Chapter 63 Guests
"The address is right, it's really here..."
Xiwei carefully checked the banquet address behind the invitation, and then looked up at the hotel that was even more luxurious than the city lord castle, "It is impossible to hold a banquet in such a place. That goblin is unexpectedly rich."
It was the first time Alyssa has been to such a place, but it may be because of the large number of people. Compared to the casual look in the castle, she now seems a little uneasy.
However, Tio, who was holding the corner of Civif's robe, still looked expressionless.
"Ah, dear Master, you are finally here!"
Just as Xiwei was about to step onto the wide and long stairs at the entrance of the hotel, a short figure stumbled over from the entrance above. Because of its short legs, it seemed to be extremely difficult to run.
"Sha Sangsang has been waiting for you for a long time. Come on, please come inside!" The goblin said hurriedly while panting and rubbing his shiny forehead.
Its fat and ugly face was full of submissive expression, which made Sivi feel a little strange.
It would be normal if I just wanted to please me. After all, as a wizard, I also had life-saving grace to it, so it would be no wonder that I would curry favor with me. But this kind of fear was too strange... I didn't look like I wanted to eat people.
If something goes wrong, there will be a demon. Is this also the conspiracy of the lord's wife and the others? Xiwei raised her eyebrows lightly, and she was silent on the surface, but she was already on guard secretly. However, it would be too rude to conclude that it was fraud based on the other party's expression alone, so Xiwei followed the goblins and slowly walked into the hotel.
Speaking of the banquet, it was obvious that it was impossible for the participants to be the only ones in Svigil and Goblin. In fact, there were already many people wearing gorgeous dresses in the hotel lobby.
However, judging from the various chamber of commerce prints on the chest or back of those dresses, the fat goblins only invited some ordinary chamber of commerce merchants.
This is normal. Sivi did not intend to see nobles or anything at a banquet held by a goblin merchant—those guys who are above the top discriminate against humans, let alone goblins.
Among such a group of merchants, Sivi, wearing a mage robe, and Alisa and Teo, who were as cute as dolls, immediately became their focus.
After Shasangsang welcomed Xiwei and the others in, businessmen kept coming up to talk to them, but they were all cleverly refused by Shasangsang.
This further made Siwei feel that this fat goblin had any intentions.
The hotel lobby was very active, even larger than the banquet hall in the castle. It was obvious that only a hundred people could not fill such an empty place, and soon Shasangsang brought Siwei and the others to an uninhabited corner.
"Fa, Master..." After coming to this corner full of decorative bonsai, the goblin said stutteringly: "In fact, I invite you here today... because someone wants to talk to you..."
Is it finally about to get to the point? Xiwei silently waited for Sha Sangsang to continue talking, wanting to see what it sold in the gourd.
"If you can..." Sha Sangsang looked to the corner, and Xiwei also followed its gaze and found that there was a staircase leading to the second floor. He had not noticed it before because of the concealment of bonsai branches and leaves.
What exactly will be there? A powerful magician or a magic swordsman? Or some kind of alchemy trap?
Sivi frowned, no matter what it was, it would not be a good thing for him.
"Master!" Sha Sangsang saw Xivi's hesitant expression and plucked up the courage from somewhere, and resolutely said: "Don't worry! This is definitely not a bad thing. Sha Sangsang can use the freedom of his own clan to swear!"
Siwei looked at the fat goblin with a serious expression in surprise. The slick goblins did not like to swear. Although this did not mean that the swear they made must be true, it also added a little credibility to its words.
After thinking for a while, Sivi stuffed two small balls to Alisa, which were sonic bombs and flash bombs. The former could be used to inform Sivi about what happened outside, while the latter could be used to give the little girls the ability to deal with some things.
He himself walked into the stairs cautiously - he didn't want Alisa and Teo to take risks with him anyway.
There is a door at the end of the stairs. Judging from the door sign, this seems to be a hotel staff room, but the one behind it will definitely not be a hotel staff.
Xiwei opened the door carefully, but the door opening did not trigger any trap, and then he pushed the door open.
The staff room is very small and the furnishings inside are very simple. Against the backdrop of three snow-white walls, three shabby sofas, a short-leg coffee table and a wardrobe are all the furniture.
However, what attracted Xiwei's attention at this moment were the two people sitting on the sofa.
It was a very weird combination of a girl in her twenties and an old lady who looked sixty or seventy years old.
"Sevi Adrick?" After finding Sevi, who was protruding his head at the door, the girl in a goose yellow dress asked first.
"Who are you?" Xiwei slowly walked into the room, not surprised that the other party could say his name... After all, he was the one who wanted to see him by calling him.
And compared to the girl, Xiwei always feels more dangerous than the old lady next to her who has no magic fluctuations.
"Can you please close the door before introducing yourself?" the girl said with a smile.
Xiwei hesitated for a moment, but closed the door as he said. At this time, he found that half a magic array was painted on the door and the wall next to him. Even if Xiwei was fucked by the system, the total amount was comparable to the knowledge of a high-level magician, he could only barely recognize that the effect of this magic array seemed to be sound insulation.
"In this way, there is no need to be afraid of others eavesdropping." The girl stood up openly and reached out to Xiwei: "My name is Yiwenjielin, Yiwenjielin Huolian. I am very happy to know you, Mr. Xiwei Adrick."
"Well, too, I, Yiwen...hey, Huoli'an?" Xiwei just wanted to hold the girl's hand, but her whole body froze like that: "The princess... Your Highness?!"
Yiwenjielin seemed to enjoy Xiwei's reaction very much. She smiled and directly held Xiwei's hand and shook it, then let go and sat back on the sofa.
"That's right, the eldest princess of the Huoli'an Empire is in front of you." The old lady said at this time: "As for the old man, he is not a famous person, so it's better not to mention it."
Why does His Royal Highness, the princess of a country, suddenly appear in front of her? This is too super exciting!
Xiwei stared at Yiwen Jielin for a few seconds before suddenly realizing that it was too rude to do so, so she immediately lowered her eyes.
As for the possibility of pretending to be a princess... Just kidding, who would pretend to be the princess after eating and having nothing to do? She thought she was too comfortable to live and wanted to die?
"Teacher Sharon, you are too modest." The girl smiled and pointed out the old lady's identity: "If you are not famous as the priest of the Huoli'an Royal Holyan worshipper, then there will probably be no celebrities in the entire empire except for the mother."
"Sharon...the royal worship master..." Siwei muttered these two names in his mind, and then a name immediately appeared in his mind.
"Are you Mrs. Sharon Lange?" he asked cautiously.
"Today you are Your Highness's guest, don't be so restrained." Mrs. Sharon smiled kindly, but did not deny that name.
How could it be unrestrained in front of the only two great magicians in the Huoli'an Empire? Xiwei nodded tremblingly.
No wonder he has always been more sensitive to magical sensing but cannot sense the slightest magic fluctuation of the other party...it is entirely because the level difference is too much!
"That...what are the two of you looking for me today?"
"I have two things going south this time." The girl began to say to herself as if she was deliberately trying to lift Xiwei's appetite: "One of them is to investigate the reason why the gnoll suddenly appeared in Noelge recently."
Sivi suddenly realized that when the werewolf surrounded Teo, he took action to deal with a group of them. Later, when the werewolf appeared near Horadur, he also passed by the scene of the incident and found the only survivor, Shasangsang. Then it is normal for this princess to come to him to find out the situation.
As for how the other party knew that he had solved the group of zombies... I think there was a great magician Sharon here, and it was not surprising that he found nothing from that place.
Just when Xiwei thought she had grasped the key points of the conversation later, Yiwen Jielin continued.
"But that thing is fine, the key is another thing...it's about the little girl you saved, Teo Scange."
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So why? Why does a princess care about such things among nobles!
At this moment, Xiwei, who could not keep up with the topic of His Highness, felt deeply that his experience was too shallow and could not see through the shortcomings of the essence of things.
"Actually, Teo is the child of Mother and Duke Skanji." Before Cevi could recover, Princess Yiwenjielin dropped a bombshell again: "It is also my half-sister."
"Wait, this is too strange!" Sivi finally couldn't help but speak: "If Teo is really a princess, why should Duke Scanji take it back and take it as an illegitimate daughter?"
Although the Huoli'an Empire was not without men, for some reason, the majority of the empress often took place, so the position of His Royal Highness of the princess also rose. If Teo was really a princess, there was no reason to wander outside the palace.
"Because the situation was not peaceful eight years ago, but this has nothing to do with you." The girl waved her hand and told Xiwei not to continue to get involved in this issue: "In short, just know that Teo does have royal blood."
"Then your princess, are you planning to take Tio back this time?"
For some reason, Xiwei suddenly thought of the [Girl's Hometown] mission. Is the Palace the real place for Teo?
"Of course not," Yiwenjielin's decisive voice brought Sivi's thoughts back to reality: "Teo just needs to continue to be the heir of Duke Skanji. Returning to the palace or something is not a good thing for her."
"But staying in Noelge now is even worse for Teo!" I don't know if it was because Teo's identity was too big or something else, but Siwei temporarily threw the other party's identity as princess aside and said tit-for-tat with her: "You may not know, actually..."
Yiwen Jielin made a little restless move and said softly: "Don't worry, we know the situation of Noelger very well now. Or we came to solve this problem."
Xiwei took a deep breath and calmed himself down: "Then you don't have to come to me at all. As long as you can see the Lord, then it's not far from the truth, right?"
"So it's not that simple." The girl said with a wry smile: "In fact, even if I ask to meet with the Duke in the name of official business, Mrs. Skangie can still use the disease to shirk it away. If you want to see the other party, you can only use a tougher attitude. But in this way, the reputation of the royal family will cause great damage to the nobles."
Speaking of this, Xiwei also understood the other party's concerns a little: "But what does this have to do with asking me to come over?"
"Since the public identity is not good, then just use the private identity of 'Teo's friend' to visit Duke Skanji." The girl said her purpose without any haste: "But Teo is too vigilant. Although she doesn't know what you did, she seems to be only open to you master and apprentice. In this way, our plan needs your assistance to a certain extent."
"I see."
Xiweiluo agreed to the girl's words after thinking: "But I still have a question."
The girl looked at Xiwei with amber eyes curiously: "What's the question?"
"Didn't the law of the Huoli'an Empire stipulate that only blood relatives can inherit the title?" Xiwei immediately said the question that had troubled him for a long time: "In this way, if the lord's wife designs to kill Tio, the title and fief will be taken back by the royal family. Then why didn't she just undermine Tio to create a puppet regime, but instead do such thankless things?"
"So you don't know yet?" The girl sighed helplessly: "Mrs. Skangji is still pregnant now. In other words, as long as she gives birth to a baby, she can take over Noelge rightfully. As for whose child she is pregnant... By the time the baby is born, Duke Skangji has passed away, and there is no way to verify it."
"Is that why she spared no effort to deal with Tio..." Sivi also lowered his face: "So, except for Lord Lord, Tio seems to have no one close to him."
After all, they were illegitimate daughters, and the lord's wife didn't like her, so naturally those servants wouldn't take the risk of being worn by the lord's wife to take care of Tio.
"You are wrong." Yiwenjielin smiled, but the smile was unexpectedly bitter: "Even Duke Scanji, Teo is not close to you."
"How is it possible..." Xiwei was stunned: "It's obviously his own child."
"Compared to her own children, I'm afraid that in the eyes of that duke, Teo is more like a bargaining chip to bargain with her mother." The girl sneered: "Do you know why Noellager obviously has the border guard army, but he still has the right to form an army by himself?"
"Your Highness Princess!" At this time, the old lady Sharon, who had been silent, spoke out: "You have said too much."
"Sorry." The girl put away her expression just now and changed back to the gentle smile she had before: "I'm a little out of control. However, I believe Mr. Adrick will never say it, right (laugh)?"
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That smile is so terrible...★It has nothing to do with the text, thank you readers Wのi, let’s travel together to reward~
Chapter completed!