The first stage of the engagement ceremony was held in the banqueting hall of the main building of the Duke's Palace, and there were so many guests who received the invitations that the banquet hall was so full that only a red-carpeted passage was left that led from the door to the ceremonial table where the ceremony was held.

Jacques and Lily were also in the crowd at this time, and because of the high registration of invitations, the two of them were placed in the first row closest to the ceremony table.

Sitting next to Jacques was a middle-aged man with a slightly chubby and bald head and a smile on his face, and as soon as he sat down, he took the initiative to reach out and shake Jacques's hand: "Hello sir, I am Viscount Carson Media, and I am Atami's Media family." ”

Jacques was not familiar with nobles other than Casstilla, but this person was a viscount, and he was able to sit in the first row, and his status was not ordinary, so he also reached out and shook hands politely with Viscount Medea: "My name is Jacques Reno. It's a pleasure to meet you. ”

Jacques didn't feel the need to hide his identity, anyway, he would go to the imperial capital tomorrow.

Carson Media thought about it, and couldn't remember which Renault, this young man didn't introduce the title, it seemed that he was just a young disciple of the family, but he could sit in the front row, and his identity must be unusual.

After a moment's hesitation, Carson and Jacques chatted about hunting. Hunting was a favorite activity of the Saxon aristocracy and one of their favorite topics to talk about, second only to gossip about cheating.

However, Jacques did not like hunting, and was not familiar with the hunting grounds and hunting traditions of Saxony, so he could not answer at all, so he had to respond simply in a few words.

"Hey, Ya...... , Haha, I heard that you arrived before, but I couldn't find you everywhere......" Hill, who was walking by, saw Jacques and immediately came up to greet him.

"Well, I was called in to talk about something. Jacques replied vaguely.

Hill thought that Jacques had gone to see the second prince or Claudia in advance, and it was not convenient to ask more questions here, so he said: "When the ceremony is over, I will look for you, there is a ball in the Duke's Palace tonight, I will take you to participate." ”

"Okay, after the ceremony, let's talk about it together. "Jacques had little interest in the so-called balls.

Hill left, and Viscount Media felt that the young man next to him was even more mysterious, and it seemed that he had a lot to do with Hill, the eldest prince of Dongting Firm.

"Where does the little brother come from?" Viscount Media still did not give up, isn't it just to participate in the prince's engagement ceremony to socialize, and this young man next to him is definitely worth befriending.

"New World, I'm from New World. Jacques replied.

"Oh, I heard that there is a war going on in the New World! The barbarians of the Kingdom of Light are very cruel......"

Music sounded, interrupting the Viscount's conversation, and the ceremony was about to begin.

......

At the same time, in the small hall next to the ballroom.

François, dressed in a slim-fitting military uniform with a vertical collar, stood straight in the center of the room, his collar and belt were decorated with gold silk threads, and the slightly loose breeches-style black military trousers, tucked in knee-high boots, accentuated the figure of the second prince even more tall and straight.

The door was opened by two waiters, and the Marquis Schweig took Claudia by the hand and walked into the room.

Claudia's gown was an elegant white slip-on dress with a straight neckline, lace lining at the cuffs, and pointed-toe white heels looming between her steps.

Coming to François, the Marquis de Schweig raised his hand to give him Claudia's hand.

However, the Marquis stopped in the final stage: "François,...... François, I remember the first time I saw you, when you hung yourself upside down from the weeping willows of the Châlais Royal, trying to catch the fish in the river. By the time I see you for the second time, you'll be a big man, single-handedly taking on an adult silverback ape in the arena.

However, in any case, I never thought that you would become my son-in-law. ”

"I'll make Claudia happy, trust me, father-in-law!"

Claudia also glared at her father coquettishly, looking very anxious.

Marquis Schweig noticed his daughter's expression, sighed, and said, "If you don't stay, if you stay, you will become an enemy." With that, he handed his daughter to François.

"By the way......" asked the Marquis of Schweiger, "the Emperor...... That one...... Is Your Majesty really not attending the ceremony?"

François said: "My father has left, and now he is probably on his way back to the imperial capital." ”

"Are you in such a hurry? I didn't even attend the engagement ceremony......" Seeing the couple leave, the marquis naturally muttered to himself.

The music in the hall was melodious, and François took Claudia in his arms and walked down the red carpet towards the ceremonial stage.

A little porcelain doll-like girl with a bouquet of white flowers in her hand emerges from the crowd and runs briskly towards Claudia, holding the bouquet high in both hands and offering it to Claudia.

Claudia smiled sweetly, took the bouquet, and bent down to caress the little girl's cheek.

The host began to read the testimony of the engagement in a magnetic voice, and I don't know which literary master wrote it, and the testimony was written so eloquently that many women in the hall cried.

As time slowly passed, the engagement ceremony proceeded step by step.

The guests were quiet, except for the crisp and long music, which was the slow tone of the host.

The host lifted the flask on the small table, poured wine from a row of small porcelain cups on the table, and handed one glass to François and another to Claudia.

The two of them saluted their parents, relatives and friends respectively, and finally drank a glass of wine.

At this point, the ceremony was nearing its end, and the guests in the audience gave a standing ovation to celebrate the marriage, which will be held in the imperial capital in a month's time.

As François has risen in status over the years, and has held real power in several important departments, coupled with this marriage, it is believed that it may not be long before His Majesty the Emperor will announce François's succession.

During the thunderous applause, Jacques suddenly received a warning from Fat Orange, and following the direction pointed by Fat Orange, Jacques turned to observe that it was the corridor on the third floor, where the band was located.

"In which direction did the Emperor feel a strange energy fluctuation!" Fat Orange warned Jacques as he ran down the third floor corridor of the banquet hall towards the suspicious location.

Jacques, on the other hand, hit the spirit, spreading his spiritual power and feeling the abnormalities around him.

Soon, in Jacques's consciousness space, the image of a feathered arrow appeared, Jacques suddenly opened his eyes, looked in the direction of the feathered arrow, and happened to see a flash of yellow, a feathered arrow wrapped in golden energy shot out from the side of the ceremonial platform, heading straight for François.

Jacques grabbed the chair under him and teleported out in the direction of the feather arrow, moving to the direction of the feather arrow's flight while swinging the chair in his hand from the bottom up.

"Bang!"

Under the violent collision, the chair was torn apart, and the golden feather arrow was also knocked away from the original path of the chair, skewed to one side, and finally hit the wall on the other side, blasting a large hole in the wall with a diameter of two meters.

The killer hiding in the small room on the side didn't have time to fire a second arrow, and several guards rushed towards the room, and the sound of a fight ensued.

After a brief moment of panic, the guests in the hall immediately calmed down, and François and Claudia were protected from the other direction by several shield-wielding guards.

A failed assassination.

Just when everyone was rejoicing that the second prince Fu Da's life had been saved from danger, all the transcendents present suddenly felt an inexplicable palpitation, and everyone looked up and looked back in the direction of the source energy fluctuation, and on the corridor on the third floor of the banquet hall, where the accompaniment band was located, a huge energy was gathering. First Chinese Network

From the perspective of Fat Orange, Jacques saw a group of musicians on the corridor on the third floor, slumped to the ground, not knowing whether they were alive or dead, and only a masked man holding a flute pointed at the people on the ceremonial stage.

The flute exudes a terrifying coercion, very similar to the coercion of mental power, although the lethality is not strong, it can shock the people around it, making everyone unable to move, watching the tip of the flute condense energy and prepare for action.

Serial assassinations, with feathered arrows wrapped in energy being the first wave, and a masked man with a flute is responsible for following up on the first wave of assassinations to ensure the completion of the mission.

His flute must be a magical object, extremely powerful, and Jacques believed that if he activated the energy of the tip of the flute, François would not be able to resist or dodge, and he would surely die.

From the time the masked man used the flute, it was actually only two seconds, but everyone was completely unable to respond to the coercion pressed by the condescending pressure.

Except for one person, oh, a cat!

With the strength of the Fat Orange All-Knowing, he had already ignored the coercion of the flute, and when he judged that François could not dodge, and it was even possible that Jacques on the ceremonial stage would be attacked and affected, he finally struck!

In fact, this time he came to the empire, Fat Orange did not move once, on the one hand, once he made a move now, it was the Bright Source Energy Skill, the characteristics were too obvious, and it was difficult to clean up the tail of his hand, on the other hand, since he recovered part of his strength, Fat Orange stepped on the land of the empire again, and there was a faint uneasiness, which made him feel insecure all the time.

So as long as Jacques can deal with the situation, Fat Tangerine has not moved.

Fat Tangerine didn't need to raise his claws at all, and immediately released the fastest source energy technique, the Holy Light Bullet!

The ball of light struck the masked man at high speed.

The masked man was preoccupied with François on the stage of the ceremony, not expecting to be attacked from the side, and according to what he knew about the magical object in his hand, no one in the entire banquet hall would be able to move for half a minute for at least five seconds.

The powerful impact of the light bullet hit his shoulder, and the masked man's body flew out sideways as if he had been hit by a strange beast and bison, and his right shoulder blade was dented, twisting into a strange shape, and finally crashing into the wall.

Only then did Fat Tangerine stretch out his claws, take the flute to his side, open his mouth and take it in his mouth, and was about to leave.

If you do a good deed, you don't leave a name, and you will go away when you do something.

At the moment when Fat Orange made a move, the Colon Obelisk, which was three miles away from the Duke's Palace, suddenly brightened up, and even in the daytime, it looked extremely dazzling.

Anyone in the city who could see the obelisk was attracted by the shiny obelisk at the same time.

The light emitted by the obelisk was not of any other color, but white, dazzlingly white, and translucent.

Then the white light gradually dimmed from the bottom to the top, until the top of the tower also became dim, and the white light was gone.

At that moment, everyone's hearts became empty, as if the white light was extinguished, taking away their hopes, their dreams, and everything about them.

At the same time, everyone in the banquet hall felt this sense of loss at the same time.

Even François, who was assassinated, did not have the feeling of joy and excitement for the rest of his life, and even became lost and helpless.

Only Fat Orange, Jacques, and Lily felt that something was wrong, and it was another kind of mental coercion!

The previous flute released the coercion of deterrence, forcibly restraining the actions of the people around him.

And now this kind of mental power coercion makes people decadent and helpless, and loses their fighting spirit and desire.

"Phew!"

The roof suddenly exploded, and an arm-thick white light fell from the sky, heading straight for Fat Orange.

Fat Tangerine's reaction was extremely sensitive, and with a twist of his body, the cat's body showed a strange horseshoe-shaped bend, still not completely avoiding this white light, and a handful of hair on his body was burned by the white light, and immediately emitted a strange smell.

The white light passed through the third floor of the corridor and reached the ground floor of the banquet hall, piercing the body of an unlucky bastard, and then sinking into the ground, leaving only a black hole in the ground.

The mutation sudden, but everyone in the banquet hall had no desire to escape, and the one who reacted most violently happened to be sitting next to the hapless man who had been cut off in half, and he just fell to the ground, trying to crawl away from the charred corpse with his hands and feet.

"Fat Orange Run!" Jacques, who shared his vision with Fat Orange, looked down the hole in the roof and happened to see the towering obelisk in the sky, and the tip of the obelisk was shining with dazzling white light!

"Phew!"

The second white light hole opened the roof and attacked the fat orange again.

Fat Tangerine dodged again, but it was too late, and one of his hind legs was picked up by the white light, passing by, bringing a piece of flesh with him.

The Obelisk is attacking Fat Orange!

Jacques and Fat Orange are sure of this.

Fat Tangerine is already injured and doesn't know if he will be able to dodge the next attack!

Jacques hurriedly cast the spatial rift, but he was on the stage, with countless pairs of eyes staring at him.

A light gate opened next to Fat Orange, and Fat Orange jumped into the light gate.

The third white light fell, and the light gate had closed and disappeared, and the white light concentrated on the flute on the ground, burning it in half.

After that, there was no fourth white light attacking the Duke's Palace, and everything was back to normal.

On this day, 500,000 citizens of Karen witnessed the obelisk's sudden glow, and then the tip of the obelisk fired three white rays of light at the Duke's palace, where the prince's engagement ceremony was taking place.

People outside the banquet hall didn't know that there had been a series of assassinations inside, and before the news of the assassination of the second prince spread, another more exciting news spread: the second prince angered the obelisk, and the engagement scene was attacked by the obelisk, and the guests at the scene were killed and injured countless times!

The telegraph served as a weapon to spread rumors, which spread thousands of miles to the imperial capital that night.

After repeated investigations at the scene, the Bureau of Investigation finally concluded that the obelisk was attacking the magical object used by the Assassins to attack the second prince, the flute.

After all, by capturing two assassins alive, the Bureau of Investigation was able to find out many clues with some means.

However, all the clues were cut off by the superiors of the two people, and the other party was very professional and left no traces that could be traced at all.

By the time the Investigation Bureau announced the true image, the rumors that the second prince had offended the obelisk had already spread irrepressibly throughout the empire!

Jacques and Fat Tangerine were glad that no one else in the corridor on the third floor saw the white light attacking Fat Tangerine, and the musicians who were originally in the corridor on the third floor were suppressed by the flute and fell into a coma. The assassin was knocked unconscious by Fat Orange's holy light bullets, and he had no idea who had attacked him.

This is also a problem that makes Odoka of the Investigation Bureau scratch his scalp, I don't know who sent the killer, it's okay, the second prince has just a few opponents, and they all take revenge.

But the second assassination attempt could not even find out who rescued him, leaving Odoka so stressed that he couldn't sleep.