A large number of people gathered near the commercial street at the city gate.

There is still time before the arrival of the Chaos army. At this time, the city has not yet entered martial law. The streets are full of elven citizen soldiers and recruits wearing armor and daggers at their waists. These elves from all corners of the kingdom usually live in their own way.

There are not many opportunities to come to big cities in the one-third-acre field. Taking this opportunity, many people are buying and consuming some goods or services that they have no chance to come into contact with on ordinary days.

The bar on the ground floor of the hotel is the favorite of young Asur elves. The young men and women gathered inside joke with each other and tell interesting stories, and drink one glass after another of fruit wine.

After meeting the eyes of the young people who were suppressed by rural life, they went directly to the upstairs room to continue their in-depth 'communication'. The booming business made the owner of the tavern reveal a bright smile on his face.

The dessert house that sells desserts has gathered many elves. Before the efficient method of making sugar was discovered, even Osun, which was a blessed place in the medieval Warhammer world, was a rare item. On weekdays, sweetness was basically a rare item.

It is tasted by natural products such as bees, so many young people want to taste what 'pure' desserts taste like. Sweet craving is the nature of most living things.

There were even many elves standing in front of some stalls set up by small vendors, buying some things rarely seen in the countryside, such as exquisite jewelry, mirrors, gorgeous clothing and other goods.

There is a huge gap between urban life and rural life in Ulthuan. The relatively "luxurious" life and consumption power in the city are beyond the reach of the countryside. The slow rural life and land allow most elves to be self-sufficient, so for trade

The demand for behavior is relatively small, and because the relatively low birth rate of Asur makes land compatibility difficult to occur, the country elves tend to use barter or debt of gratitude instead of the currency system, so on weekdays

All the incoming currency is saved.

This behavior resulted in a large amount of spare money in the hands of the village elf citizen soldiers who responded to the call, and the commercial activities of Tal-Zhodel, a city that was about to face war, reached a new peak.

This is also the reason why the hedonistic sect will develop and grow in the land of Ulthuan many years later. The extravagance of big cities can easily corrupt the minds of new elven nobles and civilians. This is also the reason why they have survived for a long time.

But the biggest reason why elves who don’t have enough vision will be corrupted.

Carter, who has a modern soul on the way to the camp, actually doesn't think much of the level of 'prosperity' in front of him. On the contrary, it is the various buildings, temples and huge statues that ordinary elves are accustomed to that make this modern person.

The soul feels strangely shocked.

In particular, the majestic temple built at the highest point in the city makes this modern man who comes from a low religious belief curious.

It’s not that you believe in gods much. Although there are true gods in this world, you must know that the elves and gods are very cheating. Carter will not have too much admiration for them. But in modern society, such a vast area, gorgeous shapes and no

There are not many buildings left that have great functions (referring to social effectiveness), and they are far from this scale.

In addition to the brief and abnormal commercial prosperity that occurred before the real war came, the city of Tal-Zhoder was still preparing for the upcoming battle.

Ulthuan under the rule of the Eternal Queen can be said to have been quite protective of nature, but at this time, in order to prevent the natural creations near the city from being corrupted and used, the elves had to start cutting down trees and continuously transporting piles of wood back.

, were stored in a safe place, and the civilians responsible for logging should cut down most of the trees near the city within two days to avoid being used by the Chaos army.

All the felled trees were transported into the city as war reserves.

In addition, a large number of instruments were formed in the hands of Vaal's craftsmen, and the weapons in stock were taken out to arm the lower-level elves recruited.

Another big difference between urban residents and rural residents is that there are many poor people, either because of war or business failure. In short, these poor people cannot prepare their own weapons, so many poor people have been recruited as soldiers to earn wages to support themselves or

A large number of weapons and equipment were taken out and handed over to their families.

At this time, the entire city had gathered no less than 50,000 people and more than 8,000 soldiers.

Although most elven civilians can fight as long as they undergo emergency training, the low discipline has made many elven nobles and generals understand that the militia is ineffective most of the time, and can even be of help at critical moments, so they can only choose the shorter ones to pick the taller ones.

, recruiting some citizen soldiers, but not all citizens.

If there is a book, it will be long; if there is no book, it will be short.

After Carter and his team reported at the military camp in the city, they were immediately arranged to rest in a tent and organized into a temporarily organized military camp. After a brief meeting with the superiors, the group of people who came all the way ate in a hurry.

After eating something, I started to rest.

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A night of silence.

As the surrounding tents gradually increased, more and more elven soldiers from all over Ulthuan appeared in the military camp. Carter's eyes were opened severely. After memorizing the shield pattern, he could quickly

Understand which kingdom that person is from.

After arriving in the city, he realized that his previous understanding of Ulthuan's culture was too one-sided.

Carter, who has only traveled between Jundun and small villages, has not actually been exposed to the splendor of this civilization. Take food as an example. Most of the young people in Jundun have just left home, so most of them have poor cooking skills. But in Zhuo

There are all kinds of small vendors and snack bars popping up in the big city of Del, but Carter's pockets are not very full.

Although the reward for annihilating the Chaos Reconnaissance Team has been decentralized, Carter only has two gold crowns in total.

Carter did attend a free dance held in the west city square last night. Although there were not many supplies, the joyful atmosphere gave many depressed elves confidence in the upcoming battle.

The elves who like to build city walls against mountains also have a large number of houses, shops and temples built on the mountainside or on small earth bags in Drowder.

Carter, who was given a half-day vacation, sat in a dessert shop built on the mountainside with Legolas and Astolfo, whom he had the best relationship with.

Three people in casual clothes sat at a small table by the fence, looking at the menu and thinking about what to eat.

Fruit pies, cream cakes, sugar smoothies and more desserts kept the three of them entangled.

Although Carter's soul comes from modern society, he has not tasted sweetness for a long time and now he is extremely interested in these foods that he never cared about before.

"Have you decided? I plan to have a cream cake, the most classic dessert."

Finally, after looking over and over several times, Carter was the first to make up his mind. You must know that the price of this small piece of cake was 3 silver shillings.

"I want to eat strawberry!"

Astolfo pointed at the hand-drawn pictures in the menu and said with stars in his eyes.

"In my opinion, it's still the holy grail of waffle cream."

Legolas frowned and struggled for a long time before finally making his choice.

"Okay! Come right away!"

The female shopkeeper waiting aside immediately nodded and started preparing, and took back the menu.

"It's been a long time since I've eaten. I'm really looking forward to it! Hey hey hey."

Astolfo held his chin in his hands and looked happy.

"I said your injury is just right, are you sure you don't want to rest more?"

"It's a small thing, it's a small thing! I only had muscle soreness two days ago and now I'm fine!"

Facing Carter's concern, Astolfo closed his eyes and waved his hands indifferently, showing a confident smile.

"Hey, the food you ordered! Please use it slowly."

After the shop owner delivered the food for three people to the table, the three of them focused their attention from chatting to the food. Even the elves could not resist the temptation of sweets.
Chapter completed!