700 Saleen’s Legacy Part 1 (1/2)

The equipment possessed by Saleen's Metatrin mercenary group was all handed down by his main battalions. The mercenaries, led by Aini, marched towards the border of Laiyin Duchy. The equipment possessed by the soldiers in the city was mostly more ineffective than it looked. Fortunately, the Holy See would not be able to organize another expedition within the next few months. They would be able to reach the north by the time winter came otherwise.

It would be a nightmare for armies to travel through the areas controlled by the Metatrin Kingdom in winter.

Saleen did not move the ten-thousand Bitter Water Prefecture soldiers in western town. He had already established contact with Lex and both had agreed to cooperate and split the land north of Phoenix. It was for this reason that she left behind those soldiers. If Saleen marched into Phoenix on his own, it might stir up some unhappiness within the Qin noble families. There would be no such problems if he cooperated with Lex.

Saleen had more than enough soldiers in the north already so Lex only needed to provide legitimacy to his actions.

Once the battle started in Phoenix, these ten-thousand soldiers would be deployed as reinforcements.

Saleen finally understood the difficulty of refining large scale equipment after giving it a try. The items that Saleen wanted to refine were too difficult even for Lex's mages. He had no choice but to gather all the grand mages to refine the high-level items while the low-level mages and apprentices would refine the low-level items.

Fortunately, the equipment designed by Eleanor was all very structured and would be much more efficient if the components were manufactured separately. Saleen was running out of resources.

He could not afford to use all his thundercloud wood and divinecherry wood on elvish alchemy crossbows and the wings of an elf. Other equipment required these two types of wood as well. Saleen had no choice but to send the winged skeleton and Nailisi to the ocean to bring back more sunken ships.

Saleen could not afford to investigate the calculation of the collection point of sunken ships' routes that was brought up previously. He did not dare to leave Metatrin for the time-being so he could only bear with it.

It was extremely difficult. Saleen's only thought was that this was all extremely difficult.

In the past, if he were on the brink of death, it was only his own personal issue. Now, there were more than one-hundred trusted aides around him and another one-hundred more noble families that had pledged their allegiance to him. That included the subordinates and followers under these people. Saleen had thousands under him. All of their futures depended on him.

Being needed was a good feeling, but it could also be a burden at times. Nevertheless, Saleen had to push on. There was no way back. In the past he could flee if he felt that he had no chances of winning. Now, he would not be able to desert Metatrin city, the city was named after him.

Sika had also been very busy and had rarely been to the temple. She stayed at South Court most of the time to train the Caucasus soldiers. Mages from Sregl Island and Bitter Water Prefecture were all busy making equipment at the alchemy factories.

In contrast, there was peace and normality amongst the residents of the city. The fighting competitions carried on as usual at the fighting arena every day. The people of Metatrin City had become used to watching the matches and there would be one or two lucky winners every few days. Although no one had yet to win the top prize of one-hundred gold coins, the residents were still very interested and invested in the fighting matches.

On that day, Saleen left the alchemy factory and was taking a break at the pier with Eleanor. When they reached the pier, they saw that it was prospering as there were hundreds of ships of all sizes and wagons were traveling back and forth on the metal tracks. Gigantic puppets were being guided by apprentices to transport boxes that weighed a few thousand pounds. They made sounds that sounded like gold coins being rubbed against each other.

Saleen raised his head and saw the lone white rock mountain on the left. He said to Eleanor, ”Let's go there and take a look.”

Saleen had no need for teleportation portals. Instead, he used the Quickcloud spell and brought Eleanor and himself to the top of the mountain. The soldiers recognized this skill of Saleen's as he was the only one on Mainland that could use this type of flying spell.

”My Lord!” Truman, the mage that was guarding the mountaintop, saw Saleen flying over and quickly prepared himself to welcome him.

Saleen flew into the rock cave in the white rock mountain and dispersed the fog. He stood and observed his surroundings. This rock cave was not small and was cut into a hexagon with a diameter of more than twenty yards.

There were six forts, each pointing towards an opening. Only the fort that was facing the pier was equipped with a mini magic cannon.

”Eh?” Saleen's gaze fell onto Truman again and asked, ”You have advanced into a grand mage?”

”Yes, my Lord,” Truman replied in a neutral tone. He was older than Saleen and was only a grade-3 mage when he first arrived from Sregl Island.

It was rather easy for the grade-4 and grade-5 mages under Saleen to advance. They had already accumulated a lot of experiences on Sregl Island so once they managed to train under Saleen and in an environment that was rich with elements like in the temple. All these accumulations were brought out and almost all the grand mages advanced.

Truman, this grade-3 mage, guarded this fort every day and never had the chance to enter the temple. Saleen deployed him here because Truman was only a grade-3 mage and would have a long way to go before becoming a grand mage.

Saleen was not looking down on Truman. Not a single one of the low-level mages that followed Saleen in the temple had advanced into a grand mage after all.