Age of Empires From Scratch

  Chapter 44 Fording's Iron Heart

  Steve's special is far more than what David said, but there are some things that are inconvenient to say now.

   Fortunately, Steve himself didn't worry too much about whether he was considered particularly excessive, but chatted with David about other things.

After sleeping for seventy years, Steve has a feeling that it is difficult to adapt to the changes in the world, so he is very curious about one thing about David: "When you find that this world is completely different from the world you know, how do you feel?" Do you feel anything special?"

  In his eyes, David's situation is somewhat similar to his own. In the blink of an eye, the world suddenly changed.

Steve has been asleep for seventy years, and the world has been constantly developing and changing during these seventy years; David is because several people from other worlds appeared around him, and these people brought strange knowledge, strange items, And a culture that David had never been exposed to.

   According to Steve’s observation, David has adapted well to these unfamiliar knowledge, which can be confirmed by seeing that he has started to think about building various public facilities for the village.

"I don't have any special feelings." Of course, David doesn't have any special feelings. The things that should seem strange to him in the eyes of outsiders are all things that he was very familiar with, but he can't directly explain them to others. So I have to use my brain to think of some suitable words to deal with this situation: "After all, for me, there are many things I don't understand in this world."

   "Oh?" Steve froze for a moment, he had never thought about it before.

"I'm just a civilian hunter in Iron Tree Fort. Not to mention the whole world, what is the inner city of Iron Tree Fort that is close at hand? I don't even know what it is." David's words were not made up. Very convincing: "What kind of life did the nobles live? What kind of magical powers do the legendary mages have? I don't know all of these."

  For David, this world is very huge, and there are many things he doesn’t understand. What’s the point of adding what Laura and Fording brought?

  Then used Laura as an example: "Except for me, Laura is the same. Before encountering shipwreck and meeting Himiko, she also didn't know that there was such a magical power in the world she lived in."

Compared with the many unknown secrets that exist in the huge world, what do you know? If it is not difficult to say it directly, David really wants to use the Marvel Universe where Captain America Steve lives as an example , after all, there are many messy things in his world.

  So there is no need for Steve to worry about the strangeness of the world. He has never been really familiar with it: "Maybe the world you live in is completely different from what you think."

   "What you said makes sense." Listening to David's words, Steve also wanted to understand a lot.

  Yeah, does he really understand the world he originally lived in? Is that world really like what he thought? Maybe his understanding is only what he thinks.

   Among other things, through contact with Peggy and Sharon in the past few days, he has already vaguely noticed something: there may be many secrets hidden in his own world.

Because Peggy witnessed the huge monster summoned by Hydra with her own eyes; Sharon also vaguely mentioned that even after the war, as Captain America, she did not relax, and she still used the identity of Captain America to solve all kinds of problems. Trouble.

"The world is huge, and we always need to keep exploring, and new discoveries are not necessarily bad things. For example, the quilts sent by Laura, lying on them are much more comfortable than lying directly on the ground or on wooden boards. .”

  David’s words made Steve feel a lot better, especially the last few sentences, which seemed to hit somewhere in Steve’s heart, and it’s not necessarily bad to hear new things from him again.

   "To be honest, I'm really not used to that kind of soft bed, but I'm more used to your wooden bed here."

   "Is this why you come here every day? Like hard wooden beds?"

"For now, it's considered!" Steve's expression is much better, and the whole person's spirit has become different from when he first came: "It's a pleasure chatting with you, David! I'll go over there Help, call me if something happens!"

"If you need it, you can talk to me anytime!" David stood up, clapped hands with Steve heavily, and looked at the gratitude on the other's face. He knew that after a few days in Winter Village, Captain America Steve Rogers recognized him and regarded him as a friend.

   Just as Steve turned and left to help the villagers build houses, David felt that something had changed in his body? Especially the holy light in the body instantly increased a lot.

"what happened?"

  The holy light in his body surged, but nothing abnormal happened. Just one thought of David calmed the huge holy light in his body. At the same time, he felt that his head became much clearer.

  David has already realized what is going on at this time, because he has established an initial friendship with Steve, so he has received a reward from the other party.

   It was a little surprising that what he got was not a physical reward, but a spiritual reward—because it was a spiritual enhancement, David immediately figured out the specific situation.

  The holy light in the body not only increased sharply, but its quality also improved significantly; at the same time, the spirit increased, making it easier for David to mobilize the holy light.

   In addition, his memory seems to have become better, and he can more easily recall the details of many things in his previous life.

   "The most commendable thing about Captain America is his strong spiritual will. It doesn't seem strange to be rewarded in this regard."

   As for not getting physical fitness rewards? This is not a loss for David at all.

Not to mention that there are still two captains in the village waiting for him to attack. For him now, as long as the Holy Light continues to improve, his physical fitness will continue to improve. You can also squeeze your physical potential more unscrupulously.

   Just when David wanted to find a place to exercise and let his physical fitness explode, Laura had already returned from home.

   "What are you doing?" Standing by and watching David foolishly posing in various bodybuilding poses, Laura finally couldn't help but ask, "Aren't you satisfied with your figure after seeing Steve?"

   "How is it possible!" David looked back at Laura, and retracted his raised arms: "I was just thinking, if I continue to exercise, will I become like Tirion?"

   "..."

   Fording's figure should be the most exaggerated in the entire Cold Winter Village. Captain America Steve can be called thin compared to him, and his strong muscles make Fording sometimes look like a box.

   Brainstorming that David also has the same exaggerated muscles as Fording, Laura suddenly felt that the picture was not good-looking: "I think it's better if you don't practice like that, Tirion's muscles are too exaggerated."

"Exaggeration? I'm a symbol of strength. I think David is still too thin. He can't become a qualified paladin in Azeroth with this appearance. He can only continue to be a priest." Pushing open the door, Fording walked out of his wooden house, and commented on David's figure by the way: "Without enough strength, no matter how proficient you are in using various weapons, it will not be of much use. You can only use to bully the weak."

  In Fording's view, if you can't swing a heavy hammer like a propeller with one hand, you are not worthy of being called a warrior. If you don't have enough strength, how can you fight enemies like orcs and trolls?

David couldn't refute this. He knew that human fighters in Azeroth could fight against races like orcs and trolls on the battlefield with their own strength. Even in the initial war, human fighters relied on their equipment It also has the absolute upper hand - unlike the plot in the movie, when the first war between humans and orcs broke out in the game world, humans did not say that their physical fitness was at a disadvantage.

  Thinking of the picture of him holding the orc above his head with one hand, and then throwing it more than ten meters away, David has the urge to work hard again.

   Fortunately, Fording took the initiative to change the subject at this time, and made a request to Laura: "By the way, next time, help me bring a few more war movies over."

"no problem!"

   Listening to the conversation between the two, David realized that Fording woke up so late today because he watched a movie too late last night: "War movie?"

"After watching Band of Brothers with Mark, I became interested in this type of movie, so I asked Laura to help find a few." In addition to movies, there are also TV series. In addition to cutting down trees these days, Fording watches these movies during his rest : "By the way, if possible, help me find these books as well."

He took out another note and handed it to Laura. David looked at it curiously, and saw that all the words on it were "Sun Tzu's Art of War", "On War", "Strategy", "Sea Power", and "Air Power". and so on.

   "These are easy to handle, do you want the English version?"

   Fording thought about it, and finally said that he wanted the original text. As for the corresponding language textbooks, he remembered that David had them.

   "In this case, it may take a few more days."

   "It's okay, I'm in no hurry."

David, who stood by and witnessed all this, had endless images of natural disaster soldiers being bombarded by planes and cannons, and tanks being burned by soldiers with flamethrowers after being flattened. Although he knew that such images were nonsense, after all Fording couldn't bring a base car back to Azeroth. Even if he understood this style of play, he didn't have a corresponding industrial system.

   "Why do you think it's a pity? If possible, I really want to see this scene with my own eyes."

  Suddenly realized something was wrong, David remembered that the technological level of Azeroth is actually not low, and gnomes, goblins, and dwarves hold a lot of black technology in their hands.

   "So... this scene is really possible?"

  (end of this chapter)