351 Building an Army, Building a City Part 1 (2/2)

”Sir, do you want to take a break?” Jola was also riding on horseback. Currently, he was always to the left of Saleen and rarely left Saleen's side. Seeing that Saleen was desperately rushing back to the city base, he suggested that Saleen look for a city and get some rest.

Saleen simply reduced the speed of the bone horse, then said to Jola, ”It'd be better to return as soon as possible. You don't know the people whom I have offended. I keep feeling unsafe.”

Jola replied, ”The Holy See is tens of thousands of miles away, there won't be any trouble. Furthermore, there are…”

”It's because we have them that I don't feel safe. Let's talk when we return.” Saleen did not try to argue with Jola and simply increased the bone horse's speed again.

At a certain point in time, the magic beasts which the magic beast swordsmen rode collapsed due to exhaustion. Saleen ruthlessly commanded them to abandon those magic beasts, then provided them with four bone horses before continuing on the journey. On these boring and monotonous snowy grounds, Saleen's team was astonishingly swift. The magic beast swordsmen did not resist. Their magic beasts were of lower grades and had not been reared from birth, so they had no qualms abandoning them.

At a speed which was twice that used in the journey out, Saleen led his team back to the city base. When he began to see the unfinished city walls which surrounded the city base, he immediately felt more at ease. With his years of experience, Saleen trusted his instincts and decided to rush back. Seeing that the city base was unharmed, Saleen finally heaved a sigh of relief.

It's time to build a teleportation portal, Saleen secretly thought to himself.

Teleportation portals were not only used to transport people. Most portals were used to deliver mail, because the levels of depletion when delivering mail and delivering a person were poles apart. Even if a letter had a bespoke outer shell, delivering it would still be one hundred times cheaper than delivering a living human.

By constructing a teleportation portal, Saleen would be able to receive information quickly. Saleen would no longer have to fret over intercepted information, at least between the Bitter Water Prefecture and the city base

Constructing a long-distance teleportation portal would consume special materials. These materials were easily attainable, it was just that their prices were exorbitant.

The western wall of the city base had not been built yet. From afar, only the foundation of the wall could be seen. Jola grew disappointed when he saw that. This place seemed like a village pillaged by bandits. How was it a city?

Saleen laughed and patted Jola's shoulder, then said, ”We still have a few miles to go, why are you in such a rush?”

In Saleen's city plan, the wall at the western side would be pushed away until it was six miles from the temple. That way, the city would have a enough of a surface area to contain thirty-six magic towers.

Jola did not comment. But as he continued traveling east and followed Saleen to the administrative center, his mouth fell open. Jola could not believe that this city, which was nearly wrecked, would have such a mystical building.

The administrative center was built entirely out of white rocks, and there were more than one hundred steps leading to the main entrance with huge columns all around. Even though the administrative center occupied a large space, it did not seem inflated. Instead, it was like a magic tower, beautifully slender. All this beauty came from the magic patterns on the building. When Saleen had been designing the administrative center, he had planned for it to double as a fort for battles as well.

Even though Jola was knowledgeable, he could not help but be amazed by such a colossal structure. And when Saleen brought Jola to the temple, Jola became utterly speechless.

Jola had already thought of himself as fairly arrogant beneath his loose appearance, but he had not expected this...

He had not expected that his lord would dare to live in such a house. No wonder the lord did not even hesitate to give the order to kill when he discovered the high ranking officials from the Holy See. It seems like the lord has a deep feud with the Holy See. Before meeting me, the lord and the Holy See must have been at odds already. Was it too rash of me to join a mage like this?

As the sword named Tears fluttered within the sheath on his back, Jola was awe-inspired. What was he thinking? Even though he did not believe in loyalty, he should not have been afraid after knowing that his lord's enemies were powerful. What was so scary about those quacks? The Holy See could not possibly traverse thousands of miles and send their holy riders here, could they?

The lord has very powerful death creatures. With us, the five magic beast swordsmen, and a city with an established foundation, there is no need to be afraid even if there is an intermediate-sized army.

Saleen dispatched the pirates back to their camp before leading the five grand swordmasters into the temple.

”Right now, I will give all of you a chance to leave,” Saleen said peacefully to the five grand swordmasters. Only Aini was beside him. Daniel was not around.

”My lord?” Jola addressed Saleen differently from how he normally would. He could not understand why Saleen had said that.