On such an important night, the Golmlin Palace was brilliantly lit.
The crystal chandelier hanging high in the center of the ballroom reflects thousands of dazzling lights, making the ballroom as bright as day.
The banquet has not yet started, but the guests can't wait to come to the center of the dance floor, enjoy the sound of the piano from the corner, and praise the luxury of the banquet.
In the drink buffet area on the side, a man with a mustache was holding a glass of top-quality amber champagne, showing a trace of hesitation.
"Is there anything you need?" an elegant maid asked softly.
The man turned around and shook his head slightly.
"For a doctor, alcohol is something that needs to be avoided as much as possible, but out of courtesy to other people, I can only maintain this lifting movement, but it will also make my arms feel stiff."
"Doctor Karit?" the maid whispered in surprise.
"Hello, madam, why are you so surprised? I was invited to come in here. Unlike those guys gathered outside, I have an invitation from Count Krypt."
The maid was stunned, showing a rare impoliteness. She blinked her big eyes, looked at the elegant man in front of her, pointed in the direction behind her, and murmured:
"But just now, you weren't. You should have appeared there, and you just asked me for directions."
"Could it be that you are mistaken? I have been standing here all the time, or is it that a person dressed very similar to me has given you the wrong impression?"
"Is that so?" the maid tilted her head and frowned, "It shouldn't be my imagination, because you... no, I'm talking about the one just now, and you asked me about Count Krypt's lounge.
s position……"
The maid seemed to have noticed something, and she quickly bowed to the man and said, "I'm sorry, Dr. Karit, but I have to leave here first because I discovered something very important and I have to report it."
The man did not dwell too much on the maid's discourtesy. After watching the maid leave, he slowly turned around and looked at the drink in front of him with a confused expression.
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Behind the ballroom, on the way to the outside lounge.
The maid rushed over with her skirt in hand and found the remote corner according to her memory.
She gasped slightly, holding on to the silver-plated handle on the side, showing an extremely surprised look.
Not far in front of her, a lounge door was opened, and on the other side of the door, there was a figure wearing exactly the same clothes as Dr. Karit, walking slowly in a very awkward posture.
With.
The maid has been doing service and reception work here for a long time. She knows everything about Golmlin Palace, and she also knows that the room in front of her, although it looks spacious, is actually very small and is only used as a storage room.
But she didn't know why, the man inside could keep walking forward in the room, as if there was no end.
The maid looked over and saw that the scene in the room was shaking slightly, just like looking through a flame. All the decorations and lines were distorted to varying degrees, which looked very strange.
She held her right hand in front of her chest, cheered herself up, came to the door of the room, and shouted loudly:
"Sir, what are you doing?"
The man inside didn't answer her.
Seeing that the other party did not respond, the maid tentatively moved forward, mustered up her courage, and shouted again:
"Sir, what are you doing?"
Seeing that the man had not responded, the maid boldly stepped into the room with one foot. After finding that nothing strange happened to her, she walked in.
The surrounding scenery was the same as her memory, but it was different, which made her feel that her vision began to become distorted, and under this distortion, she became slightly dizzy.
She didn't know why this happened, but she knew that the man's behavior was probably dangerous.
"Sir, no matter what you are doing, please stop your behavior, otherwise, I will go to the escort to ask you to leave the Gormlin Palace." The maid shook her head, sobering herself up, and looked at
The man's back said in a firm tone.
"To be honest, I can't stop my actions, let alone look back." A man's voice sounded.
"Then I can only inform the people in the escort team. I'm sorry, but your banquet ends here."
The maid's voice was unmistakable, carrying the majesty unique to the staff of the Golmlin Palace.
"Well, out of good intentions, I remind you not to look back." The man said.
The maid was stunned for a moment, thinking about why the man said that, but it was already too late.
The moment she turned around, an unimaginable scene suddenly happened.
Just like scrubbing away the dirt on the glass with clean water, her whole body slowly disappeared out of thin air little by little, leaving not even a trace, as if she had never appeared.
The man heard the sound behind him disappear and the surroundings returned to silence, and sighed softly.
"I've already warned you..." the man said, without looking back, and continued walking forward with awkward movements.
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Gormlin Palace, a lounge on the second floor.
It is said to be a lounge, but the area here is very large, including two servant rooms, a dedicated bathroom, washroom, and kitchen, as well as a reception room for guests, and a master bedroom with a large balcony.
At this moment, in the reception room, two men in luxurious clothes were whispering something, and they let out a few hearty laughs from time to time.
"Thank you very much for your hospitality, Your Highness, Earl. Such treatment can only be enjoyed by the most distinguished guests. It almost makes me feel flattered. Could it be that in Griffin, this kind of life is the most normal for you?"
Nothing?"
The speaker was a male, with a strong build, very three-dimensional facial features, and a rare reddish color to his entire face. He was very similar to the sea people in Igoun who experienced the sea breeze every day, but there were also some slight differences.
The most obvious feature on a man's face is probably his big nose, which is rare among Griffins.
That huge nose occupies almost a quarter of the entire face, and it is still in the center, which is very obvious.
The person sitting opposite the man only had a little beard, a standard Faerun appearance, and a slightly protruding belly.
After hearing the compliments from the other party, the bearded man smiled and said: "This is our courtesy as hosts. Thank you for coming all the way, Ambassador Enguize."
These two people are the protagonists of tonight's banquet, Enguize, the ambassador from the Mogorian United States, and Earl Krypt, one of the five nobles of Griffin.
Because there was still a little time before the official start of the banquet, the two gathered in the ambassador's lounge to have some simple and friendly conversations.
Suddenly, the door was opened from the outside, and a man with a mustache slowly walked in with a very awkward movement.
"Huh, I'm so exhausted." The man closed the door behind him and breathed a sigh of relief.
This sudden visit stunned the two people who were sitting on the sofa talking. It was Count Kript who reacted first and said in surprise:
"Dr. Kalit? Why are you here?"
The man blinked, "I'm sorry, I forgot to take this off."
As he spoke, the man inserted two fingers through the gap in his jaw, slowly applied force, and then peeled off the layer of skin covering his face at a strange angle.
A slight sound echoed in the room, which was the sound made when the adherent flesh and blood were separated by brute force.
The whole process is like a facial surgery, which will make everyone who sees it think about it at midnight and wake up from a nightmare.
Ambassador Enguize and Count Krypt were stunned when they saw the actions of the man in front of them. They almost lost the function of language and could only rely on their human instincts to tremble slightly.
Mayer finally revealed his face.
The human skin held in the hand slowly squirmed and turned into a mask. Under the light, it glowed with a jade-like luster and looked like some kind of bone.
"Aren't you Dr. Carritt?" Count Kript asked in a voice full of surprise.
"Yes," Mayer looked around and said, "There are no guards? Are you very confident?"
"Who are you? How did you get here? What is your purpose?" Count Krypt said as he touched the drawer on the side, where there was an ivory-handled revolver.
"If it was for a normal purpose, I wouldn't have come."
Mayer saw the revolver, waved his right hand, threw out a water column, and knocked the revolver away far away.
"Extraordinary?" Count Kript's legs weakened, he fell back on the sofa, and then struggled to stand up.
"Yes, it seems that you know a lot, but I'm not interested. My time is very tight, and you don't need to call anyone. The sound insulation effect of this room is very good, and I will leave immediately after I finish my work.
," Mayer's eyes turned on the two people, "Which one is the ambassador from Mogorian?"
En Guize narrowed his eyes and nodded, "It's me."
"Then I'm sorry, I'm afraid you can't attend the dinner party later."
"You want to kill me?" Enguize looked at Mayer and then at Kripte, showing a puzzled expression.
"Don't look, the person behind it is not him, and even I don't know," Mayer said, putting his hands together to gather a ball of water, "I just accepted a commission."
Just when the surging water was about to be launched, something unexpected happened to Mayer.
Just listen to a "dong" sound.
Count Krypt rolled his eyes and collapsed limply on the ground, while the ambassador from Mogorian on the side continued to move his sword with his right hand.
Enguize ignored Kripte and looked at Mayer with both eyes, like a cheetah preparing to prey, and smiled: "Water? An extraordinary person in the ocean field?"
In the blink of an eye, the situation in the room changed suddenly, and Mayer felt a sense of oppression that almost suffocated him, and this sense of oppression undoubtedly emanated from the person in front of him.