Five o'clock in the evening, back area of ​​the palace.

This place is more like the core inner city of the royal city than a royal palace. After five o'clock in the afternoon, the front area where the royal palace is located has a curfew. On the contrary, the back city of the royal palace starts to become lively.

The luxury rail train moved smoothly. The last two carriages of the three-car rail train were fully occupied. There was a round table in the first carriage. The shading layer of the windows had been lowered. Warm-colored lights were reflected on the round table. There were a total of five people sitting around the round table.

It's a card game with a relaxed atmosphere.

Grand Commander Litanvig.

One of the three ministers, Minister Villiam.

Assistant Prime Minister Enmu.

Imperial Special Affairs Department Minister Kuculin White Night.

Grand Prince Baratheon St. Adez.

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Needless to say, the Grand Commander-in-Chief and the Assistant Minister Enmu are the old king's right-hand men respectively. When it comes to power, the Assistant Minister is even higher. He is the representative of the old king on many occasions.

The commander-in-chief is over two and a half meters tall, with an aura like a hawk's eyes and a lion's face. Those who are not mentally strong enough will not dare to meet his eyes.

The assistant prime minister is a fat, middle-aged man with a smile. He has followed the old king for decades. If he comes from a royal family, he is likely to be the next king.

Minister Wiliam has a sharp aura and is just over three meters tall. He does not give the impression of being strong or bulky, but rather powerful, like a lonely beast that has been lost in the darkness for many years.

Compared with these three people, the eldest prince's aura is much worse. He often turns the hand with the ring, which means that he seems calm, but in fact he is nervous inside. His appearance is very similar to that of the old king when he was young. He inherited the old king's aura.

The king's handsomeness does not have the feeling that although he is young, he is deeply hidden.

The 30-year-old prince seems not yet ready to inherit his father's throne, even though he is now the only legal heir to the empire and has six sons and four daughters. Regardless of personal ability, he is the first choice to inherit the throne.

The card game being played now is somewhat similar to Texas Hold'em, but the cards are different. After a few games, Su Xiao got started.

Next to him is a pile of soul coins. Each coin has a denomination of 100, which is one circle larger than the normal soul coins. It is notarized by the Void Tree. Yes, the chips in this game are soul coins. This makes Su Xiao have a deep understanding of this world.

The treasure troves of all major forces are more confident.

Su Xiao threw out a soul coin with a face value of 100. His current total net worth only left 2,900 soul coins, but it didn't matter. Someone was deliberately losing money today, and that was the Prime Minister Enmu. At 4:30 in the afternoon, Su Xiao picked up

At the invitation, the youngest daughter of the Prime Minister, Enmu, will be 17 years old this year and will hold a coming-of-age ceremony.

This coming-of-age ceremony has been held one after another half a month ago, but tonight is the official dinner. The real purpose of Assistant Prime Minister Enmu's invitation to Su Xiao is certainly not something that seems important but is actually not important.

His purpose is to introduce the new minister of the "Empire Special Affairs Department" to the eldest prince to ensure that the eldest prince gets more support.

The eldest prince sitting next to him nervously picked up the goblet and took a sip of the wine. He was very nervous now and felt that he had messed up. Uncle Enmu had already said hello in advance that his mission today was

Just lose, lose more to the new minister. Although the game is not big, it is a good attitude.

And Uncle Enmu has clearly told him that he should be regarded as the top powerful person in the hierarchy of the Soul Clock Tower and the Lord of the Clock Tower, the Mechanicum and the Three Pillar Gods, and the Grand Elder of the Rune Family.

to treat.

This made the eldest prince pay more attention to this card game. In the carriage, the eldest prince quietly wiped the sweat from his temples. He did not sweat from sweating, but sweated from winning. He was going to lose to the minister today. The problem was, just now

In a deck of cards, everyone chooses not to open the cards. As for cheating, everyone's perception is stronger than the one present. Whoever is caught cheating will be really embarrassed.

When the cards were finally opened, only Su Xiao and the eldest prince were still on the field. This made the eldest prince very nervous and worried that his cards were too big. But after turning over the cards with only mixed colors 344, the eldest prince felt relieved and felt

This situation is stable.

However, when Mr. Minister on the other side turned over a mixed card of 334, the eldest prince's eyes almost widened and he almost exclaimed, can he win?

Next, a funny situation arises. The eldest prince who really wants to lose to Su Xiao must make sure that when the cards are finally drawn, Su Xiao has not folded yet, so if Su Xiao follows, he also follows, and Su Xiao does not follow.

, he did not follow either, resulting in a situation where the eldest prince was almost chasing Su Xiao to win.

The big prince won this game. There was sweat on his forehead. The organizer, Mr. Assistant Prime Minister, was stunned by the victory. The grand commander Litanweg had always remained serious, but the imperial sword really wanted to laugh at this moment.

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"Excuse me, I need to go to the toilet."

Minister Villiam stood up, and it could be seen from the crazy twitching corners of his mouth that he was holding back. After a while, unbridled laughter came from the bathroom next door.

When the card game ended, Su Xiao only had 500 soul coins left on hand. The eldest prince across the card table was hopeless. Assistant Prime Minister Enmu said with a smile:

"What a hearty card game."

Commander-in-Chief Litanvig glanced at the eldest prince, shook his head and chuckled. The eldest prince wanted to say something, but was pushed back by Minister Viliam.

"Silly boy, if Bai Ye accepts the invitation and comes here, it means he will support you. Don't worry, your uncle is teasing you."

Minister Viliam spoke. As one of the three ministers, he was supposed to be one of the agents of the Abyss race, the Rune family. However, Minister Viliam was actually a confidant of the old king.

If it is other forces, they must have noticed this. As for the Rune family, it is not that they are unable to find out, but they do not care. This is Rune, the absolute survival of the fittest.

The Luen family has one great elder, three elders, and ten rookies, and the rest are ordinary people.

If you want to become a member of the Rune Family, you don't even need to be from the Abyss. You only need to find a member of the Rune Family, challenge it, kill it, and seize its cause and effect on the Rune Family's "original emblem"

If you don't want to become a family member, there are only two results.

1. Escape from this world.

2. Wait for a member of the Rune family to come and fight to the death until he is killed by a member of the rune family.

Don't think that the Rune family is just obsessed with fighting to the death. If there is no check and balance from the other two major forces in this world, then the Rune family will build a huge colosseum. All the wise gods in this world will either come here to fight or be defeated by the Rune family.

The members are hunted as food until only the Rune family members are left in the world. They will enter the angry beast stage and start to devour the world.

When the world they are in is devoured until it begins to collapse, the Rune family will go to the next hunting ground, that is, the next world, to continue their deadly battle and hunting.

The Doukain family is enslavement, and the Rune family is destruction.

At half past five that night, in the banquet hall on the second floor of Birch Manor.

Amidst the soothing music, there were whispered conversations, or the laughter of ladies in the same circle. The faint smell of tobacco, mixed with the smell of alcohol, made a girl in a formal evening dress feel secretly uncomfortable, but

The education she received since childhood allowed her to remain humble and polite.

"Father~"

Kulea called softly. The Assistant Prime Minister also knew that his precious daughter was mildly allergic to the smell of tobacco. He picked up the wine glass and whispered for his daughter to follow him into a small hall connected to the banquet hall.

When she first entered the small hall, Kulea was choked by the smoke and almost couldn't take a breath. After she tried to take a few breaths, she felt a little dizzy.

Seeing this scene, the old smoker, Minister Villiam, put out the thick cigar in his hand. After Kurea initially adapted, she quietly observed the people sitting there. Among them, she only recognized the eldest prince, Baratheon.

His Royal Highness is a frequent visitor to his home.

But today, Kureiya keenly discovered that His Highness the Prince, who used to talk naturally and had a royal aura, seemed a little nervous today. This made Kureia secretly think that the few here must be difficult to deal with normally.

The big shots I met.

After being introduced by her father, Kulea first greeted the Grand Commander Litanvig and gave her elder salute. The Grand Commander took out a small box.

"Don't be formal. Although it's your first time meeting me, little girl, your father and I have been good friends since childhood. I have been too busy these years and have neglected the growth of the little princesses."

Commander-in-Chief Litanweg picked up the wine glass, clinked a glass with his assistant, and drank it down while looking at each other in silence.

Kulea took the opportunity to observe the elder carefully, because she felt that the elder's name sounded familiar and looked familiar. Suddenly, she thought why it looked familiar. She had seen it in the newspaper. This was actually the commander-in-chief.

Litanweg, an official several ranks senior to his father.

Obviously, this little princess does not know that although her father's official position is not at the top of the empire, his actual status is extremely high. In her impression, her father's highest position is that of the teacher of His Highness the Prince. The problem is that His Highness the Prince has not yet

Succession.

Just when everyone was chatting happily, a drop of black liquid fell from above and fell into Su Xiao's wine glass. The minister Viliam who was sitting next to him held up the wine glass for a moment without disturbing the others.

He said to Lidya Su calmly:

"Bai Ye, are you in trouble?"

"Not really."

"Need a hand?"

"No need for now, thank you."

"Haha, we are all our own people, don't be so polite."

After Minister Viliam finished speaking, he gave a symbolic toast to Su Xiao, and then drank it all in one gulp.

"Hmm."

Su Xiao spoke in a low voice, and the Assistant Prime Minister En Mu heard the sound and patted the shoulder of the person next to him, indicating that he had something to do and wanted to go away. He came to Su Xiao and whispered:

"What's the matter, Mr. Baiye?"

"I have something to do, let's go first."

"Okay, send someone to take you off?"

"Need not."

Su Xiao got up and was escorted by the Prime Minister to the courtyard. The courtyard was brightly lit and some young men and women attending the banquet were holding a party here. It was very lively.

Just as Su Xiao was about to get into the vehicle, she noticed a man with dark red hair and multiple golden earrings on his right ear. The man's aura could be said to be weird and hidden.

Their eyes met, and the red-haired man grinned, revealing a mouth full of shark teeth.
To be continued...