Chapter 109 - SELENE PALACE (2/2)

He turned back to the others who already walked inside the palace.  ”Do you also have this?” he asked and raised his hand that had the crescent moon outline.

”Yeah,” Bai Ze said showing him the same crescent moon.

”It probably have something to do with the kind of game the King prepared this year,” Su Yuqi said while looking at the crescent moon on the back of her hand.

”For now, let's follow the butler NPC first,” Shen Ji Yun suggested.

Everyone agreed to what he said.  So they went and followed the said NPC.  He led the players towards a huge door.  Two NPCs wearing a guard's uniform were standing on both sides of the door.  When they arrived, the two guards NPC opened the door.  Beautiful music immediately spilled out as they did.

The handsome NPC wearing butler's uniform turned to them.  ”Distinguished guests, please enter.”

Some of the players entered the room.  Luo Yan and the others also followed.

What Luo Yan saw was a huge ballroom.  There was a big floating crystal chandelier that lighted up the whole place.  There was a long table on the side filled with different kind of dishes.  There were rows of female NPCs wearing maid costumes, as well as male NPCs wearing waiter costumes.  On the other side, there were floating instruments playing on their own which were the source of the music filling the ballroom.

Luo Yan then glanced at the other players.  He counted them in passing.  Including them, there were a total of 21 players.  For such an event that only happened once a year, these numbers were definitely too few.

”I thought there would be more players attending,” he said.

”It's because there were only 10 invitations being given out every year,” Bai Ze said.  ”Three players could attend with one invitation, so at most, 30 players could attend this event.  But seeing how we're only 21 here, some players probably came alone.  Just like that Alucard for example.”

”Because the invitations were too rare, the players who could attend this event were mostly from big teams,” Su Yuqi added.

”Like that one wearing all-white for example,” Bai Ze said pointing at one of the players with golden brown hair and glasses on his face.  ”His from team Celestials.”

And one of the original members to boot.  Bai Ze wondered what someone like that was doing here.  He thought for sure they would simply give this job to a lower ranking member.  But then again, that Xu Ru even came here himself – a captain of a pretty famous team .

Team Celestials?  Luo Yan looked over at the player wearing all-white.  If he remembered correctly, that girl, Song Liuli belonged to that team.  Because of those comments he read comparing the two of them together, he couldn't help but remember some of her information.

”His Majesty has arrived!” the butler NPC suddenly announced loudly.

The music stopped.  There was a sound from above.  When Luo Yan looked up, he saw the ceiling slowly disappearing.  Then a crystal staircase suddenly appeared, connecting the opened ceiling to the floor.  Crystals in the shape of opened lotus flowers floated down.  And then a figure slowly descended.

He had silvery white hair that looked like strands of moonlight.  His pair of apricot eyes were the color of the night sky.  One could even see stars shining in them.  He was wearing a costume that a monarch from some western fantasy world would wear.  It fitted his tall and slender body perfectly.  And on top of his head was a golden crown inlaid with silver gemstones.

It's the King of Arcadia.

Now that's what you called a grand entrance.