Chapter 93 The Banquet Before the War
During lunch, the new news brought to Shaoke by the soldiers who delivered the meal was that new mages would join the mage team in this courtyard in the afternoon, so a banquet was needed to welcome these new mages in the evening, because they were different from the mages who transferred from other fortresses.
The dinner was held as scheduled, and there was no such thing as Shaoko and the others when they first came. Sitting in a corner, Shaoko found that there had been a lot of more female mages at the banquet, and there was also a team of three or five men and women mixed with scholars.
"Master Xueye, I didn't expect that we have been here for a year." This time, Master Roland did not take the lead to invite the female mages to have a conversation, but instead came to Shaoko with a sigh. "These mages are so unlucky. The war is coming, and they are here too."
"I think we are even more unlucky, Master Roland." Shaoke found that there were a lot more mages this time, but most of them were second-level mages, and only a few third-level mages sat aside and chatted with their companions. After scanning the circle, Shaoke did not find the mage he saw at the banquet. He estimated that the other party might have gone to perform a mission.
The new mage had more than a hundred people this time, including several female mages. After carefully examining the group of newly arrived mages, Master Roland pointed at a few of them and said, "They should be from nobles, and I really don't understand why they got into this courtyard."
"These are not what we care about." Shaoke smiled, "You should think about how to invite those female mages to dance in a while." Shaoke said as he found that several female mages came in outside the door again, the leader of the Roman Mage with formal gray hair. Shaoke had also seen several female mages around her, all of whom were familiar with third-level mages in the tavern.
"Look! Your female mage is here, hurry up and invite her. I think her companions are happy to follow her." Master Roland had a lot of ideas about the female mages who often stayed in the tavern, but after several failed to catch up, he discovered that Shaoke quickly chatted with several other mages with a familiar relationship with one of the female mages, which made him very jealous.
Shaoko shook his head, "They should have something to do and will not come."
Master Roland was about to refute, but found that the female mages, as Shaoke said, were watching the surrounding mages, heading straight towards the third-level male mages, "It seems that we are not people of the same level at all, and we can't communicate at all!" Master Roland complained a little.
Perhaps because the war is coming, the long-term suppression has made the mages indulge in this banquet. Shaoke even found that some mages were already drunk with their wine glasses. Some famous mages and his companions kept entangling the new female mages, which made the other party’s companions a little annoyed and the two sides had a dispute.
"Master Xueye, I think I should go up and persuade them. I can't treat female mages so rudely here. They simply lost all the face of the mage." Master Roland couldn't bear to see it anymore. He held the staff and ignored Shao Ke's persuasion and went over to talk to the mages with intention to vent. As a result, it can be imagined that Master Roland soon joined the quarrel.
The quarrel attracted the attention of all the mages attending the banquet. It may be because the long-term invisible pressure caused the mages to need a way to vent. Most mages sat there quietly watching the quarrel between the two sides, and only a few scattered mages went over to persuade them to go.
As the quarrel escalated, Shaoko discovered that Roman Mage took her companions over to talk to the mages. Shaoko did not hear what they were saying. Suddenly, Master Roland raised the staff in his hand. The strong spell fluctuations made all the mages nervous. The chaotic quarrel disappeared, and the whole banquet suddenly calmed down.
"You should not insult a regular female mage here, especially they will become our companions." The excited voice of Master Roland made all the mages around him hear it. Shaoko felt that Master Roland, who was usually laughing, was very excited, and hurriedly walked over with his staff.
"Isn't it just a female mage? I feel that there is no need for us to argue about this issue, and this kind of thing happens often in the imperial capital!" The male mage who teased the female mage shook his head, and he was very puzzled by the excitement of Master Roland's sudden entry.
"This mage, please go back to your seat." Mage Roman tightened his face and raised his staff to give the mage in front of him a new suggestion. "If you are inviting the other party to agree, no matter what you do, no one will stop you. This is the front line, not the desolate border where you are stationed."
The mage was also very young. The staff in his hand made Shaoke feel more precious than the staff of the female mage. Several gems were inlaid with the entire staff body. The magical text outlined by the golden crystal flashed from time to time, and a magic array slowly turned from the crystal at the top, but I don’t know how many levels it was.
Some mages watched and were all mages who originally belonged to this fortress. When they saw outsiders bullying the mages who were about to belong to their side, they became a little angry. After the mage who was killed by Shaoke last time did this kind of thing at the banquet, they didn't expect that the same thing happened again today. They were very similar to teaching this outsider who didn't understand the rules here.
"Are you just a few second-level female mages? It's okay to let us communicate!" The mage saw more and more mages watching, and they all supported these new female mages, so he became a little worried, "I don't know what rules here are different from other places."
"The female mage here has a much higher status than the male mage. I think you should understand this explanation! Don't place the rules of the imperial capital here. How long have you not talked to the female mages? Wouldn't you look for those maids?" Master Roland viciously damaged the other party's rude behavior just now and quickly found a perfect solution for him.
The mages were very embarrassed to apologize to the famous female mages for their behavior just now, and hurriedly left the banquet. They did not want other mages to laugh at here.
A storm caused by long-term depression quickly subsided. After Master Roland signaled to Shaoke, who was watching on the side, he had a passionate conversation with the new mages. However, Shaoke still felt that his main target of conversation was those beautiful female mages.
The mages dispersed and the banquet returned to normal again. Master Roman found Shaoke who was about to turn around and left with sharp eyes. He quickly rushed over and said, "Master Xueye, what are you hiding from me? Why do you avoid me when you see me?" Master Roman was very dissatisfied with Shaoke's behavior just now, so he continued to pick on his fingers: "Why haven't you been to the tavern for so long? Don't you have enough money to pay for the wine? I'm still thinking about introducing you to a few female mages!"
Shaoke pointed to his original position and said to Master Roman and her companions: "Let's talk there." As he said that, he brought the female mages back to their original position under the envious eyes of some mages.
"I was about to see you, but I found that you seemed to have something to talk to those mages, so I didn't go there." Shaoke defended himself a little, and then looked at Master Roman and her companions with some voluntarily.
"Haha" the female mages didn't care about Shaoke's presumptuous observations at all. A female mage with short silver-gray hair even straightened her body so that the figure under the wide robe could be more revealed.
"Okay, Master Xueye, I have something to tell you this time." Master Roman put away his smile, swept the surrounding situation, lowered his voice and leaned down in Shaoko's ear, "In a few days, the war will really break out. You must be prepared. I don't want the Blizzard Legion to make a mistake after paying so many medicines in vain. There are many such things, I wish you good luck." After that, he leaned on the chair, picked up the wine prepared by his companions for her, and tasted it with the female masters.
After Shaoke felt that the warm breath of Master Roman disappeared, he remembered the new news that the other party had just told, "Master Roman, you shouldn't have told me, this puts more pressure on me." Shaoke couldn't help but touch the ear that the female mage approached just now, as if he was trying to rub the breath left by the other party.
Shaoke's answer received no answer except for the laughter of the female mages around him.
The banquet that lasted for a long time finally began the highlight. As more and more female mages arrived, the mages finally decided to invite female mages to dance, and Master Roland was the first to take action. A female mage who had just been rescued by him happily accepted Master Roland's invitation and jumped up to the music lightly.
Fortunately, there were still some female mages, which made the mages who did not invite their dance partners in time calm down and wait for the start of a new round of invitations.
Several of the companions of Master Roman were also invited by those third-level mages. Master Roman smiled at Shaoko, "What, don't you want to invite me to dance?" As he said that, he looked back at his companions who had already started to dance with the music, and then extended his hand to Shaoko.
Shaoke hid his cold little hand and said awkwardly: "I...I can't dance, Master Roman."
After hearing the reason why Shaoko was hesitant, Master Roman burst into laughter, "You should learn to dance. No matter what the purpose is, I think few female mages are willing to have detailed conversations with a male mage who can't dance and understand."
Shaoko opened his mouth and didn't know what to say for a moment. He just grabbed Master Roman's little hand in a daze, and suddenly remembered Francis in his mind, "It's impossible! I feel that we mages are actually not suitable for dancing. Look, they are all wearing such robes. I think it should be more suitable after changing their clothes."
Master Roman gently pulled back his little hand, shook his head and smiled, "But we are now in service! We are not allowed to change other clothes at all, well! In fact, there are many beautiful robes, but this requires you to reach the fifth level or after you become a wandering wizard, you can wear your own exquisite robes."
Master Roman originally wanted to let Shaoko learn to dance with her, but Shaoko refused. He had no interest in dancing at all, but he just liked to watch people dance.
When a second-level mage boldly invited Romain to dance, Shaoke quietly left the banquet. He wanted to work hard for his strength before the war came.
Chapter completed!