Chapter 885: Banquet Games

"Big guy?"

Associating with the things that once happened at Lake View Manor, Xia De subconsciously thought of God's descent. His face first showed some panic, and then he thought that the relic 【Blasphemous Cross】 was on him, which he used to steal...

"Although I don't know what you thought of, judging from your expression, you probably thought wrong."

Duchess Galina reached out and pointed at Xia De's forehead with her slender, fair fingers.

Miss Sylvia, who was flipping through Xia De's manuscript, added:

"It should be some kind of relic, a location-type relic. It is not clear what it is specifically yet. It will probably appear completely in the center of Schluch Lake between eight and ten o'clock tonight. Currently, only we know about this. Witches have a perception of elements and relics that exceeds the normal level."

"That's roughly the situation."

Duchess Galina said, handing her wine glass to Xia De, signaling Xia De to taste it. Xia De then drank the red wine at the bottom of the cup, and Tifa continued to pour wine.

"Need to cancel the banquet? After all, there are so many ordinary people here."

Xia De asked.

"No need, the other party will not be particularly strong. And you also know that the characteristic of location-type relics is that as long as you don't enter the interior, you basically won't be affected too much. In order to protect Princess Margaret Anjou who was attacked in Huntington, the church arranged a ring sorcerer squad to protect her. If something really goes wrong by then, the two of us and the church's ring sorcerers can also handle it well."

Duchess Galina said, and Xia De felt relieved a lot, and handed the wine glass that he had drunk a sip of back to her. From her attitude of letting Ajelina go to the manor to play, she knew that the great witch really felt that there would be no danger.

"Moreover, even if there is a problem that cannot be solved, isn't there you here?"

The Duchess added jokingly, her fingers shaking, as if intentionally showing her nails to Xia De.

Miss Sylvia also raised her eyebrows. She always felt that this sentence of Galina Cavendish seemed to have a deep meaning. Thinking of the fact that Xia De could go to Huntington at any time, and he had the fire in the hands of Sister Daifulin of the 【Spirit Cultivation Sect】, the young great witch thought she needed to investigate the things that happened in the mountain city in autumn again.

"I am only a four-ring sorcerer, I don't have the power you have."

Xia De said casually, but still had some worries in his heart:

"What is the reason for this abnormality? The appearance of location-type relics, is it really that this manor has always been unlucky?"

"It is not clear yet. If there is time in a while, I will go to the council to see if I can find the speaker. She has done a lot of research on this phenomenon."

Duchess Galina shrugged, using the wine glass Xia De had drunk, and continued to taste the wine.

Facts have proved that in the city where the first Chosen Iluna stays, the probability of accidents is much higher than in other places.

The two witches still had many things to talk about, so Xia De did not stay here for long and soon left. After Xia De closed the door, Duchess Galina complained to Miss Sylvia half-jokingly:

"He actually didn't praise my nails. I specially used the formula you gave me to make this nail polish. Isn't this beautiful?"

Miss Sylvia didn't know how to answer. Even before this, she knew about the affair between Xia De and this high-ranking lady, but she didn't expect that the relationship between the two had reached this point:

"Hmm..."

"Lady, perhaps Mr. Hamilton was just attracted by other parts of your body. Compared to nails, you have too many places that attract his eyes today."

Tifa said softly, and the Duchess revealed a satisfied smile, continuing to look at the courtyard of the manor under the setting sun with her wine glass:

"Tifa, I really don't know what kind of love potion the knight gave you. However, what you said makes sense."

Miss Sylvia picked up the wine glass and took a sip to cover up her expression at this time. Internally, she was re-evaluating what Xia De's appearance meant to the Witch Council, but thinking of the appearance of that young gentleman just now, his tough methods when facing the "Pantanal Evil Thing" statue in Huntington City, and this manuscript in her hand, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart:

"However, Xia De Hamilton does indeed have the ability to attract witches."

On the other side, Xia De had already left the third floor with Little Mia. Because the horse racing competition that Ajelina invited him to participate in had not started yet, Xia De took this opportunity to get some food in the courtyard, wanting to fill his stomach first. After all, there were many things to do tonight.

The Eisenberg family's banquet this time definitely spent a lot of money. Although it was already the end of the Month of Frost in early winter, one could still see fresh summer vegetable salads on the dining table, as well as seasonal fish transported from the West Coast.

As for that five-story high cream cake, it didn't feel like anything when looking at it from upstairs, but standing by the table and looking up, Xia De felt that he would definitely not see this scale of dessert for a long time.

But that cream cake that firmly attracted Little Mia was not the most attractive thing in the long table area. At the end of the long table near the door of the mansion, hundreds of red paper boxes were stacked into a small mountain, filling the ground and a small piece of the table.

Guests in various clothes, such as retro robes, ordinary formal wear, and red wool sweaters with vests, were laughing and surrounding there, watching people try to open those boxes.

This is the traditional reserved project of Delarion wedding banquets, "Lucky Red Box". Guests attending the banquet can open the boxes at will, but no matter what they open, they must carry the things inside for the whole night. And those boxes, although there are a small amount of commemorative items with extreme value, most of them are toys for pranks.

Nobles like this kind of "prank" at wedding banquets, and people will even compare which family prepared more "distinctive" "Lucky Red Boxes" when getting married.

Xia De saw his friend Baron Lavender in the crowd. The last time he saw him was last week to thank him for introducing business, and the two played Rod cards at the Astrologer Association. The Baron opened the box and took out a doll wearing a skirt less than the size of a palm. Amidst the roar of laughter, he somewhat depressedly put it in the pocket of his formal suit.

People laughed even more happily.

"Xia De!"

Baron Lavender also noticed Xia De who was eating, waved and walked over, and then incited him to try it:

"Only the truly brave will do this!"

He incited, Xia De held back his laughter and looked at the doll showing its head in his chest, and handed him a glass of red wine:

"How did I hear that some unlucky guy opened the box and got a donkey ear hair clip, and ended up wearing it for a whole night."

"That donkey ear is now a unique commemorative item that can be sold for a high price of 50 pounds. Oh, Xia De, as the champion of the big city player, you should believe in your luck."

Baron Lavender continued to incite, Xia De thought that he had nothing to do anyway, so he really walked over. People who liked to join in the fun saw Xia De and shouted "Hamilton of Lei Jiede", and loudly and exaggeratedly talked about the "expensive" commemorative items that the Eisenberg family might have prepared.

"Are there any donkey ear hair clips this time?"

He picked up a box at will and prepared to open it. Baron Lavender, who followed Xia De, answered with a smile:

"I heard there are cat ears."

"If I really open a cat ear hair clip, I will let my

As he spoke, he touched Mia, who was still tilting her head and looking at the big cake; the cat completely ignored Xia De.

Xia De's luck was not bad; inside the box was a pink gauze scarf. Although it was somewhat inappropriate for a man to wear this, Xia De still put it into his breast pocket, leaving a corner exposed. This made Baroness Lavender, who had a doll on her chest, extremely disappointed:

"Look, the Luo De card game hasn't even started yet, and I've already started having bad luck."

Calculating that there were ten minutes left before the horse race officially began, Xia De agreed to meet the Baron again when playing Luo De cards, and then walked toward the manor's main gate.

Bright and warm lights had already been lit in those pitched tents, illuminating the world under the last glimmer of the setting sun. Ropes tied with small colorful flags were connected to almost all the buildings in the courtyard and garden.

After the Ai Si Bo Ge family took over this manor, they renovated the courtyard, causing not-very-dense but interconnected ground water channels to appear. The width of the channels was about a quarter of an adult's step. Although they were very shallow and could only submerge small animals like Mia, they were still covered with stone slabs for the convenience of walking.

Under the still-unclear moonlight, outside the bright tents, were water channels floating with green leaves and petals, picked up from who knows where. The water in the channels was even flowing water, directly connected to the fountains and the Schluch Lake behind the manor.

Although Xia De had never seen a similar decoration style in this world, he had to admit that although this would greatly increase the manor's maintenance costs, it did indeed improve the landscape level of the entire manor.

"Speaking of which, can you swim?"

He asked while looking at those lively tents. Different music sounds were intertwined. The hired bards were playing and singing cheerful tunes in the tents. The gas pipes lying on the ground outside the tents lit the gas lamps, illuminating the various ribbon decorations hanging at the tent entrances. Guests dressed in various ways under the colorful flags smiled and enjoyed the hustle and bustle of tonight.

This wedding banquet would surely be talked about by people for many years.

"Meow?"

The cat stood on Xia De's shoulder and called out softly, not knowing what it was trying to express.

"Mia's last bath was nearly two months ago. Although it is already winter, the temperature is not particularly cold yet. Perhaps it is necessary to give it another bath."

Xia De talked to himself, while "she" in his ear chuckled without giving a response.

"It's really lively~"

Looking up at the surroundings, the extravagant enjoyment and the light of civilization were vividly displayed before his eyes. Although it was just a wedding banquet, in Xia De's view, it could fully display the small cluster of fire where the civilization of this world and this era was most prosperous.

"Civilization~"

Thinking of the possibility of the end of the world, he couldn't help but feel a little melancholy in his heart. Looking up at the manor entrance, under the last glimmer of the setting sun, Princess Lei Qianya Cavendish was already smiling and waving at him.

---Author's Note---

ps: Attending a banquet indeed requires depicting some daily plots like this. It shouldn't be too boring, right... I won't describe every banquet game in detail; the author knows how to balance detail and brevity.

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