Chapter 29.1 - A Big Chaos in Adrian Empire’s Gentry Banquet (Part 1) (1/2)
Ximengsi Continent’s southern region, Adrian Empire’s capital, Samuel City, palace area
Halfway through the banquet held by Prince Joseph, Princess Alyssa greeted Clyde. After extending greetings to Clyde, she left with her close girlfriends. Although Clyde had given a very good first impression, Light Church’s people were often superficial, thinking so, Princess Alyssa politely smiled and withdrew.
“Clyde, Alyssa is also known as Princess Sapphire. Although she is very beautiful, she seems to have a very big prejudice against our Light Church. Don’t think about it too much.”
“Clyde, your family’s those beauties, Saras and the others, are not any inferior to Alyssa. Don’t be promiscuous!”
“Eh, Maria, Tiffany, when did you two… By the way, this banquet seems fishy. There are many hidden people.”
Before Clyde had the time to ponder over the details of his conversation with Alyssa, “Punishment Saintess” Tiffany and “Light Saintess” Maria returned to his side and used half-joking tones to ridicule him. For a moment, Clyde was unable to tell if they were truly jealous, so he could only use the tactic of changing the conversation’s subject to shift their attention.
“That doesn’t matter. Even if there is an assassination, as long as you wear Light Church’s attire, it will all be fine.”
Maria and Tiffany were quite confident. According to their explanation, assassinations within any of the human nations wouldn’t involve Light Church. In Human Race, Light Church belonged to the fourth power. In the political assassinations conducted by Clark Alliance, Victor Alliance as well as Neutral Alliance, they wouldn’t usually attack Light Church’s members.
As light-class priests, both Maria and Tiffany had already cultivated to a very high rank in their professions. They had a certain level of perception ability against assassins, thieves and so on, counteracting these professions’ habitual sneaking skills. They might have even noticed the issue of this banquet site before Clyde. Merely, they didn’t bluntly point it out, nothing more. In any case, they wouldn’t be implicated, and that was enough.
Princess Alyssa was a magician. However, she didn’t have Maria and Tiffany’s abilities from the priest profession and was unable to see the potential threat. She stayed in the dedicated seats for the imperial family together with her few close girlfriends. As the dancing music played, the aristocratic men and women at the scene began to invite each other to dance together. Nevertheless, the people of Light Church didn’t participate. They just sat in their designated seats, continuing their own matters like bystanders.
Although Princess Alyssa received a lot of inviters, she ruthlessly refused the invitations to dance with those young masters of the various illustrious aristocratic families. The rejected young masters also didn’t pester her. They were very polite and just turned to invite other ladies. There was no shortage of opportunities, and it was not necessary to hang oneself on a single tree.
Unlike Princess Alyssa, her big brother, Prince Joseph, however, had already danced with many beautiful dancing partners. All of them were Misses of illustrious aristocratic families. Princess Alyssa had almost no talent in politics. She wouldn’t follow even the most basic rule of playing along according to local conditions. From this viewpoint, her big brother Prince Joseph obtaining the throne was natural.