Above The Sky

Terra 766, July 23, the full-scale conflict between the Sequoia natives and Port Harrison unfolded with extreme suddenness.

As for the redwood forest, more than 150 hard-core hunters were used to raid more than 17 fishing villages along the coast, burning down the fishing grounds and more than 20 shellfish farming factories. Brown Yulin, two border villages in Yuxilin, killed more than 200 innocent villagers.

Port Harrison launched a counterattack on the same day. The port guards used various sentry towers as nodes to capture and kill 21 hunters. The next day, they used alchemical artillery to bombard all the indigenous settlements on the banks of the Iwok River in the west. In addition to casualties, rare and expensive flame-retardant agents were used to retaliate by creating many forest fires.

For a while, around Port Harrison, all hunting and medicine gathering operations were suspended, and all the surrounding villages became defensive.

In contrast, all the indigenous tribes migrated to the northwest near the Baisen Mountains. The two sides launched sporadic but fierce offensive and defensive battles against the upstream strongholds of the Iwok River and villages, causing casualties to each other.

Without moving the totem master, the sea power of Harrison Port has an absolute advantage, and the indigenous people cannot interfere with the fishing industry. Therefore, the situation in the city is relatively stable at present, and all residents have long been used to this kind of visit once every ten years. large-scale conflict.

However, in the past, most of the conflicts between the natives and Port Harrison stemmed from an extremely rare potion, or the struggle for the ownership of rare Warcraft materials.

All in all, when we fought in the past, everyone knew why.

But this time, no one knew why the natives suddenly attacked.

There are rumors in the city that the sacred tree of the indigenous people is about to bear fruit, so it needs blood to be watered; some people say that the indigenous people have eaten too well in recent years, the population is too large, and the redwood forest can no longer support them, so they must fight to kill some of them; more It is said that the native shaman foretold the impending catastrophe, and that the fighting and death are only part of averting the catastrophe...

Everyone is very interested in this topic, especially the people in the city who have nothing to do and have nothing to do. They are hunters and herb collectors who often deal with the natives.

Even though some of them were recruited into the escort team to fight with the natives, there were still many people who stayed behind and passed the time with rumors like chatting every day.

Ian is different, he's not so busy.

In fact, recently, his busy feet don't touch the ground.

In addition to the daily chores such as grocery shopping, cooking, cooking, rice, oil, and salt, Ian needs to exercise every morning when he wakes up. After breakfast, he continues to exercise physical fitness and flexibility, and then lunch and condensed energy.

Ordinary Terran people usually eat two meals. They can only provide three meals when they have a lot of money left at home and their funds are healthy. But regardless of the money left by Osenna, Hilliard and Pude elders gave them to each other. Ian has a considerable amount of money and resources, so in terms of food, Ian has not fallen behind at all, and the food is quite good.

But at the same time, his learning intensity is also quite large.

After refining the source material in the food, at about 3:00 in the afternoon, Ian will go to a house belonging to the city hall to learn alchemy and inscriptions with local blacksmiths, alchemists and some white people in Port Harrison.

As the youngest student, Ian did attract a lot of attention at the beginning.

However, no one would ridicule "what a child knows", because his identity as a psionicist has been announced to the public by Viscount Grant and Elder Pude.

There are even many people who think that this class is even for Ian, and the big guy is just dazzling, so not only is there no ridicule, but everyone is quite mild to Ian.

And then, Ian's learning speed made everyone deepened, "This class is just for this guy! ' This false impression.

While everyone was still reciting and trying to write down the basic principles of the numerous alchemy substrates and inscriptions, Ian was already able to use instruments to perform simple substrate extraction under the guidance of Elder Pude.

——Simple separation and purification, elementary-level chemical experiment.

Alchemy is really simple, but inscriptions involve hands-on skills. You need to use a carving knife to inscribe various patterns on materials such as wood, stone, and iron.

Ian does have shortcomings in practice, but with the condensed Origin Seed and the control of his body after breathing guidance, he is at least not the worst of the group.

After the alchemy course, it was about six or seven o'clock in the evening. When he returned home, he not only had to take care of his younger brother, cook dinner, but also continue to exercise.

After feeling exhausted, Ian will immediately perform breathing guidance to calm the source of the body, and then wait for Hilliard to come back after nine o'clock to study each other's various advanced sublimator courses until sleep.

At the end of the day, Ian felt that he was more fulfilled than when he took the engineer certificate. The intensity of his life was at least three times that of the college entrance examination. Even in his spirit, he had no room to think about other things.

However, he didn't feel hard.

Ian became an engineer because he wanted to go to space, and all the knowledge he learned was to make himself one step closer to his dream.

But now, when he came to another world, all the knowledge, whether it was alchemy, inscriptions or sublimation of common sense, each made him feel relish, it was the unknown that he had never come into contact with on earth.

Just knowing is enough joy, not to mention deeply learning these things that I already like, it is a kind of enjoyment at all.

Of course, the most important thing is that these courses are not difficult for him at all.

"Basic alchemy is essentially chemistry. Although there are some catalysis and synthesis content that have never been seen on earth, as long as you accept this setting, the difficulty is just entry-level elementary school, top-level junior high school."

"Inscriptions are a little more difficult, similar to integrated circuits. This thing is essentially a pure craft, requiring extremely high proficiency and hand-brain coordination. Otherwise, there is no way to use an engraving pen to draw so complicated on the material. circuit diagram."

"As for sublimation knowledge, as long as it is memorized, it is right. For me, it is the easiest."

Maybe it's because of rebirth, the reason of possessing a soul, or simply because the physical condition of this life is very good. Ian's thinking ability is far stronger than those 'classmates' who have not yet condensed souls.

However, he did not show impatience and asked Elder Pude to open a small stove for himself to speed up the learning progress.

Because what he lacks now is not time, but stability.

Ian is very clear that the stronger the potential he shows, the higher the treatment he will receive. After knowing his talent in alchemy and inscriptions, Viscount Grant even came to a class and asked him about some basic knowledge he had recently learned.

After getting a clear answer, the nobleman looked at Ian with admiration, but also with a cautious mood, which means that Ian has psionic power and can perceive the subtle to almost invisible thoughts.

Since then, Ian has not shown any further intelligence.

- It's too late.

In Port Harrison, it's enough to be a normal genius, and it's dangerous to go too far.

Instead of being excellent, it is better to be a little rotten to be comfortable.

And while Ian was studying hard.

Outside the city, the imperialists and the natives were fighting more and more fiercely, but neither threatened the core of the two sides.

The rear of the Sequoia natives has never been disturbed, and there is a steady stream of material and manpower replenishment, and the official roads on the Harrison Port side are also very closely protected, originating from the provincial capital, and even the aid materials from the center of the empire. Delivered in succession.

I heard that in the early autumn, another batch of support materials from the imperial capital will arrive.

According to the propaganda of the Viscount Mansion, when the caravan arrived, it was the moment when Harrison Port broke the balance of power and defeated the natives.

In short.

Today's Ian has enough time to adapt to this strange, but gradually familiar Terra continent.

Everything was on the right track, and just like this, he began an intensive study that lasted for more than a month amid the war.

During this process, many students who just learned the most basic gunpowder crystal dust production and alchemy artillery-related inscription repairs were hurriedly transferred to the front line... And this is exactly what Viscount Grant wanted.

Only Ian, from start to finish, completely completed this more than one month crash course.

The tide ebbs and flows, time flies.

Today is the 766th year of the Terran calendar, September 19.