Heart of the Castle

Chapter 413 The Extravagant Banquet That Is Not Good to Participate

"Lord Li Wei, your decision is really too hasty!" Baron Hughes just came back, before he even had time to change his clothes and makeup, when he heard the news, he blurted out angrily and annoyed. "You should at least wait until I, who is familiar with Firmeyer's situation, come back and discuss it before making a decision, right?"

"Don't look at that guy's face, and don't be tempted, or the curse will strike him!" A familiar voice roared in his ear, so Levi turned his head simply, "Master Hughes, this It shouldn’t be a big problem, right? It’s just an invitation to attend a banquet, and Grand Duke Raul has a high status, if I refuse, it will cause other troubles, right?”

When Baron Hughes heard such an irresponsible answer, his face turned bright red, and his teeth chattered. "Of course there will be trouble if you refuse directly, but I'm afraid it will be even more troublesome if you accept the invitation! Grand Duke Raul's banquets have always been known for their extravagance. Lord Li Wei, I have to say that you really made the worst choice!"

Perhaps it was because the women's attire was too beautiful, and Baron Hughes, who was furious, gave people a sense of brilliance that he dared not look at. Even Glenn Warm, who was standing by the side, couldn't bear it, so he had to look away. My beating heart eased up a bit.

Just as Li Wei was about to turn his head, he heard the clang of the star iron giant sword being unsheathed, and the young lord's movements immediately became stiff. "Wait a minute, don't do this!" His words made everyone quite baffled, but then he hit the point, "Master Hughes, whether Grand Duke Raul's banquet is extravagant or not has anything to do with my choice? "

"Haven't you figured it out yet? It's face! The most important face of a nobility! Such a luxurious banquet, attended by so many nobles from the royal capital, where is your carriage? Where is your ostentation? You gave it to Raul Where is the gift from His Majesty the Grand Duke?" Baron Hughes growled and moved his feet, wanting to come into Levi's sight and have a good conversation with him.However, Li Wei turned around accordingly, trying his best to keep his eyes away from the bright and beautiful figure.

Otherwise, in the next moment, it is very likely that the great sword of stars and iron will suddenly appear, and Baron Hughes' blood will splatter five steps!

"Master Hughes, we can find a solution to what you said." Levi defended his actions, "Since you are familiar with the situation of Firmeyer, where can you buy a decent enough gift? , it shouldn’t be a problem, as for the carriage and ostentation, I think a suit of military armor might be more suitable for a lord who just came to the royal capital from the frontier battlefield than aristocratic dress?”

"It sounds reasonable. Alas, Mr. Li Wei, since you have accepted the invitation of His Excellency the Grand Duke, I am afraid there is no other way." Baron Hughes said angrily, then stared at the still awkward profile. Straight young lord. "Why don't you dare look at me and talk?"

Because then you will die...

Of course, Li Wei couldn't make such an explanation, so he had to laugh a few times in embarrassment, and turned his head, but his eyes still stayed on the floor not far away, as if there was a solution to the current predicament engraved there.

"Okay, Lord Li Wei, you can do whatever you want." Baron Hughes shook his head inexplicably, and decided not to dwell on this issue any more, "Where is the invitation from His Excellency Raul? I want to see if I can get it from above." Analyze something."

"It's on the table over there." Levi said.

"My lord of glory, is this a golden invitation?" Baron Hughes reached out to pick up the gold plate wrapped in red silk on the table, his expression changed immediately, and he asked Grunwalm in a hurried voice, "What does the person who sent this invitation just now look like? Isn't he quite ugly and has a disability?"

"Lord Hughes, what you said is as if you have seen him before." Grunwalm replied, "The messenger of the grand duke is blind in one eye, and more than half of his right hand is missing. I really don't know that. Why did Grand Duke Raul let him serve as a bodyguard." The young knight thought for a while, and added, "But I admire him very much, because his disabilities are all left to protect the people he is loyal to."

"You should admire him, Glenn Worm, because he is Al Adil, the captain of the guard of Grand Duke Raul, a lord with a sword, and he ranks among all the knights in Firmeyer." Hughes After the baron finished speaking, he turned his head to face Li Wei, with a very serious expression on his face, "Lord Li Wei, I take back what I just said. Your choice is not wrong. Since the messenger sent by His Excellency Grand Duke Raul is Lord Adil, the messenger who sent it is Lord Adil. It is the highest level golden invitation, so you have absolutely no reason to refuse."

After hearing what Baron Hughes said, Li Wei secretly breathed a sigh of relief.In fact, he was not very sure about whether the decision he had just made to accept the invitation was correct.After all, half a year ago, he was still an apprentice knight servant. Although he has now become a powerful baron holding a large territory, he has often not fully integrated into this identity deep in his heart. taken into consideration.

"Then, Mr. Hughes, I will leave the most important issue of buying gifts to you." Li Wei said, "I think since we are going to buy gifts for His Excellency the Grand Duke's banquet, we can go out through the main entrance openly. What about those eyeliners?" Follow, just follow along."

"That's not a problem, the problem is time, no matter how time is calculated!" Baron Hughes replied with a wry smile.

"The banquet will be held at sunset tomorrow, and we still have a lot of time..." Before Li Wei finished speaking, he was interrupted by Baron Hughes.

"Lord Li Wei, now that you are the distinguished guest of His Excellency Grand Duke Raul, your gift will be placed in the most prominent position together with the gifts of other distinguished guests!" Baron Hughes grabbed the veil from his head in annoyance, and the blond hair immediately Scattered down, a few strands of it brushed the cheek of Grunnorme standing beside him, causing the young knight to take two steps back hastily, and his heart beat faster again.

"That can't be an ordinary gift, it can't be! At least it can't be too different from the gifts of other VIPs!" Baron Hughes walked around in a circle and said everything he knew, "On the Barranche Avenue There are several jewelry shops, and the level of craftsmen in them is not inferior to that of Wang's craftsmen; there are some Yahan merchants who sell imported goods on Ertafa Street, and their shops often contain many rare treasures that have been transported across the ocean; and The aged wine of Dewey Winery, the armor and weapons of Andrew's blacksmith shop..."

"Can armor and weapons be used as gifts?" Li Wei suddenly interjected.

"Of course, the high-quality armor and weapons forged by the dwarf master are very valuable, and His Excellency Grand Duke Raul likes them very much... Is there any nobleman who doesn't like armor and weapons?" Baron Hughes blurted out, "But what we lack now is Time! I have channels to buy things from these shops, but they are all ordinary goods, at least for His Excellency, they are too ordinary. Whether it is jewelry, aged wine, or imported products, you need to buy high-quality goods. Time! This is especially true for weapons and armor! Don’t you think that in a place like Firmeyer, where there are many rich and nobles, there will be some high-quality products that they can’t afford?”

"I mean, if armor and weapons can also be used as gifts, Master Brebe just made some for me." Levi said, pulling out his knight sword and handing it to Baron Hughes, "For example, this Can a knight sword be considered a fine product?"

Baron Hughes is undoubtedly a famous connoisseur of weapons and equipment. He took the knight sword, first carefully checked the straightness of the sword spine, then tried the sharpness of the blade, and finally flicked it with his fingers. For a moment, listen to that crisp buzzing sound. "It's a great magic weapon," he commented, handing the Knight's Sword back to Levi, "but, with all due respect, Lord Levi, this is not a proper gift. It is practical, it is much better to use it on the battlefield than to treat it as a gift, and apart from the knights, not many guests will be interested in appreciating it carefully."

"Practicality? For a weapon, what is more important than practicality?" Grunwalm questioned.

"The City of Glory has not been baptized by war for decades. The nobles and knights here have almost forgotten how to hold a sword." Baron Hughes curled his lips and said, "Master Levi, if you still remember If so, what impression did you have of the equipment of the guard knights of the Kingdom Mission?"

"Glamourous, vulnerable." Levi said.

"It's very appropriate. The so-called gift suitable for the nobles of the capital is exactly like this." Baron Hughes said, and went to the room to fetch his own saber, and held it to Li Wei together with the scabbard.

Li Wei looked at Baron Hughes' saber, which was a so-called thin stabbing sword with a straight and round body, only the tip was open.Li Wei remembered that Knight Ston once told him that the only action to use a thorn sword is to stab, so it is simpler than a long sword or an epee.Moreover, due to its fast and concealed attack, it is very advantageous in single-handed battles, and is often used by many noble knights and lords with mediocre strength.

But on the battlefield, such weapons are at a disadvantage. The thin thorn sword is very light and cannot be used to block heavy weapons such as battle axes and large swords, and the range of each attack is quite narrow. Once caught in the siege, it is almost a certain death.As far as Li Wei knew, among the well-known knights in the Kingdom of Arthur, only the sword dancer Earl Ansair used this weapon.

Baron Hughes's rapier sword is even more fancy than Earl Ansair's. The scabbard is inlaid with many colorful gems, and the blade is plated with gold. When it is pulled out, it is so bright that people can't open their eyes. .Li Wei tried to input his fighting spirit into the thin stabbing sword, but just as his fighting spirit was dissipated, Jianfeng couldn't help whining.

"Lord Li Wei, be careful!" Baron Hughes yelled hastily, "Although my sword is very valuable, it is not the craft of a dwarf blacksmith, and it cannot withstand the input of strong fighting spirit..."

His reminder came too late, and after an exceptionally mournful cry, the thin thorn sword shattered amidst the silver-white fighting spirit light, and the fragments fell to the ground like a shower of golden rain.Levi shrugged in disbelief, and then put the remaining half of the hilt back into the hands of Baron Hughes.

"I'll get you a better one than this one, Lord Hughes." Levi promised him. "You have been running around for a long time today, you must be very tired, go to rest now, I will figure out a way about the gift."

Baron Hughes frowned suspiciously. He didn't think that what even Firmeyer's boss could not do, Levi Stone, a country lord who had never left the backcountry in Northern County, could do it.Some things cannot be solved by a sharp sword, even heroes who end evil disasters and perform miracles are no exception.

"But……"

"At least change your clothes back, Mr. Hughes, do you prefer women's clothes? Many guests here are looking at you with greedy eyes." Li Wei reminded him with a smile.Only then did Baron Hughes realize that he was still dressed as a woman, his expression twisted immediately, and he hurriedly rushed towards the back room.

The door slammed shut, and the smile on Li Wei's face disappeared. "Gorgeous weapons and armor... Is this the portrayal of the nobles of the rich family of Firmeyer?" After sighing lightly, he hung the knight's sword back to his waist, then took off the noble dress, and put on the adventurer's company coat. He put on a cloak and pulled up the hood to cover his head.

"I'll go out for a while, you just stay here." He ordered Grun Worm and others who wanted to follow up.

"Master Li Wei, what about your safety?" Grunwalm put his hand on the hilt of his sword, "Please at least let me go out with you."

"With the appearance of both the Knights of Ashes and His Excellency Grand Duke Raul, I am afraid that Firmeyer has no forces who dare to attack me at this time. They have to think about what the consequences of doing so will be." Li Wei said lightly. He said, "As for if they instigate those little people who don't care about life and death, my sword is not a decoration that those nobles in robes hang on their waists."

Li Wei said this sentence with the gesture of beheading several high-ranking demon leaders, the guardian of the north, which made Glenn Worm and others feel relieved. "Lord Li Wei, please be careful." After saying this, the knights in the northern border returned to their rooms one after another, and then closed the doors and curtains tightly to block all curious sights.

Li Wei lowered his head, and hurried through the noisy lobby of the Mermaid Hotel, and came to the bustling street with people coming and going, and suddenly felt that there were eyeliners sent by the Unsullied in all directions.Although there must be his delusion, the middle-aged woman who was spinning on the balcony on the second floor, the porter who staggered past carrying the goods, and the soldier who was leaning against the wall lazily all looked at him immediately.

Li Wei grinned at them, causing those people to look away in a hurry, and then the young lord quickened his pace and merged into the bustling crowd of people in Firmeyer.

(End of this chapter)