250 Sregl Island Part 1 (2/2)

Daniel did not dare speak too much. Gaia not only had powerful strength, but he was also emitting a sense of pressure on Daniel’s spirit. He even felt that if Gaia were to release his spiritual power, he would be under too much pressure to call out the pikoosi from his death flames.

”Nailisi, what are you? I can’t tell.”

Gaia looked at Nailisi with clear eyes.

Nailisi grabbed her dress, greeted him in the manner of a lady, and then answered in a soft voice, ”Sir, Saleen is my master.”

”Master? Well, well...”

Gaia said no more. The power hidden in Nailisi made him feel uneasy. Why would this type of person recognize another person as her master? Saleen was not cheated, was he?

He did not know that Saleen had cheated Nailisi into signing a soul bond with him. Although Nailisi had lost all of her strength back then, Saleen would not have been able to sign a contract without her permission. Saleen had lied and threatened Nailisi before she had signed the contract. If this were made known across the demonic realm, other demons would laugh at Nailisi.

Demons only respected the strong. An imp with a superb, heroic lineage had signed a soul bond with a human with the same amount of power as a magic hug. What a tragedy!

”Saleen, is there anyone else important to you on the ship trailing behind? If not, I will have the ship sunk.”

Gaia did not speak to Lex, but discussed the pirate ship with Saleen.

”Uncle Gaia, if you don’t like these people, I will have them leave first. I need them as my sailors. If they are killed, I have no time to catch new sailors.”

Saleen thought to himself, This ship has a value of tens of thousands of gold coins. Judging from his thought to sink the ship without any hesitation, he is not a person who cherishes property. In addition, there is a pan’s turtle alchemical boat being dragged behind. No one is controlling the boat, and if the pirate ship sinks, where will I find that boat?

”Don’t worry about that, Saleen. If you want sailors, there are dozens of pirate ship in this area. I can catch them all for you.”

Jupiter was sweating because of his words. He had thought that his men were beyond the sphere of influence of Alchemy City and were away from serious threats. He had not expected them to be so familiar with this area, and it seemed they could exterminate all of the pirates in this area at any time.

Saleen’s heart leapt. Dozens of pirate ships? That will mean thousands of people. About one-tenth of those people must be sailors who have not turned into real pirates. If I can have two hundred of those people, they will be enough to control a ship. Those sailors will be more reliable than the pirates.

”Uncle Gaia, that can wait. Did you get any information from Jupiter? ”

”No, nothing I didn’t already know. No fleet has passed through this area in three months. We have travelled over one thousand and two hundred miles from Alchemy City and we still don’t know where the attacking fleet came from.”

Saleen’s mouth twitched, but he did not mention the possibility that they could be related to the country of Shengfeng. He did not dare to share all of his information with Gaia. He had not met his teacher, after all.

”Saleen, we will return to Sregl Island and stop the search. Devil's Horn has also sent their fleet on the search, so we’ll let them do the job. I’ll take you to Jason for now. Tritiny, arrange some rooms for them. Get some rest, Saleen. Come back in eight hours.”

”Okay.”

Saleen left with Tritiny, thinking to himself, Eight hours. If the ship sails at normal speed, about fifteen miles an hour, it will cover one hundred and twenty miles in eight hours. This means that teacher is on an island that is nearby. But Alchemy City is about a thousand miles away. No wonder no one in Alchemy City knew of him.

He just had not expected Alchemy City to be able to hold influence over such a big area, nor that the three islands on the sea would be so far away from the city.

Alchemy City was as powerful as a country.

Saleen did not fall asleep. With Sika and Nailisi as his guards, he practiced twice using the badge and felt relieved and energetic afterwards.

Eight hours passed quickly as he practiced, which was normal for mages. Although mages lived longer lives at higher grades, they spent most of their lives practicing, so they did not possess any more freetime than ordinary people.

Therefore, mages attached great importance to practice after they had reached grade-4. Many mages left their hometowns and lived earthly lives as ordinary people for some time to appreciate a different type of life in this world.

Daniel and Lex rested through meditation. When eight hours had passed, they were taken to the cabin on the fourth floor together. There was only one main cabin on the fourth floor, and a person could see the ship’s bow through the crystal port at the front of the cabin.

”Saleen, come and look. That is Sregl Island.”

Gaia called Saleen to the port and pointed at a strange island in distance, ”You teacher is on this island. If you are lucky, you will meet him when we get there.”

”Why?”

In truth, Saleen had overheard their conversation, but he needed to pretend that he was unaware of what they had said.

”Jason is in the process of advancing to a sorcerer. I am certain that he must have completed that process by this time. However, as you know, there is no certainty when it comes to advancement.”

Although he had heard it before, he still felt excited. My teacher is becoming a sorcerer, a sorcerer! That grade is still too far away for me.

My teacher is a genius. When I left him, he was only a grade-5 mage. Has it been two years? Is he advancing to a sorcerer already? How much accumulation is needed for a person to do that! Even nobles who possess all of the necessary resources like Lex would need more than ten years to advance from grade-5 into a sorcerer, wouldn’t they?

The warships slowed down and Sregl Island became clearer. Looking at the strange shape of Sregl Island, Saleen was as shocked as he had been when he had first seen Holy Rock City.

This was indeed a place that could be compared to Devil’s Horn. Even though this island did not have fog produced by a magic array, Saleen believed that no warship would be able to approach this island as it pleased. On the tall, well-structured mountain, Saleen saw a dozen parallel magic towers.