The longer he spent in the outside world, the more Jonah felt that all his useful knowledge came from the book he had read out of interest, Geographical Estimation of the Western Continent, and that it was definitely not a proper job for an astrologer to look up at the stars instead of using his limited time to look up at the stars, but to immerse himself in the study of what was on the ground.

Thankfully, Mr. Koshawar didn't care much about what his apprentices did after they finished their homework, and Jonah had the opportunity to sneak a peek at a number of books outside of his major, including this geography book and, of course, a large number of knightly novels.

Colombo. Jonah vaguely remembers a short chapter in the Geographical Estimation about the aborigines of the north bank of the Holy River:

According to the historian J.J. Thomas in 638 (2276 years of continental unification calendar) published "The Formation of Western Races", Colombo people are an ancient people who migrated from the northern continent 22,000 years ago, and in the process of a large tribal division, the northern Colombo people settled in the red soil plain and combined with the local aborigines, and the blood fusion gave birth to the main ethnic group "Cosivet people" who constitute the 13 countries of the western continent today , while the southern Colombos moved south to the north bank of the Holy River and settled.

In the long history of the development of civilization in the western continent, the people of southern Colombo have continued the behavioral characteristics of their ancestors gathering, hunting, and living in rock-shaped hemispherical houses, rejected scientific and technological progress and cultural exchanges, and still do not use modern industrial products such as horse-drawn carriages (round wheels), matches, ironware, candles, etc., and maintain a primitive way of life and use the original tribal language.

In terms of faith, they maintain simple nature worship, regard the "other side" of the holy river as the highest and only deity in the world, and oppose any mortal direct or indirect contact with the river water in order to maintain the godhead of the holy river.

It is worth mentioning that the Colombo people's warlike nature and extremely high spear-throwing skills (even if it was a primitive spear with a simple wooden stick with a stone knife as the body of the spear, and a spear with sharp flint and beastly claws to make the tip of the spear) made the kingdom of Bazeral and its vassal states at the southern tip of the western continent awesome away, and the route from the southern continent to the western continent was thus blocked, until the western continent people mastered the custom of the Colombo people to hold hunting festivals twice a year, and established the port town "Cherry Ferry", and the bipartite passenger ships that operated twice a year allowed limited communication between the western and southern continents.

The next chapter is a geographical survey of the other side of the sacred river, piggybacking on the extremely expensive tickets and incidental smuggling of ferries in spring and autumn.

Because the goods of the southern continent sold in the western continent are from the whole world through the eastern and northern continents, and the selling price is often hundreds of times the cost price, there are desperate smugglers on the passenger ships that operate twice a year, they spend a lot of money to buy a ticket, and when boarding the ship, they try every means to stuff the musk, dragon horn grass, jade and crown purple gold that are special products of the southern continent into the inner pockets and boots of the coat to avoid the inspection of the guards, as long as they arrive safely in the western continent, the low-hanging fruit is waiting not far away.

Jonah shook his head. Next, the "Geographical Estimation of the Western Continent" seriously deviates from the topic of a conflict that occurred thirty-five years ago, when smugglers and mercenaries of the Chamber of Commerce engaged in a bloody battle of 500 people in Cherry Crossing, and the Kingdom of Bazeral nominally had jurisdiction over Cherry Crossing, but due to taboos against the Colombo people, Cherry Ferry did not have a garrison, and the long road through the Sukasa Gorge made it impossible for the Kingdom envoys to arrive in time.

During the battle, an accidental fire flattened the entire wooden Cherry Ferry, and according to survivors, the Colombo spear throwers ruthlessly attacked both sides in punitive attacks as smoke drifted over the holy river, easily wiping hundreds of people out of the world with flying spears.

After that, Bazeral and the Western Continent Chamber of Commerce had no plans to rebuild Cherry Ferry due to political and profit considerations, until the young Jelizavitan the Great of the Zavi Empire ascended the throne and launched a lightning raid on the vassal principalities, which involved the entire Western Continent in the war.

This protector is, of course, the blind, short, somewhat nagging daddy of the cabin owner.

This chapter was already vague in Jonah's memory, and one night when he was practicing the star array spell alone, he suddenly popped up in front of his eyes.

It turns out that Daddy has ruled Cherry Ferry for thirty years. Alone, guarding a huge town, facing the defeated army, the monsters and the Colombons, undefeated for thirty years, and likewise, not leaving Cherry for thirty years.

Jonah couldn't help but feel reverence and sorrow for his father.

"Hey, man, what are you thinking. Sibi asked.

"Nothing, don't bother me with my practice. Jonah replied.

They sat on the roof of room A51 for vigil. During the reign of the bright red sun Eucotel, the moon also turned a blood-red color, but the moonlight remained eternally silvery white.

The two of them sat on the eaves, their legs dangling in the air, and the low stone houses of Cherry Ferry stretched, and the distant scenery could not be seen clearly in the night.

"Brother, have you been to the river?" asked Sibi.

"Nope. Jonah replied.

In his hand he held a fist-sized moire quartz stone, on which the tip of a knife had carved deep and complex lines, and at this moment there was a subtle line of red light flowing slowly through the lines, like red mercury.

In the aftermath of the Sukasar Gorge, Jonah has been rethinking his role in battle, a mage should be a qualified attacker, the backbone of the battle, the weakest and strongest attack core of the team, as Elliott had taught him.

And he's just a bad guy who needs to be protected all the time, and he will use one or two weak attack spells and miss the target. After learning from the experience, Jonah realized that the most important thing was to increase the speed of his attacks, and he couldn't be more stupid to draw a star array pattern on the floor with someone else's finger, and he needed a fast and accurate spell-casting equipment. Start with this moire quartz stone.

Jonah stared at the stone, the energetic starline of the 30th star "Bear" in the first house and the 7th house 7th star "Boat" in his mind clearly crossed the night sky, passing through the middle of his body, and the little free starlight was absorbed by the star array in the stone along the mysterious trajectory, rotating and converging into a white-hot energy core.

This array comes from a practice problem in the Level 5 Astrologer's Apprentice Workbook (665 Edition), called "The Failed Streamer", which aims to explain how to achieve some of the functions of an advanced, complex, and powerful attack array "Streamer" in a simple way, because the energy flow paths of the two are interconnected.

A few months ago, Mr. Koshawar had assigned this problem to Jonah, but the astrologer apprentice was unfortunately defeated by the problem and drew a "failed streamer", after entering the energy, the red crystal as the carrier emitted a puff of green smoke and then "ping" into two halves, causing Mr. Koshawar to criticize him for a while.

Now, after just a dozen days and nights away from the tower of astrology, Jonah felt that his mood and spirit had grown greatly, and he tried to depict the star array again, and sure enough, he succeeded, although the stone in his hand was the most common carrier material. -- The best material he could find in Cherry Ferry.

"Would you like to see the fireworks?" Jonah asked, turning to Sibby.

"Of course I want to see it!" Sibby's green eyes sparkled in the night, like an excited cat.

Jonah nodded, clenched his fists, and threw the moire quartz into the distance with all his strength. The milky white stone tumbled and flew into the night sky, and then the star array that broke away from the controller became chaotic, and the highly compressed energy core squeezed through the barrier of the star array, forming a brilliant energy explosion.

"Bang!" A tumbling orange-red flame burst out of the starlight, with a pink aura produced by two shattered star arrays, and the light flame quickly expanded, illuminating the faces of the two people.

"Wow!" Sibby's eyes widened without blinking.

Circles of air ripples, barely visible to the naked eye, dissipated, the flames dimmed, and spilled into sparkling quartz powder, and the night returned to calm.

"What the are you doing?" yelled the guest in the guest room.

"Little Joseph in room A42, shut up if you don't want to lose your balls!" Sibby jumped up and covered his mouth with his hands in a loud voice.

Room A42 was immediately as quiet as a tomb.

"Dude, it's so pretty, one more and another!" Sibby turned and crouched down, staring at Jonah with a look of great anticipation.

Jonah wiped a drop of cold sweat from his forehead and replied, "When, of course ......" He felt that he could make about ten of these "failed streamers" in terms of mental exhaustion, which would be useful in battle. Of course, if he could solve the problem of stable storage, he could pour energy into more stones and send them to everyone to use as throwing weapons, just to think about it. Jonah himself knew that the star array that didn't need a manipulator was a high-end research content, and even his mentor was just getting a glimpse of it.

"Smack!" a second firework burst into the sky. This time, the star array was carried by black obsidian, causing the flames to turn dark red.

"Wow!" Sibby's face flushed.

"Boom!" the third firework opens. It is a yellow basalt with a bright lemon yellow color.

"Wow!" Sibby clasped his hands to his heart.

The fourth stone was a loose limestone, and because of its material, it began to leak starlight energy as soon as it left Jonah's hand until it was revealed, and smashed into the roof of the stone house opposite with a long tail flame.

"Cut. Sibi said dismissively.

"The moon is round. Jonah looked up and shifted the subject, as he laboriously pulled out the largest stone he had recently collected, a 25-pound red granite that had been carved with a large "Failed Streamer" star array.