Chapter 112: An Unexpected Invitation

In the following days, Old Xie was also in pain and happiness. Little Loli’s persistence was something no one had expected. She would launch an attack in almost every occasion where she could see Old Xie, and 100% of them were sneak attacks. Although she learned from past lessons and did not throw Ice Dragons around indiscriminately, nor did she activate Whirlwind Armor in dense crowds, her increasingly new attack methods still caught Old Xie off guard again and again.

Little Loli obviously possessed a very high intellect. After suffering losses several times, she had completely learned her lesson and was no longer limited to the use of Magic. Methods such as poisoning and placing Magic Traps under chairs came out one after another, and she also learned to instigate some militants in the Academy to help. After all, her identity was there, and countless idiots who dreamed of winning the Princess’s heart one day completely ignored the amazing strength Old Xie showed and helped Little Loli plot against Old Xie several times.

Although Old Xie was polite to beauties, he never knew how to show mercy to men. After breaking dozens of bones of dozens of people, he finally stopped this unhealthy trend. In the entire Academy, whether Mages or Warriors, they all treated Old Xie like a mouse seeing a cat, not even daring to get close.

Now, Old Xie was completely the number one bully on campus. Wherever he went, he could cause screams, and then the people there would disappear in the shortest time as if doomsday had come. Especially on occasions where the Princess and Old Xie appeared at the same time, this situation happened even more frequently. There was no way, the destructive power of these two was too terrifying.

After more than a dozen battles between the two sides, excluding those idiots who deliberately caused trouble for Old Xie, the number of people accidentally injured directly broke three digits. This was said to be because Little Loli and Old Xie tried their best to restrain themselves. If they were as crazy as the previous few times, I’m afraid half of the people in the Academy would have been injured by them.

However, after all, Old Xie was an Old Demon Lord who had lived for hundreds of years. Although Little Loli had high wisdom, her actual combat experience was too poor. Her various traps or conspiracies were set up in a nondescript way. In Old Xie’s eyes, they were completely obvious and would not have any effect at all. Old Xie couldn’t even stand it anymore, thinking, using this level of stuff to plot against me? Isn’t this making me look cheap?

So, every time Old Xie won, besides enjoying himself on Little Loli’s lips, he would also carefully explain the flaws in those traps to her. Little Loli was dismissive at first, but later she felt it made more and more sense, and she couldn’t help but slowly correct these flaws.

With successive sneak attacks, Little Loli had gradually begun to forget why she wanted to deal with Old Xie, and her attention gradually shifted to learning more things from Old Xie that interested her.

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The days of fighting with Little Loli passed quickly, and before they knew it, more than a month had passed. Finally, the auction for the Thunder Sword was about to begin. For the sake of this sword, the Manager of the Auction House had also put in a lot of effort, advertising widely across the Continent, attracting a large group of dignitaries from various races. According to incomplete statistics, there were dozens of Great Noble Families from the five major kingdoms of the Continent alone, not to mention the rulers of those small duchies. In short, there would be nearly a hundred organizations eligible to participate in the auction at that time, which was obviously a very amazing number.

Such a huge gathering of major forces also made this auction a grand event. Dignitaries from various countries almost filled the Imperial Capital of the Griffin Kingdom. Some of them, even His Majesty the Emperor had to welcome personally, such as the Grandmaster Smith of the Kingdom of Dwarves, the Saint Domain Expert Piritz. And the Elf Prince Arthas.

Naturally, Old Xie didn’t care about this, he just wondered why a Thunder Sword would have such a big impact on the Continent. Later, after asking the Manager, he found out that although the sword was not a Legendary Item, in terms of function alone, it definitely qualified as a Legendary Item.

In fact, there is no accurate regulation for so-called Legendary Items. Whether an item can become a Legendary Item must be recognized by everyone. Moreover, just being good is not enough, it must also have a master at the level of a Legend Rank Expert. Only in this way will people recognize this item as a Legendary Item. Legendary Item not only refers to the quality of the item but also its history and past glory. Only in this way will this item be sought after by countless people, so that each one is invaluable, and there are even authoritative figures on the Continent who draw up lists for Legendary Items. Items not on the list, no matter how good they are, are not Legendary Items.

You know, if you can get one of your items into the Legendary Item list, then this item will be named after you and passed down together with your story. Every time people mention this item, they will also praise the Legendary Expert who made this item a Legendary Item.

Obviously, the evaluation system of Legendary Items has become a way for the names of Legend Rank Experts to be passed down forever. So countless Experts dream of relying on their beloved treasures to make their names go down in history. But the problem is, there are too few good things on the Continent, and even if there are, they are Legendary Items left by previous Legendary Experts. It is too difficult to find an item of good quality that hasn’t been named by a Legendary Expert yet. Thus, a strange phenomenon appeared on the Continent, many Experts reached the Legend Realm, but embarrassingly found that they did not have a single piece of equipment worthy of being called a Legendary Item at hand.

Therefore, as soon as the Thunder Sword, which possessed the quality of a Legendary Item but had not yet been owned by any Legendary Expert, appeared, it immediately attracted the attention of countless Experts. Even the Saint Domain Experts who had not yet reached the Legend Realm couldn’t sit still. After all, such things are too rare, and if there is a chance, they must seize it, otherwise, when they become Legend Rank Experts, who knows if there will still be a chance. Of course, although the vast majority of Saint Domain Experts are unlikely to become Legendary figures in their lifetime, this cannot dispel the glimmer of expectation in their hearts.

Old Xie didn’t care at all who this sword was sold to, he just wanted to sell it for more Gold Coins to spend. In Old Xie’s view, a man can’t have no money in his hand. However, Old Xie was lazy and didn’t want to toss about himself, so he left the buying and selling matters to the Auction House and continued to live a carefree life.

But unexpectedly, the more Old Xie wanted to be idle, the easier it was for things to come to him. An invitation to a banquet from the Imperial Palace was delivered to Old Xie. It turned out that the Emperor hosted a banquet specifically to entertain Elf Prince Arthas and Dwarven Master Piritz, and almost all the influential Nobles in the Griffin Kingdom were lucky enough to participate.

However, logically speaking, Old Xie was still in the student stage and had not officially taken over the family affairs, so he shouldn’t have been invited, but for some reason, not only did he receive an invitation, but it was also delivered by the Chief Steward of the Imperial Palace himself. He specifically instructed that Old Xie must attend, saying that this was repeatedly instructed by the Elf Prince, so he hoped that Old Xie could give the Emperor and the Prince some face.

Old Xie was strange, he and that Arthas seemed to have never had any intersection? Why would he invite himself? Out of curiosity, and having nothing to do, Old Xie simply agreed.

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The banquet was held in the Imperial Palace. That evening, Old Xie and Fatty went to the banquet by carriage. This was Old Xie’s first time entering the Imperial Palace of the Griffin Kingdom. Fatty was afraid that Old Xie didn’t know the rules, so he didn’t stop nagging Old Xie about the rules here all the way, and kept emphasizing the sacred status here, hoping that Old Xie could restrain himself and absolutely not be like last time, grabbing abalone with his hands and gnawing in public.

That incident gave Fatty a lot of pressure, and he was teased a lot by his colleagues, making him very embarrassed once. If there hadn’t been a bigger ‘butt touching incident’ topping it, the most embarrassing family would undoubtedly be the Stephen Family, not the Augustus Family.

Obviously, Old Xie directly ignored the wretched Fatty’s words. What bullshit sacred Imperial Palace, in his eyes, was just an ordinary Castle. In terms of exquisiteness and comfort, it was even inferior to the Old Mage’s Mage Tower.

It seemed that Old Xie just wanted to anger Fatty on purpose. Anyway, after entering the Imperial Palace, Old Xie looked around presumptuously while walking, and from time to time gave sharp and mean evaluations, saying the Imperial Palace was worthless. Fatty was so angry that he rolled his eyes, thinking, if you were really my son, I would slap you to death.

The place where the Imperial Palace held the banquet was the largest Splendid Hall here. This hall could accommodate more than 300 people dancing and playing, and it was the largest hall in the Griffin Kingdom, specially used to entertain foreign dignitaries.

When Old Xie and Fatty entered, most of the people had already arrived. As the head of the top Great Noble Family in the Griffin Kingdom, although Fatty had no prestige in front of Old Xie, he had a lot of status and face outside. So as soon as he entered, he was surrounded by many people, constantly flattering and greeting, and then they wanted to take the opportunity to meet Old Xie. Unfortunately, Old Xie was obviously unwilling to give face to these guys, and directly turned his face and left. Leaving a group of big and small Earls and Marquises cooling there, even Fatty felt a bit embarrassed, so he had to apologize to others awkwardly.