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Looking at the farmland he just passed by not long ago, more than half of the wheat has grown. Carter, who saw the power of magic for the first time, still couldn't help being surprised.

"It all depends on the mercy of the mother goddess Aisha and the help of the mages."

An Avalon farmer who was sitting under the grass shed in the farmland to rest in the shade, heard Carter's exclamation from a distance and couldn't help smoking a cigarette and chuckling in response.Carter and his party are fully equipped. Whether it is the crow pattern on the shield or the military flag tied to the lance, the peasants can easily identify the identity of Carter and the Nagares elves, so he does not feel uncomfortable with Carter's question. strangeness.As a country that snows in winter, Nagares is not considered a strong agricultural country, and is often invaded by Chaos war gangs. The level of land cultivation is not as good as that of the Inner Ring Kingdom, and it often needs to import cheap food from the Sapphire Kingdom.

After long-distance transportation, tax increases, and consumption, these grains are still half cheaper than those produced locally in Nagareth, and the price is almost the same as free delivery in the eyes of the outer ring elves. Merchants and farmers in Saffrey still Earn something.

"I didn't understand it before, but today I finally understand why the food from the inner ring is transported to the outer ring so cheap and affordable. Praise the mother goddess Aisha!"

While responding loudly to the farmer, Carter escaped from the amulet bestowed by Aisha and placed it on his forehead to worship. The Avalon farmer in the distance also bowed devoutly when he saw this, and whispered some words of praise to Aisha .

In this country where Aisha's faith is even greater than that of Asuryan, if there is nothing to do, praise the mother goddess Aisha, and you can always easily get the favor of the local elves.What's more, Carter is indeed deeply trusted by Aisha to some extent. The amulet on his neck alone is enough to drive countless elves crazy, not to mention the transparent headband on his head at this time.

After spending a few hours patrolling the surroundings, and remembering the general terrain, Carter and his guards planned to return to the camp to see if the people who had gone out brought back any good news.

On the way back, Carter suddenly noticed a different farmland. The plants planted on it were colorful, half of which were green grass leaves, and the other half was a very conspicuous red flower, and the center was black, red and black. The two colors are quite bright together.These things that look neither like cash crops nor common flowers and plants are actually being looked after by many farmers.

"What is this kind?" Carter casually asked the guard next to him when he saw this.

"The green one is Canalbi, a relatively common tobacco raw material, and the one next to it is Somi Ferumu, a relatively expensive tobacco." As a native of Avalon, Astolfo easily named the crop.

"It seems that smoking is more popular in the inner ring," Carter replied with a casual smile.

"Generally speaking, everyone likes to take a sip after dinner, it can relax the mind and help them fall asleep"

"Oh? Tobacco can also help sleep?" Carter couldn't help thinking to himself when he heard that it could help sleep

Carter, who suddenly realized something, turned his head and glanced at the farmland again, thinking carefully whether he had seen the red and black flowers there.

"Have you tried this Suomi Ferumu? How do you feel after smoking it? If it's good, I'll buy some too." Carter asked the guard in a circumstantial way to prove his idea.

"Very good. Many times after smoking, I feel relaxed. The fatigue of the day is gone, and it is easy to recall the good memories of the past. It's just that the price is relatively expensive. A small pack is only enough to smoke a few times. Sovereign."

The guard's description made Carter, who was walking ahead on Bucephalus, frowned. He didn't know much about it because he didn't smoke in his previous life, but after the guard's explanation, Carter instantly remembered being thrown in the corner. some memories.

Thinking this way, Carter turned his head and pretended to glance at the guard casually, no sign of addiction could be seen from his healthy and fair face.

"Do you smoke?"

"Yes, Corps Commander, but it's rare just occasionally. The main reason is that there were not many merchants who sold Nagares in the past, and I didn't like it very much at first, but I got used to it when I was tired. Very comfortable"

"I have it too, I have it with me now, does the regiment commander want to have a bite?"

"I have that too"

The more he listened, the more terrified Carter was sure that what his subordinates or elves liked to smoke was definitely not the tobacco he understood, but various addictive drugs.

With this huge question in mind, Carter declined the long pipe offered by his hand.Seeing that Carter didn't want the guards who had already taken out their pipes and tobacco, he simply smoked it by himself.The elves have always had the habit of smoking. Since they have never smoked in their previous lives, they always thought it was ordinary tobacco. Therefore, Carter has never explicitly banned smoking while marching. Now it is hard to say that they can only drive horses. A little farther away from people who smoke.

Carter, who returned to the barracks, could not help but feel dizzy when he saw those off-duty soldiers gathering together to smoke with pipes.These elves have obviously been taking things that have harmed countless people in their previous lives for a long time, but they behaved as healthy as normal people, and they didn't feel that their physical strength could not keep up with their vital capacity during training.

This discovery made Carter extremely surprised. Even the assassination that happened not long ago and the major food crisis were temporarily forgotten by him, and he was full of thoughts about it.

For this reason, he even called several army mages in the army. As mages who can control the wind of magic, they are all elves with a high level of knowledge without exception, and they can serve as humanoid encyclopedias.

It would be difficult for any elf mage from Saffrey to become an idiot as long as he can graduate, because the education method of the mage academy there is quite strict, and if you don't study hard and practice hard, you don't even think about those lecture magisters.The elves who can work in the mage academy can use the title of magister instead of the title of ordinary magician. How can it be possible to allow people who are not good at studies to go out and ruin their reputation.

"Your issue, Commander, actually scholars have realized it a long time ago. The scholars who first realized the problem also deliberately selected many short-lived races for testing. Yue, a short-lived species like human beings, will form dependence both mentally and physically, and will feel extremely uncomfortable if he does not smoke for a long time. But this phenomenon does not exist in our Azul, the same adverse reactions only occur in Azul, who is under 50 years old.

As a god-blessed race, our Asur's body is quite powerful, and things that can make short-lived species addicted are actually not a burden for us.Only young people who lack spiritual exercise may be more difficult to resist, so the previous Eternal Queen stipulated that they must be over 50 years old to smoke the extracts of these two plants. "

Hearing the mage's explanation, Carter opened his eyes once, but his experience as a human in his previous life still made him very resistant to this kind of thing.

"Will it really not have any impact?" Carter, who was still somewhat skeptical, continued to ask.

The two elf mages who were summoned looked at each other: "Really not, the influence may be that the temperament will become very nostalgic. After all, this thing has a certain hallucinogenic effect, which can make people remember some old memories. At the same time, blur memory and beautify part of memory. But it is not difficult to quit, just find something to do and don’t be idle. I used to like to smoke when I was young. Later, I started to learn more about spells and magic wind in the academy. There is no time to smoke this thing anymore, books and exercises take up all my time."

After listening, Carter couldn't help lamenting in his heart that the elves really deserved to be the second son of the Old Sage, and they were too strong.

After listening to the explanation, Carter let the mage leave with satisfaction, but Carter didn't intend to end it like this. He wanted to personally collect data to confirm whether the elves were really immune to this extract.

And the many smoking-loving soldiers of the First Corps became Carter's best observation objects.From then on, Carter added an observer task every day. From that day on, the smoking-loving soldiers of the First Corps also found that as long as they got together to smoke and chat with their comrades, the commander of the Corps would always suddenly appear around, holding a book to write and draw. What did the portrait record, which made these elves a little confused.

This incident became an episode in Carter's daily life.

In the evening when Carter's understanding of the elves was more in-depth, Afu and others who were arranged by Aragorn to enter the city finally returned with news before dark.

Chapter 226 Attitude Change

"Hey, isn't this Alista, you also took this business?"

Many times the next morning, the carts and horses of many grain shops started loading early in the morning, planning to leave the city as soon as possible while there were fewer people in the morning.

"Yeah, a group of Nagares came last night and placed an urgent order for me an hour before I closed, so I had to prepare all night, and the time to sleep was almost gone."

"Haha, so you are too, but the reward is really rich, it's worth staying up all night!"

Such scenes are playing out in the Rock of Eternity and the surrounding towns.

Buying grain at a price that exceeds the market price by 50.00% is more important than anything else to grain merchants. The famous "businessmen will take risks as long as they have 50.00% profit" in the theory of capital is universal in that world.

As long as there is enough profit, these grain merchants will not care about Solei, the Feregaya family, everyone is a local snake, if everyone does not make money and arouses public anger, even these elf nobles who have been passed down for thousands of years There was no way to appease the outrage.

Just as many grain merchants in the Eternal Rock City were transporting a large amount of goods out of the city, three carriages full of flour also joined the mighty team.

These three carriages were sent by the Soley family, and the members were Fan En, who had just participated in the assassination the day before, and several elite subordinates.

Recalling the words of the mysterious mage before departure, as a retainer of the Soley family, he suppressed all his emotions, and put on a calm and kind expression instead.

He and a few of his subordinates were guards and labor hired by grain merchants, so they only needed to transport the goods honestly and did not need to have too much contact with other people.This low-key identity is perfect for them as spies.

In this way, the dozens of carriages and people who went together left the city that represented civilization and safety.

The journey of more than three kilometers is only a matter of ten minutes for the carriage, and the freshness of the morning has not completely dissipated, and the grain merchants of the Rock of Eternity transported the things outside the barracks.

Looking at the solid barracks built in a short period of time, and the soldiers wearing full armor at the gate for strict inspection, Fann had to admit that he had made a mistake yesterday and had lost the chance to assassinate Carter.Such a strict military camp wants to sneak in, assassinate and then retreat, unless the God of Gamblers, Ranolde, is possessed, or it is simply a daydream.

The sentinel at the door carefully checked the sign held by the businessman. It was indeed the place where the members of the regiment who went out yesterday were distributed, and then nodded and began to search and inspect the goods.

Due to the special situation of the elves, both the caravan and the First Corps have a large number of female members.Therefore, when searching the caravan, male or female soldiers are also sent to search for the gender of the caravan members, so as to avoid some unnecessary conflicts.

Several people who were spies also stood there honestly, allowing the sentries to check.

"No problem, you go in, someone will meet you inside!"

When he passed by the sentinel at the door, Van En, who was quite knowledgeable and had seen a lot of the market, subconsciously glanced at the sentry, and he found that the armor of these Nagares soldiers was actually engraved with runes! .

Fan En, who kept this matter firmly in his heart, continued to follow the caravan.

"The urgent orders I placed with those grain merchants yesterday have all arrived one after another, but these are small heads and only enough for the Corps for ten days. But it finally solved the current problem and bought a certain amount of time."

Food is the most important thing for the people, especially for soldiers in the army.Hearing that the food he bought with a lot of coins was only enough for ten days, Carter couldn't help but lamented that money was really a waste.

"Finally, I understand the difficulty and strength of the commander of the Aris Legion. How much does it cost to build so many troops and guarantee logistics?"

Recalling the treasure house in the Eternal Queen's mobile palace, Carter couldn't help feeling a little envious.Any elven family that has been passed down for thousands of years has much more wealth than him. The more than [-] Sovereigns they made by using the nobles' panic to speculate in real estate are really not much compared with the real big nobles.

"I really don't know how much wealth those big banks have in their hands, and how much is too late to transfer away. If you explore the ruins of those banks in the outer ring, will you be able to get rich overnight?"

Aragon, who was reporting on the side, immediately laughed when he heard it: "If those bankers really lost all their wealth, I am afraid their banks would have gone bankrupt due to the panic and run of the people. According to what the bankers themselves said, they would Install expensive teleportation magic for each branch bank, and when necessary, directly transfer the treasure chests storing finances and ledgers to other branches that they think are safe. As long as the managers of those branches act quickly enough, everyone deposits The money in the bank should be fine, and you can still withdraw money from the bank in the inner ring with the deposit check."

"So advanced?" Carter, who heard about it for the first time, was immediately shocked by this very magical method. His predecessor had no money because he was young and had never been to a bank, so he had basically zero knowledge about it. , and this was the first time Carter had heard of how Elf Bank worked.

"I went shopping in the city yesterday. Although there are many refugees, the overall order is still stable. I thought it was the timely rescue of the Eternal Queen. I didn't expect it to be because of the credit of those banks. They guarantee that even if the refugees stay with them Wealth can be easily withdrawn from the inner ring to continue living. As long as it is not abject poverty with no savings, elves from the outer ring like us want to start life again, it is not difficult."

Speaking of this, Carter also realized for the first time that as long as the operation is healthy enough, even financial companies such as banks can still contribute a lot to a society. to collect money.Then financial institutions are still very necessary for a society.

"If it weren't for that, who would feel comfortable putting their money in it?"

While the two were chatting, Fan En, who was trying to spy on the information, left with the caravan a little helplessly.

The soldiers of the First Corps were very tight-lipped. He didn't get any particularly important news, but the existing basic information was enough for him to go back and make a mission.

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He obtained all this information from the strict-tongued soldiers of the First Corps within a limited time.

The reason why those soldiers told Vann this information was only because they didn't realize what kind of information this was.Many times, things and news that are rare and ordinary to oneself are valuable information to outsiders.

More than an hour later, the information was delivered to the desk of Solei Patriarch, Istfan.

Looking at the important names and identities, Estefan, who had passed the stage of acting on his emotions, already understood what he was going to do next.

"Give this information to the old fellow Feregaya."

"As you wish, my lord. Do you want to send it to other families by the way?"

"Huh?" Estefan raised his head and thought for a while, then nodded and said, "That's fine, but I'll only tell them the basics, and if you want to know anything else, you can check it yourself!"

Seeing that his Patriarch had made the right choice, the mage smiled and left the room.

Early the next morning, in the noble council of the Rock of Eternity, the two families that had been obstructing the supply of the First Corps suddenly changed their attitudes.

In the afternoon of that day, Carter looked at hundreds of carriages with a puzzled expression, unloading the huge amount of food, fruits, vegetables and meat from the Rock of Eternity into the warehouse of the military camp.

"I can't keep up with their rhythm. What are these thousand-year-old nobles thinking? The face-changing speed in Peking Opera can't keep up with them?"

Chapter 227 Meeting of Supreme Lords

"Faster and faster!"

The passenger sitting on the giant eagle and hugging the eagle knight's waist resisted the biting cold wind coming from the high altitude, pulled down his mask and shouted loudly in the knight's ear.

The former, who was wearing a mask and hood with only a pair of eyes exposed, just turned his head and glanced at him faintly, without bothering to say a word.

At this time, they were flying from the sky of the outer ring to the inner ring, and they were about to leap over the brand new Dragon Pass Fortress.At the same time, in order to avoid being intercepted, he had to fly at an altitude of more than 5000 meters.

The abandoned land of the Outer Ring Kingdom has become very different from what it was a few months ago.

Although the sea channel was almost completely cut off by the elven navy because of the failure of the naval battle, the number of Chaos legions coming to Ulthuan through the portal has been steadily increasing.It's just that after losing the sea channel, it's not as fast as they planned.

At the same time, after several months of contact with the elves, the believers of the four gods have begun to figure out tactics to deal with the elves.

For example, in order to target the elven giant eagle knights who can fly up to [-] meters, Nurgle believers and Tzeentch believers use hateful magic to distort and mutate a large number of flying mutant beasts.The flying ability of Chaos air units has been greatly enhanced, and they can already drive away the giant eagle knights sent by the elves by virtue of their numerical advantages.Gone are the days when the Eagle Knight could scout over the Chaos Legion at will without fear of a counterattack.

In addition, the arrival of a large number of real demons is the real headache.

Low-level demons are fine, but the current situation is that each Chaos Legion generally has two to three Chaos Demons of the same faith, and troops ranging from [-] to [-].And these legions are scattered in Nagares, Charis, Cosque and most of the land of Iris Kingdom, and the total number has exceeded one hundred.

Even if the average Chaos Legion is only 200, there are already more than [-] million Chaos creatures, wreaking havoc on the land of the Outer Ring Kingdom.

Only Caledor and the land in the south of Iris have not yet fallen, and they are guarding the only land passage to the outer ring besides the five gates.

What is the concept of 200 million?The number of Chaos troops entrenched in the outer ring has exceeded the total population of many elf kingdoms, and even several kingdoms need to be combined to barely equal their head count.The believers blessed by Chaos are so clueless. They don't need to eat and drink, and the only supplies they need are weapons and equipment. This makes them don't need to care about the so-called supply lines in many cases.

There is a real lack of weapons, and in an emergency, the portal can even be opened, and batches of equipment can be transported directly from the subspace. There are more than 200 million well-equipped troops who don't need to care about the supply line. How can the feudal society handle it?

This is not the kind of army that claims to be a million-dollar army. In fact, there are only tens of thousands of professional soldiers who can really fight.Instead, just randomly pull out a Chaos Legion that can act as a heavy infantry and has good combat effectiveness!

If the sea channel was not cut off, this number is estimated to have doubled.

Thinking like this, the scout couldn't help but increase the strength in his hands, which annoyed the knight in front, so he elbowed him hard.

"cough"

The news that the Chaos army is gathering and ready to attack the inner ring at any time, thanks to the tireless efforts of the Eagle Knight, spread among the upper echelons of the inner ring within a day.

The aristocratic councils from all over the country, which had frequent meetings due to the war, had to drag their tired bodies to participate in more and more frequent meetings.In just half a year, their workload has exceeded the sum of the past hundred years. This is not too painful for elves and nobles who are used to a slow-paced life.

And Aris Anar, who had been unable to be contacted before, was also participating in a high-level meeting with his father and grandfather.

The participants were either the ruling princes of various countries, or the powerful nobles with vast territories.

This meeting of supreme lords is top-notch in terms of level and secrecy, so the magic shield covering the palace not only protects the elves who come to the meeting, but also blocks any way of peeping.As a result, the communication crystals inside and outside cannot be used, which is why Carter has been unable to contact the future Shadow King recently.

"This proposal is unacceptable to the Kingdom of Elyon. We still need to defend the enemies in the north who may break through. Taking away [-] silver-helmed knights means that [-]% of our heavy cavalry and nobles will leave our territory! And even more than this number Twice as many Elyon Predators? You don’t really think that anyone who is an Elyon elf must be a master of equestrianism and can be called an Elyon Predator?”

"Your Excellency, without the help of the powerful Ailion cavalry, it will be difficult for us to defend the few remaining territories of Southern Iris. At that time, it will not only be the north that is only a possible invasion, but also the land passage from the south. The army of chaos will flood the rear! All territories will be destroyed then."

Looking at the two sides of the long table, the great nobles who were fighting for their own interests, Aris sighed helplessly in his heart.

This meeting has been going on for almost a week. Whenever the sun rises, they get together to discuss, but they often don't come to any substantive conclusions until the sun sets.In the past, it was okay for elves to hold an important meeting for a long time, not to mention a week, even a few months was normal.Before the official meeting, attend a few banquets, get in touch with each other, and then have fun under the leadership of the organizer. This process can take several weeks.After the official meeting, it is normal for some minor issues to be negotiated after arguing for several days.

After all, for things that can be won with time, why not persist for a while?Anyway, as an elf, there is not much else, just a lot of time, and many times before it is used up, he will die in various deadly actions because of boredom.

But at this moment, wasting time when Azul is dying every second is an unforgivable felony.

This great invasion has developed to the present, and has evolved into a stage of general mobilization for national strength.But still many vested interests do not want to make too much effort.

The outer-ring elves, who had finally retreated to the inner ring, believed that they had paid a huge price and now urgently needed to rest, so the next war required the inner-ring elves to be the main force.The inner ring elves think that these things have little to do with themselves, but that the outer ring guys are useless and have lost their territory.It would be good if they were willing to take them in. Why should the elves in the inner ring bleed to regain their land for them?

Aris, with his dark hair, is quite conspicuous, but he has little say in this meeting.But even so, he was deeply disappointed in everyone present.

This is a life-and-death battle that concerns all Asur, and everyone will die if they fail.Chaos doesn't distinguish between inner rings and outer rings, as long as they have pointed ears, they will kill them.In the end, the flesh and blood were sacrificed to Khorne, and the soul was harvested by Slaanesh and tortured forever.

Looking at those great nobles from various countries who are either familiar or unfamiliar, a trace of disdain flashed in the dark pupils of the Shadow King.

While Aris waited helplessly, this long-lasting meeting finally ushered in a breakthrough point.