Chapter 204 Magical Changes

Homme was a serf - but he was not born as a serf, earlier he was a miner in a mine.

miners, not slave labor.

There are two types of people who work in mines: miners with free bodies and slave workers without freedom. The former are free people who voluntarily go to dangerous mines to "dig stones" in order to support their families, and the latter It is the private property of the slave owners of the mine, and is equivalent to the tools and livestock in the mine, but the two are in some ways the same - both are consumables that can die in the mine at any time, and no one cares after death. That's it.

Holm's loss of freedom was dramatic: he wasn't a "safe" miner, preferring to find something new—whether it was new ore or a mine—rather than digging for stone in a mine. Plants, in short, as long as they are new things. At this point, it is often made fun of him that his ancestors might have been of some sort of dwarven blood, but Holm has always embraced the teasing. He was working in the mine, and all day long, he thought about whether he could dig some great treasures in the ground, and finally one day, he really "dug" out "treasures".

He came across a scene where the mine owner's wife had an affair with a foreman at the mine.

It is very simple for the overseer to kill one or two miners or slave laborers. As long as they use reasons such as a mine collapse afterwards, there will be no problem. Holm has even seen such a scene with his own eyes, so he chose the first time. Escape - this escape, and never return home.

After being a refugee for a year, he settled in the old Cecil Land. The previous Viscount Cecil did not expel him, but he had to rely on selling himself as a serf to seek survival.

Under normal circumstances, this is the whole content of his short and miserable life - after being locked in the land, the life of serf Holm will not change, there will be no new opportunities and hope, and he will bear the heavy burden imposed by the landlord. Pressure, crawling in the dirt all his life, as a serf for the remaining ten years, or fifteen years of his life, and if he gets lucky (or unfortunate) with an offspring in the process, so does his offspring. He will inherit the identity of a serf, and will live under the whip of the landlord from generation to generation, and the experience of being a miner in his early years and the small, restless curiosity of his youth will one day completely disappear in his memory. middle.

But after that disaster, everything changed.

The old Cecil is gone, the lord is gone, the land is gone, the new lord came out of the legend and led the survivors to build a new home at the foot of the dark mountains, facing a brand new land and full of secrets In the Dark Mountains, the lord promulgated one incredible new decree after another, and the serf Holm was rewarded for his participation in trap-making in the "defense battle" in the fall, and he became free again, even more than Free people are freer.

The lord allows the territorial people to do a variety of jobs according to their personal strengths, and rewards anyone who works hard. On the bulletin board in the town center, new recruitment notices are posted almost every day, and anyone in the territory who wants more subsidies Anyone with a household can respond to the call of the lord through this channel-for people in this era, it is an incredible gift for the lord to open up so many jobs and pay, let alone now. It used to be a winter when you could only starve to death at home - so every time a new recruiting message is posted, countless people waiting to work (or to support their families) flock to find a job that suits them.

The vast majority of people on the territory were originally illiterate, and they could only listen to the soldiers standing in front of the bulletin board reading the above for themselves, but the soldiers would only start reading the above six hours after the new revelation was posted. ——In order to understand the recruitment content a few hours earlier, Holm has learned thousands of words in just a few months, so that he can stumblingly read the content on the bulletin board.

And at night school, there are not a few people like him who try to read with similar motives: the literate can know the details of the recruitment hours in advance and go to the personnel office of the Ministry of the Interior to find a clerk to sign up, and wait until those When illiterate people sign up, all positions are often full, and those who didn't try to read in the first place are now regretting it.

And Holm was very fortunate that he learned the language in time. When the lord announced to organize a new group of expeditions into the mountains, he immediately signed up: the number of people required for this team is not large, although it is a little risky, But the pay is higher than that of the technicians in the factory. Besides, there is still a small team of magic infantry in the team for protection. How big is the risk?

The newly organized expedition team entered the Dark Mountains from a new mountain road. Along the way, they saw many incredible mutant animals, plants, and stones. Holm relied on his experience in the mine, his fairly flexible brain, and the best The literacy level became the leader of the team (of course, another important reason for him to become the team leader was that he had been personally commended by the lord, which is a rare honor), and under his leadership, the team has changed from a loose texture. The peculiar "rough stone" with a lavender luster was found in the weathered mountain rocks of .

In the process, Holm's curiosity, which had been gradually worn down by life, gradually recovered...

Under the leadership of the soldiers, Gawain and Amber found the "exploration team stronghold" in the dark mountains. There was vigilance around the small camp, and Gawain saw the person in charge of the exploration team, a middle-aged man who was not tall but strong.

Looking at the other party's dark face and slightly hunched body, Gawain felt a sense of familiarity. The satellite spirit's memory was working well at this time, and he remembered that he really knew this person: the confrontation in the autumn In the aberration's defense of Cecil, a serf named Holm was rewarded for his outstanding performance, and in order to set a model, he also made a public commendation - it turned out that he was really right at the beginning.

"I remember your name is Hom," Gawain nodded to the serf-born resident, "You participated in this expedition?"

"Yes... Yes, my lord!" Hom didn't expect Gawain to remember his name, and suddenly felt a little frightened, "You personally awarded me a... a medal!"

"You're a little fatter than you were then, that's good," Gawain smiled and nodded, "You found the ore?"

"Yes, my lord," Holm tried to control his nervousness. He had already been on the podium once, and he was a little calmer than ordinary people. "The original spot is not far from here. I show you..."

On an open rock formation not far from the camp, Gawain saw several collection points excavated by the expedition team.

This potentially valuable ore is "buried" in such a shallow place.

Gawain came to the collection point and saw that the surface of the ores was covered with a thick layer of gray-white porous rock that seemed to have been weathered, and some ores with lavender or light blue luster were "inlaid" in them. It's like some kind of condensation nucleus.

"On the surface, there are very small pieces of ore. The more you dig down, the bigger the quality and volume of the ore. The ore veins that are really valuable for mining should still need to be dug deeply," Holm explained. Soft, weathered rock formations are not suitable for mining wells - they collapse easily, so it should be better to open a mine directly, and with Rebecca crystals, it is not difficult to blast the rock formation.”

Gawain nodded: "I saw the report you sent back. You have discovered many things that you have never seen in the outside world, and there are signs of mutation in animals and plants."

"Yes, my lord," replied Holm, "but this is the first time a mineral as large as this has been found."

Gawain let out a "hmm" and looked up slightly at the surrounding terrain. Seven hundred years ago, Gawain Cecil led his army to find a way in the dark mountains, and at that time, the place had not been affected by the magic tide. In Gawain Cecil's memory, there are no such strange things here.

They all appeared after the magic tide.

Amber took out his dagger, curiously picked out a piece of blue-purple luster in the excavated rock at one of the collection points, and placed it under the sun to observe: "What a strange thing, old... ...Gao Wen, is this what you said, the changes of natural substances under the influence of the magic tide?"

"The essence of the magic tide is the surge of extremely powerful magic power. Although this part of the magic power cannot be used by mortals, it can still have a profound impact on the natural environment," Gawain said casually, "Believe it or not, in the ancient deep blue well There are far more magic materials to be found in the ruins than here."

Amber's eyes widened: "How reckless people dare to go to mine there!"

Gawain shook his head, but did not answer her question.

He looked at the ore in front of him, but what he thought was more than the ore in front of him.

He once guessed that the magic tide might not just explode once.

The monitoring satellites left in the sky are obviously an early warning facility for the magic tide (or similar phenomenon). In the monitoring records of the company, it has also been observed that the civilization on the earth suddenly disappears inexplicably, and the entire ecosystem is shuffled and restarted from scratch.

In the "Satellite Age", his observations of the earth were incoherent due to serious "frame skipping", so many times he couldn't understand how the earth-shaking changes on the surface came about - blink of an eye, primitive man They built a magic cannon, and then blinked again, they lived in the tree hole again, and they also danced square dances around the bonfire wearing animal skins, and the geological landforms and plant distribution in the field of vision were also turned upside down. , there may be decades of devastating wars in the middle, or there may be seven, seven, forty-nine days of floods and tsunamis, but for the satellite essence that waits for a thousand years, this "quick and short" moment of disaster It's really hard to catch.

But something must be causing this "shuffle" - if there is no other answer, the only answer is the magic tide.

Demonic tides can cause changes in the properties of matter in nature, as evidenced by these unseen things in the Dark Mountains.

And even if the magic tide fades, these changed things will not return to their original state, but will solidify into a new material material - the ore found in the dark mountains can also prove this.

Then, if there has been more than one magic tide in the world, Gawain has reason to believe that most things in this world may have been affected by the magic tide.

He came up with one of the most daring conjectures ever:

Those magic materials, magic creatures, or ordinary soil and rocks that seem to have nothing to do with magic, were gradually shaped into what they are today in the baptism of the magic tide.

The magic tide is a kind of "world-shaping phenomenon" that will continue to emerge and still has no signs of stopping today.

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