Chapter 80: Procrastination
With Calvus's leadership, everyone entered the city of 'Estari' smoothly and experienced the feeling of walking on a high-altitude rope bridge.
After arriving in the city, everyone in the 21st Company was not left out in the cold. On the contrary, the "Twilight" family that ruled "Estari" warmly entertained Carter and his party.
On the night they arrived, a small flowing banquet was held in the center of the town, with all kinds of drinks and food available.
As the protagonists, Carter and his party are surrounded by the residents and nobles of 'Estari'. These 'country people' who live in a corner are always slow to receive information from the outside world and are indifferent to anything new.
Curious. Moreover, most passionate young people feel dissatisfied with the long-term same life, so they are the most excited whenever there are outsiders.
Explorers, merchants and travelers alike will be welcomed as they pass through the port.
The passionate scene made Carter feel remorseful for his previous narrow-minded thoughts. Of course, in the near future he would feel sad for his naive emotions at this time.
"Mr. Carter mentioned in the letter from Prince Aris that you can do magic, and you also led the famous 'Raven Knights' to break through the siege of chaotic creatures and kill the leader on the other side. Is this true?
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"That's just good luck... In fact, I have just awakened my magic talent and can only use the basic Aksha style."
Standing in front of Carter was a tall man with a height of nearly 1.9 meters and blond hair. This male elf named 'Zinelon-Twilight' was the head of the noble family that ruled 'Estari'.
"You are so young and promising! Let me introduce to you, this is my daughter 'Stella Twilight'."
Qinilon introduced the female elf standing next to him.
This is a tall, beautiful woman with flowing silver hair. There is no special expression on her plain face. After being introduced by her father, she simply nodded to Carter and then retreated behind her father without saying much.
What's the intention.
"Well, Stella is a bit taciturn. Never mind that she treats everyone like this. Even my father can rarely talk to her."
"It's okay..."
After a brief observation of this female elf Carter, who was somewhat similar to 'Emilia', I discovered that she was a believer in Marcelan, the God of the Ocean, and she was wearing a necklace representing Marcelan around her neck.
Seeing her necklace, the forgotten memories in Carter's mind were suddenly awakened.
Among the few things he knew about the elven gods, Lilith, the goddess of fate, and Marcelan, the god of the ocean, were rare and reliable gods.
Although the former failed to prevent the destruction of the world in the end, it at least retained a trace of fire for the elves, while the latter protected the newly born sea elves at the end, allowing them to successfully survive to the new world.
Carter once considered believing in a certain elf god, letting him block most of the world's suspicions and suspicions for him, allowing him to use his abilities unscrupulously without being suspected, and then degenerated into a Chaos lackey.
But so far Carter has not been able to find a chance.
But now there are at least two candidates.
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After the dinner that day, except for Carter, Lucana and Lena, no one else knew who had been seduced.
Carter even saw Astolfo being dragged away by the drunk Lillian (the little girl had been coveting Astolfo's beauty for a long time). During the period, they hugged and hugged each other, and several other men were also invited to have fun by the 'enthusiastic' girl.
Chat' all night long.
Carter also received invitations from many girls, but declined them all politely. He just took Lucana and Lena, who were slightly tipsy, back to the tavern arranged by "Zinilon-Twilight" to rest.
A night without words...
Carter woke up early the next morning. At this time, the air of this seaside town was still filled with the atmosphere of carnival, but it was much cleaner than last night.
When I walked out of the room and went downstairs, the hotel proprietress had already gotten up and started preparing for the day's work.
The loose sweater and skirt could not cover up the boss lady's plump figure and the unique charm of a married woman. Her long black hair, which was more than one meter long, was tied into a braid, revealing her delicate and sharp ears.
"Good morning…"
"Ah, you got up so early, good morning."
After briefly greeting the proprietress, Carter forced his eyes away from her and walked out of the tavern.
The faint fishy smell in the seaside air was very strange to Carter, who had been a landlubber in his previous life.
Perhaps due to winter and being at the seaside, the weather in 'Estari' is wetter and colder than in other places, and the sharp cold wind blows the fallen leaves all over the sky.
One after another, the seven people who had gone out to hang out all night returned to the tavern. As they passed by, Carter smelled a strange smell from them. In response, he just gave them an "I understand" expression. Yesterday,
The right to indulge should be regarded as a reward after a hard march. Carter will not let them indulge like this again.
At noon that day, Carter took the initiative to visit the 'Twilight' family's mansion next to the highest temple, hoping to confirm the camp and recruit soldiers as soon as possible.
Of course, Carter didn't really think that things would go smoothly from now on because of the enthusiasm of the people in the town of 'Estari' yesterday. But he thought that he could at least start work.
But things turned out to be far worse than he imagined.
The patriarch of the Twilight family, ‘Zinelon-Twilight’, did receive Carter and did not neglect him.
But all the requests made by Carter were dealt with with the attitude: "Really? Then I have to check it out", "Please give me some time to prepare", "This needs to be discussed with all the townspeople".
Carter immediately felt the secret of the word "drag" from his attitude, and he never responded directly to Carter's request.
Although 'Zinilon-Twilight' received various formal documents and orders from Prince 'Aris-Annal', he was not enthusiastic about helping Carter form the 'Twenty-first Company of the Eagle Legion'. Carter
There was even a trace of deep dissatisfaction seen in his eyes.
After just a moment's thought, Carter understood the source of his emotion.
During the hundreds of years that my Twilight family has ruled the area around 'Estari', I have paid the taxes on time, and when I have to fulfill my obligations, I have also taken the city defense troops trained with my own money to fulfill them. I have always been like this.
Now that you're on your own terms, is it too much to ask me to provide money and effort to help you, Aris-Annal, train an army?
After putting yourself in Carter's shoes for a moment, you can understand his thoughts, and from his standpoint, having such thoughts is completely normal.
But Carter also has his own position.
And even if 'Zinelon-Twilight' wants to continue living his small life as a country lord, the cruel reality that will follow will make it impossible for him to live it.
Normally, any living thing has the instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.
In Carter's eyes, the kind of demon that wants to destroy the world without any reason is only a content that appears in third-rate knight novels. Generally speaking, even the evil side in various high-risk worlds can do bad things with profit.
But the subspace demons under the four gods of chaos are such an unreasonable group of beings. If there is any benefit to them from destroying a world, it may be the happiness brought by the process.
But Carter knew that even if he told the elf nobles in front of him about the impending large-scale invasion of Chaos, he would most likely just listen and not care.
Chaos has invaded several times, and hasn't it been defeated by Nagareth's army every time? He has also contributed money to the country several times, and has made many contributions. There is no reason to bleed anymore.
If Carter used Chaos Invasion to talk about things, this is what the Elf Nobleman would most likely think. No one would take Carter's words seriously before truly seeing the dangers of the 'Chaos Invasion'.
However, Carter did not give up easily, and still persisted in trying to persuade 'Zinelon-Twilight' to face his demands as soon as possible. However, after more than an hour of persuasion, Carter could still only see a touch of indifference in his eyes.
I didn't feel impressed.
In the end, he just opened his mouth, sighed helplessly, and finally had no choice but to say goodbye and leave.
He knew that there was no way to get this elf noble through normal means.
After leaving the mansion, Carter's eyes turned into scarlet Sharingan.
Chapter completed!