Chapter 741: Shadow of Death
After the ceremony, Persius entertained the meritorious men by setting up a feast in the reception room of the royal palace.
There is no need to mention how exquisite the food prepared by the royal chef is, and what everyone eats is called a luxurious thing, such as goat meat painted with the finest fruit wine, roasted whole beef on a charcoal fire with the secret sauce of the palace, seafood caught from the Sea of the Broken Moon and sent directly to the palace, and pie cakes made with freshly picked fruits.
For the slaves, they used to be satisfied with bread and water, and more often they had to eat animal feed to fill their stomachs - many nobles also fed their slaves in this way, because slaves were originally animals and should eat things that matched their status.
If you meet a mean-spirited slave owner, you won't even feed enough of the disgusting food, and the slaves will go hungry all the time.
Now, when slaves who had been raised as animals suddenly encountered such a luxurious feast, it was undoubtedly pouring a scoop of cold water into the hot oil, and they were very uncomfortable with the noble atmosphere around them, but in the blink of an eye, hunger overwhelmed everything.
The scene in the restaurant is called a mess, the slaves' eating appearance can no longer be described as "gobbling up", the scene is chaotic like a war, there are few people on the tableware, they are all scratching, eating clothes and faces everywhere, and several people eat too violently, the stomach is broken, lying in the corner and vomiting, vomiting until prostration, are reluctant to rest, and rush back to eat.
Lugo is a blessed person, he didn't eat anything good when he followed Chino, so now he is not as crazy as the slaves, but the sloppy appearance of eating is not × at all, I saw that he did not sit on a good chair, but sat on the table, left leg of mutton and right hand fruit wine, while eating and drinking, obviously there was a saucer in front of him, and the bones after chewing were still spit on the ground.
After nibbling on the leg of mutton, Lugo rubbed the oil on his fingers, went directly to rub the head of a slave next to him, and grinned, "How is it?" Lao Tzu didn't lie to you at the beginning, did he? Now everyone has been removed from slavery and glorified, and from now on they are all nobles! Those cowards who refused to fight with us must now be so remorseful that their bowels are blue. ”
The slave swallowed the food in his mouth, nodded to Lugo, and said, "We are here today because of Lord Lugo, and we will listen to you from now on!" You are our god! ”
After hearing this, Lugo's expression changed subtly, he gently pushed the slave away with his backhand, and said with a smile: "Eat your things, live your own life in the future, and we will not meet again in this life." ”
As soon as Lu Ge finished speaking, a voice full of ridicule came from behind him: "Oh~ Look who this is, isn't this the unlucky ghost who was assigned to mine." ”
"Bang!" Lugo slapped the plate on the table and said with a grim face, "cub." ”
There was a sudden silence all around, and the slaves all looked cautiously at Lugo and the uninvited guests behind him, and felt that this man really did not open any pot and which pot to mention, and had to say such a disappointing thing at the celebration banquet.
But who knows, after Lu Ge smashed the plate, he suddenly put on a hippie smile, got up and directly hugged the people behind him: "Cubs, I want to kill you!" ”
Lugo was no one else, it was his old comrades-in-arms, Palatin, Baiza, Niko, Roman, and even the Shangguan siblings who had recently taken refuge under Chino's command.
Lu Ge stepped forward and took turns hugging these people, Shangguan Xue looked disgusted and dodged, but still bumped fists with him.
Lugo hugged him one by one, and was about to hug the person at the back, but when he saw the other party clearly, his expression was stunned, and his face turned white with fright.
Lugo, who had never knelt down in the face of the king, now fell directly to the ground with his five hearts, and pressed his forehead to the ground, like a sinner waiting to be released.
There was a dead silence around, and all the sounds seemed to be deprived by a strange sense of oppression, and Paladin and the others also subconsciously retreated to the side, bowing their heads, and looking faintly nervous.
Lugo is now glorious, and the Far East wants to kill him, but he can't kill him. The king wanted to kill, but he couldn't kill it when the merits and demerits were offset. But there is a person who can decide Lugo's life and death at any time, he is a hero of the kingdom in front of outsiders, but in front of this person, he is just a mortal who faces death.
After a long silence, a crisp voice sounded in front of Lugo: "You know what? I don't think people make mistakes, I say that if a person dies, that person will definitely die. That's what I said about you a few months ago. ”
"And you, let me slap me in the face."
Lugo hurriedly took the knife, then knelt on the ground again, and held the knife in the air with both hands, indicating that he was willing to kill the neck, and he wanted to use his life to achieve the fame of the other party.
Soon, the knife in Lugo's hand was taken away by a white-gloved hand.
"Shhh
"Hiss-" The final cutting sounded down, and Lugou felt a slight weight in his head, and something was placed on his head.
"Click, click, click...", the crisp footsteps faded away, and finally disappeared into the hall.
I don't know how long he knelt on his forehead, but Lugo plucked up his courage and tentatively removed the thing on his head, and when he looked closely, he saw that it was a peeled apple, exuding a faint sweet smell.
After a moment's pause, Lugo sat down on the ground and let out a long sigh of relief, his eyes full of the joy of the aftermath.
"Click." Lugo held the apple and took a hard bite on it, and before he could bite twice, his face changed: "Hmm..."
"What's wrong?" The crowd asked.
Lugo was so impressed by the smell that tears and snot flowed out, but he smiled like a child: "Bitter..."
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On the 4th day of the Divine Blessing in the year 514 of the Fire Calendar, the ceremony of conferment of the royal title was resumed in the main hall of the royal palace, and the consul of Twilight City, Chino van Helsing, was promoted to the sixth royal leader under the command of Dorkuland XXIV, and the Helsin family became the same name as Regnome, Troy, Eric, Huff, and Dagon.
In just two years, from the civil magistrate of the border town to the leader of the king, Chino's promotion speed can be said to have been seen in the history books for eternity, and the name of the twilight god finally bloomed at the top of the kingdom.
However, behind this unprecedented glory, there is a phenomenon that is difficult to ignore - except for the king himself, and the left and right hands of Lan Xian and Sting, there is no one else on Chino's head, and there are only equals around him.
In the sun-drenched land, the shadow of death is quietly surging, and only time can tell where history will go.