The merchant ship still needs a complete overhaul and refit, and as for the artillery Lear, he doesn't plan to touch it for the time being, because after searching his mind, he has only found a few vague pieces of modern artillery knowledge, no way, who let him choose armed reconnaissance instead of artillery when he was a soldier in his previous life.

But he is not in a hurry, because as far as he knows, there is no shortage of such talents on this sea, if he can meet it, he can recruit the best, if he can't recruit it, he will be caught and tortured, and he will also get out the basic principles of artillery in this era, and then see if he can improve it with his postmodern technology, if he can find one or two smart dwarves, this goal is still not so difficult to achieve.

On a small island near the maelstrom of the East China Sea, a sloppy pirate was lying on the back of a sand dune and suddenly sneezed a few times.

Everything is going on in an orderly manner, Lear directly handed over the matter of the merchant ship to Landrig to take care of it, this is his advantage, he will never point fingers at things he doesn't understand, and after Landrig joined, Sylvia could only follow behind, although she has never explicitly said that she wants to join Lear's team, but for this kind of buy one get one free thing, Lear is of course happy to see it.

It would take about a month to repair and renovate the merchant ship, and according to Landrig, when the merchant ship sailed at sea in a month's time, it would be a big surprise if it met a pirate who came to rob him for a short time, for which Lear paid an extra 5,000 gold coins, including the need to recruit sailors and buy supplies for the voyage at sea.

After that, he locked himself in his room and stayed at home, and when the family business grew larger, he could no longer balance the increasingly large expenses.

Not to mention the newly recruited sailors, the daily food and drink of more than 200 people was a large amount of gold coins, so he purchased a large number of blank scrolls and engraving materials from the mage association of the border city, which cost him nearly 5,000 gold coins.

If you can't throttle, you can only find a way to open source, so the hard-working magic scroll scribe Lear can only go online.

For a first-class magic scroll, the total cost is about 100 gold coins, and depending on the quality, the price ranges from 300 to 500, and Lear can complete five in a day.

The more advanced scrolls are relatively more expensive and more difficult to make, and Lear, who is bent on making money, does not hesitate to choose to make only the lowest level, and any losses that will result from the success rate are ruled out by him.

Adela had offered to share some of his burden, but Lear refused after thinking about it, putting aside the success rate, and little Luna also needed to be taken care of and taught during the time he was busy earning money, and Valenk's rookie egg mage was obviously not up to the job of teacher.

Moreover, with his current strength, although the success rate of making five first-level magic scrolls a day is also very high, it has not yet reached that terrifying level, if the production is increased with the addition of Adela, maybe it will attract the attention of some big forces in the city, and he doesn't want to have any more trouble before going to sea.

On top of that, the rest of the day would be used by him to craft one or two second- and third-level spell scrolls, which were intended for Adela and Valenk, and Lear knew better than anyone the hardships of the pioneers, and if there was a large-scale team battle or even a naval battle, the surging enemies would obviously not give them time to chant spells.

As for Luna, despite her unbelievable talent for fire magic, she is still too young after all, and Lear plans to wait until she settles down on the island called Mondo before teaching her magic, and before that they have to go through a terrible battle.

According to Landrig, the island is inhabited by a group of murderous pirates, and the island's natives are very unfriendly.

As the days passed, Lear spent a month copying, meditating, eating, and sleeping, and he didn't leave the room except for every three days when Valenque would come and take the copied spell scrolls to the Mage's Guild.

And until the last day of June, when he had just finished copying a scroll that was speeding up and put down the "ballpoint pen" in his hand, Lear suddenly felt some indescribable changes in his body.

The spiritual power that had been consumed every day for days suddenly expanded, and it felt like an out-of-body soul, and he seemed to be able to see a blue magic ripple floating in the entire room centered on his body.

He could hear Hag and Ivo talking at the end of the hallway, but now he seemed to be able to hear Adela in the back garden teaching Luna about magical symbols.

Not only has the maximum coverage of mental power been improved, but the perception ability has also become more detailed and realistic.

At the same time, the magic vortex in his body was also spinning rapidly, and it only took a few seconds for Lear to feel that his body was full of power.

Although the size of the mana vortex did not change, Lear clearly sensed that the magic in his body had become more refined, which meant that his spell casting speed would be faster and his spells would be more lethal.

If Kurkos had faced him in this state that night, he would never have escaped so easily with that thunderbolt, and even if he was not seriously injured on the spot, he would probably have left some unforgettable thoughts for a lifetime.

And most importantly, when the changes in mental power and magic in his body gradually subsided, Lear felt two magical elements in the air rushing towards his body - the earth element and the water element, which were also the elemental magic that he had already mastered.

But helplessly, when Lear weighed the capacity of the magic vortex in his body, he was depressed to find that he could only accept one of them, unless he wanted to let the two elemental forces fight in his body and let himself explode to death.

After a brief hesitation, Lear used his mental power to pull the water element aside, and then let go of his body and mind to accept the gift of the earth element.

The rejected power of the water elemental struggled under the control of Lear's mental power, as if to express his dissatisfaction, but instead he felt a heartfelt joy in the earth elemental that had merged into the vortex of his magical power, and Lear smiled bitterly.

It's hard to chew too much.

It wasn't until those earth elements completely disappeared into Lear's body that the water elementals that felt like they had no chance gradually faded in the air, and the blue water bands that had been floating in the room slowly disappeared.

Lear's most intuitive feeling now is that when he feels the earth elements around him again, the response of the elemental particles becomes much more enthusiastic, so when he casts the earth magic again, both the cost and the effect will reach a more optimized level than before.

Intermediate earth magic, level 6 magician.

So I'm copying scrolls, is it an upgrade?

Lear was a little amused and a little smug in his heart, and sure enough, I was still a demon, he thought to himself.

After tidying up the materials on the table, Lear opened the door and walked out.

Today I was in a good mood and went on strike.

And he didn't look a little pale in the sun for a month, and at one point he felt like he needed a glass of fruit wine, a beach umbrella and a deck chair, and it would be nice to have a sun-skinned beach beauty rub on sunscreen.

Thinking about it, Lear couldn't help but laugh out loud as he passed by Haag and Ivo, causing the chattering duo to look at each other behind him.

"The boss isn't stupid to copy books, is he?"

After a long time, Haag finally couldn't help but ask his brother, and the wood elf nodded solemnly, he thought so.

In the garden, little Luna is trying to condense the first small fireball of her life according to Adela's request, it is not difficult for her, the furious fire element is meek like a child in her hands, but the problem now is that she can easily sense and summon, but she can't throw the fireball out as requested, the fireball seems to be very obsessed with her fingers and is unwilling to leave, which makes her forget the spell in a hurry.

At this moment, a pair of slightly pale arms suddenly picked her up from behind, and then a breath blew through the tips of her hair, and the small fireball with a diameter of a few centimeters left her fingertips like a dandelion and slowly fell on the bluestone road a few meters away.

"Brother Lear!"

Luna looked back at the young mage she hadn't seen in more than a month, and smiled at two sweet dimples, who touched her head with pity.

"Next time, if you're still like this, you can teach it yourself. ”

Adela looked at him with a dark face, and Lear laughed and put Luna down.

"What the hell, I'm going to look for Landriger, haha......"

After saying that, he ran away without a trace.

"How's it going?"

When Lear found Landrig in the dockyard's warehouse, he had already gathered up the joy of his long absence, and asked with concern as he watched the busy sailors.

"The charts, fresh water, food, weapons, and personnel were all in place three days ago, and we can leave the port just for your orders. ”

Landriger's face was full of confidence when he returned to his old job, which made Lear feel very glad that he had finally found the right person.

"Then Mr. Captain, set sail and show me the endless sea. ”

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