Chapter 348: Metatrin Mercenary Regiment (Part I)

[Save everyone's time.] Don't describe the envoys in detail, lest you say that I drag the number of words]

The imperial envoys will not leave immediately, Salin also has to carefully choose the envoys, and communicate with the Tiffany Grand Magi, His Majesty the Emperor definitely wants to sign a secret treaty, in addition to letting Salin send troops, there are many small things, and the two sides need to negotiate privately.

In addition, Salin also had to send an envoy to the Holy Rock City, but this person was not a good choice.

The pirates who have followed Saleen the longest are loyal enough, but unfortunately they have few talents. The nobles who took refuge were not good, and the reliable nobles, Saleen, were rewarded, and the whole family was in Metatrin City. The rest of the nobles, Salin did not find out thoroughly.

Eventually, Saleen decided not to rush for now, and he planned to let Baron Pijac do it. Baron Piac's deep forest town, the land has long been taken by Saleen. And the reward given to Baron Piac has also been implemented. Although this baron is a little less capable, he does not know the secrets of Saleen. Even if someone buys you, nothing will go wrong.

Wait for Salin to arrange a few cronies around Baron Pijac, and then let Baron Pijac take office. Piak's child has been trained by Saleen as a magic apprentice, and this baron will naturally have some scruples.

As soon as things were said to Piak, Pijac had nothing to refuse. Salin directly promoted him to a second-class viscount, and when he left office and returned from Holy Rock City, he would be a first-class viscount. If his son could become an official magician and gain Saleen's trust, Saleen wouldn't mind making him a hereditary count.

Tiffany and Stephanie, two eighth-level magicians, secretly traded a lot of things with Saleen during this period. Tiffany is very old, ostensibly in his thirties, but in fact he is over 100 years old. Stephanie, on the other hand, is really only in her twenties, and she usually pretends to be a white-robed mage, which is her personal hobby, not the emperor's targeting of Duke Balde.

Tiffany is quite restrained because she is a royal magician, and Stephanie is completely the emperor's personal mage, and she has no scruples at all. From her, Salin got a lot of information about Holy Rock City. Stephanie expressed her affection for Saleen, and said that when she returned, she would definitely find a way to get what Saleen wanted with the emperor.

What did Salin want? He was thinking about the warehouse in the palace. Salin knew that the royal palace in Holy Rock was not the home base of the Grükos family. But the collection inside is extremely rich. What Salin wanted was a copy of all the drawings in it.

The royal family of Gryukos has a huge number of blueprints of magical equipment, most of which are thrown in the corner, waiting to be dusted.

For this, Salin privately promised Stephanie to increase the deal with O'Jarvis to 200,000 magic cores, and he himself gave another 100,000 fourth-level magic cores in exchange for food.

Salin needed a lot of food, because Elenor provided him with an elven recipe that could be used to make food into an elven pill, and if he took one, he would not go hungry for three days. The cost of making this elven pill is that it can be consumed by soldiers for five days. It's a loss, but soldiers carrying this pill can reduce the logistical burden.

This pill is also available on the Myers Continent, and it is costly, and the army will not promote it at all. One such pill is almost enough for a soldier to consume for three months. This kind of pill is used by noble ladies to lose weight in Qin Yin.

Most importantly. If the food is stored in the magic warehouse, it will also consume the magic core, and the nutrition will gradually deteriorate, and it will be made into elven pills, and the consumption will be infinitely close to zero. In the elven plane, the elves only eat a small amount of fruits and vegetables every day, and they rely entirely on this pill to maintain their strength.

Only low-level elves will eat three meals a day just like humans.

At that time, human beings were extremely powerful, and in the battle of the plane, they basically did not consider any logistical problems, and a powerful human being could create a space, which could be torn apart by hand at any time and take out the materials inside. Therefore, this elf's pill was meaningless to the humans back then.

By the time humans needed the pill, the planes had lost contact with each other. Later magicians imitated the pills from memory of extremely poor quality, which is now the so-called diet pills, which are not used by the army.

The soldiers of the Royal Swordsman Battalion would carry a bag with them, which also meant being prepared. It's too wasteful to use this as military rations.

However, the consumption is less than double, and considering the problem of logistics and transportation, it is equivalent to saving too much.

Of course, Salin also had something to bribe the two magicians, and that was the magic wand materials he had received from Joey, the Divine Mulberry and the Ghost Oak. These two plants want to be raised to the point where they can make magic wands. It doesn't take hundreds of years, it's thousands of years.

Both of them knew that Joey had it, but they could only drool, and Joey wouldn't bother with them.

Salin wanted all kinds of alchemy blueprints in the Imperial Palace of Holy Rock City, and of course he had to take out things in exchange. What Salin promised was five million alchemy arrowheads. And Salin gave a sample, these five million alchemy arrowheads, the core is slightly soft bronze, the outside is made of alchemy, and the shell material of the monster is added. One such arrow can probably be used dozens of times.

The effect of breaking demons is average, but it still has a great effect on the heavy armor of warriors.

Salin had planned to equip his army with this weapon, and had already made more than four million arrowheads, and now he could make them before Tiffany's left.

The last thing Salin lacked was this hard monster shell, and the red krill he caught, in addition to the spear thorns, the shell of the body was as hard as metal. Red krill's spear is difficult to refine, but when the shell melts, it can adhere to the metal.

If the arrow is enchanted by a mage, it becomes a one-time consumable, but it also has a demon-breaking effect. If there is no mage enchantment, it is only sharper than a steel arrow, and can break through ordinary heavy armor.

After the trial. Stephanie is very satisfied with this equipment, of course Holy Rock City can make this kind of arrowhead, and Alchemy City also sells it, but unfortunately the cost is too high, and it is impossible to sell it for millions. Salin took out five million coins at a time, which was of great significance to the war in Garulan, and even Prince Sephiroth could not refuse.

Salin was also proud in his heart, red krill is too cute, with a magic core and a spear. The shell can also make equipment, and the meat can also feed the Brontosaurus.

No wonder Alchemy City dominates one side, even Saint Rock City doesn't want to offend, the resources in the sea are too rich. Whoever controls the oceans controls the entire continent.

As for Metatrin City's hunting at sea, Holy Rock City also knows it. However, it is impossible for Holy Rock City to destroy it, otherwise you will have to buy high-priced items in Alchemy City. The transaction between Metatrin City and the Emperor allowed His Majesty the Emperor to save more than half of his money.

In mid-July, the envoys returned, and Saleen arranged a grand farewell ceremony. This time he sent a battalion of troops to escort the envoys home, and this battalion of troops could legitimately pass through Phoenix, the magicians in the army, and record magical images and draw maps along the way.

There was also a deal between Saleen and Prince Sephiroth, so he dared to do so. Prince Sephiroth acknowledged his existence and wanted Salin to completely block the sea route to the north of Alchemy City, and in the future, all supplies from the north would be taken over by Holy Rock City. As for Alchemy City, it can't be bought and sold, Prince Sephiroth has invested a lot of money in the name of the empire, although he has not purchased magic cores, but magic equipment materials, ores, wood, magic potions, etc., can be purchased from Metatrin City at a low price.

Prince Sephiroth also wants to form a navy in Lianyun City to secretly balance Alchemy City, so as not to destroy his business. The prince's business was carried out in the name of the empire, mainly to cultivate his own power. Most of the northern nobles are devoted to the emperor, and the prince does not want to fight for it, but the southern nobles are even the emperor's words. I don't listen to it much, Prince Sephiroth must win over a group and fight a group.

Salin was happy to be able to reconcile with the prince for a while, and if the confrontation continued, he didn't want to be sniped by the Golden Sword Master at any time. Unless he never leaves Metatrin City, having such an enemy is even more terrifying than fighting against a ninth-level mage.

The nobles of Metatrin City suffered a little, but fortunately, Saleen let them fall in the middle, and saved the disadvantage of occupying liquidity, and these nobles could also use the money for other businesses.

Saleen himself was busy preparing for the mercenary group.

In Elennor's plan, Saleen also wants to form a mercenary group, which exists to avoid some trouble. For example, if you enter Phoenix, enter Garuran, if it is Sarin's regular army, you will have to face some questions. Mercenary groups are different, as long as there is a mercenary, they can go anywhere.

The name of the mercenary group is very simple, it is called the Metatrin mercenary group, which is registered here in Saleen. The size of the mercenary group is 20,000 people, and outside of 20,000 people, they are not regular mercenaries, but only auxiliary soldiers. Saleen agreed to send 50,000 troops, and he would continue to expand his recruitment.

His regular army, the conscription of soldiers was extremely strict. For mercenaries, Saleen still relaxed some of his requirements. The elite of a battalion, recruited directly from the regular army, was secretly treated no different from the original, this was selling dog meat on the head of a sheep. The remaining auxiliaries were re-recruited.

Even so, the equipment of Salin's auxiliaries would not be inferior to that of any nobleman's private soldiers.

Salin quickly recruited 30,000 people, and there was still a gap of 20,000 people, which could definitely be filled in a few months. Garudan was in chaos, and the original population of tens of millions plummeted to millions, and they all went to Qin Yin and Phoenix. The young and strong of these people can be conscripted into the army.

Saleen's idea was to let his ten battalions take turns to train in the mercenary group, so that his army could grow stronger in the war. A soldier who does not experience war will never become a strong army.