Mage Lord: The Tech Tree is Skewed by Me

The weeds emerging from the cracks in the rocks shimmered with crystal dewdrops, and the clouds and mist in the sky seemed to be blown away by someone's punch, like a pink ribbon sliding across the sky.

The high ground in the early morning was slightly humid, and the diffuse mist obscured the vision.

Spring is not only the season of revival of all things, but also the time when baby birds hatch out of their shells.

At this moment, Leon was staring intently at the little tall bird that had just emerged from the shell, his eyes full of curiosity.

Weird, really weird.

Unlike those adult tall birds with long legs, Leon felt that he might need to make a magnifying glass first to observe the legs of young tall birds.

Because a young tall bird is simply a ball, and that's not a metaphor, it's a fact.

A large round eyeball occupies more than two-thirds of its body, and the wings of the young bird are even larger than those of the adult tall bird, which seems to allow them to maintain balance and prevent them from rolling on the ground. Go away.

In addition, the young bird also has three very obvious dull hairs on its head. It looks naive and silly, completely different from those extremely violent adult tall birds.

"嘤! 嘤嘤!"

Since the Antolian militia had already chopped off its parents, when the chubby baby bird hatched out of its shell, the first thing it saw was the young human in front of it, and then it shouted The scream of begging for food.

"What does it eat?"

Leon turned back and looked at Andrew beside him with a blank expression.

"Ah this..."

Andrew scratched his head hesitantly and said: "Maybe... probably... I don't know exactly... but adult tall birds eat warm stones anyway."

Warm stone...

On one side is the confused Leon, and on the other is the squealing baby bird.

Leon thought for a while and decided to use the elimination method first. After all, the warm stone was so hard that he really didn't know if he would choke to death if he fed it.

First, I pulled out a few weeds beside the rocks and refused to eat them.

Then he tore off some thorns and refused to eat them.

In the end, Leon found a broken warm stone from the cracks on the side and tentatively put it into the baby bird's mouth.

This time, the young bird did not refuse and immediately took the warm stone in its mouth.

Then he rubbed Leon's wrist quite affectionately, as if he was really showing his goodwill towards the long-term meal ticket in front of him.

Upon seeing this, Leon couldn't help but widen his eyes, and a trace of doubt emerged in his mind.

In his opinion, the warm stone is just a type of stone, but the current facts seem to tell Leon that this hard stone can provide enough nutrients for the growth of young birds?

Just when Leon was confused, Andrew's shout attracted Leon's attention.

"Lord Viscount! The pioneering team is here!"

After several days of cleaning up the strange tall-footed birds, the first settlers from Antolia finally set foot on the highlands southwest of the Thorn Territory for the first time after several days of trekking. .

"We still need to build roads..."

Leon couldn't help but sigh.

The distance between the southwest highlands and the Thorn Territory is actually not that far, but because there is a dense forest between the two places, it usually takes a long time to travel between the two places.

Leon wished he could build a road between the two places now, but... he was too busy.

In his mind, building a road can only be regarded as the third most important thing at the moment. The top priorities are the reclamation of cultivated land and the bridge over the Bairen River.

"Master Viscount..."

The moment they saw Leon, the settlers who came from afar fell to the ground.

Some of them are Lapruk people, and the other part are the original citizens of the Thorn Territory, so most of them know the young lord who led them through the Year of the Jackdaw.

Leon just nodded and immediately started to arrange the follow-up matters.

The first is the choice of settlement.

Leon's positioning in the southwest highlands is a mining town that provides a steady stream of ore to the Jimena family.

So being close to the ore veins is naturally the best choice. The only problem is... Leon knows that there are mines in the highlands, but where are the ore veins in the southwest highlands?

"Right underfoot."

"Um?"

Leon couldn't help being stunned.

Andrew replied calmly: "When I came here, the priest asked me to give you a message. He said that warm stone is an associated mineral formed under special circumstances. The entire southwest highland is a huge mineral vein. So no matter where you dig, you can mine ore, the only question is... what ore do you want to mine?"

"What kind of ores are there here?"

Hearing this, Andrew shook his head and said: "The priest's knowledge of this land also comes from the priests of Lapruk. In fact, he doesn't know much more than the Jimena family. Some people say that there are iron mines here. Some people also say that there are silver mines here, but the Lapluk people almost never set foot on this land, so they don’t know the specific location.”

"The only thing we can be sure of is that here..."

Andrew said, pointing to the map with his finger:

“In the south of the Southwest Highlands adjacent to the Forsaken Land, there are large open-pit warm stone deposits.”

"But the only problem now is that the warm stone mine at this location can be said to be the most important food source for the Tall Birds. Therefore, if you want to open a mine here, you must first remove the Tall Birds that are entrenched in the eastern part of the Southwest Highlands. Clean it up."

Hearing this, Leon couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

The Antolian militia was actually relatively efficient in cleaning up the strange tall-footed birds. In just a few days, they had already advanced dozens of kilometers deep into the southwestern highlands.

But even so, it will take a long time to completely clear out the nearly a thousand tall-footed strange birds in the eastern part of the Southwest Highlands.

At least a month!

"Camp here first and build a temporary settlement!"

"As for the warm stone... although the warm stone veins are more concentrated in the south of the highland, I think there are also many open-pit warm stone mines nearby."

Leon made an immediate decision after looking around.

Time waits for no one, and the Earth Tamper, who is currently nestled in the Thorn Territory, has been waiting for the arrival of the warm stone.

Although warm stones are usually hidden within stone materials, those stones with buried warm stones mostly have a similar appearance, generally showing a... well, rounded arc shape.

Leon did not publicize the fact that the warm stone could drive the land compactor in a big way, so including Andrew, there was actually some confusion about Leon being so obsessed with the warm stone.

In Andrew's opinion, now that the cold winter has passed, shouldn't more energy be put into exploring iron ore?

However, Andrew still habitually accepted orders from his lord,

"As you wish, distinguished Lord Viscount!"

Andrew said.

Some readers reported that the pacing was a bit flat, so I’ve sped up the pace and prepared for a new plot!