Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 492 Before the Banquet
In the history of New Shock City, it has never been as lively as it is today, or as crowded with dignitaries.

The coming-of-age party held to celebrate Perfecto's birthday brought together all the dignitaries and celebrities in the entire Victoria Empire, as well as envoys and dignitaries from other countries.

If it were in the original world, Perfectoct felt that it could even be said that anyone you often see in the current affairs news on TV could be found at her coming-of-age party.

The reason why such an exaggerated situation occurred was that, in addition to the fact that Perfecto had originally invited many important figures and various dignitaries within the Victoria Empire all hoped to attend this banquet, another very important factor was that other countries in the Old World also hoped to use this event to get closer to the Victoria Empire to ensure that their own countries would have a way out.

The news of the end of the world has now been confirmed and believed by all countries in the world, which has undoubtedly created a relatively embarrassing situation.

That is, for the vast majority of countries in this world, they are completely unprepared for the end of the world.

They didn't even make any preparations, not even a basic plan.

This has made most countries very anxious. They can ignore the lives of their own people, but they cannot ignore the lives of their own powerful people.

Especially since most of the old world countries in this world are still under the rule of monarchy, the royal families of various countries have no intention of perishing along with the entire country.

What's more, marriages between the royal families of the old world countries in this world are also very frequent. Although Her Majesty the Queen of the Victoria Empire is not as exaggerated as that European grandmother, if you talk about it, the royal families of the old world countries can basically establish relations with the royal family of the Victoria Empire.

Some who have close enough relations with the Victoria Empire can even extend their relations to Perfectoct.

After all, her parents were not created out of thin air. Although the Brandlis family was not a famous family, it was a knight family with a long history that could be traced back to the early days of the founding of the Victoria Empire. There were many people who had intermarried in the family's history.

Although Perfecto's mother's family has declined and has few relatives, if someone really wants to trace the roots and establish connections, some connections can still be found.

Not to mention occasions like Perfecto's coming-of-age party, where even if there are no connections, people will come and try to build relationships.

If it were not so difficult for some countries to come, perhaps the coming-of-age party in Perfectcot would have been even more grand.

But even so, the hotel venue originally booked by Perfect was almost not enough, and all three floors of the hotel's banquet halls had to be opened up, which was barely enough to accommodate all the guests.

This created a very serious problem. Only the top dignitaries in the old world could enter the key floor which was originally the venue, while other guests who were not so prominent or distinguished could only stay on the other two floors.

Not to mention that the hotel had never hosted a banquet of this scale before, and was suddenly seriously short of staff.

Fortunately, given Perfect's status, it was not a problem to borrow court attendants from the royal family or to bring her maid team from the North over. After dispatching several high-speed airships for emergency transportation, the manpower problem was quickly properly resolved.

As for the fact that the hotel was not prepared enough for the size of the guests and there were shortages of everything including drinks and food, that was not such a big problem.

After all, people come to the banquet not just to eat and drink, so they need to prepare food, but it doesn't matter if there are a few less. The real problem is that with so many guests, who is qualified to enter the core venue on the main floor, and who can only stay in the banquet halls on the other two floors.

After all, the guests who were able to enter the venue were all powerful people, and they were usually big figures who were looked up to by others.

That is to say, there were so many top dignitaries at Perfect's birthday party that some guests with less important identities seemed less important.

However, these problems did not bother Perfecto, as they were handled by her loyal old butler and the court attendants sent by the royal family.

The only people involved in the event were the White Bear and Iron Fire Knights, who were called in to take over the on-site security. At the same time, due to the expansion of the venue, 120 autonomous knights were also called in.

In a sense, this could be considered a form of military deterrence. After all, this way, the entire venue was concentrated with 160 steam knights and 120 autonomous knights from two knight orders, totaling 280 steam knights.

Of course, Perfect was not idle and had nothing better to do than to reveal all her wealth. Instead, she had received some news before. Among the guests attending her birthday party this time, there were several guests from the Old World countries. Their countries had not had a good relationship with the Empire in the past, and they were not adequately prepared for the doomsday crisis. So they hoped that the Empire could provide them with help.

And it would be best if this help was free of charge. If the Empire did not agree, they would not hesitate to threaten war.

There is no doubt that this has the same effect as the Seventeen-Day War two years ago.

If the war really breaks out, even if Perfect can replicate the glorious victory of the Seventeen-Day War and annihilate the enemy in a short period of time, it will still have a very bad impact.

One of the problems is interfering with Victoria's response to the doomsday disaster, and the biggest problem is to make the countries of the Old World develop serious hostility towards Victoria.

Although for Victoria, these will not be a problem once the doomsday comes, there is still more than half a year before the doomsday. If all the countries in the old world are enemies of Victoria during this half year, even if they cannot win, they can still disgust Victoria to death.

Therefore, in order to prevent someone from being confused about the situation, Perfecto had no choice but to display these powerful war weapons at the banquet to deter those with ulterior motives.

As for the fact that Steam Knight cannot dispel those people's inappropriate thoughts, this is not a problem.

Because at this dinner, although the Steam Knights are a force deterrent, they are only a part of the force deterrent.

In other words, the protagonists of the military deterrence at this dinner were not them, but the god-killing armor that Perfectoct had already designed and built.

Yes, during the time that Perfecto was dealing with the problems in the New World, the prototype of the God-killing Armor had been completed and was ready to be unveiled.

(End of this chapter)