The residence of Dr. Olenso is located on a hillside in Chaidui Town. It is one of the few stone buildings. The two-story cabin is warm and pleasant. Various dried herbs are hung on the beams, and a fresh smell floats in the room.
The aroma is not as strong as the perfume used by nobles in the imperial cities, making people feel as if they are in a warm and rich countryside.
"Please sit down." Dr. Olanso motioned Sir Salemi to sit at the table. He fetched a pot of hot water from the fireplace, took out tea leaves from a small clay pot, brewed it, and handed the cup to Sir Salemi.
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Sir Salemi just picked up the cup and looked at it, but did not dare to drink it directly. He asked: "Isn't this alchemy tea? Or is it some kind of elven drink?"
Dr. Olenso raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "This is just tea, but I really want to know about the diet and lifestyle of elves."
"I don't know much about this." Sir Salemi shook his head and said, "One of the reasons for opening up the New World was that the empire thought this was the home of the elves, but it turned out that it was not."
Doctor Olenso sat opposite, took a sip of tea, and said: "But the empire still chose to colonize the New World, and captured large areas of land, killing and enslaving a large number of indigenous people."
Sir Salemi frowned and asked, "Are you one of those indigenous sympathizers?"
As the empire expanded its colonization of the New World, voices began to appear within the empire that were sympathetic to the indigenous victims. They believed that the expansion of the empire was accompanied by a large number of brutal killings, including many declining nobles.
Sir Salemi once communicated with these people in private, but found that they did not really have any sympathy for the natives of the New World. It was just that the noble families did not benefit from the empire during the pioneering era, so they gathered to speak out against colonial development.
"No." Dr. Olenso replied calmly: "Why should I sympathize with them? Is there any practical use? Am I not living in a colonist's market town at this moment?"
"Then what you just said..."
"I'm just stating the facts. I'm not making any moral criticism." Dr. Olenso said, "Did Sir Salemi come to Pile Town to be the sheriff?"
Sir Salemi maintained his aristocratic manner and said, "Yes, I am the newly appointed Sheriff of Chaihei Town. I hope that Doctor Olenso can cooperate with me in my future work."
"Cooperate? I'm just a doctor." Dr. Olanso said.
"You don't need to perform in front of me. I can see that the town of Chaihei is now under your control. The townspeople here, and even the mayor, obey your orders." Sir Salemi said.
Doctor Olanso said: "I did not order them, I just taught them some knowledge of medical treatment and herbal medicine. After all, there are various wild beasts in the nearby forest."
Sir Salemi asked in an unusually direct manner: "Didn't you use that strange magic to control their minds?"
"Then it depends on how you define 'magic'?" Dr. Olenso said while holding his chin: "Mothers put babies to sleep, generals boost the morale of the army, and performers' songs move the audience to tears. These are all behaviors that influence others.
Mind, to a certain extent, is also considered manipulation, are these also considered magic?"
"Of course not!" Sir Salemi retorted.
Dr. Olenso just smiled and said nothing. There was a knock on the thick wooden door, and then the wooden door opened on its own. A crow landed on Dr. Olenso's arm, turned back into fluid form and disappeared.
As for the guard, he stuck his head out of the door, as if he didn't dare to enter, and said: "Master, I got the horse back. Just now, the bird just spoke human language!"
Sir Salemi looked at Doctor Olenso, who replied: "It's just some immature tricks... Welcome to the Sheriff, I won't disturb your work."
Sir Salemi looked around the hut, as if searching for the evil hidden inside, and finally left without finding anything, leaving only Dr. Olenso drinking tea silently.
Shortly after Sir Salemi left, Dr. Olenso said: "If you want to say anything, just come in."
I saw a tall figure walking into the hut. It was Wolf, the mayor of Woodpile Town. At this time, he hung two logging axes on his belt and asked: "Doctor, do you really want that aristocratic gentleman to be a peace officer?"
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Dr. Olenso shook the cup and asked, "Is there something wrong?"
"I don't like that guy!" Wolf was like a child, sitting at the table and drinking up the tea that originally belonged to Sir Salemi in one gulp, still chewing the tea leaves in his mouth.
"Are you planning to kill him?" Doctor Olanso asked: "Then I advise you to do it as soon as possible. Although the empire's power is not concentrated here, the death of a noble is enough to attract a small group of people.
The imperial army's annihilation of rebel towns has not happened in other places. If we kill him now, we can disguise it as being ambushed by the natives who appeared on the way."
Wolf slapped the table: "I'm going to chop him down now!"
"It's just you?" Dr. Olanso laughed, "If I hadn't taken action in time, you would have been pierced by the opponent's sword. Even with the strong vitality of the berserker, you would have died if you hadn't been treated in time.
But Salemi is different. After all, he is an armed guard of the Holy Lord Church, so he will definitely have some means to save his life."
Wolf stepped forward and asked: "How about Dr. Olenso and I deal with him together?"
Doctor Olanso said: "What's the point of killing him? I'm not afraid of being seized of power. Besides, didn't you become the mayor by relying on a group of lumberjacks under your command? You are also responsible for the security of Chai Dui Town.
Don’t worry about it.”
"I, why don't I care?" Wolf argued.
Dr. Olanso cleared the table and said: "Okay, next time the natives attack, you and your people will kill them, and don't bother me."
Wolf immediately became nervous and begged for mercy: "I was wrong! Without your help, the doctor, Pile Town would have been burned by the natives long ago."
"You also understand." Dr. Olanso picked the herbs placed aside, crushed them with a mortar and hammer, and said: "Let me tell you something first. Recently, some indigenous scouts have appeared at the border. And they
They all seem to be carrying some magic props. Although judging from the level of aura, they are just some enchanted armors that are not very clever, it is enough to show that the local indigenous people are also making progress."
"Then what should we do?" Wolf asked.
"Either use Firepile Town as a stronghold to defend and call back the lumberjacks and hunters who are outside." Dr. Olanso said: "Or we can prepare to take the initiative to repel this group of natives and cause them enough casualties.
Make sure you don’t dare to invade in the coming days.”
"Doctor, will you help us?" Wolf asked.
Doctor Olanso turned his head and said: "This is why I didn't kill Sir Salemi on the spot. A professionally trained armed guard who also came to be the Sheriff with good intentions, why not
How about putting the problems of the indigenous people on him?”
Wolf suddenly understood and said: "You mean to let the noble man fight with the natives by himself, we don't have to do it ourselves!"
Doctor Olenso sighed: "It would be great if it were really that easy, and it would not be of obvious benefit to resisting indigenous attacks."
"Then do you really agree with the noble Lord being the Sheriff?" Wolf was still dissatisfied.
Doctor Olenso was calm and calm: "A noble magistrate who came all the way from the mainland of the empire knows nothing about the actual situation in Chaihei Town. If you can organize the townspeople, this magistrate is just a useless person."
title."
"Really?"
Doctor Olenso asked again: "But do you have the ability? In addition to calling on the townspeople to fight against the natives, when faced with the armed guards who come to spread their faith, can you fight with an axe? As far as I know, can you fight him with an axe?
You know, most of the people in Chaidui Town are still believers of the Holy Lord, right?"
Wolf muttered: "Actually, the Church of the Holy Lord is not that powerful. My hometown used to worship the ancient Stonehenge, and the sages of the Green Ring taught us the knowledge of planting and identifying herbs."
"But when they faced the expansion of the Holy Lord Church, didn't they also perish?" Doctor Olanso smiled: "But I think that the sages of the Green Ring can cultivate berserkers like you, and there should be more
More special skills will not completely die out like this."
"Maybe." Wolf was reluctant to recall the past, as it seemed that the experience of becoming a berserker was not something worth remembering.
"You don't have to confront him on the surface regarding the Sheriff's affairs." Dr. Olanso sorted the herbs and said, "He alone will not be able to control many things unless he is deeply involved in everything.
.If he says he wants to strengthen the town's defenses, just agree to it, but remember to assign work after the construction starts and you will be personally responsible."
"I understand!" Wolf said: "This is called..."
"Empty." Dr. Olenso rolled his eyes at Wolf and said: "These are just some tricks, but I think Sir Salemi doesn't know much about the complicated specific work. You probably have a lot of them.
Manipulate the space, but be careful about one thing. If he wants to build a church or a temple, it's best not to let him do it too easily."
Wolf patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, I guarantee he won't even be able to get the foundation stakes!"
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After the berserker mayor left, Dr. Olanso finally found some peace. He sorted the herbs at hand, poured them into jars and sealed them. Finally, he closed the door and hung a wooden sign behind the door.
It is written with strange and twisted complex lines, and the magic effect envelopes the entire stone hut, isolating the noise from the outside world.
Dr. Olenso came to the small attic on the second floor. The space above was small and there was only a simple bed. Dr. Olenso sat on it with his legs crossed and entered some kind of meditation.
While meditating, it seemed like a vast world made up of stars. Dr. Olenso also changed his appearance at this moment. His long hair was scattered freely, blowing in the wind, and the cloud-like glow was woven into a wide-sleeved robe. This is who he is.
His true identity is Xuan Weizi, a monk from China on Earth.
Xuan Weizi himself died in a battle with his enemies. The situation was critical at that time, and he was almost completely destroyed physically and mentally. Fortunately, he broke free from the restraints and his soul escaped. However, he could not be reincarnated for some reason, and could only live in the darkness.
floating in.
Fortunately, I accidentally felt a pull, and came to this faraway world, where I placed my trust in a recently deceased psychic and brought him back to life.
It turned out that this psychic named Olanso was exercising his psychic powers at the time, trying to establish contact with a special plane called the Star Boundary. As a result, an accident occurred, his consciousness could not be maintained, his soul was completely destroyed, but his intact body was...
Xuan Weizi is given a chance to resurrect him.
Xuan Weizi was originally an alchemy monk. Perhaps it was because of the emphasis on cultivating the mind and condensing the soul in alchemy that he accidentally met a psychic who also focused on using the mind.
Although Xuan Weizi regained his vitality, his past cultivation was almost completely ruined, and he had to start practicing all over again. Even the psychic abilities of this body had to be restored. In his previous life, Xuan Weizi practiced Alchemy Kung Fu, and he was very particular about it.
The dual cultivation of life and life, the unity of spirit and energy, may be due to the differences between the two worlds. Even the seemingly identical human body has various subtle differences in the specific practice.
Carefully appreciate this vast starry world, which is what the psychics claim to be the "star realm". The brilliance of the stars seems to be constantly echoing with Xuan Weizi's soul, and he can clearly feel the deepening of his meditation practice.
The power surging in the starlight became more obvious and intense, and it slowly produced unprecedented effects on his body.
"It's really strange." Xuan Weizi slowly exited the deep concentration and only observed the star world in the shallow concentration.
According to the alchemy skills before time travel, whether it is sex skills that start with the mind or life skills that start with the vitality, most of them must be based on tranquility and concentration. Only in this way can Yuan Qi be absorbed and the Yuan Shen be clarified.
As a result, the divine energy gradually embraces and harmonizes with each other.
The subsequent steps of collecting herbs and returning them to the furnace, moving the heavens around, etc. are actually not driven entirely by the monk's own thoughts and actions, but rather by not clinging to one's own will and picking things without picking them up, which coincides with the Tao's original intention of following nature and eliminating the false while retaining the true.
It is said that Xuan Weizi has not lost his soul, and his mental skills are still there, so there should not be many obstacles to practicing alchemy skills again. Who would have expected that as soon as he reached the important step of "the emergence of his soul", this starry scene suddenly appeared in his consciousness
, almost made Xuan Weizi think that he had gone crazy and fell into an illusion.
But after several internal reflections, Xuan Weizi could not find out what was wrong with him. After thinking about it, he could only admit that it was the difference between different worlds. Even the subtle mystical principles that could be perceived by consciousness based on the nature of mind were different from time travel.
It was different before.
This is a big problem, and it shows that Xuan Weizi's practice cannot blindly copy the alchemy scriptures of the past, but must be improved and evolved in accordance with the laws of the world.
Secondly, when Xuan Weizi's practice becomes more and more profound, some fluid-like things will appear out of thin air and attach to his body, and he will even sense some subtle thoughts in the astral realm. These subtle thoughts are not from this world.
Expressed in common language, it is similar to the spiritual thoughts and mind seals unique to monks.
After Xuan Weizi's enlightenment, he discovered that the ideas in these starlights came from a group of psychics who had broken away from the shackles of the body. They wandered in the special plane of the star world and provided various spiritual services to post-scholars who could perceive the star world.
Knowledge related to warlocks.
Those fluid-like things that appear out of thin air are called astral bodies. They usually have no shape or mass, but under the control of a psychic, they can be shaped into various shapes, and can also convey information and assist in casting spells.