The longer Jonah stayed in the outside world, the more he felt that all his useful knowledge came from the "Geographical Calculation of the Western Continent" that he read out of interest. For an astrologer, it is not necessary to use the limited time to look up.
Looking at the starry sky and immersing yourself in studying things on the ground is definitely not doing your job properly.
Fortunately, Teacher Keshava didn't care much about what his apprentice did after completing his homework, so Jonah had the opportunity to secretly read a lot of non-professional books, including this geography book, and of course, a lot of chivalry novels.
Jonah, a native of Colombo, vaguely remembered the brief chapter about the aboriginal people on the north bank of the holy river in "Geographic Survey":
The Colombo people are a primitive tribe living in the alluvial plains on the north bank of the Holy River. According to the research of "The Formation of the Western Race" published by historian J.J. Thomas in 638 (2276 Continental Unified Calendar), the Colombo people are
An ancient people who migrated from the northern continent 22,000 years ago. During a large tribal split, the northern Colombo people settled in the red clay plains and combined with the local aborigines. The fusion of blood gave birth to the 13 countries that make up the present-day Western Continent.
The main ethnic group is the "Kosivit people", while the southern Colombo people moved south to the north bank of the Holy River and settled down.
In the long history of the development of civilization in the Western continent, the people of southern Colombo have continued their ancestors' behavioral characteristics of collecting, hunting, and living in rock hemispherical houses. They have rejected scientific and technological progress and cultural exchanges. They still do not use horse-drawn carriages (round wheels), matches, or iron tools.
, candles and other modern industrial products maintain the original lifestyle and use the original tribal language.
In terms of belief, they maintain simple nature worship, regard the "other side" of the holy river as the highest and only god in the world, and oppose any mortals' direct or indirect contact with the river water in order to maintain the divinity of the holy river.
It is worth mentioning that the warlike character of the Colombo people and their extremely superb spear-throwing skills (even if it is just a primitive spear-throwing method with a simple wooden stick trimmed with a stone knife as the spear body and a sharp flint and beast claws as the spear tip), the West
The Kingdom of Bazeral and its affiliated states at the southern end of the mainland kept a distance, and the route from the southern continent to the western continent was blocked. Until the people of the western mainland mastered the custom of the Colombo people to hold hunting festivals twice a year, they established the port town "Cherry Ferry".
Only two departures of passenger ships every year allow limited communication between the western and southern continents.
The next chapter is about the geographical calculation of the other side of the Holy River, which also brings up the extremely expensive ferry tickets in spring and autumn and the accompanying smuggling problems.
Because the southern continent products sold in the western continent come from the eastern and northern continents all over the world, the selling price is often hundreds of times their cost price. Desperate smugglers appear on the passenger ships twice a year, and they spend a lot of money.
He spent a sum of money to buy a ship ticket, and when boarding the ship, he tried his best to stuff the inner pockets of his coat and boots with the specialty musk, dragon horn grass, jade and crown purple gold of the Southern Continent to avoid the inspection of the guards. As long as he arrived safely in the Western Continent
, the huge profits at your fingertips are waiting not far away.
Jonah shook his head. Next, "Geographic Survey of the Western Continent" seriously went off topic and talked about a conflict that occurred thirty-five years ago. Smugglers and mercenaries from the Chamber of Commerce started a bloody battle involving 500 people in Cherry Crossing. Baze
The Lal Kingdom nominally has jurisdiction over Cherry Ferry, but due to taboos against the Colombo people, Cherry Ferry does not have a garrison, and the long and rugged road through the Sukasa Gorge prevents the kingdom's envoys from arriving in time.
During the battle, an unexpected fire razed the entire Cherry Crossing, which was composed of wooden buildings, to the ground. According to survivors, as the smoke and dust drifted over the holy river, the Colombo spear-throwing team carried out punitive attacks on both sides mercilessly.
, the overwhelming flying spears easily wiped hundreds of people out of the world.
Since then, Bazeral and the Western Continent Chamber of Commerce had no plan to rebuild Cherry Crossing due to political and interest considerations. It was not until the young Emperor Yelizawetan of the Zavi Empire came to the throne that he launched a lightning assault on the affiliated principalities, involving the entire Western Continent.
During the war, a powerful protector took in a large number of fleeing nobles, killers, officers and fugitives, rebuilt the port town on the site of Cherry Ferry, and soon reopened the ferry twice a year.
This protector is, of course, the blind, short, and somewhat nagging dad who owns the cabin.
This chapter was already blurry in Jonah's memory, but one night when he was practicing star array spells alone, it suddenly popped up in front of his eyes.
It turns out that my father has been ruling Cherry Crossing for thirty years. He has been guarding a huge town all by himself. He has been undefeated in the face of defeated armies, monsters and Colombo people for thirty years. Similarly, he has not left Cherry Crossing for thirty years.
Jonah couldn't help but feel respectful and sad for his father.
"Hey, brother, what are you thinking about?" Xibi asked.
"Nothing, don't interrupt my practice." Jonah replied.
They sat on the roof of room A51 and kept vigil. During the period when the bright red sun Iecotel was on duty, the moon also turned blood red, but the moonlight was still eternal silver.
The two people were sitting on the eaves, their legs dangling in the air. The low stone houses of Yingyingdu stretched out for a long time, and it was difficult to see the distant scenery in the night.
"Brother, have you seen it by the river?" Xibi asked.
"No." Jonah replied.
He held a fist-sized piece of moiré quartz stone in his hand. Deep and complex lines were carved on the stone with the tip of a knife. At this moment, a tiny line of bright red light slowly flowed through the lines, like red mercury.
After the unknown encounter in Sukasa Canyon, Jonah has been reviewing the role he should play in the battle. A mage should be a qualified attack outputter, the backbone of the battle situation, and the team's best choice.
The core of weakness and the strongest attack - this is what Elliot taught him.
As for him, he is just a bad guy who needs protection from others all the time. He can use one or two weak attack spells and can't hit the target. After learning from the experience, Jonah found that the most important thing is to increase the speed of his attacks.
Someone else's finger drawing a star array pattern on the floor was so stupid that he needed a piece of equipment for casting spells quickly and accurately. Let's start with this moiré quartz stone.
Jonah stared at the stone. In his mind, the powerful interstellar line between the star No. 30 in the first house and the star No. 7 in the seventh house "Sky Boat" clearly cut across the night sky and passed through the middle of his body.
The free starlight is absorbed by the star array in the stone along a mysterious trajectory, rotates and aggregates into a white-hot energy core.
This star array comes from an exercise in the "Exercise Booklet for the Fifth-Level Astrologer Apprentice (665 Edition)", called "Failed Streamer". The purpose of the question is to explain how to use a simple method to achieve an advanced, complex, and powerful
Part of the function of the huge attack star array "Streamer", because the energy flow paths of the two are interconnected.
Teacher Keshava had assigned this question to Jona a few months ago, but the astrologer apprentice was unfortunately defeated by the question and drew a "failed failed streamer". After inputting energy, the red crystal as a carrier emerged.
After a burst of green smoke, the ground cracked in half, causing Teacher Keshava to scold him severely.
Now, just a dozen days and nights after leaving the Astrology Tower, Jonah felt that he had grown greatly both mentally and spiritually. He tried to depict the star array again, and sure enough, he succeeded, even though the stone in his hand was the most common carrier material.
——The best material he could find in Cherry Crossing.
"Would you like to see the fireworks?" Jonah turned to ask Sibi.
"Of course I want to see it!" Xibi's green eyes sparkled in the night, like an excited cat.
Jonah nodded, clenched his fists, and used all his strength to throw the moiré quartz stone into the distance. The milky white stone rolled and flew into the night sky, and then the star array that escaped from the controller became chaotic, and the highly compressed energy core squeezed through
The barrier of the star array formed a brilliant energy explosion.
"Bang!" A rolling ball of orange-red flames exploded in the starlight, with two pink haloes produced by the broken star array. The flames expanded rapidly, illuminating the faces of the two people.
"Wow!" Xibi opened his eyes wide, unblinking.
Circles of air ripples that were almost invisible to the naked eye dispersed, the flames dimmed, turned into sparkling quartz stone powder and sprinkled down, and the night returned to calm.
"What the hell are you doing?" shouted a tenant in an unknown room.
"Little Joseph in room A42, if you don't want to lose your balls, shut up immediately!" Xibi jumped up and covered his mouth with his hands and shouted back at a huge volume.
Room A42 was immediately as quiet as a tomb.
"Brother, it's so beautiful. One more, one more!" Xibi turned around and squatted down, staring at Yona with extremely expectant eyes.
Yona wiped a drop of cold sweat from his forehead and replied: "Of course..." He felt that based on the level of mental exhaustion, he could make about ten of these "failed streamers", which could play a certain role in battle.
Of course, if the problem of stable storage can be solved, he can pour energy into more stones and distribute them to everyone to use as throwing weapons - just thinking about it. Jonah himself also knows that there is no need for the operator's star.
Formation is a high-end research content, and even his mentor has only just scratched the surface.
"Bang!" The second fireworks bloomed in the sky. This time the carrier of the star array was black obsidian, causing the color of the flame to turn dark red.
"Wow!" Xibi's face turned red.
"Boom!" The third firework opened. It was a yellow basalt, and the color of the explosion was bright lemon yellow.
"Wow!" Xibi held his heart with both hands.
"Bang!" The fourth stone was made of loose limestone. Due to the material, it began to leak starlight energy as soon as it left Jonah's hand, until it revealed its original shape and hit the roof of the stone house opposite with a long tail flame.
"Tch." Xibi said disdainfully.
"The moon is so round." Jonah raised his head and changed the subject. At the same time, he laboriously moved out the largest piece of stone he had collected recently, a 25-pound piece of red granite that had been engraved with the large "Failed Streamer" star formation.