stay with me. If you tell me this news, you will definitely die when you go back." Salin didn't immediately ask about the location of the mine, but gave Aesop a reassuring pill.
Aesop showed a relaxed expression. Salin said so, so he was ready to let him go.
"Sir Salin, I am willing to sign a contract," Aesop said sincerely. Although his sincerity was not very credible, the contract signed this time had nothing to do with the deal. He would follow Salin in the future, and would no longer be a free mage. Only in this way, Salin would protect him. Otherwise, after the deal was completed, Salin would kick him away and let him fend for himself.
Aesop couldn't return to the allied camp, let alone the East Sea. He was blind in the Myers Continent. If Salin didn't take him in, his fate could be imagined. Although he spoke the common language quite clearly, the war had already broken out for a while. As long as the Qin Yin people were within the range of the war, they would be able to hear his accent.
Moreover, the Qin Yin people didn't speak the common language, but preferred to speak their own country's language. It was impossible for him to survive in Qin Yin.
Neris stood beside Salin, and she admired her master more and more. No matter how vicious she was, she couldn't be like her master, squeezing out the secrets of the opponent bit by bit, let alone make the opponent follow her willingly.
She had to get the coordinates of the Demonic Plane as soon as possible. Her master's business was getting bigger and bigger, and it was somewhat uncontrollable. Without enough manpower, even Rex would have to ride on her head in the future. That absolutely wouldn't do.
Thinking of this, Neris suddenly said, "Master, it's still somewhat inconvenient for Aesop to follow you. He will bring you trouble."
Aesop was shocked. He was in a life-and-death situation just now, so even though he saw two beautiful women, he didn't have any thoughts. After Salin agreed to take him in, he looked at Neris a few times. Neris's sudden words were actually to stop Salin from taking him in. This almost scared him to death.
"Sir!"
Aesop wanted to say something, but Salin waved his hand to stop him. Then, he asked Neris, "What do you think?"
"Just let him follow me. I have some use for him." Neris said softly. Aesop was extremely uneasy. If he followed Salin, Salin would protect his safety. If he followed this woman? She hadn't even cultivated sword aura …
Aesop looked at Salin with his brown eyes pleading. Salin thought about it and nodded.
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