Chapter 603: The Hrudian Family (2)
The door of the VIP room opened silently, and Ryan saw at a glance La Nina standing outside and the two legendary powerhouse bodyguards beside her, but this bodyguard was not the two from yesterday, but two female dark elves, and judging from the Mithril armor and scimitar on their bodies, these two should be more proficient in martial arts, but nodded in response.
The change in Faras made La Nina slightly surprised, but I think maybe this is because the other party thinks that the Hrudian family is trustworthy, and there is already a vague idea of joining in his heart, so there will be a slight change in attitude. Lan Nina didn't waste much time on these details, she became a qualified guide, and led the Lane couple towards the buildings in the distance, along the way La Nina was very generous to introduce the various buildings of her family headquarters to the Lane couple, and did not hide the usefulness of these buildings, obviously trusting Lane and them very much.
Ryan will not be on this "surface" Lan Nina introduced her family headquarters to Ryan in detail, but she intentionally or unintentionally neglected to explain the magic defense arrays on those buildings, in other words, if Ryan wanted to infiltrate these buildings, the first thing to bear the brunt of was to withstand unimaginable spell attacks, the power of which was comparable to a small forbidden spell, and these were only things that could be observed on the surface, as for what dangers were hidden inside, or what kind of guards the Hrudian family had sent, Ryan couldn't see itγ
After walking for more than thirty minutes, Ryan and Faras followed La Nina to a building that was not very tall, but had an extremely large area, the whole building was completely built with huge foundation stones, and the rough foundation stones were wrapped with a thin layer of Mithril on the outside, so that the whole building looked much magnificent.
Another advantage of wrapping Mithril is that it can be used to draw beautiful patterns on it, and the designer of this building is definitely an artist who is skilled in enchantment, and it has incorporated the magic charms contained in the defensive magic array that can withstand ordinary forbidden spell attacks and can also release small forbidden spells to counterattack, so as to form an existence comparable to a work of art.
Seeing Ryan observing the building in front of her quite attentively, Lanina said in a proud tone: "How is it, it's okay, right? This building is the work of my mother, the current patriarch of the Hrudian family, the mother of Mareth. Seeing Ryan nodded, Lanina said again: "For thousands of years, the family can continue to this day, although it needs to be strong enough to protect itself, but the real core is still enchantment, accumulating a lot of wealth through the sale of magical items, and recruiting strong people to join through exquisite magical items...... All of this is inseparable from the art of enchantment, so in addition to being strong enough, the head mother of the family must also be good at the art of enchantment, and this building is the work of my mother when she defeated other competitors and became the patriarch. β
Ryan listened to Lanina's introduction, and followed her into the building, the dark elf guards guarding here did not stop Ryan and his party, but bowed to Lanina, I don't know if this woman has a high power and status in the family, or if she had the orders of the Maris mistress before. After entering the building, there was a large empty room, the floor of the room was covered with complex magic circles, and in the center of the room was a table made of unknown wood, and four dark elf maids stood with their hands hanging down.
"You can't bring any weapons or magical equipment into here. Lanina explained to Ryan in a self-talking voice, she walked towards the wooden table, took the two Mithril scimitars from her waist, and handed them to a maid, the dark elf handmaiden took them in both hands, carefully placed them on the wooden table, and then she didn't know where to press it, and a faint white light flashed on the table, and then the two scimitars disappeared.
"Interesting, interesting!" Ryan witnessed all this, and couldn't help but say: "This idea is really good, I actually made the whole storage pocket into the shape of a table, and put it on the table to actually put it in the pocket, I am quite looking forward to the next meeting." β
"It was my mother's whimsical idea as well. After saying this, Lan Nina looked at Ryan with a smile. Ryan knew that Lanina was urging him to take out the things on his body, but Ryan didn't have any magic items on his body, he had never liked to use external forces, and the only few things he had, such as the artifact "Void Ball" snatched from Boyardinath, naturally couldn't be put in his hands casually, so Ryan shook his head with a smile, and patted the hem of his empty robe at the same time.
Lanina didn't say much, anyway, there was a detection magic array on the ground in this room, if Ryan deliberately hid something, he could avoid his gaze but definitely couldn't deceive the magic array, this point has been repeatedly tested by the family for hundreds of years, no matter what he tried for so many years, no one could bring anything into it.
However, to Lanina's surprise, Ryan and Farath walked through the magic array pattern under their feet very casually, but did not raise any alarm at all, which made Lanina feel puzzled, she didn't believe that the wandering traveler didn't even have the slightest means of self-protection, even if there was really nothing, the unknown bird on Ryan's shoulder was also made of Mithril, how could it not trigger the magic real alarm?
"Is it really like Senitia said, this little thing really has the characteristics of life, so it will not trigger the alarm of the magic array? Yes, it can only be explained by this, it seems that our Hrudian family seems to have picked up a treasure, and I must emphasize this to my mother, if our family can obtain this enchantment skill, then it is no longer a dream to create a powerful war puppet or golem with independent thoughts and can obey simple orders!" Lanina looked at Ryan's back and thought about her thoughts, until the maid behind her reminded her many times, and she laughed awkwardly at Mr. and Mrs. Ryan, who had already reached the end of the room, and then hurried to catch up.
However, what made Lan Nina even more embarrassed was that she had only taken a few steps when a soft light flashed in the room, and then a maid whispered, "Master Lan Nina, you still have something left on you." With a face full of shame, Lanina took out a dagger from her bosom and a dozen items with spikes on the outer ends of the ring, handed them to the maid, and then hurried to catch up with the Lane couple and walked out of the room with them.
After this incident, Lanina did not speak again, and Ryan was happy to be quiet, as he walked as he looked at the portraits hanging on the walls on both sides of the hallway, slowly admiring the artwork in the strong dark elf style. When he saw the third work, Ryan suddenly realized that he believed that the female dark elves in these portraits were only the patriarchs of the Hrudian family, because each of them had that kind of swaggering temperament on their faces, and it was obvious that only people who were in high positions all the year round and could decide the life and death of thousands of people with a single order would be like this.
"Mr. Arethera has arrived! Lady Vanessa has arrived!" the emcee's loud voice rang out at the end of the hallway, and the two doors were slowly pushed open, revealing the hall behind. Ryan and Faras walked in side by side, and as far as they could see, there was a table in the center of the hall that was at least thirty meters long and a beautiful Dark Elf lady sitting across the table.
Seeing Lanina walking in with two strange dark elves, the dark elf lady sitting on the main seat stood up and said with a smile on the spot, "The two distinguished guests have arrived, please take a seat." Ryan looked around and saw that there were already many people sitting on both sides of the table where some food was placed, of course, most of them Ryan didn't know, he had only seen Senita sitting in the first position on the left side of the long table, and the third seat on the left was empty, thinking that it probably belonged to that Lanina.
"Two distinguished guests, please sit here. Naturally, there was a maid next to her to guide Ryan and the two of them to take a seat, and there was no need for Lanina to ask more about such trivial matters, so she whispered a few kind words to Ryan and his wife, and walked quickly to the vacant seat, and sat down as Ryan had guessed. When Mr. and Mrs. Lane sat at the other end of the long table, opposite the elegant lady, the breakfast began, and the maids who had been waiting for a long time began to take turns to bring the sumptuous and beautiful food to the table.
The graceful lady only stood up and greeted Ryan after they came in, and then she sat back down after Ryan and his wife sat down, thinking that as the patriarch of her family, this was already a very solemn expression to the guests, which Ryan could see from the jealousy and hostility in the eyes of many people at the table.
Ryan casually asked for a roast for himself and Farrath, and the maid next to him quickly set up the exquisite Mithril plate and cutlery, and a minute or two later, the fragrant roast appeared in front of Ryan. During this time, the female dark elf, who was sitting thirty meters across from her, spoke, "First of all, introduce yourself, I am the mother of Mares, the current patriarch of the Hrudian family. Both of you are honored guests of our family, so please don't be inhibited, just treat this place as your home. β
(Chapter 3)