032. On the eve of the celebration
"I can't believe that when I saw you again, Adam was already a silver-rank mage. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info" The adult Naga Ali sat in a chair in front of Ya, and given the long snake tail of the Naga, they sat in a similar position to a cross-legged position, with part of the snake tail coiled on the chair and part of it dragging behind the chair. Ellie sat like this, the snake's tail flicking behind her.
"You too, you've got a second pair of arms." The Naga that grew a second pair of arms was definitely an adult Naga, and Adam still remembered Ellie's statement that she could gain the powerful ability to cast spells at the same time as an adult.
"Ah, yes, I came of age last month, and at the coming-of-age ceremony held in the Sango Palace, I successfully grew my second pair of arms." Speaking of adulthood, Ellie was a little excited and couldn't wait to share it with Adam, "It's a very peculiar feeling, and you can't experience the sense of accomplishment of being able to control four arms at the same time without extra arms." I mastered the ability to cast spells simultaneously on the third day after the rite of passage, but that didn't include casting two silver spells at the same time. ”
The official reception of Naga and his party has ended, and it is time for Adam to make small talk with Ellie. Just two hours ago, Adam hosted a dinner for the Naga who came to Griffons and the archbishop and saint of the Harvest Church to welcome and thank them for coming.
The arrival of the six-armed Naga and Karloff helped Griffons survive a major crisis, and without their help, Adam would not have known how to escape from the combined attack of the four Golden Professionals of the Bloodline: Lilith, Gavin, Gwenda, and Moore. As for the preservation of Griffon City and the like, it is not to mention that Griffon City will be reduced to ruins after a golden battle.
Taking advantage of the dinner party, which was a great place to socialize, Adam planned to learn from Ellie and Karloff why they had come so coincidentally, almost at the time when Adam and Griffons needed help the most.
The appearance of Naga and his party was purely accidental, thanks to Ellie. After completing the rite of passage, Ellie remembers that Adam had invited her to Celtic's Falcon City when she was separated from her, and the idea of visiting the land was born on a whim.
Unlike before, because she was going to land, the empress of the Naga Empire was worried about her daughter's safety - Ellie's sea monster Levatin, both in size and biological attributes, was destined to be able to move only in the ocean and could not survive on land - and decisively sent a six-armed Naga to protect Ellie's safety, while subtracting five favorability points from Adam, who had never met before, in her heart.
When Ellie and Nikita set out from the Deep Sea Empire to the surface with enough Naga guards, they happened to meet Moore, a silver tower mage who was heading to Celtic, and in fact Moore was accompanied by a silver mage. At the time, the two were talking about how to join forces with the archbishop of the Church of Dawn to deal with Adam, the lord of Griffon. Thanks to Nikita's super hearing, she retold these conversations to Ellie word for word. Ellie, who learned the news, immediately ordered Levatin to attack.
The unfortunate silver mage was crushed to the bones of his whole body and fell into the sea and drowned when the first round of sea water rolled up into the sky and turned into a huge column of water densely pressed down. These pillars of water falling from the sky were no different from being hit by the same huge stone pillars because of their weight and gravity, and the two defensive spells that the silver mage had arranged for himself did not last a second before they all burst under Levatin's sudden attack, exposing the mage's fragile body to the terrifying attack of the water pillar.
Moore immediately blessed himself with a gold-level defensive spell, and rushed out from the water column attack, so that he was not intercepted by Nikita who came out of the sea monster's mouth.
Moore in the Council of Nobles was sullen, it wasn't that she didn't have the habit of unleashing enough mental power to scan her surroundings at any time, so that she could detect danger as early as possible and avoid exposing the mage's fragile body relative to the power warrior. Of course, at the cost of the mage's spiritual power being consumed rapidly, even if she is a golden archmage, her spiritual power is limited, and it is impossible to consume it indefinitely. So when crossing the sea, Moore subconsciously narrowed the scope of the mental power scan, after all, the creatures in the sea can't attack the mages flying in the sky, right?
Who would have thought that just below her flight was a powerful sea monster hidden in the mouth of a six-armed Naga!
Moore slapped the table in hatred, she couldn't just leave it at that, Griffon City, Adam, Naga, one day she would have to find a chance to get revenge one by one! Now her feud with Adam is not just because Adam killed Lang, but on her way back to nothing, Adam has been labeled by Moore as one of the most hated people.
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'What about Rai?' Where did you put him? ’
'It seems to be in the sea where we landed, don't worry, Xiao Lai is very well-behaved. ’
An hour earlier, while Adam and Ellie had been talking at dinner, a group of fishermen in the easternmost offshore town of Griffons had planned to take advantage of the night to catch glow-in-the-dark jellyfish, a cunning jellyfish that could only be spotted at night because of the glimmer of light emitted by their bodies, and they were so delicious that they could be sold for a good price in the market. Just as they were collecting their nets, one of the fishermen noticed something unusual, and the nets seemed to be entangled in something.
Over the next ten minutes, the poor fisherman was confronted with one of the most memorable scenes of his life, as the water around him tumbled and bubbled up one after another, and finally in the night he saw two huge light sources appear on the surface of the sea. After a minute, they finally confirmed that it was not a light source, but the two eyes of a giant monster. The fishermen were limp and unable to move on the small fishing boats, unable to even shout for help, and closed their eyes in despair. I knew that they shouldn't have come to this sea area, and I thought that I could make a small profit, but who knew that I would encounter such a monster.
The word sea monster came to the mind of a fisherman who, as a resident of the seaside town of Griffon, had heard his ancestors repeatedly refer to the sea monsters, the terrifying monsters that could swallow a fishing boat in one bite. He used to think that this was a mythical thing like giants, but now he knew that there really were sea monsters in the world, but he would rather never know.
The poor fishermen shivered with their eyes closed on the fishing boat, waiting for the sea monster to come and eat him. Some fishermen were brave enough to open their eyes, only to see that the sea monster was getting food from his fishing net, and it was already in his mouth with just one bite, and then judging from the flow of the surrounding water, the sea monster should be sucking the glow-in-the-dark jellyfish in the fishing net, which can be seen from the fact that his fishing boat is constantly approaching the sea monster's mouth because of the flow of the sea - they are proud to claim that the largest fishing boat in the town is as ridiculous as a toy in front of the sea monster.
The sea monster eats all the glow-in-the-dark jellyfish in the nets, spits out the nets, and then looks at the glow-in-the-dark jellyfish on the fishing boat and lets out a whining sound. Somehow, the fisherman suddenly noticed that the hideous head of this sea monster seemed to be a little innocent?
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As for why the Harvest Church came to Griffon, Adam still hasn't understood. Because at the banquet, when he asked Karloff for an answer, the other party just smiled incomprehensibly and introduced the saintess Foster to him: "About this matter, Lord Adam can have a good chat with the saint Maiden." Then he took a glass of fruit beer and went off to the side to chat with Simon.
At the dinner, the four golds, the city lord Adam, the holy daughter of the Harvest Church, and the princess Ellie of the Naga Empire were the absolute focus, and many people wanted to come forward to talk to Adam, but after seeing that the young griffin city lord was about to talk to the holy woman, they all dispelled the idea just now, and waited patiently to look for other opportunities.
It was the first time Adam had been so close to a saint of a church. Before the dinner, Adam learned enough news about the Holy Maiden of the Harvest Church from Arras, Arman and others, unlike the previous popes of the Dawn Church, who were all male, the Pope of the Harvest Church has always been male and female, for example, the Pope Delphi III of this generation is an old woman over ninety years old, and the Holy Maiden means the heir of the Pope to a certain extent.
The saintess seemed to see Adam's intentions, but she was not prepared to give the answer directly to Adam, but instead turned the conversation to the upcoming celebration.
"I heard that Lord Adam is going to hold a grand celebration on the first of January?"
"Yes, the Seven Cities Federation is about to be unified, so we have to celebrate, and besides, just call me Adam."
"Well, Adam, would you mind telling me more about the upcoming celebration?"
"My pleasure. At present, I have decided to hold such a grand celebration on January 1st every year, and fix it in the form of a festival. The name has been decided, and it is called the New Year's Celebration. "People in this world are not enthusiastic about the beginning of the new year, and the officials are not so concerned, only the Church is the day of God's Birthday, which is very much promoted, is a rare day to celebrate.
"It's an interesting idea to hold a celebration on the first day of the new year, and I'm really looking forward to the grand celebration of the New Year in the future."
"If the Holy Maiden wishes, tomorrow will be the first celebration, the first time in history, very commemorative." Adam clinked glasses lightly with the other party, "No, yes, it's the one next to the Black Iron Professional—by the way, he's the current archon of Griffon—she's all in charge of this celebration, and I'd say it's all ready, and I'm sure it's going to be memorable." ”
"I can't wait." Foster took a sip of the red liquid from his goblet, which was the Gazole wine from Griffon, "I'll tell you tomorrow if you want to know, all." ”