As soon as Angel entered the hall, Leonric greeted him, introduced himself, and invited Angel to take a seat.
Angel glanced at the guests. Cyndia accepted the inspection calmly with a smile on her face. When Angel glanced over at her, Magda's cheeks turned red and she lowered her head slightly.
Leonric pointed to the middle-aged lady sitting on his right and introduced: "This is my wife, Cynthia."
Then he pointed at Magda and sighed softly: "Magda, why are you lowering your head? Why don't you come over and apologize to the Lord?"
After hearing this, Magda immediately stood up and bowed to Angelfo shyly: "Sir, it was me last time..."
Before Magda could finish speaking, Angel turned his eyes away and looked at Leonric: "Save your energy in speaking, and there is no need to apologize. Those who deserve punishment have already been punished, and I will not pursue it."
Magda was stunned on the spot.
Although he said it didn't matter, Angel ignored her the whole time, which made Magda's originally planned emotional apology and confession turn into a blushing face.
——It’s all suppressed.
Angel sat obediently on the left hand side of the table, which is the most distinguished guest seat in traditional aristocratic etiquette besides the host seat.
"I wonder what I call you, sir?" After Leonric sat down, he began to carefully consider his words.
Angel originally wanted to tell his real name, but looking back, he thought that since he had already used a code name with the magician, he might as well continue to use it: "Mask."
It was very rude not to mention a name but an unknown code name. However, Leonric just stiffened his expression and continued: "It turns out to be Lord Mask. Magda was too rude the other day.
Although the adults said that they will not pursue the case, as a father, I still feel very uncomfortable. I am here to solemnly apologize to the adults on behalf of my little daughter."
Having said that, Leonric poured wine to punish himself.
Angel did not interrupt his apology this time, which made Magda sitting aside feel a little aggrieved.
When Leonric finished his pretense, Angel said with a smile but not a smile: "I accept your apology."
Angel's words shocked everyone. Didn't he say before that he didn't need to apologize? Why did he say now that he accepted the apology?
It took Leonric a long time to realize that Angel was rounding the corner and saying that he was not good at raising his daughter. He could ignore his daughter Magda's rudeness with an attitude of not remembering the faults of the villain, but he could ignore the rudeness that caused Magda.
The main reason why Gerda was so rude was that her upbringing was not strict, and Angel was actually from a clean family.
Therefore, he just did not pursue Magda's apology; but he only expressed forgiveness for Leonric's apology.
Everyone present was not a fool, and they all heard Angel's subtext. Magda's eyes turned red, and when she was about to say something, her thigh was held down by her mother Cindia who was sitting next to her. Cindy
Ya glanced at Magda with a warning look, then turned around with a smile on her face.
"Oh, it's all my fault for my incompetence in raising my daughter. I only have one child, Magda, and she is used to being arrogant. From now on, I will ask the most stringent etiquette officer to teach her. In the next six months, I will strictly teach her.
Take care of Magda until she can transform from the inside out before she can go out."
What Leonric said was like a ban, which made Magda, who longed for a free life, want to argue immediately, but Cyndia held her down hard under the table, and Magda could only feel aggrieved in the end.
Nod.
"Let's stop this topic. You invited me here just for this reason, right?" Angel didn't have time to waste on family drama.
As he spoke, Angel picked up the delicate cup on the table. Leonric immediately signaled the bartender next to him with his eyes to mix the wine, but Angel stopped the bartender and a stream of magic power was transmitted from the internal model to the outside.
With a gentle shake, the cup was filled with water.
"Wine interferes with emotions and disrupts thinking. I prefer drinking plain water to wine." In fact, what Angel wanted to say was "tea is my favorite drink," but he was afraid that once he said it, Leonric would really
Tea was served. But he meant milk tea, not the weird fermented tea that ordinary nobles loved to drink.
Angel's wonderful method of "making something out of nothing" shocked everyone present.
After a long while, Leonric came back to his senses and said calmly: "I invite you here mainly to apologize, and I also want to ask your advice on some small things."
Angel raised his eyes and said nothing, but just motioned for Leonric to continue.
Leonric did not speak immediately, but motioned for Cyndia to take Magda and leave. Then he sent everyone in the hall away, leaving only the housekeeper to serve.
"I just want to know if Lord Mask is the legendary... wizard?"
Angel paused. He originally wanted to find an opportunity to ask Leonric if he knew any news about wizards. Unexpectedly, before he could ask, Leonric had already asked.
"Of course, it's okay if you don't answer. It's just my curiosity." Leonric paused when he saw Angel, and immediately added for fear that he would be unhappy.
Angel smiled lightly and said: "Of course you can answer, but before I answer, I want to know where did the count learn about the wizard?"
Leonric had no doubts about this issue: "My family has lasted for nearly nine hundred years, and has recorded many secrets. Among them, wizards were mentioned, but in the past, I regarded them as legends."
Angel: "Can you show me the information you mentioned?"
Leonric was stunned, with a hesitant expression on his face. The family secrets involved many things, some were too dirty, and some even talked about the secrets of the royal court. Showing them to an outsider... He couldn't make a decision.
Seeing this, Angel said calmly: "I am indeed a wizard."
Angel did not explain the difference between formal wizards and apprentices. For ordinary people, they are the same anyway.
Hearing Angel's answer, Leonric's eyes showed a kind of understanding and a hint of fear. He closed his eyes and sighed deeply: "I didn't expect that there really are wizards in the world. The rumors turned out to be
real."
"The world of wizards will not intersect with the world of ordinary people. Generally speaking, wizards will not disturb the lives of ordinary people." What Angel did not explain is that the reason why wizards do not disturb the lives of ordinary people is purely because
Because the power gap is too big. Have you ever seen someone who is inexplicably hostile to ants? The magnitude is different, so even the most evil wizard is too lazy to mix with mortal life.
Leonric was silent for a while: "Master Mask, the secrets of the Griffin family are usually kept by the head of the family. According to family rules, outsiders are not allowed to view them."
"If you must see it, I can take it out." Leonric said this, and carefully said the next words that made him extremely uneasy: "But, can I ask you something?"
Using a family secret to ask a wizard to do something. Leonric himself felt that this was extremely unreasonable, just like a man who took a fancy to the rice field ball pushed by a dung beetle, and he wanted to take it away.
Will he ask the dung beetle for permission?
Leonric's heart was agitated and uneasy.
Angel didn't answer for a long time, and Leonric wanted to give up. He took out the leather scroll containing the secrets and asked Angel for forgiveness.
But at this moment, Angel spoke: "I can give you a chance to express your request."
Angel neither agreed nor disagreed. Leonric's careful request made him seem to see himself not long ago, when he and Honglian were also in this unequal position.
He understands this uneasy feeling, but it is not enough to constitute the answer of "agree".
At most, Angel gave Leonric a chance to express his feelings with empathy. As for whether he would agree or not, that was a matter for later.
Although Angel did not agree, Leonric was still pleasantly surprised and hurriedly spoke out his request.
"The things I want to ask you to do are not for myself." Leonric sighed: "Although Waterglass is unparalleled in its reputation, as the actual manager of Waterglass, I know that there are still many things in this city.
There are so many places that I can’t reach with my hands. The things I want are the things that I can’t reach with my hands, and I don’t even have a solution for them.”
"You mean the gray forces? Barr?" Angel raised his eyebrows.
"No, no city is completely clean. There is white and there is black, so the existence of Barr is not a problem for me."
"Then you're talking about...a magician?"
Leonric shook his head: "I don't dare or have the qualification to ask adults to stand up for us regarding the magician's matter. What I'm talking about is actually a strange thing that ordinary people can't solve, but maybe adults can solve it."
"A strange thing that ordinary people can't solve?" A curiosity arose in Angel's heart.
"This matter started a year ago..."
A year ago, a man in Waterglass suddenly got a strange disease. After he was sent to Golden Cross Medical College, he had no symptoms at first, but later on, his body began to weaken. At first, he could not move, and then slowly...
He was unable to speak, his eyes were dull, and in the end he looked like a living dead. There were obviously physical signs, and the basic physiological stress was still there, but the whole reaction was that of a dead person.
Since the strange disease appeared a year ago, there have been more than 100 cases so far.
"All the professors at the Golden Cross Medical School took action, and some family members even took the initiative to donate a 'living dead' for vivisection, but the final result of the anatomy was still no problem."
"So, I would like to ask you, sir, to go take a look, is that okay?"
Angel was a little surprised by this request. Leonric said for a long time that the request was not for himself, but for the people. If there was nothing fishy in the process, it seemed that Count Leonric was a breath of fresh air among the nobility.
ah.
Angel has basically no idea about treating diseases. Although he knows a little bit about Chinese and Western medicine, all he has learned is theory, and clinical practice can only rely on guesswork. However, he is not stage frightened, and he does not really have to agree to this condition anyway.
.
"The strange disease you mentioned is based on what specific basis?"
Leonric: "I didn't expect you to grasp the key point so quickly. The reason why it is judged to be a strange disease is because of the initial symptoms..."
"These hundreds of patients all have one thing in common."