364 Long Voyage Part 2 (1/2)
Jola scrunched his face and said, ”I need to protect Master Saleen, I cannot stay too far away.”
”You are loyal, would you consider following me? A death mage has the power to extend one's life.” Aini tempted.
”I have signed a contract with Master Saleen.” Jola replied aggrievedly. He could not reject the death mage's kind intentions yet he could not agree to it.
”Ah, that is a pity.” Aini spat out the death flames. Lying against the bed, he let the death flames float above his body. The room was bathed in a green glow, Jola sat painfully on the ground. It was not that he did not want to leave, but this was closer to the pretty women. If he were to stay in the opposite room, he would have less of a chance of getting close to them.
Jola was from the Qin Empire, but he grew up in the Cloudflow Empire. He had an incredible fear of death mages. He was not afraid of death, he was afraid of becoming a spirit. If he became a spirit, he would not lust after pretty women. That was something scarier than dying to him. If he was a pure Qin Empire person, this fear would be much lesser. Death mages were not perverts, why would they change anyone into spirits? If death mages liked doing such stuff, they would not be respected in the Qin Empire.
Irene was more dejected than Jola, her experience out in the sea did not mean much to Saleen. What was more infuriating was that Saleen had brought Nailisi into his room and closed the door to ”train”. Who knew what the two of them were doing?
The happiest person on the boat was Sika. She was finally back by Saleen's side and even though she had the awakening of the priestess, her thoughts were simple. She was happy to be beside Saleen. She had already made clear plans with her return this time.
The Pan's Turtle alchemical boat steered silently under the ice cover towards the north-east. The five low-grade mages were controlling it expertly. They were all from Sregl Island and knew how to read a sea map and use a magic compass. Using the magic array to control the ship was not a difficult task. The only thing they had to learn was to avoid the reefs in the sea by observing the images sent back by the Eye of the Dead. In actual fact, even if they struck against a reef, the ship would not be damaged. It was still cruising slowly and was moving around forty miles an hour, this could save a huge number of magic nuclei.
If it was not to familiarize the mages with the workings of the ship, they could achieve such speeds by driving it with the spirit pool.
Saleen was not lacking with this magic nuclei. This was because If they met with any danger, the winged skeleton could control the magic array on the ship more precisely, letting him steer the ship was a waste.
”Master, what are you doing?” Nailisi laid on the bed and asked Saleen, she could not hold her boredom in. Among his water flame, there was a thin weapon. Nailisi had a feeling that the material of this weapon was the backbone of the Tiago giant dragon. The backbone of the Tiago dragon was unusually thick, but now it was even thinner than her wrist.
Processing the dragon bone to such an extent must have cost Saleen much time.
”It's a weapon for you.” Saleen controlled it with all his might, letting as little snow as possible come from the Water Flame Alchemy spell. By his side, a six and the half meter long dragon scroll surrounded him. The temperature had been separated by Saleen and the room did not become ice cold. Such processing was an immense training for his control.
”Master, I already have a weapon.”
”You will like this new weapon.” Saleen laughed, he had realized he had a special talent for designing weapons. In the water flame, the dragon bone of the Tiago dragon had become a whip. this soft whip was slowly shortening bit by bit, devouring itself. It quickly shortened to less than a foot.
This was a snow-white dagger. Compared to the original Dragon Tooth Dagger, this dagger that was processed by a dragon bone could not become a ring. There were no magic patterns on the dagger either, only a trough at the end to inlay gemstones.
It was incredibly sleek, smooth, sharp, and balanced.
Saleen painfully took out a dimension stone and inlaid into the strange looking trough. The dimension stone seemed to have melted as it was concealed within the trough, forming a triangular magic pattern.
Saleen threw the dagger to Nailisi and said, ”Lex has created a few weapons for you, but they have all been destroyed. No matter how good the material of a weapon is, if it isn't suited for you, it will suffer the same fate. You have strong powers but they haven't been trained properly. I have created this weapon especially for you, using a dimension stone. If you like it, it is worth it.”
”Master, this is specially designed for me?” Nailisi grabbed the dagger happily, holding it in her palm. A weird feeling rose from within her heart, this dagger seemed to be a part of her…
Nailisi flicked her wrist and the triangle pattern at the end of the dagger rippled together with it. The sharp blade at the front of the dagger was flung out as the entire dagger became a long whip. This whip was incredibly similar to Nailisi's tail.
”At the end of the day, Master knows me best.” Nailisi squinted as she touched every joint of the dragon bone on the long whip. This dragon bone had been processed to the maximum. The three sides had formed a sharp blade. Nailisi swung the snow-white whip, feeling as if she had another tail. She could control it easily.