Holm is a serf - but he was not a serf from birth. Earlier, he was a miner in the mines.
Miners, not slave labor.
There are two types of people working in the mines: free miners and slave workers who are not free. The former are free people who voluntarily go to dangerous mines in order to support their families." "Dig stones", the latter is the private property of the slave owners in the mines, equivalent to the tools and livestock in the mines, but there is no difference between the two in some aspects - both can die in the mines at any time, and after death It's just a consumable item that no one cares about.
The process of Holm losing his freedom is dramatic: he is not a "settled" miner. Rather than digging for stones in the mine, he prefers to look for new things - no matter what Is that thing a new ore or a plant? In short, it doesn’t matter as long as it’s something new. At this point, people often teased him that he might have some dwarf blood in his ancestors, but Holm always accepted these teases gladly. He was working in the mine, and all he thought about all day long was whether he could dig out some amazing treasure underground, and finally one day, he really "digged" a "treasure".
He encountered the mine owner's wife having an affair with a supervisor at the mine.
It is very simple for a supervisor to kill one or two miners or slave workers. As long as they use the excuse of mine collapse afterwards, there will be no problem. Holm has even seen such a scene with his own eyes. Therefore, he immediately chose to escape - and after escaping, he never returned home again.
After being a refugee for a year, he settled in the old Cecil Territory. The previous generation of Viscount Cecil did not expel him, but he had to rely on selling himself as a serf to survive.
Under normal circumstances, this is the entire content of his short and miserable life - after being locked on the land, serf Holm's life will never change, and there will be no new opportunities and hopes. He will bear the heavy pressure exerted by the landlord, crawl in the soil all his life, and live as a serf for the remaining ten or fifteen years of his life, and if he is lucky (or unfortunate) to have a wife in the process, Heirs, then his heirs will also inherit the status of serfs and live under the whip of the landlord for life after life, and the experience of being a miner in his early years and the small and restless curiosity in his youth will one day be revealed. Completely disappeared from his memory.
But after that disaster, everything changed.
The old Cecil Territory is gone, the landowners are gone, and the land is gone. The new lord comes out of the legend and leads the survivors to build a new homeland at the foot of the Dark Mountains. Looking at the new land and the dark mountains full of secrets, the lord promulgated incredible new decrees one after another. The serf Holm was rewarded for his participation in making traps during the "defense battle" in the autumn. He became a new man again. A free man, even freer than a free man.
The lord allows the subjects to engage in various jobs according to their personal strengths., and reward anyone who works hard. On the bulletin board in the center of the town, new recruitment revelations are posted almost every day, and anyone in the territory who wants to supplement their family income can respond to the lord’s call through this channel— -For people of this era, it is an incredible gift for the lord to open up so many jobs and pay them, not to mention it is still winter in the past when they can only starve at home and wait to die - so Whenever a new recruitment notice is posted, countless people waiting for a job (or waiting to support their families) will flock to find a job that suits them.
The vast majority of people in the territory were originally illiterate. They could only listen to the soldiers standing in front of the bulletin board reading the content for them, but the soldiers would only read the new revelation six hours after it was posted. Only then did he start to read out the above information - in order to understand the recruitment content a few hours earlier, Holm just learned thousands of words in just a few months, and was able to stumble around the content on the bulletin board. .
In night schools, there are not a few people like him who strive to be literate for similar motives: literate people can know the details of the recruitment a few hours in advance and go to the Personnel Office of the Ministry of the Interior to find out Clerks sign up, but by the time those who are illiterate sign up, all the positions are often filled, and those who didn't make the effort to become literate in the beginning are now regretting it.
Holm was very lucky that he learned writing in time. When the lord announced the organization of a new group of exploration teams into the mountains, he immediately signed up: the number of people required for this team was not large. , although there is a bit of risk, but the reward is higher than that of skilled workers in the factory. Besides, there is a small team of magic infantry in the team for protection, so how high can the risk be?
The newly organized mountain exploration team entered the Dark Mountains from a newly discovered mountain road, and saw many incredible mutated animals, plants and stones along the way. Holm relied on his experience in the mines to A flexible mind and the best literacy level have become the leader of this team (of course, another important reason why he became the team leader is that he has been personally commended by the lord, which is a rare honor), and under his leadership Next, the team found that peculiar "raw stone" with a lavender luster from a piece of loose weathered mountain rock.
During this process, Home's curiosity, which had been gradually worn away by life, gradually recovered...
Under the leadership of the soldiers, Gawain and Amber found At the "Exploration Team Base" in the Dark Mountains, several simple tents were pitched in a small open space in the mountains, while heavily armed Cecil combat soldiers were on guard around this small camp. Gawain saw this. The leader of an exploration team is a middle-aged man who is not tall but very strong.
Looking at the other person's dark face and slightly stooped body, Gawain felt a sense of familiarity. The memory of the satellite spirit worked well at this time, and he remembered that he did know this person. Of: Sisi against the aberrations in the fallDuring the Battle of Germany, a serf named Holm was rewarded for his outstanding performance, and in order to set an example, he also publicly commended him - it turns out that he was not wrong about the person at first.
"I remember your name is Home," Gawain nodded to the serf-born leader, "You participated in this exploration team?"
"Yes... ...Yes, sir!" Holm didn't expect that Gawain would remember his name, and he suddenly felt a little frightened. "You personally awarded me a...a medal!"
"You compare. I was a little fat at that time, which is good." Gawain smiled and nodded, "Did you discover the ore?"
"Yes, sir," Holm tried to control his nervousness. The person who had been on the award stage once was finally a little calmer than ordinary people. "The original discovery location is not far from here. Let me point it out to you..."
Not far from the camp On an open-air rock formation, Gawain saw several collection points dug by the exploration team.
This potentially valuable ore is actually "buried" in such a shallow place.
When Gawain came to the collection point, he saw that the surface of the ores was covered with a thick layer of gray-white porous rock that seemed to have been weathered, and some ores had a lavender or light blue sheen. It is "embedded" in it, as if it is some kind of condensation nucleus.
“The surface layer contains very small pieces of ore. The further you dig down, the greater the quality and volume of the ore will be. Mine veins with real mining value should still need to be dug deeper,” Holm said. Explaining on the side, "This kind of soft weathered rock formation is not suitable for digging mines - it can easily collapse, so it would be better to directly open it into a mine pit. With Rebecca crystal, it is not difficult to blast the rock formations."
Gawain nodded: "I saw the report you sent back. You discovered many things that have never been seen in the outside world, and there are signs of mutation in animals and plants."
"Yes, sir," Holm replied, "but this is the first time that such a large range of minerals have been discovered here."
Gawain said "hmm" and raised his head slightly to observe the surrounding terrain - -Seven hundred years ago, Gawain Cecil led his army to find a road in the Dark Mountains. At that time, this place had not been affected by the demonic tide. In Gawain Cecil's memory, there were no such strange things here. Strange things.
They all appeared after the Demon Tide.
Humber took out his dagger and curiously picked out a fragment mixed with blue-purple luster from the excavated rock at one of the collection points, and placed it under the sun to observe: " What a strange thing, old...Gawain, is this the change in natural materials under the influence of the magic tide?"
"The essence of the magic tide is an extremely powerful surge of magic. This part of the magic cannot be used by mortals, but it can still have a profound impact on the natural environment," Gawain said casually, "Believe it or not, there are more magic materials that can be found in the ruins of the ancient Deep Blue Well than here.Much more. ”
Hu Hu’s eyes widened: “How reckless a person would dare to go mining there!” "
Gawain shook his head, but did not answer her question.
He looked at the ore in front of him, but what he was thinking about was more than just the ore in front of him.
He It has been speculated that the magic tide may not have broken out just once.
The monitoring satellites left in the sky are obviously an early warning facility for magic tides (or similar phenomena), which happened in Cecil before. The disaster in the leader also showed signs that the demonic tide is about to return. In the monitoring records he hung in the sky in the past, he also observed that all civilizations on the earth suddenly and inexplicably disappeared, and the entire ecosystem was shuffled and restarted, usually starting from scratch. Phenomenon.
In the "satellite era", his observations of the earth were inconsistent due to serious "frame skipping", so many times he could not understand how the earth's earth-shaking changes occurred - -In the blink of an eye, primitive people created magic cannons, and in the next blink of an eye, they lived in tree holes again, and even wore animal skins and danced square dances around the bonfire. The view The geology, landforms and plant distribution in the world have also been drastically changed. There may have been decades of devastating wars, and there may have been floods and tsunamis that lasted forty-nine days, but for satellites that wait for a millennium, This "quick and short" moment of disaster is really difficult to capture.
But something must be causing this "shuffle" - if there is no other answer, then the only answer is the magic tide.
The demonic tide will cause the properties of matter in nature to change. These things in the Dark Mountains that have never been seen elsewhere are enough to prove this.
And even if the demonic tide recedes, these changes will occur. Things will not return to their original state, but will solidify into a new material - the ores found in the Dark Mountains can also prove this.
So if there has been more than one demonic tide in the world, Gao. Wen has reason to believe that most things in this world may have been affected by the magic tide.
He came up with the boldest conjecture in history:
Those magic materials, Magical creatures, or ordinary soil and rocks that seem to have nothing to do with magic, are gradually shaped into what they are now by the baptism of the magic tide.
The magic tide is a kind of magic. This is a "world-shaping phenomenon" that will continue to occur and still shows no signs of stopping to this day.