"Me?" Looking at Salin's reluctant expression, Rex said, "Once the war starts, countless refugees will flow into Kushui Prefecture. I don't have enough food there, so it's a bit difficult. I don't want to annex Jialoulan's land for now, but I want to occupy the southeast of Jialoulan, where Titan Duchy and Qinyin meet. "
"That place … is very difficult."
"I want to occupy it completely. There's a lot of food there. My job is to take in refugees. I can't support so many civilians with the barren land of the prefecture. "
Salin finally understood that Rex was going to war with an elite swordsman battalion. Holy Rock City wanted Rex to stabilize the borders of Phoenix, Qinyin, Jialoulan, and Rhine. This was a bit too much, but Rex still agreed. This was her brother's request.
However, she didn't need too many troops in this area. This was just a distraction. Rex would only leave behind a battalion of troops. Mercenaries could be used for more troops.
Rex really couldn't leave too many troops for Salin. The places she wanted to go were all intersections of several countries. It was very difficult to occupy. Without enough elite troops, she could only wait to be destroyed.
"Take one of my battalions back. I need to train them." Before Rex could refuse, Salin gave his reason. The training intensity of his soldiers was no different from Rex's swordsman battalion. However, many of them had never seen blood or been on the battlefield. In this aspect, Salin's army couldn't compare to Rex's. And the difference was too big.
"Alright, but I will command your army like I command my own. Don't blame me for any casualties."
"Of course. I also want Su to go with you. He'll be the commanding officer of this battalion."
"Su, you're willing to let him go?"
"I can't teach him about war. He has to train with you." Salin made up his mind. If he handed the silver sword sage to Rex, his Metatlin City would lose an important helper.
Rex raised his eyebrows, and said to Salin confidently, "Alright then. I can't guarantee your 10,000 men, but I'll definitely train this Su well. I'll make sure he has the ability to lead at least three battalions of troops."
"That's what you said."
"Of course, if you want to train your troops, you need to have a plan. Apart from Su, give me another ten or so people. They have to be middle-ranked swordsmen at least, and they can't be over thirty years old. This kind of person can only live on the battlefield for a long time. Nurturing them will be very valuable. "
Salin agreed, but his heart was still melancholy. Rex was leaving, and he would be gone for more than a year.
"I leave Nania with you. Be good to her." Salin agreed casually. At this moment, the Wing Skeleton's voice sounded in his mind. "Master, Nelis has found something good. Come and take a look."
Salin suddenly came to his senses. What was the point of doing this? Rex had left and would come back sooner or later. Business was more important. After bidding farewell to Rex, Salin rushed to the port.
Now, the ice on the harbor was very thin, and no one could stand on it. The Coiled Turtle Alchemy Ship was in the underwater boathouse. Salin entered the underground boathouse and saw Nelis with the Wing Skeleton, looking nervous.
"What good thing is it?" Salin was also a little curious. In the past, Nelis and the Wing Skeleton had found a lot of sunken ships, and the number of good things was large enough. Anything that could be at the bottom of the sea for more than ten thousand years without being corroded was a high-level material no matter where it was. But it was the first time that they called him over in such a hurry and didn't dare to take it for themselves.
Both the Wing Skeleton and Rex were Salin's soul contractors, so Salin wasn't worried that they would plot against him.
"Take it out!" the Wing Skeleton urged Nelis.
Nelis took out the dimension stone from her bracelet, and then took out the thing she wanted to give to Salin.
The underground boathouse was very big. The Coiled Turtle Alchemy Ship floated in the water, and the space on the shore was dim. There were a few boxes on the ground, which were all salvaged by Nelis this time. The thing that Nelis wanted to give to Salin was on a wooden box.
When this thing was taken out, the whole boathouse lit up. Soft golden light filled every corner of the boathouse. On the box was a one-meter-tall mechanical object.
The whole machine was perfect, slightly slender, and had six corners. The fine lines on the surface were very simple, and there were no gears or levers. The outside was closed, and there were only a few magic ports. The golden light wasn't triggered by any magic, but by the material of the mechanical object itself.
Metal crystal!
Salin blurted out. The surface of this machine was a complete piece of metal crystal, and it was golden. This was the essence of adamantine. Even an entire adamantine might not be able to condense so many metal crystals.
Then, Salin fully activated the ability of the Elemental Eye and carefully observed this mechanical object.
He couldn't see through it. The whole machine was made of metal crystal, and the parts inside were probably the same. The weirdest thing was the six magic ports. Salin wasn't familiar with other alchemy parts, but this magic port hadn't changed much in tens of thousands of years. There were only six ports on the outside of the whole machine, and these six ports were connected to six magic arrays, which represented the six major elements.
The whole machine's six magic ports didn't have any elemental fluctuations, and were as clean as if it had just been taken out of an alchemy lab.
No, even if it was taken out of a lab, it would have been tested, and there wouldn't be no elemental traces on the magic ports.
The whole one-meter-tall alchemy machine was as clean as the core of a dragon crystal.
This wasn't normal at all. Salin had never seen or even heard of such an advanced alchemy machine. He really didn't know what the parts inside were for.
Seeing Salin's daze, Neris proudly reached out her hand, and used her slender fingers to touch the top of the alchemy machine. Salin wanted to stop her, but it was too late.
Silently, the alchemy machine suddenly opened like a flower petal. Salin didn't even see how such a perfect piece of metal split open. Logically speaking, it wasn't strange that an alchemy machine could be opened in such a soft way. But this alchemy machine opened without a sound, and Salin really couldn't hear any sound.
Inside the opened machine, Salin saw tens of thousands of small parts, each made of metal crystal. This level of metal could only be made by a Mage above Level Eight. There were so many parts in the whole machine that Salin felt a little dizzy.
"Look, Master." Neris pointed at the alchemy machine that looked like a flower petal. In the center, there was an empty space. Salin's pupils constricted violently. There was a power material embedded there. Maybe it was a magic core, maybe it was …
Salin suddenly remembered that the shape of this empty space was exactly the same as something he'd seen before. That was the core of Sky Castle that Rex had given to his teacher.
Could the Heart of Sky be embedded in this machine? If that was the case, then this machine was a part of Sky Castle, and a core part at that.
The place that Neris pointed at was a mechanical switch. It would open when a human's essence was inserted, and it could be easily exchanged for the Heart of Sky. This machine itself didn't have any offensive ability, but it was extremely sturdy. It was all made of metal crystal, and even high-level magic couldn't destroy it.
Neris pressed the switch floating on the core again, and the alchemy machine slowly closed again. Salin couldn't see any cracks, nor any traces of elemental waves.
"This thing, where did you get it?"
"In the box below." Neris pointed at a pile of boxes beside the water.
"What else is inside?"
"It's all some mechanical parts. The ones that I brought back weren't corroded. That's the remains of a shipwreck, and there are probably a few hundred ships. "
"A few hundred! Have you determined the age? "
"Master, I didn't dare to let other mages know. Only the two of us have seen this thing. I think it's from the Second Dynasty," the Winged Skeleton replied. Necromancy also had alchemy, and it could also determine the age, but it wasn't as accurate as elemental magic.
"A few hundred, a few hundred ships … Don't you think that you've salvaged a little too much?"
Salin looked at Neris and the Winged Skeleton. The revenant and imp nodded too. Of course, they felt that it was a little strange, because they had been looking for shipwrecks at the bottom of the sea for more than a day or two. The further north they went, the more shipwrecks they could find. However, there were no continents in the north, so why were there so many ships carrying goods to the northern sea?
"Should we ask Eleanor? She might have been in this plane for a long time. Maybe she knows something, "Neris said to Salin.
"Eleanor …" Salin hesitated. He was the only person that this elf could trust in the Myers Continent, but her man might not be dead. If that marquis appeared alive, Eleanor would probably run back immediately. He shouldn't let her know too much about his secrets, unless her man was dead and he could see his corpse.
The core parts of the Sky Castle were very important to him. Because Rex had once given his teacher a Heart of the Sky and a blueprint.
Even if he had the blueprint, he couldn't build the Sky Castle because most of the materials needed to build the Sky Castle were found from other planes, and it was difficult to get them now. But the most difficult thing to get was the core machinery used to embed the Heart of the Sky. With this thing, although he couldn't replicate the Sky Castle, it was very easy to make a small flying device.
And in Salin's heart, what he wanted to build the most was a magic tower that could fly. With this core machinery and the Heart of the Sky, this wish of his could definitely be realized.
"Both of you, draw a map of all the routes that have been salvaged from the shipwrecks. Also, use the magic compass to calculate the water flow and the position of the stars. I want to calculate the destination of these ancient ships. "
Salin quickly sorted out his thoughts. Although he didn't know why these ships were concentrated in the northern sea, he could use Figaro's magic formula to calculate the destination of these shipwrecks on the map.
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