415 Saleen’s Preparation Part 1 (2/2)

Saleen heard Nailisi's reply and he lost interest, ”If you want to tell me then hurry up. I am not in the mood for guessing otherwise.”

Nailisi was smug with success. She blinked her eyes and said, ”Forget it then. I will tell you sooner or later.”

Saleen quickly changed the topic and said, ”Nailisi, go look for Aini and let the three Kings continue to mend the city. Although they have yet to recover from their injuries, they can summon new skeletons. It's been a few months, the city wall was only built halfway. I want them to prepare the material so when Lex's people come, they can start with the last part immediately.”

”Master, I'll go now, but…”

”What's your problem?”

”It's not me. I've calculated, we should send someone to get Lex.”

”I'm preparing. This time I need to make a batch of armor. We have to at least send five-hundred people. Phoenix is far from tranquil, if we send any less people, even a mage might be attacked.

”Master, there are magic chariots in those warships from the eastern sea. Why not salvage them too? If we could repair them and use them to bring Lex's people, it would be much safer.”

”You went to see?”

”Yes, about seven to eight chariots that could be fixed. Master, I saw the storehouse of the ships. There was not any food, but there are some weapons that could be used instantly after retrieval.”

”You go ahead with it. I'll pass you a dimension stone. Don't lose it.” Saleen gave Nailisi a dimension stone. After she left, he was still at the huge space, looking at the pile of material and started thinking.

Back then, when they brought swordsmen and sailing crews from Sregl Island, they were not fully staffed. They only had half of a standard staffing. Saleen relied on the bigger number of mages to drive to their destination, but it was actually unnecessary to have too many mages on a warship. If he were to remove the mages, there would not be enough sailing crews as he only had enough staff for half a warship at the moment.

To make a new warship, he only had material but no blueprint. Even if he had a blueprint, he had too little people that could make alchemy parts without equipment. He had to rely on the three Kings for that again.

After the production of a new warship, technically all the sailing crews and the swordsmen of Sregl Island had to be on it. He would only be left with a bunch of pirates then. Could he ask for swordsmen from Aini and Irene? Either one of them would be unhappy. Those two depended on their swordsmen on a regular basis after all. To leave everything from their family behind and to follow these two younger generations to a strange man's city was a lot to ask. Even if he wanted to use it himself, how to use it would be a problem.

Using the barbarians as scouts, they would make do as mercenaries. Compared to a regular army, these were a bunch of rude people and difficulty to train would be a concern.

It seemed that he could only used the pirates that he had taken control over as the core members. Fortunately, Gurney was a very capable person. With Saleen's support, Gurney managed to whip the two hundred pirates into obedience and they could carry out orders strictly.

Among Jupiter's bunch, there were quite a number of carpenters and they could make simple armors and weapon. He had enough ready made armors as of then and those people would not be able to help much.

Saleen shook his head and sighed. He could only vent his emotions when there was no one around him. He used a dimension stone to collect ready made armors and equipment, then he kept a number of red phosphorous prawns' shells and a grade-4 magic nucleus.

The heavy armors were for the Barbarians. Although the Barbarians did not train for sword aura, their strength was parallel to the Caucasus people. It would not affect them much to wear the heavy armors. The Barbarians could not use any magic weapons, but they could use the normal alchemy arrows. A sharpened alchemy arrow with a tough bow would not be any weaker than a low level magic.

Saleen picked corresponding materials and put them into the dimension stone one by one. He then left his secret storehouse.

The task to usher Lex was more important. Saleen reckoned that Lex would return in another two months maximum. Within the two months, he wanted to put together a strong force to meet up with Lex in the south.

According to the situation then, even if the mages that he sent did not run into Lex, she would not return to Lianyun city either. Saleen only needed to usher Lex from Phoenix. According to Saleen's presumption, Lex would at least bring forth a swordsmen's camp for the new city.

The selected ten thousand would not have much of a problem. If they were to be in a war, healing would be troublesome. Him sending people to usher them was mainly to bring more supplies to them in case Lex's underlinings faced such problems.

Besides that reason, Saleen wanted to show off his skill. Not to Lex but to Lex's underlinings. Those people would belittled him otherwise. Although he was a grade-5 mage, compared to Lex, he might be inadequate.

”The commoner's matters are so troublesome.” Saleen walked out from the teleportation portal and hid the magic pattern on the ground. Then, he shouted, ”Bring forth Kredian and the rest.”