November is the harsh winter month, and the cold winds of Antiffer in the north are steep and seem to turn into a world of ice and snow at any time.

The clear and light blue Donati River passes through the city. The garden villa of the Earl Mecklen family is located on a high ground by the river. It is backed by the "Saxony Mountain Wall" engraved with countless reliefs, overlooking the beautiful river flowing quietly.

This is a villa with classical column structure, which complements the conservative and rigid architectural style of the Holy Helz Empire. However, as Lucien walked through the garden full of lilac "snow elves flowers" and stepped into the villa hall, he found that it was extremely luxurious, with wavy curves, broken eaves, unique structures, and exquisite details together creating an exaggerated sense of distance and layering, which was the luxurious and cumbersome architectural form originating from the Syracuse Kingdom.

The large area of ​​murals on the surrounding walls and ceilings with semi-naked and beautiful women as the theme, combined with the pile of strong man statues, create a unrestrained and beautiful atmosphere.

Lucien was at least half an artist and a preliminary psychoanalyst scholar. While admiring the strange and contradictory buildings that were different from the Principality of Wauerit, the Kingdom of Holm, and the Shahland Empire, he secretly evaluated: "The young generation of nobles of the Helz Empire have become strongly dissatisfied with the old and corrupt and conservative style of the entire empire, and began to yearn for the romantic and degenerate luxury life close to the Syragu Kingdom."

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

Whether it is the cities such as Arlinge where the Magic Parliament is located, or the affected Kingdom of Holm and the Principality of Calais, they are all showing a vigorous development trend. The popularity of alchemy objects will also bring about considerable changes in social structure and humanistic ideas. In comparison, the younger generation of the Helz Empire and all the nobles of the Syragu Kingdom were almost "drunk and dreaming."

Although in this world, the one who decides to win is the high-level and above, there is no continuous supply of reserve forces, and the high-level and legends cannot remain immortal, and one day there will be a power fault.

"So, born in distress, died in peace..." Lucien pulled a line of ancient Chinese in his heart. Then, with a polite and elegant smile, he walked towards the host of the banquet Deni Mecklen.

"Dear Borak, I thought you wouldn't come." Deni, who was handsome, had long golden hair, and his red dress was ingeniously tailored and decorated with many cumbersome details, including hollow patterns, mysterious ruby ​​pins, and thin silver chains. Seeing him, Lucien was like seeing a "postmodernist artist."

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

But Lucien understood that he could not underestimate Deny, who was the first strong man in the younger generation of Antiffer to enter the Great Knight rank. Now he is only twenty-seven years old, he is already a level five knight, and his awakened bloodline is still very strong "thunder and lightning".

Holding back the discomfort, he hugged Deni with a gentle hug, Lucien smiled and said, "Why can't I come?"

Deni covered his mouth and said with a giggle: "It's just a kind of intuition. Men are rude and fragile guys. I'm worried that you will not be able to resist a conflict with Alten. He is always looking forward to such an opportunity. He can reasonably 'eliminate' you before entering the underground palace, and then he will be much more relaxed. A group of monkeys with scattered sand will only surrender to the feet of his Monkey King."

With a little convulsion in his stomach, Lucien tried hard to make his smile appear less stiff, and smiled without a trace of "fear" and said, "After all, it's just a monkey."

Deny looked at Lucien with a little surprise with his light brown eyes: "Borac, have you gained something recently? I found that you are completely different from a few days ago, and I can feel your confidence."

Lucien smiled without saying a word, trying to make himself "unfathomable".

Deni smiled sharply: "Things seem to be getting very interesting, I'm starting to think about whether I want to follow in. Bollack, please please me, and I'll help you kill Alten."

The reason why "Borac" accepted the invitation was to win over Deni, a powerful helper without stimulating his bloodline.

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

Deni said, "Don't be too happy too early. I haven't decided whether to participate or not, and whether to help you. My old family is very optimistic about Alten."

His look of coming to please me made Lucien unable to help but look up at the ceiling. Actually, I really don't need help...

"Isn't this my dear cousin Borak?" An exaggerated and strong voice came from the door.

Lucien, who had heard this sound while observing secretly, turned around and saw a tall blonde man in a gorgeous military dress walking in a tall and beautiful brunette lady.

The military dress was light black as the base, 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, which set off the blonde man's heroic and upright and handsomeness. The lady next to him had delicate facial features and elegant temperament. The light blue evening dress revealed her white and tender pink shoulders and a dazzling milky white, seducing the eyes of most men Deny also stared there, but his eyes were full of jealousy and envy.

Lucien looked at the blonde man and said with a smile: "Arten, keep the image of an elegant and steady nobleman. I don't want others to think that members of our Gorefresh family like to yell at banquets, without any aristocratic demeanor."

"You..." Alten's eyes narrowed. In the past few years, Borak, who had been timid or angry, dared to speak out sarcastic words directly. Duda said it was indeed correct. He had really changed a lot!

So Alten squeezed out a smile: "Dear cousin, it is useless to have aristocratic demeanor. Our glory comes from our bloodlines and cannot inspire our own bloodlines. We don't even have the qualifications to imitate aristocratic demeanor. Moreover, you don't know how to paint oil, don't understand music, don't play piano, don't know poetry, don't know all the elegant art. What's the difference between you and ordinary citizens on the street? No, there is a big difference, at least many of them know one musical instrument!"

When Borac was in high spirits, he visited other noble children and attended various banquets. He had no time to learn art. After being overtaken by Alten, he was completely immersed in knight training. Unexpectedly, the more anxious he was, the less he could not achieve his goal. Instead, he was ridiculed by many nobles as rude barbarians!

Lucien attended the banquet just to keep Borak's habits and not be seen through by the old guys. He had no interest in this boring "fighting game". Moreover, according to the gloomy character that Borak developed in recent years, he would definitely hide the strength of the knights in order to maximize his interests in the underground palace. So he just smiled and shook his head: "The winner is the one who can go to the end."

"Is that so? My dear cousin, I heard that you have been to the underground black market recently and must have obtained some good things, so you seem so confident, but the help from external forces is always just external forces, and you can't go further." Alten deliberately revealed that he had mastered Borak's whereabouts, making himself look confident and majestic.

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

Looking at Joselin who blushed and bowed his head, Lucien suddenly had a strange idea. A truly "wisdom" lady would probably make herself a strong man, and then knock out the man she liked unconsciously and drag it back.

As Lucien was thinking about what attitude to face this situation, he could look like Borac, the hall suddenly became quiet. A blond girl in a white lace-edged evening dress, as pure and beautiful as an elf. She was not tall, elegant and lively, and behind her was a woman in a black long dress like an old nanny.

"Welcome to my banquet, Princess Sophia." Deni stepped forward to greet him and kissed him respectfully.

His Highness the Princess... Lucien found that he had a good relationship with a princess. He met the princess of the Duchy of Vaurit, the princess of the Elf Court, and now he met the princess of the Holy Heils Empire.

Sophia smiled prettyly, "Dney, if you don't play one in person, I don't think you welcome me from the bottom of your heart."

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

Lucien almost vomited, his eyes raised slightly, and suddenly collided with the old lady's eyes.

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

"I am very willing to play a song for you, Your Highness, Princess." While Deni was chatting and laughing with the two "good sisters" of Sophia, Alten stood up suddenly, and Joselin's face suddenly became slightly ugly.

As we all know, Princess Sophia is an avid piano lover, but because she does not have the strength of a knight and musical talent, she plays the piano very poorly. At the same time, she is also the second heir to the empire, a fifth-level blood warlock, and countless noble children are pursuing her.

Deni was stunned. He was just joking, and Sophia's clear and green eyes were no longer visible, and she smiled gracefully: "I'm looking forward to your performance, Alten."

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

Lucien couldn't help but rub his forehead. Isn't this "Dedicated to Sylvia"?

Soon, the music ended, and the nobles present applauded. Although Alten was not good at music, it was very easy to play a piano piece well with the control ability and special training of the Great Knight. Whether or not they can integrate emotions to reach a high level is another matter.

Seeing Princess Sophia showing a beautiful and satisfying smile and her green eyes were crystal clear and dreamy, Alten stood up proudly and bowed, and then looked at Borac provocatively, look, you, a rude barbarian, even if you become the Duke of the Plantain, will embarrass the family.

Lucien thought about the impulsive reaction that Borak should have, then stood up with a smile, saluted Sophia and said, "Your Highness, can you improvise a song for you?"

"You?" Deni and Alten spoke in surprise at the same time, suspecting that they had been hit by an illusion.

Sophia's shocked expression flashed away, and she kept the royal family's elegant expression and smiled: "I was really surprised. I didn't expect you to stand up, but if Borac you can also play beautiful piano music, then I will be full of confidence in myself. Can you give confidence?"

His eyes were flowing, his pink lips were lightly opened, and his fragrance was slightly exposed. No one seemed to be able to resist her charm.

"Please listen carefully with your highness, Princess." Lucien had something to do with her and had no feelings about her amazing charm. He smiled and turned around and walked to the front of the piano, pressed his hands on the black keys, and then jumped gently.

A beautiful melody with obvious improvisation rang leisurely, Deni opened his mouth wide, unable to believe that this was a rude barbarian, while Alten's face turned pale, suspected that Borak might have gained benefits in the black market, and perhaps with the strength of a cavalier?

At the end of the music, Sophia smiled and applauded gracefully: "I am full of confidence in myself again, Borac, I didn't expect you to have excellent musical talent as well."

Walking to Sophia, Lucien smiled politely, "I have a secret about this."

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

Lucien said gentlemanly: "Of course, but only tell your princess you."

The other nobles around him clearly saw that this bastard was trying to get close to the princess, but they could only watch it for the time being. What's the secret?

Sophia turned her head and smiled and said, "I can't wait."

Lucien leaned into her ear and whispered: "If you only play the black keys, you can also pretend to be able to play the piano with your Royal Highness."

"Puff..." Sophia thought about it carefully and burst out laughing. Her smile was as beautiful as a flower blooming, which attracted Alten and others to glare at Lucien.

Since the black key is equivalent to the five-tone mode, there are no complex and rugged notes, any improvisation will have a more classical melody. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation.)

ps: It's a little late, change it first and then change it
Chapter completed!