The two banquet halls had slightly different atmospheres as they drank and drank. Where men gather, it is obvious that there are two minds. There are those who want to curry favor with Grand Duke Kawei, and of course there are also political opponents with different positions.
You can't blatantly ruin things, but you have to hold back a little bit. There are rumors that Grand Duke Kawei earned enough money from his cooperation with the magician for more than a year to build a second warehouse to store money.
Although I don’t know what the actual situation is, and I don’t know what business they are cooperating with - the sales of cars cannot be fully supplied by local sales, and of course they cannot be exported -, but half of the Duke's Guards are stationed in the Holy City of Egypt. Stali can't do anything fake.
As the most powerful force on the Grand Duke's table, sending half of the people to take care of it would not be trivial matters. Therefore, the people who gathered, no matter which side they belonged to, wanted to learn the details from the nobles who were close to the Grand Duke.
In the women's banquet hall, all the participants were secretly looking around, trying to find the two protagonists of this banquet. Some people want to come close to chat and build some friendship; of course, some people want to come and have fun. I want to teach a yellow-haired girl a lesson and an unknown magician. In their eyes, except for the nobles with higher status than themselves, everyone else was ignored.
It's just that of the two protagonists, the younger one made a brief appearance at the beginning and then hid in his room.
In order to prepare for today's ceremony, Marquis Balan returned to the Duke's castle several days early. Although everything around her looked familiar, it didn't make her feel at ease at all. So on weekdays, I just hide in my room as before.
The difference is that she will still step out of the room when necessary. Compared with the past situation where she was unwilling to leave even one step, the Marquise had made a lot of progress in the eyes of the Grand Duke.
As for the other older protagonist, she is not in this castle at all. As a magician with the flash technique, of course, it is only necessary to appear in this annoying ritual when it is necessary. Her time is very precious, and there are many things to do, so there is no need to waste too much here.
Although in one person's eyes, Fen spends as much time in a daze as she does in sleep. The rest is allocated to the trivial matters of life and her so-called business. But even so, her work efficiency is quite amazing. A few days of fumbling around here and there is more time than it would take others to work for a few days.
So everyone in the women's banquet hall can only be disappointed after all. The two protagonists of this banquet have different habits from ordinary nobles.
By the time everyone had almost finished eating, it was also time for the ceremony to begin. The musicians, both male and female, gathered again in the male banquet hall. The female nobles are also dressing up and preparing to join the ceremony on this side.
The waiters moved quickly and cleared the buffet bar in an orderly manner. At the same time, the bowls and plates containing the meat, bones and fish bones were quickly put away, and the venue for the next ceremony was arranged.
In fact, most of them are related to magicians, and the rituals that determine the transfer of professions and apprenticeships are usually carried out in secret. After all, it is related to magic, and there are some secrets that should not be known to outsiders, or that should not be interfered with.
A public occasion attended by nobles is more like a notice or announcement than a real ceremony. In other words, the main family, Duke Kawei, came forward to announce that his granddaughter would follow the great magician Fen and learn magic, and then forget about it. So when the old man said there was some kind of ceremony at the gathering, it wasn't really that there were any ceremony arrangements, it was just an excuse for the nobles to get together to eat and drink.
But when the long table originally used for eating and drinking was cleared aside. On the left side of the main seat belonging to the Grand Duke, a long-backed chair of comparable specifications was placed. Everyone felt that things were not that simple this time.
The trumpeters from the army blew an impassioned piece of music in unison. The nobles present were already accustomed to the constant stimulation of new things. Everyone calmed down and watched quietly what new tricks the Grand Duke had come up with.
Stamping in unison and with an astonishing momentum of iron boots hitting the ground, the fully armed Duke Guards entered the banquet hall in two columns. This, of course, caused a commotion, and even the nobles who were opposed to the Grand Duke had a conspiracy theory in their minds - Did the Grand Duke use his granddaughter as an excuse to wipe them out in one fell swoop?
Of course, the Duke's Guards did not take any drastic action. They separated the crowd from the middle and expanded to the left and right to clear a path. Of course, his movements were cautious, for fear of damaging any noble person here. The nobles also cooperated very well and gave up the position where the Duke's Guard was supposed to stand. It means that anyone with a normal mind would not go head-to-head with a warrior wearing plate armor and wearing a sword at his waist.
At the same time, led by Halloumi's piano, this makeshift orchestra played a majestic march. Although to someone's ears, it's still a bit scattered. But amidst music that was unprecedented in this land, the Grand Duke of Kawei appeared from the door of the banquet hall holding one of today's protagonists, the Marquise Balan.
However, when no one noticed, Fen appeared quietly on the long-backed chair to the left of the main seat. Sitting in a relaxed posture and with a natural expression, the red-based Four Spirits costume made her already very gorgeous, making her even more extravagant. But as long as you pay attention to her, you will feel that underneath her refined temperament, there is an aura of disdain for the common people.
Grand Duke Kawei did not lead his granddaughter forward, but let go when he reached the end of the road opened by the Duke's Guards. This group of elite knights drew their swords and put them on their racks, creating a path of sword arches.
As the Marquise moved forward, the knights put down their swords, stood in front of them, and turned their backs to the advancing Marquise Balan. Originally, someone wanted to use such an action to express the girl's intention to transfer from a noble status to another status. But how others interpret such actions is beyond his control.
When the Marquise walked through the sword arch, deacons wearing black attendant uniforms walked out from the left and right. One person is holding a plate with a beautifully made magician's shawl on it. Naturally, a maid put it on the Marquise, symbolizing her entry into the world of magic.
In the hand of another deacon is a large tray with a small tray on it, and a bowl of tea on the small tray. The Marquise picked up the small tray, walked carefully to the Lich, and bowed to offer tea.
Because there is no custom of kneeling in Midi, someone does not force girls who want to learn magic to do such a humiliating action for the natives of Midi. Asking a nobleman to bend a little bit is already quite a concession.
"Teacher, please have some tea." Marquis Balan spoke in front of everyone for the first time, dispelling the rumor that she was mute.
However, Fen did not accept the offer of tea immediately, but hesitated for a moment. Just when everyone thought things had changed, she finally rolled up her sleeves, stretched out her green hands, and took the bowl of tea.
In fact, the reason why Lich was so slow was because she was thinking about a question: Why does tea need to be used to learn from a master? Wouldn't it be better to use coffee, or soda water? That man always persists in inexplicable places.
