Heart of the Castle

Chapter 38 Extra Story 13
The sound of the lute rang throughout the entire night in the audience hall of Obsidian Castle. At the beginning, the singing and the sound of the piano seemed a bit stiff due to the singer's nervousness, and later it became hoarse and messy due to exhaustion.However, Grand Duke Serra Farna maintained a high degree of interest from the beginning to the end, the body sitting on the golden throne remained motionless, only the fingers were beating lightly.

A song "Beauty Quest" that was supposed to be light and funny was sung to pieces by a young hotel singer. Three of the strings of the lute were broken one after another, and even a real master couldn't use the remaining four strings to play decently. tune.The hoarse and ugly voice, like the wail of a dying wild boar, made the evil god of the abyss, Yarudir, who has no aesthetic concept at all, couldn't help but tense up. It seems that if Grand Duke Serra Farna was not present, he would have already waved his four strong arms. Tore the unfortunate singer to shreds.

When the last bar was finally over, the young singer was panting with a pale face, and beads of sweat were dripping from his forehead, but he didn't even dare to wipe it off.

Sera Farna's eyes had been tightly closed just now. The singer originally thought that the high-status demonic grand duchess had fallen asleep, but after the singing stopped, the morning star of the abyss opened her eyes immediately.

"It's over?" There was a slight dissatisfaction in her tone, "Then continue to the next song."

Hearing this, the hotel singer's knees immediately went limp, and he knelt down on the hard obsidian ground with a plop, begging with tears streaming down his face. "His Royal Highness, Grand Duke Serra, please forgive me, I have sung all the songs I can remember!"

"It's all over... Do you only know a few songs?" Grand Duke Sera Farna narrowed her eyes and shook her head slightly. The long fiery red hair poured down from the side of her neck like a waterfall of flames, and then Go down along the fair skin of the shoulders.

The inadvertent coquettishness of the morning star of the abyss made the young hotel singer couldn't help swallowing, but after singing hoarsely all night, his mouth was as dry as a desert exposed to the scorching sun, and even a mouthful of saliva If he couldn't come out, it caused a violent convulsion in his throat, and then he coughed involuntarily.

In addition to the fear, the singer also felt a little bit of grievance in his heart. He tried his best this night and sang all the songs related to love that he had learned. Some of the lyrics were even quite vulgar, such as "Zola the Big-Ass Maid," "The Bear Who Loved Girls," and "The Widow of Komodo and Three Hillbillies."

Putting aside the risk of life, Morning Star of the Abyss is the best customer the singer has ever seen.No matter whether the lyrics are vulgar or not, or the melody is beautiful or not, Sera Farna listened carefully, and there was a bright light in her eyes that the singer could not judge, as if she was thinking about something important every moment. matter.

"Yerudil," the Grand Duchess turned to the evil god of the abyss who was standing beside her, and asked him, "What reward do you promise to give this human being?"

The evil god of the abyss, Yerudir, scratched his terrifying forehead with some hesitation, "The reward... yes, I should..." He suddenly leaned over to the young singer, and asked in a rough growl, " Human boy, what is the reward I promised to give you?"

The poor singer was almost scalded by the scorching breath of the evil god of the abyss with a strong sulfurous stench. The hideous face so close at hand made his internal organs tightly huddled together, as if a knot was tied in his stomach, and the pain He had to be speechless for a while.

In addition, the singer really didn't know what to say.

From the moment he was pulled out from the ruins of the collapsed hotel by the evil god of the abyss, Yerudir, the young singer regarded survival as his greatest hope.It can be said that the reputation of the abyssal demon family is only a little bit better than that of the dead who take the responsibility of destroying all life. There are many examples of escaping from demons in the heroic epics played and narrated by bards, and there are even some smart people who can get a An enviable wealth.But Singer knows exactly how those epic stories were concocted by his colleagues, and the degree of credibility is hardly worth mentioning.

However, what made him a little unbelievable was that the legendary luck seemed to have fallen on him. Instead of cutting off his head, those terrifying demons generously asked him what reward he wanted!
This is simply oatmeal cake sandwiched with roasted blood sausage that fell from the sky!

The young singer almost forgot his fear, tried to calm himself down, and replied hoarsely. "His Royal Highness Grand Duke Serra, generous Yale...His Excellency Yale Dill promised to give the little one a box full of gold coins as a reward."

"A box full of gold coins!" Yerudier's eyes almost bulged out of their sockets, "When did I promise you..." He gritted his teeth and growled at the singer.The singer's face was pale, and it took all the courage in his life to keep himself from urinating, but his legs trembled like branches swaying wildly in the wind.

The singer has placed all bets on Sera Farner's generosity.In his mind, this devilishly beautiful Grand Duchess doesn't seem to take wealth seriously. Various precious items can be seen scattered everywhere in the obsidian castle, many of which are inlaid with priceless gems. Ceremonial armor, large carvings of precious metals, tapestry of colorful Vaal wool, and other luxuries of every description.Many of these things come from the ruins of King Arthur's Palace, the residences of Grand Duke Raul and other nobles in the royal capital. Each piece is worth enough to exchange for hundreds of thousands of gold coins, but now they are piled together like randomly discarded garbage .

"If I can get a few of them, I will be able to eat and drink for the rest of my life, and I won't have to go to taverns to sing again..." The singer felt his whole body burn.Due to the critical situation, the price of luxury goods has indeed been lowered several times, but I heard that the nobles who fled the capital have regained their foothold in Northern Border County, so they must be happy to offer a more reasonable price...

Just as the singer guessed, Grand Duke Serra Farna seemed a little careless about wealth. She waved her hand at Yerudier, "Yerudier, since it is the reward you promised, just pay him happily. It's over Afterwards, let Lord Gandalf come to the audience hall, I have something to tell him."

"Yes, His Royal Highness Sera Farna." Yerudir agreed, and then stretched out his giant palm to the singer. "Your reward is here."

The singer let out a gasp full of surprise, but he couldn't cry out, because a giant palm of the evil god of the abyss had already tightly strangled his throat, with such force that he could almost hear the rattling of his neck bones. sound.

With a smirk, Yerudir brought the other three arms closer, two of which fixed the singer's head and opened his mouth, and the last arm held a terrifying-looking dark purple worm. "Human boy, this monster is worth a thousand gold coins in the market, but I only need to pay you [-]... But forget it, Grand Duke Sera Farna ordered not to be as fussy as weak humans, and I will not let you You got change."

(End of this chapter)