Throne of Magical Arcana

November is the month of severe winter, and Antiphole, which is to the north, has a steep cold wind, and it seems that it will become a world of ice and snow at any time.

The clear light blue Donatti River passes through the city, and the garden villa of the Earl of Mecklen is located on a highland by the river, backed by the "Saxony Mountain Wall" carved with countless reliefs, overlooking the quietly flowing beauty river.

This is a villa with a classical column structure, which complements the conservative and rigid architectural style of the Holy Hiertz Empire. However, as Lucien walked through the garden full of lavender "Ice and Snow Fairy Flowers" and stepped into the hall of the villa, he found that Extremely luxurious, wavy curves, broken eaves, unique structure, and exquisite details together create an exaggerated sense of distance and layering. It is a luxurious and cumbersome architectural form that originated in the Kingdom of Syracuse.

The large area of ​​murals with the theme of half-naked and beautiful women on the surrounding walls and ceilings, combined with the stacked statues of strong men, creates a bold and magnificent atmosphere.

At any rate, Lucien can be regarded as half an artist and a preliminary psychoanalyst. While admiring the strange and contradictory buildings that are different from the Principality of Violet, the Kingdom of Holm, and the Empire of Shahran, he secretly evaluated: "The Hiertz Empire's The younger generation of nobles seems to have become strongly dissatisfied with the old, rigid and conservative atmosphere of the entire empire, and began to yearn for the romantic and depraved luxury life of the neighboring Syracuse Kingdom."

"Well, this is a great benefit to the parliament and the Kingdom of Holm."

Cities such as Allinge, where the Magic Parliament is located, or the affected places such as the Kingdom of Holm and the Duchy of Calais, are currently showing a vigorous development trend, and the popularity of alchemy items will also bring about a considerable social structure. Compared with the changes in humanistic thinking, the younger generation of the Hiertz Empire and all the nobles of the Syracuse Kingdom are almost "drunken and dreaming of death".

Although in this world, it is the high-level and above powerhouses who determine victory, but without a steady stream of backup power, high-level and legendary people cannot remain immortal, and there will be a power gap one day.

"So, live in sorrow, die in peace..." Lucien pulled an ancient sentence in his heart, and then walked towards the host of the banquet, Deni Mecklen, with a polite and elegant smile.

"Dear Borak, I thought you wouldn't come." The handsome Deni has long blond hair, and the red suit is ingeniously cut and decorated with many cumbersome details, such as hollow patterns, and A cryptic ruby ​​brooch with a thin silver chain. Seeing him, Lucien was like seeing a "postmodernist artist".

According to Borak's description, this Deni is indeed an "artist" who loves oil painting and sketching, jewelry and clothing design. Similarly, he also has the common faults of many artists. He likes men and likes to think of himself as a slender and perfect "female" .

But Lucien understands that this Denis should not be underestimated. He is the first strong man among the younger generation of nobles in Antifleur to step into the rank of Grand Knight. Now he is only 27 years old, and he is already a fifth-rank grandmaster. Knight, and the awakened blood is still very strong "Thunderbolt".

Resisting the discomfort, he hugged Denis lightly, and Lucien smiled and said, "Why didn't I come?"

Deni covered his mouth and said with a "coquettish smile": "It's just a kind of intuition. Men are rough and fragile guys. I'm worried that you won't be able to resist conflicting with Alten. He is always looking forward to such an opportunity. It will be much easier for him to reasonably 'kick out' you before entering the underground palace, and a group of monkeys scattered in the sand will only submit to his monkey king's feet."

Stomach twitched, Lucien tried hard to make his smile not so stiff, and smiled without any "fear": "A monkey is just a monkey after all."

Denis looked at Lucien with light brown eyes in surprise: "Borak, have you gained anything recently? I found that you are completely different from a while ago, and I can feel your confidence."

Lucien smiled and said nothing, trying to make himself "unfathomable".

Deni laughed sharply: "Things seem to be getting interesting, and I began to consider whether to follow in. Borak, please please me, and I will help you get rid of Alten when the time comes."

The reason why Borak accepted the invitation was because he wanted to win over Denis, a powerful helper, without mobilizing his own blood power.

"...Maybe Alten will have other helpers." Lucien "expressed" a little joy.

Deni snorted: "Don't be too happy, I haven't decided whether I should participate or whether I should help you. My family is old but I am very optimistic about Alten."

He looked like he was coming to please me, so Lucien couldn't help but look up at the ceiling. In fact, I really don't need help...

"Isn't this my dear cousin Borak?" An exaggeratedly rich voice came from the door.

Lucien, who had heard the voice while secretly observing, turned around and saw a tall blond man in a gorgeous military uniform walking in with a tall and beautiful brown-haired lady on his arm.

The military uniform is light black, with a golden ribbon hanging on the right chest, and a row of medals on the left, with a white shirt and a white vest inside, which set off the blond man's heroic spirit, tall and handsome, while the lady next to him has exquisite features and temperament The elegant light blue evening dress exposed the white tender shoulders and a dazzling milky white, attracting the eyes of most men - Denis was also watching there, but his eyes were full of jealousy and envy.

Lucien looked at the blond man with an unchanged smile and said: "Alten, maintain an elegant and steady image of aristocrats, I don't want others to think that members of our Plantagenet family like to yell at banquets, there is no Aristocratic demeanor."

"You..." Alten's eyes narrowed. In recent years, Borak, who had been timid or angry, dared to speak satirically. Duda was right. He really had a great opportunity. Variety!

So Alten squeezed out a smile: "Dear cousin, it is useless to have aristocratic demeanor. Our glory comes from our blood. Those who cannot stimulate their own blood are not even qualified to imitate aristocratic demeanor. And you Can't paint, don't know music, can't play the piano, can't compose poetry, can't do all the high art, what's the difference between this and ordinary citizens on the street? No, there is a big difference, at least many of them will an instrument!"

When Borak was in high spirits, he was busy contacting other noble children and attending various banquets. How could he have time to study art? After being overtaken by Alten, he was completely immersed in knight training. Unexpectedly, the more eager he was, the less he could achieve his goal. Instead, he was ridiculed by many nobles as a rude barbarian!

Lucien's participation in the banquet is just to maintain Borak's habit, so as not to be seen through by the old guys. He has no interest in this kind of boring "battle game", and according to Borak's gloomy personality developed in the past few years, he will definitely be at this time. Concealing the knight's strength in order to maximize the benefits in the underground palace, so he just smiled and raised his eyebrows: "The winner is the one who can go to the end."

"Really? Dear cousin, I heard that you often go to the underground black market recently, and you must have gotten some good things. That's why you seem so confident, but external help is always just external force, and there is no way to go further." Alten Deliberately leaking the fact that he has mastered Borak's whereabouts, to make himself look confident and majestic.

While speaking, he stretched out his hand and hugged the lady next to him tightly: "And a lady with vision and wisdom, such as Jocelyn, will choose me without hesitation."

Looking at Jocelyn who was blushing and bowing her head, Lucien suddenly had a strange idea that a truly "intelligent" lady would probably make herself a strong person, and then knock the man she fancy unconscious and drag her back.

When Lucien was thinking about what attitude he should take to face this situation so that he could look like Borak, the hall suddenly fell silent, and a fair-haired blond wearing a white lace-trimmed evening dress appeared at the door, pure and beautiful like an elf. Girl, she is not tall, elegant and lively, followed by a woman in a long black dress like an old lady.

"Welcome to my banquet, Your Royal Highness Princess Sophia." Denis stepped forward to greet her and kissed his hands respectfully.

Your Royal Highness... Lucien found that he was destined to be a princess. He met the princess of the Principality of Violet, then the princess of the Elf King's Court, and now he met the princess of the Holy Hiertz Empire.

Sophia smiled coquettishly: "Deni, if you don't play a piece yourself, I don't think you welcome me from the bottom of your heart."

Deni pinched the orchid and pointed: "I hate it, I can't play well, and there are so many people watching, I should invite a man to play."

Lucien almost vomited, raised his eyes slightly, and suddenly met the eyes of the old nanny.

The old mammy narrowed her eyes, as if she could see Lucien's knight strength.

"I would like to play a song for you, Your Royal Highness." While Denis was talking and laughing with the two "good sisters" Sophia, Alten stood up abruptly, and Jocelyn's face suddenly became slightly ugly.

As we all know, Princess Sophia is an avid piano lover, but due to lack of knight strength and musical talent, she is extremely bad at playing the piano. At the same time, she is also the second heir to the empire, a fifth-level bloodline warlock, and countless noble children. chasing her.

Deni was stunned, he was just joking, and Sophia smiled gracefully with clear green eyes without any waves: "I am looking forward to your performance, Alten."

Alten excitedly walked to the piano in the center of the hall and played the music skillfully.

Lucien couldn't help rubbing his forehead, isn't this "For Sylvia"?

Soon, the music ended, and the nobles present applauded. Although Alten was not good at music, with the great knight's control ability and special training, it was very easy to play a piano piece well. Reaching a high level of emotion is another matter.

Seeing Princess Sophia's satisfied and beautiful smile, her green eyes glittering and dreamy, Alten proudly stood up and bowed, then looked at Borak provocatively, look, you rude barbarian, even if you become the Duke of Plantagenet, It is also an embarrassment to the family!

Lucien thought about the impulsive reaction that Borak should have, stood up with a smile, and saluted Sophia: "His Royal Highness, can I improvise a song for you?"

"You?" Deni and Alten said in surprise at the same time, suspecting that they had fallen into an illusion.

Sophia's astonished expression flashed away, and she kept the royal family's elegant smile and said, "I'm really surprised, I didn't expect you to stand up, but if you, Borak, can also play beautiful piano music, then I would like to thank myself You will be full of confidence again. Can you give me confidence?"

Her eyes turned, her pink lips parted slightly, and her fragrance was slightly revealed. It seemed that no one could resist her charm.

"Your Highness, please listen carefully." Lucien had his own heart, and had no feeling for her amazing charm. He smiled and turned around and walked to the front of the piano, pressing his hands on the black keys, and then moved lightly.

A beautiful improvised melody sounded leisurely, Denis opened his mouth wide, unable to believe that this was a rude barbarian, while Alten's face was ashen, suspecting that Borak might have benefited from the black market, perhaps with the strength of a knight?

After dozens of seconds of music ended, Sophia smiled and applauded delicately: "I'm full of confidence in myself again, Borak, I never thought that you also have outstanding musical talent."

Walking in front of Sophia, Lucien smiled politely: "I have a secret about this matter."

"Oh? What is it? Can you tell me?" Sophia blinked curiously.

Lucien said gentlemanly: "Of course, but only tell Her Royal Highness you."

The other nobles around could clearly see that the bastard was trying to get close to the princess, but they could only watch helplessly for the time being, what could be the secret?

Sophia turned her head and said with a sweet smile, "I can't wait."

Lucien put his mouth close to her ear and said in a low voice, "If you only play the black keys, Your Royal Highness, you can pretend to be able to play the piano."

"Pfft..." Sophia thought about it carefully, and suddenly burst out laughing. The smile was as charming as a hundred flowers blooming, which attracted Alten and others to look at Lucien with complicated eyes.

Because the black keys are equivalent to the pentatonic mode, there are no complicated and rugged notes, and there will be a more classical melody when you improvise.

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