Vol 2 Chapter 69: Diverse people (Happy Mid-Autumn Festival)
October-Month is the month of severe winter, and the cold winds of Antifleur, which are to the north, are steep, and it seems to be turning into a snow and ice world at any time.
The clear and light blue Donatti River passes through the city, and the garden villa of the Count Mechelen is located on a high ground by the river, with the back of the "Saxony Mountain Wall" carved with numerous reliefs, overlooking the quiet flowing beauty river.
This is a villa with a classical column structure, which complements the conservative and rigid architectural style of the Holy Hertz Empire, but as Lucian walks through the garden filled with lavender "Ice Elf Flowers" and steps into the villa hall, only to find inside Extremely luxurious, wavy curves, broken eaves, unique structures, and exquisite details together create an exaggerated sense of distance and hierarchy, which is the luxurious and cumbersome architectural form that originated from the ancient kingdom of Sura.
A large area of frescoes on the surrounding walls and ceilings featuring the theme of semi-naked beauty, combined with the stack of strong men's statues, creates a magnificent atmosphere.
Lucien is also half an artist and a preliminary psychoanalyst. While admiring this weird and contradictory building that is different from the Duchy of Vaurit, Holm, and the Shahran Empire, he secretly evaluated: "The Empire of Herz The younger generation of aristocrats have already been strongly dissatisfied with the aging and conservative old-fashioned ethics of the entire empire, and they are yearning for the romantic and degraded luxury life of the neighboring kingdom of Sura. "
"Well, that's a big plus for Parliament and Holm Kingdom."
Whether it is Arlinge and other cities where the magic parliament is located, or the affected Holm Kingdom, the Principality of Calais and other places, there is a vigorous development trend. The popularity of alchemy items will also bring a lot of social structure and humanities. Changes in thinking, in contrast, the younger generation of the Herz Empire, all the aristocrats of the Syracuse kingdom, were "drunk and dreaming."
Although in this world, it is the high-level and above that decide the victory, but without a continuous supply of reserve power, high-level, legends can not maintain immortality, there will be a fault of power one day.
"So, born in sorrow, died in peace ..." Lucian drew an ancient text in his heart, and with a polite and elegant smile, walked to the host of the banquet, Denny, Mecklen.
"Dear Borak, I thought you wouldn't come." The handsome Denny has long blond hair, and the red dress is cut and decorated with many intricate details. There are hollow patterns, there are The mysterious ruby pin, with thin silver chains, seeing him, Lucian was like seeing a "postmodernist artist ...".
According to Bolak's description, this Denny is indeed an "artist" who loves oil painting and sketching, jewelry and clothing design. Similarly, he also has many common problems with artists, like men, and likes to be a slender and perfect "female". .
But Lucien knew that he could not underestimate this Denis. He was the first strong step in the ranks of the young aristocracy in Antifleur. Now he is only 27 years old and already in the fifth grade. The big knight, and the awakened blood is still very fierce "thunder and lightning".
Hold back the discomfort, hug gently with Denis, Lucian smiled: "Why wouldn't I come?"
Denis covered his mouth and laughed coyly: "It's just an intuition. Men are rude and fragile guys. I'm afraid you can't help but conflict with Alten, but he always looks forward to such opportunities. Before you enter the underground palace, you will be 'eliminated' reasonably. Then he will be much easier. A group of loose monkeys will only surrender at the feet of his monkey king. "
There was a twitch in the stomach, and Lucien tried to make his smile less rigid, and smiled without a bit of "dread": "After all, it's just a monkey.
Deni's light brown eyes looked at Lucian in amazement: "Borac, have you learned anything recently? I found that you are completely different from a few days ago, and I can feel your confidence."
Lucian laughed and tried to make herself "unpredictable."
Deni smiled sharply: "It seems to be interesting, I started to think about whether I should follow it. Borak, please please me, I will help you kill Alten."
The reason why "Borac" accepted the invitation was to win over Denny, a powerful helper, without stimulating blood.
"Maybe Alten will have other helpers." Lucian "showed" a little joy.
Deni hesitated: "Don't be too happy, I haven't figured out whether to participate or not, should I help you, my family is immortal but I am very optimistic about Alten."
He came to please me, and Lucien couldn't help but look up at the ceiling. Actually, I really don't need a helper ...
"Isn't this my dearest cousin Borak?" An exaggerated, strong voice came from the door.
Lucian, who had heard the voice in secret, turned around and looked over, and saw a tall blonde man in a gorgeous military dress walking in with a tall, beautiful lady with brown hair.
The military dress is light black with a golden **** the right chest. On the left is a row of medals. Inside it is a white shirt and a white vest. The blond man is full of vitality, upright and handsome, and the lady next to him is exquisite and elegant. The light blue evening dress exposed Bai Nen's pink shoulders and a dazzling milky white, which seduced most of the men's eyesight factory-Deni also watched there, but his eyes were full of jealousy and envy.
Lucien looked at the blond man and said with a smile: "Alten, to maintain the image of elegance and stability of the nobility. I don't want others to think that members of our gorse family like to yell at the banquet. There is no point. Aristocracy. "
"You ...", Alten's gaze was fixed, and in the past few years, Borak, who had faced himself or flinched or furious, even dared to speak out ironically. Duda was indeed right, he really had great The change!
So Alten squeezed a smile: "Dear cousin, it ’s useless to have aristocracy. Our glory comes from our blood, and we ca n’t inspire our own blood. We do n’t even have the qualification to imitate the aristocracy, and you do n’t Can oil painting, do not understand music, can not play the piano, can not write poetry, not all elegant art, what is the difference between you and ordinary citizens on the street? No, there is a big difference, at least many of them will- Musical instrument! "
When Borak was in a strong mood, he patronized other noble children, attended various banquets, and had no time to study art. After being overtaken by Alten, he was completely immersed in knight training. Laughed by many nobles as rude barbarians!
Lucien's banquet is just to maintain the habit of Borak, not to be seen through by the old guys. He has no interest in this boring "battle game", and according to the gloomy personality developed by Borak in recent years, he will definitely be at this time. Concealing the strength of the knights in order to maximize the benefits in the underground palace, so he just smiled and shook his head: "The winner is the one who can go to the end."
"Really? Dear cousin, I heard that you often go to the underground black market recently. You must have got some good things, so you seem so confident, but the help of external force is always only external force. There is no way to go further." Deliberately disclosed that he had mastered Borak's whereabouts and made himself look confident and majestic.
As he said, he stretched out his hand and held the lady next to him tightly: "And a lady with vision and wisdom, such as Jocelyn, would choose me without hesitation."
Looking at Jocelyn, who was blushing and lowering her head, Lucian suddenly had a weird idea. A truly "wise" lady would probably make herself a strong person, and then dragged the man she fancy back to.
As Lucien wondered what kind of attitude she should face when facing this situation, she suddenly became quiet, and the entrance came to a blonde girl in a white lace-trimmed evening dress, as pure as an elf. , She is not tall, elegant and lively, followed by an old woman in a long black dress.
Welcome to my banquet, Her Royal Highness Princess Sofia. Denis stepped forward to greet him and saluted him respectfully.
Her Royal Highness ... Lucian finds herself very fateful, and has met the princess of the Duchy of Vaurit, the princess of the Elven King's Court, and now the princess of the Holy Hertz Empire.
Sophia smiled coquettishly: "Dennie, if you don't play a song in person, I don't think you welcome me from the heart."
Denis pinched the orchid and said, "Hate, I can't play well. So many people are watching, and a man should be invited to play."
Lucian almost spit out, his eyes slightly raised, and he suddenly collided with the sight of the old woman.
The old man narrowed his eyes and seemed to see Lucian's knight strength.
"I'd love to play a song for Your Royal Highness." As Denny talked and laughed with the two "good sisters" of Sophia, Alten stood out abruptly, and Jocelyn's face suddenly became slightly ugly.
As everyone knows, Princess Sophia is an enthusiastic piano lover, but because she does not have the knight power and musical talent, she plays the piano poorly. At the same time, she is also the second heir to the empire, fifth-level blood warlock, countless noble The children are seeking her.
Deni froze, he was just joking, and Sophia's clear green eyes were smiling with a wave of grace and smile: "I look forward to your performance, Alten."
Alteng walked up to the Cryo's piano in the lobby, playing the music skillfully.
Soon, the music was over, and the aristocrats present applauded. Although Alten was not good at music, it was very easy to play a piano song with the control and special training of the knight. Reaching a high level of emotion is another matter.
Seeing that Princess Sophia had a beautiful and satisfying smile, her green eyes were bright and dreamy, Arten stood proudly and bowed and salute, then looked provocatively at Borak, look, you rude barbarian, even if you become the Duke of Gorse, Shame on the family.
Balussian thought about the impulse response that Borak should have, then stood out with a smile and saluted Sophia: "Her Royal Highness, can I improvise for you?"
"You?" Deny and Arten both screamed in surprise, suspecting that they had a magic spell.
Sophia's expression of astonishment flickered, and she maintained the royal look with a smile: "I'm really surprised. I didn't expect you to stand up, but if you can also play beautiful piano music by Borak, then I treat myself It will be full of confidence again. Can you give confidence? "
Nostalgic eyes flowed, pink lips opened slightly, and the aroma was slightly exposed. No one seemed to be able to resist her charm.
"Please Your Highness Princess, listen carefully." Lucien has a heart, and has no feeling for her amazing charm. She smiled, turned and walked to the front of the piano. She pressed her hands on the black keys, and then twitched A beautiful impromptu beautiful melody sounded leisurely. Deni opened his mouth wide and couldn't believe it was a rude savage. Alten looked so blue and doubted that Borak might have benefited from the black market. Maybe he had the power of a knight?
After the music ended, Sophia smiled and applauded gracefully, "I'm full of confidence in myself again, Borak, I never thought you would have outstanding musical talents."
Walking to Sophia, Lucian smiled politely: "I have a secret about this."
"Oh? What? Can you tell me?" Sophia blinked curiously.
Lucian Shenshi said, "Of course, but only to tell Her Royal Highness."
The other nobles around clearly saw that the **** was trying to get close to the princess, but they could only watch it for a while. What would be the secret?
Sophia tilted her head and smiled sweetly: "I can't wait."
Lucian drew her mouth to her ear and whispered, "If you only play the black keys, Your Royal Highness, you can also play the piano."
"Hmm ..." Sophia thought for a moment, suddenly burst out laughing, and her smile was as beautiful as the blossoming flowers, which attracted Alten and others to stare at Lucian.
Because the black key is equivalent to a five-tone pattern, there are no complicated and rugged notes, and casual improvisations will have more classical melody. (To be continued [this text is provided by Uncle Shaq @ 初初 练]. If you like this work, you are welcome to ◤start◢◢ to vote for recommendation and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please Read on MQUMMM.)