Above The Sky

Terra 768, November 25, afternoon.

New town area.

After two years of construction, Port Harrison's new city has begun to take shape, a solid stone bridge spanning the rushing river, reflecting the light gold sparkling water.

Located on the east side of the Ewok River, the large-scale alchemy workshop next to the bridge across the river is the center of the city. With white walls and golden eaves, it is five stories high. It is the only building in Harrison Harbor that is taller than the Viscount Mansion.

It is so special and naturally useful. The Thunder Guide Needle at the top of the alchemy workshop can absorb the abundant thunderstorms in Nanling for its own use, charge the core of the large-scale elements in the workshop, and become the second energy furnace in the city. In this way, the efficiency of metal smelting and foundry craftsmen in Port Harrison has nearly doubled, and the output of various alchemy materials and inscription facilities has also been greatly increased.

Surrounding this large alchemy workshop is a circle of related production facilities, such as the nearest furnace charge factory and oil wax workshop, kiln burning factory and stone masonry workshop.

On the outside is the Institute of Alchemy Inscriptions built by the paper mill and Viscount Harrison with huge sums of money... It is said to be an institute, but it is actually a small library, which contains some basics about alchemy and inscriptions. Books, elementary teaching may be enough, but not higher.

In the final analysis, there is simply no scholar who will come to the edge of the world in Port Harrison to carry out their own academic research.

But in any case, such research institutes must exist, and investment must be increased every year, otherwise, it will be absolutely too late to temporarily build them when needed.

Viscount Grant is indeed a noble with long-term vision, determination and perseverance, willing to pay and not immersed in non-female sex. The only drawback may be that male sex is not very taboo, and the tax is not low.

As for the outer periphery, there are large weavers, mills and sawmills that can take advantage of the surging water of the Iwok River, as well as an expensive outer city cistern.

Despite the fact that Port Harrison is located on the riverside, it is difficult to obtain clean water that meets the needs of alchemy.

Thanks to this large reservoir and the investment of several imperial capital businessmen, the original small brewery of the Gil family was quickly upgraded to a medium-sized winery, and a public bathhouse was also erected as a result.

As for these other livelihood facilities that should have been built long ago, it is entirely because Port Harrison has been competing with the indigenous people for control of the Iwok River in the past few decades. Destroyed mills and sawmills.

Riverside cities do not build water conservancy facilities, and the lost productivity is really high. It is no wonder that after defeating the natives, Viscount Grant immediately thought of building new urban areas to make up for these facilities.

Two years is not a long time, and all these facilities have not been completed. For example, the furnace charge factory and the masonry workshop have just completed a skeleton, and the bathhouse has just been completed. It is estimated that it will take another two weeks to put into use. .

But in any case, the lives of the residents of Port Harrison are getting better - there are even rumors that the old part of the city, which has no many people in the east, will start to be remodeled, and there will be a new market area, and a theater. And public clinics will be built there.

If all of this is true, then Viscount Grant can proudly announce that everything his father promised to all the immigrants of the empire, 'a port on the edge of the world, but with living conditions comparable to the city in the heart of the empire', will be in his hands. accomplish!

A small building next to a blacksmith shop and a paper mill.

【Shirocha miscellaneous goods】

A Bai Zhimin boy in a white robe slowly walked out of the door of the shop and looked around.

He was wearing a short black hood, and his long white hair was braided into a simple braid. The sun shone on him and the house through the thin clouds, bringing the heat of late autumn.

For Nanling, the four seasons are not distinct. Even in the coldest winter, the temperature cannot be kept below ten degrees, and it is usually maintained between fifteen and twenty degrees. However, it can also make the temperature around the mountain close to zero.

"Looks like there are no more guests."

Whispering to himself, Ian is not surprised, after all, who has nothing to do to buy groceries in a remote corner of the new city? The ones who really came were big clients who had been introduced to let him use psionic energy for identification.

Obviously, such customers don't come every day... Rather, there are only a few strange objects that can only be reassured by using psionic energy and professional appraisal.

After confirming that there were no guests, the teenager turned around, prepared to pack up, and then went home.

The shop sells some things for daily use, such as herbs for detoxification and heat removal, wooden barrels and pots, long ropes and fine nets, etc., and occasionally add some gadgets made by Ian himself, for example, some are not qualified. Certified cheap alchemical substrates and raw materials, and theoretically waterproof underwater glasses.

In addition to the major customers identified, there are also some craftsmen who want to practice alchemy and also come here to purchase materials. Although Ian's privately made materials do not meet the specifications, the quality is stable. The only disadvantage is that the quantity is not large enough.

Naturally, it wasn't these shelves that needed to be cleaned up. Naturally, someone from the city hall would come to clean up, and Ian walked directly to the second floor.

There are no compartments and walls on the second floor. Except for a few load-bearing columns, all are transparent. Several rows of wooden boards are nailed to the four walls, and rows of bottles and jars are fixed with wooden frames.

Inside the clean glass bottles are colorful, assorted catalytic substrates and alchemical materials, as well as some basic finished products.

In the center of the room is a large workbench.

Although there is nothing else on the workbench except a few books and notes, and some simple purification and synthesis instruments, it is far less than the workbench of those real alchemists full of expensive instruments such as vacuum distillation apparatus and metal crusher.

But that's an attitude.

A Harrison Harbor will do everything in its power to cultivate the attitude of an alchemist that truly belongs to him.

In the cognition of Viscount Grant, Ian's psionic energy can observe the weakness of the mountain master, and can also assist the young man to clearly observe various details of the alchemy process - Elder Pude took Ian to show that the young man' only needs to be seen once , after the double talent of psychic alchemy that can completely replicate the alchemy process', the aristocratic master had almost no hesitation, and decided to train Ian directly.

The research library in Port Harrison is completely open to him, free to borrow and copy, and the alchemy workshop is completely open to him to visit.

In return, Ian will serve Port Harrison for fifteen years after becoming an official alchemist, and at the same time become an appraiser under Viscount Grant.

The current Viscount Grant, because of the rapid development of Port Harrison, has a greater 'capacity' for all kinds of talents.

Bai Zhimin can develop and grow, and it is also his growth.

The sun is gradually setting.

The cool wind in the dry season of autumn and winter blows into the room from outside the window. After Ian organizes his books and notes, he looks up at the cloud scene outside the window-a distant place where the sea and the sky meet, a majestic cloud mountain stands on the zenith, and the brilliance of the setting sun sets its top floor. Cross over a layer of golden.

"No rain, no storm is good weather."

With a slight nod, Ian closed the window.

He went downstairs, closed and locked the shop door, and then went home.

No one would not keep an eye on the theft in the new urban area where the city guards patrolled from time to time, especially the gallows next to the stone bridge. Although there are few people dangling on it, it can be regarded as a deterrent.

Overall today, nothing special.

The fleet has not returned yet, and the hunters and herb collectors have not dug in the mountains. What precious things have been hunted, and there is no big news. The biggest joy in the past week is that an out-of-town adventurer was caught by a local fish in Nanling. Bitten the lower body.

He insists it was an accident in the water, a mistake made by being too young, but who doesn't know what he did.

No, today is a slightly special day for Ian.

Because, he just completed the first potion that he completed independently.

The potion of 'The Wave Singer's True Form'.