Chapter 123: The Magician's ** (II)

Saleen insisted on keeping the pirates behind. Of course, Rex will not object, Salin's idea is indeed good, but there are some technical problems. The shape of the bottom of the sea ship is designed to cope with the waves, and if the alchemy ship is stiffened underneath, not only will the speed be reduced, but the balance of the ship will also be affected.

Rex didn't make any more suitable comments, but only rejected Saleen's design, re-attaching a sturdy hook to the tail of the pirate ship, and using iron chains to bolt the stealth alchemy ship made by the turtle to the back.

Even so, the alchemy ship hanging on the pirate ship will affect the speed of progress, and even endanger the safety of the pirate ship in the event of strong winds and waves.

The pirates on the beach were now completely honest and, under Daniel's command, removed everything from the ship that had nothing to do with sailing. Large quantities of fresh water, dried vegetables, butcher shops and raw rice were brought ashore. There was not much money on board, and the pirates handed over a pitiful few hundred gold coins, which were sent back by Saleen.

These gold coins were nothing more than the value of a fourth-level magic core, but the pirates fought for their lives to get it back, and most of the money was taken by the original pirate captain and buried on his island.

Two heavy rains fell in three days, and a storm swept past the nameless Kikiri Island. Blew the pirate's camp into a mess again. Seeing that Rex's alchemy ship was already in sight and was about to be completed, Salin went to the pirate camp and called Jupiter to count the number of pirates.

The pirate ship was not full of pirates, and some sailors had been raided. These sailors had no one to redeem themselves, so they had to live with pirates. In fact, there are also reasons for the maintenance of the pirate team. No one is born willing to be a pirate, and the four empires all have one attitude towards pirates, which is to execute.

These captives had been on board for so long that even if they hadn't done anything, if they were caught, no one would tell if they were innocent. Over time, these sailors will also become new pirates.

Salin separated the sailors, and there were more than forty of them. The forty-odd sailors were separated from the pirates by Saleen. Saleen needed sailors, who had nowhere to go and who had not become pirates, who needed him most.

Salin had the forty-odd sailors take care of the four pirates who were seriously wounded, while the rest of the pirates were put into hard training.

Salin didn't know how to cultivate sword qi, and even if he knew, he wouldn't be able to teach it to so many pirates. Although the cultivation of sword qi is not as strict as magic, it is also something that has a heritage. Under the sword master, you can learn on your own, and once you become a junior sword master, you need the special guidance of the teacher.

Salin specially asked Jupiter to train the sword qi cultivation of these pirates, and after removing the injured and unable to train, there were still one hundred and twenty-eight sturdy pirates.

Inspecting the pirate's weapons and armor, Saleen was somewhat disappointed. These pirates are okay. But the equipment is a little more miserable. He went to Rex and asked for more than a hundred sets of leather armor, all of which were replaced with new ones for the pirates. The weapon was also uniformly replaced with a slightly shorter straight knife.

In Saleen's opinion, if combat at sea requires hand-to-hand combat, in fact, the pirate side does not take advantage. Pirates have trebuchets and heavy crossbows, and they can attack calmly after destroying the sails or rudders of the opponent's ship, and if they must jump on deck in hand-to-hand combat, these less cohesive guys, as Rex says, are not even as useful as the cavalry of a squadron.

Either way, this is also Saleen's first warriors. As a magician, it's normal for him not to be good at this. Neither Sika nor Neris could help him, and Sika himself was not good at positional warfare, nor did he understand naval warfare. Neris didn't study this even better, and was not even as good as Saleen.

Saleen didn't ask Rex either, he just familiarized the pirates with the new armor and weapons, and trained them on how to maintain them every day. He asked for ten storage boxes from Rex, this kind of Qin Yin's army equipment requires magic apprentices to open, and the space inside is not much different from the outside.

The only advantage of this type of box is that it can be completely enclosed, isolating the inside and outside. The grain stored inside will never rot unless the chest is broken.

Salin chose ten young pirates to take care of the ten chests. The crates were filled with the finest dried meat, of course, not the moldy stuff that the pirates stockpiled. These ten boxes of rations allowed the pirates to stay at sea for a long time, even when they could not fish, without losing their combat effectiveness.

Rex finally finished her alchemy ship and made her way to the beach, just smiling when she saw that the pirates trained by Saleen were starting to get a little disciplined. When they really get to the battlefield, their own warriors will casually attack, and these pirates will show their true colors. This kind of training in Saleen is only superficial. A real army takes several years to develop combat effectiveness.

In Qinyin, the training of professional soldiers began at an early age. A boy will be taught martial arts at the age of twelve. At the age of fourteen, you can start cultivating sword qi. Children whose general qualifications are not too bad can become junior swordsmen at the age of sixteen, and they can train as regular warriors.

It has taken four years, and in these four years, the children have developed strict discipline, and a career officer can command Ruyi. The next four years were spent on battle formation training and cavalry training. Among these warriors were also selected archers, crossbowmen, light cavalry, heavy cavalry, heavy infantry......

This kind of training in Saleen is just child's play in Rex's opinion.

Rex called Daniel and got on the pirate ship to mend the mainmast. She had five constructed golems, plus Daniel's undead creatures, and effortlessly lifted the broken mast up and connected it. Rex only used a metal sleeve of more than two meters to re-fix the mast and cast a petrification alchemy.

Then there is the handling of the internal structure of the corsair. This pirate ship is a shipbuilding style of Yunliu, which is somewhat ancient. The watertight cabins are sturdy, and there are special cabins underneath for sailors' paddles.

Half of the oars of the ship are hidden in the cabin, divided into two layers, and they will only be shaken when pursuing the enemy, and they will not be used here when they are usually driven by sails.

Rex removed the double long oars and replaced the paddles for the pirate ship. The wheel oar is something invented by Qin Yin, which is much more efficient than the long oar, but the materials required to manufacture it are expensive and relatively complex.

Rex actually assembled the already refined oars directly, such a modification is not beneficial to the pirate ship, structurally speaking, this oars will change the force point of the pirate ship, if the ship has thirty years of life, after replacing the oars, at most five years of sailing, it will break from the keel.

The heavy crossbow in the bow was removed and replaced with a more sophisticated metal heavy crossbow. Rex didn't add an alchemy crossbow to the pirate ship, it was a threat to the mage, and she didn't believe in the power of the contract like Saleen.

There are stone cannons in the stern, that is, high-grade trebuchets. Rex took material from the rocks on the island and made more than 200 large stone bullets. It is also used to press ships.

The freshwater tanks have been reinforced, the fresh water that Salin and Rex have made these days has been injected, and each cabin has been cleaned so that it doesn't smell weird.

The pirates were summoned aboard the ship and re-treated with cleanliness to make sure nothing was contagious, and Salin gave the order and prepared to go.

There were several houses left on Kiriri Island, all built by pirates, and the more than forty sailors and four pirates who had not recovered from their serious injuries were left behind.

Busy until late at night, all the pirates were under the watchful eye of Sika. Kept in the cabin. Rex began transporting her alchemy ship to the seashore.

Now the shell of the turtle has been completely disposed of, the limbs and tail are equipped with special paddles, and the entrance to the head is completely blocked by an incomparably large crystal. The entire ship did not have a hatch in the traditional sense, and the belly of the turtle shell, Rex created a teleportation array.

The reason why the teleportation array is expensive is related to the teleportation distance. For example, from Kushui to Shengyan City, a distance of more than 2,000 miles, the cost of transporting a living person exceeded 100,000 gold coins. Counting the cost alone, it also consumes six sixth-level magic cores, which cost more than 50,000 gold coins.

If the teleportation distance is reduced by a factor of ten, the consumption of magic cores will be doubled.

The teleportation distance of Rex's teleportation array is only about three meters, and it is a two-way teleportation array, and the consumption will be reduced by half, and ten people can be teleported at a time, and the consumption is only a few hundred gold coins.

This design ensures that the sturdiness of the Iwaki Alchemy Ship is not affected by the modification, and the air vents are designed at the oars, so they only need to float to the surface.

Saleen and Rex started laying the ice trail on the way from the platform to the sea, this time relatively easy, as the ice trail naturally slopes downward. There is a long iron chain hanging from the turtle alchemy ship, and Daniel's undead creature Pisius has become a coolie this time, pulling the chain, and marching towards the sea with difficulty.

In the twilight, an undead creature more than ten meters long with three heads crunched while dragging the iron chain, walking in front with difficulty, the weight of the turtle alchemy ship was too amazing, even if it was placed on the ice path that sloped all the way down, it made Pisius's white bones make a terrible sound, as if it would fall apart at any time.

The nearly thirty-meter-long alchemy ship was pulled into the water, and Rex glanced at Saleen and asked, "You really don't come down?"

"I'm on the boat, I'm the captain. This alchemy ship doesn't need to be activated now, you can control it alone, and let Neris follow you. ”

"What about me?" asked Daniel.

"Of course you're following me. Salin laughed and thought to himself, I'm not at ease with you down there. There are so many weird things about necromancy. Daniel will break through to the fourth level at any time, and when the time comes, Rex may not be able to control it in a closed environment.

"Nellis, you follow Rex, take care to keep in touch. ”

"Yes, master. Naris smiled happily, and stood with Rex on the teleportation array of the alchemy ship, Daniel remained silent, thinking to himself, it is better to be on it, lest this ship fail to float, I will die very unjustly.