Book of Gods and Demons

December 30th, 11:25 pm.

Tulum Port, Kumquat Hills, the consulate area of ​​Tulum Port.

Inside the Consulate General of the Kingdom of Ice and Sea in Tulum Harbor, the lights are brightly lit, singing, singing and dancing. Red men and green women are in groups, dancing lightly to the small waltz in the spacious hall.

Ice Sea Kingdom, as well as dozens of diplomatic officials stationed in the Tulum Port consulate, and their relatives, are also enjoying the welcome banquet, quietly waiting for the arrival of the new year.

In previous years, Tulum Port City Hall will hold a grand welcome ceremony.

These diplomats, as long as they are qualified, will go to the city hall to participate in the official New Year banquet in Tulum Port.

But this year... the situation is special.

On the third floor of the Consulate General, there is a luxuriously decorated chess and card room. The consuls of the four superpowers including the Ice Sea Kingdom, the Gaul Republic, the United Kingdom of Nice, and the Kingdom of Saint Xia, as well as the consuls of several other second-rate powers, are Dressed up, sitting around an oval card table.

Count Xiafei, Consul General of the Ice Sea Kingdom in Tulum Harbor, frowned and turned over the two cards in front of him, hesitated for a while, shook his head, sighed, and counted a thousand gold marks from the stack of banknotes in front of him. , Pushed forward hard.

"Raise, one thousand gold marks... Ah, how about the situation on both sides."

Count Xiafei sighed, and gently tapped his finger on the back of his two cards: "My luck is a bit bad today."

Several consuls who were gambling with Count Xiafei curled their lips at the same time.

I'm bad luck, you still pay a thousand gold marks?

The new Consul General of the Kingdom of Saint Xia in Tulum Port, Marquis Turando shook his head, and lightly tossed the two cards in front of him: "This one, I will not follow... I am also very curious. what's the situation?"

Standing behind Earl Xiafei, a military attaché of the consulate general with the rank of lieutenant colonel stood at attention, and said in a deep voice: "The Rittal family and Prince Friedrich also hosted a New Year celebration banquet. The information coming back..."

The lieutenant colonel took out a folded document and quickly glanced at the information on it.

"The local big family in Tulum Port, 95% of the family heads and direct descendants, attended the New Year banquet held by the Rittal family in the Mid-Levels."

"As for the large family members from three provinces including Crowder, 73% of the direct family members participated in the New Year's banquet hosted by Prince Friedrich in the Peak District."

The consuls present at the same time laughed in a low voice. They like to see this kind of scene.

The lieutenant colonel pursed his mouth, his voice raised a little bit.

"However, a quarter of an hour ago, the Duke of Cassica made the news from Hyderabad public... Hessen, the head of the Rittal family, was canonized as a duke, and the fief belonged to the entire province of Crowder."

The words of the lieutenant colonel made the faces of all the consuls present stiff at the same time.

Count Xiafei widened his eyes and stood up abruptly, staring at the military attaché standing behind him with wide eyes: "Hessian is made a duke? Hell, when is this? Why don't you tell me this earlier? Damn news?"

The military attache of the lieutenant colonel looked at Count Xiafei with a sullen face at a loss.

The Marquis Turandole knocked on the card table hard, and he said loudly: "What's the matter? Your Excellency Xiafei! The news that Hessen has been made a Duke is shocking... But it has no effect on the overall situation.

"Could it be that because Hessian was made a duke, do we people have to run halfway to the Rittal family banquet? Obviously, this is impossible."

"A brief, high-intensity war is right in front of us. We have all received domestic orders... We temporarily suspend all official contacts with the Duren Empire and wait for the outcome of the war."

"Now we can only sit here quietly, play a few small cards, and earn a little pocket money."

Marquis Turandole looked at Count Xiafei suspiciously: "Your reaction is a bit overdone...What did you do?"

Count Xiafei’s iron-green face quickly returned to normal, he smiled, and sat back in his original position, “Oh, nothing...I’m just distressed. When we face the Rittal family in the future, our attitude Great changes will take place."

"Ah, Juncker, a middling upstart, turned into a top Teutonic... It's really a headache."

Count Xiafei smiled strongly, and did not say what he was really worried about.

He received an order from Hyderabad before, an order from the Embassy of the Ice Sea Kingdom.

I didn't tell him there, the Rittal family suddenly appeared a duke who had sealed a province!

Damn the embassy...

Assaulting a hillbilly nouveau riche Junker noble in Tulum Harbor, and assaulting a real-seal Teutonic Grand Duke of the Durham Empire, this... can this be the same thing?

The blood of an upstart noble family of a hillbilly will only detonate the chaos in Tulum Harbour.

And the blood of a top Teutonic aristocratic family will cause a war that was originally controllable in scale to degenerate into an uncontrollable abyss.

Count Xiafei smiled, took out his pocket watch, and checked the time.

His demeanor was calm and his expression did not change, but the cold sweat on the soles of his feet had soaked his socks.

He smiled and forced a raise to hit his next home, and then compared the final card with the last remaining consul of the Gaul Republic, and smiled and took the bet of more than 40,000 gold marks on the table. Then smiled and got up: "Sorry, I'll go to the bathroom... Deal me normally. Before I come back, I will follow every round of raises!"

"Oh, oh, oh!" All the consuls at the card table smiled and applauded gently at the same time.

Count Xiafei smiled and left the chess and card room, walked through a short corridor, and came to the bathroom that was attached to the chess and card room. Then he quickly slipped out of the side door of the bathroom and ran out along a small independent corridor.

"Asshole, contact Your Excellency Durind as quickly as possible... I want to ask for his opinion, what to do tonight... Damn, ask Hyderabad for verification and ask the embassy to reply to us with the highest secret key. The action order, is it an order issued by His Highness George himself!"

Count Xiafei found his most trusted confidant as quickly as possible, almost pinched the other's neck, hysterically issuing a series of the most urgent orders.

"Damn... I hope that people sent by Durinde will not be so efficient!"

"I hope they can spend more time!"

When Earl Xiafei gave the order, thirty giant monster knights, one thousand newly recruited sailors, and two battalions of Marines who had been dissatisfied with the formation were already less than three miles away from Tulum Port.

Under the dim moonlight, a man wearing a small tuxedo, top hat and holding a small cane walked out of the small woods on the side of the road.

"The weather is nice today, huh?" The man raised his hat.

"The weather is really good. It makes me unconsciously want to taste a piece of starry sky pie." A giant demon knight also raised his top hat: "Which bastard's joint code is this? I hate it the most. It’s just looking up at the starry sky pie."

The giant demon knights chuckled at the same time.

Even the sailors behind them, many sailors grinned and shook their heads at the same time.

Every young man in the Binghai Kingdom has grown up eating the starry sky pie concocted by his grandmother or mother since he was a child... But when they grow up, that caring pie will often become them. The deepest childhood nightmare in my memory.

Once an admiral of the Kingdom of Ice and Sea confessed after drinking-‘I joined the navy to stay away from the starry sky pie made by my mother...how far, how far, even if it’s the end of the world’!

Several well-dressed men came out in the woods, with reserved and weird smiles, bowing to these giant monster knights.

The two sides connected their heads.

A Tier 6 knight asked straightforwardly: "What's the situation now?"

A responding man took out his pocket watch and flipped open the watch cover to check the time: "Ten minutes ago, the message we received is that everything is normal... If there are no thirteen **** fireworks that have been launched into the sky, then everything in Tulum Port Peace as usual."

The sixth-order knight nodded in satisfaction: "So, where is the goal?"

The man who responded pointed to Mount Saint-Hilde inside and outside of the index. The entire Mount Saint-Hilde was brightly lit, and the lights of the mansions illuminated the whole mountain as bright as day: "Mid-levels~www.ltnovel.com~ In their own house...Almost the entire Tulum port’s big shots are there at the moment. As usual, the New Year’s banquet will not dissipate until after three o'clock in the morning."

The five most powerful monster knights, together with the two battalion commanders of the Marine Corps, and the lieutenant commander in charge of the 1,000 sailors, gathered together. After a group of people discussed for a while, a Tier VI knight The final word: "This is a war, it is inevitable that there will be accidental injuries, and if they get together..."

"Of course, they happen to be together, and they are all big people." The Lieutenant Commander squinted his eyes, his tone a bit erratic, and his mood a bit high.

In Medland today, the naval fleet is in the open sea and occasionally part-time privateer fleet...

It is inevitable that the navy of the Ice Sea Kingdom has an extremely good cooperative relationship with some of the ‘official pirates’ who have obtained the permission of the privateer.

Raid Rittal’s home, kill Liya, and hide Liya in Frederick’s mansion.

By the way, robbed and kidnapped a group of big people, and ‘gifted’ them to a group of good pirates, and squeezed out the oil and water in their bones.

This is a very feasible operation.

Anyway, the order they received was very vague and vague.

It can even be said that their raid this time felt a bit inexplicable.

That being the case, since the superiors did not limit their actions, and did not give them clear and clear instructions for action, then why not play freely?

"Well, start acting now."

"We, directly kill Mount Saint Hild. Now, it should be the time when their vigilance is weakest."

"When all the banquets and ceremonies are gone, the garrison or other institutions in Tulum Port will increase their security... We do it now, but it is the best time."