——It will be released in the early morning, are you ready?
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Lucien looked at the gradually darkening streets through the car window, listening to Victor, Rhine and Lott talking about the scenery of this season in the manor in a relaxed manner.
"Lucien, why don't you say anything? Are you not interested in the 'Bern' wine made by Phyllis at home?" Rhine noticed Lucien who was staying quietly by the carriage window and asked with a smile.
Felice's "Bern" manor contains a very good grape field, and most of the grapes harvested in it are used to make wine. After many years of cellaring and selection, the wine of "Bern" manor has become well-known in Aalto, and can be regarded as
Second-class wines can only be tasted if invited to a dance or banquet at Phyllis's house.
Lucien found an excuse to cover it up: "Mr. Rhine, actually I'm worried about the dance later. I don't know any dance. It's very embarrassing."
"Do you need me to teach you? Although you are not a beautiful lady." Rhine said teasingly to Lucien, "Or you can just think of me as a beautiful lady."
Seeing Lucien's embarrassed expression with nothing to say, Victor smiled and told him: "We all know your situation. No one will ask you to dance on purpose. Of course, if Lucien you want to learn, I will
Girls who want to be beautiful will be happy to teach.”
In this relaxed and casual atmosphere, Lucien gradually calmed down. All preparations had been made, and then came the specific implementation. No matter how worried or nervous it was now, it would not help.
The carriage left the city gate, crossed the Belem River, and drove towards the manor between the northern edge of the Melzer Black Forest and the river.
Because of the patterned rock quarry, the Phyllis family's manor was very wealthy. The main house was built with pale golden patterned rock and was luxurious.
Phyllis was wearing a fiery red evening dress, and she was waiting at the door of the main house with two rows of servants. Two rows of six copper lamp holders were burning with bright yellow flames, driving away the darkness of the night after seven o'clock.
"Teacher Victor, Mr. Rhine, Lucien, Lot, hello." Seeing the carriage stop, Phyllis came up with the butler to greet her. Because it was her dance, her father Urbain and mother were staying behind.
In the city of Alto.
Every noble lady must develop the ability to host balls and banquets independently.
"You are so beautiful tonight, Phyllis." Victor hugged Phyllis and praised with an elder's smile.
The fiery red evening dress, long red hair, ruby-like eyes and fair skin really made Phyllis much more beautiful than usual.
Phyllis thanked her while greeting other guests. She invited not only her classmates, but also aristocratic friends.
After greeting Phyllis with a kiss on the hand, Lucien, wearing a black formal suit, walked into the main hall.
The ground made of blue patterned rocks is gorgeous yet heavy. The hall is as big as the living room and dining room of Lucien Garden Villa, and can accommodate gatherings of hundreds of people.
A long dining table is placed in a corner of the hall. In addition to many glasses of blood-red wine, there are also refreshing and beautiful salads, mince pies, jelly and other appetizers, barbecue, diced stew, sausages, noodles, and fat goose.
, capons, grapes, white bread and other staple foods, fruits, and other weird things that Lucien could not recognize.
The invited band played beautiful music in another corner, making the entire dance look soothing and elegant.
After Lucien came in, he went to the dining table and took a plate, loaded it with barbecue, fat goose, sausages, white bread, salad, etc., and ate quietly in the corner while waiting for Phyllis to announce the start of the dance.
The candlelight dimmed, the music changed, and one by one the gentlemen invited the ladies to step into the center of the hall and dance the "circle dance" passed down from the Tria Palace. It was criticized by the conservative old nobles as being close to each other and entangled with limbs.
Erotic dance, but the more those old guys commented, the more enthusiastic the young people and even most ladies became.
"Are you here for the banquet instead of the dance, Lucien?" After Phyllis danced the opening dance with her teacher Victor, she looked around for Lucien and finally found him in the corner. At this time, Lu
Sean's full plate of food was almost finished, which made Phyllis dumbfounded.
After stimulating the power of his bloodline, Lucien's appetite increased greatly, and there were still difficult things waiting for him at night.
Putting down the plate, Lucien spread his hands: "I don't know how to dance in circles, Phyllis."
"Do you want me to teach you, Mr. Rhine to teach you, or Yvette?" Phyllis obviously learned from Victor what Rhine had teased Lucien before, and Yvette was dancing happily with an aristocratic man.
As she danced, perhaps sensing Phyllis' gaze, she turned her head and looked over, then smiled coquettishly and gave Lucien a wink.
Phyllis turned around and said sincerely: "Lucien, if you want to integrate into the upper class society and deal with the nobles, music, dancing and hunting are all indispensable. Okay, let me teach you."
"Actually, I prefer to work quietly." Lucien didn't want to act special at critical moments, so he had to imitate other men and make an invitation gesture to Phyllis.
Phyllis stretched out her hand with satisfaction: "Didn't you do a good job? Don't worry about other people's ridicule, it's always like this the first time."
With one arm around Phyllis's waist and the other holding her shoulders, Lucien listened to her guidance and started dancing practice.
A few minutes later, Phyllis looked at Lucien in surprise: "Lucien, have you ever learned circle dancing before? You dance very well, you don't look like a novice at all. Well, except for being very reserved, you don't dare to dance with me.
The body is close to the outside."
"Your Highness, teach me something." The reason why Lucien learned so quickly was because of his super coordination ability and agility, and there was no way to teach this kind of thing to Phyllis. He could only do it with Natasha, who knew it.
shield.
Phyllis suddenly said: "So that's it. Her Royal Highness the Princess is a great knight. If she teaches you, the effect will definitely be very good."
At this point, she suddenly laughed: "Her Royal Highness is half a head taller than you, and is a level 5 strongman. When dancing with you, who is the lady, Lucien?"
She had obviously heard some rumors, after all, Natasha herself made no secret of it.
"..." Lucien didn't know what to say, and then he felt something in his heart, pretending to slip his foot, and screamed in pain in a low voice.
Phyllis asked with concern: "Lucien, have you sprained your foot? Do you need to see a doctor?" There is a dedicated family doctor in the manor.
"It's nothing, just take a rest and you'll be fine. Can you find someone to take me to the room?" Lucien shook his head and said it was not serious.
Phyllis felt relieved and called a male attendant to help Lucien to the guest room on the third floor of the main house.
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The guest room is very clean and tidy, and the velvet quilt is soft and warm.
Lucien sat on the edge of the bed and watched the male attendant close the door, then took out the letter and wrote on it with a quill pen:
"Hasn't the 'Sphere of Scenery' been delivered yet?"
It was already close to eight o'clock and it was completely dark.
It took a full ten minutes before a line of black words appeared on the envelope: "Open the window."
Lucien quickly opened the window. With the brisk music in the hall as the background, a small black ball flew in and landed directly on Lucien's hand.
Lucien did not crush it, but saw a vague scene through the black smoke billowing inside the "Sight Ball".
It's still that little cabin.
This made Lucien quietly heave a sigh of relief. The opponent hadn't moved yet, but he had to hurry up. Continuous requests for "Sight Balls" would probably arouse the opponent's vigilance.
Putting the "Sight Ball" away, Lucien whispered to the letter: "I will be responsible for comforting John when I go back tomorrow morning."
"Thank you for your cooperation, Mr. Evans." The letter paper revealed cold black text.
Lucien folded the letter paper, stuffed it into the envelope, and put it inside his black coat. Then he took off his coat and hung it on the coat rack.
After learning that Lucien sprained his foot, Victor and others came to visit him one after another, including young nobles whom Lucien knew and did not know. Among them, Yvette seemed a little disappointed. She probably planned to come to meet Lucien in the middle of the night.
En "discussed life", but the other party has become a "wounded person".
It wasn't until half past nine that Lucien's place became completely quiet. Then he locked the door, blew out the candles, and lay on the bed. The whole room was dark.
In the darkness, Lucien suddenly stood up, walked to the table, poured a glass of hot water, and at the same time let a "Camille Blood Drop" hidden in his palm fall into the hot water.
The water rippled slightly, and Camille's voice sounded directly in Lucien's ears: "Do you have any clues, Lucien?"
Neither the letter paper nor the cult priest responded to this.
Lucien used the agreed secret language and muttered a few meaningless words to himself, then pretended to miss and dropped the cup to the ground, smashing it to pieces.
The meaning of the secret language is: "Near the forest in the southeast of the Black Forest of Melzer, near the remnants of the 'Lubko' peak."
It covers a wide range, but this better reflects the reality of Lucien's clues.
This location is quite a distance from the cabin and the Marsol River. They are two completely different places. If Kamil searched carefully, he would not be able to get there for a long time.
Cursing in a low voice as he collected the broken glass, Lucien lay back on the bed. At the same time, he took out the two "Camille's Blood Drops" from his pants pocket and placed them on the bed.
The dance continued, setting off the quietness of the rest of the manor, and occasionally a few dogs barked.
The silver moon gradually rose, and its light shone into the room, casting a silvery glow. In the silvery glow, there was an afterimage in the velvet quilt that twisted a few times invisibly, and then escaped from the surveillance of the envelope.
He ran out of the window that was not closed.
If there was no silver moon tonight and it was very dark, Lucien would find other ways to evade surveillance.
After exiting the window, Lucien did not go down. Instead, he climbed to the top of the building following the moonlight and hid in the darkness.
Perhaps because he was reassured about the stationery monitoring Lucien, the cult priest hid far away behind a big tree outside the manor and did not pay attention at all. In his mind, Lucien did not have any supernatural power.
With his body turning into moonlight, Lucien climbed over the wall of the manor from the other side of the main house and entered the woods. He took off his leather shoes and the clothes inside and hid them, put on a hooded black robe that was carried close to his body, and then headed toward the southeast.