Chapter 601 Looking up at the Starry Sky

Greycastle Dawn City, Observatory. ?

After Timothy's downfall, this place no longer had the name of a king's capital. The Dispersed Star Scholar thought that there would be a turmoil, but the city order did not change much. People are still busy with their own lives - farmers are plowing the fields in the outskirts, stonemasons are repairing the damaged city walls, blacksmiths are beating the armor of the shops, and the patrols continue to play cat and mouse games with the black street refugees. By comparison, it remains one of the most prosperous cities in the kingdom.

Of course, it is not completely unchanged. For example, every day, people will leave the old capital and go to the west to seek new opportunities. And the old rival of the astrological association, the Wangdu Alchemy Association, even moved out of Dawn City. Now the royal palace was replaced by a group of little-known nobles. They fought for the land and power left by the old nobles all day long, and completely left the sages aside. No one inquired about the fate of the kingdom, and no one foretold the future.

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

Fortunately, they are still able to maintain the operation of the association.

As long as the Astrologer exists, the mission of the Maesters will continue.

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The sun slowly sank into the mountains in the west, and the sky turned from orange to dark red, and finally to deep purple... After night fell, the work of astrologers had just begun.

Windproof oil lamps were lit on the high platform, and the apprentices carried the stargazing instruments out of the warehouse—they had to be very careful, and careless people who damaged the instruments would face the double punishment of whipping and deduction of salary, especially those few Roland The stargazing instrument sent by His Majesty is even more precious among treasures.

When the diffuse star scholar first got these instruments in wooden boxes, he didn't pay much attention to them.

It is true that His Majesty has promised to bring more advanced stargazing tools to the astrological association, but the production of instruments is an extremely complicated process. It is different from the shoddy looking glass, the movable mechanism inside the barrel body that can adjust the distance can give the most skilled craftsman a headache for half a month, not to mention the polishing of the crystal lens. It takes about a year from the selection of materials to the completion of a stargazing instrument, and the cost of gold dragons is about a hundred.

If there is anything in common between the studies of sages, it is that both are very expensive, but the products obtained by alchemy are often welcomed by nobles and wealthy businessmen, while astrology is not so lucky, so generally only Only the capital of a country has the financial resources and manpower to build an observatory. And as far as he knew, the border town in the western region was a dilapidated and barren land two years ago. Even if they fought and looted a lot of money, who would be willing to give these golden dragons to unrelated astrologers?

But when the wooden box was taken apart, Diffuse Star was dumbfounded.

It was the first time he had seen a stargazing tool like this—different from the bamboo pole-like instruments used by the association, its metal cylinder was the size of a bucket, and the glass mirror embedded in it was so bright that it could almost reflect people's shadows. No matter how close you look, you can't find a trace of polishing scratches.

And its movable mechanism is also designed quite ingeniously. It is just a thumb-sized knob at the end-just pinch it and rotate it gently to realize the distance adjustment of the lens. After the distance is adjusted, it does not need to be locked again. It is easy to use. Very convenient.

His Majesty Roland sent three batches of six new stargazers one after another, and gave it an easy-to-understand name: .

Since I used Diffuse Star once, I don't want to look at those old-fashioned instruments anymore.

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

"Teacher, all the stargazing instruments have been placed in place." The eldest disciple Yunhui reported.

"Are the stars distinguished?"

"Yes," he glanced at the notebook in his hand, "Scholar Astrostar, who is in charge of the direction of the North District 1, is sick today, and Scholar Voidstar will replace him."

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

"yes!"

The brazier in the center of the astronomical platform is blazing with flames, which symbolizes the brightest morning star in the night sky, and the astrologers standing around the brazier are its companion stars. The entire platform is strictly arranged according to the astrology. In the sky, it has become a whole with the stars all over the sky.

In addition to the expensive stargazing instrument, another person who needs to spend time cultivating is the person who looks up at the stars.

All they can rely on is their own eyes.

Therefore, if you want 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 young people in Dawn City.

This is not an easy task.

After passing the screening to become astrology apprentices, the only thing they can see at night is the night stars. It is absolutely forbidden to read books under oil lamps or candles. In addition, they are not allowed to go out at noon during the day to avoid eye irritation from strong sunlight.

The diet will also be changed accordingly. First, animal offal and eyeballs must be eaten, and secondly, fish and spices are not allowed. According to the knowledge handed down from astrology, eating more blood food can make the eyes brighter, but fish is water-based, and spices are earth-based. The former will destroy the fire element in the blood food, and the latter will make the eyeballs dusty.

Scattered stars persisted for more than forty years.

He believes that the human eye has a limit to how long it can be used.

In order to use it for stargazing as much as possible, he rarely reads books or astrological charts during the rest of the time-anyway, those constellation patterns have been firmly imprinted in his mind.

The maester turned his eyes to the viewing port—it was like a thin tube at the end of a thick barrel.

Apparently, a beveled mirror was placed inside to allow the light to refract into his eyes.

Fun and useful tips.

Although astrologers understand this principle, they have never thought of using it in astrology instruments.

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

Since the telescopes sent by His Majesty Roland are far better than the old-fashioned stargazers, all the association needs to do is to re-observe and map the existing star regions. Since using these six astronomical telescopes, they have discovered several more. Ten previously imperceptible dark stars.

Scattered stars sweep across the area he is responsible for familiarly. Although the constellations will form different shapes with the change of seasons, it may be difficult for beginners to grasp, but for him, their light is like the stars on his face. As dappled as kind.

After observing the first star field, just as he was about to move the telescope, an insignificant light suddenly caught his eyes.

In an instant, the maester felt his blood freeze.

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

That's not an illusion...

A dim star is hidden between the six-track star and the blazing star. Its light is so weak that it seems to be extinguished at any time. But it is obviously different from the surrounding stars——

It is red. 8