Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 321 Dark Sea
Five days later, at the seaport of Erisburg, the capital of Pharos, the "Country of a Thousand Sails".

The undead spellcasters Black and White stood side by side on a multi-masted sailing ship that was about to set sail, watching closely as the Chamber of Commerce clerk lifted a huge rectangular wooden box, which was reinforced with three layers of planks and iron bars inside and out, and placed it steadily on the bottom floor of the cabin.

White touched the thin letter he had been carefully placing in his arms, sighed, and asked his companion, "Guess what kind of gift this Mage Lord has prepared for Lambert?"

This is a truly huge gift! In both the literal and visual sense, it's incredibly large.

They had originally thought that the other party was merely being polite to their former colleagues in the academy, symbolically sending a gift that matched their status along with a reply letter - gifts exchanged between spellcasters without any exchange of interests, such as a well-made wizard robe, a historical book with certain research significance, or simply a pure collectible that did not contain any magical substances.

"I don't know either," Black shook his head, indicating he had no idea. He subconsciously touched the magic pouch in his arms. This Mage Lord was truly generous! He felt it was a bit of a hassle to ask the two of them to help deliver this "big" gift, so he actually gave him and White a small bag of high-quality Shadow Stones each!

This is a Shadow Materia! Not one of those common elemental Materia that the Federation monopolizes!

The reason why the Undead Spellcasters are a unique faction is that they cannot directly absorb elemental magic and pure magic from common elemental magic stones and charged magic stones to replenish themselves. No matter what type of magic stone they hold, they need to meditate and use the alien space characteristics of the magic network to transform the nature of the magic before they can use it for themselves.

Except for the Shadow Stone...

Although the Shadow Stone itself contains dark matter magic, it is of the same origin as the death magic required by the undead spellcaster himself, and can be directly absorbed without the need for meditation and transformation.

Unfortunately, this kind of magic stone has always been scarce in the southern region, and due to its single use, it has never been circulated in large quantities through any official channels. It is only occasionally traded in small quantities on the magic black market.

"White, we were originally sent by Lambert to rescue someone this time, but we actually managed to snag such a great bargain." Blake felt happier the more he thought about it. "Ten Shadow Stones in total! I've been busy all year and haven't seen so many on the black market."

White chuckled. "That's nothing. Helping this Lord deliver a gift, I can even use his connections to borrow the continental teleportation array set up by the Union in Jackdaw Town! Humph, those snobs always looked down on us, but after seeing the Lord's magic emblem, they immediately started preparing the teleportation ceremony for us... It's truly satisfying!"

Harvey was worried that they were carrying a huge gift box and wanted to sneak thousands of miles to the secret refuge place. It would be easy for them to expose their identities and bring danger along the way. So he waved his hand and decided to let them go directly from Saint Valen to Daus through the continental teleportation array restored by the Federation in Jackdaw Town, and then travel non-stop to the Principality of Faros, and finally to Erisburg, the capital of Faros, and return to the refuge from here by sea.

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In the next two days, the multi-masted sailing ship carrying White, Black and others was speeding on the sea line far away from the continent. This was obviously a magic sailing ship enchanted with some special rune array. A continuously activated magic array was secretly set at the bottom of the cabin. It could not only disperse the monsters in the sea through some unique magic fluctuations, but also speed up the sailing speed of the ship to a certain extent.

On this trip, they also brought back a number of undead apprentices who were originally stranded in Daeus and Saint Valen. These undead apprentices with very low magical abilities and ranks would probably be hunted down by the church and some orthodox spellcasting organizations if they stayed in the southern countries. They would either be secretly imprisoned or burned at the stake for public display. In short, their end would definitely not be good.

After sailing eastward for hundreds of miles along the continental sea route, they suddenly arrived at a dangerous area shrouded in perpetual fog, with terrifying reefs frequently appearing on the surface. The sailboat didn't turn around, but plunged directly into this misty sea, a place no sailor would easily venture into. Standing at the bow, Blake picked up the telescope and carefully observed the foggy surface. He spotted a rocky beach where several mermen with human bodies, fish tails, and sharp mouths and fangs were climbing on the rocks, humming softly.

White took out a white human bone covered with dark patterns from his pocket, broke it and threw it far away towards the group of mermaids. As soon as the human bone entered the water, it immediately made a hissing sound of corrosion, and then a cloud of thick smoke exploded on the sea surface. As the smoke rose, a strange emblem pattern was formed on the water surface.

The group of mermaids immediately noticed the movement on the sailboat, but for the first time ever, they did not choose to flee in panic. Instead, they stared at the emblem symbol floating on the sea for a while, then swam to the sailboat and screamed at Black and White who were standing at the bow.

Then the mermaids formed a school and led the sailboat closely behind them into the thick fog covered with reefs.

This is the secret refuge that the necromancer family of Ash Lambert and several other closely allied necromancer organizations in the southern countries prepared for themselves in advance.

No one would have thought that the sea people, who had never had in-depth exchanges with any intelligent race on the continent, had secretly reached some kind of secret cooperative relationship with the undead spellcaster faction among humans for some unknown reason hundreds of years ago.

This is also the biggest reliance of the undead spellcasters headed by the Lambert family, who were able to decisively make the decision to move out with their entire family and sneak away when they felt that the public opinion in the magic world and the southern countries was not right.

"With the guidance and help of these half-mermans from the sea clan, we only need to sail for most of the day to reach the center of the dark sea..." White asked the helmsman of the family chamber of commerce to pay close attention to the sailing direction guided by the mermaids ahead, while he and Blake leaned leisurely against the mast. After entering the foggy sea, they were basically safe. They no longer needed to be vigilant against the danger of their identities being exposed and being hunted by the church.

Blake sighed, "Although this place is safe and secluded, it's certainly not a comfortable place to live... Being so far away from human lands means it's harder to obtain corpses for magical research. We, living under someone else's roof, can't use the bodies of the sea creatures without permission... Sigh, if we were as powerful as that wasteland mage lord, perhaps we wouldn't have to hide like rats in the gutter."

"He is a genius from a prominent wizard family. He just studied necromancy due to some unknown hobby. How can we be compared with him?" White patted his companion's shoulder comfortingly, feeling very sad himself.

Even so, Blake muttered softly, "If that's the case, then I might as well offer my services. Perhaps that gentle and approachable Lord would be willing to hire me as his necromancy consultant..."

As the two were chatting, an undead apprentice stumbled out of the cabin.

"Mr. White! Mr. Black! That... that big box at the bottom of the cabin, engraved... engraved with strange magical inscriptions..."

"It...it suddenly came out with a noise!"

(End of this chapter)