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Chapter 102 The Honeysuckle and the Elk Fahtly lit, while holding his invitation, Petrov elcomed into the hall The banquet to celebrate the birthday of the 3rd young lady of the Elk faious or aristocratic background in Longsong Stronghold were allowed to attend the banquet As for the Count himself, the birthday banquet was also very ihout the whole hall and all the chamberlains wore a custonized After all, it was Aurelia’s sixteens birthday, whichin the crowd and handing out glasses of wine The stea food was placed on circular tables which were spread within the hall Aurelia, the protagonist of the birthday banquet earing a canary dress and stood in a corner of the hall surrounded by a group of friends, see a very lively chat with them
This was a new popular trend to celebrate, directly co’s city Previously the banquets were held like this: Usually, there was a long wooden table placed in the hall and all the guests were sitting at the table, waiting for the chef to serve the e boith pork and whole chickens was served with butter and bread In addition, there was also double-sided fried eggs served together with a large pot of lettuce leaves
But so came up with a neay to celebrate and today this was now a lasses given out were all made of different colors, instead of the norlasses Within the out its mellow color The circular tables are also covered hite tablecloths, rather than the greasy tablecloths they had used As for the cooked food, the Elk fareasy and coarse Seeing this, Petrov shook his head, the cook could at least have cut the meat into several small pieces
As usual, Petrov had already filled his sto pieces of eon He was invited to this birthday party as the representative of his family, so he had to eat at least a mouthful of this oily food, even if it was only to save face After all, Petrov didn’t want to beco time no seen, man,” Suddenly his neck was hooked by someone from behind,
“I heard you’ve been appointed as the Duke’s er? Hoas the harvest of ore in Border Town Were you able to steal a lot fro this familiar voice, Petrov immediately knew that it was Rene, the second son of the Elk Fah there wasn’t any territory for hie, such an idiot As a friend Rene would count as “not bad,” but Petrov still didn’t want to speak about what he had encountered in Border Town So he changed the topic, “Shouldn’t you be in the caht you were sitting in a tavern and tre”
“Damn,” Rene pushed Petrov away, “it seele word of praise This time, I wasn’t even able to enter the New Holy City The day before the departure for the border guard, I got infected with a cold and had to lie for a whole week in bed
“Good, you see the journey saved the guards a lot of inconvenience”
“This ti,” Rene said suddenly, while ain bed for a week because of the cold, I’d now be lying on the icy walls of the New Holy City forever”
“What do you mean?” Petrov raised his eyebrows in confusion
“Listen, I have so to tell you,” Rene the second son of the Elk family came close to Petrov’s ear and whispered, “The New Holy City almost fell, the demonic beasts were even able to rush into the inner city, if not for the church’s tiest warriors, they would have been unable to hold the city But during the fight, the ardoms had suffered heavy losses, only a few soldiers of the Cold Wind Mountain Range were able to come back alive In just a month, there are s…” He winked his eyes, then stretched out two fingers, “and now they will get two silver royals as compensation Hey, don’t use that look onabout it”
“Are you sure this news is true? What happen to the border guards?”
“Of course, I’ve seen it with my own eyes, when the Lord received the news he fell ill” Rene shrugged, “As for the guards… What else could they do, instead of slowly recruiting new guards Now the North is desperately in need of experienced soldiers, if not fora cavalry squad right now”
That isn’t the iuards froainst the Church’s Ardom are buried at the Hermes, if that doesn’t taste a little bit of a conspiracy, then I don’t knohat does If they plotted to attack us, the North of the Kingdom of Graycastle which is now like a nearly stripped-bare woes?”
“They didn’t fare much better than the other four armies, think about it, they always rush to the front like fanatics On the other hand, if the Ares didn’t attack, the soldiers of the other four kingdohts shouldn’t be like this, always speaking about honor, but when they have to confront deirls”