251 Sregl Island Part 2 (1/2)

At the front of Sregl Island was a stone wall, over three hundred meters high and as smooth as a mirror. The stone wall had been directly carved out of the entire mountain, and was vertical to the sea at the shore. Waves were hitting the stone wall, making loud, crashing sounds.

There was a magic tower every half a mile, and they varied in height. Of course, the entire island was not merely a mountain, and some parts of the stone wall had been filled-in with rocks. Saleen saw clearly with his icy sight that liquid copper had been added to those rocks.

At the center was a gate about eighty meters high, behind which was the dug-out port.

A conical mountain over a thousand meters high was standing at the center of the island. Saleen felt the vibration of the fire elements even at a distance. The center of this island was a volcano.

Mages were the only type of people who would dare to live on a volcanic island.

It was different from the ghost fog island whose mountain was also dark black, in that lives were thriving on this one.

Gaia said to Saleen, ”The outside of the mountain of Sregl Island is the work of mages over a hundred years. They piled on volcanic ash and rock, and then cast Fossilization spells. At most, there were over a thousand mages on this island casting the spell non-stop.”

Only the warship they were on approached the gate, and the other two sailed around the island in opposite directions. Saleen’s boat sailed through the huge gate and into the harbor. The gate was one hundred meters wide, enough for two ships to sail through side by side. As Saleen passed through the gate that was dozens of meters thick, he sensed obvious elemental vibrations.

A large number of magic arrays had been cast onto both sides of the gate. It was different from Holy Rock City in that elemental vibrations were active above and below the gate. Access through this huge gate could be left unsupervised.

Saleen looked at the magic patterns on both sides of the mountain in awe. How great was the strength of mages! With this layout, attacking Sregl Island would only be possible from the skies.

How many humans were able to fly? Flying puppets were easy to produce, but they might not be able to fly over the mountains that were over three hundred meters tall. Not to mention that because of those crowded magic towers, almost every angle of attack was in the attack range of one of the magic towers.

Grade-6 mages had a fairly far attack range, and some of them were even able to attack from as far as five to six hundred meters away. If a mage was in a magic tower, that distance would become indiscernable.

Despite Sregl Island having such complex terrain, Gaia was still worried. It seemed that the problem had not come from Cloudflow, but rather, from the inside of Alchemy City.

The warship stopped at the pier, which was rather small and had five ships docked there. Gaia did not communicate with the upper platform on the port using a magic sound array. He merely lit the magic lamp on the warship and communicated using light signals. Those several-meter long metal spikes around the port were withdrawn, and the warship approached the dock slowly. Gaia smiled at Saleen. ”Don’t worry, Sregl Island is still ours.”

Rolling castles stood on the land, but they were in the style of the late Second Dynasty, being tall, complicately decorated, and having beautiful patterns. This type of castle with its big windows was mainly for living in comfort, and its defensive powers were weaker than those of the Fourth Dynasty. However, during the Second Dynasty, mankind had still been in power, thus people had paid less attention to aspects like defensive capabilities.

Gaia led the way through the castle complex, followed by Saleen and the others. Saleen felt like he had walked into a small town at inland Qin. There were not many stone buildings. The roads had been paved according to the original layout of the mountain, and the houses had been built up using brick and wood.

To Saleen’s surprise, there were many ordinary people living here.

Gaia walked side by side with Saleen and guided him. ”Sregl Island is different from the other two islands. We do not hire swordsmen from Alchemy City. Instead, we train them ourselves. All of our grain, fish, vegetables, and meat are produced here on this island because of the great distance from the mainland. It usually takes ten days for a round-trip to the mainland, so we have many ordinary people here responsible for our plantations.”

”The volcano does not seem very stable, does it?” Saleen pointed at the central mountain and asked.

”It erupts once every one hundred years. Mages channel the volcano every day, so its eruption will not be serious. This volcano is also used as the source of power for our magic arrays.”

”What?” Saleen thought he had heard wrong.

”It’s not too strange. A magic nucleus stores the power of the elements, which is also stored inside of a volcano. Using this power is troublesome, but it is cheap.” Gaia smiled proudly. The most valuable thing on this island was its central volcanic magic array.

However, the Sregl volcano was unique in that it was far too stable. Not another volcano like it could be found on land.

”What about my ship?” Saleen thought about his pirate ship that had followed behind the warship. They would surely notice the pan’s turtle alchemical boat if it went through the gate. Saleen blushed. He needed to keep the boat a secret because he had not gotten permission from Lex to tell the others.

”That type of ship is not allowed to enter Sregl island. It will anchor at a distance. Don’t worry. There are only over a hundred people onboard. If they need food and fresh water, those supplies will be sent over from the island.”

Saleen felt relieved hearing this. He did not want Gaia to misunderstand.

A team of swordsmen followed them. The leader of the team was not Morpheus, but a senior swordmaster. That swordsmen team followed them until they walked through the small town. A straight road was ahead of them, leading to the center of the island.

On both sides of the road were dense woods. Apparently, Gaia and the others did not have a habit of travelling by vehicle. Instead, they began to walk towards the volcano.

After walking a few miles, they arrived at the foot of the volcano. Only mages resided here, and all the buildings had been constructed according to the needs of the mages.