Pap--pa-da-pa-ta--pa-pa-

The silent autumn day in the hidden border ushered in another majestic rain.

Raindrops from the sky hit the rooftops, waking up the sleeping botanists.

Finn opened his eyes and felt a little sore in his bones. Now in his seventies, he can't afford a rainy day, and only hopes that the solar energy will come out as soon as possible to roast his body warmer.

“……”

"Today is Lindsay's time to come."

Thinking of what he had to do today, Finn got up from bed.

He took a breath and rested for a while before putting on his robe and getting up from the house.

Finn inevitably sighed for a while.

Three years ago, when his student Lindsey first came to town.

With the strength of his old bones, he can still walk to the lord's manor across the town.

But now, the years have carved him deep into the bone marrow.

Without help, Finn would have had a hard time walking five hundred meters away to see farmland far away.

"The Illustrated Book of Plants of Volcano City (4)", this Lindsay has already studied; "The Sympathy of Life", this book is also; "Essentia Cultivation Cheats", this, he seems to have borrowed it last year to read it; "Mo Wen's Commentary", oh, by the way, it's ......"

After waking up, the botanist walked into the study.

He organized his bookshelves looking for what to teach Lindsay today.

The thought of his student brought a smile to Finn's lips.

Lindsay was a very smart kid, and might have called him a lad now.

The three years that this child came to the border town, he followed the awakened people in the town to learn knowledge and technology. At Finn, Lindsay did a great job and always made good progress.

According to what botanists have heard, he has been doing equally well in his studies under the other Awakened.

"If it weren't for the hidden frontier, this kid should really go to Volcano City."

Finn sighed quietly and finished preparing today's study materials.

At this time, he couldn't walk anymore.

He sat down directly in the study and recovered his physical strength, which was consumed very quickly and very slowly.

Wait until half an hour has passed.

He felt his breathing steady again, and he got up and went back to the front hall of the main entrance, listening to the sound of rain hitting the eaves, and his eyes naturally fell on the rain hat at the door.

"It's time to feed the daylilies......"

Daylily is the name of a hen.

Finn didn't originally raise poultry, but two years ago, Lindsay helped him build a chicken coop outside the house. Since then, picking up a few eggs has made Finn's life a lot easier.

This is something Finn, who was originally concentrating on the field of plants, does not think about and does not do.

Picking up the rain hat slowly, Finn walked out the door.

On the edge of the small courtyard, he stepped on the mud in the yard against the sky where the rain was beginning to weaken, and sprinkled millet and carrot granules on the daylily.

He wanted to see the chicken coop.

But the cold of the rainy day made Finn's waist so painful that he couldn't even bend down to check if there were any eggs in the coop.

"Daylily, you're also old, but be careful of rainy days."

Finn whispered a few words to the coop.

He saw the hen coming to peck at her, so he helped the rain hat and returned to the house.

"Ahem—"

Finn put down the hat and coughed twice.

He lit the fireplace, and when the light of the fire shone on him, he immediately felt a lot more comfortable.

Taking advantage of this momentum, Finn stepped aside and took a ladle of water and poured it into the kettle, and hung it on the fireplace.

Looking at the fire in the fireplace, Finn thought about his experiment again.

In the winters of these two years, the temperature has become colder and colder, and even the average temperature of other seasons has decreased.

Subtle changes are not noticeable to the person.

But for the crops planted in the fields, the situation is getting worse.

Finn's knowledge allowed him to foresee this, so he continued to do his research even as he grew out of age.

Because Lindsey would occasionally go out hunting with the hunting party.

He asked his students to find several wild hardy plants, grow them at home, and try to cross them with the few grains available.

It's a long project.

If things go well, and with the skills of Finn's School of Life, it may take seven or eight years to breed new hardy crops.

But that time seemed too long for Finn.

He could feel that his life was coming to an end.

This winter...... Perhaps this autumn was the last river that his old ship could sail on.

"I'm a man with no talent after all."

Finn shook his head with emotion:

"If you can sublimate your skills again and touch the boundaries of life, maybe you can complete it."

Far away, Finn is known to be a botanist.

But if it's in Volcano City, the stronghold of the School of Life, it's actually a title that can be seen everywhere, because it means the basic title of the Life Scholar's subordinate.

In the School of Life, only if the skill is sublimated five times can you earn the title of Life Scholar in Volcano City.

People in the first four stages can only focus on their own research directions.

Take Finn's botanist title, for example.

Woo woo –

After a long thought, the kettle on the fireplace cried.

Finn was awakened to his thoughts, and quickly lifted the kettle with a trembling hand and poured himself a cup of hot water.

His withered hands held the water glass in front of him, and his eyes fell on the slightly rippling water.

The old man, who had come to the end of his life, thought of something else.

own essentia.

Finn's essentia is the most common and widespread basal essentia among the awakened.

Among the other types of essentia, there is one path that is more special.

- essentia used by merchants.

Embarking on the path of merchant, the Awakened will extract essentia from their own body and lodge it on top of external objects.

It's like putting the energy core outside, but it doesn't prevent them from using their own skills.

At the same time, it can also allow the item that hosts essentia to obtain some magical effects.

So one day a long time ago, that changed.

A powerful awakened person who was about to die, abolished his skills and abilities, and poured the essentia accumulated throughout his life into a vessel by means of merchants, shaping it into a treasure to pass on to future generations.

This treasure has the power to tell the truth.

Even treasures crafted by a good forger rarely have this effect.

Finn was now wondering if he could achieve such a deed.

And as far as he knew, in the hidden frontiers, the only people who had mastered such techniques were churches outside the town.

"Maybe I should go to Lady Red Moon......"

Bang Bang

"Teacher Finn, I'm here."

Just then, there was a knock on the door of Finn's hut from outside.

He heard this familiar voice and looked up and smiled:

"Lindsay, you're here."

"The door is unlocked, come in, it's still raining outside."