The carriage stopped at the door of a small manor.

The scale of Apocalypse City is a miracle, and its size is evident from the fact that it can accommodate every knight to have a manor in the city, and although it is now close to saturation, it still does not hinder the reverence of the world.

Austin walked straight into the manor under the frightened gaze of the coachman, and the moment the door of the three-story cottage closed inside, the sunlight had no bearing on the people inside.

The heat outside made Austin, whose physical strength had reached the fourth order, also sweat finely. After a cool shower, Austin slipped on a white shirt and casually unbuttoned a few buttons, revealing a scarred chest. The lower body is still the pants of the military uniform, there is almost no casual dress for him, and there is only a military dress at home in addition to the combat uniform, and the simple black and white is a true portrayal of his life.

The study was empty, the maids and servants that von Lantlin had specially arranged for him were busy preparing lunch, Austin went to the hospital as soon as he returned, most of his subordinates were injured, but miraculously no one died, and then he went to the Operations Department to report the mission, this was the first time he went home since he returned, without prior notice, and the attendants at home couldn't help but be a little scrambling.

In fact, for Austin, he preferred to live in the office of the Operations Department, where he could feel the meaning of existence, but Von Lantrin insisted that the mansion was a symbol of the character's identity, and a knight without a mansion would be ridiculed by the "upper class", so he forced Austin to buy the property and laid the foundation for him.

As Austin, who grew up living in a wilderness settlement, such a house was something he had never dared to imagine before, and the more he owned, the more grateful he was for the fate God had given him.

Austin made a pious confession to the statue of the father and the cross in the study, and found that the old butler and Davix were not in the manor, and it seemed that something had gone out, because he was in a hurry to leave, the air conditioning in the study was not turned on, Austin was a little irritable with the stuffiness in the air, and after turning on the air conditioning, he opened the door of the study again, so that the coolness outside diluted the dullness inside.

Austin takes a mint-flavored cider from the wine cabinet, mixes it with the freezer and ice cubes, and puts it into a clear glass. Gently shaking, the crisp sound of the ice cubes colliding with the walls of the cup echoed in Austin's mind.

As a predator, Austin has a soft soft couch. At this moment, he buried himself in the soft sofa in the study, took a book from the bookcase and flipped a few pages, "A Study on the Agricultural Production of the Dynasty in the Past Twenty Years", Austin saw the title of the book, and was sure that it was the kind of book he could not understand, so he threw the book away, drank the wine in the glass, closed his eyes on the sofa and recalled the battle, while waiting for Davix and the old butler to come back and give him an explanation.

About two hours later, the sun was already in the west, and a knock on the door woke Austin from his slumber.

"Come in. Austin slowly sat up straight, and his meticulous military temperament returned to him.

"Oh my master, you know to come back!" Before the man could enter the door, an exaggerated exclamation ruined the solemn atmosphere of the room.

Walking in, an old man in his sixties, dressed meticulously like a housekeeper of a large family, with gold-wire glasses and a white handkerchief exposed in his jacket pocket, like an elegant old gentleman, almost made people wonder if the shouting just now was not from him.

Austin was familiar with his butler's temperament, his tense face suddenly eased, and he smiled bitterly: "Uncle Gardlin, is it because I prevented you from visiting me in the hospital or because I have been away for too long that you are alone in this big cold house, making you so angry?"

"Ahem," Butler Gardlin instantly restrained his exaggerated expression and returned to the coldness and reserve that a butler should have, "I can't control your work, but have you forgotten that there is a banquet tonight, and Lord von Lantlin has asked you to accompany him?"

"Banquet?" Austin was stunned, "Damn! That's ...... Two months ago? It was an invitation that happened to be sent not long before I left for my mission? It was tonight? Oh my God, I forgot about it! What about the invitation? Where did I throw the invitation? It can't be the day I threw it away, right?"

"In the first row of the second vertical row on the left-hand side of your large desk. "The housekeeper is quite conscientious.

"These big guys always like to throw this kind of pointless event," Austin muttered with laughter, "and so far in advance...... Who would have remembered that there was such a thing. ”

Gadlin bowed slightly, pushed his gold-rimmed glasses, and said, "First of all, although this is a meaningless event for you, it is the best place for big people to socialize. Of course, you have been able to enter the ranks of the 'big guys', but you have always refused to admit it, and you still think of yourself as a pure Inquisition soldier. ”

"Secondly, the big banquets are scheduled two months in advance so that all the guests can arrange their time. If I'm not mistaken...... It was supposed to be organized by a Duke to celebrate his son's first birthday. ”

Austin finally found the invitation, and when he opened the cover, there were two thin sheets pressed directly into gold, which were scalded with a special mold and filled with red paint.

Austin directly ignored the polite words in the previous paragraph, and looked directly at the signature at the end - "Grand Duke of the Black Tide" Tanzani, the marshal of the Kuroshio Legion, one of the three major legions of the Dark Forest, and a real boss with countless protégés in the military department.

It is said that his early years were so heavy that he had no children in his later years, and the eldest of his only two daughters had married into a promising medium-sized family and gave birth to a son, and it was rumored that Tanzania wanted to use this daughter to annex the military industry and mining industry owned by that family. The second daughter went to serve in the Kuroshio Legion, and is now the head of the Legion Knights, which is one of the supreme forces that firmly controls the Kuroshio Legion.

At this level of banquet, originally a person of Austin's level was not qualified to participate in the banquet at all, whether it was a noble title or a position in the Inquisition, and he was not qualified to connect to official information, but he had a good boss - Von Lantlin, Lord Bloodthorn, and now he is a big man who has made a fortune in both the political arena and the law enforcement agencies, and it is said that he has a tendency to serve as the deputy director of the Inquisition.

As von Lanthelin's number one vicious dog, and out of affirmation of von Lantlin's control of the Inquisition's Operations Department, Austin received an invitation as an "escort".

Although Austin was extremely reluctant to go, von Lantrin warned him the day after he received the invitation, if he dared to release a duke's pigeon this time, then he would not have to stay in Apocalypse City, and would be sent directly to the north to pioneer the land.

"Damn it...... It's four-thirteen now, isn't it?" Austin glanced at the wall clock on the wall, the small steam generator and alchemy engraving kept it accurate, "Gardlin, please have someone bring me my military uniform, and the third set from left to right looks more grand—"

"My God, master, you don't want to wear a military uniform to a banquet like this? Are you going to smash the field? You think this is the kind of gathering between the Inquisition and the Military Department? Although you have not attended this kind of gathering a few times. Butler Gadlin exclaimed exaggeratedly.

"Yes...... Is there something wrong?" Austin wondered, as if he had said something heinous.

"You really should learn aristocratic etiquette. The butler felt a deep sense of helplessness and sorrow, and felt that having such a vulgar master had caused him to fail in his teaching for the past few years.

Austin said, "Okay...... So what should I wear?"

Gadlin smiled as if he knew this was the case, and replied, "I've gone with Davix to pick out the right tuxedo for you, and I believe Davix's vision is more in line with you." It's really hard to choose a dress that you can afford to pay for and isn't too bad. ”

"Uncle Gardlin, you are really my savior!" Austin deeply felt the wisdom of von Lantlin, and a good housekeeper was definitely a great blessing for him.

"Uncle Gadlin, what should I do now, do I need to buy any gifts?"

"I'm sure Master von Lantlin will arrange it for you....... he should know your gaps in this area better than I do. ”

"Then ...... next"

For more than an hour, Austin stuffed dessert into his mouth while letting his attendants fiddle with him to make him as decent as possible to attend the banquet.

In fact, most of the time, the owner is not as terrible as rumored outside, and even some big boys are cute. Gadlin stood aside and instructed the attendants on their behavior, and by the way, urgently taught Austin what to do at the banquet so that he would not make a fool of himself, and suddenly such a thought popped into his head.