Salted Basin

From the Azure Source Holy Tower, take a floating ship to Gem Bay, then from Gem Bay, take a magic carriage all the way from the Malgeria Kingdom to the Principality of Giggson Duchy. →69🅂🄷🅄🅇.🄲🄾🄼

Whether it's the Malgeria Kingdom or the Giggson Duchy, the magic and alchemy here surpass those of the Lisia Alliance and other places.

At least in terms of transportation, it is extremely convenient.

Saine wasted almost no time on his journey to the Giggson Duchy, taking only ten days thanks to convenient transportation.

Ten days later, at the border of the Giggson Duchy, in the Salted Basin.

The Salted Basin is an important metal-producing area in the Giggson Duchy. In addition to common metals, it is said that there are also rare magical metal deposits here.

Similarly, the Salted Basin was also the location of Saine's mission objective, and the Quasi-Level Magical Beast that showed signs of madness appeared within the Salted Basin.

"According to the information provided by the Holy Tower Mission Hall, the Giggson Duchy seems to have offered bounties to the Mercenary Guild and many Knight and Mage organizations in the vicinity quite early on."

"If I had been a little slower, I might have gone there but ended up with nothing."

"This is also why the tasks issued by the Holy Tower only require Advanced Apprentice to investigate the cause of the berserk monster, rather than killing it directly."

"It's just a quasi -Quasi-Level Magical Beast; it's possible that a powerful Knight or Mage has already killed it," Saine mused.

If the Quasi-Level Magical Beast has been killed, then Saine will need to negotiate with the killer to obtain the beast's blood and tissue samples before returning to the Holy Tower to report back.

If it wasn't killed, that's perfect. Saine also wants to find a Quasi-Level Magical Beast to practice on.

Little Seven is not only Saine's pet, but also his friend.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, it is impossible for Saine to use Little Seven as a tool for testing magic.

The Salted Basin is very large, and at the entrance to this giant basin, one can clearly see many troops from the Giggson Duchy stationed.

Besides defending against monster attacks, these troops also serve another purpose: to protect the mines in the Salted Basin and ensure that the principality's property is not violated.

It is worth mentioning that the army of the Giggson Duchy is not primarily concerned with guarding against spying from other human kingdoms in the surrounding area.

Instead, they came from the demi-human creatures in the interconnected underground mines of the Salted Basin.

And it was also after arriving in the Giggson Duchy that Saine...

He learned that the monster he was investigating also came from the Underground World.

"Underground again? That's a familiar term," Saine remarked.

With the token and badge of the Azure Source Holy Tower, Saine easily passed through the checkpoint of the Giggson Duchy's garrison.

For Saine, Quasi-Magician from the Holy Tower, the captain of the Giggson Duchy even went so far as to send ten soldiers to escort Saine to the mine where the accident occurred. →

Because of their proximity to the Holy Tower, the Giggson Duchy generally holds the Mage of the Azure Source Holy Tower in high esteem.

From these soldiers, Saine learned that the berserk Quasi-Level Magical Beast had not been killed.

However, so far, three large mercenary groups with considerable strength have taken on the mission of eliminating the monsters, and the cleanup of that underground mining area should be put on the agenda soon.

Saine eventually arrived at a heavily guarded medium-sized mining area.

The Principality of Giggson Duchy is not large; overall, it is only one-fifth the size of the Lisia Alliance.

Therefore, this country has few soldiers.

However, due to the flourishing of magical alchemy in the Giggson Duchy, the strength of its army should not be underestimated.

From what Saine had seen, he noticed that the army of the Giggson Duchy, especially those above the Squad Leader, seemed to have some magical runes on their personal weapons.

In addition, in the military camp in the mining area, Saine also saw several giant crossbows engraved with wind magic patterns, as well as a black iron tube that looked very much like Magic Guided Cannon.

However, it's probably not Magic Conductor Cannon.

If the Giggson Duchy could field Magic Conductor Cannon enough to threaten creatures of level one or two or higher, there would be no need to issue such a bounty.

Saine guessed that this was a weakened version of a magical artifact, similar to his Simplified Magic Conductor Cannon.

Furthermore, Saine noticed that the projectiles of this Magic Guided Cannon were not the Magic Crystal projectiles he had seen before, but stone projectiles made of solidified black powder.

The exact extent of its power is still unknown.

Escorted by these soldiers, Saine made his way to the main camp in the center of the mine.

At this moment, a rather heated argument seemed to be taking place inside the tent.

"If you insist on clearing the mining area according to this plan, then our Red Scale Mercenary Group will withdraw from this bounty mission!" A rather rough female voice came from the tent.

As Saine entered the tent, he found them arguing.

The two sides consisted of a female Knight in Red Scale Armor and a general who was clearly a nobleman from the Giggson Duchy.

The appearance of Saine caused both sides to stop arguing.

The nobleman from the Giggson Duchy reacted the fastest, noticing the soldier's hand signal and the emerald green medal pinned to Saine's chest.

The middle-aged nobleman with a mustache said, "This is a master from the Azure Source Holy Tower. This task of clearing the mining area has also attracted the attention of the great Azure Source Holy Tower."

"I think instead of wasting more time arguing, why don't we let this Mage from the Azure Source Holy Tower make the decision?" the nobleman said.

After the name of the Azure Source Holy Tower was mentioned, the people in the tent were not as excited as before.

Actually, the Red Armor Female Knight wasn't the only one clashing with the count inside the tent; strictly speaking, there were three groups, with the Red Armor Female Knight being just one of them.

The issue they were arguing about was nothing more than the upcoming cleanup plan in the Salted Basin.

Earl Beard represents the interests of the Giggson Duchy. Given the significant costs and high hiring fees incurred by the Giggson Duchy, they naturally hope that the three mercenary groups, represented by the Red Armor Female Knight, will take the lead and help them eliminate threats from all aspects of the underworld.

However, the three mercenary groups clearly did not want to become cannon fodder for the Giggson Duchy. The bounty missions they carried out were only aimed at that mutated, berserk Quasi-Level Magical Beast.

However, the Giggson Duchy wanted them to take the opportunity to clean up the increasingly rampant subterranean creatures within the mining area.

Leaving aside the inherent dangers, to put it in the words of the rather rugged female Knight, "These nobles of the Giggson Duchy want to do two things with one set of money."

When Saine learned the whole story, he faced the gazes of everyone in the tent.

Saine said expressionlessly, "I don't want to waste time on your bickering. Since Earl Krupp believes that the appearance of the mutated magical beasts is related to those underground creatures..."

"Then let's clean up the entire mining area as soon as possible, according to the Earl's instructions."

"Including that Quasi-Level Magical Beast, once its location was determined, it was immediately hunted down and killed."

As expected, Saine's words were much more effective than those of the noble count.

But after he finished speaking, the tall female Knight glared at him angrily.