Rex was in a hurry to return to Metatlin City, but she had already prepared the letter of credence from both countries and the model contract. After packing the equipment, Rex returned to the shrine with Salin, leaving her Magic Shooter in the mansion.
Neris was waiting for Salin, but when she saw Salin and Rex return, she put on a smile.
"Hello, princess." Neris bowed obediently.
"Neris, you've grown a lot stronger." Rex was also smiling. She didn't want to provoke the demons around Salin. Even her master couldn't control such creatures. If she offended them, it wouldn't do her any good.
Neris didn't appreciate it. She said to Salin, "Master, Sister Sica asked you if you would like to go over tonight?"
"Ahem …" Salin glared at Neris. She was trying to sow discord. He never stayed overnight at the South Yard. Even if Sica looked for him, he would stay overnight at the shrine.
Rex pretended she didn't hear it. She couldn't control the feelings between Salin and Sica. Although the two went through life and death together and developed a subtle relationship in the God's Punishment Region, she had the bloodline of Glücos. There were too many things to bear.
The two had to separate, separated by thousands of miles. Sica and Salin, on the other hand, were together day and night. Rex knew she could never compare to them.
Because Salin had already moved the kingdom's affairs into the palace, the second floor of the shrine was empty. Rex was directly led there by Salin, and the two discussed the contract between the two countries.
Salin didn't have any expectations for building a country. He did this because he wanted to spread faith for the Goddess of Nature. The contract with Rex could save him a lot of trouble.
Deep down, Rex felt the same. If she wasn't a royal, she would rather be a pure mage. In this contract, the two sides didn't calculate the gains and losses, but how to deal with the third party if there was a problem.
In the history of Myers Continent, there had never been such a contract between two countries. The two sides weren't scheming against each other, but for the sake of common interests.
The first clause of the contract: The Metatlin Kingdom and the Bitter Water Prefecture will form an eternal alliance from today onwards.
This was a 100,000-year covenant. From the point of view of the contractual relationship, there was no contract that would never dissipate. The 100,000-year period was longer than the recorded history of the Myers Continent, and it was enough to guarantee the timeliness of this covenant.
There was no such thing as an everlasting alliance. Alliances between countries usually had a duration of a hundred years. Salin and Rex simply signed a 100,000-year contract.
The second article of the covenant: The Metatlin Kingdom and the Bitter Water Prefecture Kingdom are closely related. If a war broke out between one side, the other side would automatically enter a state of war.
This rule didn't have much meaning. This was something that countries in the Alliance had to do. However, with this clause, even if something happened to Salin or Rex, the nobles wouldn't need to look for a legal basis. The two countries could still advance and retreat together militarily.
The third clause of the treaty: The Metatlin Kingdom and the Bitter Water Prefecture Kingdom recognize each other's noble status.
This was to reassure the nobles on both sides. After all, the kings and dukes of the two countries could not represent the interests of all the nobles. Unless the benefits were guaranteed, the nobles would not work for you wholeheartedly.
Article 4 of the treaty: If you want to form an alliance with a third party, it must be decided by the nobles of both countries.
This was even more of a means to restrain the nobles. With this clause, the nobles had no worries. The benefits would stay in the two countries, and everyone would get more. In other words, if a third country wanted to form an alliance, the third country's covenant would not be suitable for the Metatlin Kingdom and the Bitter Water Prefecture Kingdom.
The fifth clause of the treaty: The people of the two countries must abide by the local laws.
This clause was to avoid conflicts of interests between both sides. The people of the Bitter Water Prefecture Kingdom had to abide by the local laws when they came to the Metatlin Kingdom. The kings of both countries had no right to take back the people who broke the law.
This clause was actually very important. Many alliances collapsed on their own because they didn't have such a clause.
After the five most important clauses, it was time for both sides to supplement the details of land, taxes, military, and so on. There were a total of eighty clauses, and all the loopholes were filled up so that a third party couldn't get in.
After studying for more than two hours, the treaty was finally settled. Salin then asked Nelis why she came back so early.
Nelis didn't hide anything from Rex. Rex knew about the existence of the Frozen Sea anyway.
"Master, that skeleton did a great job this time. We salvaged a fleet of over a hundred ships. There aren't many advanced things, but they are all what you need. We also encountered a school of terrifying fish. If not for the large number of undead that we released out of the death zone, the alchemy ship would have been eaten by the fish. "
Salin was also shocked. Some magic beasts in the sea couldn't be calculated with common sense. The Coiled Turtle was a level-eight creature, and its defense definitely surpassed that of a level-nine magic beast. However, some small fish might not even be as strong as the red krill, but their attack power was so strange that people couldn't do anything about it.
Salin knew about the existence of a fish called the Bone-Devouring Fish. Its teeth could bite holes in the shell of the Coiled Turtle. If hundreds of thousands of such small fish appeared, the Coiled Turtle alchemy ship would be eaten clean in an hour.
What Nelis encountered clearly wasn't the Bone-Devouring Fish. Otherwise, she wouldn't have come back.
"Master, this is it." Nelis took out a fish from her bracelet and put it in front of Salin. Rex frowned. The smell of this fish was extremely stinky. As a demon, Nelis could completely ignore it, but she couldn't stand the smell.
An invisible shield propped up, and Rex protected himself with magic.
The fish that Nelis took out was very beautiful. It was more than a meter long, had silver scales, and had a smooth body shape, like some special alchemy arrowheads that had been enlarged. This kind of body shape had the lowest resistance in the sea. It was the result of natural evolution.
The fish's head wasn't big. Nelis used both hands to open the fish's mouth. After Nelis opened the fish's mouth, Salin and Rex were covered in sweat.
When the fish's mouth was opened to the limit, it wouldn't be difficult for it to swallow a person's head. Also, the teeth in the fish's mouth weren't in the shape of barbs. Instead, they were densely packed like files, gleaming coldly.
The shape of the teeth indicated that this fish didn't eat by swallowing, but by chewing.
Salin took out a magic core fragment, put it on the fish's teeth, and made a cut. An obvious mark immediately appeared on the magic core fragment.
This fish could open its mouth into an obtuse angle, and it had such sharp teeth. If thousands of them pounced on it, even a solid iron block wouldn't be able to handle it.
"What is this!" Salin had never seen this fish on the biological map.
Rex said, "This is Stotts, only found in the deep sea of the Tanggulas Empire!"
"Stotts?" Salin found the name familiar.
"A type of evil creature in the Holy Church's Code of Law. Of course, it refers to a type of aquatic creature in the Inferno Plane that can swallow the souls of believers. The scary thing about this demon beast from the Myers Continent is its madness. It's said that after the Second Dynasty, this fish was rarely seen. "
"Why?"
"This fish can be used to feed demon beasts and help them advance. Back then, humans raised too many demon beasts, and this fish is the best feed. "
"Then, what's so special about it?" Salin knew that this Stotts definitely had talent in magic. Otherwise, it wouldn't be able to survive in the sea with only a mouth.
"Magic resistance. This fish's magic resistance is ridiculously high, and it is completely ineffective against magic below level 6 defined by humans. I mean elemental magic. The Death Zone that Nelis mentioned targets the soul and life force of creatures. This type of demon beast is only level 3, and it will choose to avoid it. "
After hearing this, Salin released an ice blade and cut open Stotts' brain, revealing the magic core inside.
The magic core was huge, and it almost took up all the space in Stotts' brain. Such a fist-sized magic core could be cut into four or more standard finished products.
The magic core was huge, but the brain was small. This demon beast's intelligence was very low, and it basically acted according to instinct. Otherwise, the Death Zone released by those mid-level undead wouldn't be able to kill it. If they chose to forcefully attack, their Coiled Turtle Alchemy Ship would be lost.
"How much did you catch?"
Nelis smiled bitterly and said, "We didn't dare to hunt. We killed more than 500 of the hundreds of thousands of fish. The real harvest was in the area where this huge school of fish passed by. We picked up a lot of demon beast bones and magic cores for free. These two things weren't eaten by the school of fish. "
"More than 500 is not a small amount. The fish skin can be used to make defensive equipment for mages," Rex said on the side.
What Nelis didn't tell Salin was that the Winged Skeleton had a lot of spoils of war. In the area where Stotts passed, thousands of demon beasts were often killed. According to the path of the school of fish, the Winged Skeleton had picked up countless magic cores for free. Although most of them were low-level magic cores, it was much easier and less dangerous than hunting by themselves.
In this accidental encounter, Nelis also saw two huge level-8 demon beasts being eaten alive. She no longer dared to underestimate the dangers in the ocean.
So what if there were level-3 demon beasts? With enough of them, they could still kill high-level demon beasts. It was the same logic as when there were too many swordsmen, even swordsmen had to flee.
Salin had helped Rex with a batch of magic cores, and he happened to be a little empty. The magic cores brought back by the Winged Skeleton allowed his alchemy factory to continue operating.
Salin also became vigilant. The Coiled Turtle Alchemy Ship was not invincible. In the ocean, many nameless creatures were enough to threaten the safety of the alchemy ship. The ability of the alchemy ship was still too weak to rely on the attacks of the bone spirits and bloodstones. This time, Salin decided to let the Winged Skeleton refine it again and add weapons to the alchemy ship.
The Coiled Turtle Alchemy Ship was still fine. The defense of the submersible warship he got from Ojarvis was not as good as the Coiled Turtle Alchemy Ship. The equipment made by the Glücos royal family was originally developed in the inland deep water lake. The creatures in the lake, no matter how fierce, were not as good as the magical beasts in the sea.
If it wasn't for the Winged Skeleton in danger, he would have overlooked this point. Since Rex was here, he had to ask her if there was any way to improve the submersible warship of the Glücos royal family.
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