Chapter 2401: Pre-War Banquet

Contacting Mrs. Jude to help the children of the "Moon Bay Orphanage" borrow a place outside the city temporarily was not a troublesome matter; this blood-born lady was very happy to help.

Xia De even ran into Mr. Bernhardt here. He was gathering local high-level blood-born creatures for a meeting to discuss the number of people who could participate in the great war and the arrangements.

Xia De did not intervene in the internal affairs of the blood-born creatures, just chatted with him about how to rendezvous when the time came to prepare to call that blood-sucking Duke.

And when Xia De returned to the Belindell Manor and heard Miss Sylvia say that Margaret would also come tonight, he remembered the box of documents.

【Who should I give it to? The blonde princess or the red-haired duchess?】

"She" asked with a smile in Xia De's ear. Xia De then found Lexia in the manor to help:

"There are some documents here, can you copy a set? Everyone is busy, so I won't ask the maids to help copy them."

Taking over Tifa's work and practicing with Emilia, Lexia nodded:

"Very simple, the further miracle 【Photocopying】 of the basic spell 【Thought-Writing】 can do it. Dorothy and I have both mastered it... Ajelina, you continue practicing swordsmanship with Emilia."

Saying this, she stuffed the 【Dragon Scale Sword】 of Xia De in her hand to her younger sister on the side. The royal princesses had to receive training in horse riding and swordsmanship, so their foundation was actually better than Emilia's.

"Me? But I only have one ring."

Ajelina was a bit at a loss. Lexia patted her on the shoulder:

"That's why you can give Emilia more confidence."

The miracle - 【Photocopying】 could not create paper out of thin air, so it still required the maids to help find some document paper.

After sitting down in the study, Xia De opened the box, controlling the paper and photos inside to float out one by one. Lexia controlled the blank paper and photos to stick to the paper and photos with content one by one, and thus she saw the content clearly:

"This is really amazing. I heard about it when I was at the Yodel Palace?"

"Yes, I met Director Anluosi today."

The beautiful red-haired princess smiled at Xia De while manipulating the miracle:

"Then what are your plans? Use these documents to please that blonde princess from the Southern Kingdom, or to please my great-aunt?"

Then she made a denial herself:

"I see, you want one copy for each, right? Knight, you are always so greedy~"

"I have no other good way. I just discovered it. As for how they want to use it and what effect it can have, that is their business. Lexia, you know me, I have always been uninterested in politics."

"Yes, yes, letting you pick the royal flowers of the North and South kingdoms at the same time is all Luweiya's conspiracy."

Lexia joked:

"I didn't want to say these things, but once a full-scale war breaks out between the North and South this autumn or winter, Moon Bay will be the forefront area of the confrontation. This intelligence has high value for both the Intelligence Agency and the Grey Gloves themselves. I have no opinion on your approach; this is just stirring the water muddier, but Xia De, if a full-scale war really breaks out, which side will you choose to stand on?"

"Another question like this? Why do I have to choose a side? I'm not going to fight."

The Outlander said. He didn't claim he wanted to stand on Dellarion's side just because Lexia asked:

"If the war cannot be prevented, then facilitate its end as much as possible. This is not just an invasion and contradiction transfer between ordinary people; the 【Tyranny Club】, the ambitious people in the New Continent, and the pirates of the Archipelago Kingdom are all facilitating all of this."

"Civilization has reached a turning point. Whether it maintains the North-South division or someone appears to unify the Old Continent is hard to say. I can only tell you this, Lexia, I will not let you suffer."

"Really, why be so serious?"

Thus, the red-haired princess wrapped her arm around Xia De's neck with one hand and sat on his lap:

"It's as if I'm forcing you to make a choice."

She narrowed her eyes and looked at Xia De with a smile:

"You know I have ambition and goals, but Xia De, if I had to choose between this ambition and you, I would definitely choose you."

The emerald eyes were very clear, but also carried affection that intoxicated the Outlander:

"Xia De, go do what you want to do. You can consider my feelings, but don't care too much about my stance. After marrying you, I will be Lexia Hamilton... Xia De, I love you, this is what Dorothy and I are saying to you together."

Saying this, her right hand continued to manipulate the flying paper, her left hand continued to wrap around Xia De's neck, and then she kissed him directly.

Xia De noticed that Lexia didn't close her eyes, continuing to look at him from such a close distance. At this moment, the Outlander felt again that perhaps he was lucky enough.

Before Galina arrived this evening, the ladies in the manor and on the ship decided to hold a banquet on the ship during the last rest time.

This proposal was made by Miss Eilese, and the reason given by the blue-eyed girl was something the witches couldn't refuse:

"Ancient witch empresses would hold grand banquets to celebrate and cheer before going on expeditions or doing big things."

So everyone decided unanimously to have a good time tonight.

There were enough food reserves in the Belindell Manor and the "Radiant Messenger," and there was no lack of beautiful and capable cooks in the maid groups of the North and South kingdoms. The banquet venue was in the cruise ship banquet hall connected to the teleportation gate. The girls of the Golden Dawn Opera Troupe acted as musicians and bards, and the witches cast spells to change the interior decoration of the ship.

Dorothy was actually very regretful that she couldn't hold an open-air banquet on the cruise ship deck on a summer night, but there was no other way; after all, the foggy weather was not suitable for these things now.

Xia De's main job was to provide red wine, while Emilia and Ajelina, who were very excited about the banquet, ran around with the little unicorn to help move things. Young girls liked free banquets the most.

Of course, Xia De didn't forget to welcome Galina's arrival. That was at 4:30 in the afternoon. Miss Sylvia, Xia De, and Ajelina, who came to help, came to the side of the swimming pool on the deck. The open-air swimming pool that no one was using was already full of clear water.

This water had just appeared automatically. Miss Eilese could control the water, gas, and energy of this ship very casually.

"Wait a moment, let me see~"

The great witch of space held a thick leather book. This 【《Complete Collection of a Thousand Secret Arts》】 was a secret-keeper-level relic. The characteristics of the relic were quite peculiar. Any Ringed Shushi could understand and master a strange spell from it, and casting this spell did not require paying their own spirit.

The disadvantage was that casting the spells in the book required holding this relic, and usually the casting materials given by this book were extremely complex. Coupled with the fact that this book was actually semi-living and extremely easy to lose control and run wild, its practicality was extremely poor, and it had been contained by the Witch Council before.

"Found it."

Miss Sylvia finally turned to the page she could understand:

"I came into contact with this book when I was an apprentice. Although I mastered this spell at that time, I didn't have the confidence to cast it. Now that I am at the eleventh ring, I can finally try it."

The young black-haired witch coughed lightly:

"Ajelina, be ready to cooperate with me. Xia De, if there is anything wrong, use your space stabilization halo immediately."

"Alright."

Ajelina had a large bag at her feet, and Xia De stood on the side holding the cat.

"First, two spoons of salt."

The little princess who never cooked quickly took out the salt shaker, opened the lid, scooped out two spoons, and threw them into the swimming pool:

"Alright!"

"Then black pepper, cinnamon, cardamom, mountain pepper, add them in a ratio of 1:2:3:4."

"Alright!"

"Meow!"

The cat meowed in disgust; it didn't like so many seasonings.

"A small jar of three-eyed bee honey, be careful not to throw the jar in; two small portions of light-shining caviar, oh, this smell is really stinky~ Finally, three sun-facing konjac, remember to pick the big ones."

This is actually a special potato that can absorb sunlight.

Although Ajelina was in a hurry, she still successfully executed the order.

Then Miss Sylvia muttered to herself again:

"Continue stirring clockwise."

Xia De then reached out his hand, controlling the water flow to rotate in the swimming pool.

"Heat the water temperature to the temperature of the pool water under the scorching sun."

This time she cast the spell herself to raise the temperature of the swimming pool water, followed by dancing a dance that Xia De couldn't understand while holding the big leather book.

This is an ancient ritual. The sacrifices of ancient people around the fire were probably like this.

Everything was ready. With Miss Sylvia's dance and the rotation of the water surface, light brilliance the size of rice grains gradually appeared above the swimming pool. The light grains expanded rapidly until the red-haired Duchess Galina fell directly from the light circle into the water of the pool. It could be seen that she had carefully dressed up just now, but when she poked her head out of the water with anger, although she was still very beautiful, her hair and dress were already soaked:

"Oh!"

"Success!"

"Emma, what is the taste of this water!"

"Great-aunt, please give me your hand."

Only the little princess reached out to Galina. Although the latter could come up by herself, she still held Ajelina's hand.

When she stood in front of Xia De, soaking wet, the gradually disappearing light circle flew out two suitcases and fell into the swimming pool. Fortunately, Miss Sylvia cast a spell to make them fly up:

"Sorry, Galina, I didn't know it would fall directly into the water."

Although she said this, she was still very happy, obviously proud of her successful spellcasting this time.

The Duchess did not dry herself immediately. She was very dissatisfied and took off the black pepper on her shoulder, her soaking wet red long hair still dripping:

"If my perception hadn't been compressed to the limit when performing space teleportation, I wouldn't have been unable to react. Really..."

However, seeing that Xia De didn't dislike her appearance, but instead looked down at her chest, she was very satisfied:

"Purple bra, does it look good?"

"Looks good... hmm?"

Galina Cavendish's mood finally got a little better. ===== CHAPTER 2402 =====