Chapter 531: Hotes Complains

Time flies, and it is half a month later.

The day before, Ivan sent away Jenny, who was anxious to return to the underground world, and the treeman guard Inom.

The day after, Ivan was still a little upset, so he accepted Hotes's repeated invitations and went to the banquet he organized, and brought the night elf royal court wine that Hotes had been thinking about.

"Your Excellency Ivan, please come in."

"Coram, we are old acquaintances, there is no need to be so polite."

"Etiquette cannot be abolished."

In the outer city of Truth City, Ivan brought the swamp ants to the destination, which was a manor built completely on the top of the mountain. The area of ​​the manor was not large, but it gave people a feeling of being isolated from the world.

At the gate of the manor, Ivan met Coram, an elemental creature who had fought side by side with him.

Coram can be said to be Hotes's personal servant, and his status is not comparable to that of ordinary servants, just like the swamp ants to Ivan.

Led by Coram, Ivan walked into the ‘Lonely Mountain Manor’ and found that all the plants planted inside were rare and ancient plants. The owner of the manor had obviously spent a lot of effort on them.

“Where is that guy Hotes?” They had all gone deep into the manor, but they hadn’t seen anyone else yet, so Ivan couldn’t help but feel a little strange.

“The master is in front.” Coram pointed to the front.

The two continued to move forward for a distance, and a strong aroma of wine wafted over. In front of them appeared more than a dozen strange buildings built of stones, like hollowed-out round short towers.

Ivan quickly recognized that these were all wine cellars.

“Your Excellency Ivan, please come in.” Coram stopped before he got close.

“Ze Yi, you stay here with Coram.” Seeing this, Ivan instructed Ze Yi who was standing beside him.

“Why don’t I take Mr. Ze Yi to the front yard of the manor, and I will treat Ze Yi well?”

“That’s fine.”

Then, Ivan went straight to one of the wine cellars, and there was a faint noise coming from it.

He walked in and saw that Hotes had started drinking. There were several barrels on the ground on one side.

"No, why are you drinking with yourself?"

"Ivan, you're here, come and drink with me."

"Just the two of us?"

"Two people are nothing, nothing - two people can also finish all the wine in the wine cellar. By the way, where is your thousand-year-old wine? Take it out quickly, let's get drunk today."

Ivan heard that this guy came to drink up all the wine in the wine cellar. It seems that he has drunk a lot, far more than a few barrels here.

He was a little amused, so this is what the so-called banquet means.

The will of the arcane wizard is extraordinary, it is difficult to get drunk, and it will not hurt the body, but why is there such a heavy drinking?

"Okay! Don't go home until you are drunk."

Ivan did not refuse. After so many years of busyness, he also wanted to relax.

Unfortunately, there is no "brothel listening to music" as he originally thought, only a drunkard.

"Haha, I knew that you, Ivan, are the most suitable for my temperament. We are both people of temperament. It is right to establish the Five-Colored Demon Robe Organization. In the future, the organization will only recruit people of temperament."

"The thousand-year-old wine you asked for is here."

"Come on, drink this bottle!"

"--"

From Hotes's noisy voice, Ivan understood why Coram wanted to bring the ants to the front of the manor. He probably didn't want to hear anything he shouldn't hear, so as not to violate taboos.

Ivan was puzzled.

This Hotes came from a wealthy family since he was a child, and he successfully became an arcane wizard above ten thousand people. He had both strength and status. How could he be so drunk?

Hotes didn't say anything, and Ivan didn't ask, just kept drinking one barrel of wine after another.

Not long after, all the wine in the wine cellar went into the stomachs of the two people, and their stomachs didn't swell at all.

"Let's go to the next wine cellar."

"Okay, this wizard will die with you."

"Hahaha, but I can't hurt you or me."

Coming out of the wine cellar, Hotes staggered in front, looking half drunk and half awake.

Ivan knew that as long as Hotes wanted, he would be completely drunk and sober.

As for the strong liquor that could intoxicate the arcane wizard, no one in the wizarding world had explored this aspect in depth, so naturally there was no such liquor.

"Not this one, the next one."

The two came to another wine cellar, but it was full of barrels that were tilted all over the place, obviously drunk by Hotes.

So the two continued to walk to the side and came to the next wine cellar, which contained another kind of fine wine.

After a day and a night.

Ivan didn't know how much wine he drank before he felt a little drunk.

And Hotes couldn't stand at all. He was drunk by himself, which was his situation.

"Brother Ivan, do you know why I drank all the wine here?"

"Why?"

"I'm happy."

"--"

Ivan looked at him speechlessly, almost saying, you don't look very happy.

"You don't believe it?" Hotes stared at him.

"A little." Ivan is an honest man.

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"Don't disbelieve me, brother, I'm really too happy. Tell me, I have contributed to your growth, and I have contributed to your becoming an arcane wizard, right?"

Hortes argued.

Ivan nodded, but he didn't understand what he meant by this.

"This means that when you become the top figure in the wizarding world, I will also have a share of the credit. It also shows that I, Hotos, am a person who has made great contributions to the wizarding world."

"The top big shot? I'm still far away."

"You are different from me. I believe you can make it happen. Am I right?"

Ivan still didn't quite understand what Hotos wanted to express, but that didn't stop him from nodding along with what the other person said.

"And Tanya, she can definitely become the King of Knights, don't you think so?"

"right."

"Look, all the sins I owed before can be repaid. Do you think I can be unhappy?"

"It's really worth rejoicing. Let's keep drinking, drinking and drinking."

After hearing this, Ivan saw clearly that it turned out that Hotez was really worried about Tanya, and his previous actions had a sense of atonement.

Evan did not know that the wine stored in Gushan Manor was actually the wine used for that banquet.

At the banquet, Tanya suffered a catastrophe, and Hotez never drank the wine again, so he moved it here and stored it until now. For Huotes, these wines have special meaning.

"Evan, do you have someone you love very much?"

The wine continued to drink, and the conversation paused for a long time before Hotos asked another question.

Ivan was stunned, not knowing how to answer for a moment.

"I know that a wizard like you must love knowledge and truth more, right?" Hotos shouted before he could answer.

This is indeed true, Ivan couldn't help but nodded.

At the same time, this is also the life creed of most wizards.

"I'm different from you. I actually have someone I love very much, but fate is unpredictable." Hotos continued to yell.

"Destiny is indeed unpredictable and always unpredictable." A figure appeared in Ivan's mind, a particularly serious and handsome figure. That should be the person Hotos has been obsessed with.

However, he still didn't ask further. It was really hard to get involved in this matter.

"Yeah, it's unpredictable!" Hots patted his shoulder and nodded heavily. After sighing in a vague tone, he suddenly said:

"You said, the first time I fell in love with someone, she was such an old-fashioned woman. How could she be someone else's concubine?"

“-——”

Ivan was speechless again by his words.

It’s not that I have nothing to say, but I don’t dare to gossip.

I never expected that Grace was actually the woman of the King of the Sky. No wonder Hotos was so afraid of the King of the Sky. No wonder he refused to marry Tanya at all. There was indeed a big risk in this matter.

It is not difficult to guess that Hotez must have confessed his love to Grace before, but Grace shut him down with just one sentence.

Life is indeed like a large intestine wrapping a small intestine, what a sin!

"Ivan, I'm so unlucky, I--"

"Drink, drink, drink."

"Drink, you must drink up all the wine here."

On this day, the two arcane wizards fulfilled their promises and drank up the entire manor's wine collection, thus bringing the drinking game to an end.

This was also the first time that Ivan drank so much. (End of chapter)