CHAPTER 447: CHAPTER 2 GREAT DEVELOPMENT

The appearance of the steam engine is just one of the many fruits born from Austin’s continuous efforts to develop the Dragon Nest Tribe.

In medicine, agriculture, animal husbandry, and even in public management, the Dragon Nest Tribe has implemented a complete administrative system, which is continually being improved.

In terms of medicine, it initially borrowed from traditional Chinese medicine systems, using wild herbs for medical treatment.

As experience increased, and after Austin returned from the Spiritual Energy Awakening Plane with a wealth of medical materials, combined with local developments and potion-making learned from the Elven race.

It is imaginable that in the near future, the medical system will witness significant advancements.

In the Human World, those who are seriously injured or gravely ill have little chance of survival unless they spend a large amount of money to seek divine healing from a priest at a church.

However, in the Dragon Nest Tribe, every beastman receives excellent medical care, with the healing survival rate continuously improving.

Especially with a hemostatic prescription developed from the traditional Chinese medicine system, which is made into a paste-like hemostatic ointment through alchemy technology. Not only is it inexpensive, but its effectiveness in treating external injuries is much better than healing potions, making it one of the essential medicines for beastmen of the Dragon Nest Tribe when they venture out.

And all of these are just one aspect.

The Dragon Nest Tribe is like a monster.

From a civilization at a primitive human level, it is accelerating towards modern civilization.

Time swiftly passes amidst the external turmoil.

Inside the Dragon Nest Tribe, development continues unabatedly.

The emergence of the steam engine, as if unveiling a grand play, is rapidly revolutionizing technology within the Dragon Nest Tribe.

The entire Dragon Nest Tribe is continually developing and growing.

With the modern scientific system of the previous life combined with this world’s indigenous scientific system, the magical civilization that has emerged could eventually reach an extent even Austin cannot foresee.

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Day by day, time went by, and the grand construction of the Dragon Nest Tribe began.

The railway started to extend between forest outposts, like a network of veins connecting the various outposts of the Dragon Nest Tribe.

Compared to humans, beastmen have stronger physiques, especially some of the upper beastmen like the Bearmen, who possess even greater strength.

This is why, in the process of laying the railway, the speed is much faster than that of normal human railway construction.

The initial decision to establish outposts outside the Dragon Nest Tribe Main City to better cultivate the external forest was because of inconvenient transportation, a compromise out of necessity.

From the Dragon Nest Tribe Main City, it takes a common beastman more than ten days to reach the farthest outpost.

Such a long time is not suitable for the beastmen’s exploration and cultivation.

The round trip is enough time to plant a crop of arrowroots.

Expanding the outposts resolved the issue of long distances but simultaneously made it difficult to control distant areas. In the event of an unexpected situation, such as an attack from another beastman tribe, it would take a day or two for the news to reach the main city even with fast horses, by which time it might be too late to respond.

But with the railway, things are different; the connection between regions will become extremely close, facilitating rapid troop deployment when the Dragon Nest Tribe needs to expand.

Although the outpost plan resolved the population and territory expansion issues for the Dragon Nest Tribe, in reality, the cultivated land is mostly around the main city and the outposts.

The vast majority of the territory is still an uncultivated forest.

The underdeveloped transportation made it difficult for the reach of the Dragon Nest Beastmen to extend to further areas, leaving large swathes of land barren.

Now, with the advent of the steam engine, there is a glimpse of hope for railway transportation.

Once the railway line is complete, the vast territorial areas within the major outposts will become lands fully controlled by the Dragon Nest Tribe.

Opening up farmland along the railway supply line is of significant importance for the Dragon Nest Tribe’s cultivation efforts.

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Trains are in development, and railways are under construction.

While scientific and technological advancement is in full swing, military strength is also not lagging behind.

With the accumulation of two worlds, Austin began working on improving the Breathing Technique and, combining the experiences from both worlds, creating some Body Forging Secret Techniques and some Attack and Defense Secret Techniques.

These secret techniques have far surpassed the rudimentary Beastman Six Techniques that Austin initially developed by himself.

With a coherent theoretical framework and martial arts experiences from the two worlds, it can be said that these secret techniques, prevalent in the Dragon Nest Army, do not fall short of those passed down in some kingdoms.

Adequate food supply and powerful combat technique secret arts are forming a formidable Dragon Nest Legion.

While enhancing the beastmen’s physical prowess, Austin also ensures that goblin scientists work on developing powerful combat weapons.

The manufacture of gunpowder is straightforward according to the formula.

Niter is sourced from desolate cave caverns, sulfur obtained from the Volcanic Cluster Domain, and charcoal produced by burning wood.

The ingredients mix to create primitive black powder.

However, this black powder isn’t very powerful.

A kilogram of black powder exploded half a meter in front of a bronze low-tier warrior can be blocked simply by the body, resulting in at most minor injuries.

Subsequently, goblins manufactured firearms and cannons based on memory.

Yet the power remains limited.

While they have some utility, their practical value in this wild world isn’t significant.

Facing powerful creatures like giant beasts, it barely penetrates leather armor.

Even though firearms can cause significant damage to some lower-tier monsters, such as goblins and low-tier demon wolves, with the powerful strength of the Dragon Nest Army, they can achieve a massacre effect even without firearms.

Against formidable monsters like ogres and earth scorpions, their effectiveness is not substantial.

In short, in the mighty Dragon Nest Tribe, this is simply redundant.

However, some goblin scientists who have a penchant for explosions are unwilling to give up and have begun trying to develop more explosive TNT.

At the same time, they are considering engravings with armor-piercing runes on bullets and shells to gain greater lethality, or considering using Magic Crystal Stones for propulsion, utilizing the principle of firearms to manufacture some powerful magic weapons, or simple energy weapons.

There are even a few goblin scientists who have directly started designing and manufacturing electromagnetic cannons.

These experiments require a great deal of funding, especially in the area of magic energy weapons, which seem like burning money, but Austin does not stop them.

On the path of science, it’s not always smooth sailing. Even if it fails, it can be regarded as accumulating technical experience.