Chapter 27: The Vulture's Dinner (Part II)
Dressed in armor instead of a gown, and with a weapon at his waist, Night's arrival at his engagement dinner was a surprise to many nobles.
"My child, why do you come to your banquet dressed like this, not afraid of scaring your fiancée?"
Duke Seleucid looked a rare joke, and he seemed to be in a good mood, and his cheeks were slightly red, and he had just drunk some wine. And the little beauty who followed the duke looked at this person who would become her husband in the future with a shy and curious look.
Night's answer to the Duke was the same as to the Lady-in-Waiting:
"I am a nobleman and a warrior."
"Well said, our knight!"
The Duke laughed, took the glass from the hand of the attendant, and cried out:
"Cheers to our knights!"
Everyone raised their glasses towards the night, and in return, the night must drink more than one person's red wine tonight.
Things like wine seem to be full of endless magic, which can make people forget their worries, forget their sorrows, and paralyze their senses. There was a proverb that was once circulated in the East:
Fuddle.
Orientals also love to drink, but they like to denounce wine as something bad and should not be drunk too much. Because drinking too much alcohol will numb the self, just like a dreamer will do all kinds of disorderly, abnormal, and chaotic things.
But in the eyes of the night, perhaps only when people are drunk and dream of death, will the true nature of being a human being be exposed.
……
After drinking half a barrel of wine, Cangye, who was full of alcohol, was pulled by the duke's side, and at the same time, the duke's hand was also put on the night's hand.
At this time, the attendant brought a box, and two delicate wedding rings lay quietly in the box.
"My God, please bless this couple."
The bishop said something dry, and then announced:
"The bride and groom exchange rings."
Nightshade had just picked up the ring when suddenly, Ephas rushed out of the crowd with a group of soldiers and surrounded Night.
"Bastard, you don't want to marry my sister!"
Ephas had a happy expression and looked at the night with a vicious look in his eyes, while beside him was a cicada with a calm face.
As if anticipating something, Nights slowly lowered the ring and pressed her hands on the hilt of the knife.
"Epas, do you know what you're really doing?"
The Duke of Seleucus's face was gloomy, as if it were an active volcano about to erupt, and if Ephas had not come up with a reasonable explanation for himself, he believed that the trembling wolf of the north would have done some heinous act.
"I hope you can explain all this, Ifass, you know my character."
The nobles were stunned by this sudden change, but they were not too frightened, and began to whisper one after another.
Yfas had always been afraid of his father, but today he was uncharacteristically uncharacteristically eyeing his father without fear, and his voice was resounding:
"Of course, my father, this dog mongrel is not worthy of being your son-in-law at all, he is a liar, a descendant of demons, and a lowly Eastern slave who dares to pretend to be a nobleman should be hanged!"
Oriental?!
Everyone was stunned by this bombshell news, and their eyes became very subtle when they looked at the night.
The Duchess let out a frightened cry, looked at the night with fear in her eyes, and retreated again and again, just wanting to get away from the night.
Seleucus's expression was also a little surprised, and he said in a deep voice:
"Ephas, do you have any evidence that you say he is an Oriental?"
"Of course!"
Young Master Ephas, who was rarely in spirit, raised his voice a lot:
"She's the proof."
The person that Ephas said is naturally a cicada, and he pushed the cicada out. The young oriental girl looked unusually calm, she looked up at the night, and at this moment, the hatred was no longer hidden, and the hysteria broke out.
"That's right, he's not Frankenstein at all, he's an Oriental, an evil Oriental! He killed my father, took me with him and insulted me, and he asked me to teach him makeup, so he disguised himself as a blood alliance nobleman, and just splashed water on his face, and his ugly true face would be revealed. ”
The atmosphere on the field was a little silent for a while. There was the whispering of the nobles everywhere, and the eyes that looked at the night were no longer the eagerness and friendliness they had at the beginning, but with undisguised contempt and disgust.
Duke Seleucus's expression also changed, and his eyes looked at the sky with a hint of indifference:
"Who are you, my best hound and first vassal?"
The situation is developing to the worst side, and Cangye didn't expect it, looking at the cicada with happiness in her hatred, and Ephas with a vicious expression beside her, Cangye doesn't understand, if her identity is exposed, she will also not be able to live, does anyone really go back to choose this choice of ending up together?
But now it seems that the cicada has long since abandoned the cost of her life in order to kill herself, and even before she abandoned her life, she abandoned another equally important price.
The silence of the night seemed to anticipate something, and the Duke tried to calm himself down, and he shook his hand and knocked over the wedding ring, and trampled it to shreds.
"You know what? Child, I don't mind if you are a nobleman or not, if you were a commoner, I would have accepted you as a member of my family, but alas, you are an Oriental. ”
Ephas finally smiled triumphantly, knowing that his father could accept commoners as nobles, but would never allow his vassals to have aliens, especially the Easterners.
As one of the Blood Alliances, Antiochus naturally joined the conquest of the East, causing several horrific massacres, and millions of Orientals died under Antioch's scimitar. The most fundamental reason why Antiochus hated the Eastern Nation so much was that they were once vassals of the Eastern Nation.
The Kingdom of Antioch was preceded by a weak kingdom that groveled to the Easterners, until the founding king of Antioch, a minister at the time, rebelled and killed his own king.
In this world, it is not the enemy who hates you the most, but your former vassal.
Among the many Antioches, the Seleucid Duke was the most extreme, and the stereotypical Duke His Excellency has said on more than one official occasion that all the Orientals should be killed, and it is better to enslave them than to enslave the pigs.
One moment it was still cordial and enthusiastic, the next moment it became indifferent and disgusted, there was such a big contrast between the changes in human emotions before and after, and the eyes of everyone looking at themselves made Cangye understand something.
I'm really not fit to be a human being!
In addition to sighing, the dragon's reverse scale and the Antioch scimitar were unsheathed at the same time.
"Dual-wielding weapon fighting!"
"Swift Offensive!"
"Slash - Whirlwind Dance!"
The night instantly erupted into the most violent offensive, and in just one second, the seven guards around him were cut throats at the same time, and the poignant blood sprayed out, and the joyful party instantly turned into a bloody feast.
Screams rang out one after another, and the nobles fled in panic, and at the same time, more guards surrounded the night.
Today is a day of celebration, the number of guards guarding the castle is only kept to a minimum, and their faces are more or less flushed after drinking, and you can imagine how much combat power is left, as for the knights, it goes without saying.
Nightly killed at least twenty people at the first time, approached the Duke of Seleucid while fighting, and succeeded in coming to the vicinity of His Excellency the Duke in less than a moment.
"You...... What do you want? ”
The famous Wolf of the North's expression was slightly panicked at the moment, but the majesty of his high position over the years could still make him barely keep calm, but the next moment, Cangye couldn't help but cut off his head directly.
"The Duke is dead!"
The attendants cried and shouted, and this morale weakened a lot on the spot. Everyone knows that without Herod Seleucus, the entire Seleucid family is finished, and a waste like Ephas will only die a worse death.
Thinking of this, the vassals of His Excellency the Duke couldn't help but feel a little resentful of Epas, if it weren't for his insistence on exposing the true face of this Oriental, things would not have developed to this point.
With a wave of his hand, he killed the Duchess who almost became his fiancée, and Cangye took out a seal from the duke's corpse, turned around and continued to fight with the guards. The whirling dance of slaughter slashed and slashed soldier after soldier as if slaughtering a lamb that had no ability to resist.
When the corpses on the ground accumulated to more than a hundred, the morale of the castle guards finally collapsed.
"Monsters!"
Indeed, now the night and monsters are now stained with scarlet blood, and like Roman City, he has once again staged a night of killing, and the feast of death has officially begun.