Bloodline Lord of War

  Chapter 132 The tenth person

  Robin was wearing a neat black evening dress, standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling mirror, twisting left and right, looking at himself in the mirror with satisfaction.

   "Master Baron, does the dress still fit?"

  Lawrence stood by the mirror, still with his elongated face, as if someone owed him five million.

  Robin nodded: "Well, not bad."

   "It's fine if you like it. My work is done, so I won't bother you anymore. Before the dinner starts, someone will pick you up."

  Lawrence bent over his luggage to Robin, and exited the room.

  Simon and Luke came over, and the two stood behind Robin, one on the left and one on the right.

   "My lord, you look much more handsome in a new dress." Luke praised with a smile.

  Robin tidied up his collar, and asked rather narcissistically: "When am I not handsome?"

   Luke choked on a word.

  But the handsome elf's mind turned quickly, and he immediately continued: "Today is very handsome."

   After waiting in the room for a while, the special person that Lawrence said really came.

   "Master Baron, the banquet is about to begin, please follow me."

  A handsome little manservant stood at the door of the room and said respectfully.

  Robin walked over, and before leaving the door, he turned around and told Simon and Luke worriedly: "You two stay in the room honestly, don't run around."

  Simon's mouth was full of bananas, and he replied inarticulately: "Don't worry, leader. I'll just eat bananas here, and I won't go anywhere."

  For the highlanders who grew up on the snowfields, bananas grown in the tropics are definitely a luxury they will never come across in their entire lives. Simon decided: this time he wants to eat a lot, and eat bananas for three meals!

  Leaving the guest room, the little servant led Robin around the castle, and finally stopped in front of two white gates.

   "This is the banquet hall, Lord Baron, please come in."

  The little servant finished speaking with a smile, and the servants guarding both sides of the door opened the door, and a spacious and bright hall suddenly appeared in front of Robin.

  Robin stepped into the hall, measured the area of ​​the hall with his eyes curiously, and made a rough estimate, even if a hundred people hold a banquet here, it feels more than enough.

  The entire banquet hall is decorated in a very grand and luxurious style. A row of crystal chandeliers hang on the two-story dome, and the light from it illuminates every corner of the hall brilliantly. There were two long tables on both sides of the hall, filled with all kinds of delicacies, some of which Robin had never even seen before.

  Although the banquet has not officially started, many guests have already arrived early. Without exception, these guests were all distinguished nobles in Silver Frost City. They stood in twos and threes in the hall, holding wine glasses in their hands and talking about something. Robin's arrival did not attract their attention.

Robin is not a sociable person, he actually feels awkward to participate in such a banquet full of strangers, and he is too lazy to squeeze in the group of nobles, pretending to please others with a smirk. Not his character.

  Robin has a good attitude, he just came to eat and drink. So, the first thing he did when he entered the banquet hall was to ask a servant for a plate, then he ran to the buffet table to fill a full plate, found a table in the corner of the hall, and sat down to eat.

  For this banquet, Robin can keep his stomach all the time, let’s not care about other things, let’s fill his stomach.

   "You, why are you so busy eating when you come here?"

  Robin was eating vigorously, when he suddenly heard a familiar voice in front of him. He raised his head while chewing something, and saw Knight Helen standing in front of his dining table, looking at him with a disgusted expression.

Helen's outfit at the moment made Robin's eyes shine. She was wearing a beautiful silver dress, her blond hair was coiled up, and a little makeup was painted on her face. The whole person looked beautiful and moving, like a blooming flower. The strong woman who always wears armor on weekdays looks like a completely different person.

  Robin knew that there was a concept called the sense of contrast, and this sense of contrast was vividly reflected in Helen. He swallowed the lobster meat in his mouth, and sincerely praised: "You are so beautifully dressed today."

  Then, the lord smiled again, and couldn't help but tease: "I thought you would wear armor to attend the banquet."

  Helen rolled her eyes at Robin, "I'm a woman too, okay?"

   Then, she sighed helplessly: "Actually, I hate wearing skirts, but on such occasions, I must dress up like this. But thank you for your compliment."

The female knight sat down opposite Robin. She looked at the full plate in front of Robin in amazement, and couldn't help reminding: "Robin, this is a large-scale social dinner. It's for eating."

  Robin shrugged indifferently, and grabbed a big lobster with both hands: "I prefer to eat rather than socialize. The lobsters here are really good. I really can't imagine that I can eat such a big lobster in the north."

  Helen shook her head speechlessly.

  At this time, among the several social circles in the hall, one of them was full of young noble children. There were men and women, eight or nine of them gathered together to talk and laugh happily, and let out a burst of pleasant laughter from time to time.

Among these people, there was an exceptionally handsome young man. He stood in the center of the crowd, and he seemed to be the core of the circle. Whenever he said a word, other boys and girls would echo him, and many noble girls were even more supportive of him. Frequent glances secretly.

   "You don't know, Master Ed just went to the wasteland a few days ago and led his troops to wipe out a tribe of hobgoblins. I heard that it was a large tribe with hundreds of hobgoblin warriors."

  A thin male follower happily told Ed's heroic achievements, as if it was his own heroic story.

  The noble **** the side heard it, and immediately let out bursts of exclamation, and looked at Ed with even more admiration.

   "Master Ed, tell us, how did you kill the hobgoblin leader?"

   Ed put one hand in his pocket and held a wine glass in the other, looking chic and at ease. His eyes swept across the crowd, and he asked provocatively, "Do you really want to hear it?"

  Everyone immediately echoed:

   "Of course I want to hear it."

   "Master Ed, I like hearing your exciting adventure stories the most."

   "Okay!" Under the praise of everyone, Ed became interested and began to talk.

   "The hobgoblin I killed was more than two meters tall, and one of his arms was thicker than my thigh. I led my troops into their tribe..."

   "... At this time, he was waving a mace and rushed towards me. I dodged his attack deftly, and then chopped off his head with a sword!"

When Ed triumphantly finished telling the story of killing the hobgoblin leader, the surrounding nobles and men burst into cheers, "Hero of the people" and "Warrior of the Northern Territory", all kinds of compliments flew to the audience like snowflakes. Ed.

  Ed also enjoyed people's compliments very much, and the smile on his face became even happier.

  After talking about Ed's glorious deeds, these noble children began to talk about the gossip news in the noble circle.

   From whose wife cheated, to whose master was infertile, everyone laughed frequently. In the end, the topic turned to this birthday party, the ten people that Duke Snow Eagle invited on his own initiative.

  There are countless nobles in Silver Frost City, and Duke Snow Eagle will not send invitations to everyone. As long as he releases the news that he will hold a birthday party, there will naturally be a lot of nobles rushing to sign up. In fact, Augustus only sent out ten invitation letters, and he invited only ten people to this dinner party.

  The Duke of Snow Eagle is the ruler of the Northern Territory, and it is a great honor to receive his invitation letter. Noble children like them all came with the elders of the family.

   Among the young noble men and women present, none of them had ever dreamed that one day they would receive an invitation letter from Duke Xueying.

  Among the ten invited people, nine of them are well-known figures. They are either great nobles from the Northern Territory, or the top powerhouses in the famous side.

   "The Marquis of the Stab Gun, the Earl of Blue Spirit, the Archmage Negan, the Marquis of the Ice Banner..."

The attendant counted the guests invited by the Duke of Snow Eagle one by one with his fingers. When he mentioned the "Marquis of the Ice Banner", Ed couldn't help but slightly raised his chin with a proud expression on his face. Cast envious eyes.

  Because he is the son of the Marquis of Ice Banner.

The attendant stopped counting to the ninth person, because he didn't know who the last person was. He looked at everyone for help, and found that everyone had question marks on their faces. No one knew that the last person was taken by Duke Xueying. Who is the inviter?

  Ed thought for a while, guessed: "It must be extraordinary to be invited by Duke Snow Eagle. Perhaps, there is another high-ranking powerhouse that we don't know about in the Northern Territory recently."

  Everyone nodded, thinking that Ed's analysis made sense.

   "Maybe he's an archmage, maybe he's a holy knight!"

   Ed showed an excited expression. He really wanted to meet this mysterious tenth person. To be valued so much by Duke Xueying, the other person must be a great person.

  A group of noble children began to guess the identity of the tenth person endlessly. At this time, Ed turned his head and suddenly saw Helen in the corner.

   "Helen is here!"

   Ed's face was overjoyed, but then, the handsome smile on his face froze, because he saw an unknown man sitting opposite Helen.

   "Excuse me, please step aside."

  Ed's expression immediately became gloomy. He pushed away the noble children who were blocking the way, and walked straight towards Robin and Helen.

   "Helen, so you are here, why didn't you say hello when you came?"

   Ed walked to Helen's side, and said with a smile on his face. Then his conversation turned to Robin.

"Who is this?"

  Helen stood up and introduced Ed: "This is Baron Robin, the lord of Raging Waves City."

   "Rage City? Never heard of it." Ed laughed sarcastically. "Could it be in the wilderness?"

   Robin looked up at Ed, he could already hear that this kid was here to find fault. However, this was Duke Snow Eagle's banquet, and Robin didn't want to cause trouble.

   "That's right, my territory is in the wasteland."

  As soon as Robin said this, Ed suddenly showed a surprised expression. He just wanted to belittle Robin, but he didn't expect that Robin's territory was really in the wasteland.

  Behind Ai De, a group of noble children who came to watch the fun immediately let out a cry of surprise, and those noble girls covered their mouths, showing expressions of disbelief.

   Immediately afterwards, the eyes they looked at Robin became disgusted, as if to say: How can a pioneer lord on the wasteland deserve to stay in the same banquet hall as the noble us?

   Ed's follower jumped out at this moment. He pointed at Robin and said what the others were thinking: "How did you, a pioneer lord, get into the banquet? Guards! Guards! Hurry up and drive him out!"

   "Coman!" Helen frowned and called out, stopping the performance of the attendant.

  Keman shrank his neck in fright, and hurriedly retreated to the crowd behind him. He didn't dare to bluff in front of Helen.

  As a member of the Xueying family, and also a female knight who leads troops all year round, Helen has a very strong oppressive force, even if she doesn't wear armor and sword today, this oppressive force will not diminish at all.

  When she stood in front of these noble children, everyone fell silent and lowered their heads in humility, turning into quails, not even daring to look at Helen's face.

  The female knight is different from the flowers grown in these greenhouses. She has truly seen blood and fought with enemies on the battlefield. And most of these noble children lived in the Silver Frost City all day, eating, drinking and having fun, and some men hadn't even touched a sword a few times, Helen looked down on them very much.

  She faced the group of noble children, with a slightly displeased expression, and said loudly: "Baron Robin is a guest invited by my father, please don't make a fuss."

As soon as Helen finished speaking, everyone immediately burst into exclamations that were even more shocking than before. Just a minute ago, they were still guessing who the tenth person Duke Xueying invited was. Even if they were killed, they couldn't believe it. This man in front of me!

   Ed's eyes widened, his handsome face showed an expression of extreme surprise, and he stared at Robin dumbfounded. It was really hard for him to accept for a while, the Baron of the Wilderness, whom he had never heard of before, was actually the tenth person invited by the Duke!

  Colman called with a trembling voice: "Miss Helen, are you serious? This person was really invited by the Duke?"

  Helen's face was displeased, and she asked, "Can I still lie to you?"

  Seeing how surprised these people were, Robin was rather confused. He didn't know that only ten people had been invited by Duke Snow Eagle.

   "Is it weird that I was invited? Don't you?"

  Robin took it for granted, and looked at these astonished noble children with doubts on his face.

  Everyone was immediately silenced by Robin's one-word question. They all rushed to sign up, and Duke Snow Eagle didn't send them an invitation. When everyone looked at me and I looked at you, they all felt dull and speechless.

  Only Ed said without admitting defeat: "My father, Marquis Bingqi, also received the invitation."

   It's just that everyone around can hear that he lacks confidence in what he said. Robin received the invitation himself, while Ed received the invitation from his father, but he himself was not invited by Duke Snow Eagle. The two are completely different.

  Ed knew this in his heart, so his tone was unconsciously weaker by three points.

  Ed looked at Robin, feeling very unconvinced in his heart, a small pioneer lord, how could he be favored by Duke Snow Eagle? I am so good, whether it is personal martial arts or leading troops to fight, I am good in everything, how can this guy named Robin compare to me? Why can't I get Duke Snow Eagle's approval?

  The more I think about it, the more angry I become, and the more angry I become, the more I think about it.

   What made Ed even more annoyed was that Robin was sitting with Helen just now, the two were talking and laughing, and the atmosphere seemed to be very harmonious.

  Ed has been in love with Helen for a long time, this is the most unacceptable situation for him, he thought jealously: I have known Helen since I was a child, and I have never chatted with her so happily. I am the son of the Marquis of the Ice Banner, and only I am the best match for Helen. Where did this Robin come from? Get the **** out of here!

   Then, Helen introduced Ed to Robin: "This is Ed from the Ice Banner family."

  (end of this chapter)