Chapter 38: The Family Banquet (Part II)
"In that case, you're better than both of us. When Ptolemy heard her say this, his face immediately changed and he showed an expression of admiration.
"It's amazing to start from scratch...... Your talent is much more powerful than those students at Imperial University. Oz was also full of admiration at this time.
"I've heard too many compliments like this, so don't repeat them. ”
Yamanra handed the empty plate to the waiter, took the napkin and wiped it from the corner of her lips, then stood with her hands crossed over her chest, and looked at the crowds of guests on the terrace:
"Let's talk about the current situation, like our big family. A year ago, although I knew that I was part of the royal family, I could only meet dozens of people. For a long time, I thought I would never see any other members of the royal family in my life...... But now, we're a real family. ”
In her vision, the boys were as lively as calves, and the girls were delicate as unbudding flower bones, dyed red by the light. The ladies wore vertical gauze dresses with bare shoulders and arms, and their skin was flowing with a clean light, and their eyes were turned to their naughty children from time to time to prevent them from being separated from themselves. The men laughed and talked to each other, occasionally reminded by the lady not to drink too much. The teenagers gathered together to talk, and the girls laughed as they looked at their silliness.
Some people hugged each other, some people argued fiercely, and the black-haired brown eyes that are hard to see on weekdays can be seen everywhere here. This is the Amenemkht family, the descendants of the sun, and everyone here has the surname Amenemhet, everyone is a relative, and they are all showing kindness as much as possible.
"Because Your Majesty needs a strong clan, we can become such a big family that loves each other. The rise and fall of a large family depends largely on the personal ability of the patriarch. The larger the family, the more chaotic the entanglement of interests between each small family, and it is easy to cause interest disputes. At this time, if there is no one who can overwhelm everything, the dinner party with a harmonious atmosphere in front of you will become a ring of 100 people. Ptolemy saw this very clearly.
"The queen has the strength to do this, but she sticks to the old ways...... It was King Evan who pieced together the whole loose family. Oz leaned over the railing and looked down at the square of the Temple of Hades.
Yamanra smiled and slowly closed her eyes, the soft light illuminating the side of her face, and scattered pale white petals drifted down from the palm trees and landed on her fair shoulders.
"Your Majesty!"
"Your Majesty is here!"
"Get out of the way!"
At this moment, the guests who had previously been scattered in various positions on the terrace suddenly stirred, and then quickly gathered into two rows of dense human walls.
Amanra couldn't see it through the wall, so she put her arm on the shoulders of Oz and Ptolemy, and looked forward: their patriarch was smiling and slowly ascending the spiral staircase, his waist straight, as if he were climbing a towering mountain. At this moment, a gust of evening wind blew, and the hem of the garment, painted with eagle wings, was opened, and the scarlet lining rolled in the wind like a flaming battle flag.
The appearance of the Sun King brought the atmosphere of the banquet to a climax, and the young king was respected by all, and everyone raised their glasses to him. Seeing so many people toasting, Evan took the drink and drank it down, then waved them to play casually and without restraint.
After the guests had finished their drinks, they dispersed and gathered together in groups to discuss various things.
Ignoring the adults and the children, Evan walked all the way to the table where the elders gathered and struck up a conversation with the elders of the family. The old people were still very restrained at first, but after taking the cigarettes he lit with his own hands, they smiled from ear to ear, and the distance between them suddenly became much closer.
After a little bit of homely things, Evan went straight to the point: For the sake of the future of the empire, can you urge your children to get married as soon as possible and continue the family offspring.
This is actually the real purpose of his banquet - to increase the fertility rate of the royal family.
Because of the previous various consumptions, the young adults of the royal family are only in their early 2000s, which is really not enough, and they have to find ways to promote the fertility rate. The reason why I explained the situation to the old people first is because we have the same concept as each other and are natural partners: young people should have children as soon as they grow up, and letting the older generation hold their great-grandchildren is the last word.
Evan hit it off with the old people, and immediately formed an offensive and defensive alliance to urge marriage—in Menes, a country where patriarchal values are deeply rooted, it can be said that it is very useful to talk to these old ladies about this kind of thing.
By the way, he also talked to the old people, and if he didn't get married in the future, he would reduce his annuity, and older single dogs would have to pay single taxes. But there are rewards for childbirth, and the more you have, the more rewards you have, and you can get rich by giving birth. The old people also understand and support this, patting their chests and assuring him that they will urge marriage as soon as they go back tonight, and whoever wants to dink will break their legs!
......
Yamanra, Oz, and Ptolemy hid in the corner, peeking at Evan, who was talking to the old man about the joy, and secretly guessing the content of their conversation. Originally, with Oz's current ear power, eavesdropping from a distance of 100 meters was a piece of cake, and even mosquitoes could not escape his ears when they landed. But King Evan is worthy of being King Evan , and the sound spreads in a fixed space without leaking out at all.
"Hey, what do you think King Evan is talking to the elders this time?" asked Ptolemy in a low voice.
"He must be talking about national affairs! It is also possible that he is learning about the situation of the younger generation with the elders. Oz guessed.
"No, they must be talking about the Seven Sacred Weapons! Hasn't the royal court been offering a reward for the remaining missing holy weapons, King Evan must have taken this opportunity to inquire about the elders about this. Yaman Ramo rubbed his slender and smooth chin and said with a determined face.
"Makes sense! Makes sense!" Oz nodded.
"What's the reason? Your Majesty really wants to ask the elders about the Seven Sacred Vessels, will it be delayed until now!?" Ptolemy immediately retorted.
When the three of them were talking in a whisper, suddenly the voice of a giant beast roared from afar, and a cold wind blew from nowhere, stealing the bone marrow coldly, blowing everyone shivered in unison. The lights on the terrace were all extinguished at this moment, and the space suddenly went dark. The ladies screamed, and the men hurried to the window.
Countless people woke up from their sleep, and in the darkness there seemed to be cold tentacles brushing their bodies, making thousands of people shudder.
“......”
With a grim expression, Evan stood up from his seat, his gaze swept across the terrace, and then cast his gaze to the far east.
Yamanra, Oz, and Ptolemy were also at a loss for what to do at this moment, looking left and right in surprise, not knowing what was happening. However, even if they didn't figure out the situation, they could still sense that something was wrong, because King Evan's expression was very solemn at this time, and he looked like he was facing a great enemy.
Who can make this king who is one in light and dark, and whose force value is high enough to destroy the country alone, feel tricky!?
It must be an extremely terrifying monster!
Yamanra suddenly heard the sound of blood flowing, and lowered her head, and found that blood bubbles were oozing from the terrace floor, and the red carpet quickly became sticky and heavy, and the scarlet liquid was dripping.
"Blood!
"What's going on? Why is there blood on the ground?"
"It's a sign of some kind of disaster!"
Amid the screams of the crowd, blood flowed freely on the ground, winding on the walls, retrograde, and squirming up to the ceiling little by little. Flowing deformously in defiance of gravity, depicting patterns of death and horror.
“......”
Evan looked around at the ornate decoration stained red with blood, the clear glass curtain wall flowed with trickles, the dark red ceiling blood fell like raindrops, and the bright lights were flooded with blood, blooming with dark red light. In the huge hall, a blood-colored, blood-covered world was faintly revealed by a tall tower made of countless corpses.
These towers rise from the endless plains, the ground shakes, the trees sway, and the light on the plains looks like lava eruptions.
Then the notes sounded, like a cold wind seeping out of the deep cavern, with the smell of decay. Like the subtle sound of dry corpses in the desert being eroded by wind and sand, they vibrate in space and dissipate without a trace.
“......”
Yamanra looked at the illusion in horror, her teeth chattering up and down, her body retreating unnaturally. Just when she came into contact with the glass curtain wall covered in blood, she was grabbed by a large warm hand, and she turned her head to look back, and found that the other party was Oz with a calm expression.
"Don't be afraid, with Your Majesty here, this is the safest place. Oz whispered in her ear.
"......" Yamanra closed his head slightly, retreated to the right side of his body, and hugged the man's arm hard.
In front of Evan, a blood-colored mist emerged out of thin air, vaguely condensing into a vague and hideous female silhouette. The blood-colored eyes of the beast glanced at him with murderous intent, then withdrew his gaze, and as the mist vibrated and turned to dissipate into the breeze.
In an instant, everything was over, like an illusion.
The lights come on, the blood dissipates, and everything returns to its original state.
One by one, one by one
The royal court, the bedroom of the dormitory.
The room was filled with an ethereal scent, the smell of palace incense, which smelled like rose petals dried in the sun. Eru Lomei hugged the fluffy seal, curled up in the pure white futon, breathed evenly, and slept very soundly.
For a moment, her breathing became messy, and at this moment, she opened her eyes vigilantly, and her silver-gray pupils flashed with an extremely fierce killing intent.
Eru Lomme put down the seal doll, walked barefoot to the window, and pressed the switch on the left wall, and the curtain automatically parted to the left and right.
Outside the window, it was no longer moonlight like water, but a muddy darkness, like the darkness of the depths of the earth, and the capital of the Menes Empire was now plunged into boundless darkness. The entire sky seemed to be a huge black vortex, greedily sucking in all the light, as if it wanted to devour all matter from top to bottom, bringing about a dark apocalypse.
Woo woo - woo woo woo ——!
A frenzied air flow swept up in the depths of the canopy, and hurricanes mixed with hail and rain fell from mid-air. Through the hard floor-to-ceiling windows, Eru Lomei saw countless shining trails falling from the sky, and for a moment there was a bloody color between heaven and earth, and then it returned to normal.
"This is no ordinary bad weather ......"
With a tense face, Eru Romei trotted out of the bedroom and headed straight for the hall of the dormitory. I found that the palace attendants were actually panting together, curled up and squatting next to the throne, as if they had just come into contact with something terrifying.
"What did you find, and why are you here!?" she asked calmly.
"Back to Her Majesty, we ...... We had the same nightmare, we saw the earth tremble, the trees fell, and towers of bones pouring out of the ground...... And then the red light that came out of the ground!' "One of the more daring maids replied with a shudder.
“......”
Instead of answering her words, Eru Lomei turned around and looked around, her gaze sweeping to every corner of the space: "Tachibana, Tachibana, Tachibana, Tachibana, where are you, come out and meet me!"
A few seconds later, a three-dimensional shadow was erected in front of her, and the shadow was outlined in the shape of a door, and a girl with different eyes in cotton pajamas stepped out of it. Tachibana seemed to have just fallen asleep, and with a sleepy-eyed expression at this moment, he yawned and asked:
"Haven't you always treated me as a transparent person, why did you suddenly find me this time?"
"Something's wrong, take me to Ivan!" she said eagerly.
"No need!"
Evan's figure strode from the main entrance of the dormitory, and as he strode forward, his eyes were quickly covered by blazing red light, and three pairs of blade-like wings of light composed purely of light with a dark red crystal texture spread out from behind—pulling out countless ribbon-like soft and ethereal energy bands, gradually enveloping the space of the hall.
......Seeing this familiar scene, Ailu Luomei looked stunned, her hands as smooth as white porcelain were held in front of her chest, and she subconsciously took half a step back.
"You feel it too, right? A great catastrophe has sprouted, manipulating its source, a force that you and I can't match!" With Evan's words, the phantom of the Evil King gradually appeared behind him, and he raised his hand and waved, and the Evil King's arm waved through the air.
Click——!
A sudden explosion rang out in the space, and Eru Lomei's beautiful eyes revealed a surprise brilliance, and countless dazzling and short streamers flashed on her body, revealing dark red chains - these chains penetrated her limbs in a state of light, locking all energy circuits and sealing the huge power in her body.
At this moment, under the gaze of Evan and the Evil King, these chains quickly crumbled into tiny particles of light, dissipating into the air like dust.