Coiled Turtles weren't known for their speed, but after modification, the ship's shell could travel as fast as lightning on the water. Most Coiled Turtles had poor eyesight and would often crash into reefs. With their thick shells, the reefs would all shatter. Level-Eight monsters didn't need to think about what was in front of them. They just had to run over them.
Salin's Coiled Turtle Alchemy Ship was the same. There were many creatures on the sea. This wasn't the Frozen Sea, and the stronger ones were deep in the sea. When the ship came from afar, the low-level monsters would have fled.
Inside the ship's hall, there were still crystals on both sides. One could see the image outside the shell through the crystal. There were no mediocre people on the ship. The weakest was a beginner swordsman. In order to pick up his parents, Ainphent had brought 50 of his best people. This was all the power he could use.
Even Ainphent's parents were amazed by the ship, let alone the swordsmen.
"Salin, do you sell high-speed merchant ships?" Lannie could estimate the ship's speed by looking at the water outside. If merchant ships could reach this speed, they wouldn't have to be afraid of pirates at all.
"Aunt Lannie, the Clyde Family doesn't have any ships, right?"
"Yes, the Clyde Family has always done business on land."
"There aren't just pirates on the sea. There's also Alchemy City and the Cloud Flow Empire's fleet. If this business was easy, I would've done it long ago. Rex doesn't lack materials, craftsmen, or money. "
"I knew it." Of course, Lanny would not be ignorant of this. However, the profits of maritime trade were great. The cargo that a ship could carry was much higher than that of a convoy, and even its speed was several times faster. This was a huge temptation for all merchants. Back then, Viscount Guge of Ceylon City had borrowed a ship from his father-in-law to smuggle so he could maintain his city.
Ceylon City really didn't have much tax revenue. Viscount Guge wanted his reputation, so he often exempted taxes and gave out food. He didn't starve to death because of sea trade.
Seeing Lannie's disappointment, Salin smiled. "But I promised Ainphent that I would get him a good ship."
"You child." Lannie smiled too. A good ship was worth no less than 100,000 gold coins. That was why most people couldn't afford to trade on the sea. If they wanted a fleet of ships, it would cost millions of gold coins. With so much money, most people would build a castle and hire some farmers.
"What's that?!" Trish caught a small black dot in the fast-moving scene.
"Flying fish, unique to the East Sea." The Winged Skeleton had been on the sea for a long time, so he had a good understanding of the magical beasts in the sea. He knew what Trish was referring to.
"There are golden lines on the back of that flying fish." Trish's eyes could see the Parasitic Demonic Insects of the Demonic Plane in complete darkness. The size of the Parasitic Demonic Insects was only as thin as the tip of a needle and as long as a grain of rice. The flying fish was more than a meter long. Although it was far away, Trish could still see the characteristics of the flying fish.
"Haha!" The Winged Skeleton laughed. "Master, this is a Golden Line Flying Marlin. From the spine to the head, there's a bone that's more than half a meter long. Take it out and you can use it as a spear tip. These things come in groups, and there are at least tens of thousands of them within a hundred miles. "
"How many can you catch?" Salin looked at the Wing Skeleton and asked.
"It's difficult to capture it alive. This thing flies too fast. It's impossible to keep it. The Golden Line Flying Marlin has a large range of activity. In spring, they go north, and their furthest range is almost the Frozen Sea. In winter, they go south, traveling tens of thousands of miles. It's not something that can be kept in a pool. " The Wing Skeleton knew what Salin wanted to do and answered helplessly.
"Not even as a contracted creature?"
"Master, this kind of magical beast is not of a high or low level. It's useless as a contracted creature. And even if the Golden Line Flying Marlin is a contracted creature, it's impossible to breed. "
"Uncle Felrett, then the three of us will attack together and try to hunt as many as possible."
When Salin heard that it was impossible to keep this creature, he was not annoyed. After all, only Cloud Flow could keep magical beasts on a large scale. The other empires could only keep them on a small scale. There were tens of thousands of Golden Line Flying Marlin nearby, so killing one or two thousand was easy. This could be used to equip a flag regiment. The bone of the Golden Line Flying Marlin could be made into a spear tip, which was much better than metal.
Among Qin Yin's main equipment, the spear was irreplaceable. The biggest problem with the spear was that it was difficult to pull it out after the spear tip entered the enemy's body. And the bone of the Golden Line Flying Marlin had the talent ability of the Golden Line Flying Marlin. After piercing the target, it could be easily pulled out.
Otherwise, the Golden Line Flying Marlin would attack with the bone spur on its head, and if it couldn't be pulled out, wouldn't it kill him?
The speed of the Coiled Turtle Alchemy Ship slowed down. The undead sleeping in the lower cabin were awakened by the Wing Skeleton and released to patrol the sea. Salin simply went to the deck of the ship with the Wing Skeleton and Felrett and observed with the Elemental Eyes.
The water vapor on the sea was thick, but it did not affect Salin's vision. He searched around and didn't find a large school of fish for the time being. Dozens of warships had surrounded the escaping East Sea Coalition Army in this area. The fierce battle had scared away the nearby magical beasts, leaving only the iron-backed seagulls hovering in the sky, looking forward to the appearance of floating corpses. These scavenging magical beasts were not bold and would not attack living creatures.
"Uncle Felrett, north!" Salin's Elemental Eyes captured the traces of the Golden Line Flying Marlin. It was not a small school, at least nearly ten thousand of them.
The Wing Skeleton was the first to fly up, and the undead released by the alchemy ship got more information. The three pairs of wings on the back of the Wing Skeleton were fully spread, making a fierce whistling sound. The Wing Skeleton quickly flew northeast to drive the Golden Line Flying Marlin. These nearly ten thousand Golden Line Flying Marlin appeared on the sea together, and it was very dangerous to hunt them directly.
The Golden Line Flying Marlin had a bone spur protruding from its head, which was extremely sharp. This was the main weapon of the Golden Line Flying Marlin. The more powerful Golden Line Flying Marlin could also release close-range magic on this bone spur. If you rashly blocked the way of the Golden Line Flying Marlin, it would be like standing on a plain and being attacked by tens of thousands of archers.
The difference was that the lethality of arrows was limited. As long as they did not hit the vital parts, they would not die from arrows if there were Mages around. However, if you were stabbed by the Golden Line Flying Marlin, it would be like being stabbed by a spear. You would lose blood quickly, and the wound would not heal.
The Wing Skeleton also did not want to be attacked by nearly ten thousand flying marlin. It flew high enough and released the pressure of a level-seven creature above the Golden Line Flying Marlin. The Golden Line Flying Marlin was not a high level. The highest one was only level-four, which was not as good as the red krill. However, its physical attack was very strong.
The Wing Skeleton's method was the same as the hunting method of the demon wolves. It would first drive the target into a position where it would surround or intercept the target.
Salin and Ferret had already caught up from behind. The Wing Skeleton drove hundreds of Golden Line Flying Marlin towards Salin. These Golden Line Flying Marlin wanted to dive into the water.
Ferret was a Magic Shooter, so he could fly in the air and cast magic at the same time. However, for safety reasons, he only cast a low-level spell, Ice Arrow.
Each ice arrow was more than a meter long. Ferret's water magic was very strong. The ice arrows connected together, and each one could hit a Golden Line Flying Marlin. Even if they did not hit the vital parts, the powerful freezing ability of the ice arrows would make the Golden Line Flying Marlin lose the ability to resist and fall into the sea.
The undead patrolling in the sea began to desperately collect these Golden Line Flying Marlin and handed them to the Wing Skeleton. The Wing Skeleton did not attack. It just kept driving the flying fish away from the group, so Salin and Ferret could do it.
Salin's method was a bit difficult. He was a level-six Magician, so it was quite dangerous for him to release magic while flying. However, some special spells could be used, such as his Eye of Thunder.
Salin quickly approached a lone Golden Line Flying Marlin in a cloud and instantly released Eye of Thunder. At a distance of ten meters, the Golden Line Flying Marlin could not resist at all. Struck by the electric current, it was immediately paralyzed and fell into the sea.
After Salin's skill had advanced, he no longer had the problem of temporary blindness. He could use it continuously. Moreover, he began to have a weak control over the intensity of the electric current. For creatures below level-four like the Golden Line Flying Marlin, he only needed a weak electric current to paralyze them.
The undead hiding in the sea saw the paralyzed Golden Line Flying Marlin and went to kill them, handing them over to the Wing Skeleton. Salin's hunting speed was not much slower than Ferret's.
Not long after, Salin and Ferret had hunted more than a thousand Golden Line Flying Marlin. The Wing Skeleton could no longer drive them away, because the fish had left its control area and were flying north.
Blood and the bodies of the Golden Line Flying Marlin floated in the sea. The Wing Skeleton's space equipment was not good, so he could not carry much. Salin approached the sea and put more than a thousand fish bodies into the Goddess's necklace. At the same time, he ordered his 24 Thunder Dragons to eat the meat, but not the bones.
The time flow in the necklace was several times faster than outside. These little Thunder Dragons had a large appetite, so Salin certainly did not want to waste it. After getting the remaining hundreds of flying fish bodies from the Wing Skeleton, the three returned to the Coiled Turtle Alchemy Ship. Standing on the deck, the smell of blood was strong in the sea breeze. Scavenging birds larger than the Steelback Gull began to appear in the sky. This kind of killing was not rare at sea. What was rare was that the hunters did not leave any leftovers for these birds.
Salin used the Elemental Eye to look around again. After making sure that there were no warships nearby, he pulled Ferret into the cabin.
"The resources of sea magic beasts are too rich," Salin said regretfully. "Unfortunately, I do not know where to find a more complete magic beast atlas."
"You can go to Alchemy City to buy it. It is said that Alchemy City has collected tens of thousands of sea magic beast atlases, and each of them has at least ten variants."
"Will it be very expensive?"
"Very expensive. Even if you buy it, you cannot copy it. You have to sign a contract."
Salin did not have any objections. He wanted to build a library in Metatlin City, so he also had to pay. Knowledge had a price, and the price he set was not high. Alchemy City had the right to sell the atlas for however much it wanted.
"But you are lucky," Felret said. "The most important part is that the bones of these two thousand Golden Line Flying Marlins are not damaged. You can make good equipment."
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