Chapter 83 Prom Night (Recommendation Ticket Requested)
——It's going to be on the shelves in the early morning, are you ready?
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Lucian looked out the car window at the gradually darkening streets, listening to Viktor, Rhine, and Lot relaxing and exchanging the seasonal scenery in the manor.
"Lucian, why don't you speak? Are you afraid to be interested in the 'Bern' wine made by Phyllis's own family?" Rhine noticed Lucian who was quietly staying by the carriage window and asked with a smile.
Phyllis' "Bern" estate contains a very good vineyard, and most of the grapes harvested in it are used for winemaking. After many years of cellaring and selection, the "Bern" estate wine has become quite famous in Aalto, and it is considered a second-class wine, and only when invited by the Phyllis family dance and banquet can you have the opportunity to taste it.
Lucian found an excuse to cover it up: "Mr. Rhine, I'm actually worried about the dance party 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 to Lucian jokingly, "Or you can treat me as a beautiful lady."
Seeing Lucian's embarrassed appearance with nothing to say, Victor smiled and told him: "Your situation, we all know that no one will deliberately ask you to dance, of course, if Lucian you want to learn, I think the beautiful ladies will be happy to teach."
In this relaxed and casual atmosphere, Lucian's mood gradually calmed down, all preparations were ready, and then it was time to implement the specific things.
The carriage left the city gates, crossed the Belen River, and drove towards the manor between the northern edge of the Melze Black Forest and the river.
Because of the patterned rock quarry, the Phyllis family's manor is very wealthy, and the main house is made of light gold patterned stone, which is luxurious and magnificent.
Phyllis was wearing a bright red evening dress, waiting at the door of the main house with two rows of servants, two rows of six copper lamp holders burning bright yellow flames, dispelling the night after seven o'clock.
"Teacher Victor, Mr. Rhine, Lucian, Lot, hello." Seeing the carriage stop, Phyllis greeted her with her butler, because it was her ball, and her father Urban and mother stayed in Aalto City.
Every noble lady must exercise her ability to independently host balls, banquets.
"You're so beautiful tonight, Phyllis." Victor hugged Phyllis and praised with a smile like an elder.
The fiery red evening dress with long crimson hair, ruby eyes, and fair skin really made Phyllis a lot more beautiful than usual.
Phyllis thanked her while welcoming other guests, she invited not only her classmates but also her aristocratic friends.
After greeting Phyllis with a kiss, Lucian, dressed in black formal attire, walked into the hall of the main house.
The ground is gorgeous and heavy with cyan patterned rocks, and the hall has five sizes of the living room and dining room of Lucian Garden Villa, which can accommodate hundreds of people.
The long dining table was placed in a corner of the hall, and in addition to many glasses of blood-red wine, there were also refreshing and beautiful salads, pulp pies, jelly and other hors d'oeuvres, roasted meats, stewed meats, sausages, noodles, fat geese, eunuchs, grapes, white bread and other staple foods, fruits, and other things that the eccentric Lucian couldn't recognize.
The invited band played beautiful music in the other corner, making the whole dance look soothing and elegant.
After Lucian came in, he went to the table and took a plate, loaded it with roasted meat, fat goose, sausages, white bread and salads, etc., and ate quietly in the corner while waiting for Phyllis to announce the start of the ball.
The candlelight dimmed, the music changed, and men invited the ladies into the center of the hall to dance the "circle dance" that had been passed down from the Trian court, which was denounced by the old-fashioned old nobles as an erotic dance with close bodies and entangled limbs, but the more the old guys commented, the more enthusiastic the young people, and even most of the noblewomen, became.
"Are you here for a banquet instead of a ball, Lucian?" After Phyllis and her teacher Victor skipped the opening dance, they looked around for Lucian, and finally found him in the corner, and at this time, Lucian's plate full of food was almost finished, which made Phyllis laugh and cry.
After stimulating the power of the bloodline, Lucian's appetite increased greatly, and there were still difficult things waiting for him at night.
Putting down the plate, Lucian spread his hands: "I can't dance in circles, Phyllis."
"Do you want me to teach you, or Mr. Rhine, or Yvette?" Phyllis obviously knew from Victor's words about Rhine's ridicule of Lucian before, and Yvette was dancing happily with a noble man, perhaps sensing Phyllis's gaze, she turned her head to look over, and then smiled and gave Lucian a charming look.
Phyllis turned around and said sincerely: "Lucian, you have to integrate into high society and deal with nobles, music, dance and hunting are indispensable, okay, I'll teach you."
"Actually, I prefer to work quietly." Lucian didn't want to act out of the blue at a critical moment, so he had to follow the example of other men and make an inviting 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."
Holding Phyllis's waist with one hand and her shoulder with the other, Lucian listened to her guidance and began to practice dancing.
A few minutes later, Phyllis looked at Lucian in surprise: "Lucian, have you learned to circle dance before? He danced very well, not like a novice at all, except that he was very restrained and didn't dare to get close to my body."
"Her Royal Highness teach me something." The reason why Lucian learned so quickly was because of his super coordination and agility, and he couldn't tell Phyllis about this kind of thing, so he could only use Natasha, who he knew, as a shield.
Phyllis suddenly thought: "So that's right, Her Royal Highness is a great knight, and she will teach you, and the effect will definitely be very good."
Speaking of this, she suddenly laughed: "Her Royal Highness is half a head taller than you, and she is a level five powerhouse, who is the lady when dancing with you, Lucian?"
She had obviously heard a little rumor, after all, Natasha herself did not hide it.
"......" Lucian didn't know what to say, and then his heart moved, pretending to slip his feet, and he cried out in a low voice.
Phyllis asked with concern: "Lucian, did you twist your foot? Do you need to see a doctor?" There is a dedicated family doctor in the estate.
"It's nothing, just take a break, can you find someone to take me to the room?" Lucian shook his head and said it wasn't serious.
Only then did Phyllis feel relieved, called a waiter, and asked him to help Lucian to the guest room on the third floor of the main house.
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The guest rooms are clean and tidy, and the velvet quilts are soft and warm.
Lucian sat on the edge of the bed and watched the waiter close the door, then took out the letter paper and wrote on it with a quill:
"Haven't the 'Ball of Sight' been sent yet?"
At this time, it was almost eight o'clock, and it was completely dark.
After a full ten minutes, a line of black words appeared on the envelope: "Open the window."
Lucian hurriedly opened the window, and with the light music in the hall as the background, a small black ball flew in and landed directly on Lucian's hand
Lucian did not crush it, but saw a blurry vision through the black smoke rolling inside the "Ball of Sight".
It's still the cabin.
This made Lucian quietly relieved, the other party had not yet transferred, but he had to hurry, and the successive requests for the "Ball of Sight" were likely to arouse the other party's vigilance.
Putting away the "Ball of Sight", Lucian whispered to the letter: "When I go back tomorrow morning, I will be responsible for appeasing John."
"Thank you for your cooperation, Mr. Evans." The letter paper revealed the black text coldly.
Lucian folded the letter paper, stuffed it into an envelope, put it inside his black coat, then took off his coat and hung it on the coat rack.
Because of learning that Lucian had twisted his foot, Victor and others came to visit him one after another, even including young nobles that Lucian knew and did not know, among which Yvette seemed a little disappointed.
It wasn't until half past nine that Lucian was completely quiet here, and then he locked the door, blew out the candles, and lay on the bed, the whole room was dark.
In the darkness, Lucian suddenly stood up, walked to the table, poured a cup of hot water, and at the same time let a "Camille blood drop" hidden in his palm fall into the hot water.
The water waves beat slightly, and Camille's voice sounded directly in Lucian's ears: "Do you have a clue, Lucian?"
Whether it was letter paper or cult sacrifices, they did not react to this.
Lucian 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 in the secret language is: "The southeast of the Melze Black Forest is near the forest of the remnants of the 'Lubeko' peak."
It covers a wide range, but this reflects the truth of Lucian's clues.
This location is not a short distance from the cabin and the Massol River, two completely different places, and if Camille searches carefully, he will not be able to search for it for a long time.
Cursing in a low voice and cleaning up the broken glass pieces, Lucian lay back on the bed, and at the same time took out the two "Camille Blood Drops" from his trouser pocket and placed them in the bed.
The dance continued, setting off the silence of the rest of the estate, with the occasional barking of dogs.
The silver moon gradually rose, and the light shone into the room, casting a silver glow, and in the silver glow, there was an afterimage in the velvet quilt that twisted a few times, and then escaped the surveillance of the envelope and ran out through the unclosed window.
If there is no silver moon tonight, it is very dark, Lucian will look for other ways to escape surveillance.
Out of the window, Lucian did not go down, but followed the moonlight to the roof and hid in the darkness.
Perhaps because of the peace of mind that the letter was monitoring Lucian, the cult sacrifice was hiding far behind a big tree outside the manor, and he didn't pay attention to this side at all.
Lucian climbed over the wall of the manor from the other side of the main house, entered the woods, took off his leather shoes and the clothes inside, hid them, put on the black robe with a hood that fit close to his body, and ran towards the "Larnaca Canyon" in the southeast direction.
(End of this chapter)