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

In terms of redwood forests, more than 150 stalwarts hunters were mobilized to raid more than 17 fishing villages along the coast, burning down more than 20 fishing grounds and shellfish breeding factories, and seven shamans and great shamans led the team to completely destroy the two border villages located in the brown elm forest and the rain stream forest, killing more than 200 innocent villagers.

Port Harrison launched a counterattack on the same day, the port guard took each guard tower as a node, captured and killed 21 hunters, and the next day used alchemy artillery to bombard all the indigenous settlements on the banks of the Iwok River in the west, causing a large number of casualties, but also using rare flammation agents, creating a number of forest fires in retaliation.

For a short time, all hunting and medicine collection operations around Port Harrison were suspended, and all the surrounding villages turned into a defensive posture.

In contrast, all the indigenous tribes moved to the northwest near the Baisson Mountains, and the two sides engaged in sporadic but fierce offensive and defensive battles against the upper strongholds and villages of the Iwok River, resulting in casualties.

In the absence of the Totem Lord, Harrison Harbor's sea power is overwhelmingly superior, and the natives cannot interfere with the fishing industry, so for now, the situation in the city is relatively stable, and all residents have long been accustomed to this kind of large-scale conflict that will come once in more than ten years.

However, in the past, conflicts between the Natives and Port Harrison have mostly stemmed from the extremely rare potion of some kind, or the ownership of rare Warcraft materials, and sometimes the war has been caused by the accidental death of important people on both sides......

All in all, there were fights in the past, and everyone knows why they fought.

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

It is rumored in the city that the sacred tree of the natives is about to bear fruit, so it needs to be watered with blood; Some people also say that the indigenous people have eaten too well in recent years, the population is too large, and the redwood forest can no longer afford to support it, so they must fight and die some of them; It is even said that the indigenous shamans foretold the impending catastrophe, and that the present battles and deaths are only part of the avoidance of the catastrophe......

Everyone was very interested in this kind of topic, especially the people in the city who had no work to do, and were hunters and herb pickers who often dealt with the natives.

Even though some of them were drafted into the convoy to fight against the natives, many of them still stayed and spent their time chatting about such rumors every day.

Ian is different, he's not so idle.

In fact, in recent times, he has been busy with his feet not touching the ground.

In addition to the daily chores such as grocery shopping and cooking, firewood, rice, oil and salt, Ian needs to exercise his physical fitness every morning, continue to exercise his physical fitness and physical flexibility after breakfast, and then have lunch and condense the essentia.

Ordinary Terra people usually eat two meals, and only three meals can be provided when the family has a lot of money to spare and the funds are healthy, but not to mention the amount of money left behind when Orsna, Hilliard and Elder Pud have given Ian a considerable amount of money and resources, so in terms of eating, Ian has not fallen behind at all, and he has eaten quite well.

But again, the intensity of his studies is quite large.

After refining the essentia in the food, around 3 p.m., Ian went to a house owned by the City Hall to learn alchemy and inscriptions with the local blacksmiths, alchemists, and some of the White Folk in Port Harrison.

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

However, no one will mock 'what a child knows', because his identity as a psyker has been announced by Viscount Grant and Elder Pud.

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

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

While everyone was still memorizing and trying to memorize the vast number of alchemy substrates and the basic principles of the inscriptions, Ian was already able to use instruments to perform simple matrix extraction under the guidance of Elder Pud.

——Simple separation and purification, elementary school chemistry experiment.

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

Ian does have some deficiencies in practice, but with the condensation of the source species and the control of the body after breathing, he is at least not the worst.

After the alchemy class, it was already about six or seven o'clock in the evening, and when he returned home, he not only needed to take care of his younger brother, cook dinner, but also continue to exercise his physical fitness.

As soon as he feels tired, Ian will perform a breath guide technique to calm the essentia in his body, and then wait until nine o'clock when Hilliard returns to study the other party's various advanced sublimator classes until he sleeps.

At the end of the day, Ian felt that he was more fulfilled than when he took the engineer certificate, and this life intensity was at least three times that of the college entrance examination, even with his spirit, there was 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 get himself one step closer to his dream.

And now, when he came to another world, all the knowledge, whether it was alchemy, inscriptions, or sublimated common sense, every one of them made him feel relish, the unknown that he had never been exposed to on earth.

Just knowing is enough joy to know, let alone learning these things that you already love, which is a pleasure at all.

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

"Basic alchemy, which is essentially chemistry, although there are more catalysis and synthesis content that has never been seen on the earth, but as long as you accept this setting, the difficulty is the entry level of primary school, and the top of the sky junior high school."

"The inscription is a little more difficult, similar to an integrated circuit, this thing is essentially a pure craft, which requires extremely high proficiency and hand-brain coordination, otherwise, there is no way to draw such a complicated circuit diagram on the material with a carving pen."

"As for sublimating knowledge, as long as you memorize it, it's right, but for me, it's the easiest."

Maybe it's because of rebirth, having a soul, or simply because his physical condition in this life is very good, Ian's thinking ability is far stronger than those 'classmates' who haven't condensed their souls yet.

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

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

Ian was well aware that the more potential he showed, the higher the remuneration he would receive, and after learning about his talent for alchemy and inscriptions, Viscount Grant even made a point of visiting a class to ask him about some of the basics he had recently learned.

After receiving a clear answer, the nobleman looked at Ian with a look of appreciation and a hint of caution, which means that Ian has psychic energy and can perceive the subtle and almost invisible thoughts.

Since then, Ian has not shown any further intelligence.

- Too much.

In Port Harrison, it's just a matter of being an ordinary genius, but if you go too far, it's dangerous.

Rather than being outstanding, it is better to put a little rot in order to be comfortable.

And while Ian was reading a group of books.

Outside the city, the imperials and natives were clamoring fiercely, but none of them threatened the core of either side.

The large rear of the Redwood natives has never been disturbed, there is a steady supply of materials and manpower, and the official roads on the Port Harrison side are also very well protected, and aid from the provincial capitals and even the central government of the empire is being delivered one after another.

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

According to the Viscounts' Court, when the caravan arrived, it was the moment when Port Harrison broke the balance of power and defeated the natives.

In a word.

Now Ian has plenty of time to get used to this unfamiliar but gradually familiar continent of Terra.

Everything was on the right track, and in this way, he began to study intensively for more than a month in the midst of the war.

In this process, many students were hurriedly transferred to the front line after learning the most basic gunpowder crystal dust making and the repair of inscriptions related to alchemy artillery...... And that's exactly what Viscount Grant wants.

Ian was the only one who completed this crash course for more than a month from beginning to end.

The tide ebbed and flowed, and time flew by.

It is now the year 766 of the Terra calendar, September 19.