Lords: From Civilization to the Stars.

Chapter 45 For Time
Although scientific and technological research is still progressing, it has fallen into a short-term stagnation.

This is an objective fact.

Although the system has alleviated more than 99.9999% of the troubles, the last bit still needs to be faced.

In the primitive era, the total amount of knowledge accumulated by human civilization could probably be fully memorized by just one person's brain. But in the classical era, an entire library and team were needed.

By the Middle Ages, people needed an entire city to develop a civilized structure. And in the industrial age, even if everyone has knowledge far beyond the primitive age, people still need a country to support them.

To put it simply, scientific research points are seriously insufficient because the number of projects will expand exponentially in the next era.

Because subsequent research no longer requires simple scientific research points, but requires more industrial chains to extend more technologies.

For example, an entire chemical industry chain requires dozens of machines, hundreds of catalysts, thousands of raw materials and tens of thousands of different proportions, functions and requirements. All of these cannot be funded by pure scientific research points.

In other words, he could indeed pour it in, but with the current level of technological points, it would be a bit too difficult to research an entire industrial chain with the strength of two thousand people.

The result of the overall progress of the era of packaging is just like what is now presented in front of Li Ang.

'Your cross-era technology has completed 0.83% of the industrialization process of all industries, and you still need 9991700 technology points. Your people working in the factory will automatically increase the research points and reduce the required research points.'

'This technology is beyond the current planet's age, the research penalty is 800%'

'This technology is blocked by the God of Wisdom, the research penalty is 1200%'

'Each factory can provide 40% industrial research rewards! '

'Your current number of base factories is 0'

If it is a normal civilization, this requirement is not strict.

After all, a normal civilization has hundreds of thousands to millions of people. Ten or twenty people can build a small factory. With a system, after a period of time, they can industrialize and enter the industrial age.

But the problem is that Leon's landing place is not a normal civilization. The total population of the landing place is only a few thousand people, and a considerable number of knights are still stationed at the Giant Tree Outpost. The rotten giant tree of life there is still being modified by Leon, gradually improving it into an aesthetic that humans can accept.

The rest of the population has basically been filled up in the magic areas and repair buildings in various places, and there is no spare population to build factories.

The most important thing is that according to the current progress, building factories is just a drop in the bucket. If we want to completely complete all items of industrialization, it will take at least a year even if we go all out.

Then why don’t I wait for the Chivalrous Expedition to send people over?

So Leon naturally turned his attention to another part.

magic.

This is a completely new progress bar.

Only the scientific research progress that can be supported by magic is running at a rapid pace.

Through the Introduction to Magic Research, Leon has successfully transformed the rotten life essence into the breath of life, and added it together with other paths to the range of normal manipulation and transformation.

Anyone who uses these powers will no longer be affected by corruption and material things, and using these powers will directly mobilize their essence. In other words, they will break away from the interference of the current planet, start to form their own faction, and use a new magic calculation formula to guide the power alone.

Of course, there's more good news on the magic front.

Modifying the Wind of Magic was an unexpected surprise, which essentially came from Leon’s own talent.

What we are talking about here is not the talent given by the system and wonders, but Leon's real, innate talent. He seems to have an unimaginable ability to manipulate magic and psychic energy.

His research has yielded some initial results, and now he can even transform the Temple of Corruption into something similar to the Temple of Life. The Wind of Magic that Leon disassembled does not yet have a detailed path or concept, but it is a good start.

The preliminary analysis of the magic of emotional transformation, the essence of the transformation of life magic, and the research on the wind of magic and his own magic made Leon a terrifying wizard. Fortunately, in terms of magic, he did not even need the so-called supreme wisdom. Leon was also an absolute genius who transcended the times. He could even make the chaotic magic surrender outside the range of Stonehenge, remove the parts that were uncomfortable for humans, and even add a beautiful mod to the magic itself to make it more suitable for people to use.

These were all his own ideas, and they are also techniques recognized by the system.

Although there was no way to convert it into immediate combat power, it could still make all humans feel comfortable, even ecstatic. They believed that it was Leon who purified these rotten monsters.

This was something he had not expected. But it was also a good thing.

Li Ang never intended to stop, he was thinking about more things.

"Magic forging technology and purification of magic elements... I don't know if there is enough time... Let's just purify the vitality element first, otherwise the Giant Tree Outpost may collapse..."

There is too little time and too few people...

Floating in the weightless observatory, Leon's consciousness patrolled the territory at high speed.

But at this moment, he suddenly heard a bad sound coming from inside his body.

"……what."

Leon frowned as he looked at the broken and cracked bones in his palms and fingers, revealing the magic energy flowing inside.

His body couldn't hold on any longer.

To be precise, if his life continued, it would come to an end.

But there is still a lot to do, and many plans have not been completed. The God-given Plains needs three rivers for irrigation, and he can only manipulate magic to change it. The life giant tree barrier of the giant tree outpost is also not completed, otherwise it cannot be expanded with peace of mind.

He still had a lot to do before the Chivalrous Expedition arrived. With only two thousand serfs and ordinary knights, even with the geographical advantage, it would be difficult to resist the Chivalrous Expedition without a permanent fortress, which could reach tens of thousands of people, and even more players.

In this magical world, the pressure of logistics and population has been greatly reduced. In addition, the players have been summoned, so what Leon has to do is to race against time.

The hatred of the elves was not yet his turn to pay attention.

The clock is ticking.

Just managing everything in the territory now is already too much for Leon's body to support.

I should, or must, find a trustworthy and capable manager if I don't want to give up my physical body.

Ulfric is a good choice. He is not stupid, but illiterate. However, ordinary humans are definitely not as good as our system in terms of resource management. So we still need some resources to support it.

Go back and maintain your body first, then cheat some players of their resources?

Remember correctly, these players' choices have contributed to their own achievements. If the trade links can be opened up, perhaps the resources can be relieved...

But in the final analysis, the physical body is too fragile.

The transformation of life magic is a long-term task if there are no problems. But perhaps it can be treated as a scientific research project, and when human medicine is found out...

Looking at his almost shriveled palms, Leon sighed and closed his eyes in the observatory.

Consciousness dives and then rises.

The mother-like darkness enveloped it and then sent it to an even colder time and space.

(End of this chapter)