Chapter 821 Double Insurance
After taking a look at the surroundings, Avis suddenly waved his hand, and a water mirror appeared in front of him.
A figure shrouded in a black cloak was reflected in the mirror, and the details of the figure were hazy and unclear. But on the left chest, there was a delicate silver-white brooch.
After checking his own changes and finding no problems, Avis walked along the path and slowly entered the castle.
As he entered the door, noticing the color of the brooch on his chest, a handsome waiter in silver embroidered clothes walked out of the darkness silently and led him to the banquet hall.
Avis also remained silent. He could see that although the waiter in front of him looked like a real person, he actually had no independent consciousness in his body, but the effect of some ritual magic.
Soon, under the guidance of the waiter, Avis entered the castle's grand banquet hall.
The decoration in the hall was extremely luxurious, with rows of white long tables with rare dream delicacies displayed in between, and a large number of waiters carrying silver plates came and went in the venue, providing various magical drinks for the participants.
At this moment, dozens of black cloaked figures like Avis have gathered in the venue. However, most of them have copper brooches on their chests, and there are very few cloaked figures with silver brooches.
Due to some concerns, or perhaps they are wary of each other, almost no one talks to each other, and the venue is silent.
As time reaches midnight, the door of the hall slowly closes with a creaking sound, the lights in the venue dim, and many waiters quietly leave.
The next moment, several beams of light focus on the second-floor terrace of the hall, on a cloaked figure who appeared there at some point.
On his chest, a beautiful dark gold brooch shines.
"Welcome, everyone."
Facing the silent crowd below, the cloaked figure slowly speaks, his voice is low and hoarse, with a strange echo like some kind of whisper.
"No need to doubt, no matter what you are looking for, you will get the answer at the upcoming dinner.
Now, the dream dinner begins!"
As his words fell, waiters suddenly came to the crowd again like water, each of them holding a tray with a shining crystal ball on it.
In Avis's perception, as the waiters approached, the surrounding dream time and space seemed to suddenly solidify, as if it was cut off from the world as a whole. Only within the range of the crystal ball on the waiter's tray, time still flowed normally.
Others didn't know what the situation was, but they thought it should be similar.
"Avis Olivendi, you came here because of the difficulties you are facing. We will give you the power to solve all this."
As Avis watched, a cold message came from the crystal ball.
"So, what price do I need to pay for this?"
Avis asked rationally, and was not moved by the pie in the sky on the other side of the crystal ball.
"You are lucky. Your sister was originally our target. So, what you need to do is to cooperate with our actions at the critical moment."
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While Avis was talking to the crystal ball, someone was also watching this scene in the study room at the top of the castle.
"Is it him? Will he agree?"
Looking at Avis testing the crystal ball, a strange color flashed in the dark red eyes of Marquis Winter.
The last time Fiona disappeared, he accidentally learned of Fiona's whereabouts. When he was excited to catch her, he lost his avatars in the deep dream world, and even his strange short sword was broken.
During the capture process, he thought he had killed Avis by mistake and carefully avoided it for a long time. But in the end, he learned that Avis and Fiona were brought back from the dream world by Duke Carrot safely.
Since then, he has paid more attention to this seemingly immature descendant of Olivendi.
"Anvis Olivendi, the fourth son of Duke Karlas, was born in Yuelin Castle in the Rainy Month of the Glorious Calendar 2442. He inherited the legendary blood of both parents. The initial concentration of both blood is suspected to have reached level nine, and his talent far exceeds that of his three elder brothers.
According to intelligence, his learning ability and magic talent in childhood were both top-notch, which even amazed his mentor.
Such a genius should have been fully cultivated by the family, but unfortunately, Fiona, who was born a year later than him, had a blood concentration and cultivation talent that was almost a higher version of his.
This caused more of the resources he should have received to be tilted towards Fiona, and the family also paid more attention to Fiona, which invisibly neglected him. In addition to the internal appointment of the head of the family, it is impossible to say that he has no resentment in his heart."
Beside the Marquis Winter, a man with dark green long hair dressed in a dark green embroidered long-tailed dress, holding a silver-black scepter, and dressed like a gentleman slowly spoke and narrated Anvis's information.
He is Poloch Hager, one of the nine marquises of the empire. He usually keeps a low profile, but in fact he is closely connected with the Revelation Esoteric Cult.
"Our target is Fiona, who will be the perfect body to receive the arrival of the 'Daughter of the Red Cup'. Without Fiona blocking the way, his current predicament will naturally disappear. And if the Esoteric Cult does this, it will eliminate his suspicion to the greatest extent, which is consistent with his interests."
"But according to my intelligence, Fiona and Anvis have a special relationship. They were born only one year apart, which is quite rare for the offspring of high-level professionals.
For this reason, they had a very good relationship when they were young, and even after entering Pamir Academy, the relationship between the two remained close. Using him as a pawn to deal with Fiona is likely to cause variables. "
Marquis Winter frowned a little, and instinctively did not look favorably on the action of using Anvis to deal with Fiona.
"A very good relationship? Tsk——"
However, Marquis Poloch seemed to have heard the funniest joke in the world and sneered at Marquis Winter's concerns.
"The relationship between the descendants of the imperial duke family? Hehe..."
His face twitched, and the Marquis of Winter finally said nothing.
He also knew that his words might sound a bit absurd, but he always felt that the relationship between Anvis and Fiona might be different from that of other noble descendants.
What if he really preferred to give up his own interests and the competition for the position of the head of the family, and chose to protect Fiona, then they would have alerted the enemy in advance.
After thinking for a moment, the Marquis of Winter decided to add another insurance for the next action of capturing Fiona.
He took out a Hengjin invitation letter, imprinted a few lines of information on it with magic, and threw it into the dream world.
In fact, he had previously used secret techniques to accidentally locate the location of the floating city of the legendary [Ring of Truth], but he had not told anyone this secret, just to be able to establish communication and cooperation with the other party when necessary.
In the deep dream world, Anvis looked at the invitation letter presented by the floating city Talingbomiya and fell into deep thought.