Miss Witch doesn't want to be a diva!.

Chapter 638: The Quiet Tutor Tilan

Three days later, after selling his coats and doing some small business, Guy was ready to return and came to say goodbye to Tilan.

"Let these two ponies stay with Heshia." Guy led the two ponies that he had exchanged in the Lake Wind Village to the shed next to the cabin.

Before he left, he purchased a lot of supplies, but the two underage horses were not enough to pull the cart, so he switched to two larger pack horses.

"Heshia should be able to use them when she goes out in the future." Guy told Heshia.

"I understand." Heshia nodded, accepted the two still somewhat confused ponies, and then talked to Guy for a while.

"As for exploring the ruins, I'm afraid we won't have time until next year after winter. The weather is getting colder and the settlement is short of manpower. There are many things to do."

Afterwards, Guy told Heshia that if he set out to explore the ruins next year, he would come to the castle to find Heshia to join him. After all, the girl's strength was obvious to all.

"Goodbye, Heshia, Ores." Guy then got on the carriage, waved to the two of them, and drove out of the city.

The girl prayed in her heart that she hoped that the moose boss, Suragui and the others could spend the winter safely.

Back to her and Orles's cottage, she and Orles used buckets and brooms to clean the whole house over the past three days. The house is much cleaner now. Although the slate tiles on the floor have been worn away a lot, there are no stains now. When you step on them barefoot, you can feel the coolness and roundness of the tiles.

The first floor is the living room and kitchen, and there is a utility room on the side. The second floor is the bedroom for two people, and also the place where Tilan works and reads.

After drawing a bucket of water from the well behind the cabin, Tilan poured it into the stone trough in front of the two ponies, and then touched the two little guys. They calmed down now and licked the girl's wrist with their tongue.

After interacting with the two little guys for a while, the girl returned to the second floor. At this time, Orlais was sitting on the bed, flipping through the picture album that Tilan borrowed yesterday. This was a treasured collection of scholar Sigmund. It was said to be created by a painter a hundred years ago. The brush was used to depict many famous attractions and places in the area around Shilin Mountain Castle.

"Does it look good?" The girl saw that Orlais was looking at it intently.

"It's beautiful, Tilan." The ice elf girl answered happily. She was interested in bright colors and new things, just like a child.

After touching Ores, he continued to help her sort out and check the extraordinary core in her body. Similar to Heshia, Ores' extraordinary core suffered a lot of damage in that forced promotion ceremony. After coming to this world, Heshia has never dared to teach Ores anything too complicated to prevent any accidents.

Over the past month, with her daily attention and care, the extraordinary core in Orlais' body has slowly recovered. She returned to the perfect state of Sequence 6 earlier than Tilan, and even has the intention of stepping into Sequence 7.

In terms of talent for cultivation, it was true that Orles was a genius, but she was not better than Heshia. Although the crown ceremony had failed, it had a small side effect, which was that it had accelerated the progress of Orles' cultivation sequence, making her close to the threshold of Sequence 7 before she was thirty years old.

Unfortunately, she has lost all her memories now, and will have to relearn and cultivate the complex theoretical knowledge and mental will required to advance to Sequence 7.

Releasing her fingers, Heshia looked thoughtful.

In the future, it seems that she will have to be Orles's enlightenment teacher. I don't know if the ice elf training secrets she mastered are outdated compared to those mastered by Orles' original family.

Putting all this aside for the moment, Tilan returned to the table, opened the book she had borrowed from Sigmund yesterday, and began to read it carefully. This was also the first time she had systematically learned about the origin of this world from written records.

From the records of the Stone Forest Fortress, although Heshia did not see the entire history, she could infer from many details that this planet must have changed hands several times. It was a place that several dark suns fought for at the time, and all parties invested their efforts in the fight.

However, this chaotic situation suddenly ended one day. According to the records, the entire sky was dark for several months. When it was bright again, the satellites and spacecraft that were originally in the outer orbit of the planet disappeared.

Although there are still many new races on Earth and they have the most advanced technology at the time, this planet does not have a complete industrial chain for building superluminal starships.

Then came a rather chaotic period of war. Although the old humans referred to them all as new races, there were huge differences between these new races, and they were incompatible with each other.

The battle lasted for about 200 years, and there was no final winner. The war ended because the emerging races were surrounded by various problems and could no longer maintain the high-intensity war consumption.

What followed was a long process of decline. The environment of the entire planet slowly deteriorated, many technological heritages were cut off, and war machines slowly eroded various strongholds on the earth, forcing the surviving new races to migrate frequently. Such transfers caused the loss of many technological data, and finally gradually formed the current situation.

I didn't expect the current situation to be like this. Tilan closed the book and leaned back in her chair, thinking.

According to the records in the book, the new races were very powerful in the early days. Even without superluminal spacecraft, they still had the ability to build space stations and aerospace carriers. The wars at that time were almost overwhelming bombings, supersonic fighters competing in the sky, and heavily armored mechas speeding across the land.

As the war continued to cause destruction, the industrial strength and technological level of all parties were also declining rapidly. First, the war and harsh environment caused a talent gap. Then, after the death of the previous generation of technicians, the new generation of personnel could not understand the overly complex technical information and could not restore the past technological achievements. Later, they had to abandon those damaged giant factories and move towards miniaturization and simplification.

If it were just that, the new races that realized the crisis might have reached a delicate balance and recuperated. However, the awakened war machines destroyed the new races' plans to recuperate, and many strongholds on the earth were destroyed. These legacy machines of the old humans were originally made to fight against the dark suns that dominated the galaxy. Unchangeable physical codes were entered into the prototypes of all the machines, making sure to eliminate every genetically tampered race seen.

In addition, according to the records of the Gray Feather species, before this planet was isolated and abandoned, the Dark Sun Rou, which was supported by the ρ Mechanical Council, was strangled by four Dark Suns, namely Dark Sun Hefasime, Dark Sun Xiefflin, Dark Sun Cuikarans, and Dark Sun Emorenqin.

According to the records of the cult, these four Dark Suns had a close relationship in their early years, and the races of their respective followers were also quite similar, namely the 'Light Cicada Species', the 'Silver Wing Species', the 'Butterfly Eye Species', and the 'Thunder Wing Species'. Because their followers all have wings, they are also called the 'Four Kinds of Sky Wings'.

It is said that in the end, the Dark Sun·Rou was led by the Dark Sun·Emolenqin and his followers who burned through the hundreds of millions of mechanical units surrounding the planet, and then went deep into the center of the earth, pulled out and tore apart the thinking core of the Dark Sun·Rou, causing the destruction of the Dark Sun held up by this old human.

However, after the demise of Dark Sun Rouyun, serious internal strife broke out among the four Dark Suns. Dark Sun Cuikarans led his followers to flee to another place, Dark Sun Xiefulian was first injured in a fight with Dark Sun Amorunqin, and was then controlled by Dark Sun Hefasime, gradually dimming and then extinguished. Many of the Silver Wings under his command were also absorbed by Hefasime and became his power.

Combining the historical records she had obtained from various sources, Heshia slowly pieced together the outline of past history in her mind. When she came to her senses again and turned to look out the window, it was already dark.

Heshia stood up and walked to the bedroom next door. She found that Ores was sleeping soundly on the bed, with the picture album she had opened earlier spread out beside her. One of the pages described a high cliff with small white flowers blooming.

"Beiti Cliff," Heshia silently recited the words on the corner of the album, then put the album away and put it back on the table. Then she came to Orlais and gently woke her up.

"Oles, wake up." She touched the other person's face, brushed her fingers over Oles's slightly pointed ears, and scratched them with interest.

"Oh, it's itchy." Ores sat up and covered her ears with both hands to indicate that she couldn't be touched like that.

"Okay, let's stop touching and go eat." Heshia said with a smile.

"Eat, I'm hungry." When Ores heard the word "eat", she immediately put down her hand and took Tilan's arm.

Then the two of them changed into hooded robes for going out and went to the tavern in the city for dinner.

We didn't order black pork steak this time because it's quite expensive. Tilan and Ores ordered toast and potatoes, which almost filled them up.

She had to think of ways to make money. It was foreseeable that she would have many expenses in the future, such as borrowing books, buying firewood for the winter, warm bedding, making new clothes for Orlais, and occasionally buying new and curious things.

In the following days, Heshia spent half of her time reading and the other half sightseeing in the city. Occasionally, she would be invited by Sigmund to visit and exchange experiences with him.

"It's rare to have someone as knowledgeable as Miss Heshia. If I rely on tailoring for a living, it would be too unfair to my status. I wonder if you are willing to be a teacher for my children and the children and nephews of my friends?" Sigmund proposed this when he learned that Heshia needed money.

"This... can be considered, but I'm more curious, why don't you teach it yourself?" In her opinion, Sigmund is also a scholar with a good reputation in the local area, and he can be ranked among the top even among the gray feather species.

"I've been studying the information issued by the Hillfort Council recently. The workload is quite heavy and I can't spare much time to take care of them. In addition, even though I'm a scholar, I still need to hire additional teachers."

"Why is this?"

"Because the better people are at knowledge, the more likely they are to fall into a blind spot. When you learn something, you take it for granted and ignore it when teaching others."

"In addition, it is precisely because I am a scholar that I have a complete set of logic. I let my children learn from me not only in life but also in education. It is easy for them to fall into a narrow and closed thinking environment."

"I hope he can be exposed to more different viewpoints, and I will listen to his ideas and make corrections based on the situation. This way, while he inherits my knowledge, he can also have new perspectives and thoughts. Only in this way will he have the possibility of surpassing me in the future, rather than becoming more stupid and rigid with each generation." The other party told me.

"I always feel that you, the Gray Feather people, are particularly keen on learning and inheriting knowledge." Heshia answered, holding the warm teacup in her arms.

"Hahaha, yes, that's right. Some people have said in the past that our ideas are greatly influenced by the 'Tracing Cloud' faction."

Son of the Star, 'Cloud of Tracing'? Tilan touched the teacup, lamenting the profound influence of various factions in the Twilight Age. Even the new races accepted their inherited ideas and thoughts.

The Mechanical Council, the Cloud of Tracing, the Tree of Life Sect, the Original Heart, the history of the galaxy and everything today are almost the result of the interweaving of the views and beliefs of these factions.

The fusion of the Mechanical Council and the Original Heart gave birth to the most glorious Age of Transcendence. Later, under the diverse evolutionary philosophy of the Tree of Life Sect, various human subspecies and new races were created. After that, like the Mechanical Council, they fused the Original Heart's God's Throne philosophy and created a series of galloping and tyrannical dark suns. In the fifth era of despair and darkness, it was finally the spacecraft adhering to the belief of the 'Tracing Cloud' that arrived at the lost planet and brought the 'Golden Flame Flower' Isenissa.

"I understand. I will live in the mountain castle for a while. If you think it's appropriate, I will serve as a tutor to teach the children."

"Then I'll leave it to Miss Heshia." Sigmund was also quite happy. After all, in such a barren land, there were not many literate people, let alone educated people.

That afternoon, Sigmund sent servants to deliver four bags of flour and four bags of rice to Hessia's house, as well as a bag of potatoes and a bag of vegetables. These things were enough for the two of them to eat until the beginning of next spring, but they were only the first month's salary.

After thanking Sigmund, Heshia put these things away and placed them in a cellar full of ice. As for where the ice came from, it was naturally made by Tilan herself. In the process, Ores also learned to make a few small ones.

With food enough for the winter, Hessia felt that life had become more leisurely. In the following month, she went to Sigmund's house every one or two days to teach the four children, including history, poetry, literature, music, arithmetic, and a small amount of economics.

Several children aged thirteen or fourteen liked this teacher very much. After all, compared with those rigid old men, this quiet and beautiful girl was indeed more charming, more intellectual and intelligent, and she understood many of their young and naive ideas.

"Teacher Heshia, are you married?" One day, one of the children finally couldn't help but ask.

"No, but I don't have any idea of ​​falling in love yet, so don't think about it." The girl smiled, interrupting their thoughts, and then continued to sit on the chair, explaining the mathematical formulas and application techniques on the blackboard to them.

"If you learn the Pythagorean theorem well, you can easily estimate the length and height of many buildings, especially the common shadow method." She twirled the pointer lightly with her fingers and tapped the slate.

Time passed slowly. Since coming to this planet, without a suitable hairdresser to take care of her hair, Heshia's hair became thicker and thicker. Part of it fell on her collar and chest, making her temperament change from the previous girlish gentleness to a slightly more mature one.

And so it went, until the first snow of winter fell on the hillfort.

(End of this chapter)