War Factory in the Forest

The [Divine Healing Technique] is much more difficult to learn than most arcane spells, but compared to [Thread Needle Thread], it is only average.

With the help of a "Mind Core," Rein mastered this secret technique within a few days.

However, their proficiency still needs improvement.

The healing output of a beginner's [Divine Healing Technique] is like a tiny trickle of spring water on a thumb. To reach the level of a powerful, surging river of healing from Great Shaman, it takes a very long time to accumulate battle qi.

But because of the cooperation of "Gangxian" and precise treatment, there is no waste of fighting spirit. This is also enough for Renn to deal with some negative substances that cannot be metabolized normally due to the accumulation of "black mist" in the body.

Then, Rein took off his gas mask and breathed deeply into the air filled with thick black fog.

Even when meditating, he dares to fully activate the "Breath of Lightning," causing every pore to breathe in and out.

Like a long-awaited rain after a drought, the body had an almost greedy need for this extremely rich "Abyssal Demonic Qi".

Even with normal breathing, he could feel his battle aura increasing automatically.

The edge of this black pit is truly a sacred place for cultivation.

As the amount of fighting energy in the Qi Sea rises to new heights, new "Gang Line" can split out.

Staying in the tribe, his battle qi increased tenfold, and he was certain that he would soon reach the level of "qi overflowing naturally".

With the potion secured and magic cores plentiful, he's just waiting for his battle aura to overflow so he can attempt to break through the second Gene Locks and advance to the [Fate Weaver].

At that time, their strength will increase dramatically.

While Rein spent his time practicing his spiritual cultivation, he was also working on a very important task: unifying the tribe's "weights and measures"!

The Kolman Tribe possess extraordinary "medicinal expertise," with many medicinal formulas, treatments, and secret techniques that are entirely outside the realm of modern medicine.

Although the priests didn't understand the microscopic substances and their effects, their understanding of efficacy/medicinal properties was something that modern medicine might not reach for many years to come. This research into medicinal properties embodies the great wisdom of the Kolman Tribe ancestors.

Unfortunately, their method of passing on knowledge through oral tradition and hands-on instruction is far too outdated.

Rein planned to standardize the "weights and measures" and then turn the "experience" possessed by the tribe's technicians into readable and inheritable texts.

He wanted to help the Kolman people pinpoint the exact amount of solid materials they had passed down for countless years, down to the gram.

Determine the volume of a liquid in milliliters, specifically the "one bowl" in the phrase "three bowls of water boiled down to one bowl".

For most people, this would require a very large team to accomplish.

But for Rein, who possesses an "Mind Core," it's very simple.

Rein only needs to watch the High Priest and elders concoct potions and explain them once. The system will automatically record the process, with timing accurate to the second and temperature accurate to the degree.

Then all the necessary materials were weighed and recorded in detail.

At first, the veteran priests found it hard to understand how one could concoct potions simply by weighing and measuring, without needing a teacher to instruct them for ten or eight years.

This method seems like a fantasy.

But later, after Rein used this method and sophisticated pharmaceutical instruments to replicate some of the simple formulas unique to their Kolman Tribe, the elder priests truly believed that the inheritance of potions could be done in this way.

Even a potion master can use a completely unfamiliar recipe to concoct potions according to the "precise measurements" on it.

Before this, it was completely unimaginable.

Because the potion masters in Kolman's lineage are all trained through a direct lineage, and they are all personally trained by their master.

It's fair to say that even if the recipe is right in front of them, they wouldn't know how to make any kind of potion that their teacher hadn't taught them.

Because the timing of the heat, the reaction time, and the amount of materials all depend on the teacher's repeated demonstrations, and only then can they understand that concept that is "only understood intuitively and cannot be explained in words".

It's too hot to touch, it's red-hot – that's temperature control.

The smell is pungent, it's burnt, it's smoking—that's the control of time.

It's all based on gut feeling.

However, Potionry is inherently a discipline with a very high entry barrier and requires extremely rigorous data. The more complex the recipe, the lower the margin for error. Crude brewing techniques would cause apprentices to waste a massive amount of materials.

Fortunately, the Ashen Forest provided them with an inexhaustible supply of potion ingredients; otherwise, the great tradition of "Witch Doctor potions" would probably have been lost long ago.

Correspondingly, since the inheritance relies entirely on "metaphysics," apprentices need to have higher talents.

The reason why so few people in the tribe can become potion priests is because not everyone can comprehend the teacher's "intuitive" level of dosage.

However, it must be said that among the Kolman Tribe, those who can become potion masters possess exceptional "comprehension" and "memory".

Of course, all of this was achieved with the strong support of the Great Shaman Mafat.

The wise old man demanded that the entire tribe, from warriors to elders, cooperate with Rein.

Because he also saw that this great battle immediately exposed the drawbacks of their "oral inheritance" method.

After a large number of High Priest died in battle, a knowledge gap immediately occurred.

Many newly ordained priests have no idea what the precise meaning of the "technical terms" used in the potion recipes recorded by their teachers actually means.

This is almost a devastating blow to the rigorous discipline of Potionry.

The priests' deaths in battle were a devastating blow.

Once the precious potion recipes passed down from their ancestors are "lost," it will truly mean the loss of the Kolman Tribe's ability to sustain itself.

And Wudo, the High Priest, stopped running around.

She spent all her time with Rein, helping him organize and record potion recipes and coordinating the distribution among the tribe members.

At the same time, several young and intelligent priests also began to learn the "Common Tongue" from Rein.

Being backward invites aggression; this is a lesson learned in blood.

Kolman's "Witch Doctor" also became interested in "surgery".

But everything has to start from scratch.

On the other hand...

Mr. and Mrs. Tuster are also very busy.

The Witch Doctor originally thought they had only saved an ordinary old man.

Although the Kolman Tribe warriors were quite polite to the father and son because of Rein, the idea that "only the strong are respected" was already ingrained in the bones of these natural warriors who fought against nature and magical beasts.

Initially, almost no one paid attention to the elderly and the child.

Because his body and aura were so weak, so weak that even a random child in the tribe could kill him.

But after one incident, the people in the tribe completely changed their minds.

The toxins that had plagued Tuster for over thirty years were cleared, and the Witch Doctor even helped him recover. The old man, wanting to reciprocate, gave the tribe some gifts.

He was skilled in mechanics, but these warriors from primitive civilizations had come into contact with him far too early.

Therefore, he decided to start with weapons and armor.

The weapons of the Kohlman Clan, whether arrows, daggers, or longswords, are very primitive, made either from the bones of magical beasts or from the hard stone they call "Black Cloud Stone."

Although it's enchanted, the effect is barely acceptable.

However, compared to metal equipment, its malleability, defense, penetration, and toughness are far inferior. Even if one manages to acquire a few rare iron artifacts, often from ancient ruins in the forest, they are not properly maintained, and with each wear and tear, one less piece remains.

The old man then decided to have several sets of enchanted metal armor and suitable weapons, including hand crossbows, made for the children in the families of those Witch Doctor.

And it was because of this equipment that a certain young barbarian warrior survived a hunt.

This allowed the barbarian warriors, who usually wore only shorts and at most leather armor when hunting, to experience the power of equipment for the first time.

With the "Alchemical Steel Wire Crossbow Bolt," even ordinary children can fire deadly arrows with penetrating power comparable to an adult's hard bow.

Later, when they saw Mr. Tuster's Octopus Mechanical Arm, they finally understood what "the power of technology" really meant.

The equipment made by the grandfather and grandson immediately became highly sought after by the warriors in the tribe.

Kindness grows stronger with each exchange.

Old Master Tuster could be said to have been able to be reborn thanks to the Kohlman Clan, and in return, he naturally devoted himself wholeheartedly to their cause.

The Kolman Tribe warriors had also acquired a number of spoils during the war, but most of the metal armor, swords, and other items were simply not sized to fit their exceptionally long arms and heights, except for a very few that were actually usable.

Moreover, they lacked the technology for smelting and forging, making it impossible to modify these unsuitable weapons and armor.

This resulted in piles of loot gathering dust in the warehouse, serving no purpose whatsoever.

Now, thanks to the Tuster and grandson, these spoils of war immediately found a use.

Although there are no large-scale smelting facilities, the forest has an inexhaustible coal mine, as well as "High-Combustion Coal"!

The Tuster grandfather and grandson then taught the Kolman Warrior how to build earthen kilns for steel mills. They extravagantly used High-Combustion Coal and witchcraft to create steel furnaces with temperatures high enough to melt most metals.

Because there are so many "High-Combustion Coal" in the forest, like mushrooms, you can pick up a few pieces every time you go there.

At first, Tuster and his grandson simply helped barbarian warriors make protective gear and weapons, but later they gradually moved on to manufacturing large-scale equipment.

It's not just human equipment, but also Warcraft mounts.

Although there are no iron ore resources, the warehouses of the Central Courtyard Tribe still contain a large number of steel plates, gears, rivets, pipes and finished cannons dismantled from the Mechanical City!

Precision cannons cannot be forged without large lathes, but there are ready-made ones here.

Those steel plates, after being slightly melted, become qualified forging materials. Although there are no conditions to manufacture large Steam Boilers, they are enough for the old man to assemble some equipment and armor suitable for large magical beasts.

In the Mechanical City, large-caliber artillery is a fixed defensive asset.

However, the Kolman Tribe has an inherent advantage.

Their mounts were almost all capable of carrying cannons weighing several tons and moving at great speeds. With just a few suitable mounting devices forged, they could become mobile gun emplacements.

Whether it's a mount or a warrior, with protective gear, they no longer need to use their flesh and blood to withstand enemy gunfire.

For the first time, the Kolman people learned to use cannons and muskets, "firearms" that even children could threaten adults.

And so, the small earthen kiln in the Kolman Central Courtyard Tribe gradually transformed into a "war factory" that supplied armor to the entire tribe.

P. S. The protagonist has no faction or nationality; to put it bluntly, he's a hunter-gatherer in the wasteland. Don't confuse him with any ethnic traitors or members of the Five Great Families of City of Radiance. Is he the protagonist? We're all human; it's not a matter of humans and orcs. Just think of it as two separate territories.

PS.2 The protagonist and City of Radiance are like tenants and landlords. Pay money to live, or get out; it's not like renting a name means you're on the property deed. Now the new landlord is both helpful and friendly, while the old landlord and the new landlord are fighting. Helping the new landlord is like betraying your own side.

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