847 Magic Net Part 2 (1/2)

By right, when a mage continued to be able to cast spells even though he was in a place without any elements, that meant that he was doing so by using up the magic chords in his body and the power of his spells would be reduced drastically. That also meant that mages that could only cast spells using the magic net would be useless without it.

Saleen walked around the metal towers and arrived at the back of the deck. There were more than one-hundred pieces of flying equipment on the deck. They were different from the components of flying equipment at the front of the deck. On both sides of the narrow and long metal machine were triangular-shaped wings that were wide and heavy and could not be flapped.

From the looks of it, the object seemed to be the Mechanical Soul in flying motion. Its flying speed would definitely be high, but the style of its flying would be much poorer than a mage's.

Nevertheless, the object was huge and could carry along much more equipment than the flying equipment at the front of the deck. Clearly, they were equipment used for aerial battles while those at the front of the deck were used for spying.

Saleen then walked over to the side of the vessel to inspect. The side of this ancient combat vessel was like a city wall as it was about forty yards away from the surface of the water. If they encountered an ordinary combat vessel, there was no way the latter would be able to board their ship. Only flying mages would be able to do so.

It was precisely because of that strange design that the Cloudflow forces never expected the dragon skeleton combat vessel to fly up forty-yards high and land on their deck. To the Cloudflow soldiers, that was a miracle.

The design of the two-hundred yard tall dragon skeleton combat vessel was strange, and the side of the vessel was only about ten yards away from the surface of the water. One leap from the vessel scared all the Cloudflow soldiers out of their wits.

The side of the ancient combat vessel was made of metal armor that was half a yard thick. The metal armor was made of more than one-hundred layers of thin metal slices compressed together with magic material in between. It weighed less than one-tenth of metal, otherwise the ancient combat vessel would never have been able to stay afloat.

Pieces of the metal armor were mounted onto the body of the vessel, layer over layer. Even if they were destroyed, new armor could still be put in place. A forty yard tall body would definitely encounter countless forms of attacks. Without the layer of armor, even the most resilient combat vessel would be severely damaged.

The Cloudflow forces did not use that armor. Nor did they have better ways to replace the defensive equipment.

After observing the interior of the side of the vessel, there was a platform that was about three yards wide. Other than magic cannons, there were also a number of metal crossbow stands. Saleen did not manage to see what was so special about the designs. Some combat styles just never changed, even over tens of thousands of years.

After about every sixty yards there was an opening that was relatively wide. Saleen saw the openings as miniature city gates, where springboards could be extended and used to embark on enemy combat vessels.

Saleen felt uncomfortable while walking on the ancient combat vessel. That was because the design of the magic net was very different from his beliefs about magic. If the humans of the first dynasty were so powerful, why was there a need to design something like that?

What Saleen did not know, was that while the humans on the main dimension were powerful, there were many living creatures in other dimensions that were not so. Grade nine was the highest level they could ever attain. When humans made use of living creatures from other dimensions to fight for them, it was only natural that they had to design equipment that would boost the powers of those living creatures.

Even some of the magic equipment in present times were initially designed by humans for other living creatures.

The designs were passed down over the years and they were the reasons why humans were still able to remain in charge of the Myers Mainland despite the weakening of their powers. They helped the humans to completely exterminate the living creatures that existed in the dimension before the humans.

It was also because of that reason that the third dynasty fell. The fourth dynasty was basically humans' last period of glory.

By right, the metal towers were designed for dwarves to make their preparations. Dwarves were only one-third in height compared to humans and, although they could not develop magic chords, they were born with powerful mental strength. Each metal tower was able to contain twenty-four dwarves, which was equivalent to twenty-four sorcerers.

The magic net on the ancient combat vessel would allow thirty-four-hundred and fifty-six dwarves to become grade-9 soldiers, casting countless grade-9 spells.

Even strong opponents like Fycro and Joey would be bombed into pieces.

When conquering other dimensions, the ancient combat vessel was only used for security and protection purposes. The main attacking combat vessel was as long as ten miles with a massive magic net system. Dwarves, elves, spirits, and demons that boarded the combat vessel would quickly develop into sorcerers. Back then, sorcerers were considered soldiers.

After walking one round, Saleen did not discover any loopholes in the ancient combat vessel's defense. The only thing was that with the Mechanical Soul controlling the combat vessel, only about one-hundredth of the vessel's abilities could be exploited.

The weapons duplicated by the Mechanical Soul possessed low damage, short attacking range, and used up a lot of magic nuclei that had to be at least grade-9. Saleen still had more than one-thousand standard units of grade-9 magic nuclei, but they would not last if they were being used up so quickly. They had to find the cemetery of the single-horned white whales in order to solve the problem of the ancient combat vessel's source of energy once and for all.

Fortunately, magic power furnaces did not require high-level magic nuclei. Any magic nuclei, magic crystals, or even some low-level shards of magic nuclei could be used to extract fire elements to allow the magic power furnaces to operate smoothly.