Chapter 82: Steamship (Part 2)

Salin became interested in this boat. He was born on the beach and knew a little about the boat. The structure of this boat was not suitable for fast driving, and the layout of the sail was even worse. If there were no magic circles to drive the oars, the boat would probably not be able to run twenty miles per hour.

However, this ship has an advantage, which is that it is stable. Ordinary people will not feel violent shaking on this ship. This environment is also conducive to the magician's spell casting. Generally speaking, when a magician releases familiar magic, the requirements for the environment are not strict, as long as the elements in the surrounding space are stable.

But sometimes, some magic that has a preparation time of more than 12 frames requires a relatively stable casting environment. Casting errors will occur when riding a horse, taking a boat, or flying.

The preparation time for many magic is more than 60 frames. Within one second, a violent bump in the hull may cause magical mistakes.

Salin's perception looked towards the bottom cabin, passed through the cabin where the sailor worked, and in the middle of the hull, he found an alchemy machine that was almost wider than the side of the hull. The alchemy machine was more than five meters wide and had a height of about two meters. There were twelve sailors in front and behind, shaking the rocker connected to the alchemy machine.

In addition to six magic arrays, there are also a large number of warp and weft gears and metal shafts. Under the action of the magic array, sailors only need to use a small amount of force to rotate the four oars on both sides of the hull.

Unfortunately, this alchemy machine is huge, otherwise it could be used to make a chariot. Salin's perception could not see through everything like his eyes, but the device on the ship was already perfect. If it could be reduced and used on the chariot, the Qinin Empire would have used it long ago. Salin gave up this idea and looked up and saw Rex standing in front of the porthole and looking into the distance.

"Rex, are there many ships like Qin Yin?" Salin felt that the magic array on the ship was extremely exquisite. He only needed a magic apprentice to start, and dozens of the lowest-level magic cores were used as power, increasing the manpower by dozens of times. Apart from its huge size, this set of alchemy machinery had almost no disadvantages.

"Sit down and talk." Rex turned around and came to her own cabin with Salin. The two of them sat face to face on the floor with a tacit understanding.

"What? Are you interested in alchemy machinery?" Rex took out a piece of parchment and spread it on the floor. The parchment was a complex magic formula. She calculated and chatted with Salin. In the divine punishment of hell, the two of them often did this. While practicing magic, they would talk about topics other than magic.

"I think this alchemy machine is very useful and can be used on the battlefield."

"Haha, do you know how much this set of machinery costs? At least 20,000 gold coins, you only need a first-level mage to paralyze this set of machinery."

"What's going on with Yunliu's Invincible Fleet?" Salin was a little curious. Since the magic-driven device had such a big weakness, why did the Yunliu Empire have a sea fleet that was difficult for even magicians to destroy.

"A smallest iron-clad ship also costs tens of millions of gold coins, and is huge in size, so it can naturally be installed with more advanced alchemy machinery. This thing is essentially the same as a puppet. In addition to lacking drawings, Qin Yin cannot provide a large number of magic cores needed by the fleet. The real magic drive device is itself a huge protective magic array. Have you ever seen the puppet directly destroy the core?"

"Lack of magic cores?" Salin even more didn't understand. Qin Yin claimed to be a magic empire. Could it be that he was poorer than Yunliu Empire and could not even afford magic cores.

Rex laughed and said to Salin: "You and I are not short of magic cores, but Qin Yin has a huge number of mages. Many mages have been practicing for more than ten years. Except for fighting, they are reluctant to use magic cores to restore magic strings. The more mages, the more expensive the magic cores. Also, the Yunliu Empire must have the technology to breed monsters. Every year, Qin Yin has to buy a large number of low-level magic cores from Yunliu. If there is no technology to breed monsters, their ships are just scrap iron."

The technology of breeding monsters? Salin remembered the space of the God-Punishment Hell, the world inside the metal pillar, which seemed to be a good breeding place. However, there were already ready-made monsters in it, and the level was quite high. He chased him and Rex all the way. Now that I think about it, I am still a little scared.

The sailors were busy until the afternoon before they could replenish the essentials on the ship. Although it was not a sea boat, Salin's request was to rush on day and night, the faster the better. When the ship left the shore, it suddenly started to rain again.

Rex leaned against the bed, looking at the magic formula on the parchment paper, a little stunning. The moisture floated in from the window, cool, but refreshing, without a slippery feeling. Her hands were on her cheeks, and her sleeves naturally faded, revealing the emerald bracelet on her snow-white wrists.

Salin looked at Rex and was also a little dazed. He felt his heart suddenly relaxed. At this moment, he didn't want to do anything, just hoped that the rain would never stop and that the boat would never dock.

Neris and Shika were next door. Shika held a bone necklace in his hand, closed his eyes, and sat on the floor. Neris lay on the bed, looking like he was napping, but his ears were standing still, listening to the movements next door. There was no sound in the next door for hours. What was the owner doing?

The rain was fine, and there was a thunderous sound outside the window. A dark red bird fell on the window. It looked at the two people in the room with its green eyes, looking curious. Salin and Rex looked up at the window at the same time. The calm atmosphere was suddenly destroyed. Under the gaze of the two great magicians, the bird was frightened, flapped its wings, and flew towards the woods east of the river bank.

"Just..." Rex glanced at Salin.

Salin continued: "That bird is not afraid of us!"

"That's the Blue-Eyed Fire Crow, it's considered a first-level monster. Strange, this little thing is very sensitive to elemental fluctuations. What were you doing just now?" Rex couldn't help asking Salin. The monsters have natural intuition. Except for the monsters raised by humans, wild monsters dare not approach human mages at all.

Salin and she are both great magicians, and monsters below level 4 will hide away when they find out.

"I was thinking that if there was no Holy See, it would be a good day to continue practicing in such an environment."

"If there is no Vatican, why should we be on this boat?"

Seeing Rex's smile a little strange, Salin looked as usual and asked, "What are you doing just now? I can hide your breath very well on rainy days. You are a level 6 mage, can't hide it, right? Unless you have been promoted to a magician."

"It's not that easy. Even without any twists and turns, I have to spend ten or eight years. Just now... I was thinking about some things when I was a child."

"Oh." Salin didn't ask. When Rex was young, he was surrounded by her teacher and Faren. Faren was dead, and this memory might not be pleasant.

The two of them fell silent again. This time, Salin and Rex were thinking about their feelings just now. The two of them accidentally entered a state of state, blending with the surrounding environment. Even the Blue-Eyed Fire Crow, known for their sensitivity, did not find them as dangerous great magicians.

"Why……"

Rex and Salin sighed at the same time. They just looked for that realm again and could not grasp it. If they could stabilize that realm, it would also be of great benefit to the magic practice of the two people.

The night gradually became deeper, and a magic lamp lit up on the bow of the ship, illuminating the waters ahead. The drizzle passed through the light and landed on the river surface, forming ripples like thin scales. The cabin became very dark, and neither Rex nor Salin used magic lighting. The two sat opposite each other in the dark, relaxing, and practicing the magic that they had not yet been familiar with over and over again.

The six elements suddenly fluctuated strongly in the cabin and suddenly calmed down. Every time a magic was released, the two people would disperse it in the shortest time.

No magician has the same mental power. It is easy to dispel one's own magic, but it is difficult to dispel others' magic. In the darkness, Salin suddenly said to him: "Rex, we try to dispel each other's magic. What do you think?"

Magic dispersion is not a spell, but a skill. It is more difficult to use this skill on others than a magician using magic to destroy the sword energy.

The principles of sword energy are roughly the same, and the principles of magic formation are all kinds of strange. For example, the water-stitched shield released by Salin is the defensive effect of level 4 magic. Another magician is no longer good at this magic, but he cannot find a way to disperse Salin's magic.

The way Salin used spells to activate magic strings has been completely changed. Even if other people can learn this mutant magic, it is difficult for them to dispel the water-stitched shield released by Salin.

"Is it dangerous?" Rex hesitated.

"We can release magic at the slowest speed and start practicing from level one." Salin was eager to try. This kind of exercise method is indeed dangerous. If one of the two magicians has bad intentions, it is easy to cause tragedy. Even if neither of them has the intention to harm others, magic still has no emotional skills, and if you make a mistake, you will hurt others.

The slowest release speed of magic varies. The most outrageous thing is a ground-based magic, which takes more than an hour to complete. The fastest is low-level magic, even if it is ice cone technique, it can be completed by beginners in three seconds.

Within 2 to 180 frames, the magician can prepare the magic trick as long as he completes the spell or uses his mental power to stimulate the magic string. With more than 180 frames, the elements will directly escape and gather forcibly. As a result, the elements in the magician's body are completely disordered, and the magic string will be destroyed even if he does not die.

Magicians are studying how to make a magic instantly emit, but no one has thought about how to delay the preparation time of magic. Because in battle, there are skills that specifically delay the release time of magic, and extending the preparation time is meaningless.

"It seems to be a bit difficult!" Rex became interested in Salin's proposal, because she had never tried delaying preparation time. From the first day of learning magic, she was pursuing how to shorten this time.

"Then let's start." Salin first blessed himself with ice-patterned armor, and covered it with a layer of water-patterned shield outside the ice-patterned armor. This is Salin's strongest defense. As long as Rex does not use magic above level 5, he will basically not be injured.
Chapter completed!