Skies between Sea of Clouds and the Iron Kingdom
The skies around the border were filled with plumes of black smoke and grey clouds as the battle raged on. Steam leaked out from ruptured pipes and armour plates of the airships as they circled around the large red coloured airship, trying to get the upper hand over each other.
Suddenly, one of the Iron Kingdom smaller airships, too slow to turn or its propulsion systems too damaged, got caught within the firing arcs of the Protectorate's broadside. Instantly, the side of the hull of the Protectorate ship disappeared into a cloud of steam as its steam cannons fired.
Caught in the vicious cannon fire, the Iron Kingdom airship shuddered in midair as it suffered several direct hits. For a moment, it seemed that the airship managed to shake off the damage, but suddenly, its middle section bulged out and pieces of armour plating and broken parts rained down.
Smoke and trails of steam erupted out from the airship as it fell suddenly like a rock and seconds later, it smashed into the ground below and balls of flames and smoke erupted out from its crumpled hull.
The remaining three Iron Kingdom airships, enraged by another death of their own. renewed their fire at the badly battered Protectorate airship. The once smooth and oblong hull of the Protectorate airship was now covered in dents and holes. Weakened plates of armour fell off as wadcutter shots hammered the boltings off.
The Protectorate airship could barely move as majority of its aerial screws had been shot off. It lumbered on its axis as like a drunken boxer, trying to hit its more agile opponents which constantly danced out of its deadly broadside weapons' arcs.
The Commodore of the Iron Kingdom squadron, noting that the Protectorate airship's armour was mostly stripped off its hull and its wooden innards exposed, ordered his ships to switch to incendiary bolts.
The cannoneers instead of using iron capped plug shots switched out to plug shots which has a small hole in the middle of its rounded head. The cannoneers next carried over a thick and short ballista bolt. Behind the broad head of the ballista bolt was five clay tubes filled with flammable liquid secured around the bolt. A simple spring based flint and striker was attached behind the clay tubes, and upon heavy impact, the flint and striker will produce sparks, which will ignite the spilled flammables.
The base of the incendiary bolt was covered in screw threads and taped down to a point. A crossbar sat above the screw threads, which allowed cannoneers to screw the bolt into the plug shot. Once the incendiary bolt was screwed in, the cannoneers ran the steam cannon out of the gunports as they waited for the order to fire.
Once all the cannons were ready to be fired, the men waited with anticipation and vengeance in their eyes for the order to fire. The order to fire seemed to take forever to the sweating men as the crouched in the hot cannon decks.
And finally, the order came down, and the men roared out their frustrations and fears, together with the roaring of the steam cannons.
Nine incendiary bolts wobbled in the air as they arched over to the target. The crossbars of the bolts acted like vanes as they spun the bolts gently in the air, stabilizing their flight before plunging into the hull of the Protectorate airship.
Over half of the bolts missed and another half of the remaining bolts that impacted on the Protectorate airship's hull bounced off the armour plates or shattered their flammables uselessly on the side of the hull.
Only two bolts managed to punch through the armourless gaps, their broadhead tips nailing the bolts to the wooden structure beneath the armour. The shock of the impact flung the clay tubes forward and they shattered over the wood and metal.
At the same time, the force of the impact rammed the striker against the piece of flint hard, striking a burst of fiery sparks which rained over the spilled flammables. Instantly, the flammables caught fire and a ball of flames burst out from the side of the Protectorate airship.
The bridge crew of the IK Iron Maiden cheered as they saw the sight. Even the Commodore broke into a fierce grin. The battle had lasted for over a good three turns of the sandglass, which finally his squadron had finally dealt a critical hit at the price of two frigates and countless lives of the squadron.
"Kill it!" The Commodore ordered fiercely. "Revenge our fallen brothers and sisters! For the Glory of the Iron Kingdom!"
With his order passed down, the remaining airships of the 149th Squadron continued to hound the crippled Protectorate airship, their steam cannons aiming at the exposed internals of the airship. More and more incendiary bolts hammered their way into the Protectorate airship's innards and finally, after a long and tense battle, the Protectorate ship seemed to give a sigh as it lurched in midair as its boilers blew up, spewing steam, flames and smoke out from its broken sides.
The once mightly Protectorate airship sank down from the clouds rapidly before it hit nose first to the ground, its full weight without the support of aetherium folded inwards, and more explosions erupted from its crumpled carcass as it laid burning on the fields, surrounded by smoking debris.
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United Nations, Goblin Coast, Site of New Port Facilities, The City of Hope
Flakes of snow drifted down heavily and the whole world was blanketed in a layer of whiteness. Yet, despite the dark and cold, a city glowed even under the overcast clouds that blocked out the sun. To the new immigrants who once took shelter in the winter months, the heavy snow, cold and dark days were not the time to be caught outside unless having to deal with issues of great importance, as it would mean certain death by freezing.
But their logic was overturned as the city or what parts of the city that had been constructed was running normally. Stores and markets were still opened, rows of lamps lit up the streets and houses, casting away the darkness.
People hurried up and down the streets, while others rode on buses and vehicles to their destination. There was a sense of determination and purpose to the people's action in the city. The once hopeless and desolated air around the city had changed, as people started to feel a sense of achievement and hope.
The land once wild had greatly changed, the trees and foliage were cut down and a huge stretch of land was flattened and quartered out. The tent city which occupied one corner of the development was also torn down as the people were moved into rows and rows of apartment blocks just in time for the onset of winter. 
The new immigrants had thought they will be living in the cold in the tents but to their surprise and amazement, the 'kon creed' buildings were built rapidly. Construction of housing in their knowledge tends to be shabby unless you build it yourself or paid a lot of money to well known masons and carpenters. 
But the use of the strange grey powder that hardens within a turn of glass, bricks, and magic greatly astonished the refugees by the speed the buildings were constructed. They had never seen parts of a house already constructed at another area and brought in ships and transported by those large metal wagons.
 The new immigrants consisted mainly of females, the young and the old, as most of the men were either dead in the war or still serving the remaining Lords of the shattered Empire. Yet, there was ample work for them in the strange nation that promised them homes and security.
Womenfolk were being hired to work in 'factories' or workshops, which was predominantly a male trade in their previous homes. In their culture, womenfolk was only good for tending the house or working in the farms while the men sought tradecraft or apprenticeship.
Yet, this strange nation, not only offered them work, and even housing! But the prerequisite was they needed to attend classes which they had to learn some kind of new language and other basic knowledge like maths and science.
Another thing that surprised the new immigrants, was that the young were not allowed to work till they turn sixteen of age. Before that, they were required to attend mandatory classes teaching things that only nobles could ever afford to do so!
Even the elderly were given jobs from teaching positions to cooks and childcare. Slowly, the once empty land started to spring up buildings and in a short span of two months, a small city had grown up with straight and neat streets and orderly rows of houses.
At the water edge, work on the port had also come to close as the foundations were laid out and work was going on under the cover of the roofed dry docks. Other areas that require the pouring of concrete was put on hold till the cold winter months were over and work could only be done under shelter from the snow.
Yet, the massive dry dock that was partially completed already had the skeletal frame of the first of the trimaran supercarrier's hull. The work crew consisting of a mixture of both male workers from Far Harbour and the new immigrants who were mostly female.
The new immigrants' workers were taught about welding and basic shipwright techniques which enabled them to work on the hull. Sparks and the music were constantly coming from the dry docks as goblin shipwrights yelled and cursed at the stupidly of the elves working non stop in three shifts around the clock.
The new immigrants' were once frightened by the goblins but slowly they realised that these goblins were different from the goblins that feasted on people's flesh. And the goblins themselves were even insulted if they were compared to the feral goblins roaming the Uncharted Forest as they referred to themselves as 'superior civilised enlightened' goblins that worshipped the Machine Gods, unlike the ferals goblins who worshipped pagan gods of bone and stone!
Every day, parts and components for the strange giant ship was being shipped in by transport ships which also brought other materials and resources for the growing city. To the new immigrants' surprise, there were no land being prepared for farming of crops, and instead food was constantly being shipped in from the ships.
At first, they were worried about the cost of the food, but later they found out that the food price was strictly controlled by the Government, which eased many of their fears. But still, there was a flicker of unease in their hearts about food to tide them over for winter till the arrival of canned goods totally turned their world concept upside down again.
Food that can be kept for years in a metal container that cost just slightly more the same as fresh food from the market and can be eaten without cooking? First, to them, the use of metal was already an idea of extreme extravagant and waste! In their lifetimes, if a farm has tools made out of metal, it could be considered as a well to do farm! Yet now, metal containers were used to store food and the price for that was not even anything beyond their means!
Next, even dried and salted food could the most be kept for a few months or longer in ideal conditions, yet, the food inside a metal container could be held for years and taste good? It was unbelievable as it sounds!
The new immigrants could only slowly adapt to the fast pace of changes that came into their lives as they struggled to live in the new place which they were slowly calling home. And this city was their hope. 
A city called Hope.

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Compared to the area in front of him that was like a ghost, this place was like a different world, with bright lights and many people coming and going. This street was not big, but it was the only commercial street in the vicinity. To the left was the slave district, and to the right was the slums.

The formation of the commercial street lies in purchasing power.
Biscuit, canned food, steamed buns, steamed buns, ham … These things that were eaten as snacks before the apocalypse had now become the staple food, and they were all luxurious foods. Because of the radiation, there was almost no place on Mars for cultivation or breeding. All the food was now grown in the greenhouse and produced indoors. Anything that ate, even a peanut, had become a rarity.
Liu Wei An had always been below the poverty line. Today, he had unexpectedly obtained 255 copper coins. Adding the 6 copper coins he had saved up, he had earned a total of 261 copper coins. This was his most prosperous period in the past three months.
10 copper coins for a bun, Liu Wei An took 10 in one go, 8 copper coins for a compressed biscuit, 10 copper coins for a bun, the rest of the money he had left was all energy tubes, 5 copper coins for a tube, a total of 16 copper coins.
One had to thank the game Plunder, the money inside and the real world were universal. The credit crisis was also a very important factor in the opening of the Apocalypse War. After the establishment of the three empires, the currency was unified, and the paper money, which was maintained on the basis of reputation, was cancelled. At present, there were basically three types of currency on the market: gold coins, silver coins, and copper coins.
Although most people chose to hibernate after nightfall due to the cold, those who were very hungry could not be excluded. In the dark of the night, there were countless sins that happened every night, and people like Liu Wei An, who didn't even have an ID card, would not even be able to ask about it if something happened.

Even though society was technologically advanced and civilization had advanced, this place was like a chaotic world to them. Fortunately, there were no accidents along the way. Liu Wei An felt that it was still too early. If there were still people wandering outside after ten o'clock, basically, something would happen.

Back in the basement, as expected, the lights in the room were turned off. Liu Wei An turned on the lights and Zhao Xin immediately saw the food in his hands. The steamed bun was still warm and his eyes lit up.
"Eat." Liu Wei An grabbed a steamed bun and started to eat. Although the steamed bun that he had not tasted for a long time was not as delicious as the one cooked on Earth, for someone who had drunk three months' worth of energy pipe, it was still an incredible delicacy.

Zhao Nannan looked at Liu Wei An without moving. How could she not know the difference between Steamed Bun and the energy pipe? However, in the end, it was no match for the hope in Zhao Xin's eyes. She felt a burst of sadness in her heart and silently grabbed a bun. When Zhao Xin saw her mother make a move, she lightly cheered. She quickly grabbed a bun and started to eat. Her face was brimming with a happy smile.
The energy contained in the energy tube could only ensure one's survival. There were also a lot of trace elements that the human body needed that were impossible to provide. After all, the price of the energy tube determined the quality of the food.

Zhao Nannan stopped eating after eating a bun. Seeing that her mother had stopped eating, Zhao Xin also stopped eating. Liu Wei An had already finished his second meal. He raised his head to look at Zhao Nannan and said softly, "Eat, in the game, I am already on the right path, there is no need to go hungry."

Zhao Nannan hesitated for a moment and then grabbed another bun. She knew her daughter very well. If she didn't eat it, she wouldn't eat it either. He was both touched and sad at the same time. He lowered his head so that Liu Wei An wouldn't see his red eyes. Zhao Xin happily grabbed another bun.
After eating three steamed buns, Liu Wei An returned to his bed. He thought for a while, grabbed his helmet and logged into the 'Plunder' game. Zhao Nannan glanced at him in surprise but did not say a word. Usually, Liu Wei An would drag his fatigue to sleep, but today seemed very different.
The bed was an old-fashioned iron frame bed, divided into two bunks. Liu Wei'an slept on the bottom bunk, while Zhao Nannan and her daughter slept on the top bunk. After Zhao Xin finished eating, Zhao Nan packed up the rest of the food and pulled Zhao Xin onto the bed. The 1.2m bed was a little narrow, but Zhao Nan felt an unprecedented warmth.
Entering the game, it was also night in the game. The time in the world of demon beasts and the world of humans seemed to be synchronized, and the sky and the sun were present during the day, with 24 hours a day. The only difference was that the night moon in the world of demon beasts was red, making it look extremely demonic.
Due to his physical fitness, Liu Wei An always logged on during the day. At night, he could only maintain his physical strength for an average of six hours. Seven hours was his limit. It was also his first time going online at night.

The night in Stone City was much calmer than during the day, and the traffic was reduced by more than half. Some shops were also closed, and many people were carrying torches as they left the city or entered the city. Liu Wei An did not have much time to pay attention to this, and hurriedly left, followed by moonlight. He had been in the direction of the cemetery many times to avoid getting lost.
The farther away from the city, the fewer pedestrians there were. After walking for about 10 kilometers, there was no one left on the road. It was pitch black in the wilderness, with only trees showing the shadow of their eyes. The bugs were happily crying in the grass, but the occasional bird's scream was quite scary.
When he passed by a forest, Liu Wei An stopped and started to chop down trees. The forest was made of iron-colored poplar, and there were only about a hundred of them. Iron poplar wood, tough wood with elasticity, is the best material for making bows.
Ancient books have a cloud: the making of the bow to dry, horn, tendons, glue, silk, paint and other materials, also known as' six. The doer, who thinks far and wide, the horn, the disease, the sinews, the deep, the glue, the silk, the solid, the lacquer, and the frost.
Dry, including a variety of wood and bamboo; used to make the main body of a bow arm, multilayered. The performance of dry wood plays a decisive role in the performance of the bow. Dry wood with Zephyr as the top, secondary wood, oak trees, bamboo as the bottom. The horn, or animal horn, is made into a thin slice that is attached to the inside of the bow arm (abdomen). The best way to make a bow is to use a bull's horn. The horn is white, medium green, and undeveloped. The length of the horn is about five inches (nearly fifty centimeters), and the color of the bow is three colors. This is the best horn for a cow to wear a cow "(the price of a horn is the equivalent of a cow, so it is called a cow to wear a cow). The tendons, the animal tendons, lie on the outside (back) of the arcuate arm. The role of tendons and horns. Both of them increased the elasticity of the bow arm, allowing the arrow to shoot faster and deeper. Choosing tendons must be small and long, big and round and smooth. Glue, i.e., animal glue, used to bind dry materials and horny tendons. The book recommends six kinds of gum, such as deer gum, horse gum, beef gum, rat gum, fish gum, rhino gum and so on. The preparation method of glue "generally is to put animal skin and other animal tissue (especially muscle cavity) in the water boiling, or add a small amount of lime alkali, and then filter, steaming thick." According to the experience of later generation bow making, fish tissue, especially the palatine endothelium and fish fat were the best. In recent times, Chinese archers used fish glue to make an important part of the bow, that is, the bearing capacity of the bow. However, it was not very important to use the hide gum in other areas, such as covering the skin. Silk, that is, silk thread, will be the angle of the bow by the tendons of the silk threads tightly entwined, making it more solid. The colour and luster of the choice silk must be as bright as if it were in water. Paint, will be made of the bow arm paint, to prevent the erosion of dew moisture, and the need to choose paint color clear.
It would take a long time for him to make a good bow with complicated craftsmanship. Obviously, Liu Wei An didn't have that kind of time, so the bow he made was the simplest kind.

Unlike the first time, it took two whole days for the bow to be completed. Next was the arrow, a sharp arrow, and in terms of craftsmanship, it was not that simple. However, Liu Wei An needed a one-time arrow, so the requirements were not as strict.
However, although it was a one-time use, the materials couldn't be sloppy. Liu Wei An knew that bamboo wasn't bad, but since there weren't any in this area, he could only choose a wooden pole.
The hardness of iron poplar is enough, but the elasticity will affect the accuracy. Liu Wei An walked eastwards along the familiar road for about three miles. The lush forest seemed eerie. If he hadn't been here many times, he really wouldn't dare to come in here alone.
After carefully examining the tree for a moment, his eyes lit up. Taking a few steps forward, he drew his saber and hacked down five to six finger-sized saplings. He then picked up the sapling and ran. This black cloth in the middle of winter was too frightening. The startled bird flapped its wings as if it was right behind him. Liu Wei An didn't even turn back, only stopping when he reached the road. He took a few deep breaths and started to make arrows.

This was an iron birch tree. It was as hard as iron and as straight as a spear. It was difficult for it to grow big. If not for the sharpness of the dagger, it would have been difficult for it to cut them down. A small sapling could be cut into four arrows, exactly twenty-four of them. He would peel and polish them, remove all unnecessary things, and finally install the nail knife from the rotting corpse's hand. One arrow was already completed.

The arrowheads of the twenty arrows were carrion nails, the arrowheads of the first arrow were animal bones, and the rest of the arrows were nothing.

After the bow crafting was completed, the next step was to kill the monsters. Liu Wei An hesitated for a moment before he set off towards the cemetery. It was a dark night. To be honest, he was a bit scared when he went to the cemetery alone.

There were clearly more monsters in the dark night than during the day. They scurried around, including the leopard, lynx, dog, and wolf … Liu Wei'an didn't have the confidence to hit them, so he carefully avoided them one by one. About an hour and forty minutes later, they entered the cemetery. It was obvious that the moonlight in the sky was even darker and silent.
Because of the corpse aura, almost no living being liked to live inside it. Liu Wei An wasn't used to having no insects to call out, so he gritted his teeth and strode inside.

Resources were depleted, civil war broke out, and the earth was on the verge of destruction. After the order was re-established, there were still many contradictions between the two sides. A tranquil undercurrent was surging under the surface … A space ship carrying a felon was shot down by a pirate near Mars, the scapegoat Liu Wei An was lucky enough to escape. The little butterflies in the slave quarters stirred its wings, and the gears of history changed.


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Since that they had decided to do it, they would do it well.
As they were all young men and full of passion, after making up their minds, they all started to move enthusiastically.
Early the next morning, Yang Yuankang had already arrived at the Songtao Pavilion in the appointed place. 
He brought two crates of new crystal vials into Zhang Tie's room. Yang Yuankang and Zhang Tie then filled all the solution from the terrine into the vials. They got 138 vials of medicament in total. 
"These vials of medicament have no symbols. In the future, we should customize all the vials of medicament!" Yang Yuankang said.
"Where will we customize them?"
"It's available in the Breaking-Heavens Department. The students who cultivate to be alchemists would customize their personal vials for medicaments after being able to produce them. There are private symbols on their vials. You can call them trademarks. All the private symbols on the vials are trademarks. They are registered in the Alchemists Association and are the only private image-text symbols being protected by the Alchemists Association!"
"I'm not an alchemist. How could I register my private symbol on the vials?" Zhang Tie asked out of curiosity.
"You can. All the vials with medicament inside could be registered for exclusively private symbol in the Alchemists Association!" Taking a empty crystal vial of medicament, Yang Yuankang pointed at some special designs on it, "This crystal vial includes several unique patents from aspects like ingredients and craftsmanship. These patents are exclusively enjoyed by the Alchemists Association. The Alchemists Association monopolizes the production of all the vials and the right to register and authenticate the symbols on the vials!"
Zhang Tie nodded. He thought if this batch of solution could really sell well, as long as he could produce it on a large scale, he would definitely customize his own vials.
After filling the solution inside the vials, Yang Yuankang took away 120 vials. Zhang Tie asked to keep the rest 18 vials. For the 120 vials, Zhang Tie sold them at the price of 4 gold coins for each. 
Zhang Tie decided to set the price of each vial at 5 gold coins, which was 10% lower than the common LV 1 antidote on the market, leaving 20% of gross profit to Yang Yuankang and the other guys. 
Because medicament were usually very expensive. Most of stores and sales terminals would variate from 5% to 8%. As the first dealer of Zhang Tie, Yang Yuankang could enjoy 20% of the gross profit. This was really too profitable. 
As the condition for the cooperation between both parties, if they could sell these products successfully, in the future, regardless of the rising sales price of the terminals, Zhang Tie always provide them at least 10000 vials of medicament at the price of lower than 4 gold coins a vial so as to ensure their investment benefits as the first ones who dared to eat crabs.
After taking the 120 vials of medicament, Yang Yuankang became so excited that after bidding a farewell with ZhangTie, he hurriedly left.
Staying in his room, Zhang Tie smirked as he counted the 480 gold coins paid by Yang Yuankang for many times. He was filled with pleasure. This was Zhang Tie's first time making money with his real talent and ability. Previously, although Zhang Tie had manipulated more money than this, he actually didn't make it with his own ability. 
When the Gregory family compensated 5000 gold coins for him, they were actually paying for the life of a second lieutenant of the Iron-Blood Camp of Norman Empire. 
When in Blapei, although he took the position as an officer in the logistics department and could gain a lot of gold coins per week, that was due to the concern about him from the big figures of the Iron-Horn Army. 
Even though that rune ring was still picked up from the battlefield, it was due to good luck. 
However, today, with his own ability, he made 480 gold coins. Holding the heavy gold coins which weighed over 10 kg, Zhang Tie felt very satisfied. 
After Yang Yuankang left, Zhang Tie also left Songtao Pavilion with some money.
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Seeing Zhang Tie falling off the 4 m high quincuncial piles once again, although standing on the ground steadily, Gu Caidie who was responsible for guiding Zhang Tie frowned her forehead with a serious expression at once. 
"Junior brother Zhang Tie, you seem not concentrated today! As you've made progress very fast during this period, you shouldn't slack off!"
"Yes, senior sister Gu!" Feeling embarrassed, Zhang Tie scratched his head as he slightly jumped up from the ground and stood back onto the piles. After practicing it for several days, although Zhang Tie could still not defeat those girls, his movements had become increasingly more flexible. He could stand longer and longer on the piles now. Even when falling off the piles, Zhang Tie could still stand on the ground safe and sound, instead of being that awkward at the beginning.
Today, because Zhang Tie was thinking about making money, he became a bit mind-absent on the piles.
"Although you have great strength on your feet, it was not enough, as you have to feel being both a nail and a spring on the piles, in each second, you should be at the equilibrium point between the nail and the spring. Only when you could fix and move your foot in a split second could you pass the test!"
Zhang Tie nodded.
After concentrating, Zhang Tie performed much better. Two hours passed very soon.
The moment it was finished, after bidding a farewell with Gu Caidie, Zhang Tie had hurriedly left the training field. 
Seeing that Zhang Tie was that anxious, Gu Caidie could only reveal a smile as she shook her head.
Even though afterTwo hours' training, when Zhang Tie left the training field for fundamental movements, it was still 9 am..
After leaving the training field, Zhang Tie directly came to the hall of the Middle Castle and queued up before the counter where he handed in money at the beginning. 
After the front ones handed in the monthly payment, it was finally Zhang Tie's turn.
Behind that counter was still those senior scholars who were wearing oversleeves.
"I want to rent a warehouse!" Zhang Tie directly gave his clan plate to a senior scholar.
Taking Zhang Tie's clan plate, the old man inserted it into the slot of the machine. After pulling down a drawbar, he looked at the data on the machine before nodding. "You have good credit. You can rent some facilities of Hidden Dragon Palace. What sort of warehouse do you want?"
"The area of the warehouse should be above 200 sq meters. It should have good access to water, wind and items. Additionally, the warehouse should be safe. Besides me, nobody else can enter!"
"The only one that meets your requirements should be the workshop for herbal medicine apprentices in the Hidden Dragon Palace. Each herbal medicine apprentice is equipped with a herbal medicine warehouse which covers 210 sq meters. The warehouse is access to to wind, water. Besides, its illumination and temperature are adjustable!"
"The workshop of herbal medicine apprentices? It doesn't sound too bad." Zhang Tie thought inwardly. 
"What about the rate?"
"The rent for each workshop is 15 gold coins a month! You should pay off one year's rent before being able to use it."
This price was still too high for purely renting a room; however, as it was in the Hidden Dragon Palace, it was still acceptable for Zhang Tie.
"Well, I want to rent a workshop then!" Saying this, Zhang Tie pulled out his purse and counted out 180 gold coins, which were a part of that paid by Yang Yuankang and the other guys. After the payment, only 300 gold coins left. 
"Your workshop is in the Poria Cocos Park in Herb Valley." The old man returned the clan plate to Zhang Tie as he give him a metal plate marked with "Poria Cocos". "This plate is the only secret key to open the Poria Cocos Park. Take it and register in the Administration Center of the Herbs Valley, where someone will guide you to the Poria Cocos Park!"
After taking a serious look at the metal plate marked with "Poria Cocos", Zhang Tie found it was a bit similar to his clan plate as on the back of each plate was graved with some secret metal grains.
Holding the secret key, Zhang Tie instantly rushed into Herb Valley. 
Herb Valley was beside the Lower Castle. It was not far from the Secret Knowledge Pavilion and was only over 500 m away from the Zhixing Department. Herb Vallley was in the east while the Zhixing Department was in the west with a ridge between them. This was a more tranquil small valley, which was covered with many herbal fields. The moment Zhang Tie entered this region, he had smelt the fragrance of many kinds of herbal medicines.
Those independent small parks were scattering in this small valley. On the way, Zhang Tie saw many rooms were named "White Peony Park", "Licorice Park", "Angelica Park", "Red Peony Park" and "Ginseng Park", etc...
Zhang Tie entered the Administration Center of Herb Valley to register himself. After that, a staff member guided him into Poria Cocos Park. 
There was a firm iron gate outside the Poria Cocos Park. After inserting the secret key into the slot on the iron gate, Zhang Tie twisted the handle on the iron gate to open it.
Poria Cocos Park covered more than 300 sq meters. It was divided into many small rooms, including a lab, lounge room and herbal medicine warehouse. There were some simple tools for processing herbal medicines. 
Zhang Tie was concerned about the warehouse most. After circling around the warehouse, Zhang Tie found some wooden brackets in the warehouse which almost filled the whole warehouse. He then faintly frowned, "I don't need these things, can you have someone move them out of here?
"These items are used to dry and store various  herbal medicines. Each herbal medicine apprentice would use them!" The staff explained as he thought Zhang Tie didn't know their purpose. 
"I won't use them!"
"Aren't you a herbal medicine apprentice?" The staff asked out of curiosity. 
"Who told you I was a herbal medicine apprentice?" Zhang Tie asked.
"But what do you rent it for..."
"I have money, I want to pickle vegetables here!" Zhang Tie smirked...

After the Catastrophe, every rule in the world was rewritten.
In the Age of Black Iron, steel, iron, steam engines and fighting force became the crux in which human beings depended on to survive.
A commoner boy by the name Zhang Tie was selected by the gods of fortune and was gifted a small tree which could constantly produce various marvelous fruits. At the same time, Zhang Tie was thrown into the flames of war, a three-hundred-year war between humans and demons on the vacant continent. Using crystals to tap into the potentials of the human body, one must cultivate to become stronger.
The thrilling legends of mysterious clans, secrets of Oriental fantasies, numerous treasures and legacies in the underground world — All in the Castle of Black Iron!
Written by Drunk Tiger, this novel is a prime example of fantasy steampunk. Let us journey through the world of limitless possibilities and inventions together!
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**Warning: This novel contains mature content**


Dara, meanwhile, went to the plain, the river ended. In his backpack at the bottom lay a weighty jar of finds - coins, gold, silver, copper, brass. Buckles from soldier's belts, aluminum spoons, the remains of folding knives, podgoks, needles, nails, two effects from a saber, several buttons, two iron chains and other iron debris. A kilogram by 3. The total amount of finds has already exceeded the most conservative estimates for $ 25,000. Lucky. If he searched more carefully, he would probably be able to find more finds. But time was limited. Therefore, the Dara planned to return sometime later. In the meantime, see all the places that he outlined earlier.

Dara went to the plain ... he was surprised by the distance he traveled. He saw no one he knew.

The question is what to do? Go back or try to look for something in the steppe?

The first path is more secure, the second is more interesting.

Dara decided to choose the second path. He slashed forward, leading a coil in front of him. There were no signals. So Dara walked about 1 km. Steppe. Red poppies, green grass, purple erimuros stretching to the sky, 3-4 meters high. On the land of the inode, there were spools of lamb poop, and sometimes cow cakes. This is certainly not Idia, where it would be moeno to meet large poop of elephants in the rainforest, large such balls of 5-10 kg each. Like in Small An, peasants used to collect them and dry them, and in winter they were heated by dried turd of domestic animals of cows, buffalos or elephants.

In some places one could see mink gophers and cones of moles. Sometimes gnawed skeletons of turtles or individual heads of skeletons of small animals - dogs or jackals.

For snakes and spiders while the time was too cold they slept underground or under the rocks.

The steppe was uneven, in some places the remains of ancient irrigation canals were visible, the ruins of modern wintering for cattle. These were four coal-shaped rooms without roofs, one brick thick, of four walls, only two stuck out, and then they collapsed. A tree is highly regarded in the Kaki mountains steppe. Therefore, the ceilings and beams were all turned out and moved to a new place.

Sometimes there were large trampled spaces in a circle. The location of the nomads' yurts, which apparently lived here in the winter and in the beginning of spring, moved to other places.

A gift, for the sake of interest, walked there, there were squeaks at a frequency of 43. So, t, some kind of coin? But what is mono to find in the modern nomad camp? Only modern coins? And no! Since the nomads have not gone anywhere else abroad for the last 200 years, they wander along their old nomads, which have been them for 700 years. This means that there may be older coins.

Dara just heard a signal at a depth of 55 cm. Digging to a degree is not easy, serozem, it is chernozem. A shovel hardly enters hard ground. The fertile layer is only 15-20 cm, and then there is fine sand, rounded stones 1-2 cm in size, similar to pebbles but softer in composition. And then clay. The color of the soil is light brown, the deeper the darker.

Dara ran a metal detector and the signal disappeared, then when he got a subinter, he began poking them into the heap near the pit. And then came the long-awaited crack. It was not a coin, but a ring of golden color. Maybe gold, maybe copper? Squirting water from the spray gun Dara cleaned the find with his finger, it turned out to be a ring, though without a stone. Gold. Each treasure hunter is a little historian, a little archaeologist, a little local historian, a little antique. They should know how to distinguish different epochs of creating artifacts in form, drawing, technique of execution. Browse catalogs to know current prices for products where you can sell them. This is all the necessary knowledge in order to be a treasure hunter.

Each treasure hunter has its own arsenal - these are different types of coils and different types of metal detectors. They differ in characteristics and price. From a couple of hundred dollars to thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars. There should be pointers, lights, ultrasonic cameras, shovels, and sometimes probes, if there is money, geophysical equipment or special scanners allowing you to look through walls or soil for 3-5 meters. This is all big money. Beginners can't afford it. Flasks for water, unloading, good backpacks, belts. Knives, weapons of self-defense. Injury or shockers. Anything happens when searching for treasures. Permits to carry traumas, permits to engage in treasure hunting, a license, a certificate of payment of taxes on income from the sale of artifacts found. Acts from the state organization for standards that the equipment has passed their expertise.

Plus good shoes and work clothes. Not to mention the palaces and o-bento, that is, food during work, dry rations, canned food, water, medicines, small burners to heat food.

The ring put on by him was apparently the end of the 18th - beginning of the 19th century, the price for the voucher was about 1340 dollars, but it would already be necessary to specify more precisely on the auction website.

It is good that in order to attract tourists to Small Ahn, they allowed to export the treasures found if they are not of cultural value and sell through auctions.

And then some three years ago it was banned. As well as the export of foreign currency more than 1000 dollars. Poor foreigners, not knowing about it, exchanged dollars in their hands and then, without having official certificates from banks, they could not change back the local currency they received. So they had to take non-convertible currency to their countries. Since in world banks it was not possible to change the national currency of Small-An.

It was impossible to pay for a purchase through the Internet in an online store. There was a strict accounting of foreign currency, it was impossible to change the national currency to foreign.

But after the reforms started, in part it became possible. Thanks to this, the level of visiting tourists has increased from 450 thousand people to 12 million people.

True, the level of well-being from this is not very and rose from $ 980 a year per person to 1370! But GDP growth was more striking from $ 48 billion to $ 340 billion. However, Small-An, still had many inefficient state budget expenditures; he maintained a staff of old retirement officials who controlled the society but without much success. Nevertheless, about $ 1 billion was spent on their activities and maintenance, and another $ 3 billion was spent on the maintenance of their infrastructure - palaces of culture, special clinics, hospitals, rest homes, special workshops for the production of meat products and high-quality sweets. dollars. At the same time, only 32 million dollars continued to be allocated to science in Small-An.

Thanks to reforms, now the gift could more freely engage in treasure hunting.

To ensure safety and control of what was found, the tax inspectorate obliged treasure hunters to use body cameras that went to their personal office and were monitored by tax inspectors. On the one hand, this was done so that the treasure hunters would not conceal the finds, but on the other, to protect them from the robbers. Since the recording was carried out in real time. The camera had facial recognition functions, according to biometric data. And the data was stored in the north in a tax office.

So Dara was minimally protected.

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After passing another 1 km of Dara, she found an interesting platform, it was 50 meters by 100. All trampled down with tire marks on five sides. What could it be?

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A small story about adventurers, local history enthusiasts, treasure hunters. They wander around cities, forests, mountains, steppes and deserts, seek metal artifacts and search magnets for historical artifacts and sell some of them at auctions, donate some to museums and keep some in their home collections. They work in archives and funds, second-hand bookkeepers do not forget, they look for old books, road workers and topographic maps of the 17-20 centuries.

There is the only main character Fang and his partner Dara.

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English is the same as in other novels. While it is far from good. The approximate number of chapters is from 60 to 100. Updates 3 chapters per week. The number of words is from 600 to more 1200.

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This is a work of art. Any resemblance to real people or real events is purely coincidental.

The first he needed was to fix up the stability of the horse carriage. Abel added 4 groups of bulky springs between the wheels and the body of the carriage as shock absorbers.
Abel was sure that the quality of these springs would be unmatchable. This was not only because Abel remembers how to make the spiral springs from his past incarnation, but it was also due to his incomparable strength.
When it came to making these springs, one needed to through the spring iron into the furnace. Then slowly strike it until it became a thick stick of iron. Afterward, one needed to wrap the stick of iron around an iron rod. Since Abel did not have the equipment for this, that's where his enormous strength could shine. Although these spring irons were not as strong as the 100 skills irons, it was still impossible for a normal human to bend. If Abel's body did not develop in such a rapid pace in these past few days, there's no way he could do this.
There were 4 springs in a group. Every group was secured by a sheet of metal at the bottom of the carriage between the wheels. It took Abel a large amount of time and effort to secure this total of 16 springs.
The shock absorbers had been completed. Then, it was the most crucial step. Before this, Abel had already forged 20 thick rectangle sheets of 100 skills iron.
Only Abel would have used 100 skills iron to form an ordinary sheet. Normally, these type of iron was only used in the weapons of the highest value, such as a big sword. In fact, they were treated as treasures by all blacksmiths.
Abel drew out a rough area on the sheet and proceeded to throw it in the furnace. after it was burning red, he took it out with a tong. Then he put a hole for the gem on the sheet with a hammer drill.
After Abel drilled a hole in all 20 of the sheets, he threw them all into the water for cooling. After he whipped them dry, it was rune drawing time.
He had prepared to draw some ice magic runes, which he was way too familiar with. However, this time he would be using the intermediate ice magic rune ink he had combined. The rune path created by these intermediate rune ink was often very fragile, so it was better to still be very careful.
On top of that, Abel would be using this on his own carriage, so safety was definitely a priority. However, these rune inks were combined anyway, so it didn't actually cost that much.
Since Abel's power of the will had increased, drawing runes were like a walk in the park. He had drawn 5 runes in a roll until he felt his power of the will depleting. He rested for 30 minutes before drawing another 5 runes. Just like that, 10 ice magic runes were complete.
Abel then took out the intermediate fire magic rune ink and turned the other 10 iron sheets into fire magic iron sheets.
In the hole of each of the sheets, Abel separately placed 10 blue gems and 10 red gems. All of these gems were combined by Abel, so the cost was low as well.
Afterward, Abel used some normal iron to forged 2 large boxes. He then puts some small holes on it with a hammer drill and placed each of them on each side of the carriage.
Then, Abel secured some fan arms on to each of the holes inside the cupboard. There were conveyor belts connecting the fan arm to the wheels, allowing it to spin.
That's where the 20 sheets of iron could show it's power. He secured the 10 ice magic iron sheets on each of the 10 fan arms on one of the large boxes. Outside the cupboard, Abel added a handle. There were 10 different modes to the handle. If one pulled on the handle on the lowest mode, it would only ignite to 1 ice magic iron sheet, thus only unleashing a small amount of ice magic power. As the gears went higher, the more magic sheet it would ignite, thus the ice magic power would increase as well.
When the carriage was moving, the conveyor belt would spin these sheets inside the large box according to the motion of the wheels. When the ice magic power was ignited, cool air would blow out from those small holes of the box.
This was a special ice magic air conditioner designed by Abel. It used the same technology as those ice magic big sword of his. Since a big sword normally would be sold for 20 thousand gold coins in an auction. If each sheet of iron worth the same amount of a big sword, this air conditioner could worth more than 200 thousand gold coins.
Of course, if you want to calculate the price of this thing, who could forget about the intermediate rune ink. Since the material for these ink was extremely rare, they were almost priceless. Therefore it was very hard to calculate the actual price.
With the same method, Abel installed the 10 fire magic sheets into the other large box, thus creating a fire magic heater. 
This entire air conditioning system could cost well over 400 thousand gold coins. Abel wondered if he should mass-produce it. A mere air conditioning system like this could pay for the training fees for his entire life.
Normally when a horse carriage was made, the gap between the wheels and the body of the carriage was only filled with some lubricants. This method seemed very outdated to Abel. Since he had now installed the springs on to each of the wheels, they could continue moving despite the bumpy roads. It would also go faster since it required much less effort for the bull or horse to pull.
Abel also did some upgrades to the wheels of the carriage. He wrapped layers of orc skin on each of its rims, the outermost layer was equipped with the highest quality orc skin. These orc skins were found in the secret collection of the Knight of Marshall. Due to their small surface area, they could not be turned in to armors. Therefore they were just gathering dust in the storage, only until now, Abel had taken it out to use it as tires for the carriage.
Just like that, the super luxurious horse carriage has completed its upgrade. Abel called in some carpenter from the castle. He told them to secure the 2 large boxes of the air conditioner with wood and turn it into 2 tables. Now, both the front and back of the carriage was equipped with 2 sofas, 2 tables on each side, and under which was an air conditioning system.
Abel had sacrificed 3 days of effort to make this horse carriage, or bull carriage since it would be pulled by inferno bulls. He was sure that the Lord of Marshall would be very satisfied to receive this as a birthday gift.
Abel then took out the 2 different rune signs he got from the wargon. Although he had never seen these runes before, according to the Knight of Saroya, who was the leader of the knight brigade that battled the orcs, a wargon had also taken out a sign like this when it was being attacked, it hugely reduced the impact of the 33 knight's combined combat qi strike.
As far as Abel could remember, there weren't many runes in Diablo 2 that could reduce impact. If Abel's train of thoughts was correct, these 2 rune signs could very well be the "12#SOL Thor" runes.
12 # SOL thor:
+9 the lowest impact
Offset physical impact 7
Abel didn't know what "offset physical impact 7" meant in reality. However, he was reminded of the wound that was on a White cloud. Although it was long, it wasn't too deep, Abel speculated the rune sign must have drastically reduced the power of the 33 knight's combined combat qi. Therefore, "offset physical impact 7" should be around the force of around 30 official knights.
Although Abel was unsure how much power a commander would have, this rune should be more than capable of defending against an elite, or below knight.
Abel had an idea, he should make a shield out of this rune. Since it was still too challenging for him to make great defending weapons such as the "Ancient vow" with rune language. These single rune weapons should be doable.
Although Abel was not used to making shields, he didn't think it would be a problem because of his incredible strength and his increasing power of the will.
Abel decided to make a knight's shield, also known as the kite shield. These shields were flat on the top and sharp at the bottom. They were very commonly used by knights. Its surface was often color painted with the knight's family's coat of arms. It was practical and functional.
Abel picked out the best iron from the iron ore. He decided to start from scratch, it was the first time he would make a rough iron model since his strength has developed drastically.
This time, he struck the iron with a 100-pound hammer, he couldn't help it. The 30-pound hammer he used before felt like a toothpick in his hand. Although this 100-pound hammer still felt a bit light, it was already the heaviest one he could find.
He started from 1 skill and forged it into 80 skills with almost no effort at all. He realized he didn't even need to utilize his power of the will to do this, he could just use his brutal force. As he kept striking the iron with this nonsensical method, soon it had turned in to 100 skills. By this point, he was no longer satisfied with a 100 skills model of iron. If he had used his power of the will on top of this, who knows how many more skills could he forge?


I was reincarnated into another world, and I brought the Horadric Cube from Diablo II with me. 
Being a knight is cool and all, but being a wizard is pretty neat as well.
So, which one will it be?
  

Inside the Mercenary Guild's hall, in front of Miss Chen's counter.
"Whooaaa…. It's so shiny!" 
In Mingyue's hand, there was a small badge which was made out of mysterious metal. In front of it was the symbol of the Mercenary Guild, while at behind, there was nothing. Flat.
"Er, Miss Chen. Is this really a mercenary's badge?" Fu Tao was not sure of the thing in his hand.
"Yes, of course. As long as you have bound the badge using your blood, there is nothing to be scared of." Miss Chen answered with a reassuring smile. "Once it is bound, it is yours forever. Ah, as long as you didn't lose it, okay?"
After the earlier event, Miss Chen didn't spare a glance toward Shi Jingtian, and no one did.
Perhaps, her impression of Shi Jingtian plummeted.
"But, if it is missing-"
"Please don't miss it." Miss Chen had a scary smile as she ensured Fu Tao. 
"Ye- yes…" Fu Tao coughed while he changed the topic. "So, we have already become a proper 1-star mercenary, right?"
"Yes. The three of you are already a proper 1-star mercenary. Are you interested in taking some mission?"
"No, it's not like that." Fu Tao waved his hand while dismissing that topic. "Can we take a 2-star mercenary's examination?"
Miss Chen froze on the spot. She never expected that the harmless-looking young man was so brazen. But after thinking a little, she didn't mind and returned to her usual professional smile.
"The criteria to take the 2-star mercenary's examination is not easy. Are you still interested?"
"Yes. I need to reach 2-star mercenary as soon as possible." It was obvious that Fu Tao wouldn't say the deal they had with Quan Jingyi.
As long as they could become a 2-star mercenary, they could pick the special mission about the abandoned mine.
"Okay. The basic requirement is at least two years as a 1-star mercenary. I am sorry, but mister Fu Tao has failed."
Miss Chen still had her professional, making it hard for Fu Tao to reply.
Liao Yun snickered while Mingyue patted Fu Tao's back and consoled, "Don't be sad, smelly tofu."
"Fufu, of course, I am only kidding. Don't be mad, mister Fu Tao." Miss Chen giggled and continued, "There is indeed a few exceptions for this rule. Because of that, I have to discuss this matter with the Guild Master first of all, before making a decision."
"But considering mister Fu Tao's ability, I am sure that you will have the chance eventually. For the other two-"
""I am better than this smelly tofu!""
Mingyue and Liao Yun made the same exclamation at the same time.
"Ahaha…" There was a wry smile pasted on Miss Chen. "For little Yue, it is a little hard because your status as 1-star mercenary comes from your ability as a healer. Making it short, there will be a few examinations for you."
But Mingyue didn't have any expression toward that sentence. "Oh. That's fine since that smelly tofu is the only one who wished to be a 2-star mercenary."
"Ah… I see… Hahaha…" Miss Chen let out a dry laugh. She really didn't understand the relationship between the three of them.
After contemplating for some time, Mingyue, Fu Tao, and Liao Yun decided to leave the Mercenary Guild in case Shi Jingtian woke up. They weren't scared by Shi Jingtian, but rather they didn't want to be blamed or forced to pay some reparation for Shi Jingtian's teeth.
"So, what are our plan now?" After walking for some time, Mingyue turned her body toward Fu Tao and Liao Yun.
Even though the three of them finally became mercenary, they were not 2-star mercenary yet. They could only wait for the news from Miss Chen, since it was the only thing they could do regarding the rank up.
And it left them with nothing to do.
"Fight! Find someone tough! Strong! And beat the crap out of them!" Liao Yun crackled her fist.
But Fu Tao shot her suggestion down.
"No. we need more money before we will be kicked out of the aunty Gu Wen's place"
Indeed. The matter of mercenary's examination made Mingyue and Liao Yun didn't think of their current fund.
After selling the old wagon along the pair of donkey and pair of wild horse, there were around one gold coin and a few silver coins. The old wagon and the pair of donkey didn't have any worth, only a four broken silver coins in total.
But unexpectedly, the pair of commonly found horse from Wind Chasing Tribe were priced very high. Around six silvers each, more than ten times the price of a normal horse.
"Sigh. If I know about it, I will bring a few more horse from the settlement." Fu Tao was full of sorrow as he heard the price.
Of course, most people would.
If something common in your place had a high price, what would you do? Of course, sell as many as possible. And that was what Fu Tao had missed.
"Heck! You money pinchers! All you think is only money, money, and money. Why don't you sell your body? You will get an easy money, won't you?" Liao Yun turned her attention toward Mingyue and asked, "You are in the same boat with me, right? Making the crap out of some bastards is fun, right?"
Mingyue was speechless by that question.
"Up to you." Mingyue shrugged.
"Why? Why why why? Little Yue, let's beat some people… it is interesting, right? Also, it is a good exercise, also it is relieving some stress…"
"Er, why don't you pick a mission concerning about beating some people? You got money and exercise."
Unexpectedly, Liao Yun nodded her head without hesitation.
"Fine. As long as I can loosen my body. Your call. . ."
Indeed, the current problem for the three of them was the fund, aka money. But, Mingyue had her own agenda here, in this city.
Finding out any information about the Fire Kingdom's situation.
Before this, Mingyue had tried to search any rumours from some local mercenaries, but it was no use. Their information was too random and there was a lot of clashing informations. Not even a concrete information, and most of it was degrading the Fire Kingdom's Royal Family. The quality of the information was crap, there was nothing worth to note.
Thus, it was only a waste of time.
But, there was a reason for it.
First, the relationship between the Fire Kingdom and the Earth Kingdom was hostile, enough for a war to erupt any time. Not only the relationship between the Royal Family, but also the residence in each of the kingdom were hostile to each other.
Second, this Black Iron City's position was at the north of the Earth Kingdom, while the border between the Earth Kingdom and the Fire Kingdom was in the south of the Earth Kingdom. For any information reached the Black Iron City, it would need at the very least a year.
Hence, it was normal for any rumours became an important information here in the Black Iron City.
With this, Mingyue's plan went awry.
Since it was impossible to gain the newest information about the Fire Kingdom, she decided to enjoy her journey.
…
As Mingyue and her company were walking in the street, there was a big crowd in front of them. Mingyue, Liao Yun, and Fu Tao were planning to evade the crowd, but Mingyue stopped Liao Yun and Fu Tao.
There was a good show, and there was something that attracted her attention.
"P- please! Young Master Lin, please give this humble merchant another chance!" A desperate voice was resounded, it was filled with despair and unwillingness. 
"What are you talking about! Our Young Master takes your dirty daughter, it is considered a great fortune for your family! Like a carp transformed into a phoenix! Be grateful and don't disturb our Young Master!" 
Another voice resounded, but this voice was clearly sneering the previous voice.
"No! I am willing to give anything, except for my daughter-"  Pa!  "Ah!"
"Dad! No! Help!"
"SHUT UP! It is our Young Master's kindness that allowed you to be picked up! Be grateful and serve our Young Master with your body! That is the best way to repay our Young Master's grace!"
Pa!
"Aah!"
Pfft! Mingyue unable to endure the laughter anymore since it was a classic line in her previous life.
Classic! Too classic and unoriginal!
An actor from some kind of cheap theatre? Or street performance?
For someone from an influential family, taking over the commoner's possession. Of course, a young woman was included in this possession thing. It was not weird.
But, there was something that attracted Mingyue's attention.
[Young Master Lin? Which one, is this?] Mingyue had an evil smirk on her face.
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Arriving at the new world, an ex-cultivator vowed to never cultivate anymore

A naive little girl lived in a world full of deceit, she is faced with choices.

Treading along a new world with a lot of secrets. Who could she trust?

Will she fall? Or she will triumph over the mortal?

Follow the journey of Xia Mingyue, a mighty cultivator that was trapped in a weak body in the new world, new place, without cultivator.

*Warning, a slow-paced story until around chapter 80.

Announcement;
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But don't worry, I am mainly active in webnovel :D

*This is my first story, so I will appreciate various suggestions and critics.
*Story by FrostDream193
*Edited by FrostDream193

In India, lunch boxes are common, that is, containers for lunch (food). In those days, there were three types - steel flat rectangular, steel high type of small pots, which were combined into a single vertical structure with the help of a bracket and plastic boxes with lids.

Often preference was given to steel, they are more convenient, do not break, hold heat better, and the third type caused certain concerns, what kind of material, is it harmful?

Usually in a lunch box 4 sections of 500 grams. As a rule, they put boiled rice in the first, secondly stewed vegetables, thirdly boiled eggs or scrambled eggs, fourthly curry-chiken or pieces of feta cheese, fifthly a few small chapatti or tandori cakes. They also carry black tea in an iron thermos. Although in most cases the departments have their own tea houses. There you buy coupons, just like Mark Twain, yellow - this is black tea with milk and one serving of sugar, green - with double, red - with triple. The price differs from 3.5 rupees to 9, respectively.

Foreign students preferred to save money and therefore took lunch boxes with triple containers. Rice with stewed vegetables, toaster bread with jam and pasta with chili ketchup.

Breaks between lectures or scientific work are no more than 5 minutes, then special people from the technical staff, dressed in blue robes, carry dry cookies and black tea with milk and sugar on large trays.

In practice, foreign students tried to minimize spending, and even when leaving their home campus somewhere in the wilderness, they simply feared a little about the cleanliness of dishes and cooking. In view of - prepared themselves. The easiest way - pasta "Maggie To Minutes" two minutes and pasta ready. Chinese boilers rescued, as well as killer, sharp ketchup. It was possible to manage such a breakfast for 10-14 days. For lunch, they took boiled eggs and rice with them, but the former have one drawback, they take a lot of water from the body. To prevent dehydration, I had to drink more than usual water.

Local doctors recommended in the field to drink water mixed with glucose, at least 3.5 liters per day.

Dinner consisted of curry chiken, tomato-sum in the nearest village restaurant, which was a two-story brick house, on the ground floor of which there were four tables and a row of benches. At the end of the room there was a small kitchen, of five burners, where rice was cooked in huge 10 liter steel pans, vegetables and curry chikin reached the pots, and there was a kettle on the last. The second floor was occupied by a hotel. The rooms had no doors, only curtains, they had a couch, one chair, a wash basin, windows had no glass, but they had a mosquito net.

It was nice, to say the least, spending time with my sisters. It is not something I would want to do on a regular basis. But for a bit of time here and there, I would not be adverse to having them spend some time here, without the presence of our parents. I finally, at last, got to start learning more about them.



It might sound that I do not want to spend time with my parents, but that is the furthest thing from the truth. I do care for them, and wish them the best. However, at times, their children need the absence of them so that they are able to grow and be their own person.



Even though I had a some desire to speak more of my sisters, I had things I need to do. Going back into town, there is still the order from Girts that I need to take. Along with that, I do have some money in which I should finally be able purchase the cart that I need to haul my wares.



The desire to increase my stock of wares, so that I could start selling them in mass, is part of my desire. However, I need to start accruing some wealth. I have been progressing with rudimentary tools of my own creation, and they should be upgraded at some point.



While shovels and hoes made of wood are of some use, they have a higher chance of failure than those made of metal. With all the dirt that I have been digging up and processing, I have gone through a fair few shovel heads, leading to a lose in productivity. Along with that, wood does not cut through dirt that well.



For the time being, I can survive with these rudimentary tools, but I need to change them out as soon as I can. Hopefully with the order that Girts wants this time, I should be able to afford at least a few new tools. That is, if I make sure that I make what is requested, and not what I assume is wanted.



So as to verify Girts order, I made some unbaked pieces, that I allowed to dry out all the way. This way, since I have some handle over dealing with these pieces, I should be able to handle most special requests that he has. This should allay some of my concerns over making something wrong.



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My father was fairly accurate in the cost of a new cart. For the simple rickshaw style cart that I wanted, the cost was thirty and a half bronze coins. Okay, I am sort of lying.



While the coins are based around increases of tens or hundreds, there is no usage of fractions or decimals for the coinage. When I said thirty and a half bronze, what I truly meant to say, was that I spent thirty bronze and five iron coins. To me, it is the same amount of money. To others, it is considered as a novel concept to think in that sort of way.



If I was to demonstrate with the largest coin that the average person has access to, the silver coin, it is worth one hundred bronze coins. One silver coin is considered a huge some of money for peasants, of which I am still considered one. Excluding tradesmen, most people will never have that type of coin on hand.



So, if I was to buy something that was half a silver coin, I would mentally due the conversion in my head, that it cost fifty bronze coins, and that would be done. As most people do not think in that sort of way, they would be lost. It is not that they are stupid when it comes to math, or any such thing. It is that it is just a foreign concept, that has never really been introduced to them.



I am sure that some people involved in trade think that way. But, the few people that I have interacted with, when it is concerning money, have not shown that they think in that direction. Is the way I learned, previously, an aberration?



Currency aside, the deal with Girts was made. He wants to send his son, who I did not know that he had a son, and his wife a gift from his land. I am still not sure if he is in control of the town, a county, or a province. So, for the time being, instead of just calling it his land, I am going to start calling it his county.



Back to the order, he wants a set of dishes made for his son's fifth wedding anniversary. As his son does control some power, he has to entertain guests at times. So, I am requested to make twelve of each piece.



In total, I have an order of 48 pieces. Plates, bowls, cups, and mugs, are what I am tasked to make and deliver. Since the pieces that I will be producing will be used on a fairly regular basis, and thus are prone to loss, I did not need to set the price as high as I did with the storage pots, that I sold previously.



Five iron for each simple cup, seven iron for the mugs and bowls, and the plates I set at six iron. For me, this total of thirty bronze coins was a timely boon. With the money I made from the previous order, and the money coming in from this one, I would be able to purchase my new cart, with some money left over, for the hopeful purchase of some new tools.



Finally, I am starting to progress in the financial department. Yet, as soon as get the money, I am forced to spend it. I know it is an investment in my endeavors, but still, to see my profits lost as soon as I get it is troubling.



The idea of living a comfortable life, just plying my trade still seems to be a thing for the future. Not only do I have to increase my purchases for better productivity, I also have other things I should order for reliability. In the future, I will need to buy a pottery wheel that is actually stable. The one that I made, while usable, has some deficiencies.



There are so many things that I need to be able to progress.

Rehor is reborn into a new world, and his ignorance of the lifestyle along with discovering his magic will make his life difficult.

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