Chapter 42 The Envoy Arrives
Our Zayn Nad probably looked down on our Meow Meow's delicate body, so a drinking duel began.
The rules of the duel are simple.
Whoever gets drunk and falls, or vomits, or can't hold it in and goes to the toilet, loses! During the drinking contest, neither side is allowed to use any magic or aura fluctuations, otherwise it will be considered cheating and they will also lose!
Duels use wine is Tudor Dynasty's "blazing fire", seventy-five degrees of strong liquor, notary Lee Xie promises unlimited supply!
The audience is for the evil duke's own guards and slaves.
Then, one dragon and one cat, the formal fight begins!
Cheers and gasps of amazement rose and fell in succession, just like this for a whole day!
In the end, our Zayn Nad was defeated after drinking ten tons of fiery liquor, getting 70% drunk, vomiting and urinating uncontrollably.
Our champion Miao Miao also drank ten tons of blazing fire liquor, and she's just tipsy!
Poor Zayn, on the first day of coming to Duke Xie's mansion, he became a younger brother of a certain cat in Duke Xie's mansion. As a ninth-level giant dragon, his status is directly sliding down, of course, only under Meow Meow!
Because Kano and his guards were all military men, they looked up to those who could drink, ten tons of fiery liquor was enough to win the respect of Kano and his guards!
So, our Kano calls Zaynna "Vice General Brother", while the guards call Zaynna "Big Brother Zayn". Our Zaynna, this poor giant dragon, when he sees that palm-sized little cat, has to bow and say: "Meow Sister", oh, this little female cat makes the giant dragon look so helpless.
The happiest person in this event was Li Xie. He finally officially included Ze Enrade in his account, and he didn't have to worry about him not listening. If he didn't listen, just let Miao Miao give the orders!
Zayn Nadeem would never go back on a wager made in his beloved mother's name.
However, Zaynarde is a time bomb despite his great strength! Carrying him around, if he encounters the dragon tribe, it will immediately detonate! Not so safe!
But having been kidnapped by Zayn once, Li began to worry about some possible threats. Today, a giant dragon might kidnap him, and tomorrow, who knows, maybe there would be an assassination by a tenth-stage expert!
Although it's just a possibility, the richer one is and the better life they have, the more afraid of death they naturally are. But then again, who isn't afraid of death?
So Li Xie began to think of a way to gain real power!
This goes in two directions, one is the improvement of his own strength! Li Xie is now an orange-eyed vampire, only a third-tier vampire, simply put, it's the infant stage, belonging to the weak and vulnerable stage. Although the physical intensity has already reached the level of a fifth-tier Sword Saint, power, speed, reaction, etc., can be said to have reached the level of a fourth-tier Sword Saint, however, even against Upper Cano, who is only a master with height, Li Xie can't even withstand one punch!
Moreover, Li Xie upgraded two levels and obtained skills. He had a vague concept in his mind, and after comparing it with the records in "Vampire Handbook", he also understood what skills he got from upgrading two levels!
Vampires can get one or more special skills for every level up, but poor Li Xie, he leveled up twice and only got one skill each time.
At the yellow-eyed vampire stage, he acquired a skill called "Dark Night Magic Eye", which had a very loud name, but according to the Vampire's Handbook, this skill was just to let Li Xie see clearly in the dark, as long as there was a little bit of light, Li Xie could see through the Dark Night Magic Eye as if it were daylight! Li Xie directly classified it as a garbage skill!
To the orange-eyed vampire, Li Xie obtained another skill called "Fang Blade", which looked very fierce and was indeed very fierce. It allowed his fingernails to extend and retract within a range of one inch to one foot, transforming them into extremely hard and sharp substances that could shatter gold and jade with ease. Unfortunately, Li Xie himself had limited strength, so even with this divine sword in hand, he could only admire it. This made Li Xie furious, and he directly classified the "Fang Blade" skill as trash among trash!
Anyway, Li Xie was very depressed!
Fortunately, although he was still unclear why he couldn't absorb the energy of human blood, at least he knew that drinking the blood of a magical beast might allow him to upgrade!
So he locked his target on Skamord Osler, the Beast Minister, and prepared to extract some blood from the beasts under his jurisdiction!
He could have taken the blood of his guards' magical beasts, but they were all his own people. Why use their blood when he could take it from outsiders? Besides, the Minister of Magical Beasts had a much larger quantity!
In addition to preparing for internal strength enhancement, external forces are also indispensable!
Li Xie's current financial resources can easily support several super masters, and Zainnarde is considered a super master, but he is not obedient enough at present! As for Kano, in front of the super masters, the only thing he can use is his height. So Li Xie sets his target on Vandeiselle!
This tenth-rank Sword Saint!
"Kano, tell me about that tenth-rank Sword Saint, Vandelisel. What kind of person is he?"
A horse-drawn carriage slowly made its way towards the imperial capital, with Li Xie sitting inside the carriage. Ze Enna and Ka No were seated in the driver's position. They weren't going to find the Tenth-Rank Sword Saint or the Beast Minister, but rather to the Imperial Hotel - all five nations' envoys had arrived at the imperial capital and were currently staying at the Imperial Hotel.
"Sir, Count Sel is the Dean of the Sword Saint Institute at the Imperial Academy, the highest-ranking sword saint in the empire, and the son-in-law of the Left Chancellor."
"Huh? And left with one leg!" Li Xie smiled: "By the way, why isn't he a summoner?"
"Adults, summoners are actually a dual-cultivation profession, not only do they need to cultivate themselves, but also help their magical pets cultivate, requiring more time to increase their strength. On the other hand, sword saints or mages specialize in one area, and their cultivation speed is greatly accelerated. Moreover, high-level magic beasts are rare and extremely difficult to capture, so it's better for Earl Sel to focus on breaking through and becoming a holy sword master, at which point even ordinary tenth-tier summoners may not be his match. Therefore, Kano guessed that this was the reason why Earl Sel chose to become a sword saint."
In fact, this is also the reason why the continent of gods still has the two professions of sword saint and magician. Summoners are undoubtedly the strongest, with stable victories in same-level battles! However, high-ranking magical beasts are too difficult to capture, like Zaynarde, a ninth-rank giant dragon, even tenth-rank sword saints are not his match. It can be seen that if you want a high-ranking magical beast, it is basically impossible to catch one in the wild, and you can only catch a relatively low-ranking one yourself or get a destined beast and slowly upgrade it.
This is a long process! A demon beast, every time it levels up, it takes at least three to five years to level up again. The higher the rank, the longer it takes. Moreover, high-ranking priests are not many, and similarly, when a priest helps with promotion, they also need to cultivate for several months themselves!
This has also led to high-level demon pets being extremely rare, and high-level summoners who possess high-level demon pets are even rarer!
And so, some people focus on cultivating their Qi or studying magic in order to break through to the 11th rank and achieve a qualitative leap, also becoming one of the strongest on the continent of gods!
As for the 12th rank of the Divine Realm, any profession can reach it, whether it's a Summoner, Sword Saint, Mage, or even a Priest, they are all transcendent beings beyond mortals, known as Demigods! A single Demigod is not something that mortals can resist! However, this level that every profession dreams of reaching is not something that can be achieved through diligent cultivation alone, as it involves many secrets.
"Hmm..." Li Xie nodded, adjusting the black high hat on his head. The style of this magic hat made him feel somewhat uncomfortable: "What does Vandy Sel, the tenth-level Sword Saint, like? Do you know? And is it possible to let him become a guard for our ducal mansion?"
"This... " Kano rubbed his head: "Sir, this Kano is not clear about it. If sir wants him to be a guard, he should talk to the Emperor or Left Minister, maybe it will work."
"Hmm, that's true! When will the Wang Dynasty Hotel be finished?"
"Hurry up, sir!"
"Okay, slow down, don't be too fast."
The Wangchao Hotel is the most luxurious hotel of the Tudor dynasty, usually only receiving nobles, but its true purpose is to receive foreign embassies.
Only a few distinguished foreign guests are qualified to enter the palace to meet Emperor Tudor, ordinary attendants cannot let them enter the imperial palace, and Wangchao Hotel is the place to receive them.
Before the dignitaries entered the palace, they all stayed at the Wangchao Hotel, where diplomatic reception officials appointed by the dynasty were in charge of receiving and handling some trivial matters decided by both sides until the Tudor Emperor declared them to enter the palace.
The third floor of the Wang Dynasty Hotel, a special conference room. This is a large room with an area of over 100 square meters, simply decorated, with many calligraphy and painting scrolls on the walls, and antique screens and other objects around, while in the middle of the room are ten black rattan chairs arranged in a diamond shape.
In the Tudor court, the room farthest from the door was the place of honor, with status decreasing as one moved closer to the door.
At this moment, there is a person sitting in the main seat of the house. This person has black hair and eyes, very white skin, and is born with a handsome face. He is dressed luxuriously, but somehow looks a bit effeminate. He is Gilli Redis, the third prince of the Anju Empire.
To the left and right of Prince Ladius, two people are seated. The person on the left is Duke De York De Texas, the seventh prince of the Empire of Blois. The person on the right is Prince Mil Hudson, the fifth prince of the Empire of Lancaster.
Two people below, on the left, sat Prince Mokke Mosaik of the Empire of Sunflowers.
Mozak Prince again, and sat another person, this person is also wearing a suit, black hair and eyes, with a small beard, and the beard into the shape of the word "eight", because there is no Radios prince that beautiful, does not look like a fake girl, but has a taste of yin and yang, he is the Grand Prince of the Great Day Dynasty, Rui Fan? Ge Ri De.
These five people are all representatives of the Five Nations delegation. It seems that the five countries have sent prince-level figures as delegates without prior agreement. Judging from their seating positions, the Anjou Empire is currently the strongest, the Blois Empire and the Lancaster Empire are evenly matched, and the Sunflower Empire comes next.
As for the Daxia Empire, it's just an empire and can't compete with the imperial splendor, so it naturally sits below the four great empires.
Apart from the five seated men, there were one or two attendants standing beside each of them. The Chamberlain, the Master of Ceremonies for this diplomatic reception, Lord Erl, was also standing.
"Lord Elr...," Prince Redith said with a condescending tone, "As soon as I entered the imperial capital of Dourton, I heard that a calamitous beast has appeared in your capital. Is this true or false?"
