[Second Update]
Among the four empires, the Qinyin Empire was shaken the most, because Lianyun City had fallen. The Ironblood Grand Duke dispatched hundreds of Predators and nearly a thousand metal flying machines to attack Lianyun City with the help of the ancient warship.
The defenses of Lianyun City were much stronger than before. There were countless magic stone cannons, catapults, and heavy alchemy crossbows built on giant rocks hundreds of meters tall. However, in front of the Predators, all these defenses seemed so fragile. The defenses of Lianyun City were quickly destroyed, and the Ironblood Grand Duke dispatched metal flying machines to throw magic stone bombs at the facilities in Lianyun City.
These magic stone bombs were so powerful that they destroyed the fortifications that had been painstakingly built in Lianyun City, killing more than two hundred thousand civilians. This bit of damage couldn't compare to the damage Salin had caused in Iron Wall City, but the two of them had the same idea. They both attacked from the sky, using the cheapest equipment to attack. No matter what the target was, they would deal with it with destruction.
Sephiroth did not think this was a coincidence. He lost his composure and scolded Salin in his mansion. If Salin had told him about the metal flying machines, Lianyun City would not have suffered such a great loss.
The nobles in the parliament did not dare to anger him. After all, Sephiroth was not only a Qin Emperor, but also a Gold Sword Saint. In a rage, killing someone was a simple matter.
Sephiroth had a premonition that the Qinyin Empire would be destroyed in his hands. His nephew was innocent. He had been the emperor for a few years without any achievements. All the power was in his hands, and in the end, he would become the ruler of a fallen empire. The most hateful thing was that the seal of the six-winged serpent was in Salin's hands. He was not the emperor, so he could not ask for the power of the Grux family.
If the emperor asked for it, he would no longer be able to control the power, and everything would be decided by Ojarvis.
Could a sickly child control the Qinyin Empire? The empire was currently in a precarious situation! Sephiroth's hair almost turned white from worry. He was not satisfied with his two sons either. They could not control the empire, and neither of them had the ambition.
Ambition was harder to cultivate than ability. Ability could be forced, but ambition was innate.
Salin's fleet departed from Port Royal and headed for Ceylon City. The Elemental Magic Tower had already been put away. This thing consumed a lot of magic cores to fly, and the fleet's speed could reach a hundred miles per hour. Salin did not need to waste energy.
Due to the frequent appearance of magical beasts in the Scotia Sea, Salin's journey had not been peaceful. He had to rely on the Desolate Warriors to break through the waves and advance westward without slowing down. Although it was summer, floating ice could still be seen in the deep sea. It was said that it came from a continent to the west of the Frozen Sea.
The continent was covered in a layer of ice that was thousands of meters thick. Every summer, huge icebergs would melt and separate from the continent, drifting south. These icebergs became a disaster for ordinary ships.
Salin was frustrated, so he slowed down the speed of the fleet and began to hunt on the sea. His route was three thousand miles away from the coast, and the Skochinyan's fishing boats did not dare to stray more than five hundred miles away from the coast. There were no traces of human activity here. The magical beasts in the sea were very curious about the warship. Many low-level magical beasts followed the warship and tried to attack it. These magical beasts that tried to attack the fleet all became Salin's prey. The warship was equipped with magical equipment that specifically targeted underwater targets, so it killed the magical beasts rather quickly.
The Magic Shooters were left by Rex's side. Salin now only had Great Mages with him. The Mages used the alchemy room on the warship to create magical equipment for the soldiers. It was also a kind of training.
The minor nobles near Ceylon City were persuaded. No one planned to resist Salin, even though they disapproved of his cruelty. However, Salin was too powerful, and no one wanted to go against him. Besides, Salin had his reasons. His Majesty Donnie had chased Rex all the way into Metalatlin's territory and besieged their Lone Star City. Everyone could understand Salin's anger.
Even Gug could not deny that if someone did that to his wife, he would also go crazy.
Trish understood this the best. When his wife died, he had also lost his mind. Otherwise, with his intelligence, he would not have been subdued by a demon god and would still be free in the wilderness. Those ordinary demons, and even Great Demons, could not do anything to him.
Neris had no interest in this kind of hunting. Although there were many magical beasts in the North Sea, they were not rare. Basically, every magical beast that appeared was already in a Mage's magical beast encyclopedia.
The fleet traveled westward for a day and covered a distance of one thousand and five hundred miles.
Seeing that Salin was still in a bad mood, Neris suddenly had an idea. She said, "Master, do you still remember the map that Rex calculated?"
"What map?" Salin replied casually.
Neris glared at everyone in the cabin. Except for Nicholas, everyone else left obediently. Trish stood guard outside the cabin, and no one was allowed to go near.
"Back when we went to the central temple, Rex used thousands of Mages to calculate the vague coordinates. After obtaining the coordinates of the temple, Rex calculated the coordinates of the other temples. There's one that you think is impossible, but it's nearby."
Salin then remembered that he had wanted to search for as many temples as possible. Rex had also calculated the approximate locations of the 24 temples, and one of them was in the sea northwest of Scotia. At that time, he thought it was impossible because the coordinates were deep in the sea, and there was no island marked on the map.
The temple of the goddess existed to spread faith. It was meaningless to build a temple on the sea. Even if there was an unknown island here, would the Oracles still have to rely on hunting to survive if they built a temple on the island? Outside of the main shrine was the place where the Goddess lived. Other than the independent space, the other shrines did not have a disproportionate space. The believers and oracles needed to be self-sufficient. The Goddess of Nature did not like killing, and there was no land on this island to support her believers.
"Go take a look, Master. Maybe you can …"
Salin nodded. He was very unwilling to sign a contract with the goddess. After all, he had sacrificed too much, and the goddess needed him to unify the continent if she wanted to revive. The 24 temples built by the Goddess of Nature before her fall definitely had secrets. Because he was busy recently, Salin did not investigate them one by one. Now that he was passing by a coordinate, he could take a look.
Because he was worried that there was a trap in the goddess' equipment, he had already asked for the Ring of Blessing. Opening the temple was not a problem. The Ring of Blessing was in the dimensional stone, and Salin was not willing to wear it on his hand anymore.
With the Left Hand of God gone, Salin could no longer use the divine power in his body. The Ring of Blessing had become the key to opening the temple.
Thinking of this, Salin gave the captain a coordinate and ordered the fleet to head north.
The captain did not know what Salin wanted to do, but Salin was the king, so he had no right to object. Salin then gave another order. The high-speed warship carrying the main force first headed to Ceylon City. He only took the specters on the bone warship and headed to the coordinates of the temple of the goddess.
Gug and the other minor nobles were with Salin. Salin did not want to let them go first, in case something happened that he could not handle.
Neris was very happy that Salin agreed to explore. Nicholas, on the other hand, looked gloomy, worried about danger. Mages, like Mages, could not unleash their full power in the sea. Fortunately, Salin still had the Elemental Magic Tower. If there was no other way, he could use that to fly back.
In Nicholas' opinion, Salin only needed to steadily practice magic, improve his mental power, control some Primordial Warriors, and revive the leader of the water elemental creatures. Then, his power would be enough to fight for hegemony on the continent. Searching for the temple was just asking for trouble.
The problem was that Salin needed to find something to soothe his mood. This was very important for a Mage.
The fleet changed direction. The high-speed frigate took a high-speed transport ship and headed southwest, separating from Salin's dragon skeleton warship. Behind the dragon skeleton warship, there were only twelve bone warships. These bone warships were the last undead warships in the Metatlin Navy. The Wing Skeletons had already decided not to build such warships until they reached level-10.
The bone warships were indeed no match for the Cloud Flow Navy. No matter how many they built, they could only be used as armed merchant ships.
Rex's mages did not calculate the detailed coordinates of all the shrines. This was because all geographical coordinates, be it land or sea, were not static. Mountains and rivers would change their positions. After tens of thousands of years of change, many places no longer had their ancient landforms.
Some peninsulas even split from the coast and became islands near the land. The change in coordinates was very obvious.
Salin gave the captain three coordinates and asked the fleet to search for the islands around them. To others, this would be more troublesome. However, Salin had the Elemental Eye, which could see hundreds of kilometers away. This kind of search became easy.
After another day, the fleet was more than five thousand kilometers away from the land. The dragon skeleton warship slowed down and began to search around the sea within a radius of five hundred kilometers.
Salin flew into the air and searched with the Elemental Eye. After searching for a few hours, Salin felt that he had searched all the possible locations of the temples, but he did not find any islands.
"Let's drop the anchor." Salin did not want to waste any more time. It was better to let Neris search in the sea than to drive the warship around. Magic warships could drop anchor in the deep sea. The huge magic anchor could fix the warship in the sea and prevent it from drifting away with the current.
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