416 Saleen’s Preparation Part 2 (1/2)
Kredian and the rest gathered at Saleen's room quickly. Most of them stayed at the temple to accept any assignment that Saleen gave out anytime or to listen to Saleen talk about magic related problems.
Although a mage's job required a lot of time, in actual fact, these people saved a lot of time. They would not need to worry about gold coins as Saleen would provide them the fundamental materials for practice. To work for Saleen, if there was income, Saleen would not withhold all the money. He would distribute parts of it to his followers.
As a follower of a mage, many of them got better treatment than a lordling. A lordling might be bullied by a big personage, but there was hardly anyone that would be willing to provoke a follower of a mage. You did not offend one person after all, but a bunch of people. The leader of the people would at least be a grade-5 grand mage or above.
Saleen pointed at dozens of metal bottles on the other side of the room and said, ”These bottles can store restorative water. You have to fill these up within a month's time.”
The mages looked at the bottles that were half a meter tall and did not show any dissent on their faces. The healing effect of restorative water was amazing, but it was only a grade-1 magic. A mediocre grade-1 mage could produce twenty portions and above in a day. According to the mages' ability on controlling elements, the production amount of restorative water would differ. Saleen's one portion of restorative water was at least dozens of times more than an ordinary mage.
The task that Saleen had given was too easy to complete. Those mages only looked at those alchemy bottles in curiosity. The alchemy bottles were bronze in color and there were countless tightly carved magic patterns on them.
The bottles were actually used in the warships back then to store magic liquid. The speed of the mages creating magic liquid back then was similar to their current speed of making restorative water.
No matter magic liquid or restorative water, they had their time limit. Even the restorative water that Saleen made would be nullified after a month. Those made by a normal mage could only be stored for about six days. In these bottles, restorative water could be stored much longer.
Saleen used the Figaro Magic Formula and calculated in reversal. He realized the functions of the magic symbols on the bottles.
These bottles were considered the lowest grade equipment as it did not have space attributes and it could not store much liquid. There was very little equipment that could store liquid with magic attributes then. If any mage laid their hands on one, they would not sell it off.
Saleen's dimension stones could be used to store food, but they could not stop restorative water from expiring. When he sent people to usher Lex, bringing a huge amount of restorative water would be useful. Even though Lex's army might not have gone through war, for such a long journey, there must be people who fell sick.
Bitter Water Prefecture was in the middle of the empire while Saleen's new city was more than one thousand mile away from the border north of the empire. There were vast differences in weather for the two places and it was inevitable to find some of them not accustomed to the climate.
”I want to fully arm a five hundred person army within a month. Within this one month, I want all of you to assist me in making armors. Kredian, I need your help to mend magic chariots as well.”
”Magic chariots! Master, could you salvage the sunken warship?
”Of course.” Saleen did not explain to them about how Nailisi did it. If it was someone else, they would need at least a sorcerer to do so. Even if they were a sorcerer, they had to be a sorcerer like Jason who had strong foundations and bizarre equipment to be able to do so.
Many magics had restrictions underwater, even using a spatial equipment would be huge trouble. Only a demon who was not afraid of water pressure and able to control spatial equipment like Nailisi would be suitable for salvaging sunken ships.
A normal way to salvage from sunken ship would be sending people to tie the body of the ship underwater with a buoy. After confirmation of location, they relied on another bigger ship's magic force to pull up the sunken ship.
Capstan that used a magic nucleus was a monster that ate gold coins too. To salvage a sunken ship like that was huge and it could easily be failed. Besides, there were many weird ways to salvage a sunken ship, but all of them were troublesome.
There were twelve sunken ships off island nations from the eastern sea underwater one-hundred miles away. Nailisi and the winged skeleton were already on their way to salvage them.
”Among the five hundred people, more than half of them will be bowmen and all of them will be Barbarians. Then, I will put together two hundred swordsmen, who are pirates that I brought under control and can be managed and put to use now. The swordsmen from Sregl Island will not take any action this time.” Saleen said and he felt a surge of emotions. He killed the murderers, but the death of a hundred swordsmen still made him feel badly.
They were one-hundred of capable and loyal swordsmen. They all grew up in Sregl Island since birth.
”Master, how many mages do you want to send?”