Chapter 149: War Factory in the Forest
The difficulty of getting started with [Divine Healing] is much higher than that of ordinary ultimate-level spells, but compared with [Threading the Needle], it is just average.
With the help of the "intelligent brain" in learning, Ryan mastered this secret technique within a few days.
However, proficiency still needs to be improved.
The healing power of the beginner's [Divine Healing Technique] is like a small stream of mountain spring under the thumb. To reach the healing power of the great witch priest, which is like a surging river, it takes a long time to accumulate fighting spirit.
But because of the coordination of the "Gang Line" and precise treatment, there was no waste of Dou Qi. This was enough for Ryan to deal with some negative substances that could not be metabolized normally and accumulated in his body due to inhaling the "black fog".
Then, Ryan took off his gas mask and breathed in the air filled with thick black fog.
Even when meditating, he dared to use all his strength to activate "Breathing of Thunder", allowing thousands of pores to breathe in and out.
Just like a long drought finally ending in heavy rain, the body has an almost greedy demand for this extremely rich "abyss demonic energy".
Even when he was breathing normally, he could feel his fighting spirit growing automatically.
The edge of this black pit is truly a holy place for cultivation.
The fighting spirit in the sea of qi is rising to a new high. With the increase of fighting spirit, new "gang lines" can be split out.
Staying in the tribe, his fighting spirit increased tenfold, and he was sure that in a short time, he would be able to reach the point where "Qi would overflow".
He has the magic potion and magic cores, and he will try to break through the second gene lock and advance to [Life Tamperer] when his fighting spirit is full.
By then, the strength will increase dramatically again.
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In addition to his daily practice, Lei En was also working , which was to unify the "weights and measures" in the tribe!
The Coleman people have miraculous "pharmacy experience", and many of their pharmacy formulas, treatment methods, secret techniques... are areas that modern medicine has never touched upon.
Although the priests did not understand what substances did what at the microscopic level, their efficacy/medicine effects may not be reached in the current medical field for many years. The research on medicinal properties embodied the great wisdom of the Coleman ancestors.
Unfortunately, their way of inheritance through word of mouth and hand-in-hand teaching is too backward.
Ryan plans to unify the "weights and measures" and then turn the "experience" mastered by the technicians in the tribe into readable and inherited books.
He wanted to help the Coleman people calculate the amounts of solid materials that they had inherited for countless years, such as "a handful", "a lump", "a little bit", etc., accurately to the gram.
Determine how many milliliters the "one bowl" in "boil three bowls of water into one bowl" contains in the volume of the liquid solution.
For others, this would probably require a very large team to accomplish.
But for Ryan, who possesses an "intelligent brain", it is very simple.
Ryan only needs to watch the high priests and elders make the potion and explain it again... The system will automatically record it, with the timing accurate to the second and the temperature accurate to the degree...
Then all the necessary materials were weighed separately and recorded in detail.
At first, it was difficult for those veteran priests to understand that they didn’t need a teacher to teach them for ten or eight years, and they could prepare potions just by weighing and measuring...
This method seems like a fantasy no matter how you look at it.
But later, after Ryan used this method and sophisticated pharmaceutical instruments to replicate some simple formulas unique to their Coleman tribe, those elders and priests really believed that the magic potion inheritance could be passed down in this way.
A potion master can also take a completely unfamiliar recipe and make a potion according to the "precise measurements" on it.
Before this, this was completely unthinkable.
Because the potion masters of Coleman's lineage all have their skills passed down from generation to generation, and were all trained by their teacher.
It can be said that they don’t know how to make any kind of potion that the teacher has not taught them, even if the recipe is placed in front of them.
Because the temperature, reaction time, and amount of materials all depend on the teacher to demonstrate it again and again, and only then can they understand the concept that "can only be understood but not expressed in words".
It’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to touch… this is the control of temperature;
The smell is pungent, burnt, and smoking... This is the control of time;
It's all about feeling.
But potion science is a subject that is very difficult to get started with and requires very rigorous data. The more complex the formula, the lower the error tolerance. That kind of crude refining method will cause apprentices to waste a huge amount of materials.
Fortunately, the "Forest of Ashes" provided them with an inexhaustible supply of potion materials, otherwise the "witch doctor potion" tradition, which could be called a great inheritance, would have been cut off long ago.
Correspondingly, since inheritance depends entirely on "metaphysics", apprentices are required to have higher talents.
The reason why there are so few people in the tribe who can become potion priests is because not everyone can understand the teacher's "intuitive" level of usage.
But it must be said that among the Coleman family, those who can become potion masters have top-notch "comprehension" and "memory".
Of course, all this was strongly supported by the great witch priest Mafa.
The wise old man demanded that the entire tribe, from the warriors to the elders, must cooperate with Ryan.
Because he also saw that this war immediately exposed the drawbacks of their "oral inheritance" method.
After a large number of high-level priests died in battle, a knowledge gap immediately occurred.
Many newly ordained priests do not understand the exact meaning of the "professional terms" in the potion formulas recorded by their teachers.
This was almost a devastating blow to the rigorous subject of Potions.
The death of the priests in battle was a serious injury.
Once the precious potion formulas passed down by their ancestors are "lost", the Coleman people will truly lose their ability to produce blood.
And the high priest Wuduo no longer ran around.
She followed Ryan all day, helping him organize and record potion formulas and coordinating with tribal members to prepare them.
At the same time, several young and intelligent priests also began to learn the "common language" from Ryan.
If you fall behind, you will be beaten. This is a bloody lesson.
Coleman's "witch doctors" also became interested in "surgery"...
But everything has to start from scratch.
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On the other hand.
The Tusters were also very busy.
Originally, the witch doctors thought they had only saved an ordinary old man.
Although the Coleman warriors were polite to the two because of Ryan, this group of natural warriors who fought against nature and monsters had the idea of "only the strong will be respected" ingrained in their bones.
At first, almost no one paid attention to the old and the young.
Because his body and breath were so weak, so weak that even any child in the tribe could kill him.
But after one incident, the people in the tribe changed their minds completely.
The toxins that had troubled Tust for more than 30 years were cleared, and the witch doctors also helped him to regulate his body. The old man also wanted to reciprocate and give some gifts to the tribe.
He was good at machinery, but it was too early for him to come into contact with these warriors of primitive civilization .
So, he planned to start with weapons and armor.
The weapons of the Coleman clan, whether arrows, daggers or swords, are very primitive. They are either made of the bones of monsters or the hard stone they call "black cloud stone".
Although there is an enchantment, the effect is just so-so.
But compared to metal equipment, its plasticity, defense, penetration, toughness, etc. are much worse. It's not easy to get a few rare iron tools, which were found in the ancient ruins in the forest. I don't know how to maintain them, so they are worn out and used one by one.
The old man thought about custom-making several sets of metal enchanted armor, handy weapons and crossbows for the children of those witch doctors' families.
And it was also because of these equipment that a little barbarian warrior survived a hunt.
This allowed the barbarian warriors, who usually wore shorts and at most leather armor when hunting, to feel the effect of equipment for the first time.
With the "Alchemical Steel Wire Crossbow", an ordinary child can even shoot deadly arrows with penetrating power comparable to that of an adult's hard bow.
Later, when they saw Mr. Tust’s octopus robotic arm, they finally understood what the “power of technology” was.
The equipment made by the grandfather and grandson immediately became popular among the warriors in the tribe.
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Gratitude is something that grows stronger as you interact with each other.
It can be said that Mr. Tust was able to regain his life thanks to the Coleman family, and in return, he naturally devoted himself wholeheartedly.
The Coleman warriors had also gained a number of spoils of war, but except for a very small number of usable metal armors and swords, most of the sizes of the items were simply not suitable for their extremely long arm spans and heights.
Moreover, they did not have the smelting and forging technology to make secondary modifications to these unsuitable weapons and armor.
This also resulted in piles of loot gathering dust in warehouses, but being completely useless.
Now, thanks to grandfather and grandson Tust, these spoils were immediately put to good use.
Although there are no large-scale smelting equipment, there are inexhaustible coal mines and "high-fuel coal" in the forest!
Grandpa Tust and his grandson taught the Coleman warriors how to build earthen kilns for steel mills. They used high-energy coal and witchcraft to create a steel furnace with a temperature high enough to melt most metals.
Because there are so many "high-energy coals" in the forest, like mushrooms, you can pick up a few pieces just by going there.
At first, Tust and his grandson only helped the barbarian warriors to make protective gear and weapons, but later they gradually turned to manufacturing large equipment.
Not only human equipment, but also Warcraft mounts.
Although there are no iron ore resources, the Atrium Tribe’s warehouse still has a large number of steel plates, gears, rivets, pipes and finished artillery removed from the Mechanical City!
Precision artillery cannot be forged without a large lathe, but there are ready-made ones here.
Those steel plates can be melted slightly to become qualified forging materials. Although they are not enough to make large steam boilers, they are enough for the old man to assemble some equipment and armor suitable for large monsters.
In the mechanical city, large-caliber artillery are fixed city defense equipment.
But among the Coleman people, there is an innate advantage.
Their mounts can almost all carry several tons of artillery and run very fast. All they need to do is forge some suitable fixings to turn it into a mobile artillery platform.
Whether it is a mount or a warrior, with equipment and protective gear, they no longer have to use their flesh and blood to resist the enemy's gun.
For the first time, the Coleman people learned to use "hot weapons" such as cannons and muskets, which could threaten adults even with children.
In this way, the small earthen kiln in Coleman's Atrium tribe gradually became a "war factory" that supplied armor to the entire tribe.
