Bronze

The Eaglefolk lived chasing the mountains, residing on them from generation to generation, and deeply loved cliffside terrain.

Around the mountain peaks, they used stone tools to chisel out caves to dwell in.

The High Barbarian Mountain was merely an extremely commonplace, small mountain in the Primordial Ferland World.

As for the legendary Eagleman Royal Court, it lived atop a towering, lofty mountain named the Heavenly Mountain!

That was a huge and magnificent high mountain, with as many as tens of thousands of Eaglemen inhabiting it. That was the ancestral court of the Eaglemen, and the Eaglemen of the High Barbarian Mountain Tribe also originated from there.

After Jiang You became the chieftain of the High Barbarian Mountain Tribe, he began to transform the living environment of the Eaglemen.

Although stone caves were safe, after enduring many generations of Eaglemen living inside, the odors within were quite hard to endure, and hygiene had always been an issue.

The first year.

He ground stone axes, chopped down trees, and led his clansmen to build dozens of wooden houses and wooden beds within a span of one year, becoming new dwellings.

The original caves, fitted with wooden doors, made for exceptionally good storage spaces.

The wooden houses of the Eaglemen had two doors: one opened on the roof, and the other opened near the cliffside to facilitate travel.

After finishing the wooden houses, he summoned his clansmen again, digging a pit and chiseling out a pool in the center of the tribe to serve as water for daily drinking and living.

Every day, Jiang You arranged for clansmen to fetch water specifically.

Then, he used wooden walls to tightly enclose the cluster of wooden houses; thus, a tiny village was formed.

The wooden house village might be slightly inferior to the stone caves in terms of safety, but looking at the village before him, Jiang You felt the aura of civilization in the desolate wilderness for the first time.

At ease from then on.

The second year, winter.

Taking advantage of the heavy winter snow, Jiang You led the Eagleman youths to find and kill a few black bears that were hibernating in the Whispering Forest.

His strength and skills had grown, and he had also changed into bear-skin clothing.

Very warm.

The third year.

Jiang You discovered a magic beast to the east of the Whispering Forest.

Fortunately, this magic beast was a deer-type magical beast. Although this magic beast was strong, its temperament was relatively gentle, and it always stayed within its own territory, which allowed Jiang You and the others to set their minds at ease.

Yet the desire in his heart to obtain transcendent power grew even stronger.

The fourth year.

When Jiang You led the hunting party out to hunt, they chased wild oxen and flew three thousand meters further to the west.

Here, he discovered an open-air copper mine!

This pleasantly surprised him beyond measure!

Copper!

This was something that could enable them to step from the Stone Age into the Bronze Age.

If they had bronzeware, the strength of the High Barbarian Mountain Tribe could rise by a large margin.

But soon, a patrolling Eagleman youth flew over from further away, telling him that there was a Snake People tribe here.

The Snake People were likewise a vassal race of the Titan Giants.

However, they and the Eaglefolk had been at war for generations, their living ranges intersected, and they had been natural enemies since ancient times!

In the ancient era, before the four-legged eagles had evolved into Eaglemen, they frequently caught and ate the two-legged snakes, the ancestors of the Snake People.

Yet when they accepted the gifts and enlightenment of the Titan Giants at almost the same time and evolved into intelligent races.

The Eaglefolk's suppression of the Snake People vanished.

The reproductive capability of the Snake People was stronger, and they were skilled at using bows and arrows.

Although the Eaglemen possessed the advantage of flight, their talons were too sharp, making them rather unsuited for shooting arrows.

Otherwise, a troop type capable of shooting arrows in the sky, even if it were merely ordinary mortals without transcendent power, still held a huge advantage.

After considering for a moment, Jiang You's desire for copper in his heart overcame his apprehension regarding the Snake People tribe.

Pondering, he asked.

"Liang, how many Snake People are in that Snake People tribe, and are there any transcendent Snake People?"

"Chieftain, I didn't look closely."

Liang rubbed his head in embarrassment.

"It's fine, we'll just go take another look."

Jiang You didn't blame him either; after all, it was hard for an Eagleman youth to have that kind of awareness, and being able to discover the Snake People tribe was already quite good.

He took a team of Eagleman youths and soared into the air. After flying a few miles, they indeed discovered a small Snake People tribe beside a small river.

Hovering and observing in the sky, Jiang You discovered that this small tribe was actually about the same as their own situation.

Years of protracted warfare had exhausted their vitality, and the tribe consisted basically of the old, the weak, women, and children.

That made sense too; the survival capability of Snake People on the battlefield was even worse than the Eaglemen-they were cannon fodder among cannon fodder!

However, the population of this Snake People tribe was slightly more than the High Barbarian Mountain Eagleman Tribe, with roughly three hundred Snake People surviving.

Jiang You decisively decided to annihilate this Snake People tribe.

Thus, that very night.

Jiang You led the battle-capable clansmen of the Eagleman tribe, taking advantage of the night while the enemy slept soundly, and wiped out this small Snake People tribe.

Afterwards, they mined the copper ore and smelted bronze.

Jiang You understood some of the simplest ancient copper-smelting methods from his past life, and after trying a few times, he successfully smelted bronze.

The fifth year.

Following a year of accumulation.

Almost every battle-capable Eagleman in the tribe possessed a piece of bronzeware.

With bronzeware, they could hunt larger and fiercer prey.

Jiang You and the others even dared to test themselves against some weak magic beasts if they ran into them.

The clansmen mostly used bronze spears, while Jiang You forged a bronze sword for his own use.

The sixth year.

The tribe's bronze reserves increased, so Jiang You used the excess bronze to cast a large bronze tripod!

From then on, food could be cooked continuously in the tripod.

Following that, some bronze utensils were also crafted.

Bowls, basins, pots, spoons, and so on.

Until this moment, Jiang You could announce that the High Barbarian Mountain Tribe had broken away from the Stone Age and entered the Bronze Age.

They were more civilized than the vast majority of races in the Feland World.

The seventh year.

Jiang You was sixteen years old, which counted as adulthood among the Eaglefolk.

His physique became even more upright and robust, his wings tougher and more powerful.

This year, in order to face the upcoming war, Jiang You began casting armor with bronze!

Because the Eaglemen possessed wings, it was difficult to cover their backs with armor, and in order to maintain light and swift flight, the armor shouldn't be too heavy.

Thus, Jiang You only cast armor plates on the chest, arms, and head for self-defense.

Over a dozen sets of this simple bronze armor were crafted, worn by Jiang You and the strongest Eaglemen in the tribe.

They were companions who had grown up together with Jiang You, bonded like hands and feet.

As time flowed on.

The autumn of this year.

Amidst the fluttering of golden autumn leaves.

The messengers of the Eagleman Royal Court arrived as scheduled!