Salin ignored Aesop's pleas and directly threw him to Neris. Salin knew that Neris was very picky about food now. It was not because she liked Aesop's meat, but because she had other uses for him.
Neris was proud. When she summoned a demon in the future, she had to have an excuse. Aesop came from the East tens of thousands of miles away, and no one in the Myers Continent knew him. As long as she signed a dual soul contract with Aesop, she could completely control him, and then let him sign a slave contract with the demon she summoned.
Myers Continent would soon have a powerful mage who could summon demons, but this mage would be a slave of his soul. In this way, no one would doubt his identity, right?
Salin's idea of throwing Aesop to Neris was very simple. He couldn't do everything by himself in the future, or else he wouldn't have the chance to advance to a Magic Shooter. Neris's temperament was not easy to grasp, but she cared about her family very much. Neris cared about all the property that belonged to her.
So Salin was very relieved that Aesop would survive, and perhaps he would live a good life.
The last warship was lost, but it couldn't be helped. This area of the sea hadn't been explored yet, and the effect of the magic compass was very weak. If it escaped, then so be it. At least this warship wouldn't immediately return to the South. It must be afraid of being intercepted here.
"Aesop?" Salin called.
"Yes."
"You can tell me the specific location of the mineral vein. Neris promised to take you in, and she will protect your safety. "Salin didn't explain anything to Aesop, and Aesop almost cried.
This woman named Neris could protect his safety? Could she kill a chicken?
This mage Salin looked very smart, how could he be affected by beauty? If I knew this, I would have promised him 100 virgins in exchange for freedom. But it was too late now. He leaked the matter of the mineral vein and said that he could provide the route to the East Sea. Salin wouldn't let him go no matter what.
In desperation, Aesop could only honestly tell the location of the mineral vein to Salin.
He also took out a piece of raw stone and let Salin analyze it. Salin held the raw stone in his hand and felt a little familiar. It was indeed a kind of calcite, and from the structure, it looked very similar to cordierite.
Cordierite was a type of low-level gemstone. Although there was a large amount of it, its price was not low. This was because this gemstone was suitable for all Magicians, and could be used from level-one to level-six.
There were also some nasty fellows who would forge Cordierite into Black Curtain Stone. The difference in price between the two was more than ten thousand times.
The raw stone in Salin's hand had a crystal structure similar to cordierite. It seemed to be a type of barite.
This was a useless rock!
Salin finally remembered. Although cordierite could be used for many years, it could also be damaged and lose its properties. These gems that had lost their attributes were collectively referred to as useless gems.
The waste rocks were not completely useless. They could be used to make magic potions and all kinds of magic powders. However, there were many similar materials, and it would take too much time to process the materials from the waste stones. Therefore, most Mages would sell waste stones to the nobles.
The nobles only cared about whether the gem was beautiful or not. They didn't care about its attributes. Selling the waste rocks to the nobles would earn enough gold coins to buy the relevant magic materials.
Waste stones could replace low level magic cores? Salin asked Aesop. Aesop told Salin that raw stones had to be processed to replace magic cores. Although it was a bit troublesome, it was much cheaper than buying low level magic cores. If there was an alchemy factory and hundreds of magic apprentices, the raw stones produced every day would be enough to make a family rise quickly.
Salin ignored the loophole in Aesop's words. If you had hundreds of magic apprentices working for you, would you still need the word 'rise'?
"Do you have the formula to make raw stones?" Salin only asked the most important question. If this skill was in Alchemy City, it would definitely be kept a secret.
"Every Mage in East Sea knows how to refine raw stones because most Mages can't afford low level magic cores," Aesop answered with a bitter smile.
Salin was shocked, but his face didn't show it.
The Myer Continent was extremely rich in mineral resources, and there were too many places where gems could be mined. However, in most mineral veins, the usable gems were less than one in a hundred thousand, and the rest were all useless stones. Moreover, not all useless stones looked good and could be used to deceive the nobles.
Therefore, the price of gems had always been ridiculously high because the mining cost was very high.
Now that a large number of East Sea Mages appeared on the Myer Continent, they would definitely collect the waste stones. It wouldn't be long before the Mages on the Myer Continent also discovered this secret.
This secret was nothing for other countries, but for the Qinyin Empire, it was definitely news that would affect the fate of the country. The Qinyin Empire had 80% of the Mages on the continent, and most of these Mages were low-level. Without enough magic cores, they couldn't exert too much combat power.
A level-one Mage could only release 12 level-one spells. It wasn't that he didn't have enough Mental Energy, but that the magic string was limited. After releasing it, it would take at least six hours to recover. If there were enough magic cores, a large number of low-level Mages could be used to set up magic arrays or create scrolls.
Moreover, magic cores could also speed up the speed at which Mages recovered their magic string. The consumption was lower, and the effect was faster. If the Qinyin mined waste stones on a large scale and made raw stones, the Qinyin Empire's power would increase rapidly.
Rex had hundreds of Mages under his command, and they were basically all low-level Mages.
Aesop saw that Salin was silent, and he was afraid that something was wrong. He quickly said, "Well, refining raw stones is a very simple matter. Even magic apprentices can handle it. You don't have to worry, Sir."
"I'm not worried. I just think … it's time to build the second city as soon as possible. Let's go back to Metatlin City. " Salin didn't even look at the ore vein that Aesop pointed out. This ore vein was near the second city he had chosen.
Originally, Salin wasn't very enthusiastic about building a city. He built Metatlin City to obtain a safe teleportation point so that he could freely travel between the Myers Continent and the Hell of God's Punishment.
Once the teleportation array between planes was built, the location couldn't be changed. If the teleportation point wasn't safe enough, it was very likely that he would be killed during the teleportation, even if that person was an ordinary magic apprentice.
But now, Salin knew that waste stones could be refined into raw stones that could replace low-level magic cores. He immediately knew how important it was to have land. If he found a ore vein near his city, he would immediately have the ability to nurture a large number of Mages.
He could use raw stones to replace low-level magic cores, and mid-level magic cores could be obtained in the Frozen Sea. With these, Salin would have the capital to fight against the Curia. It wasn't that he had to deal with the Curia, but that the Curia definitely wouldn't let him go.
After all, he had the power left behind by the goddess Myers in his left hand.
The Dragon Skeleton Warship raised the Shadow Sails again, and sailed forward through the waves, heading all the way north. With more than 70 jade skulls, the warship could operate 24 hours a day, as long as Salin provided enough magic cores.
After returning to Metatlin City, Salin brought Ainphent and the rest back to the Shrine. He didn't intend to hide this matter from Ainphent. After all, Ainphent was his friend. Why would he hide something that would be known by the whole continent sooner or later from his friend? Moreover, Ainphent's family also dealt in gemstones, so there might be a large number of waste stones.
In the Shrine, all the Mages were abnormally surprised when they heard the news. To them, waste stones that were completely worthless could actually be refined into something equivalent to low-level magic cores.
Especially the Mages on Seriger Island, their theoretical knowledge was too rich. As soon as they heard this, they immediately thought that as long as their refining ability was improved, it wouldn't be a problem to use waste stones to produce raw stones equivalent to mid-level magic cores. Alchemy wasn't static. All alchemy was constantly improving and evolving.
The reason why this alchemy hadn't been born in the Myers Continent was because the Myers Continent was too big. Even though magic cores were expensive, Mages could still obtain them. As for the countries of the East Sea, if they wanted magic cores, they had to ask for them from the sea. The magic beasts in the sea were too powerful, and the price of obtaining them was also unbearable.
Under such circumstances, the Mages of the Eastern Sea Continent had found an alternative and researched the raw stone.
Even so, the land area of the East Sea was too small, and there weren't many mines. The civilizations of the countries of the East Sea were also built on magic, so they wanted to invade the Myers Continent.
Everyone in the room, except for Nelis, was a Mage. Even Sicar wasn't in the room. The news that Salin brought back made everyone fall into silence.
This wasn't just an opportunity. It looked like Qin Yin would immediately become stronger, but in reality, this was probably the beginning of Qin Yin's collapse.
This was because there was an Alchemy City on the southeast coast of Qin Yin. Alchemy City had always been relatively independent, and didn't even pay a single gold coin of tax to the empire. However, Alchemy City still belonged to the Qin Yin Empire in name, because the Mages in Alchemy City weren't strong enough to control the continent, so they were willing to be under the Glückers family.
The Glückers family didn't just have three Magic Shooters in the palace. There were tens of thousands of them in the royal family, and most of them chose to learn magic. This was the tradition of the Glückers royal family. As long as you chose to learn magic, the palace would provide you with opportunities. Even if you didn't achieve much, you wouldn't have to worry about food and clothing.
After a thousand years, there were fewer and fewer high-level Mages in the Glückers royal family, but there were more and more low-level Mages.
Alchemy City didn't really want to compete with the Glückers royal family because it was meaningless. However, with this raw stone, Alchemy City could expand infinitely and nurture hundreds of thousands of low-level Mages. That would be a power that could destroy everything.
In history, the collapse of the four major dynasties were all related to Mages. Now, if Alchemy City wanted to destroy the situation on the continent, there was only one condition: they had enough Mages.
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