After the ceremony, Perseus held a celebration banquet in the palace dining room to entertain these meritorious people.

Needless to say, the food cooked by the royal chef is so exquisite. The food everyone eats is luxurious, with goat meat dipped in the best fruit wine, brushed with the palace's secret sauce, and roasted whole beef grilled over charcoal fire.

The seafood caught from the Broken Moon Sea and sent directly to the palace, as well as the pies made with freshly picked fruits, are all tempting to watch.

For slaves, they used to be satisfied with just bread and water. Most of the time they could only eat animal feed to fill their stomachs - many nobles also fed slaves in this way, because slaves were originally

You are an animal, so you should eat things that match your status.

If you encounter a mean slave owner, even those disgusting-tasting feeds will not be fed enough, and slaves will often go hungry.

Now, slaves who were raised as animals suddenly encountered such a luxurious banquet. It was undoubtedly like pouring a ladle of cold water into hot oil. They were originally very uncomfortable with the noble atmosphere around them, but in the blink of an eye their hunger disappeared.

overwhelming.

The scene in the restaurant was a mess. The way the slaves ate could no longer be described as "wolfing down". The scene was as chaotic as a war. Only a few people were using tableware. They were all grabbing with their hands. Their clothes and faces were all covered with food.

Yes, there are still several people who eat too much and burst their stomachs. They lie in the corner and keep vomiting. They vomit until they collapse and don't want to rest. They rush back to eat again.

Lugo is a man who has enjoyed good fortune. He didn't eat anything good when he followed Kino, so he is not as crazy as the slaves now, but he doesn't look slovenly at all when eating. All he can see is that he has a good chair.

He didn't sit down, but at the dining table. He had a leg of lamb in his left hand and fruit wine in his right hand. He ate and drank at the same time. There was a plate in front of him, but he still spit out the chewed bones on the ground.

After Lugo finished chewing the leg of lamb, he wiped the oil from his fingers and went directly to rub the head of a slave next to him. He grinned and said, "How is it? I didn't lie to you at the beginning, did I? Now everyone will be deprived of their slave status and will be honored."

, they are all nobles from now on! Those cowards who refused to fight with us must be so regretful that their intestines are blue now."

The slave swallowed the food in his mouth, nodded and bowed to Lugo, and said solemnly: "We are where we are today because of Lord Lugo. From now on, we will listen to you in everything! You are our god!"

After hearing this, Lugo's expression changed subtly. He pushed the slave away gently with his backhand and said with a smile: "Go and eat your food. Live your own life from now on. We will never meet again in this life."

As soon as Lugo finished speaking, a ridiculing voice came from behind: "Oh, look who this is, isn't he the unlucky guy who was assigned to go mining?"

"Bang!" Lugo smashed the plate on the table with a slap and said with a grim face, "You damn bastard."

There was a sudden silence all around, and the slaves looked carefully at Lugo and the uninvited guest behind him, feeling that this man really didn't want to open and lift any pot, and he had to talk about such spoiling things at the celebration banquet.

But who would have expected that after Lugo smashed the plate, he suddenly put on a playful smile, stood up and gave the person behind him a bear hug: "You little bastards, I miss you so much!"

Behind Lugo were none other than his old comrades-in-arms, Paladin, Baisa, Nico, Roman, and even the Shangguan siblings who had recently joined Kino's command.

Lugo stepped forward and exchanged bear hugs with these people. Shangguan Xue avoided him with a look of disgust, but still bumped fists with him.

Lugo hugged each other to the back. He was about to hug the person at the end, but when he saw the person clearly, his expression froze and his face turned pale with fright.

Lugo, who always held his head high when facing the king and never knelt down, now knelt down with his heart on his knees and put his forehead to the ground, like a sinner waiting to be punished.

There was deathly silence all around, and all sounds seemed to be deprived of a strange sense of oppression. Paladin and others also subconsciously retreated to the side, lowering their heads, looking slightly nervous.

Lugo is now honored. The Far East wants to kill him, but cannot. The king wants to kill him, but the merits and demerits are equal and he cannot kill him. But there is one person who can decide Lugo's life or death at any time. He is the hero of the kingdom in front of outsiders.

But in front of this person, he is just a mortal facing death.

After a long silence, a clear voice sounded in front of Lugo: "You know what? I think people rarely make mistakes. If I say a person is dead, that person is definitely dead. I did this a few months ago.

I told you."

"And you, let me slap you in the face."

Lugo quickly fetched the knife, then knelt down on the ground, holding the knife in the air with both hands, indicating that he was willing to kill him, clearly intending to use his own life to achieve the other's reputation.

Soon, the table knife in Lugo's hand was taken away by a hand wearing white gloves.

"Hiss-hiss-" The sound of the blade cutting something sounded, making the listeners tremble unconsciously, but they soon discovered that it was not the sound of the knife entering the body, but more like cutting something fragile.

"Hiss--" The sound of the last knife cut was heard, and Lugo suddenly felt his head weighing slightly, and something was placed on his head.

"Ta, ta, ta..." The crisp footsteps gradually faded away and finally disappeared in the hall.

He didn't know how long he had been kneeling with his forehead on the ground. Lugo mustered up the courage and tentatively took the thing off his head. After a closer look, he found that it was a peeled apple, exuding a faint sweet smell.

After being stunned for a moment, Lugo slumped to the ground and breathed a long sigh of relief, his eyes filled with the joy of surviving a disaster.

"Kachi." Lugo held the apple and took a hard bite on it. His expression changed before he took two bites: "Well..."

"What's wrong?" everyone asked.

Lugo was moved to tears by the smell, but he smiled like a child: "Bitter..."

...

On the 4th day of God's Blessing in the year 514 of the Fire Calendar, the king's investiture ceremony was restarted in the palace hall. Kino van Helsing, the consul of Twilight City, was awarded the title and promoted to the sixth king leader under the command of King Doguland 24th, Haier.

The Xin family is as famous as Ragnorme, Troy, Eric, Hedge, and Dagon.

In just two years, from the civil affairs officer of a border town to the leader of the king, Kino's promotion speed was unprecedented in history, and the name of Dusk Death finally bloomed on the top of the kingdom.

However, behind this unprecedented glory, there is a phenomenon that is difficult to ignore - except for the king himself, and the two king's right-hand men, Lan Xian and Sting, there is no one else above Kino, and there are only equals around him.

He has no rewards and no titles due to his family background.
Chapter completed!