Back in town, Ofeichher and Helena meet up at the restaurant on the street side of the town square.

The small restaurant is not big, about a dozen tables of guests can be seated, but the layout is not lacking in style and exquisiteness.

White dining cloths, white lacquered pillars and hanging lamps, combined with various gray arch masonry, reflect the main color of the restaurant, frescoes, table clocks and lamps outline the overall atmosphere of the small restaurant, and the light brown of curtains and leather chairs add a bit of comfort and vitality to the restaurant. The style of the restaurant is not as luxurious and complicated as the royal and high society preferences, revealing an elegant and casual afternoon tea dining environment.

Ofiicher is right from the feeling, the restaurant focuses on afternoon tea and dinner. In the Otherworldly Empire, most people eat only two meals a day, one brunch, one afternoon tea, or a dinner that doesn't make it in time for afternoon tea.

Poor people who could not afford kerosene and candles would rest at night and then get up when the weather was uncertain. Townspeople from better off families will have a small portion of bread or leftovers for a late-night snack before going to bed. Only the aristocrats would not have a good meal at tea time, munching on only two or three pieces of the baker's freshly baked biscuits, desserts, or half a serving of fruit, because there was still a lavish and sumptuous dinner dinner waiting for them.

Professionals who have more money on hand but don't reach the wealthy or nouveau riche class can't afford to have a full-time chef at home, but naturally have the need to eat a good meal, or occasionally don't want to eat at home. The small restaurants on the street side of the town square came into being.

The red stewed meatballs they ordered were quickly freshly baked and served on their table, where they were then finished by the two of them. They are at the age when they have a great appetite, and instead of eating a wide variety of palace feasts, they do not make additional exchanges when eating, and eat up the delicious and delicious meals first.

Ever since Ofeicher was allowed to dine with Charlotte, he had become somewhat numb to otherworldly cuisine. Helena, on the other hand, looked like she was gobbling up, and although she was not ugly in her appearance, she had little table manners. As he wiped his mouth with a napkin, he took the opportunity to take another closer look at the girl in front of him.

He learned from the Church's records that a petite girl with ice-blue shoulder-blue hair and eyes that looked like sparkling sapphires was Helena Corningham. Ever since he first met Helena, she seemed to have taken turns wearing two robes of similar style. In comparison, although Cornelia was dressed similarly to Finn, most of them wore leather protectors over her shirt and breeches, but in terms of the style of her shirt and pants, there were no less than five pieces.

Helena clearly did not have the stubborn and suspicious air of a poor girl or a country girl in the field. Casey, who had studied Sunday school and had gradually become reserved under Charlotte's rendering, still had a similar atmosphere—albeit a little more provocative teasing in Casey's pretended cold temperament. However, Helena obviously did not receive the lady course of a noble girl, as well as the etiquette of an aristocratic family, which made Ofiicher feel a little inexplicable when he tried to think with the original owner's mind.

Now, with the changes in the imperial system and laws, the buying and selling of land is far freer than it was before Zelos I.

The land revolution led some nobles to sell their territories and use their funds to help the empire invest in industries related to mineral mining and ship manufacturing, and gradually gave the financial industry such as commercial banks and joint-stock investment companies the initial growth of blood.

At the same time, the change also led to the fact that the rich could buy land in full compliance with the laws of the empire, and the absurd scene of the old aristocracy who had become rich through the new industry tried to expel the new aristocracy that had risen to prominence due to commerce before the eyes of Ofey. And where he didn't see it, the tenant farmer agents were happy to see the tenant farmers pawning land to the towns in search of opportunities and development.

These general tenants, who had been agents of the lords, became agents of the tenant collectives, and instead held large amounts of land and bargained with the rich who wanted to buy arable land for sheep grazing. Of course, no matter how high the price of land was raised, it had nothing to do with the tenant farmers who pawned the land early.

Many sharecroppers are unable to support their families on their own, and most of the time, their wives are not enough to work outside the home, and their children have to find ways to work as apprentices in various industries to earn a living. In this context, there are many, many apprentices in the towns, and even female apprentices, who were almost non-existent before, are no longer a novelty.

Thinking of this, Ophi Yiche only felt a little crying and laughing:

Transcendent power has made otherworldly religions never have the hegemony of religions in their own world history. Logically speaking, without religion having a complete monopoly on the interpretation of the workings of the world, people's minds will not be overly constrained, and the exploration of science and technology should be accelerated.

However, at this time, extraordinary forces replaced the necessity of certain technological developments, which caused no small setbacks in the process of human understanding of the world and the development of technology. The various gadgets, while somewhat delicate and complex, are not yet machines, let alone the substantial productivity gains that machines bring.

In other words, supernatural power has prevented factories from appearing on a large scale, groups of workers dependent on machines from appearing, and small workshop-style craftsmen have piled up all the towns and cities of the empire.

- However, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like Helena became an apprentice at Finn's firm for that reason.

"Do I have sauce on my face?" asked Helena, who had been looking at herself as she saw the view across the table.

"Miss Helena's face is not stained with sauce," Ofe replied truthfully, "but I don't understand why you are willing to get the blood of those demons on your pretty face." I've heard that both you and Cornelia were apprenticed under Mr. Finn before the age of thirteen. ”

"Probably because we all want to be experts in secret rituals?" Helena said uncertainly, "The reason why Cornelia is coming to be an apprentice is quite complicated, so I won't delve into it." Overall, though, we all want to be experts in secret rituals so that the experiments that Mr. Fein is currently working on can be successful. If Mr. Finn is unable to complete these experiments, I will go to another place where he is more likely to complete the experiments after learning Mr. Finn's skills. ”

The Paladin Captain allowed himself to lurk in Finn's place just to know the information about the experiment. I didn't expect that I didn't know much about the basic knowledge, but I had to get in touch with the experiment from his apprentice first.

Ofiichher resisted the urge to sigh and refrain from talking directly about the experiment: "When you were less than thirteen years old, you decided that you wanted to become an expert in secret rituals? Experiments? That sounds ......"

However, Helena bit his straight hook at once: "If you knew what this experiment was for, you would think the same way." ”