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"Magic Tooth, if you feel dissatisfied, just tell me." Salin slowly walked towards the stern as he said to the mechanical Undead Doppelganger next to him. Each doppelganger was actually controlled by the mechanical Undead. Unless he gave up, these doppelgangers wouldn't have the ability to act on their own.
"Master, how could I be dissatisfied? You are great, glorious, and correct! I will remember every word you said and carry it out resolutely, I will not cower … "
"Alright, I'm a human, not an Undead. If you say any more, I'll vomit." Salin walked in front of a medium-sized metal puppet and raised his head to look at it. This 18-meter-tall medium-sized metal puppet was standing there in a daze, letting the sea breeze blow past it. There wasn't the slightest flicker in its eyes, and smooth patterns could be seen on its metal armor.
Such a large puppet might not be very strong, but on such a huge battleship, many of the weapons and equipment needed to be transported couldn't be transported by humans. After all, not everyone had Shika's strength.
At the front of the deck, the opening leading to the main engine cabin had already been sealed shut. Above the opening was a metal tower.
The tower was six floors high, which was very short compared to the huge body of the battleship. There were many medium-sized metal puppets near the tower. Several dozen protruding metal fortresses were welded with anti-air firing alchemy crossbow frames. The huge frames were used to install large-scale alchemy crossbows in Qin Yin.
But what the mechanical Undead had replicated were ballistae. Continuous firing alchemy ballistae was a weapon that consumed a lot of money. Each huge crossbow bolt was worth a few hundred gold, and if the arrowheads were specially refined, they might be worth over a thousand gold.
Continuous firing would release twelve huge crossbow bolts in one go. In other words, over ten thousand gold would be used up in a few seconds. But this kind of attack might very well kill a silver Sword Saint or an 8th Rank High Mage, so the consumption of over ten thousand gold wasn't much. Using it to deal with someone of a lower rank would be foolish.
Apart from these crossbow cannons, Salin also saw a rectangular firing device. There were twelve openings on it, and it could fire 144 crossbow bolts in a row. Salin felt that this thing should be used to deal with magical beasts. Against human powerhouses, it was obviously not as effective as the alchemy ballista.
But Salin had made an error in judgment. This rectangular alchemy crossbow was more than eight meters long, and it was covered with wind magic patterns that could accelerate the crossbow bolt. The speed of this alchemy crossbow far exceeded that of any other weapon. As long as the material was good enough and there was no need to worry about mana overflowing, this kind of alchemy crossbow could completely seal off a part of the sky, turning humans and magical beasts into hedgehogs.
The enemies of the First Dynasty were also very powerful. In some planes, the believers of the gods all had the ability to fly, and some even had wings. There was no reason for the quality of the weapons used to conquer other planes to be poor.
After bypassing the tower, Salin continued forward and saw another anti-air weapon on the deck.
Hundreds of things that looked like catapults were connected together. The net in the middle was fixed on the deck. Long rubber bands were intertwined with elastic metal wires. Once tightened, hundreds of metal bullets could be shot at the same time.
Walking forward, close to the rear deck, there was a huge building. It only had two floors. The first floor was ten meters tall, and it was completely integrated. On the second floor, there were more than a hundred narrow metal towers. Even if all the space was used up, there wouldn't be more than twenty people in each tower.
"What is this thing?" Salin couldn't understand it. Using his Elemental Eyes, he could only see that these hundreds of metal towers were connected by mageweaths, forming a whole. Salin couldn't see any use for so many metal towers connected by mageweaths.
"This thing is connected to the 24 auxiliary Magic Furnaces," Roland said.
"Mana Furnaces!" Although Salin knew that there were Mana Furnaces on the ship, he didn't expect there to be so many! Twenty-four Mana Furnaces provided mana for these one hundred … one hundred and forty-four metal towers. Were the people in these metal towers all Mages? But how could the metal towers increase mana? This didn't make sense!
Unfortunately, a Mana Furnace required a powerful Mage at least level-12 to make. Salin didn't think of duplicating this thing, but he didn't expect there to be so many Mana Furnaces on the ancient warship. Perhaps dismantling the battleship would be the best choice. If these Mana Furnaces were installed in Metatlin City, there would be no need for High Mages to defend Metatlin City. Great Mages would be able to support the safety of the entire city.
But he couldn't do that. If he wanted to attack the Tanggulas Empire in the future, he would need to rely on the ancient warship. If this warship recovered its combat power and was placed along the coast of the Tanggulas Empire, all the Tanggulas people within dozens of miles would have to retreat, and Salin's army would be able to land easily.
Salin looked up at the 144 metal towers on the second floor and couldn't get rid of the questions in his heart.
"Magic Tooth, are there any written records on these metal towers?"
A mechanical undead doppelganger reached into its chest and took out a book. This book was very thin, and every page was made of golden metal sheets. This was the written information copied by the mechanical undead. Salin took it and saw the Gumeer language on it, feeling very gratified.
He directly used a memory spell to remember the contents of the book page by page. Salin threw the book back to the mechanical undead doppelganger, and the metal book once again merged into the mechanical undead doppelganger's body, leaving no trace.
After Salin recalled the contents in his mind, he couldn't even move his feet. He looked up at the 144 metal towers with a heavy heart. The ancient humans actually had such a wonderful idea!
The 24 magic furnaces formed a magic net that covered the metal towers. This invisible net allowed the humans inside the metal towers to extract magic and release spells. As long as your mental strength was strong enough, even without magic strings, you could use the magic net formed by the magic furnaces to release level-nine spells.
What kind of creation was it to let a person without magic strings release level-nine spells!
The magic net's magic cycle was endless, and the consumption of the magic furnaces wasn't considered high. Within the area covered by the magic net, as long as you memorized the incantations and the frequency of the magic waves, you could quickly become a Magic Shooter after some training!
The magic net was equivalent to a magic book or magic staff that stored countless spells, except that the way to activate the spells was more complicated. However, practicing magic strings was a long process. After all, the wealth of this world was limited. If everyone practiced magic, the consumption of magic materials would be terrifying, and in the end, no one would have any magic materials to use.
It was because of this reason that Alchemy City controlled the trade of magic cores, and thus controlled most of the Mages. If magic strings weren't needed, then the magic core's function would be limited. Even if they controlled magic cores, they couldn't control all the Mages.
Salin originally thought that he was close to the peak of this world. Now that he looked up at the 144 metal towers, he realized that he was still very far away from the peak, so far that he didn't know when he would be able to reach it.
What kind of existence would a level-18 emperor of the first dynasty be! Joey was only a level-10 powerhouse. In the future, his strength would undergo a transformation every time he leveled up. Salin gradually adjusted his mentality and took a deep breath of the fishy air. He bypassed the metal towers and walked towards the rear deck.
The 144 metal towers could accommodate a dozen people each. These metal towers could accommodate people who only trained their mental strength. After familiarizing themselves with magic incantations, they would be equivalent to thousands of Magic Shooters …
Such a lineup could absolutely guarantee the safety of the ancient warship.
Fortunately, the Ironblood Grand Duke didn't find the blueprints or the way to use these metal towers. Otherwise, his Dragon Skeleton Warship would have been instantly blown to pieces.
The defensive equipment on the deck was nothing compared to the magic net's design. What kind of concept was over a thousand High Mages? In the entire Myers Continent, there might only be these High Mages.
But it was hard to say in the future. The Great Mages under the Ironblood Grand Duke would advance one after another, and his own Metatlin City would also have many High Mages. Even so, the design of the Weave was still astonishing and brilliant.
If there were enough Mana Furnaces in a city, then everyone in the city could become a Mage, and they wouldn't need to painstakingly accumulate Magic Strings. If the entire country was covered by the magic net, then it would be a Magic Kingdom. If the entire continent was covered by the magic net, then Rex's wish wouldn't be difficult to achieve.
However, there was something else about the design of the Weave that made Salin feel a little terrified. That was because there was a price to pay for using magic within the Weave. The living beings who released magic had to give back their spiritual power to the Weave. This kind of feedback was the spiritual power of the living being being cut off and completely offered to the Weave. The more magic was released, the greater the Weave's reward.
Mental strength was something that would be very difficult to increase without a good Meditation Law Set. If it was permanently absorbed, then one would have to pay the price of their vitality in order to recover.
Meditation Law Set was something only True Mages could do. No matter how powerful an ordinary person's mental strength was, it would be hard for them to keep growing. Moreover, meditation was related to Magic Strings. It would be very difficult for someone without Magic Strings to meditate.
In other words, humans and other lifeforms within the magic net would have to pay the price of their lives if they wanted to use magic. The more magic was used, the weaker the user's body would become.
A 9th Rank High Mage's body would be transformed due to the Magic Strings, and their lifespan would be as long as 1200 years. But if a user of the magic net reached the point where they could release 9th Rank Spells, their lifespan would be greatly shortened.
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