But it is not 100% powerful after all, so it missed the clones of Sina hidden in the bodies of Xilu and Grim.
Based on this, it can be inferred that Xina is not dead. She may have fled overseas, such as to this lost land, to continue her activities. So when Hitzfeld saw that the woman in the portrait was almost identical to Princess Katina, he was not surprised.
Then the question is, JB said that the person who created the profession of blood mage was the Human King, that is, Sina herself.
According to the clerk in the poison shop, the Church of the Mother of Savior had changed its style at a certain point, from only healing the blood-slaughtering groups to becoming more extremely radical, and even needed people like Hashem to plunder resources to cultivate more Savior Sisters.
She and Xia Yibing discussed this issue, and they agreed that the original Church of Our Lady of Savior might be "just", that is, it sincerely hoped that people in the world could live a good life, but with the arrival of some variables, something corroded it from within.
What is most likely?
They all thought it was a reverse sunflower.
In other words, in their current assumption, the Church of the Mother of Savior may have only a nominal skin left, and the flesh and blood underneath has become the Anti-Sunflower, those Eclipse evil followers.
The reason is simple - the evildoers from the outside world withdrew their forces and fled overseas. They must be planning something. They worked hard and even relied on a bit of luck to find this lost land, but they did not find any shadow of the solar eclipse in people's daily lives.
This is very abnormal. The best explanation is that they feel that replacing beliefs is not effective, so they plan to use the skin of the Church of Our Lady of Savior to promote and do what they want.
Isn't Xina on the same side as them?
Now there are no old kings left. She is a lingering... or to put it bluntly, a useless waste with nothing but her birth. Without the help of Eclipse, how can she come to Elsa? How can she become the king of men?
So they are not on the same side?
Why did such a core conflict break out between the Blood Mage Guild representing Sina and the Church representing Eclipse... Did Sina want to stir up trouble again after gaining power?
According to the thoughts she revealed that night, she did despise the eclipse.
Wait, is she planning to restore Guserlan using the Corrupted Blood Kingdom as its foundation?
Hitzfeld thought this conjecture was so absurd that she even wanted to laugh.
But it’s not impossible…
Ah, that would be great if that was the case. It meant that the two forces that were destined to be their enemies were at odds with each other, so they would have room to maneuver and help Sarah investigate more intelligence.
The incident of the blood sperm awakened Hitzfeld, that is, "even if Xia Yibing obtained the inherited experience, that experience is still incomplete."
If they want to explore this lost land, they'd better get some history and travel books to catch up on the modern situation.
With this idea in mind, Hitzfeld began to become interested in tomorrow's dinner.
The talk of the dinner party reminded her of her past dreams.
It reminded her of...the Felum family who lived in the Banquet Castle and were full of zombies.
Claire sneaked into the dinner party, and from what she saw, the occasion was more of a mystery-oriented exchange than a dinner party.
Those guys who need to hide their abilities in the secular world, they use their public identities to attend banquets, form small circles at the banquets, break up and reorganize, just to exchange the mysterious information or materials they need.
For the civilian extraordinary people on Earth, this is almost the only way they can find to advance. The knowledge in their stomachs is not systematic, and they don't know how to go further on the road. Even if they know, they may lack the mysterious materials required for advancement. An exchange meeting can bring them together and solve all their troubles.
Is this the nature of the dinner at the Governor's Mansion?
The Bloodslayer of Inian Harbor, the leader of the Blood Mage Guild, these people don't need to walk in the shadows, they can attend the dinner openly.
Billie firmly confirmed this guess: "Of course, it is a top-level banquet! All the big shots in Port Inian will be there!"
"Oh, so this is the party that the girl was talking about." Madeline was referring to Hashem. "She was talking to you, right? But how did she know for sure that you could attend the dinner at that time?"
If Billie wants to attend the dinner, Captain Shude must get an invitation. All this depends on whether their perfume can pass the appraisal. Hasim was not confident about this from the beginning, so how can they meet at the banquet?
"This...Billy?"
At this moment, the sailor's voice came from outside the door, "Someone from the church came to deliver a letter. We dare not refuse to accept it... and this letter is specifically for you."
Billie quickly ran out the door, and after a while she slowly came back with an opened letter. She sat down with a frown on her face.
"She's got us on her mind," she said. "This is her way of getting back at Dad."
Xia Yibing stared at the letter and rubbed her fingers, "Can you show it to me?"
Billie just gave it to her.
Xia Yibing took it, and Hitzfeld and Madeline also came over. The three of them browsed the content together:
Dear Billie,
When we parted, I said I looked forward to seeing each other again, but I didn't expect the captain to be so capable and to find such a powerful blood-slayer to help him.
The incident at the poison shop was an accident... I didn't intend to hurt you, please believe me, I always and forever treat you as a friend from the bottom of my heart. I won't allow anyone to slander my feelings for you, let alone anyone to interfere.
In a way, you are my guide. It is you who showed me the world and let me know that there is a way to become a nun that can help me achieve my dream.
I heard that you still haven't given up on your dreams, I'm glad... I hope we can meet in private and have a good talk about our future. ]
"There's also this in the envelope." Billie hesitated for a moment and took out a snow-white card from under the envelope, "An invitation to the Governor's Mansion dinner... As her dance partner, according to the rules, she can bring a dance partner in."
"She wants to pull you over to the church?" Madeline thought this person had a terrible personality. "What do you mean by revenge on your father? What did your father do to offend her?"
If Billie wasn't hiding anything, then Captain Shude saved Hasim's life.
You didn't repay the man who saved my life and raised me, but you actually became hostile to him just because "he didn't intend to help you with revenge" and even planned to use such despicable means to take away his last cherished relative?
That's terrible, what a thing.
Madeline has taken back her gun and bullet box. She plans to use silver bullets and ice bombs together to attack Hashem next time she has the chance to see how the frozen flesh and blood can be melted.
"You said she has been active in Inian Port...Did she come to see you when the fleet returned before?" Xia Yibing asked Billie directly.
Billie shook her head. “Never.”
"Then she is lying." Xia Yibing continued to read the letter, nodding slightly as she spoke, "Her target is the three of us. I guess she wants you to be her accomplice so that she has the opportunity to attack us."
After a moment of silence, Hitzfeld asked Billie, "Is the church collecting outsiders?"
"Yes, but they call them foreigners, just with a different name." Billy was still worried about Hashem, so she answered reflexively, "Don't ask me what they want to do... I don't know about this kind of thing, but it is true that foreigners who fell into their hands rarely come out to do anything. Some people think they were sacrificed as heretics, and some people think they were transformed into nuns. It's all possible."
"At the moment, the latter possibility seems more likely." Xia Yibing pondered, and then suddenly asked, "Then your father didn't mention this possibility at the beginning..."
"You mean to sell you to the church?" Billie laughed, "Don't be silly, okay? There's no bone rope if you give it to the church. He won't do such a stupid thing!"
After chatting for a while, Captain Shude came to the door with his signature fake leg movement and said he needed to see the letter that the church had sent to Billie.
This is because he is worried about his daughter... Hitzfeld and others looked at each other and let Billie go out to explain to the captain.
"Is this really okay..." Madeline frowned, as if she disagreed, "This is such a wanton test of human nature..."
She lacked experience in field missions, but she was not stupid and could tell that the letter was actually intended for the captain.
It was a simple truth - no matter what Billie planned, she couldn't attend the dinner without the captain's permission, and the only possibility that the captain allowed her to do so was that he was desperate, that is, this was his only channel to contact the Governor.
There was no way he couldn't see what Hashem wanted.
So what choice will he make? Will he trade the three of them as bargaining chips in exchange for a chance to keep the fleet safe? Only he knows.
"Can you suppress it?" Xia Yibing sneered, "It's a father-daughter relationship, why do you care?"
Madeline was silent.
She quite liked Billie, and she also learned from the sailor about the dispute between the previous owner of the bedroom and the captain, so she felt a little heavy-hearted.
"That's what it's like to be assigned abroad," her boss whispered. "There's more darkness and shadows hidden in a land without the protection of the machine sun... There are a hundred times more things that can make you uncomfortable than in Wayne. You have to learn to accept reality."
"I know... the course mentioned that agents must ensure professionalism." Madeline nodded.
“I’m just not used to it.”
"What are you talking about?" Hitzfeld chuckled. "Please have some faith in me. Who said he only has this one choice?"
As if to prove her confidence, shortly after dinner, another letter was urgently delivered to the captain.
"No matter what your background or status was before, when you presented such a generous gift to the great Agor Pisenrog, you deserved to be his close friend and deserved to have an independent seat at tomorrow's dinner..."
Captain Xiu De read the words of the letter aloud in front of everyone. Before he finished reading, the sailors cheered.
"amazing!"
"The perfume must have passed the appraisal!"
"This is all thanks to Miss Hitzfeld!"
“She really is a perfume maker!!”
The cheerful atmosphere quickly spread from the Thorn Demon to the entire fleet, and soon, all 12 ships burst into cheers - because they finally had the chance to keep their beloved captain.
Captain Xiu De was also very happy. He first suggested drinking, but then he thought that he had a dinner party tomorrow and it might not be appropriate to drink too much, so he changed it to singing and dancing. The heated atmosphere alarmed the dock, and many people gathered below to watch, not knowing what was going on.
"I have to thank you!"
After the simple celebration, Captain Shude found Hitzfeld alone.
"I once doubted you... I have to apologize... Thank you very much for giving me this opportunity!"
"Just Xie Bili." Hitzfeld acted very calmly, "She was the first to find us, and she saved the lives of the three of us."
"But you saved all of our lives!" The captain's eyes turned red. "We corpse-salvagers...even though everyone says we are the most miserable people with nothing but courage and strength, we also want to have dignity!"
Hitzfeld said nothing.
She recalled what she had seen in the past few days: the sailors of the Thorn Demon were indeed not well received by the residents when they walked ashore.
Is it because it is contaminated with too strong a stench of decay?
I'm afraid that this aura itself explains something.
After asking Captain Shude some questions, Hitzfeld learned that the invitation in his hand was of a different grade than the one sent by Hashem.
Agor-Pisonrog is the name of the governor. He is not a human, but a blood orc born from the cross between humans and blood beasts. This group has a certain number in the entire kingdom of God. I am afraid that this is why Xina is called the "Human King".
She is a human... the king of the human race. Alessia's dream also explains this truth: the Corrupted Blood Kingdom is actually composed of many intelligent creatures, but after the advent of the Human King, all races have respected the human race.
Having said that, the person who could make the Blood Orc Governor so happy and indicated that he would be granted an independent seat could bring an entire team to the banquet.
A full guard: a ceremonial guard of no more than 16 people.
This means that not only does Billie not have to agree to Hasim's request, but even outsiders like them have the opportunity to sneak in.
As for the security issue that should have been a concern... Hitzfeld guessed that the dinner might really be a mysterious exchange meeting, that is, the people present included many powerful people from Port Inian, and they were naturally not afraid of any obvious assassination.
It is enough to eliminate the hidden danger of poisoning.
They don't care who you are.
After asking a few more details about the banquet, such as confirming that "formal attire" was required, Hitzfeld let the captain go.
After opening the drawer to make sure Alessia was still inside, they simply washed up and slept until the next morning.
The banquet is tonight and I have confirmed that I will attend, but there is still a lot of preparation work to do.
For example, as for formal attire, no one on this ship, including the captain, was wearing formal attire.
They didn't even know what formal wear was, so in order to solve the problem, they had to pay the owner of the spice shop for advice. The man finally gave them a list, and the captain quickly found someone to buy the corresponding clothes.
Overall, it was no different from the dress Hitzfeld remembered, except that it was more open and more...sexy.
For example, the skirt in her hand, with its huge layered hem, looks like a night rose when she puts it on.
It's just that her shoulders need to be exposed, which makes her feel uncomfortable all over.
This may be because the local population is too scarce...
She thought of the tens of thousands of permanent residents in the Port of Inian and felt that this kind of opening made sense.
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I have been suffering from inexplicable insomnia these past two days. I don't know if I slept for only three hours in total after three sleeps. I felt dizzy and hot all over, so I really didn't have the energy to update last night.
I'll try my best to adjust and update more in the last two days.
Chapter 99 Dinner Party 2
After looking at her black dress in the mirror, Hitzfeld took it off and put it aside, next to the blue floral ornaments that were not being worn.
It was broad daylight and she still had some time before the banquet. The skirt would affect her movements, and she also didn't want it to get stained with the smell of the boat if she wore it for too long.
Looking at the sundial, it was almost noon.
In fact, it didn't take long... In order to show respect to the Governor, Captain Xiu De paid extra money to meet the bathing and cleaning needs of the banquet team. This service will be completed in the bathhouse in the inner city, and even includes expensive herbal incense.
"Aisun!" Xia Yibing pushed the door open with a smile, "Guess what I saw?"
"What?" Hitzfeld looked back at her and put on his original black robe.
Natural stretching and graceful... Xia Yibing felt a little dry in the mouth. She tried her best to suppress a certain impulse and continued, "I saw the captain and the others trying on stockings!"
