"Everyone's rooms have been arranged. It's getting late, so everyone should go to bed early."
"Tomorrow I will take you to the academy for the assessment. Even if you fail the assessment, don't be discouraged. You are all outstanding talents who have opened the first soul contract before the age of 20. I believe the military will also open its doors to you."
The noblewoman named Anlina had a gentle voice, which put these young people, who were originally a little uneasy, at ease.
Suddenly someone stood up and said with a red face, "Excuse me, Miss Alina! Is your house still short of servants?"
Anlina was stunned for a moment, but soon came back to her senses, and covered her smile with her white hands: "I don't lack servants for the time being, but if you are willing, I am still in need of a personal guard."
"It's my honor to be your guard!"
The young man spoke loudly with a flushed face, which also attracted envious glances from others around him.
They all came from remote border villages. Because they were found to have excellent soul qualities and the potential to become beastmasters, their tribesmen raised funds and sent them to the metropolis of Resa in order to seek better development.
Whether it is passing the assessment to become a student of the Beast Taming Academy, or joining the military and receiving training from the military, it is one of their goals.
...
...
Of course, if you could join the nobles' mansion and be valued, that would also be a good choice.
and--
Many young people at the scene unconsciously looked at An Linna's graceful figure with fiery eyes, secretly swallowed their saliva, and were filled with jealousy and envy for the lucky person who spoke first.
He is a personal bodyguard who can get along with Miss Anlina day and night. If he is lucky, it is not a delusion to marry her.
However, someone took the lead and got the only vacant position, so these young people who were eager to make a move had to suppress their impulse.
Alina did not seem to be angry because of those undisguised fiery gazes. Instead, she looked around with a smile and gently raised the wine glass in her hand.
"Then let me give you the last toast."
Her words were soft and pleasant to the ear, as if carrying some unknown magic, calming the heat in the hearts of the people around her, and they all listened to her words and raised their glasses.
“I seemed to see a large group of vibrant leeks waiting in line to be cut by a sickle.”
Looking at the burning gazes directed at Alina around the auditorium, Xia looked at them with a hint of sympathy.
Although there are pets and magical technology, the level of enlightenment of the people in this world is indeed still at the level of the Middle Ages. It is obvious that they have never experienced paying a large sum of money to have a child or being beaten by -8000, so they are completely unaware of such an obvious pig-killing scam.
Thinking about it this way, developing an anti-fraud app in this world might be quite promising.
While thinking about this irrelevant thing, Char's mind moved slightly.
The next moment, a delicate silver-white figure appeared silently on Xia's shoulder.
That tiny touch of silver faded silently and blended into the night outside the window without being noticed by anyone.
After completing all this, Xia also raised the glass vessel in his hand, and the deep red wine gushed out.
Although he had used his brain as a time traveler to plagiarize texts and market success stories over the years, he had also swindled and cheated a lot of money, and even secretly controlled some industries.
But in order to complete that unsatisfactory task, most of the money Char earned was spent on that. Just to excavate the ruins of the Principality of Cang Ting, he hired several archaeological expedition teams of nearly a hundred people, which also resulted in him being penniless for a long time.
Because of this, although he is not the main target, Char will certainly not miss the wanted bounty.
There is no way out. Once you enter the archaeological pit, even the landlords will have no surplus food.
"It's getting late. Let me take everyone back to their rooms to rest."
Looking around the room and seeing everyone at the dinner drinking the wine, Alina spoke again in a soft voice.
Having said that, her body did not move at all, and her soft voice seemed to carry some forcibly suppressed hot emotions.
After a few breaths.
Bang——
Bang——
This is the dull sound of flesh and blood colliding with the ground.
This was not just a single exception. In an instant, the messy sounds of tables and chairs colliding and falling echoed throughout the entire hall.
"There is a paralyzing toxin in the wine, Miss Alina! Someone is trying to do something bad to you!" A dry voice came from the mouth of the lucky guy who spoke first and got the position. He was now lying on the ground unable to move, but he still spoke out to warn regardless of his own safety, obviously considering himself as a personal bodyguard.
What responded to him was an indifferent and cold look.
And a fine steel dagger that tore the skin on his neck, making all his expressions stiff and solidified.
The splatter of blood and flesh gave Anlina's originally gentle face an unnatural blush.
She pulled out the dagger from the slumped corpse and looked down at the people lying on the ground in the auditorium, with undisguised madness flashing in her eyes.
"You have opened up the first soul covenant at such a young age. You must be geniuses and elites with high hopes in your hometown."
"It's really enviable. They are just a group of lowly commoners, but they are worthy of such enviable talents."
Behind her, the dark smoke quietly dissipated and gathered into a butterfly-like shape.
The wings formed by black smoke had terrifying patterns on them that looked like white bones and skulls, which was completely different from people's impression of butterflies flying among flowers.
"However, the more talented one is, the more delicious the unwillingness and despair will be when struggling on the verge of death, isn't it?"
The entire auditorium fell silent. The paralyzing poison in the wine had spread, and at this moment, even their vocal cords had lost control.
They could only stare with horror and despair at this noble lady, who was originally kind and benevolent in their minds, walking towards them step by step with a fine steel dagger in her hand.
The black butterfly with a dead bone pattern engraved on it behind Anlina flapped its wings. Wisps of black mist came from the exhausted figures lying on the ground, and then merged into the black butterflies behind her, giving Anlina, whose soul was connected to her pet, a look of intoxication on her pretty face.
Nightmare Butterfly feeds on the souls, fear, despair and other negative emotions of others.
Such an evil pet is naturally unacceptable to the world.
But in the face of the pleasure of gaining power, Anlina had long forgotten about worldly laws or the glory of the nobility.
If not for this, she wouldn't have gone to such great lengths to disguise herself as a kind person, taking in batch after batch of apprentice beastmasters who had no background but were extremely talented, with pure and delicious souls.
During this period of time, she has been forcibly suppressing her nature and trying hard to put on a kind face.
And now, the time to reap the rewards has finally arrived.
They are just a group of untouchables from remote villages and towns. Even if they are missing, no one in Resa will care.
Thinking of this, Anlina, who no longer suppressed her nature, took even more graceful steps.
She came to another fallen figure, the dagger raised was about to do something.
But then, the corner of her eye caused her movement to stop in mid-air.
Anlina turned her head silently, then looked at the black-haired boy who was leaning against the dining table in the corner, cracking melon seeds out of boredom.
"Who are you?"
Among the prey this time, the black-haired boy was not very conspicuous, and only left her with a vague impression of being taciturn.
However, there was no doubt that he had also drunk the wine just now, which was a fact she confirmed with her own eyes.
Even a high-level beastmaster would not be able to withstand the drug without summoning a pet to provide physical benefits.
However, at this moment, the other party was indeed cracking melon seeds slowly and gracefully, as if he was not affected at all by the shocking incident that just happened.
"You look like you've drunk a lot, but you haven't touched a drop of alcohol. This is a basic skill for nobles. I can tell from the looks of it that you've never experienced the torture of drinking culture."
"In our time, if you didn't master this skill, you would become a sugar man before you were thirty."
As if he could see through what Anlina was thinking, Xia stopped what he was doing.
He straightened his clothes and pinned a badge on his chest.
"I'm sorry, I'm a police officer."
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