[Yes. Today is also a festival. Happy everyone.]
Salin didn't take Princess Rex's words to heart. The Qinyin Empire had a strict hierarchy, but it was generous to mages. In the capital, mages rarely encountered any danger.
Also, Kushui Commandery wasn't close to the border. Even if there were bandits on the way to the capital, they would only be small ones. When they saw the princess' army, they would have fled long ago. Mages wouldn't have a chance.
However, Princess Rex seemed to be very serious. She sent someone to help Salin, Shika, and the rest measure their bodies, and carefully asked Shika and Nelis about their needs. Salin didn't stand on ceremony. Anyway, if a battle really happened, he couldn't stay out of it even if it was to protect himself. Since Kushui Commandery had money, it would be a waste not to spend it.
Salin received a new magic robe. The white magic robe was outlined with green magic threads. It also had a built-in belt suitable for battle. There were no traces of cutting on the whole robe. Salin knew that it was made with alchemy. It might not be advanced enough, but it was very time-consuming.
This waste wasn't without its benefits. The magic robe was used to stabilize the elements in the space around the mage. Wearing this robe, he didn't even need a magic staff.
The belt polished with magic beast horns had a space for embedding magic cores, forming six beautiful patterns.
Apart from the robe, a pair of boots was also made of alchemy. The soles of the boots were simply covered with a layer of magic beast scales. The clothes inside were also fine cotton, mixed with magic powder repeatedly.
This magic robe was very practical. Salin put the magic robe his teacher gave him into the Blessing Ring. He couldn't bear to wear it again, so he changed into this new robe.
Apart from the magic robe, Princess Rex also gave everyone a list of scrolls to choose from. These scrolls weren't given for free, but they were very cheap. Third-level magic scrolls were only sold for 50 gold coins. The market price was estimated to be around 200 gold coins.
Even if they didn't use it themselves, they could sell it for a sum of money. However, Salin guessed that no one would be willing to sell it. Salin thought for a while and spent 1000 gold coins to buy 20 level-three magic scrolls.
He was a level-two mage, and the scrolls could only be used one level higher. He couldn't use scrolls above level-three. Since he had a basic understanding of Figaro's magic formula, Salin chose all the water magic scrolls, and they were the ones he was learning.
Generally speaking, it was not worth it to learn spells of a higher level. This was because casting a spell of a higher level would exhaust the Magic String in one go. Salin had twice as many Magic Strings as a Mage of the same level, and his spiritual power was much higher as well. Learning a rank three spell would take less than half the time.
Before coming to the Princess' Residence, Salin had experienced several life and death situations. He knew that magic was not only used for fighting, but a Mage who did not know how to fight would die too early. Therefore, he studied even harder. As long as there was a chance, he would use the badge to improve his mental strength. Now that Neris was sharing the pain for him, after using the badge, Salin only needed half an hour to return to normal.
Right now, Salin had grasped the basics of three third-rank spells: Iceblade, Illusory Marsh, and Acid Rain.
Of these three spells, one was a powerful attack spell, one was a control spell, and one was a continuous attack spell.
The Ice Blade spell's single target attack was very strong. The Magic Shooter had already demonstrated it. This level-3 spell was still a pure single target attack, and it was much sharper than the Wind Blade spell. Illusory Swamp was a strange control spell. It would form a three-dimensional space and control the target within this space. The target would feel as if they were trapped in the water element. It felt a little like an Advanced Spell.
Although the control time was relatively short, this spell was still a powerful low-level spell.
Acid Rain was not considered extraordinary. It was just that this spell was mostly used on the battlefield to destroy the enemy's armor in a large area. Salin chose this spell because this spell could not harm the user, and there was no possibility of a backlash. Moreover, if he fought in a narrow space, Acid Rain would not disappear just because he stopped controlling it with his mental strength. It could last for a very long time, almost an hour.
If he cast Acid Rain in a completely enclosed space, the acid would gather, and together with the Illusory Marsh, it would be a hundred times more powerful than the Earth-element Marsh spell.
Salin did not care about the limitations of magic. He did not have many choices in the first place. Before becoming a Great Mage, he could learn no more than a hundred water spells. And the ones that could be used in a wide range were only twenty or so.
The twenty scrolls that Salin chose were all these three types of magic. Through Figaro's magic formula, Salin vaguely knew that even magic released with scrolls could be tracked and controlled. Moreover, using scrolls to release magic could allow the caster to understand the principles of the magic in more detail, and master the magic faster.
In other words, if a person had enough money, he could buy a large number of scrolls, continuously release, and experience it, and soon learn the magic to the extreme.
Therefore, Salin did not choose magic scrolls of other elements, even though they could let him enjoy and try to release magic other than water element. The twenty scrolls were not very useful for him to learn these three spells, but Salin believed that any skill could only be mastered through continuous accumulation. Even if there was a small benefit, he would not let it go.
To Salin's relief, Schica's equipment had all been changed.
Her main weapon had been modified by Fayern, so there was no need to mention it. Her secondary weapon was a boomerang, a common Caucasian short weapon. Not only could it be thrown to hurt people, it could also be used as a close combat weapon.
In reality, the swallow-tailed boomerang was even more difficult to defend against than an assassin's dagger, and could be controlled at a short distance in close combat. Schica's boomerang was also made of the bones of magical beasts, but it was much worse than her staff.
Princess Rex simply made a new boomerang according to Schica's requirements. Salin provided the materials, and Princess Rex provided the labor. The size and weight of this boomerang were exactly the same as what Schica was used to, but it was made of seven kinds of rare metal alloys.
Schica took back the new weapon and couldn't put it down. She almost tore down a wall on her first experiment. At the same time, the few Mages living in the yard were also nervous. This Caucasian female warrior's weapon was clearly magic equipment, but it did not have any attributes. It was just abnormally sharp, and even low-level magic shields could not block it.
The most expensive part was Schica's armor. Her leather armor was of excellent quality, but it was not truly enchanted, so it was difficult to defend against heavy weapons. Princess Rex simply made this leather armor into a pure magic armor. Not only could it defend against magic attacks, it also had physical resistance.
Salin saw the enchantment of Great Strength on the armor, and directly threw 10,000 gold coins' deposit notes to Princess Rex.
Enchantment of magic was very harmful to Mages. The loss of magic strings could not be recovered in a year or two. Princess Rex did not reject Salin's gold coins. The more Salin shared with her, the happier she was.
People who can't be bought with money are either your enemies or your friends. As the princess of the empire, there were too many people who were willing to be loyal to her, but she preferred her own group of Mages. These Mages had pure hearts, at least they were not polluted by the world.
Neris reluctantly changed into clothes and shoes, no longer exposing her skin. This set of clothes was very expensive, but Salin did not pay. Neris was his contracted creature, so it was not his business how much she took.
This set of clothes was made of long fur, and the soft white fur circled around Neris' neck. It made her beautiful face look less wild. A pair of small boots was made according to the standard of assassins' equipment, and she walked on the ground lightly and silently.
Neris changed into luxurious clothes, but still did not care about her appearance. She sat on the steps and watched the snow.
Faylen was not here, and Salin was not in the mood to do anything else. He diligently learned and practiced new spells every day. Third-level spells were powerful, but to him, the most useful ones were still second-level spells.
Because Salin had been on the road after leveling up, he was still not familiar with second-level spells. Seeing the performance of a level-eight Magic Shooter, Salin knew that these low-level spells would be very useful even in the future.
A level-eight Magic Shooter could cast 12 level-eight spells, and after using them, their combat power was no different from a magic apprentice. So even high-level Mages might not always use high-level spells in battle. Mastering every spell was the way to survive.
For example, when Salin met two Headless Horsemen, there were eight people helping him, but they still exhausted their magic strings after the battle. If there was another Headless Horseman, the consequences would be terrible. At that time, except for Neris, five mercenaries died, and Shika and Ainphent could not fight.
Without Faylen, the mages in the yard met more often. Besides training, they also discussed their experiences with magic. Salin's foundation was deeper than these mages, but his actual experience was much worse. After talking, he realized that he had underestimated these mages.
The nine of them often discussed heatedly in Fayern's laboratory. There was none of the solemnity, let alone dignity, that they used to have. Studying magic not only required words, but also hands. With the equipment in the lab, they did not need to fight. They only needed to cast spells and use magic tools to analyze them.
Salin paid the most attention to a male mage called Juan. Juan was about 20 years old, and was the oldest among them. He was already a level-three mage. Juan's strength was obviously higher than Nania's, and he would probably advance to become a Great Mage in two or three years.
Of course, there was a precondition, and that was that Juan could always receive Faylen's guidance.
Salin paid attention to Juan because he had leadership skills. Without Faylen, this small group revolved around him, doing all kinds of magic experiments and training. Salin had read many magic notes, and most of them were about the cooperation and fighting techniques between mages. Juan was obviously very familiar with this. The nine of them were divided into three groups, and under his guidance, they performed all kinds of amazing cooperative training.
"Salin, you released the Ice Arrow too early. Nania is only a level-two mage, and controlling the Firebird will be slow. You have to use the impact of the Ice Arrow to give her more time to prepare." Juan pointed out Salin's mistake without hesitation. Salin smiled and did not refute.
The nine of them formed a circle, with nine dolls in the middle, representing each person's identity. If the dolls were destroyed, it would be a tactical failure, and they would be eliminated. Salin and two female mages were in a group. Just now, Nania's dolls did not block the enemy's fireball and were burned to powder.
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