The size of the banquet hall is limited, but this short stretch of road seems to completely burn people's energy.

Luckily, as the representative of the Dawn Society, Xiuge, who was at the front of the line, showed a very different energy at this moment, he skillfully and appropriately dealt with almost everyone here, and successfully brought the rest of the Dawn Society members to his own table.

The slightly stagnant atmosphere quickly loosened at this moment, and as the people of the Dawn Society took their seats, the waiters who had been waiting nearby stepped forward and began their work.

The welcome dinner on the night of the cruise ship is actually nothing special, and the captain and others will not really participate in the banquet.

They simply gestured to show their faces, briefly drank two drinks, ate a little, and spoke a few words to the passengers on behalf of the Dharma, and then left, leaving the time of the banquet to the passengers themselves.

This is a very important point in time for Shogue.

When he took the initiative to walk towards the passengers who had come to greet them, the Ernst family's magic rat herd, which had been scattered throughout the Windless cruise ship, also began to move, and the passengers' cabins naturally became the first target.

Although most of these cabins are now guarded by attendants and bodyguards, or are protected by various protective magic, the magical rat swarm, which has become part of the ancient power, are not very limited by the inherent magic system, or rat swarms manipulated by high intelligence can easily bypass the protective measures set up and infiltrate quietly through the loopholes in them.

Shug didn't need the rats to help him steal anything, they had only one goal, and that was all things, clues, and information related to the Black Sun Society and the ancient gods.

He didn't think he would be able to find the hidden members of the Black Sun Society on the Windless through such a crude and simple method, but it would also give him a deeper understanding of the current political and academic situation.

In fact, Shuge was able to further probe the specific attitudes and opinions of these elites of the Van Grace on the next developments.

This has important guiding and reference significance for himself and the entire Dawn Society in the future.

In the course of in-depth communication with these passengers, Hug deliberately left the scholars to Wei Lin, which was her area of expertise, and Wei Lin also cautiously began to contact these magic scholars while Xiuge was skillfully talking to the officials of the large and small principalities.

If those officials always act around interests, then the primary driving force influencing the actions of these scholars is curiosity.

Whether it's the strange black sun, or the magical changes in the whole of Vane, or the secret of the terrifying rift in the jagged hills...... Questions like these are plaguing these clever spellcasters.

As a mage who has witnessed the destruction of Salem City and is very close to the Highland Council, Verin is just right to satisfy their curiosity.

As for the other members of the Dawn Society, they were also scattered, each looking for a target for a brief contact and conversation, or following the two of them, helping them take notes and acting as their assistants......

While the Dawn Society members continued to try to obtain information and intelligence, the shrewd interlocutors were also tempting again and again, and their hearts were full of curiosity and wariness about this new large society, as mentioned in the previous discussion with Meyer and others, as mentioned in the previous discussion with Meyer and others, in the eyes of a considerable number of people, the nature of the Dawn Society was not clear, and they would even mistakenly believe that it was an association of mages that arose after the Law Council and the Council.

It's not so easy to explain these things to such a group of people.

Although they are extremely shrewd, their thinking is very susceptible to the influence of the inherent framework, in their eyes, the Dawn Society can be an association of wild mages that is being integrated, it can be a branch established by Merlin Le and the secretly, or it can be an organization supported by some great powers...... But they have no way to understand, and they don't want to believe that the Dawn Society is a pure, large group that wants to fight against the Black Sun Society.

Of course, Xiuge didn't want to bother with this either.

He knew very well that although these guys in front of him were all extremely cautious, restrained and polite now, and always had witty sentences when talking to him, in their hearts, they had their own scales for measuring the weight of things.

At this stage, rather than going to great lengths to explain the Dawn Society's program, goals, and ideals to these people, it is better to maintain a certain mystery of the Dawn Society, and thereby increase its presence and deterrence.

After all, sometimes, successful conversations don't depend on words and etiquette.

Body shape and fist size are also one of the judging criteria.

In this way, after Schug had dealt with most of the politicians, the rat swarm that had conducted the first rough search and inspection of the passenger compartment had basically completed its task, and a large amount of information was successfully gathered.

After many previous hunts for the Descendants of the Abyss, Xiuge has enough experience in facing this situation, he is silent on the surface, but the spiritual tide is surging in an orderly manner, with the rotation of the metal disc and the emission of magic power, these messy messages are quickly and simply sorted out, and neatly "stacked" in a clean corner, waiting for Xiuge to flip through at any time.

At the same time, the group of magic rats responsible for monitoring and observing the sailors on board has also reached a preliminary conclusion.

General Bernhardt and other people with rich military experience said that the soldiers on the ship were quite well-behaved, and all their behavior complied with the norms of professional soldiers, and the vast majority of them were qualified and doing their jobs dutifully, and some actions such as daze, napping or simple small talk were also within reasonable range.

As for the captain and other important personnel, they behaved extremely normally, and after leaving the banquet hall, they returned to their original posts, and now the entire Windless One was steadily advancing along the established course under the escort of the rest of the warships.

In Xiuge's conjecture, even if the Black Sun Society had some plans for this cruise ship, they would most likely not take action shortly after the cruise ship left port, and the Windless had a long voyage, and they had enough time to make various transfers.

Xiuge's gaze swept quickly across the banquet hall.

At this time, the passengers here had also finished the tedious communication, and most of them had already received the information they wanted to know, except for the group of mages who were still engaged in rigorous academic exchanges, the rest of them had already begun to eat.

The ship's waiters finally got to work in earnest, diligently shuttling around the tables and delivering the prepared food to each table.

Verin finally ended her conversation, and seeing that she seemed a little tired, Xiuge brought her a chilled dessert: "What? Isn't the conversation going well? ”

"Not really."

Wei Lin shook her head and picked up the small spoon next to the dessert: "It's just that everyone has some questions...... There were some arguments, and it was not easy to convince them. ”

With that, her gaze fell and focused on the dessert sprinkled with a little frosting and adorned with a creamy irise.

Verin, who had entered this state, obviously didn't want to continue talking.

So Shuge stopped asking questions, and began to concentrate on eating, as did the rest of the Dawn Society, but they were more reserved when it came to eating—not all of them had magical powers, and not all of them had been on large ships.

For quite a few people, seasickness is still a big problem, and although the Windless is running smoothly now, no one knows what the weather and sea conditions will be like next...... They were just ordinary people, who had neither the ability to use magic to directly respond to physiological reactions, nor the basic physical conditions to take those potions.

And just like that, this simple welcome dinner came to an end.

Although the passengers were still desperate to get more useful secrets and information from the young "legend" of Shug Ernst, they also knew that this kind of thing was urgent, and that the Windless One would sail for more than ten days, and they had time.

……

After dinner, the Windless, which had been sailing smoothly, finally began to bump a little.

The so-called "windless" is only the name of the ship with blessings and prayers, it does not really stop the arrival of the wind and waves, and as the turbulence intensifies, those who have eaten and drank unscrupulously at the dinner party have also paid the price.

Luckily, Xiuge had expected this kind of thing, so he specifically told the people in his team to rest early, including Wei Lin.

In this regard, Wei Lin did not insist too much, so she returned to her cabin early, washed up, took the alchemy potion prepared in advance, and directly began to rest, as for tasks such as vigilance, the swarm of rats in Xiuge was fully responsible.

"Damn, these plains guys can not only eat, but they also exaggerate when they vomit! Oh, it smells terrible. ”

The will of the Ernst family, who was visibly prejudiced against the inhabitants of the plains, retched twice in Sugg's mind.

From his description, it is not difficult to guess that he must have just witnessed the seasickness of some duchy official or nobleman.

Shuge ignored the chatter that gathered in the rat hole, after all, the content of their daily conversation was really not nutritious, and no listener would like it at all, except for the running rat.

Shuge quickly cut out the useless sounds, and after quickly taking care of the protection, he quickly retrieved a new jug from his luggage and unscrewed the cap.

Almost instantly, a soft, clear shadow burst out of the inside of the brand-new kettle and fell to the table beside it.

"Justina" quickly changed her form and then took on a rounded silhouette.

In the next second, at the top of the translucent sphere, two small triangles struggled to "jump" out, forming two ears that had no practical meaning.

This makes it look like a translucent ball with cat ears.

Xiuge looked amused, and just wanted to reach out and touch it, but a series of emotions representing complaints, dissatisfaction, grievances, and boredom passed through, and at the same time, the "Justina" on the table also gently shook her body and made some kind of extremely faint shrill sound.

This makes it look more like some kind of weird pet.

However, Xiuge can understand the emotions of "Justina", as early as after boarding the ship, it has already woken up, judging from its current state, the "color of life" that Xiuge fed it before has been completely digested by it, and as a creature with rich emotions and sufficient wisdom, it will indeed be very uncomfortable and aggrieved to be trapped in a small kettle all the time.

As an incompetent "father", Schüg decided to make up for his lack a little, so he sat down in front of "Justina" and held out his hand again.

After venting its frustration, the soft shadow regained its well-behaved form, and it actively puffed up its body, arching its head upwards so that it could touch itself more easily.

After stroking the top of Justina's head a few times, Shuge took the magic crystals he had with him, picked out a few pieces from them and gently placed them on the table.

"Justina" was obviously hungry again, so several tiny, soft limbs immediately poked out of its round transparent body, and quickly "gathered" the crystals to her side, and thus stuffed them into her body.

Then Xiuge saw that the magic power in the crystals that had just been taken out began to flow at an astonishing speed, which was so fast that the color and luster of the first two crystals became dim and gray within a dozen seconds.

After a few more minutes, "Justina's" body trembled slightly, and then it took the initiative to take out the crystal that had been completely "sucked dry" and placed it on the table.

This process was repeated twice, slowing down when it began to absorb the magic within the third crystal.

And the benefits of the magic of these two high-purity magic crystals were also extremely obvious, and Xiuge saw that "Justina's" body began to slowly change color, and instead of the previous gray and black, it was now transforming into a clean azure blue.

And the moment the color was almost fixed, its body trembled again, and then Shug heard a thin, faint, but extremely clear voice.

Although there was only one word, he managed to capture it.

"Hungry!"

(End of chapter)