[First Update]
Salin hurriedly left the region. The Dragon Skeleton Warship took the lead and the White Bone Warship followed closely behind. The Dragon Skeleton Battleship was controlled by Nelis. In the middle of the fleet was the Desolate Ancient Battleship. Under the control of the mechanical undead, the Desolate Ancient Battleship was filled with Grade 9 Demon Cores, and its speed increased to eighty kilometers per hour.
This Desolate Ancient Battleship could create a large area of mist. Within this area, one's perception would not be able to extend too far, causing the Magic Compass to malfunction. It was equivalent to hiding the traces of the ancient battleship. Even a 9th Rank High Mage wouldn't be able to find it within several hundred kilometers of the dense fog.
Fog was a very common thing at sea. When the ancient battleship moved forward, it didn't just create fog, it also didn't make any sound. To be more precise, the sound of the alchemy machinery was absorbed by the battleship itself. What the battleship released was the sound of the waves, fusing with the surroundings.
The voices of the twelve bone warships and the dragon skeleton warships were also concealed by the Desolate Antiquity Warship. However, the weapons on the deck of this ancient battleship had been swept clean by the Dragon Skeleton Battleship. Salin was caught unprepared. After capturing the battleship, the ancient battleship had lost all means of attack.
The control of the Dragon Skeleton Battleship was eventually handed over to Nelis. She transformed into an Undead and steered the Dragon Skeleton Battleship to the front of the fleet. The Dragon Skeleton Warship no longer released its aura. More magical beasts and fish followed the fleet northward, heading straight for the Frozen Sea.
There was no lack of ferocious high-level creatures among the fishes and magical beasts that followed the fleet. But now, everyone was using the flow of water brought by the fleet to conserve their energy, and they didn't attack each other. Unless there was blood, these magical beasts would be fine.
However, none of the birds in the sky noticed the fleet. They avoided the fog on the sea.
When the fleet was more than eight thousand kilometers away from Metatlin City, they stopped at the edge of an island. One side of the island was almost vertical, like a broken mountain range.
Although the Desolate Ancient Battleship was more than a thousand meters long, its draught was not as terrifying as one would imagine. With a draught of more than sixty meters, it would not be a problem for it to dock at the port of Metatlin City. This battleship was pretty much empty right now, so its draught was even shallower. This island was more than five kilometers long, so it was safe for the Desolate Ancient Battleship to dock there.
Not to mention the rocks on this island, even the soil was rich in metals. The magic compass was completely ineffective here. What was even more strange was that the sky here was filled with a strange power. All the light that came from the sky had to be refracted several times before falling down. It was impossible to use a star chart to determine one's direction.
The fleet relied on the Coiled Turtle Alchemy Ship to find a path along the underwater mountain range, and then commanded the surface warships to come to this island.
The fleet had to turn north from this island, where there would be a steady ocean current every week. Only by following this weak and undetectable ocean current could the fleet pass through the dangerous waters and continue north.
Salin's fleet was docked here to wait for the ocean currents to appear so that they could avoid a tiny creature with an incomparably powerful devouring ability. In this region of the sea, the metal deposited at the bottom of the sea had piled up into mountains, all excreted by this unknown tiny creature.
These creatures were red. A hundred miles north of the nameless island, the ocean was also red. Any ship that wanted to cross the ocean would be attacked, and they wouldn't stop until the ship was destroyed.
The Red Sea covered an area of more than three thousand kilometers. After crossing this part of the sea, the north side would be safe.
The magical beasts that followed the fleet had also dispersed. They continued east, heading deeper into the sea. The fleet began to rest and reorganize. The skeleton warship had received many attacks along the way, so it needed to be repaired. The human mages and warriors on the dragon skeleton warship all needed to rest for a few days.
Only then did Salin come to the ancient warship to check what he had obtained.
The mechanical undead's clones had all become stronger. There were many metal puppets from the Cloud Flow people on the warship, as well as more spare equipment. These had all been devoured by the mechanical undead. The mechanical undead had advanced to the ninth rank and controlled the entire warship. It still had the spare energy to create more clones to become the warriors on the warship.
These mechanical undead clones were all golden in color, had four arms, and were around three and a half meters tall. Their weapons were all hidden inside their bodies, ready to be taken out at any time. The mechanical undead was also helpless. Its soul was under Salin's control, so it couldn't continue to advance. It could only split its swollen Soul Fire to create more clones.
The people of the Cloud Flow people had modified the upper three floors of the warship. Even the offensive weapons were made by them. The weapons that originally belonged to the warship had been dismantled and left on the dragon island.
However, there were still fifteen floors below the third floor that hadn't been opened yet. It wasn't that the Ironblood Duke didn't want to open them, but the warship was too sturdy. The cabins below were all sealed. Opening them by force would not only cost a lot of resources, but there would also be unexpected dangers. For example, some of the ancient warriors in the cabins would revive once their cabins were destroyed and kill anyone who tried to enter the warship.
The Ironblood Duke had paid a huge price to clear the upper three floors and open the passage to the core kinetic cabin. Therefore, he didn't dare to continue exploring. He could only take it slow.
The mechanical undead's invasion method was something no other creature had. It could devour all kinds of metal and turn it into a part of its body. At the same time, it could also devour the power of souls, flesh, and even some of the power of demon cores.
This kind of creature that devoured everything without excreting anything would eventually self-destruct because it had no control. However, the mechanical undead's Soul Fire was very powerful and special. When it self-destructed, it would probably destroy an entire medium plane.
Salin was no longer worried. The mechanical undead was greedy, but it was under his eternal control. If it wanted to advance, it would have to go through him first. Devouring the ancient warship could have made it advance to level ten. After all, every piece of metal on the warship was more expensive, rare, and powerful than the known warship metals.
Now, the mechanical undead had a total of one thousand four hundred and sixty doppelgangers. Three hundred and sixty of them worked under the Winged Skeleton to defend the warship. On the warship, there were one thousand one hundred doppelgangers. The mechanical undead relied on this method to limit its advancement. After these doppelgangers died, their Soul Fire would dissipate and could no longer be absorbed back into its body.
After all, the Soul Fire of the mechanical undead's doppelgangers was weak. It couldn't be truly indestructible.
The deck of the ancient warship had already been repaired. The mechanical undead had found the entire blueprint of the warship. Although it was only a copy left behind from the ancient times, it was enough. According to the original structure, the mechanical undead had repaired the upper three levels of the warship, including the various ancient weapons on the deck.
These ancient weapons required at least a level-nine magic core to operate. If they were fully equipped, this ancient warship's battle prowess would be equivalent to a dozen of Cloud Flow's fleets.
Just these blueprints were enough to make Salin explode.
Salin also saw the flying equipment replicated by the mechanical undead. It was a metal thing over thirty meters long with huge wings. There were obviously four seats on it, and it could carry a magic cannon.
However, the magic cannon replicated by the mechanical undead was not as powerful as the miniature magic cannon Salin had obtained. It consumed a level-nine magic core and was only slightly stronger than a magic catapult. Its attack range was five kilometers.
The power of this magic cannon could be adjusted. Unfortunately, the mechanical undead could only replicate the magic patterns on the blueprints. It couldn't really give the equipment the strongest attributes.
Salin also knew that he was a bit greedy. The mechanical undead could not replicate real equipment, but he had memorized the blueprints. He could study them bit by bit and refine them. There were thousands of Mages in Metatlin City, and they were all level-three and above. With so many Mages working together, they would soon be able to create equipment that only the First Dynasty had.
Qin Yin was a Mage, and he was not like Tamuenmu. Qin Yin's first advantage was that he was knowledgeable. Very few Qin Yin practiced magic for the sake of battle.
Yun Liu's specialty was that he was eager for quick success. He hoped to increase his own battle prowess, but he neglected basic magic research. Yun Liu would rather spend more time practicing powerful magic than doing magic experiments to verify a magic theory.
Thus, although the Iron Blood Grand Duke had thousands of Mages, he could not understand the weapons on the ancient warship. He could only dismantle them and replace them with Yun Liu's own magic equipment.
What really surprised Salin was that he saw the magic stone cannons of the First Dynasty. These magic stone cannons fired magic stone projectiles that would explode violently after hitting the target, instead of exploding above the enemy according to the calculated distance. The magic cannon from the First Dynasty had an attack range of more than ten kilometers. If it was real equipment from the First Dynasty, it would have an attack range even further.
This kind of magic cannon had a long attack range, a fast firing speed, and a powerful attack. The magic cannon was equipped with an elemental computing array device. This device could allow the shooter to quickly and directly aim at the target. There was no need for a Mage to personally control it.
The biggest flaw of Salin's magic cannon was that it needed a Mage to control it. Otherwise, it would not be accurate. This elemental computing array device could be said to turn Salin's long-range weapons into precision weapons.
Salin did not need to study other things in a hurry, but he had to replicate this elemental computing array device as soon as possible and equip it for his elite troops.
"Magic Tooth, give me a copy of the blueprints. I want the most accurate blueprints before we leave this island," Salin said to the mechanical undead next to him as he patrolled the rear of the warship. The weapons on the deck gave off a cold light. A row of seven-meter-long iron arrows was pointed at the sky, as if they were ready to shoot down any enemy that approached them.
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