It’s time for the annual Queen’s flower viewing party again.

This is an old tradition that has been going on for 36 years and has never been interrupted, and this year is no exception.

The sun sets and night falls.

Gentlemen and celebrities from all over the Glorious Empire, escorted by special personnel, set out from the Rose Mansion near the Never-Night Palace and headed for the Queen's Starlight Rose Garden.

I don’t know why, but the atmosphere at this year’s flower viewing event seemed a little tense.

There were many more royal guards around the gardens than in previous years, and the scrutiny of invited guests was much stricter.

Before entering the palace, both men and women had to pass through a secret room.

In the secret room, guests will be asked to take off all their clothes and their bodies will be carefully examined with various instruments.

It was fine for the male guests, but many female guests were extremely embarrassed. After coming out of the secret room, they all had red faces and even had many conflicts because of the inspection.

But no matter what, nothing serious happened.

When night fell and the stars and the moon were shining brightly, more than 300 guests successfully entered the Starlight Rose Garden and sat in their reserved seats. Together with the Queen, they waited for the Starlight Roses to bloom, accompanied by fine wine and music.

Of course, flower viewing was just a side event; the main purpose of the guests was to meet the Queen.

It would be an extraordinary honor to show your face in front of the Queen and have a few words with her.

After returning home, I can brag to my relatives and friends in the countryside for most of my life. According to the invitation list, the total number of guests should be 313, but the actual number of people who showed up was 306.

There are 7 missing.

After all, accidents are always happening, and the empire is very vast, so some people will miss the date to enjoy the flowers.

So there is some room for maneuver.

Rosen worked together with the Queen and quietly replaced a guest who was late due to "accident".

There is no choice but to do this.

Because according to the information given by the Queen, the alert intensity of the palace has been raised to an almost abnormal level.

The entire palace is shrouded in an extremely sensitive and precise legendary detection array.

The magic circle is monitored in real time by 800 fourth-ring mages and 50 fifth-ring mages, 24 hours a day, and carries out back-and-forth coverage detection of the same area.

If the mages wanted, they could even see clearly the male and female mosquitoes flying into the palace.

At the same time, there are 30,000 shadow guards spread across every corner of the palace.

The average strength is extremely close to the fourth ring, and it is equipped with a rapid-fire musket with an attack strength of 8 rings.

And among every hundred shadow guards, there is a five-ring strongman.

This person will be equipped with a legendary defensive weapon, a legendary detection weapon, and a legendary 2-level burst fire gun.

They are extremely well-trained and their response time to various crises is no more than one minute.

It can be said that no matter in terms of magical or physical defense, the palace, especially the Shadowless Palace where the Lord of Light lives, is in an impeccable state.

Finally, any outsider entering the palace is strictly prohibited from casting any spells or carrying any magical weapons, and will be closely monitored by the shadow guards.

Therefore, without the help of the Queen, Rosen would not have been able to enter the palace quietly.

And even if he got help, he couldn't bring his magic weapon into the palace, so he is now completely unarmed.

Back to the topic.

Soon, the guests were seated, and then began to come to the main hall in groups according to their provinces to meet the Queen.

Among them was a group from the Gothic province adjacent to Aaron, which invited eight guests, six men and two women.

The Gothic province is mountainous and transportation is extremely inconvenient, so the eight guests only heard each other's names but had never met each other.

Among the eight people, one of them was Rosen.

He did not use any transformation spells, but simply changed his hairstyle and clothes, and thus became Rupert, a newly promoted five-ring young wizard from the city of Orleans in the Gothic Province.

According to the information, he is 26 years old this year. He has advanced to the fifth ring of magic power purely through his own efforts. After being tested by the Imperial Magic Department, it was found that if he continues to practice hard, he may even be able to break through to the seventh ring.

With such outstanding magical talent, he naturally became famous, and thus received an invitation to a flower-viewing party.

Soon, it was Rosen's turn.

Rosen followed the description in the information, walked forward with a slightly dull expression, and performed a very non-standard Imperial Salute to the Queen.

Queen Zoya glanced at Rosen and smiled, "Look up, Rupert."

Rosen looked up as he was told.

At this moment, the two of them were looking at each other less than six meters apart.

In Rosen's eyes, Zhuoya looked about 70% similar to Irene, but her facial features were much more graceful.

She is less heroic than Irene, but more dignified and graceful, exuding a strong sense of luxury.

In terms of height, because the other person was sitting, he seemed to be shorter than Irene, at least his upper body was shorter and his figure was rounder.

If Irene was a strong and charming imperial envoy, like an exquisite pearl, then the woman in front of him seemed to be a golden, jade and gem emitting a full splendor.

At the same time, Zhuoya also looked at Rosen.

She had seen Rosen's image through different channels before, but they were all side profiles or busts. This was the first time she had actually met him.

His eyes turned to Rosen, and his mind was a little dazed.

"Is this young man the legendary wizard who drove my grandfather crazy, was worshipped by the Alliance, and possessed incredible wisdom?"

The other person deliberately changed his temperament with details such as hairstyle, clothing, expression and posture, so that he looked like two completely different people from the image.

Even for people who are familiar with each other, it is difficult to connect the two together.

But no matter before or after the changes, it seems difficult to associate the other party's image with the ambitious emperor.

Who would have thought that such a young man would mess up the human world into what it is now? But Zhuo Ya smiled faintly, "Yes, he is a handsome young man."

"In addition to your achievements in magic power, have you learned any unique spells recently?"

Rosen answered as agreed.

"I am also proficient in elemental transfiguration and have mastered the method of separating basic elements from multiple composite elements."

The Queen looked interested: "Elemental Transfiguration, is this the new spell that came from the Natural Alliance?"

"Yes, sire."

"Oh~ That's really great. Being able to keep up with the latest and most powerful magical knowledge is the best quality of a wizard."

"Lina, please invite Master Rupert to take his seat."

Lina is the Queen's trusted maid. Her seat is in the flower hall where the Queen sits. It is very close to the Queen and there are only 30 of them. It is the most honorable treatment.

The other guests who came with him all looked at him with envy and longing.

Because the subsequent benefit of staying in the flower hall is that you can stay overnight in the palace.

Not to mention for commoners, even for nobles, this is a very rare honor.

Soon, Rosen was arranged to sit in a seat in the corner of the hall.

The location was inconspicuous, and Rosen said nothing, just concentrating on enjoying the fruits, cakes and drinks on the small table in front of him.

Soon, he was forgotten by everyone present and became an invisible person in the flower viewing party.

Afterwards, the Queen continued to receive other guests without paying special attention to him, nor did she use the high-level telepathic language to communicate with him.

Everything is exactly the same as in previous years' flower viewing events.

Time passes by every second.

The star roses in the garden are blooming.

Looking around, it seems endless, as if you are in a sea of ​​stars.

Amidst the sea of ​​stars, art teams specially trained by the Empire took to the stage one after another.

Regardless of gender, they are all top beauties.

Some sang, some danced, and there were also poetry, drama, and acrobatics. There were so many programs that it was like a gala.

This is considered the most advanced entertainment these days, and the guests attending the conference were fascinated by it.

Rosen also thought it was quite good, and it was the best scenery he had seen since coming to this world.

More importantly, it was a rare occasion when he was not the organizer but a mere guest.

This gave him a leisurely mood to watch from the side.

There was still a lot of time before the action began, so he simply put all his worries aside.

While enjoying fresh and sweet fruits, eating delicious pastries and admiring the audio-visual feast, I felt an indescribable comfort.

While enjoying it, he vaguely felt the Queen's attention. She looked at Rosen's wine glass with a hint of doubt.

The underlying meaning is clear: "Don't drink too much, the war is coming."

It was obvious that she was worried that he would miss something important because she saw him drinking one cup after another.

Rosen turned his head and glanced at Zhuoya, and saw that she was sitting in the main seat, talking and laughing, and seemed to be paying no attention to her at all.

But with Lai Fu's keen observation skills, he could clearly sense the anxiety that she was trying hard to hide.

I can totally understand that.

After all, we are about to face a life-and-death situation.

If Rosen's real self had come, he would definitely not be in a more relaxed mood than the Queen, but he was only a clone.

So he continued to drink, even more, and all he drank was strong liquor with a high alcohol content.

At the same time, his eyes moved around the shadow guards in the corner, meaning: "I do this to reassure the shadow guards."

There were also a large number of guards wearing black and red robes at the flower viewing party, all of whom belonged to the First Shadow Guards.

Among them, ordinary shadow guards have three rings of strength, while team leaders have four rings, and five rings are not uncommon. This should be the benefit of his public practice of secret techniques and the widespread sale of magic ring scales.

There were a large number of them, estimated to be more than 2,000 people, some in the open, some in secret, almost surrounding the Starlight Rose Garden.

Almost every guest was watched by at least five shadow guards, and any behavior that was out of line would attract a lot of attention.

Just now, Rosen was arranged to sit in the VIP seat, which attracted extra attention from the shadow guards. At most times, there were more than thirty pairs of eyes staring at him.

His behavior, like that of a country bumpkin who had never seen the world, of constantly pouring himself good liquor and even getting himself drunk, did greatly reduce the shadow guard's vigilance.

Currently, there were only two ordinary shadow guards watching him as a routine.

It's not that I doubt him, but I'm worried that he might drink too much and act crazy.

The queen was an extremely intelligent person. After seeing this, she thought for a moment and whispered a few words to her trusted maid.

After a while, the waitress brought Rosen more good wine, all of which were strong liquors with extremely high proof.

Rosen accepted the order.

Although his face was red and his eyes were blurry, he continued to drink, gulping down more than two kilograms of liquid.

Even if the aliens are generally strong, they are still mortals and will get drunk if they drink too much.

Rosen is no exception.

His body couldn't take it anymore, so he didn't care where he was and just lay down on the table and started to sleep soundly.

But only this body was drunk; the real body far away in Neuschwanstein Castle was naturally unaffected.

Seeing how drunk he had gotten himself, the shadow guards completely relaxed their attention on him.

After a while, two servants came over and carried him towards the guest rooms of the Never Night Palace as usual.

Rosen relaxed his control over his body and was carried by others like a lump of mud.

I was quickly carried to the guest room and placed in a rather nicely decorated room.

The two servants were chuckling and joking as they settled Rosen.

"This mountain guy can drink a lot. I just saw him drink three kilograms of strong liquor. If it were me, I would have been drunk to death long ago."

"Your Majesty has made a mistake this time. This guy is just an alcoholic and will definitely not have a bright future."

"Who said it wasn't? Uh~ This guy is really heavy, use more force~~ Hey~~ Okay, let this drunkard from the mountain have a good sleep~"

After a while, the two servants settled Rosen and left the room.

Rosen began to secretly use his magic power to speed up his body's metabolism and eliminate the alcohol from his blood.

This is just a very small spell, and it only operates within the body, so there is no need to worry about being noticed.

After more than half an hour, the clone's body completely returned to normal, but it still did not move, but waited patiently.

I could vaguely feel that there were many forces sweeping over my body, one wave every 30 seconds.

This is active detection, and there is certainly a lot of passive monitoring.

Such a strong alert made Rosen dare not make any unusual movements, and he even dared not connect to the magic ring to use the void vision.

More than half an hour later, noisy voices were heard outside the door.

The flower-viewing party was over, and those who stayed overnight in the palace were led to the guest room area by attendants.

The guest room area should be quite lively at this time.

After waiting for a while, a soft "click" sound came from the direction of the door.

The door was pushed open and a figure walked in. Judging from her back and clothes, she was a maid.

But Rosen certainly knew the identity of this person. It was Queen Zoya who had disguised herself and taken advantage of the opportunity to get here.

Tonight, she will assist him in assassinating the Lord of Light.

(End of this chapter)