MTL - Magic Tower Starry Sky-Chapter 1426 red shoes
Generally speaking, all members of the host's family should go out to welcome the emperor, and all the guests present must accompany them as long as they have status. It can be said that if the status is not good enough, they are not even allowed to attend to greet the emperor.
But the welcome formation that Prince Behar put on was just his butler standing at the door. The queues on both sides were the guard knights belonging to the prince, and the servants who were serving on the scene, and this group of people also vaguely confronted the queen's guard knights.
This is simply to treat the emperor as an ordinary guest, and it is also an ordinary guest with a low status. Because if the visitor's status is high enough, even if he is not the emperor, he should be greeted by the aristocrat of the main family himself, or someone with a certain status in his family. Rather than the shabby scene in front of me.
Seeing such an attitude, Lin can understand why Alegria is not willing to participate in the banquet hosted by others. It is not the first time that such a humiliation as before him has occurred.
Alegria is well aware that this is not the time for conflict. Under the circumstances that the vast majority of nobles and members of the royal family do not support him, even if the excuse is that the other party lacks etiquette or provocative words, it seems so pale and weak.
Otherwise, she could use the emperor's disrespect as an excuse to directly kill these servants, even targeting their master's family. But in the moment when there is no support, if you react too strongly to this level of humiliation, it will become an excuse for others to blame.
For such humiliation, the Empress is not without coping skills. She led the crowd, including her fully armed guard knights, and walked directly towards the mansion with their heads held high.
The prince's guards only dared to block the emperor's guard with their bodies. The two sides pushed and squeezed each other, but there was no big fight, and of course no one dared to take out weapons.
Banquet without guards, and all personnel disarm, is a customary rule. Because protecting the safety of the guests is considered the responsibility of the host family by default; if you have to bring your own guards, isn't it like saying that you don't trust the nobles who hold the banquet. In fact, the Empress really didn't trust her, so she didn't intend to abide by such rules and just led people to force her way in.
But no matter how much the prince's guards tried to stop her, no one dared to block the way of the empress, and even stretched out their hands to push the majesty. At most, it was aimed at the people brought by the empress.
If someone dared to attack Her Majesty the Empress rashly without consent, even if it was just to slow her down a bit, there would be no way to redress her grievances if she was beheaded on the spot. Noble body, not everyone can touch it, especially the emperor.
The only way is to block the queen's guards and let her own guards block her progress. The prince's guards did not offend the nobleman, so there is no reason to punish them for their conscientiousness.
The strength and number of guards on both sides were about the same, so there were five or five waves of this cold war, and no one had the upper hand. But as long as the prince can block all the empress' guards outside and let the empress enter alone, it will be considered a victory.
A more ideal situation would be that the empress simply dared not enter because the guards were blocked, and stood outside the mansion, blowing the cold wind. The Karlsruhe Empire, which is more than February, is in autumn. Even if you don't have a cold, you are blocked from the door as an emperor, which is desolate enough.
As a follower, a certain magician who came uninvited was of course also among the targets blocked by the prince's side.
Lin saw that everyone's conflicts were restrained, so of course it was impossible for him to do something too outrageous. Otherwise, if I really wanted to kill, no one here would be able to stop me. So he took out the magic of Xue Zifen, the former demon king, and a shocking spiritual imprint directly hit the eyes of the person blocking the way.
Given the current gap in strength between myself and the opponent, this imprint can directly make the opponent's body stiff, stop thinking, and be unable to move. It is estimated that it will last for a few breaths. And this time is enough for someone to push them away and follow the empress into the mansion.
Stretching it out longer is laborious and requires time for mantras and preparation. Besides, if you really use magic such as hold technique, it is easy to be regarded as provocation and cause conflict. It is the best way to make the other party stiff for a short time like now, so that you can't stop yourself.
Besides, the advantage of this trick is that there is no need to see blood, and it is unisex. With such a magician opening the way, Alegria's guards also broke into many people and entered Prince Behar's mansion.
Staying in such a place is no different from being in an enemy camp. Therefore, the guard knights who were able to follow in cautiously surrounded the empress with a human wall, enclosing someone along the way. This was because they couldn't push the magician away, and the number of people was not enough, otherwise they would have surrounded three circles inside and three circles outside, protecting the empress heavily.
As the flow of people moved forward, everyone walked towards the banquet hall of the mansion. As the distance gets closer, the passionate music becomes clearer. Accompanied by the music, there is the crisp sound of metal hitting, loud human voices, and... desolate crying?
To Lin's ears, this kind of music with an extremely fast rhythm and mainly drums rarely appeared at noble banquets. Although the number of times he has participated in noble banquets is limited, he is not a professional household.
But someone is familiar with this type of music. It was the dancer in the tavern, who often also served as the female branch of the female Chang, and would play the music when she danced to cheer up the drinkers to cheer her up. Vulgarity and vulgarity are the nobles' evaluation of this kind of music.
Anyway, when I heard this kind of music, I immediately thought that there must be a scene where there is a young lady wearing cheap clothes and belly dancing in front of the guests. Just what's with that cry? And... that voice sounded familiar.
When I followed the empress into the banquet hall, although the scene in front of me was not a sea of people, the banquet hall was packed to the brim. These human-looking nobles were staring at a stage, whispering to each other, talking non-stop.
Really sent someone to dance?
But what's with the voices that keep crying "It's hot." "Please, please forgive me." "Help me." Especially with the continuous metal knocking sound, it is even more weird.
Although he hadn't squeezed into the front row to watch the performance, Lin could see an iron chain hanging from the shelf above the stage, which should be locked to the dancers below. And that dancer is... Alegria's close friend, a mixed-race woman with the blood of the Sea Race—Calamus.
The queen's team didn't have to squeeze people, in fact, when she appeared, the crowd surrounding the stage made a way for her. Judging from the expressions of the nobles on the left and right, they didn't give way out of respect, they just looked like they were watching the show.
And the scene in front of him is nothing new to a traveler from the age of knowledge explosion. But the shock I saw with my own eyes was completely different from what I heard about the cruel abuse.
The stage is actually a large iron plate steaming with heat. The source of the metal knocking sound was a pair of red-hot iron shoes on Changpu's feet. She was enduring the pain and kept shrinking her legs and jumping.
Every time the pair of red iron shoes kicked on the iron plate of the stage, not only would there be a crisp knocking sound, but also sparks would burst out. In order not to touch the iron plate as much as possible, Changpu could only jump high with all his might. But the higher the jump, the louder the sound of the heavy fall, and the brighter the sparks.
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She wanted to get away from this terribly hot iron plate. But Changpu's hands were tied behind his back, an iron hoop was handcuffed around his neck, and he was chained to a shelf above the stage with an iron chain.
Although there are clothes on the body, don't think that the person who did this has a conscience. Because the clothes are not only thin, but also because of the heat from the iron plate, the clothes with extremely low ignition point have scorched marks. There are even flames burning in some places, and of course these fires also leave traces on the calamus.
She just jumped, cried, and howled! However, the heart-piercing voice did not bring any sympathy.
The nobles around the stage, no matter men or women, showed no trace of compassion. They all looked at the 'performance' on the stage with excited red eyes, and then gave their own evaluation.
The host of the banquet, Prince Behar's short child figure, stood on one side of the stage. His aura is very strong, whether it's a ostentatious smile or a wild laugh, no one can ignore his existence.
And the prince, who was supposed to be standing beside the empress, now seemed to be flattering, toasting and laughing beside the prince. When they saw the Empress and her party, they raised their wine glasses as if they were in a demonstration.
The struggling calamus was facing the direction of the entrance of the banquet hall. Of course she also saw the empress and her party~www.novelbuddy.com~ and shouted bitterly on the spot: "Your Majesty, save me, save me. It hurts!"
But there were two rows of heavily armed soldiers in front of the stage, with large shields in the front and spears in the back. With a menacing appearance, it is obvious that he wants to prevent the empress from saving people.
The weapons and armor were carried out. If the Empress didn't bring her guards in, the opponent wouldn't directly kill her.
But Lin didn't spend too much time complaining. After seeing the situation clearly, he immediately took action. First one flashes onto the iron stage.
I didn't directly touch the iron plate, but remained in a floating state, and I had a basalt robe for self-defense. Even so, Lin also felt a burst of high temperature baking himself.
Grabbing Calamus's slender waist that kept twisting, another flash appeared! There was only an iron chain and iron hoop hanging empty, and a pair of red-hot iron shoes on the stage.
In a blink of an eye, Lin returned to the Empress' side with her in his arms. The index finger dipped a box-cut sword pellet, swiped past Changpu's back, cut off the iron chains that tied her hands behind her, and scattered them all over the ground. Lin tore off the burning clothes again, even if there were no other clothes, it was better than being hurt by the burning clothes.
The rescued people couldn't calm down, and Calamus was still struggling and wailing in pain. A pair of feet that had taken off their iron shoes was already a lake of flesh and blood. Not to mention the smell of meat, it's just a burnt smell! A pair of calves are also red, although this is not a burn, but it is also a burn caused by the high temperature and hot air.
Not to mention the large and small burns on the body caused by the burning clothes. In addition to these injuries, there are some bruises and marks of beatings.
But the most eye-catching thing is the big painted face of calamus. It's like putting on a layer of heavy makeup, and then ruining the makeup completely because of snot, tears and sweat. It looked unspeakably weird.
