Chapter 177 – City Lord Vale
"If it''s not an inconvenience, I would take up to meet the City Lord now."
After the man spoke, Dante and the rest looked at each other before getting up to follow the old man.
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Soon Dante and the others could be seen walking through the hallways of the city Lord estate and were soon led into arge hall.
In the hall was a giant table with all sorts of dishes and delicaciesid out on it, whilst mouthwatering scents could be smelt wafting through the air
Besides this table was a middle-aged man dressed in luxurious blue robes.
He a full beard and a charismatic smile.
"Greetings Lord Dragon Son," said the man
"My name is Lord Vale, City Lord of Vainwatch city"
"But let''s not waste too much time with introductionse, sit down and eat!"
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Minutester Dante and his group could be seen sitting down on the finding table with Dante and Lord Vale sat at the opposite ends of the table
The rest of Dante''s group had already begun digging into the food ced in front of them
Lennox in particr was quite the sight.
he could be seen devouring all sorts of food with glee, practically shovelling all everything that had been put on the te down his throat!
Considering his family was the wealthiest out of all of them, Lennox would have definitely had the best upbringing out of everyone here and yet it was still his manners that were the worst here!
Dante was sure if the elders of the Asmond n were here that they would definitely give Lennox a beating for his barbaric disy!
Opposite Lennox sat Reba who was also eating, but unlike Lennox, the manners and etiquette she disyed were perfect.
It was practically the textbook guide to table manners.
The only problem was that once she took a bite of her food her casual expression quickly copsed into a grimace of disgust! Reba quickly reached out and took a napkin and spat out her food into it. She was simply unable to stomach a single bite!
"Disgusting."
"I wouldn''t even feed this to my dogs" Muttered Reba in disgust
Reba had been fed with the best dishes and meals in herst three years spent at the Hidden Dragon Academy, so this sort of cooking was really a step too back down for her.
Even her meals back at the Kinsman n had been made by low-grade Spirit Chefs and although they had nothing on the Spirit Chefs at the Hidden Dragon Academy, they were still miles better than the regr chefs here!
Seeing Reba''s reaction, Lord Vale''s eyebrows twitched.
He was slightly offended by Reba''s words
Wasn''t she hinting that his best cooks couldn''t even match up to the food her dogs ate?!
Lord Vale just looked at the strange bunch of individuals ced in front of him.
A barbaric brute that was eating like he hadn''t been fed in months,
A stuck up young miss that ssified his meals as dog food and a strange young man that had just been looking at his sword and polishing it ever since they had sat down at the table.
Lord vale was even starting to doubt whether such strange individuals could really be from the prestigious Hidden Dragon Academy.
The only person who seemed rtively normal would be this supposed dragon son, but even he had been quite strange since the start of the meal.
He had been staring him down with a strange smile on his face ever since they sat down at the table.
Lord Vale could even feel a strange aura emanating from the man, almost as if some terrifying creature was lurking within him, causing goosebumps to pop up all over his skin.
But before Lord Vale could dwell to on these slightly disturbing facts, his thoughts were interrupted by the sound of Dante''s in voice
"I''m ttered by the warm wee we have received lord vale, I really am, but now I think it''s time we get down to business."
"Our reason foring here is quite simple, there have been strange circumstances surrounding your Vainwatch city and the entire Zrudon region as a whole.
Our mission here is to simply assess the threat of the region and report it back to The Hidden Dragon Academy."
As Dante lied about his mission, there was no change in his expression.
And it wasn''t just him, both Klent and Reba also had no reaction and just continued on as if Dante had never said anything in the first ce.
The only person that had a strange reaction was Lennox
As he was shovelling food into his mouth he couldn''t help but think to himself
''Just investigate? I could swear that Dante said we are going to destroy the bandit camp?''
As Lennox was thinking this he looked up from his pile of food to see Reba smiling at him.
There was nothing strange about Reba''s smile. In fact, it could even be described as quite beautiful.
But Lennox didn''t have time to admire her beauty because he soon made contact with Reba''s chilling eyes.
Although she wasn''t speaking, Lennox could perfectly understand what she was trying to say.
''If you say something stupid, it''s over for you.''
"Gulp!"
Seeing that Lennox just put his head back down and continued eating with his chicken drumstick still in his hand as he began to sweat.
To put it simply, Lennox was scared.
He had seen just how vicious Reba could be on the journey they made here.
For example, on one asion they were attacked by a group of low-level robbers.
This wasn''t a strange urrence though as usually either Lennox or Klent would be tasked with dealing with such low-level enemies and the group would just carry on their way journey
But things changed once the robbers spoke about killing off
the rest of the group and only leaving Reba to have their way with her.
Lennox could still remember how the temperature dropped a few degrees once Reba heard it as she swiftly acted on them.
Even now Lennox could barely even begin to describe the cruelty disyed by Reba on those men, but one thing that stuck with him was their final fate.
He could Reba just smile crazily as she watched them all being slowly burnt to ashes, all of whom were in either the Martial Novice or the Martial journeyman realm!
Lennox wasn''t the smartest person, but he knew who and who not to mess with and Reba was certainly one of the people he couldn''t afford to piss off.
But Reba''s cruelty shouldn''t really evene as a surprise to anyone now
It was important to not mistake the kind and caring appearance Reba puts on for Dante as her real personality
She was just naturally a cruel person.
You have to remember that this was still the same person that beat up Curtis so bad that even the dogs started feeling pity for him and all of this because she simply thought that Curtis wasn''t a good match for her in an engagement!
To this day, Curtis was still struggling to remove the after-effects that this had on his will and cultivation.
Viciousness was simply her nature.
If life was a story, then Reba would definitely be ying the role of a ''Viin''
But Lord Vale didn''t see this strange reaction between
As soon as Lord Vale heard Dante''s words his expression quickly rxed
"Haha! If the investigation is all your here to do then don''t worry. You will have the full support of City Lord mansion and its forces!"
Seeing this Dante let out a light chuckle as he raised his ss.
"A toast to our sessful co-operation." Said, Dante
"A toast!" Replied Lord Vale with much passion.
And like that the meal between Dante and Lord Vale with them exchanging pleasantries and ns for the rest of the duration of the meal….
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Many minutester Dante and his group could be seen walking out the Dining hall
All of the group seemed to be fine other than Lennox who was rubbing his stomach trying to better digest the mountains of food he had eaten
Lennox was still trying to digest his food but He didn''t forget about the questions he had been waiting to act on so after quickly looking around to make sure Nobody else was around and asked the question he had on his mind