While the mythical sharks lured by food are paying for their gluttony, so is Captain Sokuru, but he's not making a big mistake.

At least he didn't lose his life because he was cautious.

While he regretted that he should have landed himself, he was glad that he had not landed in person, but had asked a war-hungry mage captain to do it for him.

Although the captain was called the mage captain, he was actually a warrior and a part-time mage, and although the power of magic was always addictive, the decisive force on the battlefield was generally the samurai, after all, economics and logistics were the decisive factors in war more than courage and wisdom most of the time.

Of course, spells can also be very decisive, and one to two spells of level four or five can often determine the outcome of a battle involving hundreds of people.

But a fifth-level spell often costs hundreds of thalers, which is equivalent to tens of thousands of pounds of wheat, which is equivalent to a month's military expenses to maintain an army of nearly a hundred people.

In other words, once you use the kind of spell that can greatly strengthen the advantage, it is a victory, and it is basically a miserable victory, and there is no possibility of winning it all.

Although the spells of the second and third levels are more acceptable in terms of price, they often cannot get enough advantages, and in terms of cost performance, they are not as good as the magic of the fourth and fifth levels.

So in general, it was the samurai who ruled the battlefield, and the larger the scale of the battle, the less important the caster became.

And this kind of battle in which a total of several hundred people are invested by both sides is a stage for spellcasters, but because of the restrictions of the general environment, few powerful spellcasters may not be able to coincidentally appear on this kind of battlefield.

Although the casters are not cost-effective in combat, many aspects of making nutrients still require mages, and the production and preservation of high-level nutrients are indispensable to the participation of mages, and in the preparation of low-level nutrients, it will be more efficient to have a mage.

And if you don't give the right treatment, it will be really troublesome to carry out ** attacks, so most casters will stay quietly in a well-guarded laboratory, working two to three days a week, five or six hours a day, and various benefits.........

Everyone wants to be a mage.

And even if the kingdom rises and falls, it is not as close as the other people. After all, in most cases, mages always get a chance to surrender.

However, the Navy is a more suitable branch of the army for spellcasters, as most ships fight in the hundreds.

In particular, the captain was born into an extremely wealthy Turkish family, in order to make the talented children more smoothly obtain a political future. The clan is willing and able to reimburse a large portion of the cost of spellcasting materials, as well as provide trained squires.

Therefore, the captain always added a few auxiliary spells to himself as a mage, and then quickly put on armor and shields that would hinder the casting of spells with the help of two specially trained squires, and fought as a warrior.

This method of warfare was of course extremely effective, and it also made the captain the standard-bearer of the old Turkish aristocratic faction, the object of hatred and jealousy of the Yenisri. These officers from pagan families were almost impossible to unearth, even if they had the talent of a spellcaster.

What the Ottoman Empire needs is efficiency, whether there is a talent to become a mage is not something that can be figured out by a few minutes of testing, it requires a certain amount of resources, and the results will only be achieved after a period of observation, and it is obvious that the government will not be willing to bear this price.

Only aristocratic and wealthy merchant families would be willing to give all their children the opportunity to become a noble lord.

And this mage captain is a rare mage who has both talent and courage.

However, such figures did not play a role in this battle, and now there was a one-sided slaughter on the beach.

Captain Sokuru held an expensive telescope imported from the Republic of Venice and watched as his rival was destroyed.

But his mood was not schadenfreude, for his own men were being swept away.

The brave and young captain is dead. Despite his high attainments as a mage and warrior, he died.

In fact, he was the first Ottoman to die, and he unleashed a "power of the ox" on himself, and then unleashed a "spell nullification enchantment" centered on himself.

This set of protective measures had been very effective in the past, and then he began to pierce his armor with the help of his attendants.

But this time, it attracted the "Death Finger" for the young mage, and the mage captain, who had been able to dominate a battle of this magnitude in the past, ran into an overwhelming enemy.

While there may have been other leaders on the battlefield, Sazastan cast his spell almost in a fit of rage.

The demigod lich was of great size and easily crossed the battle line, and he passed under the feet of the Janissary soldiers. Go straight to the mage captain who just put the heavy armor on his body.

Although there are special attendants, it always takes a few minutes to put on the heavy armor, but even if he puts on the armor, the rest of the matter will not be different.

Sazastan was seen to appear. The mage captain was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly fell into great fear, and he hurriedly tried to raise his hand, but it was too late.

"Mobile casting" is a specialty that more than half of the mages have, and Sazastan is not a problem, as he is surrounded by the calves of a group of soldiers. Completed powerful spells.

With a flash of red light, this Ottoman nobleman, who was extremely gifted and extremely loyal to his country, fell to the ground.

Through the beautifully polished footage, Captain Sokuru saw the whole process of his death quite clearly.

He knew the cause of his death better than even those who were closer, as recognizing spells was a very specialized skill that few people other than mages were good at.

Of course, this was not a problem for the studious Captain Sokuru.

The "Finger of Death" is such an expensive spell that it requires nearly two thousand thalers of casting materials to cast it once, which is not a magic that is often seen.

Although he was a little prepared, when he saw his long-time comrade-in-arms and promotion opponent die like that, Captain Sokuru still felt a little unreal, and a chill ran down his spine.

What a good opponent this mage captain is, his talent for diligence is not inferior to his own, and it is only because Suleiman the Magnificent does not like the intricate relationships behind the old Turkish aristocracy that he has been suppressed for a long time.

It was because of his zeal, courage to fight on the front line, that he was able to obtain many precious books and a large amount of money, so that he could become the second man in the fleet after Sinam Pasha and his third man before the age of thirty.

It was so zeal that he lost his life when he was less than thirty years old. It's not that he doesn't know that Sazastan might be in the port of Tripoli, but he wants to gamble that the other party doesn't have enough materials to cast spells, and even during the Siege of Buda, Sazastan won't easily use the magic of "Death Finger". In the impoverished port of Tripoli, he might have been more frugal.

As long as he can contain Sazastan, he is confident that he can rely on the fighting power of the Janisseri soldiers to defeat the other party.

In order to be on the roster of the Yeniseri army and get a salary of three and a half thalers per month, you must have at least two levels of samurai.

Except for the sailors who faced Spain. They always have a quality advantage.

And even the regular armies of the great European powers only require soldiers to reach the level of first-class samurai, although it is only a first-class quality advantage, but when the number is expanded to 20,000, this is a great advantage.

Not to mention that in the event of a battle, the Ottoman Empire also had a larger number of second-line troops participating in the war, and when the double advantage of quality and quantity was on one side, it was always extremely difficult for the other side to win.

This Ottoman mage followed Suleiman the Magnificent and won an unknown number of battles. But today he lost and paid with his life for it.

"They must not be allowed to snatch this mage's corpse back, there must be a lot of spell casting materials on it!" Sazastan was indeed in a hurry, but he was not worried that the other party would not be able to kill the other party with more protective spells, but that he was worried that his loot would become less.

He didn't care that he had defeated an elite mage and died at the hands of Sazastan, and among the enemies who had died at the hands of Sazastan, he didn't know how many of them were more powerful than him.

He also didn't care about the siege of the enemy he caused after his sudden appearance, although the enemy was the top powerhouse of this era, but he had to deal with the demigod lich. It's still too much for them.

The damage inflicted by those mortal soldiers and arrows was not enough to prevent him from returning to his own line.

The lich only cared if he could recoup his losses, and he yelled at Cassano, "Go after me, and you must take the mage's corpse for me!" Armor, clothes, belts, hats, and his flesh. It's all mine! ”

Cassano's fiery sword had already slashed several enemies, and it didn't take much effort for him to be heartbroken by the death of the mighty mage captain so quickly.

Although Sazastan's intelligence is not too much of a secret, it is obvious that the middle and lower-level officers and soldiers cannot tell them, otherwise a skeleton can cast a spell, which will keep morale in a low state for a long time.

Cassano heard Sazastan's voice ringing in his head. Instead of doing what he said right away, he glanced up at the situation.

In the Battle of Buda and before, Cassano had fought together many times, and Sazastan, who was still the leader of the Red Mage Guild at the time, rarely gave orders to anyone other than the mage, and never spoke so angrily.

Therefore, Cassano knew that the other party was indeed in urgent need of spell casting materials now, and instead of looking for the powerful samurai in the opponent's array, he directly chased after the enemy who was fleeing to the boat with the mage's corpse.

The most important reason why he dared to do this was that the situation on the battlefield in front of him was quite good, that mage's "Spell Invalidation Enchantment" could only protect a small area, and after Wu Xin threw two fireballs in the other direction, the enemy on that wing was completely useless.

Less than a minute after the battle began, the entire flank had collapsed.

Then the collapse of the flanks brought about the overall disintegration, and although a few mid-level boatswain were still alive, the battle-hardened boatswain was extremely sensitive to the outcome of the battle.

As soon as they saw that after the death of their master, the other party also used two fireball techniques in a row without saving money, and just like the others, they were completely desperate for the battle, and took the lead in jumping directly into the sea and swimming towards their own warship.

Sazastan rushed around a few times and found that there were no elite-level fighters on the battlefield that could be converted into spellcasting materials.

His "soul capture" is ineffective against spellcasters, even rangers and paladins with limited spellcasting ability he can't deal with, he can deal with low-level samurai, but he will not make ends meet, and only elite-level enemy samurai are the most desired target of Sazastan.

Having realized that the big picture was decided and there was no suitable goal, Sazastan began to fight half-heartedly.

Most mages are able to cast tricks at a fraction of the price, and a few tricks often cost less than a single Thaller's casting material.

As a mage who is close to a legend, tricks are completely free for him.

He lay on Wu Xin's shoulder, cast "freezing rays" and "acid splashes", and occasionally gave a "dizziness" to officers who still wanted to resist.

Even a mid-tier enemy can't stand up to the tricks from Sazastan, and a few seconds of stun on the battlefield often mean death.

Coupled with the tongue of fire and the "secondary flame ball" in Wu Xin's hands, more than ten Yenisseri soldiers died at their hands.

In the end, all 150 of the enemy, except for a few boatswain and pirate first mate, who swam very fast, were killed or captured.

More than thirty corpses and a hundred captives were left on the beach.

After Wu Xin gave Kormona a gesture, he carried Sazastan back to another battlefield.

While whipping the captives with disrespectful faces, Cormona thought to herself, "They are all in the prime of life, even if there is no other trophy, you can take back that death finger." ”

However, Sazastan was not so optimistic, and he thought in Wu Xin's mind: "Actually, dissociation is fine, wasted, wasted, wasted." I don't know if there will be a big slave ship from Venice, hey, a big slave ship can't buy so many high-end slaves, we can't afford to raise so many slaves, and if we deal with them to the local tribes at a low price, it's really a loss, and it's hard to sell even five thalers for a slave. ”

Sazastan's fears are justified, as soon as there is too much of anything, its value will fall.

If there were good shipping links to the cities of the north coast such as Venice, Liguria, and Naples, no amount of slaves could be sold, but because of Hayreddin's actions in Tunisia, the Barbary pirates were at their highest point in the region.

Although the merchants of the Italian city-states were notoriously desperate for money, and could not have sailed for long periods of time for safety, it was certain that trade was made more difficult as a result.

"Don't worry, Cassano chased the corpse of that mage, there will definitely be loot." Wu Xin said and glanced back, the old knight from Liguria was following behind, and he didn't have time to look at the loot, after all, there was a mythical shark waiting for them to deal with.

In order to make a deep impression on the Ottomans, Wu Xin knew that the strength he left to deal with the mythical shark was actually very insufficient, and he was worried that the loss would be too great, but he had no choice. (To be continued.) )