Chapter 9 The Dining Table

Lu Chen's original plan today was to go to the library to read the books after reading the situation of the guards in order to understand the situation in this world.

However, after some delay with the young guards of Alexander, walking down the corridors of the cathedral, the divine messenger suddenly changed his mind.

It was now past noon, and the corridors of the cathedral were filled with priests and servants.

While accepting the greetings of these subordinates, Lu Chen remembered in a trance that it was time for the Central Cathedral to eat, and these people should have rushed to the big restaurant to eat.

On the first floor of the Central Cathedral, there is a large collective dining hall that serves the various members of the church - of course, the dining hall is mainly for ordinary clergy and samurai, while the high-ranking members of the church, such as Eliot, Crowning Gregory, and the archbishops, are usually brought to their rooms by servants.

Lu Chen stopped thoughtfully, and An Jie, who had been following behind him, almost bumped into him.

"Lord Eliot, what's wrong?" asked Anjie, a little flustered.

"Anjie, you don't have to bring me food today. Lu Chen groaned, "Let's go directly to the big restaurant to dine today." ”

An Jie was stunned: Lord Elliot has always disliked getting along with his subordinates, and today he actually wants to squeeze into a group of priests and warriors to eat?

Where did the little girl know about Lu Daguan's little abacus: dining with his subordinates, this is a great time to go deep into the grassroots and win people's hearts!

As soon as he said go, Lu Chen took An Jie to turn a corner, and went directly to the restaurant, and soon arrived at the destination.

The dining hall of the Central Cathedral has no doors, but an ornate arched doorway in the wall, and a rose cross hangs at the top of the arch, signaling that the people should not forget the grace of God before eating.

Passing through the doorway, you can immediately see the spacious and bright dining room, in addition to the gorgeous stained glass windows on the walls, you can also see the marble columns in the shape of maids more than ten meters high that support the ceiling.

Lu Chen and An Jie came a little late, and the long tables lined up in the big dining room were already full of people. With many diners talking in low voices, a whisper resembling the chirping of gnats permeates the entire restaurant.

Of course, as soon as Lu Daguan appeared, this whispering came to an abrupt end as if he was being choked by the neck.

The diners in the dining room turned their heads to the door and stared blankly at the oracle.

Lord Eliot, who usually doesn't show up in the restaurant, is obviously a rare Western scene for them.

Even if Lu Chen's psychological quality is excellent, he is a little uncomfortable to be stared at by so many people.

He smiled awkwardly and waved his hand at the group, motioning for everyone to leave themselves alone and continue eating.

The people gradually recovered from their surprise, and one by one they began to bury their heads in munching again: although it was rare for the gods to send adults to eat in the restaurant, it was not a big deal, and it was better to feed their stomachs first.

The buzzing whispers were heard again, but at a much lower volume.

Seeing that everyone finally stopped paying attention to him, Lu Chen secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and while instructing An Jie to help him find a seat, he stood at the door and looked at the diners in the restaurant.

There were sixty long mahogany tables in the large dining room, which could provide seating for 600 people at a time, based on ten people per table: not enough to serve all the people in the cathedral, but it was almost enough to serve the time-sharing and the opening of separate restaurants.

According to the costumes, the diners in the large dining hall are divided into distinct sections: the easternmost black area is dominated by clergy in black clergy, the long tables to the west are glittering groups of paladins in silver-plated armor, the diners further west are dressed in gray coats, indicating that the servants of the church are seated here, and at the westernmost end of the large dining room, the garments are all in a motley patch, which is the guards who have just returned from the training ground.

Since Lu Chen had just inspected the guards, he had an inexplicable sense of affection for them. The Divine Envoy stared at the table of the guards for a moment, first noticing that Captain Otto had saluted flatteringly, and then seeing the young guards who had insisted on training occupying two tables alone, and Alexander was naturally among them.

Noticing the Divine Envoy's gaze, Alexander and the young guards all nodded respectfully at Lu Chen.

Lu Chen bowed slightly at Alexander, which was considered an agreement, and then turned his gaze to the east again.

The gray-clothed servants were lowly and basically buried in eating, and Lu Chen even suspected that most of them didn't know Eliot as an oracle.

There was nothing to see about these people, and Lu Chen was particularly interested in the group of paladins who were draped all over their bodies.

Lu Daguan, who is familiar with modern history, is convinced that "power comes out of the barrel of a gun", and has a natural importance to the armed forces;

What's more, the silver armor, which was valuable to the paladins at a glance, caused a certain restlessness about wealth in the hearts of the Divine Envoys.

After scrutinizing the paladins for a while, Lu Chen soon made a wonderful discovery-

It's not like the guards are all reckless and strong, there are men and women among the paladins, and the ratio of men to women is about six to four.

The silver armor of male and female paladins is similar, but the weapons they carry are not quite the same: male paladins carry a two-handed greatsword or a combination of a one-handed sword and a kite-shield sword, while female paladins usually carry only one one-handed sword.

Such a differentiated arrangement obviously takes into account the difference in the strength of male and female paladins.

Lu Chen simply counted: The paladins occupied a total of ten long tables, which means that there are a hundred paladins dining here.

Although I don't know if this is the current membership of the "Holy Knights", even a hundred heavily armed and well-trained paladins are a force to be reckoned with in the empire - unlike pure warriors, paladins are capable of performing simple "holy arts".

There was a female paladin among the paladins, which especially caught Lu Chen's attention.

This heroine sat in the middle of a group of female colleagues, with silver hair, and although her facial features were soft, the pride and perseverance in her gray eyes gave her a heroic spirit. If the superior appearance and temperament are nothing, then the two-handed sword behind the silver-haired female knight, as well as the three daggers hanging from her waist, clearly show that she is different.

Seems to be a powerful character...... Lu Chen couldn't help but glance at the female knight a few more times: there didn't seem to be any information related to the female knight in his memory.

The Holy Knights are under the direct authority of the Pope, and Eliot, an oracle, has never had any contact with the paladins.

But for some reason, the other party's silver hair always lingered in his mind.

Unexpectedly, as if noticing his gaze, the female knight also raised her head from the dining table, shot her sharp eyes to this side, and looked at the Divine Envoy with a few awe-inspiring glances, almost scaring the experienced Lu Daguan to tremble.

Are you glaring at me? Lu Chen hurriedly looked away, and his heart was incredulous.

He was still secretly frightened, and An Jie had already trotted over from the table.

"Lord Elliot!" the little girl leaned over to Lu Chen and whispered, "I'll find you an empty seat!"

"Oh?" Lu Chen's face turned happy, "Where?"

"Wow!" An Jie stretched out her finger and pointed, Lu Chen looked along the little girl's jade fingers, and sure enough, at the easternmost end of the restaurant, a group of black-clothed priests found a vacant seat.

Lu Chen couldn't help but swallow his saliva: It's been almost a day since I crossed over, and this is the first meal of the Sprinkle family in another world!