664 Riches of the Ocean Part 1 (1/2)
It was clear that the winged skeleton used a lot of the resources obtained from the ocean to create jade skeletons. There were many skeletons in the ocean that could be utilized as long as they had yet to turn into fine powder after more than ten-thousand years.
It was not a waste for the winged skeleton to turn these resources into jade skeletons. The jade skeletons would be intelligent, loyal, capable of combat skills, and capable of magic. They would also need a higher level of equipment that was equivalent to four mages though. As long as these skeletons were fully charged with energy, they had no need for sleeping.
Saleen went down to the underground freezer with Sika, Nailisi, and Nicholas.
Other than the larger vessels used for hunting, Saleen also possessed a few smaller vessels that could hunt within a few hundred miles from the coastline and could only deal with low-level magic beasts. It was necessary for the port to contain a freezer to preserve what they had hunted.
Most of the fish that they hunted would serve as food, it was important to keep them in low temperature to ensure freshness. Fortunately, Saleen had many mages that could help to create ice blocks.
”Nicholas, what do you think of my city?” Saleen led Nicholas down to the underground freezer. What caught Nicholas' eye was not the sea creatures piled up as high as a mountain in the freezer, but the freezer itself.
”Your Highness…,” Nicholas had already signed the follower's bond so he had changed the way he addressed Saleen. ”Is the entire city built on this type of rocks?”
When he attacked Metatrin City, he had noticed that the city wall's material was extremely unique and was more difficult to break down than iron or steel.
”Yes, when I arrived, this place was covered with this type of rocks. For the first six months, it was as if I was battling against these rocks,” Saleen answered honestly. He had his own way to deal with these rocks. He had the Three Kings and a large number of spirits of the dead at that time, but Saleen also had his water current which was a very effective in dealing with this type of rocks.
”With six magic towers in the city and Dante's Sequence in the city walls, unless the Holy See sends forth a one-million strong army and Pope Theisio personally leads the attack… this city cannot be taken down without using a godly item.”
”You are very sharp. We can form a circle of defense with the six magic towers so that the enemy will not be able to fly around the city wall,” Saleen walked towards the alchemy workshop behind the warehouse as he spoke. There were quite a number of low-level mages and magic apprentices there.
The magic beasts from the ocean would be differentiated and categorized by the middle-level mages from Sregl Island. These tasks were overseen by Kredian and Francis. These Sregl Island mages were progressing much faster than Saleen expected, but Saleen should have expected that. Ever since they followed Saleen, they could utilize all the magic nuclei they wanted and could now train much more.
Saleen's temple was built according to the design of a grade-9 magic tower, that was another important factor that helped with their training. Pasatilo and Kanuka had even advanced two grades consecutively and were now grade-6 mages.
Nicholas followed Saleen and saw that within each alchemy workshop, mages were categorizing magic beasts or dissecting magic nuclei or even carrying out some simple processing. Meat that could be consumed was transported away and stored in the freezer. Bones, tendons, and skin were all materials that could be used for alchemy. Once they had been processed, spirits of the dead would be responsible for transporting them away.
Nicholas noticed that even the organs of the magic beasts were inspected thoroughly before being categorized and stored.
Without turning back, Saleen said to Nicholas, ”Don't look down on these organs. Many of these items can be very useful to us. Some fish maws are big enough to be used for building small boats while others can be used to create glue that can, in turn, be used for wagons and arrows and even houses. Most of the ink from squids can be used to replace dragon's blood ink for writing on scrolls. Some fish intestines can be used as bowstrings as they can even be more resilient than spiderwebs. The ocean is just like a treasure chest.”
Nicholas was not a mage, but even he was enthralled by Saleen's description. The Holy See's navy was weak and did not have many fishermen. In order to defend themselves against the surprise attacks from Cloudflow's vessels, the Holy See restricted the number of fisheries that the fishermen could work at for ease of control.
”Nicholas, do you have any other suggestions?” Saleen stopped himself from boasting further. He could not help but feel a sense of superiority that mages held over holy priests. This sense of superiority came from the fact that holy priests depended on prayers for everything they possessed while mages had to work hard with their own bare hands in order to obtain anything.
”Your Highness, the Holy See will not send an army over immediately. I have killed everyone and anyone that managed to escape would have been dealt with by Fycro as well. Your Highness will have at least half a year to recover. Even if Theisio managed to obtain a convincing victory at Luolan, he will still need time for preparations again in order to launch a second attack on Metatrin City. We are safe until next summer. We should make use of this time to repair the west gate. The city wall there is thirty yards tall as well, but provided poor defense.”
Nicholas might not be able to say much about other things, but Broken Blade Pass left him with a deep impression.
”That's not a bad idea. Nicholas, you know about the large-scale equipment that the Holy See possesses. Can you help me design some defensive measures against them?”