Grey Fort Dawn City, Stargazing Observatory. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After the fall of Tifeko, the place lost its name as the royal capital, and the Scattered Star Scholars thought that there would be a turmoil, but the order of the city did not change much. People are still busy with their lives—farmers plough the countryside fields, stonemasons repair damaged walls, blacksmiths bang on shop armor, and patrols continue to play a game of cat and mouse with the street dwellers, and at first glance it is still one of the most prosperous cities in the kingdom.

Of course, it is not completely without changes, for example, every day people leave the old royal capital and go to the west in search of new opportunities. And the old rival of the Astrology Society, the Royal Capital Alchemy Association, has moved out of Dawn City entirely. Now the palace is replaced by a group of little-known nobles, who spend their days fighting for the land and power left by the old nobles, completely leaving the sages aside. No one asks about the fate of the kingdom, and no one predicts the good fortune of the future.

If it weren't for the officials left behind by His Majesty Roland who would regularly allocate a sum of food and golden dragons to the astrological platform, I am afraid that the apprentices would have dispersed in a hurry.

Thankfully, they are still able to keep the association running.

As long as the astrological observatory exists, the mission of the Scholars will not stop.

"Always look up to the stars."

The sun slowly sinks into the mountains to the west, and the sky turns from orange-yellow to dark red and finally to deep purple...... After nightfall, the work of the astrologers has just begun.

Windproof oil lamps were lit on the high platform, and the apprentices carried the stargazing instruments out of the storeroom—they had to be very careful, and those who damaged them would face the double punishment of flogging and deduction of wages, especially the stargazing instruments sent by His Majesty Roland.

When the Diffuse Star Master first got the instruments in the wooden box, he didn't pay much attention to them.

It is true that His Majesty had promised to bring more advanced stargazing tools to the astrological community, but the making of the instruments was an extremely complex process. It is different from shoddy goggles, and the movable mechanism inside the barrel that can adjust the distance can give the most skilled craftsman a headache for half a month, not to mention the polishing of crystal lenses. It takes about a year for a stargazer to be completed from the selection of materials to the completion of production, and the cost of the golden dragon is about 100.

If there is anything that the study of the sages has in common, it is that both are very expensive, but the products obtained by alchemy are often popular with nobles and wealthy merchants, and astrology is not so lucky, so that only the capital of a country generally has the financial resources and manpower to build a stargazing platform. As far as he knew, the frontier towns of the West were a dilapidated and barren land two years ago, and even if they had plundered a lot of money from various wars, who would be willing to give these golden dragons to unrelated astrologers?

But when the wooden box was opened, the diffuse star was dumbfounded.

It was the first time he had seen a stargazing tool of this kind - unlike the bamboo pole-like instrument used by the association, its metal barrel was the size of a bucket, and the glass mirror embedded in it was so bright that it could almost illuminate a human figure, and no matter how closely he looked at it, he could not find a single scratch on it.

And its moving mechanism is also quite cleverly designed, just a thumb-sized knob at the end of the end - as long as you pinch and rotate gently, you can adjust the distance of the lens, and you don't have to lock it again after adjusting the distance, which is very convenient to use.

His Majesty Roland successively sent three batches of six new stargazing scopes, and gave them an easy-to-understand name: "Astronomical Telescope".

Ever since the Diffuse Star was used once, I didn't want to look at the old-fashioned instruments again.

The remaining five telescopes were naturally handed over to the five most experienced astrologers in the observatory.

"Teacher, all the stargazing equipment has been put in place. The eldest disciple reported.

"Is the star division ready?"

"Yes," he glanced at the notebook in his hand, "the Celestial Master in charge of the direction of the North 1st District is ill today, and in his place is the Void Star Scholar. ”

"Then light the spark and start stargazing," the chief astrologer ordered.

"Yes!"

The brazier in the center of the astrology platform is blazing, it symbolizes the brightest star in the night sky, and the astrologers standing around the brazier are its companions, and the whole platform is arranged according to the astrological signs, so that they are also standing in the canopy, and become one with the stars.

In addition to the valuable stargazing scopes, another thing that takes time to cultivate is the stargazers.

All they can rely on is their own eyes.

Therefore, in order to become a qualified astrologer, you must learn how to protect your eyes. Diffuse Star is fifty-five years old, but his eyesight is still better than most of the young people in Dawn.

This is not an easy task.

After passing the screening to become an astrology apprentice, the only thing they can see at night is the stars at night, reading books under oil lamps or candles is absolutely forbidden, and they are not allowed to go out at noon during the day to avoid the irritation of the eyes by strong sunlight.

Diets will also be changed, starting with the need to eat animal offal and eyeballs, and secondly, not eating fish and spices. According to the knowledge handed down from astrology, eating more blood food can brighten the eyes, but fish are water-based, and spices are earthy, the former will destroy the fire in terrestrial blood food, and the latter will make the eyes dusty.

Diffuse Star persisted for more than forty years.

He believed that there was a limit to how long the human eye could be used.

In order to use it for stargazing as much as possible, he rarely reads books or astrological charts the rest of the time - the constellations are firmly imprinted in his mind anyway.

The Bachelor focused his eyes on the lookout—it was like a tiny tube that stood at the end of a stout barrel.

Obviously, there is an inclined mirror in it to allow the light to refract into your eyes.

Fun and practical tips.

Astrologers understood this principle, but they never thought of using it on a stargazer.

Now it seems that it can greatly improve the stargazing environment, at least when looking at the high star area, you don't have to hunch over to look at it.

Since the telescopes sent by His Majesty Roland were far better than the old stargazers, the Society's task was to re-observe and map the existing star regions, and since using these six telescopes, they have discovered dozens of previously imperceptible faint stars.

The diffuse stars skim their area of responsibility with great skill, and although the constellations take on different shapes depending on the seasons, which may be difficult for a beginner to master, their light is as intimate to him as the markings on his own face.

After observing the first star sector, just as he was about to move the telescope, a small light suddenly appeared in his eyes.

In an instant, the bachelor felt his blood freeze.

He held his breath and focused all his attention in that direction.

That's not a delusion......

A faint star was hidden between the six stars and the blazing star, and its light was so faint that it seemed to be extinguished at any moment. But what is obviously different from the surrounding stars is -

It is red.