Chapter 221: The Raw Stone (Part 1)

"My grandfather has more than forty ships, the largest one, about the same size as your warship."

Aesop's words shocked Salin. A pirate can own forty ships, which is also a considerable force in Qin Yin. Does Lianyun City have forty warships? I'm afraid there are not.

"More than forty ships? Then how did you fall into a wizard without inheriting your family business?" Salin couldn't help asking.

This wasn't a joke. If he had inherited forty ships back then, he would never have chosen to be a mage.

A fisherman's broken boat is also worth hundreds of gold coins. Those who can be used as a pirate ship are worth more than 10,000 gold coins. If there were 400,000 gold coins, the little beggar of that year would definitely not embark on the road of magic.

"Hey, my grandfather had a good relationship with several powerful pirate gangs at the time, and gradually threatened the security of dozens of countries. So the emperors of these countries invited people from the Assassin Alliance to deal with them."

Salin felt that what he heard was extremely fantastic. The emperor went to invite the assassin to deal with the pirates. If Qin Yin's nobles heard this, they would not laugh out loud.

Aesop continued with some grief and anger: "These emperors, they were the ones who asked my grandfather to be pirates, and later they went to the Assassin Alliance to take action. They were simply untrustworthy."

Aesop's words made Salin a little confused. It turned out that those emperors even asked someone to be pirates.

In fact, this is not surprising in the East China Sea. There are too many countries there, and mutual conquests will greatly damage the vitality and will eventually be taken advantage of by other countries. Therefore, the emperors will specialize in creating pirates, harassing other countries, rob other countries of goods, and enriching their own treasury.

Some pirates develop too strongly, and they will even destroy their own emperors and then establish a country.

"My grandfather had a secret spy in the palace. After getting the news, he fled directly with his most caring subordinates and lived in seclusion in another country." Aesop said of the glorious deeds of the family and began to talk endlessly.

Salin quickly interrupted him and said, "That's important, how can I go to the East China Sea?"

"Cough..." Aesop was a little embarrassed and quickly stopped the topic and said, "If you want to cross the Storm Sea, the key is to change different routes in different seasons. Even so, you have to take certain risks. This time the expeditionary force lost one-fifth of the ships, only a few of which were sunk by the monsters. Each formation will have a temporary flagship, and the alchemy telescope on this warship will record everything along the way. All information is stored in the gems at the core of the telescope. After arriving at the destination, the gems will be replaced."

This does not mean that it is not said? Salin dismantled the alchemy telescope in the East China Sea and found nothing useful.

"However, after years of use, a large alchemy telescope, the base of the gems inlaid, has been assimilated with the gems. As long as the base is not destroyed, I can restore the information in it. Of course, there cannot be magical images, but it can judge the time, direction, and angle of the starry sky. This is my grandfather's unique skill."

"Isn't he a pirate?"

"Of course, he was a pirate first, and then a magician." Aesop was a little verbally.

"It will be very troublesome to calculate." Salin didn't want to bother with the useless topic, he keenly captured the key.

"It's a bit troublesome, and this time we set out from the East China Sea and took five months to arrive. In fact, we changed the route several times. If the information on the inlay base is to be restored, we need to use the Kama formula to calculate... This is what you mentioned in Figaro magic formula."

Salin's face did not change his expression. He had mastered the method of rapid calculations, but for other magicians, it was a huge amount of work to restore magic information using Figaro's magic formula.

Anyway, Aesop didn't know this, so he could use this reason to squeeze out more news from him. Salin then said, "If the five-month magic information is restored, it will take at least fifteen years. Do you think I have time?"

Salin is right. Restoring magic information requires at least six times the recording time. Of course, this is a case where a person calculates independently. If more mages who have mastered the magic formula of Figaro will be much faster. This kind of calculation does not have to be performed alone by one person.

However, the mage who has mastered the magic formula of Figaro has reached at least level 6. According to normal circumstances, there are basically no such many great magicians doing such time-consuming things for a person at the same time.

This calculation, in addition to increasing the mental power, has little help to the magic itself. It is even more uncomfortable to let a group of people who are about to advance to the magicians spend their energy on this than killing them.

Only low-level mages will do the boring data restoration, but in that case, the number of low-level mages required is a terrifying number, and even Rex cannot provide so many low-level mages.

"No, no, Lord Salin, listen to me, this kind of calculation can be achieved through the help of the magic circle."

"Magic Formation? That's not a very consuming magic core?" Salin asked with a smile.

"It may not be a magic core. It can also drive a magic array with rough stones, especially this low-level magic array."

“Raw stone?”

"A kind of calcite can only replace the low-level magic core. I know there is a vein nearby. The ships you sink are preparing to occupy this vein, otherwise you wouldn't have brought so many magicians."

Salin's expression immediately became serious. This news was too important to exchange for Aesop's life. In the Meers Continent, the role of the magic core is irreplaceable. Although the raw stone Aesop said can only replace the magic core below level three, it is precisely this low-level magic core that is the one that the mage lacks the most.

There are few high-level magic cores, but there are very few people using them, and there are not many magicians in the entire continent. But low-level magic cores are different. Master Qin Yin is estimated to have more than 100,000, and each low-level magician is eager to obtain low-level magic cores, not high-level magic cores.

The people of Donghai actually found a replacement! And there is a mineral vein near Metatrium City!

This is not just a matter of getting rich. Since the Donghai people discovered this ore vein, they would obviously occupy it. If they want to own the raw stone, they must first work with the East China Expeditionary Force.

This news is far more important than the route of the East China Sea. If Salin wants to send the fleet to the East China Sea, he must be prepared for at least ten years, but this raw stone will immediately detonate the war.

"Did these ships be photographed by the coalition forces to find the raw stone?" Salin asked repeatedly.

"It doesn't count." Aesop dared not hide it and told the truth to Salin.

It turned out that in the East China Sea Expeditionary Force, there was a constant argument over who was the head coach. The only one who knew about this mine was the royal family of one of the countries. This royal family controlled more than 30 ships in the fleet and brought a large number of mages, who had originally planned to come to mining privately.

The excuse for the six warships to stay away from Lianyun City this time was to find the lost ships, that is, the twelve ships killed by Salin. Because there were a lot of supplies on the twelve ships, especially magical chariots. This action did not attract the attention of other royal families.

"How long can this secret be hidden?" Salin looked at Aesop, trying to find something in his eyes.

Aesop calculated in his mind, and after a while he replied, "I'm not sure, you sank the warship sent by the crown prince, but one of them ran away, and he might know this in a week. But even if he knew, he would not promote it. With his personality, he would choose to take a Phoenix land in a stable situation and cut this mine vein from the land occupied by others. If he continues to send warships over, it will affect his position in the coalition."

Salin thought to himself that even if he sends troops here immediately, I wouldn't be able to let him get this mineral vein. The low-level magic core is too powerful, and the low-level magic cores used in war are basically all low-level magic cores.

"Aesop, I think you should stay by my side. Tell me the news and you will definitely die when you go back." Salin did not immediately ask about the location of the mine vein, but gave Aesop a reassurance.

Aesop then showed a relaxed look. Salin said this and was about to let him go.

"Sir Salin, I am willing to sign a contract." Aesop said sincerely. Although his sincerity was not much credible, the contract signed this time had nothing to do with the transaction. He would follow Salin in the future and would no longer be a free mage. Only in this way would Salin protect him, otherwise, Salin would kick him away and let him die.

Aesop could not return to the coalition camp, nor to the East China Sea. He looked at him in a dark way on the Meers continent. Salin did not take him in. His fate could be imagined. Although his common words were clear, the war had been outbreak for a while, and as long as Qin Yinren within the scope of the war, he could hear that his accent came from abroad.

What's more, Qin Yinren doesn't speak a common language, but likes to speak the language of his own country. It's impossible for him to survive in Qin Yin.

Neris stood by Salin and admired her master more and more. No matter how vicious she was, she could not squeeze out the opponent's secrets little by little like her master, and could not let her opponent follow her willingly.

You have to get the coordinates of the demon plane as soon as possible. The master's career is getting bigger and bigger, and it is a little uncontrollable. Without enough manpower, even Rex will have to ride on his head in the future, which is absolutely not possible.

Thinking of this, Neris suddenly said, "Master, it's still a bit inconvenient for Aesop to follow you, and it will cause you trouble."

Aesop was startled. He was just about life and death, so even though he saw two beautiful women, he didn't have any thoughts. After Salin agreed to take him in, he looked at Naris a few times. Naris suddenly said this, and he was trying to stop Salin from taking him in, which almost scared him.

"grown ups!"

Aesop wanted to say something, Salin waved his hand, let him stop, and then asked Neris: "What do you think?"

"Let him follow me, I'm useful." Nelise said softly, Aesop was extremely uneasy. Following Salin, Salin would protect his safety. Follow this woman? She had never even practiced sword energy...

Aesop looked at Salin with his brown eyes pleading. Salin thought for a while and nodded.
Chapter completed!