High Above

Terra 768, November 25, afternoon.

New town area.

After two years of construction, the new urban area of ​​Port Harrison has now begun to take shape. A solid stone bridge spans the endlessly flowing river, reflecting light golden sparkling waves.

Located on the east side of the Ewok River, the large alchemy workshop next to the river-crossing bridge is the center of the city, with white walls and golden eaves, five stories high, and the only building in Port Harrison that is taller than the Viscount's Mansion.

It is so special, of course it has its uses. The thunder guide pin on the top of the alchemy workshop can absorb the abundant thunderstorms in Nanling for its own use, and it can charge the large element cores in the workshop, becoming the second energy core in the city - precisely because In this way, the efficiency of metal smelting and casting craftsmen in Port Harrison has almost doubled, and the output of various alchemical materials and inscription facilities has also greatly increased.

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

A little more peripheral is the Alchemy Inscription Research Institute, which was built by the paper mill and Viscount Harrison with a huge sum of money... It is said to be a research 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.

After all, there are no scholars who come to Port Harrison to conduct their own academic research at the edge of the world.

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

Viscount Grant is indeed a long-sighted, determined and persevering nobleman who is willing to give and not indulge in pleasures other than female sex. The only disadvantage may be that male sex is not too taboo, and the tax is not low.

As for the further periphery, there are large-scale weaving workshops, mills and sawmills that can use the surging water of the Ewok River, as well as an expensive outer city reservoir.

Even though Harrison Port is located by the river and the sea, it is difficult to obtain clean water resources that meet the needs of alchemy.

Thanks to this large cistern and the investment of several merchants from the imperial capital, Jill's small winemaking workshop was quickly upgraded to a medium-sized winery, and a public bathhouse was also erected.

As for these other livelihood facilities that should have been built long ago, it is entirely because Harrison Port has been competing with the natives for the control of the Ewok River in the past few decades. Mills and sawmills that would be destroyed.

If the riverside city does not build water conservancy facilities, the loss of productivity is really expensive. No wonder that after defeating the natives, the first thing Viscount Grant thought of was to build a new city 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 material factory and the stone 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 it into use. .

But in any case, the life of Harrison Port residents is getting better and better-there are even rumors that the old town in the east of the city, which has not many people, will start to be remodeled, which will become a new market area, and a theater Both public clinics will be built there.

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

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

【White room miscellaneous goods】

A young man of Bai Zhimin 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, if the cold current in the Baisen Mountains falls However, it can also make the temperature around the mountains close to zero.

"It seems that there are no 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 all major customers who had been introduced and asked him to use psychic powers for identification.

Such customers obviously don't come every day... It's better to say, how many strange objects can you have in a week if you have to use psionic power and professional identification to be at ease.

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

The shop sells some things for daily use, such as herbs for detoxification and summer heat, wooden barrels, clay pots, long ropes and fine nets, and occasionally some gadgets made by Ian himself, such as some without Qualified cheap alchemy bases and raw materials, as well as theoretically waterproof underwater glasses.

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

Naturally, it wasn’t these shelves that needed to be tidied up. People from the city hall would naturally come to tidy them up. Ian went straight to the second floor.

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

Inside the clean glass bottle are colorful and various catalytic substrates and alchemy materials, as well as some basic finished products.

And located in the center of the room is a large workbench.

Although there is nothing on the workbench except for a few books and notes, as well as some simple purification and synthesis instruments, it is far inferior to the workbenches of real alchemists who are full of expensive instruments such as vacuum distillation apparatuses and metal pulverizers.

But that's an attitude.

A Port Harrison will go out of his way to develop the attitude of an alchemist who is truly his own.

In Viscount Grant's cognition, Ian's psychic ability can detect the weakness of the mountain master, and can also help the young man to clearly observe various details in the alchemy process-after Elder Purdue took Ian to show the young man's only need After seeing it once, you can completely reproduce the alchemy process' After the double talent of psionic alchemy, the noble lord hardly hesitated, and directly decided to train Ian.

The research library in Harrison Port is completely open to him, and he can borrow and copy freely, and the alchemy workshop is also completely provided for him to visit freely.

As a price, 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 Harrison Port, has a greater 'capacity' for all kinds of talents.

Bai Zhimin's ability to develop and grow 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 the window. After Ian sorted out his books and notes, he looked up at the cloud scene outside the window—a place where the sea and the sky meet in the distance, a majestic cloud mountain stands on the zenith, and the brilliance of the setting sun overwhelms it. The top layer is covered with a layer of golden yellow.

"No rain, no storm is good weather."

Nodding slightly, Ian closed the window.

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

No one would not have an eye for stealing in the new city where city guards patrol from time to time, especially the gallows next to the stone bridge. Although there are few people hanging around there, it can be regarded as a deterrent.

Generally speaking, there is no special news today.

The fleet has not returned yet, and the hunters and herbalists have not dug in the mountains. They have hunted any precious objects, and there is no big news. The greatest joy in the past week is that an adventurer from other places was killed by a local fish in Nanling. Bitten lower body.

He insisted that it was an accident after entering the water, a mistake made by being too young, but who would not know what he did.

No, for Ian, today is still a slightly special day.

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

The potion of 'True Form of the Wavesinger'.