[The day before yesterday, I planned to update four chapters, but I didn't. I'll update one chapter today.]
Salin gave the task of organizing the mercenaries and training them to Geyi. Out of all the pirates that he had subdued, only Gege was successful. Salin could not help but sigh in his heart. He was too naive at that time. He thought that after training, the pirates could become a powerful army.
Salin did not have to worry about the training. Other than Geyi, there were also Daniel's subordinates in charge of the management. Eleanor was only in charge of compiling and writing the training plan.
What Salin wanted to do was to prepare to build a city at the junction of the four countries. This city was a place of war on all sides. It had to be built into a complex fortress. Salin didn't expect to attack. He only wanted to use this place as a nail so that Rex and his army wouldn't suffer too many losses.
It was impossible for Salin to replicate Metatlin City. Just the consumption of materials was not enough.
The construction of Metatlin City did not only consume white stones, but also a large number of monster cores. If not for the previous accumulation and the support of Serrig Island, Salin would not have been able to build the Sequence of Dante on top of the city walls.
Two Archmages from Seriga Island had been sent to investigate the geology and choose a location to build the city. Salin was now mining white stones everywhere, and he also ordered the alchemy factory to speed up the production of alchemy arrowheads.
The Metatlin Mercenary Corp did not have any Magic Shooters. If they wanted to defend the city, apart from the six-story Magic Tower, they would need a large number of alchemy crossbows and magic stone cannons. Otherwise, if the enemy's experts flew over the city walls and killed their way back and forth in the city, there would be no need to talk about guarding the main roads.
Fortunately, the Red Krill brought back by the Wing Skeleton was enough to deal with the situation. On the other hand, the production of armor was much slower. This was the reason why Salin said that he would only send out the troops at the end of the year. If the Rhine Duchy were to launch an attack in advance, he would have no choice but to send his main army to face them head-on.
The mercenaries lacked armor, so His Majesty the Emperor had secretly sent over five thousand sets. This was definitely a huge sum of money, but it was still not enough for Salin to equip his army. He had started from scratch and did not have much savings, but he could not let the mercenaries wear the armor they had brought with them to the battlefield. Not only were those armors of poor quality, but they also looked messy.
In the end, Salin could not wait any longer. He would send a large number of Mages to build the city. He did not have to consider the problem of civilians like Metatlin. The city would be completely militarized in four months. In other words, other than the main force of the mercenaries, the rest of the 40,000 soldiers had to be trained in four months. The equipment had to be ready as soon as possible.
That was why Salin took out all the equipment from his ten main forces and distributed it to the mercenaries. The officers of the main force were unwilling and all came to find Salin. Salin simply called all the officers of the flag regiment to the palace and explained the plan to everyone.
Seeing the magic model that Salin took out, the officers left happily. Salin, on the other hand, had the mages redesign the equipment of the ten main legions. Of course, the equipment was better than what they had handed over, but it was more troublesome to make.
The Metatlin Mercenary Team was even happier than the main army, especially the newly recruited mercenaries. They had never worn such good armor before. Salin increased the strength of the equipment for his main army as much as possible and lowered the weight. When he brought it to the Qinyin Empire, it would be considered the standard equipment for the main army. The quality of each component was comparable.
Every one of them had seven weapons and a full set of military equipment. For every 100 people, there would be one wagon and one magic apprentice. This kind of apprentice had no hope of becoming a Magician, so they joined the army. Magic apprentices didn't have magic strings, so they could cultivate Sword Aura. They had more knowledge about magic potions and served as doctors in the army.
The ones who died the most in war were the wounded. Infection was the biggest killer of the army. With magic apprentices carrying large amounts of potions, this loss would be minimized. There were even such things — some soldiers had their hands and feet cut off, and after the battle, the mages used magic to reattach the soldiers' limbs and send them home without being crippled.
Although they couldn't continue being soldiers, it didn't affect their lives.
Salin had grasped the mentality of the soldiers. Even if there was only one magic apprentice in a hundred people, the soldiers' morale would be greatly improved. In reality, low-level apprentices could only cast level-0 spells, so their battle power shouldn't be overestimated.
The only thing they lacked was warhorses. Salin couldn't buy many warhorses at the moment, and Daniel couldn't leave. The number of skeleton warhorses was limited, so he could only allocate some to the officers. Salin wanted Ainphent to do this, but Ainphent himself was preparing to become a Magic Shooter and couldn't go to war.
Fortunately, Salin's plan wasn't to attack the Rhine Duchy immediately. To attack the Rhine Duchy, not to mention 50,000 soldiers, even 500,000 might not be enough. That was because behind the Rhine Duchy was the powerful Scochenya. If they attacked, it would be useless if they couldn't defend it.
Salin wanted to build a big city that would terrify everyone who passed by. Infantry was more useful than cavalry in defending a city.
The mercenaries were dragged to North Town to train in defending. In Metatlin City, all the factories started working faster. They had to take care of the new city's defensive equipment first, and then they could reequip Salin's ten main corps with new weapons.
Passatro and Cornuco quickly returned to Metatlin City. These two were already level-6 mages, so they relied on flying to and fro. If they walked from Metatlin to the border of the Rhine Duchy, it would be about seven or eight thousand miles. If they used small paths, it would only be about a thousand miles. If they flew in a straight line, it would only be about five thousand miles.
The journey back and forth between the two level-6 mages and the exploration of the terrain would take half a month.
They brought back a total of six locations, three of which were planned for the future. There were only three places at the border of the four countries that were suitable for building a city.
The first place was close to a plain with mountains behind it. The second place was at the bottom of a huge mountain with a depression. This depression was less than a mile wide and couldn't be completely built inside. It wasn't big enough. The third place was a lake with a huge island in the center.
These magic images were all annotated. The two mages from Seriger Island were obviously very proficient in building a city. They had even explored the underground water system. There was no possibility of earthquakes in these three places. The places where the city could be built had good geological conditions. There would be no problems with magic physics when building any buildings.
After careful consideration, Salin chose the second place. The first and third places didn't meet Salin's strategic requirements. The place with the mountains behind it was fine as a commercial city. The big island in the middle of the lake was better defended.
These two places didn't have any deterrent power. On the other hand, a city with the lone peak behind it could attack in all directions.
Since the location was chosen, all the data was listed out. Salin summoned Eleanor to study the design of the city. This lone peak was extremely tall and stood out in the area where the hills and plains were mixed. The side of the peak that had a depression was full of red stones. From the analysis of the samples, it wasn't formed by volcanoes.
The red stones were obviously not as good as the white stones of Metatlin City, but they were similar to granite and reached the standard of building a city. For an isolated militarized city like this, the most important thing was the warehouse. Enough food and water had to be stored.
Dozens of mages gathered and began to design the blueprints while Salin analyzed the map.
A hundred and twenty miles northwest of this place was the Rhine Duchy. A hundred miles southwest was Garoulan. Around the lone peak behind it, a hundred and eighty miles away was Phoenix. Two hundred li to the south was Qin Yin.
Although it was adjacent to the four countries, the terrain here was relatively flat. The surrounding mountainous terrain meant that the roads in and out were limited. That was because there were better roads in both the north and the east. The land here wasn't suitable for farming and was instead barren. It was said that this was a huge battlefield where black mages ran amok. Hundreds of thousands of people died here. That was why no one was willing to stay here.
Salin felt that it was good because the road to the northwest was not bumpy. If he mobilized the soldiers to build the road, he could open up a strategic passage to Rhine. The road to the south was narrow, and the road to the southwest was wide. It was difficult for Qin Yin to attack here directly. He had to take a detour to enter Garoulan and go back, but it was easy to enter Phoenix.
The mages studied for three days and designed a strange-looking city based on the terrain of the lone peak. Salin was attracted by the design at first glance. This design was exactly what he wanted.
On the west side of the thousand-meter-high peak, in a depression, the mountain would serve as the warehouse of the city. Two miles west of the mountain, a huge castle would be built. Then, on both sides of the mountain, castles of similar size would be built. The three castles would be connected by wide walls.
The castle in front could accommodate twenty thousand people, and the ones on both sides could accommodate ten thousand people. Including the space enclosed by the walls, the city could accommodate a hundred thousand regular troops. The auxiliary troops could also be stationed in a hundred thousand.
The area where Rex's army was active was southwest, which was actually within the borders of Garoulan. The location where Salin built the city was only two hundred miles away, and he could arrive in a day.
After making up his mind, Salin began to prepare the materials on a large scale. This time, Neris had to go personally. Things like building a city, without the help of the undead, would be very slow with just humans. Unless it was all done by mages, cutting the mountain and digging out the materials. Even then, thousands of puppets would be used, and Salin did not have that many at hand.
While Salin was busy, the envoy escorted by the sixth camp encountered trouble.
The nobles of the Phoenix Duchy rebelled.
The cause of the incident was said to be because Rex had occupied Martian City and Siding Star City. In fact, the root cause was the envoy from Holy Rock City. Holy Rock City's envoy group passed through Phoenix in a high-profile manner, and Guderian City even sent a powerful army to escort them. There were rumors in Sun City.
Holy Rock City recognized the Metatlin Kingdom in the north, in order to attack from both sides and completely swallow Phoenix. So, under the call of Sun City, the people of Phoenix organized an army of fifty thousand, surrounded Martian City, and then used an army of twenty thousand to attack Siding Star City.
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