"That's nothing. Back then, the Marquis... had already thought of this. I'm just telling you what he said." When Eleanor talked about her man, she no longer had the sadness she had in the past. She had a good life in Metatlin City. Now that she had become a level-6 mage, she no longer needed the bracelet to regain the peak power she had in the Myers Continent.
Salin thought to himself, Your man better be dead. This kind of mind was too terrifying. No wonder he could rise so quickly in a place like the Tanggulas Empire.
Salin didn't dare to say that out loud. He said to Eileen: "Why don't you take charge of this matter? What do you think?"
Eleanor said, "I'm a mage. You want me to do this?"
"But I don't have anyone around me who knows how to do it, only you. You're the one who came up with this idea. I don't trust anyone else. "
"Forget it, Salin. You know I'm not willing to do this. How about this, you choose a few people, and I'll be in charge of teaching them. I'll learn these small things in about half a month. "Eleanor rejected Salin's appointment.
Salin wasn't surprised. He wouldn't be willing to do this either. It would take up a lot of time every day, and it was a waste of a mage's life. It would be best if Eleanor was willing to find a few people to teach them.
With the internal affairs settled, Salin began to train in the Shrine.
A level-6 mage already needed a Mage Tower to gather rich elements in order to speed up the pace of magic training and enter the ranks of Magic Shooters. Without a Mage Tower, a mage would have to spend ten times more energy to have any hope.
Anthony and Franco, who came to seek refuge with Salin, were a hundred times more talented than Salin. It was because they didn't have the money to build a Mage Tower that their training speed was at the level of an ordinary person.
Salin's current Shrine wasn't visible from the outside. In fact, the layout of the sixth floor he lived in was no different from a Mage Tower. In the sixth floor, apart from the mages who served him, there was also a huge alchemy room. The entire sixth floor was connected to the fifth floor below by a huge magic formation.
The materials of the Shrine were steel rock and white stone. The key was still steel rock. The concentration of elements in the place where Salin lived was more than enough to be a level-9 Mage Tower. Therefore, the mages of Seriger Island, Daniel, and Eleanor were arranged to stay in the temple by Salin.
There were not many rooms on the sixth floor, but each one was big enough. Salin had a room that was always closed and never opened. Even if he wanted to enter it, he would have to use the teleportation formation. He would rather spend a few monster cores. The entire room was completely sealed. Only the ceiling was connected to the outside through a ventilation hole.
Salin was now in this room. The sealed room was filled with water. Salin floated in the water, his eyes filled with joy. Beside him, a six-meter-long Thunder Dragon was swimming around Salin.
Within the Goddess' necklace, the Thunder Dragon had grown to a length of six meters. It would soon be able to assist Salin in battle. The golden runes on Lei Long's light blue skin were extremely clear. As they swam, the golden demonic patterns changed rhythmically. The room was not big, and Salin could only release one Thunder Dragon at a time to feed it.
He often fed Lei Long with healing water and even demonic liquid. Within the space within the Goddess' necklace, the Thunder Dragon's soul grew normally. It could even be said to be very strong. However, due to the lack of normal battles in the natural world, the Thunder Dragon's physical strength was slightly lacking. Thunder Dragons were not creatures that relied on physical combat. As a result, these six-meter-long Thunder Dragons still had light blue skin.
Salin was not clear about the habits of Thunder Dragons. He could not find any useful information in the many magic notes he had. Only recently did Salin realize that Thunder Dragons not only ate meat, but also the hard shells of sea magic beasts. In the past, he had only peeled off meat to feed them. Only recently did he start letting the Thunder Dragons eat whole.
Now, there was a faint silver tinge in the light blue skin of these Thunder Dragons. Salin knew that if the Thunder Dragons absorbed too little during their growth, it would be extremely detrimental to their development.
For this, Salin had to organize a hunt, and it was to the Frozen Sea.
As he played with the Thunder Dragons, Salin kept releasing Water Shield after Water Shield. The Water Shield he released was only the size of a thumb, and it formed a string of bubbles in the water.
Salin used his mental strength to communicate with the little Thunder Dragons. The little Thunder Dragons released silver electric currents that accurately hit each Water Shield. Each electric current wasn't too strong, but the Water Shield was shattered by the electric currents of the little Thunder Dragons, which weren't that strong.
The effect of breaking magic was the effect of the Thunder Dragons' electric currents. Salin's Eye of the Thunder had this effect. However, Salin's body wasn't as strong as the Thunder Dragons. The electric currents he released barely had an attack range of ten meters.
An attack from ten meters away, and with the effect of breaking magic, was a little too close for a Magician. Salin thought about it. His Eye of the Thunder hadn't evolved, and its attack range couldn't reach more than fifty meters, so he could only temporarily not use it. And these Thunder Dragons could still help him in battle, even now. Of course, the battle had to take place in the water.
If twenty-four Thunder Dragons attacked at the same time with electric currents, even the defensive spells of a ninth level magic beast would be completely destroyed.
Now, Salin took some time out every day to train the coordination between himself and the Thunder Dragons. These twenty-four Thunder Dragons were already starting to take shape. Whenever Salin wanted to attack a target, the Thunder Dragons could keenly capture it almost at the same time. This was equivalent to Salin having an instantaneous electric current attack.
If only the Thunder Dragons could leave the water. Salin thought regretfully as he stroked the golden patterns on the Thunder Dragons. The little Thunder Dragon intimately coiled its body on Salin's body, and Salin felt the hidden electric current.
"Sigh, I can't force it." Salin sighed and kept the Thunder Dragons back into the Goddess' necklace. He estimated that it was already noon. After lunch, he had to learn from Nania some ways to practice magic in daily life. Salin would also pass on these to the Magicians of Serrig Island in the future. At night, he made an appointment with Eleanor to learn elven skills together with Neris.
He was going to learn elven magic, and Neris was going to learn archery.
Eleanor's willingness to pass on these showed that even if she had to leave in the future, she wouldn't be Salin's enemy. Elven skills were almost extinct in the Myers Continent. Eleanor's royal archery and elven magic were quite meaningful in actual combat.
Apart from Nania, Rex also left Salin with a batch of Magicians. These Magicians were actually Rex's backup. If anything happened in Kushui Commandery, she could still have a batch of Magicians to make a comeback.
Just like that, day after day, Salin trained day and night. At the beginning of June, news came from the border that Rex's army had encountered the Vatican's expeditionary army. Rex left behind 20,000 people, of which only 5,000 were her swordsman battalion, and the rest were the relatively weaker auxiliary troops.
Rex's 20,000 troops were routed three times after three encounters. They didn't lose many people, but they lost three towns. Using a defensive stance against an offensive, 20,000 troops were still no match for 100,000 troops.
As for the small number of soldiers lost, that was because they had received information from Salin. Rex's army didn't fight head-on. After exhausting a certain amount of the enemy's strength, they retreated when it was impossible.
The Vatican's expeditionary army entered Phoenix from the Rhine border, sticking close to the west of Phoenix, all the way north. There weren't any decent cities along the way, and the defense of small towns couldn't stop the expeditionary army's advance.
The news brought by the carrier pigeon made Salin more and more shocked. His sixth battalion was constantly attacking the expeditionary army's supply route behind them. But he also suffered heavy losses. More than 10,000 people were sent out, and more than a thousand were lost after more than ten days of battle. There were still more than 3,000 wounded, so they had to leave the battlefield, or else they wouldn't be able to keep those wounded.
When the expeditionary army left the Duchy of Divine Grace, there were about 160,000 people, of which 125,000 were combat troops, and nearly 40,000 were in charge of logistics. Up until now, the expeditionary army's logistics troops were almost completely wiped out, but the regular army only lost less than 10,000 people.
The reason why so many of his troops could escape was because of Judy and Coco's secret help, who summoned a large number of skeleton warhorses. From the information, the Vatican's expeditionary army was very strong. Although they weren't regular troops that had been trained, their morale was terrifyingly high. The biggest casualties were caused by the logistics troops that were attacked.
These logistics troops weren't afraid of death, and even had smiles on their faces when they died.
Salin finally understood why the Vatican was so scary. This kind of bewitching power was more useful than any magic. As long as the believers were told that they would enter heaven after they died in battle, they wouldn't care who they were fighting or whether they could win.
Unlike what Salin had imagined, there were still a large number of Mages in the expeditionary army. With these Mages, as long as the soldiers of the Vatican didn't die, they could quickly get up and fight again. Although healing divine spells would shorten a human's lifespan, they were really fast and effective, and stronger than magic.
Magical healing would improve physical fitness without any side effects, but the speed of healing was much slower than divine spells. On the battlefield, the soldiers' recovery speed had a great impact on their morale.
The Vatican's expeditionary army rushed through Phoenix, then went all the way east, toward Metatlin City. Salin felt that he had underestimated the enemy this time. He actually tried to use an army that had only been formed for a few months to attack a group of lunatics who weren't afraid of death at all.
The nobles in the city were still not fast enough to gather troops. According to the marching speed of the Vatican's army, they could reach the thousands of miles in a month.
Could the 50,000 troops stationed in West Town really stop these lunatics? Damn Faka, he didn't tell him who the core strength of this expeditionary army was. How many Mages were there?
The Vatican had more than 100 million believers. If everyone could fight like this, how could they completely eliminate them?
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