Prequel to the Extra Chapter: The Future of Shurima

Extra Chapter·Prequel 8·The Future of Shurima

In the history of later generations, this battle, known as the Victory of Naerimajie, was regarded by the mainstream as the starting point for the Shurima tribe to take off.

But in fact, after the victory, the situation faced by the Shurima tribe was still quite severe.

Even if they killed the "God of Mages" and took advantage of the situation to counterattack and seize the half-built ancient city of Naerimajie, other nearby tribes also consumed a lot in the war, but the Shurima tribe had almost no spare strength after this battle.

Even if the tribe of 3,000 people picked peaches under Kalya's careful calculations, they still lost nearly one-seventh of their population after the war. Although 400 people were just a drizzle for most tribes in this area, it was an absolute injury to the Shurima tribe.

After this battle, the Shurima tribe urgently needed to recuperate.

But recuperation is not as simple as it sounds.

In the Sea of ​​Death, the Shurimans have always lived by helping others fight. As their numbers increase, they have gradually acquired some means of grazing. However, when it comes to planting and more business, it is almost all supported by Kalya alone.

Now that they have come to the banks of the Shurima River, the Shurima tribe has finally occupied a relatively safe foothold. If they want to continue to develop, rough grazing is obviously not enough.

As for the old business of being a mercenary...

Other tribes here do not have the habit of spending materials to hire outsiders. Most of the time, each tribe prefers to use their own warriors and slaves to form a team to attack. They are combat-effective and relatively cheap.

In addition, perhaps doing business is also a good choice, but the problem is that the Shurimans and the locals do not speak the same language. At this time, only a few people, including Kalya, can understand the local language. In this case, doing trade is simply a fantasy.

In this situation, Kalya and Setaka talked from the dead of night to the dawn, and finally confirmed the main direction of learning for the Shurimans.

Planting.

Unlike the Sea of ​​Death, the Shurima River has a fairly large-scale planting industry due to its unique environment.

However, the locals' methods of planting are still very rough - they often dig a hole somewhere in the Shurima River, divert water to flood a piece of mud on the shore, and then wait for the water to recede before building a dam at the opening and planting crops in the place where the river water flooded.

In Karya's eyes, this planting method is more than just "wasteful".

After exchanging Skarash for some seeds of local crops with the tribes downstream, Karya devoted himself to the work of water conservancy planning.

He had to open up a piece of land that could be cultivated sustainably around the city of Narimaj and formulate the irrigation engineering standards of Shurima!

At the same time, after internal discussions, the Shurima tribe unanimously decided to release all the slaves of the God of Mages and include those who were willing to join the Shurima tribe into the tribe. Perhaps in the eyes of other tribes, accepting slaves as tribe members is a shameful and unacceptable thing, but for the Shurima tribe, which originated from the desert of the Sea of ​​Death and was formed by the abandoned, accepting poor outsiders is almost a tradition.

Through this means, the population of the Shurima tribe has increased significantly. After driving away the slaves who were unwilling to stay (in fact, there were not many), the population has expanded to 5,000.

Doubling the population is very fatal to most tribes, because it can easily cause internal turmoil.

But Shurima is obviously not within the scope of this "most" - the Shurima tribe, which developed by picking up the abandoned in the Sea of ​​Death, now has an incredibly amazing tolerance and acceptance.

In addition, Setaka and Kalya, as absolute leaders, have absolute prestige, and the scale of the tribe is relatively small. For the Shurima tribe, doubling the population means doubling the strength.

During this period, the main body of the ancient Shurima language began to gradually take shape.

After planning the irrigation standards, Kalya used plant fibers grown on the nearby river to make primitive paper, and used hair as a pen, and for the first time implemented the Shurima language into clear and meaningful text.

At that time, the ancient Shurima language had a small vocabulary and a very primitive voice, but in order to complete this project, Kalya still led people to work for three years.

For the confirmation of each word, Kalya needed to ask hundreds of people for their opinions-the text cannot be copied and pasted, and no one would use an awkward text if it does not conform to the thinking habits of the Shurima people.

Therefore, the first generation of ancient Shurima language has some pictographic meanings in many aspects. Even though Karya adapted the complex patterns to make it simpler and easier to write for the sake of recording, generally speaking, this generation of ancient Shurima language still strives to make most of the "roots" understand the meaning at a glance.

……………………

In addition to standardizing language and writing, Karya also needs to conduct agricultural experiments to provide agricultural support for Shurima people's planting and irrigation.

Karya actually doesn't know much about agriculture, and his actual planting experience is even less. Even many other tribes downstream know how to plant the popular wild wheat better than him.

But even if you haven't eaten pork, you have seen pigs walk. Under such primitive agricultural conditions, many of Karya's very simple ideas can bring leapfrog progress to agriculture.

Ridge cultivation.

Crop rotation.

Composting.

Because of his prestige, the Shurimans were willing to try according to Karya's requirements, so Karya could move all the methods he could think of to Narimaj and try them out.

Some of these methods were very successful, such as ridge cultivation.

Some were completely unsuccessful, such as composting - even if the manure of livestock living here was fermented, it would still burn crops, and piling them up would not work.

Others seemed to be effective but not completely, such as crop rotation.

To be safe, in the first year, most of the Shurima tribe's land was cultivated in the same way as other tribes. Karya only set aside a small amount of land for trial, and only in the second year did he begin to try the improvement methods that worked well.

By the third year, the Shurimans, who had harvested abundantly in the fertile soil by the river, had built dozens of ten-foot-high granaries filled with wild wheat, which was not very tasty but was definitely filling, and began to prepare for large-scale breeding of skarash and camels.

At this point, the Shurimans had truly established a foothold in Narimaj.

From the perspective of the Shurimans at that time, they were already living an almost perfect life.

For these poor people who once lived in the Sea of ​​Death, there was nothing more to be desired in their lives now farming by the Shurima River.

With their poor imagination, they no longer had any more expectations for the future, and if they had to say anything, it was only the primitive desire to reproduce.

At this point, Shurima had its first baby boom since the establishment of the tribe.

Only Setaka was an exception.

Although she was more diligent than anyone else, her stomach did not move at all.

Seeing familiar tribesmen having their own children one after another, Setaka finally became anxious - unfortunately, there was no point in being anxious about some things.

Setaka tried every possible way, using all kinds of gestures, and even made Kalya comatose and unable to work for a while, but this did not prevent her from not being able to give birth to an heir.

Kalya had a vague expectation of this - he did not belong to this world.

However, when he told Setaka that he wanted to adopt a child, Setaka firmly rejected him.

"If that is considered our own child, then the entire tribe is our child."

"..."

Kalya did not speak, but in fact he really thought so.

"It may not be impossible." Setaka was quite determined on this issue, "I heard that there are gods in the west, and they may bless us..."

This topic made Kalya's head suddenly big.

As the Shurima tribe took root in Narimaj, over the past three years, the legend of the giant god has finally been gradually heard by the Shurimans - no one in Shurima believed in the giant god, after all, everyone saw clearly what kind of guy the last one pretended to be a god was.

But as the Shurima tribe became more prosperous and came into contact with more and more people, Kalja discovered that perhaps those giant gods were really gods.

But he was unwilling to deal with those gods in his heart, and he hoped to operate step by step, so even if there were occasionally giant god believers coming to the Shurima tribe, these guys who tried to preach would be sprayed away by Kalja.

That's right, the belief in the giant god, which was still in its primitive stage, had unclear dogmatic logic. Once a religious debate was launched, it would be an absolute crushing situation for Kalja.

However, these giant god believers later gradually learned to grasp the pain points. They didn't know where they got the news that Setaka had no offspring so far, and spread the word that the belief in the giant god could give believers the power to give birth to offspring.

Originally, Kalja thought that this was just false propaganda and a conspiracy to give birth to a child through surrogacy.

So he planned to talk to the shameless giant god believer and expose the conspiracy.

But what he never expected was that the believer was very frank on this point.

He told Kalya that she couldn't give birth to a child because her body was not good enough. If she wanted to make her body healthy, she had to go to the place where the gods lived, purify her mind, and get the blessing of the gods.

The way to reach the place where the gods lived was very simple. Just walk west to the "high mountain connecting the sky and the earth", and then try to climb up by any means you can.

In other words, as long as you climb the Targon Peak once, you can give birth to healthy children!

Setaka was very moved by this.

In addition, the followers of the Targon also guaranteed that after climbing the mountain, the gods would also bless the climbers and let them gain divine power (that is, magic).

Kalya was also moved by this.

Finally, in the fourth year after the Shurima tribe settled in the city of Gunnarima, Kalya and Setaka chose to set off west to climb the Targon Peak.

The next chapter is about Karya's climbing journey. It is recommended to read it in conjunction with Lux's climb so as to understand why Karya did not say that what he taught Lux was his own climbing experience, but said it was "someone else's".