2. Journey

The alchemy speedboat was driving at high speed on the Iron Tree River. The cruising speed of the www.biquge.info is more than 25 kilometers per hour. This is still the case that the accompanying alchemists kept the alchemy circle's output to a minimum in order to save the magic dust.

There were six people on the speedboat. The East trio sat on the port side, and on the starboard side sat the alchemy guild trio headed by a tall, lanky and serious alchemist.

The official alchemist Ewing Gade, his apprentice Báb, and the bodyguard Sarkozy.

The girl and her father sat with their eyes closed. However, in Istan's opinion, the lord is faking sleep, and Sonia is using breathing to exercise the explosive ability of the heart and lungs. The apprentice, Babu, was so focused on maneuvering the speedboat that he was not allowed to touch the boat during the pre-sunrise sail. Ewing Warlock is clearly meditating, but Istan is suspicious of the effects of meditation on the ship. As for the bodyguard Sarkozy, he had already snored on the side.

The place where the six of them set off is called Bellafa, the largest town in the entire West Forest region and the Tieshu River Valley, with a population of nearly 10,000.

Shortly after Easter's birth, Belrafa organized a massive crusade against a migrating Hunting Claw superpack (100+ adults). The Alchemy Guild and the local knights jointly sent troops and organized a brigade of 1000+ people. Everyone has a ground repellent lizard as a mount, and there are hundreds of domesticated hunter lizards. The alchemists took out more than three hundred alchemy crossbows and a large number of potions in one go, and at the same time sent fifteen official members to cooperate in encircling and suppressing the beasts.

The encirclement went well, and on the first day, a large number of old and weak individuals were killed in their hunting claws, and it seemed that the next step was to besiege the remaining beasts and slowly eliminate them.

But the unexpected happened. The Claw of the Hunt is never just prey. They are cunning and clever hunters.

Coronia is not a friendly plane. The terrestrial species here are all reptiles and have three pairs of limbs, which is in line with the legendary dragons. This shows that they are not four-legged low-level wurms, but real ancient wurms with all kinds of strange supernatural abilities.

Certain Hunting Claws can become invisible in the shadows. This is an ability that humans have never discovered.

That night, bloodthirsty beasts infiltrated the human camp and launched a ferocious and stealthy attack before dawn.

They cut the throats of sleeping people with sharp claws without making a sound.

Sir Clint Wood was one of the few who did not let his guard down.

Young Clint Wood was always active in various raids, hunts, expeditions, and other activities to improve his abilities. Like this big hunt, of course, he will not be absent. When he noticed that the situation was abnormal, he shouted a warning and exposed himself to the siege of the Seven Hunting Claws. In just half a minute, one person and seven beasts were born and died. There are no tricks, just the most savage pounces, rammings, claws and bites. Against these are unpretentious stabs and slashes. There is no room to dodge, only a desperate fight.

Man dies, beast dies.

Until the Iron Body perk is obtained, even the strongest warriors will inevitably get hurt when facing multiple enemies. Moreover, the Claws of the Hunt are full of cunning and ferocious attackers, and they will attack places that cannot be protected by human armor.

Mrs. Wood, unable to accept this tragic fact, followed her husband one day half a month later. Easter Wood was left for only three months.

Little Wood, who was sent to her husband's friend West's house by her mother in advance, has been orphaned ever since. Because he left his mother and gave birth to a little baby who was seriously ill, he became a different person after he recovered from his illness.

Easter's nerves are super thick, and when he comes, he is at ease. Grow up healthily all the way in this strange world. As the only boy in Sir West's family, he was trained rigorously by Sir West. Eleventh level warrior three stars. This is the current state of affairs in East.

Systematic and scientific training, adequate nutrition, excellent teachers, and super sparring partners. Easter's warrior rank reached level ten at the age of fourteen, met the requirements for a knighthood, inherited his father's title, and became a respected knight.

The daughter and adopted son are such excellent young people, and Lord Red, who has no son, continues to work the one hand, and on the other hand, he hits the idea on his grandson.

This was the beginning of East's nightmare. Seemingly dissatisfied with this "weak" "little boy", Sonia intensified her sparring. Easter's defense capabilities skyrocketed. As far as he could tell, a defensive specialty was about to take shape.

Esther looked at the girl who was exercising. She has clearly inherited the virtues of both parents, but her body is more like her mother, she is petite and cute, only one hundred and sixty centimeters tall. There is a terrifying strange power in this petite body. Esther uses a long-handled battle axe, which requires a lot of arm strength and waist and leg strength, but even so, when wrestling, he is often subdued by Sonia in an instant.

After marrying her, how to boost her husband is a problem.

After fifteen years of living together, there is no difference in behavior between Esther and the inhabitants of this plane. The only thing he didn't get used to was this, a plane that didn't have any metallic minerals. Coronia does not produce any metals.

There were no copper, no iron, no tin, no metal that could be used for casting. The utensils and utensils used in daily life are ceramics except for woodware. The Westers didn't even have a metal weapon. Esther also only has a magical metal weapon that is inherited from his family.

Five thousand and five hundred years ago, the Coron family organized the first 5,000 plane immigrants to arrive here. Everyone was amazed by the richness of the land. Everywhere is precious high-grade wood, covering more than ninety percent of the entire plane's land. Expensive magic trees such as magic yew, golden leaf cedar, and anti-magic oak are all over the mountain, and there are even legendary tree species that have never been heard of.

Logging became the work of all immigrants who first arrived in Coronia. The thriving plane trade lasted for a thousand years. After the discovery of a large number of shallowly buried gem veins, Coronia became the promised land of legendary wealth. Blood chalcedony, fire agate, opal, ruby, sapphire, emerald, countless gems came from the ground to the earth like ordinary earth. During that millennium, it is said that the value of gemstones across the multiverse has dropped by one-fifty.

In those years, Void ships from different planes came to Coronia every week to trade. Wandering knights, adventurers, landless peasants, and alchemists who coveted the unusually cheap magical materials of the place arrived in Coronia in boatloads. They dig gems, cut down forests, hunt animals. The ferocious carnivorous ancient wurm group has become their only threat, but the ancient wurm, which is full of primordial magic, cannot resist the crazy desire of humans to get rich.

However, the sky is unpredictable. Four thousand five hundred years ago, the void between the planes was distorted, and all plane trade was interrupted. Subsequently, there was a great oscillation of the plane, and the plane coordinate system collapsed. Plane travel becomes a great voyage to the Void. Whether you can find a plane or not, and what there is in this plane is a matter of luck.

The next five hundred years were dark. Lost in the vast amount of supplies brought by the dimensional trade, Coronia fell into chaos. Suddenly, the country based on logging and mining faced a food crisis, lacked tools, and the beasts fought back, and a large number of settlements collapsed, and many people starved, sickened, and killed by the beasts in the forest. The population plummeted from its peak of 15 million to 1.3 million.

The final solution to the crisis is to rely on a large number of alchemists trapped in Coronia. Under the leadership of the great alchemist Edward Eric and his brother Alphonse Eric, the alchemists used high-value gems to successfully craft magic crystals and their substitutes, magic dust, so that the energy output of the alchemy circle no longer depended on the mana of the warlock's individual mana, opening the door to the production of alchemy items in batches. To this end, the Koren family signed an agreement with the Alchemists' Guild to jointly own the plane.

The Great Frontier began. Relying on an abundance of alchemy items, the people have defeated the Claws of the Hunter, driven away the Mad Fangs, and even killed the Children of Dread. Large tracts of farmland have been cultivated. The land full of magic three crops a year makes people have enough food and clothing. The population is growing again, this time in a solid way. Today, the whole of Coronia has a population of 43 million.

Esther glanced at the tomahawk at his feet. This is a pure wooden weapon with a magic oak handle and an axe made of ironwood. Iron wood is the most essential part of the iron tree, and the hardness of Bunsen is not inferior to steel. The blade of the axe shines with diamond dust. This is a form of alchemy treatment called the Diamond Blade, which makes alchemy weapons much sharper than normal weapons.

Esther touched the short sword at his waist again, it was a real magical metal weapon. Thousands of years. Even with good maintenance, steel can rust and break. Magical weapons will also fall into mortal dust and become mortal iron. Only weapons made of truly magical metal will shine as if they were yesterday. And the scarcity of magical metal production makes each of these weapons unique. Most people who get their hands on magic metal will rack their brains to design its shape, then spend a lot of money to build it, enchant it, and then give it a name as a family heirloom.

The short sword in his hand is called 'Wood Vanguard', which is ironclad evidence that the ancestors of the Wood family have made great contributions to the Cologne family. This sharp sword is made of pure gold and mythril mixture, and when it comes out of the sheath, the gold is shining and the silver is shining, and the first time I saw East, I was almost blinded, so I gave it a new name - the pioneer of the local tyrant.

The appearance is a tyrant, and the inside is also a tyrant. This small sword has seven enchantments attached: Armor Piercing, Fortification, Damage Amplification, Lightning Grant, Dexterity, Dispel, and Vampire.

In Lord Red's words, such a sword was enough for three knight realms.

But Easter felt that it could only be used for murder and suicide. It is too short, only fifty-five centimeters long. To fight a murderous wurm with a weapon of this length, he didn't think anyone with a bad brain would do it.

His battle axe was two and a half meters long, and the swords of the maiden and her father were also one-meter-long fighting swords, with a half-meter long hilt, which could be wielded with one hand or with both hands. Such weapons can only be said to be sufficient, and many of their opponents are large creatures. Even a medium-sized hunting claw weighed a hundred kilograms, and three pairs of clawed limbs were generally more than a meter long, plus a claw of more than fifteen centimeters, and a huge mouth full of eighty-eight barbed teeth constituted a terrifying killing machine.

Ewing Gade opened his eyes and looked at his companion across from him, a subtle smile of contempt on his lips. A little white face like a playboy, two little milky hairy heads. The Jazz of Bellafa are not as good as the next generation. His status as a mentor in the Alchemy Guild is extremely high, so he knows many of the sordid disputes between the Coron royal family and the high-ranking members of the Alchemy Guild. In Coronia, which is prosperous and peaceful on the surface, the contradictions between the royal family and the Grand Karcists of the Guild are becoming more and more difficult to bridge. What is at stake in the future of Coronia. The Coren family is the discoverers of the plane. Alchemists are the saviors of the plane. Both sides believe that they have a natural plane dominance. Among them, the Cologne family sent exploration fleets to the Endless Void soon after the great shock of the plane subsided and the Dark Ages ended. The fleet carried a large amount of supplies and went on a half-way expedition to try to find the original mother plane. After all, although the Koren family is the king and hegemon in Coronia, the real foundation of the family is still in the mother plane.

The alchemists didn't want the Koren family to be reunited. With the help of their mother-plane peers, the Koren family will have the potential to completely overwhelm the alchemists and gain complete dominance of the plane. Warlocks aspire to develop independently and explore the mysteries of alchemy without restrictions. Therefore, all kinds of non-cooperation, dragging their feet, pig teammates occur frequently.

The Koren family saw it in their eyes and remembered it in their hearts. They couldn't turn their faces with the alchemists at this time, so they could only hold on silently, failing again and again, and trying again and again. They believe that sooner or later they will be able to contact the parent plane. By that time everything will be settled.

The journey is boring and long. From Bellafa to the town of Iron Tree River, the meandering river is 280 kilometers. The lush trees on both sides of the river are more than 30 meters high, and the roar of wild beasts can be heard from time to time in the forest. Even with Superman's perception of Easter, he can't see through the world behind the tree wall. Animals are occasionally seen drinking from the river. When they see a speedboat, they will burrow into the woods like a fly.

The jerky prepared by Lady Serra is made with the most delicious tenderloin of the earth lizard, and it is flavored with a variety of spices. Each piece has a kilogram. Growing up, this was one of East's favorite foods. When I was a child, I fought with girls a lot in order to grab food.

At noon, the alchemist offered to share food and drink, and Sir Red brought out the jerky, which was praised by the apprentices and guards. Esther was eating happily when he looked up and was suddenly stunned.