Chapter 263: Masquerade

The ball takes place at 9 p.m. in the Hall of the Guardians, and it's a costume party with a twist. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Masquerade Party, as the name suggests, is when everyone at the dance party wears a mask or paints makeup. This is not common in the Kingdom of Abidjan, but it is not uncommon either.

One of the two most famous chants of the Valley of the Dawn of the Dawn, Sterrow the Elder wrote in his long hymn Faust: "I take this long-awaited masquerade with a veil and a headdress studded with fake diamonds. I know this will be my only chance to finally walk gently towards me, driving away Cinderella's inferiority, in a familiar yet unfamiliar confrontation with you. ”

Facing you familiar but unfamiliar - this is the most attractive part of the masquerade, a small mask, or a thick makeup, will cover the familiar face, giving both parties a strange kind of stimulation. I have to say that many nobles just like this kind of tone

However, Leitch's situation is a bit peculiar, as the champion of the athletic tournament, he may be the only one at the entire ball to show his true face.

"This is for you! For the sake of helping your aunt and grandmother to take the first successful step towards realizing her great dream of becoming a rich woman, there is also your aunt and grandmother rewarding you—" As she spoke, Isabel stretched out her white jade index finger with a smug expression.

"Ten thousand gold coins?" said Retche with a look of hope.

"Ten thousand gold coins, you want money crazy! It's a gold coin!" Seeing Leitch's disappointed expression, Isabel immediately smashed his fist on his chest in anger, but the corners of her eyes were full of smiles.

It was only then that Isabel noticed that Leitch was dressed a little strangely tonight - pure black, looking very clean and neat, the upper half of the body was like a gown, but there was a swallowtail of silk hanging down at the back, but it was such a strange costume, not only did it not look ugly on Leitch, but it exuded a strange charm, which made Isabel's nerves obviously a little thick and stunning--in fact, it was a tuxedo.

This tuxedo was made by Leitch in the Sky Dome to find a tailor, but I have to say that the tailor's craftsmanship is quite good, and the tuxedo he made completely meets Leitch's requirements. However, the materials used in this tuxedo are also extremely expensive, taken from the spider silk of a highly poisonous demon spider in the Scarlet Wasteland, and its value is more than 100 times that of the same weight of gold! So the materials for this tuxedo alone cost Leqi 64 gold coins! plus the manual fee, this tuxedo cost Leqi 00 gold coins!

00 gold coins are equivalent to the price of a tabula rasa bronze-level weapon, if you think that this price is low, then you can only think that your vision is too high, like an ordinary family of three The cost of a year is only one or two gold coins! Of course, 00 gold coins are indeed nothing in the aristocracy known for their luxury.

"You're dressed so aggressively, you can't be those hooves who are going to the ball?" Isabel said in a tone of utter disdain, as she looked Leitch up and down.

Lei Qi couldn't help but laugh when he heard this: "Who do you think of me? I just want to take the opportunity to promote this kind of dress, and by the way, I will start the reputation of the Chamber of Commerce." ”

In his opinion, if a chamber of commerce wants to become bigger and stronger, it must establish its own core brand, at least as soon as people use a certain item, they will associate it with the Black Wind Chamber of Commerce, and the brand, in many cases, represents the attraction of goods to customers.

As for why it's a tuxedo, it can be said that it was completely a whim. It's not that the dresses of the Valley of the Dawn are not pretty, on the contrary, the dresses of each region are quite distinctive, but the new and different things are human and beautiful, and they always arouse the interest of many people. And Leitch's purpose is to arouse the interest of these nobles, and even detonate a fashion frenzy!

The Hall of the Guardians is located at the highest point of the Celestial Vault, and it is rumored that the golden coffin containing the remains of the Troll King Mastag is located in the Hall of the Guardians. Holding a ball in the hall with the coffin has to be said that at first Leech did feel very strange in his heart, but most of the nobles who participated in the ball this time were from the Kingdom of Abidjan, and even if they were not all believers in the Troll King, at least they would have admiration, so the Hall of the Guardians was undoubtedly a sacred place in their eyes, and it was a great honor for them to be able to hold a ball here!

There will be a large number of nobles attending the masquerade ball tonight, which will undoubtedly put the entire Celestial Dome Fortress into a state of high alert, especially in the area of the Guardian Hall, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is five steps and one post, ten steps and one sentry, and all the people Reich has seen along the way are heavily armed guardians of the Holy Sepulchre.

The Guardians of the Holy Sepulchre are chosen from the valiant Blood-Streaked Warriors, but their fighting style is more light-armor - dark black Sacrament robes chain mail, dark black Sepulchre hood, and their standard weapons are the Sepulchre Sword, Sepulchre Shield, and Sepulchre Logo.

And from the perspective of the realm, the guardians of the Holy Sepulchre who are responsible for guarding the various traffic arteries and standing guard are all fourth-order blood map warriors! It can be said that they are no worse than the Thunderman Knights of the Thunderman Knights!

I have to explain here that the knights who have left their names on the continent all have extremely strict ranks. In the case of the Thunderman Knights, it is divided into Thunderman recruits, Thunderman elites, Thunderman servants and Thunderman knights, among which the Thunderman recruits are first-order warriors, the Thunderman elites are second-order demon slayers, Lei Manhu is a third-order demon sealer, and the Thunderman knights are fourth-order sworn warriors!

However, the Thunderman Knights we usually mention, in fact, only include the two parts of Thunderman Knights and Thunder Manhu, and the total number is about 30,000, of which Lei Manhu is from 20,000 and Thunderman Knight is 10,000. Such a strict hierarchy not only guarantees the combat effectiveness of the Knights, but also ensures the loyalty of the Knights, and it is the most trusted core force of the Bartley family! So don't look at what kind of Black Wind Knights Leitch has also created, but in the eyes of those famous knights, it is just a joke at all; they don't even need to use the elites of the subordinate rank and the knight level, they have absolute confidence to defeat Leitch's Black Wind Knights with the same number of recruits and elites!

Therefore, army reform is imperative for the Black Wind Territory, otherwise don't look at the number of troops under Leqi's command has increased by more than ten times, but in fact it looks bloated, and neither combat effectiveness nor loyalty can be guaranteed! Once the opportunity comes, Leqi will definitely carry out drastic reforms to the army under his command!

The Hall of the Guardians is located at the highest point of the Celestial Dome, and at the top of it is a semi-circular shrine with a circle of 40 window openings at the bottom of the vault, which is very similar to the Hagia Sophia on Earth. Entering the Hall of the Guardians, it is not difficult to find that the top of the hall is dome-style, and the dome is engraved with a large depiction of Magattas who has educated mortals all over the continent after becoming the world's first blood-streaked warrior, and the area of the Hall of the Guardians is undoubtedly very large, otherwise it would not be possible to hold a ball with thousands of people at the same time - 79 meters long and 79 meters wide!

As for why it is two seventy-nine, legend has it that this means that Magtas has twice stepped into the seventh-order peak in one body - the nine-star great sage, the ninth-level blood warrior, but many believers are deeply skeptical and dissatisfied with this definition, because they firmly believe that the great troll king, whether it is on the path of a mage or the blood-streaked warrior system, the distance he has walked far beyond the seventh-order peak has stepped into the realm that is only limited to legends!

The whole hall is resplendent with gold, and the golden walls are paved with gold, but it does not give people a vulgar feeling at all, but shows an indescribable grandeur. At the innermost point of the hall is a small built-in platform, like a compressed version of a flat-topped pyramid. At the top of the tower stands a small portal of rebirth, but this one is carved out of a blood-colored crystal that looks similar to the one used in the ancient portal in the Grey Swamp ramparts, but it flows with a dark blue liquid.

The small Gate of Rebirth emitted a soft magical glow on both sides, forming a reddish, transparent magical shield, and within the magic shield lay a heavy golden coffin - undoubtedly the golden coffin containing Magnus's remains!

The entire Hall of the Guardians, apart from the tower-shaped platform for the golden coffin and the small Gate of Rebirth, has no superfluous buildings, and the worshippers who are allowed to come on pilgrimage by the Guardians of the Holy Sepulchre sit cross-legged on the ground. Although it was not half past eight at this time, the Hall of the Guardians was full of aristocrats dressed in different costumes, and each of them wore a fancy mask on their faces. The unconventional Leitch walked into the hall and immediately attracted the attention of countless people, especially when he recognized that the person was the champion of the athletic conference, Viscount Black Wind, these people's eyes undoubtedly became more and more intense - of course, men are naturally jealous, while women are a strange **

The biggest charm of the masquerade ball is that no one can recognize who is who, which undoubtedly gives endless courage to those young ladies who usually maintain a dignified presence in front of people, no, as soon as Leitch walked into the hall, there were countless female nobles dressed in fancy clothes from all directions to Leitch, and soon, Lord Viscount Leitch was overwhelmed by a sea of milk

"Giggles, Your Excellency the Viscount is really dressed tonight!" a female noblewoman wrapped her arms around Richie's arm, and rubbed her choppy twin peaks vigorously, and her voice was even more indescribably coquettish.

A man with a red veil on his hand stretched out his jade fingers and slid them on Leqi's solid chest, teasing inexplicably, "Can you have the honor of inviting Your Excellency the Viscount to dance?"

Suddenly, Leitch felt his crotch being grabbed hard, and then an irrepressible exclamation rang out—"Wow—"

His Excellency the Viscount's expression suddenly looked a little embarrassed, and the atmosphere became a little strange

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