The underground lizardfolk world is now the heavy industry base of the crown of the sea, with large and small workshops standing in towering caverns, and the sound of hammers and nails and alchemical equipment reverberating throughout the cavern day and night.

Thousands of sturdy lizardmen are carrying ore manuscripts to dig through the ore that can be found everywhere, gathering it at collection points, transporting it to a workshop near the magma river in a minecart that connects the mines, where it is forged into various iron artifacts by the lizardfolk blacksmiths.

The crown of the sea exports all kinds of weapons and equipment and ordnance basically from here, and directly bears more than half of the export share of products.

It is like the heart of the crown of the ocean, pumping blood and supporting the development of the entire territory.

After nearly a month of not returning, the place has become more lively, and there are several more forges tens of meters high in the farther position.

Elesia observed her surroundings, the underground world, which was quite different from the islands of jungle rivers on the ground, where there were only the same rocks and billowing lava, and the rich difference in style made her a nascent elf extremely curious.

"Brother, where are we going?"

Ji Chen touched her hair and said with a smile, "Go visit a dwarf."

Theresia nodded, there was no discoloration on her face, but she had heard Ruolin say that they didn't deal with the dwarves, as if they were some bitter enemies.

But what she didn't understand was that the elves of Glen Village were isolated from the ice fields and had never touched or even seen dwarves, so why should they hate?

Ji Chen walked into one of the spacious workshops with Elesia on a familiar car, and as soon as he pushed the door open and walked in, he saw an airship made of some kind of metal parked on a platform, with two rotors with rings in the front and rear, which had a sci-fi feeling.

Tomodo's short, but extremely muscular figure crouched in front of the airship, touching his chin as if wondering something.

"Your Excellency Tomodo!"

Tomodo turned his head, and when he saw that it was Ji Chen coming, he stood up, clapped his hands and said, "It turned out to be you kid, and you finally came back from outside."

Then he quickly noticed Elesia who was following Ji Chen, and his face suddenly became a little bad, "An elf has come here?" ”

"Yes, it's a long story, there are thousands of elves on the ground who are temporarily in the crown of the ocean."

Tomodo's face was even more unsightly, and he spoke through his nostrils, "Hmph, it seems that I have to stay underground for the next few days, or I will be smoked to death by the sour smell of the elves." ”

He looked at Elesia, who was looking at him curiously, and suddenly frowned, "This elf looks a little strange, as if it has some special bloodline..."

Ji Chen's eyes flashed, he was worthy of being an epic powerhouse, and this vision was really vicious.

“… Elesia was brought back from a closed Ancient Battlefield of the Gods, and she has the blood of the Ancient Elves and has epic potential. ”

He briefly talked about his experience in the ice field.

After hearing this, Tomodo was a little surprised, he didn't expect Ji Chen to have such an experience outside during this time, and then as if he thought of something, he said with a serious expression: "Don't you let the elves of the Elf Empire know about her existence."

Ji Chen asked with some puzzlement, "Why?"

Tomodo looked at him deeply, "From hundreds of thousands of years ago to the present, the ancient elf bloodline in the elven body has become thinner and thinner, if they know that there is an ancient elf bloodline with high purity, and can even grow into an epic elf, I am afraid they will bring her back to reproduce, so as to increase the bloodline concentration of their descendants." ”

"The elves' dedication and fanaticism in this aspect of bloodline are far beyond your imagination."

"At least not too much until she's truly epic."

Ji Chen's face froze, there is such a thing?

Isn't this just being caught and bred like a boar? Are elves really that scary?

For a moment, he didn't know if Tomodo was exaggerating too much and giving him elven eye medicine.

Ji Chen still nodded, "I'll pay attention." ”

But Elesia looked dissatisfied and said, "I won't be captured!" I will always stay by my brother's side! ”

Tomodo snorted and didn't say anything.

Ji Chen took the opportunity to change the subject and pointed to the airship, "This is the alchemy artifact recorded in the third drawing?" ”

Tomodo nodded his head.

"That's right, it's called the Alchemy Airship, and the drawing is only a basic version, and it can only carry people."

"Considering your needs, I transformed it into an ocean version, which can not only be loaded with a sea surface ship, but can also carry a dozen or so people, and can also be equipped with dozens of alchemy bombs to attack enemy surface ships and underwater targets, in order to improve firepower, a small-caliber alchemy cannon is also installed on each side, which can be used to kill and wound soldiers on the deck of the enemy ship......"

Tomodo explained with great interest, a smug look on his face, clearly pleased with his work.

Ji Chen was stunned for a moment, he could ride on a ship, carry people, drop bombs, and wash the deck with small shells.

Isn't this the otherworldly alchemy version of a naval helicopter!?

Good fellow, this is heaven!

If he had given Tomodo some more inspiration and time, he might be able to reproduce aircraft carriers, fighter jets, and other weapons of war.

However, what interests Ji Chen the most is the otherworldly version of the submarine.

"What about the alchemy submarine that can operate underwater?"

"Submarines?"

Tomodo was suddenly stunned, his face was overjoyed, "Submarines, submarines, ships that have dived underwater, good names!" I was still struggling with what to call for it, so I used this! ”

"I didn't expect you to be quite good at taking it, the alchemy submarine is placed in the shipyard by the port, and its size is not small."

Ji Chen smiled and didn't say anything.

Inspired by the modern armament of the Blue Star, it is naturally very apt to use its original name.

A man, a dwarf, and an elf returned to the surface through a minecart converted into a transfer cart, and came to the shipyard next to the port, where an alchemy submarine about the size of a train car, narrow in front and wide in the back, was parked in the dry dock.

Compared with the round, smooth and slender submarine in Ji Chen's impression, this one is much smaller, only ten meters long and three or four meters wide, and there are many gears and pipes exposed, and various luminous devices, which are full of steampunk style at a glance.

Seeing his masterpiece, Tomodo's face became a little excited, "I dare say that even those goblins don't have alchemy submarines that can operate underwater like this!" ”

"This is the first great masterpiece I have made, whether it is the history of dwarves or the history of alchemy, it will leave my dwarf Tomodo's name!"

Ji Chen said with some suspicion: "Have you tried the voyage?"

Tomodor coughed lightly twice, "I'm just waiting for you to come back and try again." ”

I believe you are a ghost, aren't you afraid that it will sink into the sea!

Ji Chen shook his head, anyway, he has a way to operate.

……

Ji Chen looked at the alchemy submarine that was pulled up from the water by dozens of Naga guards, still emitting sparks and black smoke, with a black line on his face.

The small hull has more than a dozen large and small holes caused by explosions and water leaks, and the sea water inside flows out like a waterfall as it is pulled up.

Tomodor looked embarrassed, "Well, this is the first machine, and it's the first time to make it without any experience, so it's normal to have a lot of problems." ”

The corners of Ji Chen's mouth twitched, if it weren't for the fact that the driver was a sailor he generated with mana, he was not afraid of pain, I am afraid that the normal driver would have been killed a long time ago.

This is simply a deadly submarine ho!

"But we didn't gain anything from this, this time we dived to a depth of more than 30 meters, and it took five minutes to operate normally, which is already a huge improvement."

Tomodo said very seriously: "Give me some more time, I will definitely make the alchemy submarine run more stably!"

Ji Chen knew that alchemy was similar to science and technology, and a mature and stable device often had to go through a long period of research and improvement before it could be invested, so he didn't expect it to be completed so quickly.

He didn't say anything at the moment, just nodded, and left Tomodo, who looked at the damaged submarine and muttered what went wrong.

When Ji Chen returned with Elesia, he suddenly felt a violent energy fluctuation coming from a jungle, and walked over in curiosity.

The figure who was waving his fists and feet in the glade in the forest, and the fist wind broke the trees across the waist, stopped when he saw that Ji Chen was coming, looked at Elesia, who was following him with a beautiful and moving appearance, and walked over and said in a complaining tone.

"Yo, isn't this Lord Ji Chen, a busy man, why do you have time to come to me today."

"But it's no wonder that with such a young and beautiful elf in the company, how can he think of me as an old thing."

This person was Verena, who was rescued by him at the Fraud Division Base in the Principality of Maple Grove, and signed a thirty-year loyalty contract to fight for him.

Hearing Verena's words with a bit of complaint, Ji Chen couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed in his heart, because he seemed to have really forgotten Verena as a person, and he also knew that Verena was actually complaining about putting her aside since he brought her back from the Maple Grove Principality.

But this really can't be completely blamed on him, Verena, as a legendary, has long since recovered her strength to level fifty, and her combat experience is the richest existence in the entire ocean crown, and her land combat power is definitely in the top two among all heroes.

The problem is that Verena is a human being, she does not have the ability to fight freely in the sea like Ji Chen and various ocean heroes, even if she has a body of strength, she can't exert much in the water.

And Ji Chen's battle is either on the sea or in the sea most of the time, so most of the time she can only stay in the crown of the ocean to garrison.

But for Verena's own senses, Ji Chen just left her here as if he had forgotten her after bringing her back from the Maple Forest Principality.

This is a great shame for her, a warrior who admires combat, to be forgotten than to kill her!

So there are some grievances.

However, Ji Chen had already thought of where Verena was needed.

"I'm here to give you a mission."

Upon hearing this, Verena immediately showed an expectant expression, "What task?" ”

"I have been given a land of high autonomy in the Duchy of Reinhardt to be able to raise a guarded army there, and I intend to send you over as a military officer to help me build and train my army."

For Yuweiyu, Ji Chen did not plan to send the champion team of the ocean to garrison, but instead trained a normal army, it was enough to play a certain role in defense and deterrence, after all, Yuweiyu was in Reinhardt's sphere of influence, and it was unlikely that there would be too strong enemies to attack.

In his plan, Fishtail Island will become a commercial transit point for the Crown of the Sea to export its products to Reinhardt and the rest of the two regions, or a free entry zone, and it is only fitting that there is a legendary hero like Verena to guard it.

Hearing that such a serious task was given to her, Verena also swept away her previous frustration and responded with vigour.

"Leave this task to me, I don't just fight, training soldiers is also what I am good at."

Ji Chen smiled and nodded, "I'm looking forward to your performance." ”

"Oh, by the way, help teach Elesia martial arts skills before you go."

Verena was in a very good mood now, patted her chest, and readily agreed.

"Leave this little thing to me, I promise to train her well."

After placing Elesia here at Verena, Ji Chen, who had dealt with important matters, was able to enjoy a leisurely life for a short time.

The southern edge of the Dead Sea.

A fleet of three two-masted merchant ships sailed from east to west on the sea, no matter the time the captain, sailor or merchant looked very relaxed, they had traveled between the Maple Wood Principality and the Western Continent for many years, and they had taken this route eight times out of ten, and they were extremely experienced, as long as there were no accidents, they could complete this journey safely.

Just as the sailors were leaning on the side of the ship and chatting, they suddenly noticed a black line on the sea level far away in the direction of the side of the ship on the right.

"What's that?" One of the sailors said in confusion, turned around and looked up and shouted, "Pete! Look at what's going on up to the north? ”

On the lookout, when the lookout called Pete picked up the telescope to see the black line clearly, his pupils instantly shrank to the extreme.

Thousands of Sea Clan troops lined up in a neat formation, coming from the direction of the Dead Sea, and there were all low-level troops such as fish people, crab soldiers, and shrimp pawns, among which there were even high-level troops such as Naga, Sea Elemental, and Water Wyvern.

This is definitely a well-trained army.

Behind this army, a waterspout burst out with majestic momentum followed, and a faint pair of eyes were looking at the fleet.

"Soldiers, sink these human wooden boxes! Announce the arrival of your master, Lord of the Waves! ”

"We will build a great ocean kingdom in this sea!"