Zongman: About my reincarnation as a slime

Chapter 221: The Golden Princess
In the splendid hall, a large number of nobles were chatting with just the right smiles on their faces. The tables around them were filled with all kinds of precious and exquisite food, and the pretty maids beside them allowed them to eat.

"As expected of a noble lady who is famous throughout the royal capital, she is really rich!"

In the corner of the hall, a few nobles with somewhat restrained expressions were gathering here, their eyes constantly looking at the various gorgeous noble items in the hall, and you could even see them turning their eyes from time to time to the table next to them filled with precious food.

Everything here was once out of reach for nobles like them, whose families were already in decline.

"By the way, I heard that a real big shot will be here tonight. Do you know who it is?"

At this time, a baron in his 30s raised his head and looked at the people around him and asked curiously. However, when he raised his head, he found that the people around him were looking at the corners of his mouth with strange eyes, and quickly He took out his handkerchief and wiped the remaining food residue from the corner of his mouth.

Afterwards, he pretended that nothing happened and looked at the people in front of him. The nobles next to him also looked like they understood. After all, they were gathered together simply because they were all in name. Although he has a noble status, his life is actually a little better than that of ordinary civilians.

"I seem to have heard that she is the golden princess Lana who has the most beautiful appearance in the kingdom, is extremely intelligent, and is called the pearl of the kingdom."

At this time, the oldest noble among the people quietly came up to them and said with a hint of pride on his face. This was something he learned from the heir of a Marquis at a great cost.

"It's actually Lady Lana!"

"The pearl of the kingdom will actually come to this banquet."

After hearing that the jewel of the kingdom, Lana, known as the Golden Princess, was going to attend the banquet, several people became excited. After all, everyone in the kingdom knew about the legend of the Golden Princess.

Symbolized by her long golden hair, she is famous both at home and abroad for her beauty and wisdom. Not only is she praised as the 'Golden Princess', she also proposes many cross-era policies. Although most of them were blocked by the nobles, they still contributed to Abolition of slavery in the kingdom.

Even Princess Lana's intelligence was understood to be supported by the emperor, and the policies she proposed were also privately referred to by the empire.

Moreover, Princess Lana also has a high reputation among civilians. From time to time she will go to the orphanage to deliver supplies to the orphans and care for them.

Snapped!Snapped!Snapped!
Suddenly, the sound of crisp footsteps interrupted the voices of several people, and the entire hall fell into silence. Everyone turned their heads and looked in the direction of the footsteps, where a charming and seductive figure was taking a step forward. Step down the stairs and sit down.

She has long blond hair that is shawl, and her delicate face is painted with just the right amount of light makeup. The purple eye shadow at the corners of her eyes gives this face a slight sense of temptation. She wears a gorgeous evening dress on her perfect body, which is white and delicate. Her skin looked like the finest jade under the light.

The visitor was none other than the organizer of this dinner, Hilma, a noble lady who was famous throughout the royal capital.

"All noble nobles, welcome to today's dinner, especially the princess, your presence will make this place flourish."

As she spoke, Hilma looked at Lana in front of her, who was surrounded by many nobles. At this moment, Lana's delicate face was also looking at Hilma with a faint smile, coupled with the purity and uniqueness of a girl. Temperament, like a legendary angel.

"There, I should say thank you to Ms. Hilma for inviting me to this banquet."

A voice like a lark sounded. Lana lifted up her gorgeous long skirt slightly and walked towards Hilma in small steps. For a moment, the eyes of everyone present were attracted, and even many female nobles in costumes started to look at her. Lower your head, after all, compared to the two people in the middle of the hall, they are as inconspicuous as dust.

"your Highness!"

At this time, a girl who was also dressed up walked up to Princess Lana and stared at Hilma with a hint of vigilance in her eyes. She was none other than Lax Elbein, the captain of the steel-level adventure group Wild Rose. At the same time, He is also a descendant of the thirteen heroes of the kingdom's nobles, and he is also a warrior who has entered the field of 'heroes'.

This time, she would follow Princess Lana to the dinner party hosted by Hilma, all because of what happened in the Flower Street of Wangdu some time ago. On that day, they were originally asked by Princess Lana to investigate the 'Eight Fingers'.

Just when they found the underground brothel of Eight Fingers hidden under the Flower Street in Wangdu through special intelligence channels, their plan was interrupted by the sudden appearance of Yusha, who was then greeted by the surprised eyes of sisters Tina and Tia, members of the Wild Rose.

Yusha single-handedly completely cleared the underground venues of the Eight Fingers, and even found and captured all the leaders of the Eight Fingers, and then brought them to a manor in the royal capital.

At that time, the two sisters Tina and Tia, who were secretly following the investigation, witnessed Yusha entering the manor with the eight-fingered leader. They had originally planned to continue following, but they suddenly felt instinctive fear, out of belief in their own instincts.

The two sisters, Tina and Tia, chose to retreat temporarily, and then reported everything they saw to their captain, Lax, and their employer, Princess Lana.

At that time, after hearing that the leader of Eight Fingers was all captured by a person dressed as a maid, both Lax and Princess Lana felt a little incredible. Originally, they thought it was some conspiracy of Eight Fingers.

But during the investigation in the following days, they discovered that the Eight Fingers' power in the underground world began to shrink rapidly, and even many bases that were extremely important to the Eight Fingers were completely abandoned, and the members of the entire Eight Fingers force began to shrink.

The reason that allowed Princess Lana and Ramese to confirm that something really happened to the leader of the Eight Fingers was that the most important drug production base of the Eight Fingers not far from the royal capital was completely abandoned. The members of the Wild Rose who went to investigate at the time found out.

Compared with the previous time when there were alerts and guard members everywhere, this time the drug survival base was completely deserted.

Later, after burning down the drug production base, the members of the Wild Rose and Princess Lana who returned to the royal capital suddenly found out that Hilma was inviting the nobles in the royal capital to a dinner. The members of the wild rose who had long been against Eight Finger Of course Princess Lana and Princess Lana are very clear about Hilma's identity.

Therefore, in order to understand the current situation of the Eight Fingers, Princess Lana and La Haci prepared a dinner invitation letter and came directly to attend this dinner. In order to protect the entire Wild Rose members, currently except for the captain La Haci Apart from Silk, the other members were all standing guard not far outside the manor.

As long as there is something slightly wrong, they can rush in to protect Princess Lana, and kill or take away Hilma, one of the eight-finger leaders.

"Okay Lax, don't worry."

Just when Lacus was standing in front of Princess Lana with a full face, Princess Lana behind her raised her hand and patted her shoulder with a smile to express that it was okay. Then she walked over Lacus and looked at Hilma. .

"Ms. Hilma, can I talk to you alone for a while after the dinner?"

"Talk alone, Princess. Of course you can. I just don't know what the Princess wants to do with me?" When she heard that Princess Lana wanted to talk to her alone, Hilma instinctively wanted to refuse. After all, she was there after the dinner. All nobles will be eroded and polluted, and by then they will all become entities pursuing forbidden knowledge. In Hilma's opinion, she has nothing to talk to Princess Lana, who will soon become one of her own.

After all, Hilma clearly remembered how much loss Princess Lana had brought to their 'Eight Fingers' over the years. However, just when Hilma was about to refuse, Lu Minghao's voice rang in her mind. Erma quickly changed her words and asked Princess Lana what she wanted to talk about.

"I'm just asking Ms. Hilma for some information. Of course, you don't have to tell me if you don't want to."

Faced with Hilma's sudden change of words, although Princess Lana didn't know what happened, she still smiled softly and said her answer. By the way, she glanced at Laxus beside her and saw her slightly nodding. After nodding, the smile on his face became sweeter.

Beside, after hearing the conversation between Princess Lana and Hilma, other nobles were curious about what they would say next, but the two people standing here were people they could not afford to offend. For this reason, each one of them acted as if they had nothing. Heard generally.

Of course, there are also some idiot nobles who think they are noble and look down on Hilma's status. If it were someone else who was talking to Hilma, they would have said the same thing, but now she is the pearl of the kingdom and is called gold. Princess Lana.

They still instinctively chose to remain silent. After all, they just felt that they were extremely noble as nobles, but they were not mentally retarded.

"Then, I'm looking forward to the conversation with the princess later."

After saying that, Hilma saluted slightly thinking of Princess Lana, and then walked towards the many nobles in the hall, greeting each one with ease. Even the few down-and-out nobles in the corner, Hilma had a smile on her face. Have a few words with them.

Suddenly, the entire dinner hall became lively, and as a well-known socialite in the royal capital, Hilma calmly and comfortably chatted with every noble present, not letting anyone feel left out at all.

"Humph!"

At the edge of the hall, Captain Rose of the Wild Rose looked at Hilma who was talking and laughing with many nobles in the center of the hall and snorted coldly. As an adventurer and noble who has always targeted Eight Fingers, she knew very clearly what Eight Fingers meant. Do all kinds of things.

It can be said that the Eight Fingers, who control the underground forces of the entire kingdom, are the biggest cancer in the kingdom. Of course, some nobles in the kingdom do things that are completely comparable to those of the Eight Fingers.

"Ms. Hilma, I heard that tonight you are going to display an artifact passed down from a long time ago. Is this true?"

At this time, a nobleman with a gentlemanly demeanor in the middle of the hall suddenly walked up to Hilma, gently raised the wine glass in his hand to Hilma, and asked curiously, do you know who is coming tonight? Most of the nobles are because of this incident.

After all, only the royal family and the descendants of the thirteen heroes in the entire kingdom have artifacts. Every noble is extremely curious about this brand-new artifact in Hilma's hands. Many nobles have even begun to secretly decide that if it is really an artifact, Then they have to find a way to get it.

"of course it's true."

As she said that, Hilma turned her head and looked at the maid who was following behind her. After noticing Hilma's gaze, the maid also turned and walked towards the room on the side of the hall. After a while, she carried an inlaid A box full of gems that looked extremely valuable came out.

Then, Hilma took the box from the maid, turned around and looked at all the nobles in the hall who were looking at her, smiled softly and opened the box in front of everyone.

In an instant, all the nobles stretched their necks or raised their heads to look at the box. They saw a red book lying inside the gray sunspot. The surface of the skin-like book was covered with tightly closed books. Pupils, those slightly trembling pupils give people a feeling that they will open their eyes in the next second.

"This is?"

At this time, the nobleman closest to Hilma suppressed the greed in his heart and raised his head to look at Hilma and asked. He didn't know why there was a strange murmur in his heart the first time he saw this book. , instinctively drove him to take the book away and make it his own completely.

"This is the artifact I'm talking about that was passed down from a long time ago, called the Book of Forbidden Times. It contains all kinds of powerful forbidden knowledge."

Looking at the greedy eyes around her and her breathing that gradually became heavier, Hilma took out the forbidden book from the box with a smile. For a moment, all the nobles stared at it. He grabbed Hilma's hand holding the forbidden book.

"Then Ms. Hilma, can we see what knowledge is recorded in it?"

In the dead silence of the hall, a paunchy noble suddenly stepped forward and stared at the forbidden book with bloodshot eyes and asked, but in fact, before Hilma could answer, she had already stretched out her hand to grab the forbidden book.

Snapped!
To everyone's expectation, Hilma, who they thought should have avoided it, actually let go of the forbidden nobleman's hand and handed the forbidden book to him after he grabbed it.

Instantly, the eyes of the nobles present began to look strange. They turned their heads to stare at the paunchy noble. Bloodshot eyes continued to appear, their breathing began to become heavier, and the atmosphere in the entire hall began to become weird. .

"Princess, something seems wrong!"

At this time, Laxus, who was hiding on the edge of the hall, stepped forward and pulled Princess Lana over. She looked solemnly at the nobles not far away who began to look ferocious and said. Lana looked a little dazed beside her. The princess also woke up after hearing what Laxi said.

"Huh? What's wrong with Princess You?"

The next second, Laxus, who didn't hear Princess Lana's reply, lowered her head and looked at Princess Lana beside her. She didn't know if it was an illusion that she just saw a hint of exaggeration and exaggeration on Lana's originally beautiful and innocent face. An evil smile, the kind of smile that made her feel uneasy just by looking at it.

"I am fine."

Princess Lana looked at Laxus who was looking at her, with a smile on her face and said in a gentle tone. For a moment, Laxis next to her subconsciously regarded what she just saw as an illusion.

"Princess, you are here, do you have time now?"

At this moment, Hilma, who was in the middle of the crowd, walked up to Princess Lana at some point. She looked at Princess Lana with a smile on her charming face and asked, completely ignoring Lahagi who looked wary next to her. Silk.

"Of course, Ms. Hilma."

(End of this chapter)