Terra 773 A.D., April 9.

In the early spring, the drought turned to the tide, the rain was frequent and thunderous, the official road was muddy and there was a danger of flash floods, and the caravans entering Harrison Port were significantly smaller.

But in recent years, with the emergence of new towns and several out-of-town settlements surrounding the port, the permanent population has grown much larger than ever.

Even without caravans, Port Harrison is still teeming with life.

This once sparsely populated Nanling frontier has finally gained some popularity as a regional business center.

Port Harrison, New Town, a caravan from the imperial capital is entering through the North Gate, along the riverside avenue beside the River Iwok.

They arrived with a large number of alchemical substrates and pre-treated raw materials that Harrison Port could not produce independently, and they would take with them all kinds of Southern Xinjiang specialties, as well as Warcraft materials that were cheap compared to the Imperial Capital.

【Platinum-Iridium Workshop】

Judging by the logo, it is the name of the caravan.

Far away from the frontier, there is no soil for the survival of Warcraft around the imperial capital, but it is also an economic and political center, and the strong and rich are emerging in an endless stream.

In such a market, the price of potions and Warcraft materials will naturally rise.

Harrison Harbor is the opposite, the frontier towns wrapped in layers of Warcraft dense forests lack all the resources and wealth that a civilized society should have, but Warcraft materials and all kinds of fur resources are not difficult to obtain, so that they are even a little cheap.

Long-distance trade between the two is extremely difficult and dangerous, but the benefits are equally enough to ignore all the difficulties and dangers.

The main body of the caravan, the gray dromedary camels, slowly raised their feet, this desert creature that originally lived in the Great Desert of the Flying Flame Land was not well suited to the humid environment of southern Xinjiang, so that the fur was a little knotted and wilted.

However, their speed is not slow, and the thick, hard paws of the camel beast are said to be able to trample on carbon fire, and even the far-flame sand that is large enough to boil water cannot harm it.

A young boy with a hooded face covered, vaguely protected by several tall guards, followed the caravan and looked curiously around the city, unlike anything he had ever known before.

Although the walls are low, and there is no shelter from the city defense array, the armor of the city guards is quite cheap.

But the enthusiastic cries of the city, and the sails of the ships that sailed from the far seas, were new to him.

"It's different from what my mother said, Port Harrison isn't that scary—the muddy swamps of the frontier area, the wild areas where bugs eat people, and the miasma jungle that will die if you're not careful, it's really too exaggerated."

He laughed happily, and then after hearing an old man next to him cough, he realized his faux pas: "Ah, I'm sorry teacher, I didn't look down on me, but everyone ......"

Sensing that it seemed to be darker and darker the more he explained, the boy immediately coughed lightly, and his face tensed.

The boy's words did not affect the guards around them, and they just moved forward in silence.

"The last time I came here was fifteen years ago, when Port Harrison was a city in the mud, not as bad as your mother said, but it was a very bad environment, and there were natives who were ravaging it."

On the contrary, the leader of the caravan came to the young man's side, he looked around, and said with some emotion: "Ayers, this guy is really good, I thought that he would give up governing the territory a long time ago and enjoy it wholeheartedly, but I didn't expect that he was just waiting for the opportunity to do so, but now as soon as he has the opportunity, he will burst out with amazing potential." ”

"Ethan, how do you feel? You've never been out of the Quino Plains before, have you? ”

The man and the old man beside the boy looked at each other, nodded to each other, and then looked at his nephew with a smile.

He stretched out his hand and patted the blonde boy on the shoulder: "It's the first time you've gone out and you're so far away from home, do you feel bad?" ”

"It's not bad, uncle, thanks to the teacher who took me to the Fog Yarn Rainforest for three months." And the young man said unexpectedly calmly: "Although I am also a little afraid that I will not be able to bear the hardships of the journey, but now it seems that I have not been spoiled by the environment of the imperial capital. ”

"That's good."

The man nodded in satisfaction, he turned his head sideways and looked down the river avenue to the dock at the end: "You have a heavy task this time...... Don't forget what your parents expect from you. ”

"Esengard, you are already half an adult, and you can't discredit the glory of the family."

To this, the boy replied solemnly: "Yes, uncle. ”

At this moment, the sea breeze blew, and a dense flock of seagulls took off from the shore and headed for the trees farther away, attracting everyone to look up.

In the turquoise sky, a shadow passed quietly, and the rain clouds moved swiftly in the sky.

With it came a quiet drizzle.

The wind was getting stronger.

Jingle bell, jingle bell.

A street near the riverside pier in the new town, a half-new, two-story building, the wind chimes hanging from the windows jingle in the sea breeze.

"The wind is blowing."

The white-haired boy looked up at the window, then got up and closed the window, causing the bell to disappear.

Soundproofed double glazing silences the room, and Ian, who is now 14 years old, sits in his studio and begins to work with bated breath.

The workshop on the second floor of the White Room Groceries is very different from four years ago, in addition to the rows of alchemical raw materials and semi-finished substrates placed on the four walls, there are many complex instruments and large storage cabinets.

On the four walls and on the sides of the various instruments, a variety of manuscript papers are pasted in each place, some of which are instrument operating rules, and some of which are experimental plans that change from time to time.

On the workbench located in the center of the second floor, there are manuscript papers and schematic diagrams written in upright fonts at the front end, and at the back end there are common tools for inscriptions such as cutting knife board files, inscription pens and light ink.

Several half-dismantled and broken clocks, a completely disassembled alchemical firebolt, and a few mechanical parts and blueprints of unknown use were placed aside.

An apparently handmade telescope sits in a translucent crystal box and is pressed against several worn-out notes and books that are often flipped through as paperweights.

On the wall directly in front of the workbench are two hand-drawn 'maps', one with topographical and nautical charts around Port Harrison, and the other with a star map of the Southridge area, each with its brightness and character.

It's just that this star map is extremely sparse, and most of the stars have been crossed out.

On the workbench, on top of the silver metal armor, an old lithographic pen was clenched by a slender hand.

The white-haired and blue-eyed boy held his breath, the output of the lithography pen was stable, and the subtle and dense electric light formed a white arc of light on the tip of the pen.

He turned his wrist intently, slowly drawing lines across the nail plate, resulting in a fluid and complex multi-geometric pattern.

These patterns are complete and fluid, with a rhythmic sense of order, and the degree of stability is almost the level of high-precision machine tools in previous lives.

After a while, by the time Ian exhaled softly and raised his wrist to raise his pen, the intricate geometric patterns on the nail plate were complete, but that wasn't the end of it.

The boy took out a bottle of light ink with a lily motif printed on the table, carefully used a test tube to draw a certain amount of light blue fluorescent ink from it, and then aimed it at the nail plate, where he had originally inscribed it, and dripped the light ink off.

Smack.

As the light and ink drip and merge into the nail piece, a faint stream of pale blue light rises from these lines, and then quietly dims.

The originally inconspicuous armor piece, at this moment, also glowed with a faint light on the outer layer that was difficult for ordinary people to see, giving people the feeling that it had become much tougher and difficult to destroy.

From determining the material to finalizing the inscription; to conceive the overall structure and stabilize the effect of the inscription; and the final completion of the pen, the light and ink enlighten.

The boy picked it up with satisfaction and looked at it.

"Not bad." He said.

Until now, it has been considered to have completed the most basic 'Aether Armament Impact Armor'.