Age of Empires From Scratch

  Chapter 46 Holy Light Laura

   My name is Will Turner and I am an apprentice blacksmith.

  I came to Port Royal at a very young age, then grew up in the most prosperous port city in the Caribbean, and learned how to be a good blacksmith.

   I’m not bragging, the sword I forge is definitely the top saber of this era, and sooner or later I will become one of the most famous craftsmen in the world.

  But this doesn't change the fact that I'm still just an apprentice blacksmith, and this has become the biggest obstacle in my pursuit of Elizabeth.

how should I do? Can we make the gap between us smaller?

   Just when I was thinking hard but couldn't think of an answer, I walked into a strange village inexplicably.

What is this place? Is there such a primitive village near Port Royal?

  When I heard all the explanations from the young village chief named David, I just felt that all this was too ridiculous, and words like two different worlds were simply incomprehensible. Maybe I'm just not awake yet? This strange experience was nothing more than a dream.

   And what if what he says is true? Elizabeth lives in Port Royal, and my future is also in Port Royal!

  But even though many days have passed, in the end, I still couldn’t control the curiosity that arises in my heart from time to time, as if a voice kept telling me ‘This is an opportunity, if you miss it, you will regret it forever! ’, I finally came to this place called Lindong Village again, and I used the method that the young village chief told me.

  After some simple exchanges, I learned that this village lacks a blacksmith. The village head David sincerely invited me to become a blacksmith in Cold Winter Village.

   This seemed like a good opportunity for me to have a blacksmith shop all of my own, instead of continuing to work in Port Royal.

   But Elizabeth...

Just when I was about to refuse, the village chief told me that I can freely travel between Winter Village and Port Royal, 'the distance between the two places' is even closer than my journey from the blacksmith shop to the Governor's Mansion in Port Royal .

  So I don't have to worry about being separated from Elizabeth at all, so I happily took over the job, and when my blacksmith shop officially opened, I invited Elizabeth to visit.

   But I never expected that the first job in front of me would be like this...

   "I'm a blacksmith." Will Turner pointed to a large pile of parts in front of him and complained to David: "These things don't seem to be my job."

"I'm the head of the village, and I'm not here to tinker with these things now?" David didn't look up, he almost buried his head in the drawings, and still couldn't find where the parts in his hand should be installed: "I think this part It should not be on this machine."

"What you are holding are the parts of the wind turbine." Mark, who was the most knowledgeable at the scene, looked at the drawings a few times, and quickly figured out what David was holding: "What you have in front of you is the battery pack of the water pump. drawings."

   "..."

David helplessly put the parts in his hands aside. He felt that he had no talent in machinery. He once dreamed that he could make a mobile suit in Winter Village and become a big machine master. Before stepping in, he was slapped by the cruel reality and knocked out of the door.

At this time, Laura reappeared with a big box, and then sat down on the ground, not caring how indecent her posture was, it shouldn't be the posture of a young noble woman: "I think this job It's more tiring than exercising hard."

"Moving these parts back and forth is supposed to be exercising!" Mark looked at the pile of boxes in front of him, as well as the various parts that had been taken out of the boxes that had been dismantled. Just a part: "I guess you can't do anything else these days."

"I just want to find a place to lie down and not move anymore." Laura was so tired that she didn't even want to eat, but even though she said that, her body didn't mean to stop, and after a few casual complaints , Laura stood up again: "I will continue to move the next box."

"You don't want to take a break?" Mark looked at the tired-looking Laura, worried that her body would suffer from overwork: "Anyway, it's not a particularly urgent matter, and it doesn't matter if the move is completed next year. "

"No, I just want to finish these things sooner." Laura has made up her mind to finish these tasks as soon as possible so that she can complete her adventure plan: "Don't worry about me, I feel that the holy light in my body is repairing me. body, and made me stronger, didn't you notice that I moved parts much faster than when I first started?"

The holy light is Laura's biggest trump card. The holy light stored in her body will ensure that her body will not be damaged, and the high-intensity labor will further squeeze out her physical potential. That is to say, the harder Laura works, the better her physical fitness. The more you improve.

Laura didn't even realize that her tenacity further enhanced her affinity with the Holy Light, and she was not far away from touching that opportunity. Maybe before she completely consumed the Holy Light from David in her body, she had already Obtained the power of the Holy Light by virtue of his own efforts.

  At that time, the baptism of the Holy Light will still be ushered in, but I don’t know if I will become a light-forged Laura.

It was precisely because he realized this—when he helped Laura check her physical condition and the condition of the Holy Light in her body that David did not persuade Laura to stop and rest, because it was not for her good to persuade her to rest at this time, and it would make Laura miss an opportunity. Fantastic opportunity.

   When Laura left Cold Winter Village again and went back to move parts, facing Mark's question, David explained the reason very simply.

  He is not a character who deliberately hides it for the sake of playing with mystery and does not explain it clearly, which leads to misunderstanding and confusion, so what's wrong with just saying a few words? Could telling Mark make Laura miss the opportunity? Mark doesn't have that much influence.

   As for Will? The little blacksmith who just came to Lindong Village is still in a state of confusion. He has no idea what the piles of delicate parts in front of him are for.

  I can see Will's doubts, and Mark has nothing to do for the time being—the biggest role of his stay here is to figure out what parts Laura brought, and then put them away in order to facilitate subsequent assembly work.

  By the way, I explained that this pile of things is to install a tap water system for the village, including water pumps, water purification equipment, battery packs, wind power generators, solar power generators, and so on.

   "You mean, after assembling these things by the river, you can drink clean water in the village?"

"Yes."

  Will finally figured out the function of this bunch of things, but he didn't quite understand: "Wouldn't it be good to just dig a well in the village? Why is it so troublesome?"

"Because this is only the most basic tap water system." Although David said that he plans to build various public facilities to make the village better, he has not talked to anyone about the follow-up idea: "It is for the subsequent laying Lay the foundation for a real tap water network.”

  Although it is a transitional product before the real tap water network is completed, it is not wrong to say that it is laying the foundation. This automatic pumping and delivery system can also ensure the construction and use of subsequent bathrooms, canteens and other facilities.

  Will didn’t quite understand David’s plans, and what he’s more curious about now is, wouldn’t David come here just to let him build these delicate and complicated parts?

  Although as a blacksmith, he would feel itchy when faced with these exquisite things, but he has never built these things, and he doesn't know if he can make them?

   Squatting on the ground, he kept looking at a certain part. After looking at it for a while, he changed to another one and continued to look at it. After changing more than a dozen, Will nodded: He has come to an accurate conclusion, and he can't make it by himself!

  Will didn't speak, he felt that he said he couldn't do this job, so did he leave the blacksmith shop he just bought?

   "Maybe you should think about it carefully, spend more time practicing, and you should be able to create it?"

  Will finally saw some hope, and didn't want to give up this opportunity easily.

In fact, he was thinking too much. David didn’t expect him to be able to build various machines with his bare hands in such a primitive environment. After all, this is Will Turner, not Tony Stark or Bruce. Wayne.

  While Will was pondering his little thoughts, Laura ran back and forth several times, and finally punctured the layer of window paper after putting down the box again.

A beam of light descended from the void, and Laura, who was bathed in the holy light, felt that she was soaking in the most comfortable hot spring that she had ever soaked in her life. Every cell in her body seemed to be cheering, and the accumulated fatigue quickly disappeared. The holy light that was already left was also increasing rapidly, and the whole person returned to its best state in the blink of an eye.

"this…"

  The beam of light condensed by the holy light has dissipated, and the baptism of the holy light only lasted for a few seconds, but Laura felt like she was reborn.

   "I have obtained the approval of the Holy Light?"

  With the Holy Light instilled into her body by David, Laura was very satisfied to freely use the Holy Light spell. She did not expect to be recognized by the Holy Light in a daze, which was really an unexpected surprise.

   "Congratulations!" Mark, who was standing next to him, looked envious, and made a joke by the way: "The next step is to become a priest? Or become a paladin?"

"I never thought about this issue." Laura felt that it made no difference to her whether it was a priest or a paladin. She was not a believer in the Holy Light, and she never considered taking the Holy Light as her own faith.

   So strictly speaking, she is a user of the Holy Light, not a follower.

  However, there is no need to specifically explain these things. Compared to this, what is more important now is to explain the situation just now to Will who kept crossing himself.

   "Will, it was just the baptism of the Holy Light, not a miracle."

  (end of this chapter)