Chapter 54: Fighting Wine
Ed separated the group and walked in front of Howard, and the first sentence he said surprised everyone next to him.
"Let's compete to score the winner, if you drink ordinary wine, I'm afraid you won't be drunk until dawn, say it to make people think that I am deliberately delaying and fighting you to a draw, let's go directly to the strongest wine, dare?"
Howard pouted, happy in his heart, where is he easy to deceive, anyone who looks at his strong figure thinks that this person has suffered his loss, looking at Ed's small physique in front of him, he knows that the other party is worried that the wine is not drunk, and the belly will not be able to hold up first, but fighting wine is fighting wine, and he has never thought of winning in other ways, and he is embarrassed to say it.
"Okay, who is going to take out the two jars of ice and fire stone wine stored in the back for us, and let you see what the real best is today!" After saying that, Howard looked at Ed with a smug face, waiting for the other party to show a surprised expression, but unfortunately Ed had never heard of such a strange name of wine.
However, after listening to Howard's words, many knights who knew about it next to him gasped and looked at their leader in shock, "What's wrong with this guy today, even this kind of treasure at the bottom of the box is willing to take it out." ”
There were a few young knights who didn't know about it, and someone next to him rushed to introduce him, and Ed had sharp ears and heard a little.
"Hey, don't listen to the strange name of this wine, in fact, it is not strange at all, it is said that half of the people who have drunk this wine say that the taste is as cold as ice, and the other half say that it is as hot as a fire, even if it is a stone to drink, it will definitely be drunk for three days and three nights, and it is not something that people can bear at all. ”
"Nonsense, I've heard people say that this wine is specially made for our knights to drink, and when you become a high-level knight like Lord Howard, it won't taste like ordinary wine, if you are lucky enough to surpass this level in this life and become a gold-level knight, then you will drink like drinking water, won't it feel very painful?"
"That's right, so this wine ......"
"Yes, this wine is specially made for gold-level knights to drink, it is said that it can also stimulate the growth of their own spiritual energy, and there are many benefits, our country regularly supplies a batch to the bigwigs on the northern front to enjoy, and it can be regarded as military supplies, but I didn't expect Boss Howard to intercept two bottles, so that the guys in the War Association know that they must not be able to keep it!"
I heard that it is such a gold-level wine that can be used and has an impact on psionic energy, Ed is also a little drumming in his heart, he dares to bet with Howard, who is higher than himself, that it all depends on the spiritual engraving, and at the time of Hill Castle, he found that even if he was drunk, the engraving could control his body, and in the eyes of the outside world, he was not drunk.
And Howard, as an old qualified silver knight, not to mention his powerful spiritual energy, just ** Su zhì is one level higher than Ed's bronze level, if the two sides do not use spiritual energy, the fool will also know that Howard must have drunk a lot.
The surrounding knights also think so, even if they are born with a larger amount of alcohol than ordinary people, they can't be compared with the strengthening of their own prime after the level of the psionic person is raised, for the knight, the changes brought by the psionic energy are earth-shaking, and no matter how powerful ordinary people are, they are not the opponents of the psionics.
"Boss Howard, this is a clear bully of newcomers, not only to compare the amount of wine, but also to take out such a strong wine, only gold-level can drink, this kid in front of him is still bronze like us, a small sip is estimated to fall. ”
"Then you can't blame others, I just heard outside that someone was fighting with the boss, and I thought it was going to fight a protracted war, and finally get a draw, who knew that this kid came up and sealed his own way out, he was really looking for death!"
"Hey, you don't know, Ed hasn't been drunk in dozens of taverns in Hill since then, and no one knows how much he drinks until now, so I don't think he's going to lose!"
"Okay, why don't we take a gamble? How about the loser give the other party a weapon with star crystal ore?"
"You kid, I knew you coveted my warhammer for a long time, and you were waiting for me here, don't gamble. ”
"Otherwise, if I lose, I will give you all the armor and weapons, how about you just bet on that war hammer, and Ed won't necessarily lose if you didn't say it?"
"This ...... Still don't bet, my hammer is not only added to the star concentrate, you want a good weapon to go to the battlefield in two days and snatch it from the hands of the Ingiers, don't keep beating my idea!"
Ed, whose face was slightly darkened, would be difficult to ride a horse, and he would wait for the time to get the wine, and Howard on the other side looked at him with a shy old face, as if he was waiting for him to admit defeat at any time.
After a while, someone took out the sealed and locked Ice and Fire Stone Wine in the box, and Howard stopped the action of others preparing to open the wine first, and said in a deep voice.
"Ed boy, give you one last chance, it's still too late to admit defeat, you must know that if you drink this sip, maybe you will have to sleep for three days and three nights, and your commander will not be able to spare you if the war is delayed at that time!"
He originally directly took out this kind of treasured wine just to calm the little knight in front of him and let him retreat, but he didn't expect that the other party was probably young and knowledgeable, and he hadn't heard of it, but the people around him preached it like this, the other party should not turn a deaf ear, if he was smart, he should have borrowed the donkey to admit defeat, not to mention that he also gave him the best reason.
Ed mentally confirmed to the mark one last time whether his plan would succeed, and then faced the probing gaze of Delia on the sidelines, he finally nodded.
"Come on, I'm afraid that you yourself will fall in one bite, and the army will not take you with you when the time comes!"
"Haha!" Howard laughed, but he was extremely annoyed, did this kid still have the idea of dying together?
It's a pity that this is a good wine, but now that I am being watched by so many knights around me, it is too late to change the wine.
The big man swept away the others, carefully opened the seal of a wine barrel, took the smallest wine glass from the bar, and poured a small glass for each of them.
Ed, like the knights around him, had seen this wine for the first time, and it would have looked really unusual when he heard someone blow it just now.
I saw that this wine was extremely thick, like elixir, the transparent color was poured into the glass, but from time to time a little Venus appeared, and I don't know if it was my own dazzle or what, the rich aroma was greedily inhaled into the nose by the people around me, just this little bit made people feel that they were in the winery, and they were going to get drunk when they smelled it.
Howard resealed the barrel with a distressed expression, as if any more aroma was cutting his flesh.
He brought one glass to Ed, took the other and placed it in front of him, twitching his huge nose to feel the infinite charm in it.
For a moment, no one in the hall spoke, all trying to stir their noses and taste something, Tennison stood behind Ed, just now he was made a bet, and he was stingy with his weapon and finally regretted it, this will make him wish he could replace Ed, even if he was really drunk for three days and three nights, the wine in front of him really shouldn't be missed.
Ed raised the wine glass in front of him and sniffed it cautiously, the strong aroma of wine came from his nose and needless to say, in addition, there was also a clear spiritual breath, inhaling it into his brain to make the spiritual energy in his body feel like he was about to move.
At this time, a knight who volunteered to be an overseer released his psionic energy to envelop the two contestants in it, so that as long as one of them used his psionic energy to resist the strength of the wine, everyone could feel it and ensure that the game was fair.
Howard looked at Ed with his shot glass, as if hoping that he would throw in the towel in time and not waste his wine.
It's a pity that Ed didn't appreciate it, he smiled at the silver knight in front of him, the hand holding the wine glass slowly tilted, and took a small sip with his mouth, only to feel that the entrance was like both ice and fire, and before he could carefully distinguish it, his tongue was numb, and the wine went all the way down, and it seemed that all the places he passed suddenly dissolved in it, and it didn't belong to his own control.
Then the strength of the wine spread throughout the body, and in addition to the divine consciousness, it really made people feel that all the burdens had been abandoned, and only a pure spiritual body remained in this world.
Ed tried to roll his eyes, and saw that his hands were still on his arms, and his body should be fine, but he didn't accept his control at all, and he couldn't even feel his own little spiritual energy, it was just a small mouthful of lips that had just moistened his lips, and it was so powerful!
Howard on the other side looked at this kid in surprise, he really drank it?
The knight next to him finally saw Ed moving the cup, and they were all waiting to see his reaction, whether it was a spicy tear or a slap on the table and shouted?
"Hey, what's the matter, this wine, it's talking!"
"You didn't see it, I think he's drunk, I didn't see him motionless!"
"Nonsense, if you're drunk, don't lie down immediately, don't you stand upright!"
Tennison stood behind, and saw that Ed tasted a bite and didn't have any follow-up, the anxious big man scratched his ears and cheeks, and he couldn't wait to touch Ed lightly with his hand, "Ed, what's wrong with you, huh? Why is your body so hard, like a stone!"
The only person here who had tasted this kind of wine could see that Ed's whole body was stiff, and only a pair of eyes were left to look like he was back then, and Howard let out a loud laugh:
"Young man, now that you know it's powerful, don't you feel like your whole body is out of control? You can't even use your own bronze-level spiritual energy, sue you, this ice and fire stone wine is so powerful, just drink it with a small cup and keep it for three days and three nights like a stone, haha...... Huh?"
But immediately he couldn't stop laughing, and the knights who were talking about it around him also stopped their voices, only to see Ed slowly stretch out a hand and make a gesture of please, although the movement was not very smooth, but it undoubtedly broke Howard's statement, this kid can still move!
Howard was stunned for a moment, it doesn't make sense, he couldn't bear his greed when he was still bronze-level, he just licked a little secretly and had to be carried by someone, is this kid even more powerful than me back then?
Ed did spend the most effort to make such a simple move, he didn't let the mark take over the body for the time being, but completely relied on his willpower to overcome the strength of the wine, after all, he once accepted the pain of the separation of spirit and body, and the tenacity of the mental struggle far surpassed that of ordinary psionic people, this wine can put down all the bronze-level psionic knights present, but Ed is the only exception.
"Okay, the bronze knight who can still move after drinking this wine, you are the first, I haven't heard of anyone else who can do it before, just rush to this, I admire you, but if you want to win me, you still have to be tender!"
As he spoke, Howard leaned his neck arrogantly, poured all the wine in the small wine glass, stretched out his tongue and sucked everything on the beard on the side of his mouth into his mouth, without wasting a drop, and then slammed the wine glass on the table, looking at the boy defiantly.
Ed's ability to do it at this time is his best effort, and it really costs him his life to drink this glass of wine.