Bladefang didn't tell the other trolls about the looting and war in the first place, which only scared the tribe until it actually grew to a certain extent.

Therefore, for a long time to come, the tribe remained peaceful.

From the outside, at least, nothing seems to have changed, with hunting and gathering activities maintained, and occasional traditional 'friendly matches' with surrounding tribes to retrieve some useless 'metal-like metals'.

But this is only the surface, everything is subtly changing.

In the tribe, strange trees have been spawned one after another by the witch doctors.

Most of them are the 'refrigerator trees' that have been previously studied;

A small part is the 'fruit tree' cultivated using the derivative technology of the former.

In the process of developing the 'Refrigerator Tree' before, the witch doctors unearthed a lot of plant-related runes, and although some of the runes became a chicken rib or even an obstacle to the development of the 'Refrigerator Tree', it did not prevent them from being able to shine in other directions.

For example, the part of the rune that corresponds to the 'fruit'.

Plants have different forms of seeds, and the fruits that trolls collect on a daily basis are one of their manifestations.

The witch doctors use magic to induce the growth of plants, and when the plants grow to a certain extent, they stop most of their growth ability and transfer the nutrients that were originally used to thicken and heighten to cultivate fruits;

This is not enough, the 'fruit' part of the fruit becomes big and solid under cultivation;

The part of the 'seed' has been emasculated with a lot of self-preservation abilities that evolved in order to adapt to 'savage growth'.

For example, in the past, they had to be transported to distant places by animals to find suitable land for growth, so there were structures such as 'anti-digestion' and 'fur hooks'.

But nowadays, these are no longer needed, the fruit is harvested as soon as it is ripe, and any overly complicated parts of the seed become an unnecessary burden.

Because for the tribe, how to cultivate enough abundant fruits with limited nutrients is something that should be considered.

Based on these studies, the 'fruit tree' was developed.

It seems that the vast majority of progress will not be isolated.

With the advent of the 'fruit tree', the need for space became inevitable, but the tribe was crowded enough to immediately conjure up an open space.

Naturally, the trolls turned their attention to the forest, and they wanted to cut down all the trees around them, turning them into charcoal, or cutting them all into materials for preservation.

However, just the existing vacant land has slowly appeared after many generations of trolls, so how can it be possible to develop the surrounding area in a short period of time?

No matter how powerful the trolls are, they can't pull out those thick trees that have grown for an unknown number of years bare-chested....

As a result, the advancement of tools has become an urgent need.

The troll tribes don't have saws, of course, but now that they have magic, it's possible to make plants change their traits, at least to a certain extent.

The concept of saws and axes was coined by Bladefang, and was created by witch doctors through 'plant spells'.

Idle warriors who had been given new tools and relieved of the hunting pressure by the 'Refrigerator Tree' began to cut down trees in high spirits.

But soon, something was wrong with the warriors...

'What the hell, logging tools are better than weapons?' How can this work? ’

With this in mind, they quickly came up with the idea of updating their weapons and made requests one after another.

Previously, it was not possible to hunt food in large quantities at one time, both as an effect of hunting efficiency and as a natural limitation in food storage.

And now, with the advent of the refrigerator tree, the tribe has made a breakthrough in stockpiling food;

Those who restrict hunting are naturally left with a matter of pure efficiency.

The problem of efficiency can be partially solved by technical means.

Therefore, the warriors' demand for weapon innovation was completely reasonable and necessary at this time, and the witch doctors naturally had no way to refuse.

Then offer it.... Throwing spears, greatswords, shields, and spears made of hardwood, all of which were already in existence or new, were created and distributed by the witch doctors.

The warriors got new weapons, and they were really more efficient, bringing back a lot more prey each time.

But soon the witch doctors discovered that the weapons were different from tools such as saws and axes, and that the wear and tear was too fast and severe, and after a few battles, only a few of the throwing spears thrown out and the swords that were cut on the beasts were intact.

There is no way, if it is broken, it will be repaired, and if it is gone, it will be renewed, so that the soldiers will naturally be satisfied, and their enthusiasm will become higher and higher.

But when it comes to the witch doctors, it's not like this, once or twice is fine, but as time goes by, their physical strength is drained again and again, and their time is gradually occupied, they gradually realize that the current plan is not advisable.

So what to do? The way to solve the problem has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and we will continue to study it.

First, they selected a tree that was already excellent in terms of hardness and toughness, and took its seeds and cultivated them from scratch according to different schemes.

In the meantime, while accelerating its growth rate through spells, it also continuously strengthens its hardness and toughness through runes, and tries to find a balance between the two as much as possible.

In this way, I finally got the 'steel tree' and the most suitable material to turn into a weapon at this stage.

But this is not enough, no matter how good the 'Steel Tree' is, but due to the natural properties of the tree, the tribe's processing ability, etc., the part suitable for becoming a weapon is limited to the core of the tree.

As for other parts, either because of structural defects or because of shape factors, they can only be reduced to leftovers.

Therefore, if you want to obtain materials, you can only cut wood for coring, and the utilization rate is extremely poor.

This means that witch doctors still have to spend time to spawn and change.

Not only does this take up a lot of time, but it also adds a few logging-like processes.

For the tribe, it's better to use weapons made directly by the witch doctors.

Faced with this situation, a nimble witch practitioner, seemingly influenced by the high degree of separation of the functional areas of the 'refrigerator tree', asked if this design concept could be applied to the steel tree.

As he said this, the other witch doctors snapped up and made a more radical change - integrating the weapon's forming stage into the steel tree.

In other words, the 'Steel Tree' will not only be responsible for providing materials, but will also take over the troublesome tasks such as grinding and splicing, and truly become a 'tree that can grow weapons'.

In this way, under the influence of the design concept of 'not causing trouble to yourself as much as possible', the new 'Steel Tree 2.0' was proposed, and after a period of research, it was successful.

In version 2.0, the strength and toughness of most areas of the steel tree have been adjusted back to the category of normal plants, but the trunk part has been transformed into an 'openable growth bin';

Most of the nutrients obtained by the trees will be used to 'make' weapons in the 'growth chamber';

Also, when the weapon is 'ripe', it can be removed by 'opening the door' without harming the tree itself.

In this way, the nutrients are concentrated in the usable, renewable part, so that it is no longer a one-time thing, and the problem of utilization efficiency is solved.

In addition, although it is quite slow, the whole Steel Tree 2.0 can continue to grow taller and thicker over time because it retains a certain growth ability;

The 'growth chamber' will also increase its own production capacity with the growth of other functional areas, even if this growth cycle will be quite long.

In fact, at this point, the research is enough to be called successful in terms of the needs at this stage.

But some of the witch doctors were not satisfied, and they set their sights on a new direction - how to make the changed traits manifest in the next generation of plants.