The tasks related to the construction of Elsen City were tedious and time-consuming. For Roddy, who currently lacked manpower, there was no need to waste his energy on them. However, by glancing at the names of these tasks, Roddy could get a lot of information from them.
In any case, "Elsen City" was Roddy's biggest gain since he came to this world, and it was also the most spoils of war he had won. And such a large city, of course, could give Roddy more than just the title of "Lord of Elsen City."
Roddy opened the "City Construction Column" that was unique to the "Lord of Elsen City" and read all the data about the city.
In the game, every city had a marked "city level." The higher the level, the more prosperous and defensive the city was. For example, "Hollier City", the largest city in Efta, in Roddy's impression, was a medium-sized prosperous city marked at level 7. The more developed cities in the Kingdom of Karen were mostly concentrated in the southern part of the kingdom. Among them, the "Holy Cathedral" where "Rose Cross" was located and the royal city were the highest level, marked at level 14.
Because of such a standard of reference, when Roddy saw the number of the "City Construction Column", his heartbeat doubled.
Because the marked level was "Level 17."
But behind this level, there was a gray word: "City Deserted. Actual Level: Level 4."
The so-called "deserted" was naturally because the city was uninhabited at this time, and there was no productivity to speak of. But "Level 17" was obviously the previous level of the city. Roddy licked his lips, trying to hide the excitement in his heart. He secretly made up his mind to build it into the most powerful city in the kingdom!
The "City View Column" displayed Elsen City in a three-dimensional perspective in front of Roddy, allowing him to carefully look at the detailed data of all the buildings. But when his eyes swept over the perspective, Roddy found that many buildings were red. After clicking to inspect, he found that these buildings had conditions such as "Population Requirement" and "Recharging Crystal Requirement" written on them. Currently, they were in a "Unavailable" state.
Maybe this was the price of a level-17 city being reduced to a level-4 city.
Roddy knew that there was no such thing as a free lunch in the sky. He took a deep breath and began to inspect the "Outer City" area. In the diagram, residential areas, trade areas, small squares, shops, opera houses, and so on were marked "Available" in green font. And at the north and south ends of the outer city, there were two symmetrical red areas: "Barracks Area."
Clicking on the barracks, Roddy could see the internal training ground, dormitories, and a series of basic facilities that could be used to train troops. After checking the description, he found that it could actually train for 2,000 soldiers at the same time!
This was an incredible thing, because in the current era, there was no such thing as a "military camp". When the feudal lords led their armies to war, they would always let their knights recruit soldiers from their own fiefs. The strength of these soldiers was uneven, and their equipment was crude. They could fight in a downwind battle, but they would not be able to handle a high-intensity large-scale battle.
Once there was a "military camp", Roddy could quickly train a large number of high-quality troops, which would give him more confidence when he encountered a strong enemy.
This could be considered an unexpected gain, but what surprised Roddy even more was the "Munitions Factory" that was also marked in red next to the military camp!
This was completely different from the common "blacksmith's" that existed among humans. It could even be called a real "factory." Because of the Charged Magic Crystal as an energy source, the High Elves' production technology was already in the "half-mechanized" stage. They had even developed an elementary production line. The efficiency and quality of the High Elves' products had completely surpassed that of the traditional blacksmith's!
Roddy took a look at the instructions. As long as the activation standard of "400 Recharging Crystals" and "40 workers" was met, and enough ores were prepared, this place could be put into production at any time!
Roddy saw a large list of weapons that could be manufactured under the "Munitions Factory" option. He discovered that as long as he had the recipe, he could manufacture equipment below the "Excellent" grade. What shocked him the most was the equipment that could be manufactured at the back.
They were gigantic, long-lost city-defense and siege weapons!
But looking at the astronomical number of materials on the list, Roddy shook his head and stopped his fantasies. He turned his gaze to the inner city.
He knew that these things were too far away from him at the moment, but when he casually glanced at the densely packed red words "Inner City", he couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
There were seven "Arcane Research Rooms" of different types, three "Weapon Research Rooms", a large number of "Granaries" filled with food seeds, four large "Civilian Libraries", one "Royal Library", all kinds of "Museums", "Altars", "Arbitration Courts", "Arcane Academies" …
These names were complicated and had different meanings, but in Roddy's eyes, they all represented one word: Technology.
This was the crystallization of the High Elves' technology … Mastering them would definitely mean an increase in productivity, competitiveness, and combat power!
Roddy finally realized how amazing the harvest this time was. How was this a city? This was simply a microcosm of the High Elves' civilization!
However, except for the low-level buildings such as the "Granaries" that were open, the rest of the buildings basically had extremely high resource requirements. Roddy previously thought that the city of Elson needed at least 4,500 "Charged Crystals" to activate the basic defense circle, but now it seemed that to activate all the buildings, he would probably need 45,000 "Charged Crystals"!
"This is really burning money …"
For ordinary people, this was definitely a suffocating astronomical figure, but as a modern person, Roddy quickly accepted this fact: it was just like running a business. A small clothing store might only make a few hundred thousand dollars a year, but a central bank would make at least hundreds of billions of dollars a year. Elson City was not a fief for low-level Knights, it was a real stronghold that could accommodate tens of thousands of people!
Roddy tried hard to move his eyes away from the building descriptions, and then closed the [City View Bar], slowly calming his surging emotions.
He knew very well that to completely restore the city to its peak of Level-17 would be a vast and difficult project for anyone, and most importantly … he had not yet mastered the production technology of the "Charged Crystals".
Without the "Charged Crystals", it meant that Elson City's value could not be displayed to even one percent.
After the surprise, there was always melancholy. Roddy looked at the dark city in a daze, but he understood that … he might have to go to Mogra Village.
*****
The night was getting late, but Camilla was not sleepy at all.
Her mind was filled with all kinds of thoughts, and the panic in her heart had not disappeared … Until now, she could not accept the fact that she could no longer leave Elson City.
She was not in the mood to think about what "Khadgar's Blessing" was. Camilla, who had done a lot of research on arcane magic, did not even think about the difference between the arcane magic she had mastered and what she had mastered before. She only knew that she had now become a "prisoner."
Being imprisoned here, Camilla did not even know how to "fight". No matter how unwilling she was, there was only a deep sense of helplessness left in her.
Did she really have to compromise with Roddy? What about Naifei? Did she really have to ask him for help?
But Naifei was her everything, and Roddy … was it worth it?
Subconsciously standing up, Camilla slowly moved her stiff body, walked to the bedroom window sill, took a deep breath, and tried to relax her tense nerves.
At this time, she could clearly see Elson City in the night — in the eyes of ordinary people, it was just a blurry outline in the darkness, but in Camilla's vision, everything was as clear as day.
She could see the water vapor condensed on the long swords of the patrolling guards, and she could hear the conversations on the patrol posts … Her vision and hearing were infinitely magnified in Elson City. In the face of such a scene, Camilla even had an absurd idea: if her power in Elson City reached the extreme, could she finally be called the "God of Elson"?
She didn't know about Turing's plot to become a god. His idea at this moment was just a whim he had after gaining more power. Camilla had no interest in becoming such a "god". At this moment, she was more worried about how to regain her "freedom".
Thinking of this, Camilla suddenly frowned … because she found that someone was staring at her.
Her eyes immediately looked over, and Camilla and Natha's eyes suddenly met.
Twenty meters away, standing on the roof of the neighboring house, Natha stared for a second, then calmly looked away and continued to stare at the distant Pasha Magic Tower in a daze.
In the past three months, Akasha had lost a lot of weight because of worry, but Natha looked no different from before … But no one knew what kind of crazy training she had gone through during this time — after several battles, Natha knew that there was a huge gap between her and Roddy's strength, so during this time, she practiced archery in a way that was almost like self-torture …
She worked hard, just so that when she saw Roddy again … she would have enough strength to help him kill the enemy.
She was not good at expressing herself, so after Roddy returned safely, she did not even say a word of greeting.
But when the night fell again, she found that she had long been used to climbing to the roof, and habitually stared at the Pasha Magic Tower in a daze …
Because every night in the past three months, Natha spent in the cold wind full of hope.
Now that she had let go of her worries, it seemed that she could not change her habit. But Natha did not expect that she would meet Camilla here — she was not interested in chatting with Camilla. After turning her eyes, she continued to stare into the distance in a daze …
"If I remember correctly, you are … Natha?"
Nata turned her head to look at the unexpected greeting, but she did not say anything. However, there was some doubt in her eyes.
"If I am not wrong, you are a Wood Elf, right?"
Natha was still silent, but her eyebrows were slightly wrinkled.
There was a generation gap between the identity of a Wood Elf and a human, after all, she did not understand why Camilla emphasized this point.
Her silence made the atmosphere a little awkward. However, Camilla did not seem to mind. She continued to speak, "My name is Camilla. Speaking of which … we might have a relationship that is neither too distant nor too close."
Natha still did not respond, making Camilla's self-introduction very awkward. Helpless, Camilla paused for a moment, and softly said, "I am a descendant of the High Elves, I think … you and I have a common ancestor."
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