705 Treaty between Prefecture and Kingdom Part 2 (2/2)
”Master, it is this,” Nailisi took out a fish from her bracelet and placed it in front of Saleen even as she spoke. Lex frowned, for the fish was extremely smelly. Nailisi was a demon so she could ignore the smell, but Lex could not be oblivious to it.
With an invisible shield, Lex protected herself with her own spell.
The fish that Nailisi had taken out was beautiful. It was slightly more than one yard long and its scales were silver in color. The shape of its body was streamlined in a way like how the tip of some special alchemy arrows had been magnified. Such body types faced minimal resistance in water and were the result of natural evolution.
The fish's head was not big. Nailisi opened up the fish's mouth with both her hands. Both Saleen and Lex broke out in cold sweat after that.
When the fish's mouth was opened completly, it could swallow a human's entire head without any difficulty. On top of that, the fish's teeth were clustered together tightly like rasps instead of hooks and reflected light.
The shape of its teeth implied that the fish consumed its food by chewing and not swallowing.
Saleen took out a piece of dragonshard and slid it across the fish's teeth. A clear line immediately appeared on the dragonshard.
This fish's mouth could open at an obtuse angle and with such sharp teeth, no one could bear to think of the outcome of tens of thousands of them attacking them all at once.
”What is this thing?!” Saleen had never seen this type of fish in the atlas of creatures.
”This is Stotts, something that can only be found in the deep seas of Tanggulasi Empire.” Lex said.
”Stotts?” Saleen thought this name sounded familiar.
”It is an evil creature in the Code of the Holy See. It originally referred to a creature that dwelled in the water on the purgatory dimension and can devour the souls of believers. The scary thing about this magic beast on the Myers Mainland is its insanity. It is said that these fish were rarely seen after the second dynasty.”
”Why?”
”These fish can be used to feed magic beasts so that the latter can evolve. Long ago, the humans kept too many magic beasts and these fish were the best type of food.”
”So, what is so unique about it?” Saleen knew that this Stotts must possess some magic or it could never survive in the ocean with its mouth as its only weapon.
”Resistance towards magic. This fish's resistance towards magic is ridiculously high. Any spell below grade-6 will have zero effects on it. I am referring to element magic, of course. The death region mentioned by Nailisi targeted a creature's soul and life strength instead so a grade-3 magic beast like this would definitely choose to flee.”
After hearing this, Saleen released an ice blade and cut open the Stotts' brain to reveal the magic nucleus inside.
The magic nucleus was huge and practically occupied the entire brain space. A magic nucleus that was the size of a fist like this could easily be cut up into four standard samples.
This magic beast had a huge magic nucleus, but a small brain so it must possess low intelligence and could only follow its instincts. They would have known that the death region cast by the middle-grade spirits of the dead was not fatal otherwise. If they had chosen to attack forcefully, Saleen's pan's turtle alchemical boat might have been lost.
”How many did you capture?”
Nailisi laughed bitterly and said, ”We dare not hunt for it. We only managed to kill over five-hundred out of tens of thousands of them. The real reward was that we managed to pick up quite a few skeletons and magic nuclei from areas that they passed by. Fortunately, the fish did not consume these two items.”
”Five-hundred is quite a significant amount still. After removing their skin, they can be used to refine defense equipment for mages,” Lex said.
What Nailisi did not tell Saleen was that the winged skeleton had actually managed to capture quite a number of items. Wherever the Stotts passed by, there would be thousands of magic beast casualties. By following the fishs' path, the winged skull managed to pick up countless magic nuclei. Although they were mostly low-grade magic nuclei, it was easier and safer than hunting for them on his own.
During this unexpected encounter, Nailisi even witnessed two gigantic grade-8 magic beasts being eaten alive by the fish. She would never dare to underestimate the dangers of the ocean now.
It did not matter that they were only grade-3 magic beasts. As long as they had the numbers, they could still kill a high-level magic beast. It was the same as a grand swordmaster having to flee for his life if he was facing too many swordmasters.
After giving Lex a batch of magic nuclei, Saleen was left with close to nothing. These magic nuclei brought back by the winged skeleton came just in time for Saleen's alchemy factories to continue their operations.
Saleen had also become alert to the fact that his pan's turtle alchemical boat was not invincible. There were still many unknown creatures in the ocean that could pose a threat to his alchemical boat. The alchemical boat was still too weak if its attacking abilities only constituted of bone spirits and bloodstones. Now that they were back, Saleen decided that he would ask the winged skeleton to refine the alchemical boat to increase its number of weapons.
There was still hope for the pan's turtle alchemical boat. On the other hand, the diving combat vessel that was given to Saleen by Ojarvis had poorer defense in comparison. This equipment created by the Grukos royal family was developed in the deepwater lakes of inner Mainland, where the creatures were not as ferocious as the magic beasts of the ocean.
If not for the fact that the winged skeleton had this dangerous encounter, Saleen might have overlooked that. Fortunately, Lex was around. He would have to ask her if there was any way to improve on this type of diving combat vessels developed by the Grukos royal family.
Saleen refused to believe that this diving combat vessel was Holy Rock City's best equipment. Ojarvis must still have other more powerful equipment. Such weapons must have been kept as a secret in order to deal with Cloudflow's fleets in the future. It would be disastrous if the secret was leaked.