The_Red_Lands

Snippets from the Future.

Added 2018-04-26 01:01:04 +0000 UTC

"Elder, elder. No matter the setback, I will never give up in this world. Sure I was ready to slap Dareck back to Karst but in the end he opened another door. In fact I believe that come next winter our little merchant company is going to make it big. Really, really big!"

Chu rubbed his hands as he thought of all the possibilities opening up. He had seen too many fantasy and medieval times movies from all different cultures not to know the many uses of this simple piece of machinery.

What was perfect was that this civilization had not even thought of implementing it on a widespread scale. Maybe somewhere they had begun to use it without understanding its real value but to the senile inventor like him it was a boon from heaven.

How stupid of him to rack his brains thinking about complex inventions when he should have focused on where exactly this world was in terms of technology.

In an Empire that resembled the middle ages of the past world, it was the simple inventions that paved the way for the more complex ones of the Renaissance age.

For Heavens sake, the people here still told time using a sundial. According to Mr Thomas, the Military used banded candles at night to estimate time to the nearest hour. Maybe only the Tower Mages had access to hour glasses for their needs.

The Empire was on the brink of an age of enlightenment and he was going to capitalize on it before someone else did.

'Blatant Plagiarism!'

"Mr Thomas, do you know what a Gear is?"

Even an idiot like Chu could think of uses for this simple machine.