Chapter 113: The Prince’s Challenge

Although these Nobles didn’t dare to say anything on the surface, and even praised Old Xie for his character, the faces and mouths of Nobles were usually the opposite of their hearts. One could imagine that these guys had long hated Old Xie in their hearts, but they just couldn’t afford to offend the Stephen Family for the time being, so they didn’t dare to attack.

Naturally, Old Xie had no interest in these guys who couldn’t stand on the stage, and found a corner to sit down by himself. Although he didn’t want to be conspicuous, his height of two meters was too conspicuous, like a crane among chickens among the surrounding Nobles, and it was easy to be noticed.

Sure enough, not long after the banquet officially started, a beautifully dressed long-eared Elven handsome man, accompanied by Miss Constantine’s brother, Little Hercules, came to Old Xie’s front.

This guy who was obviously Elf Prince Arthas was very handsome, and gave people a very sunny feeling. He seemed to have a unique noble temperament innate to him, elegant, reserved, as if the word ‘gentle and elegant’ was created specifically to describe him. Even with Old Xie’s pickiness, after seeing this person, he couldn’t help but secretly praise, what a handsome pretty boy!

After coming in front of Old Xie, Arthas performed an impeccable noble etiquette towards Old Xie very calmly, not putting on airs at all because of his identity, and then said politely, “It’s an honor to invite you, Your Excellency Little Stephen. May I ask if I can sit here?”

I have to say, this person is really charming. Even though Old Xie didn’t like dealing with pretty boys, he had to admit that this Elf Prince was the kind of existence that made Old Xie unable to feel hatred. Seeing his behavior, Old Xie was embarrassed to be too arrogant, so he waved his hand and said, “Please sit!”

“Thank you!” Arthas nodded slightly to thank, and then sat down quietly, while Little Hercules on the side didn’t have such a humble behavior as him, he just sat down next to him, smiling and looking at the two.

“First of all, I am very grateful that Your Excellency can accept my invitation~” Arthas planned to be polite first according to the noble way.

However, Old Xie didn’t buy this at all, he frowned, waved his hand directly and said, “Stop, stop, don’t say those nonsense, just tell me directly the reason why you specifically asked me to come, I just want to know this today!”

“Oh!” Arthas was stunned by Old Xie’s unconventional behavior, but he quickly reacted and immediately nodded, “Okay, it’s like this, I accidentally knew one thing, that is, some of Your Excellency’s recent actions have caused Miss Constantine a lot of trouble. As Miss Constantine’s friend, I hope Your Excellency can stop these actions.”

“Huh?” Old Xie’s face immediately darkened, and the trace of affection he had just had for Arthas disappeared. He didn’t answer Arthas’s words first, but turned to look at Little Hercules. He especially noticed the plus one Lightning Ring on the other’s finger.

Although Little Hercules was young, he had high wisdom, he naturally knew Old Xie’s meaning, and hurriedly said, “I didn’t interfere in the affairs between you and my sister, today’s matter is entirely the decision of His Highness Arthas. He happened to come here to participate in the auction of the Thunder Sword, I told him some interesting things, it doesn’t count as breaking the promise, right?”

“If the Hercules Family’s world-famous wisdom is just sophistry on the lips, it will be very disappointing!” Old Xie finished, and didn’t even look at him, but turned to face Arthas, and said proudly, “I can tell you clearly, Your Excellency Arthas, I am never influenced by anyone in my actions. Unless Miss Constantine refuses herself, no one can stop me from pursuing her. Including you!”

Arthas frowned slightly after hearing this, he was also a little angry at Old Xie’s rudeness, but the noble temperament cultivated for many years made him endure it, and he still said very tactfully, “Your Excellency Stephen, I think Miss Constantine is unlikely to like someone like you, it’s just that due to the face of the family, she can’t refuse you directly, so, please understand her difficulties, okay?”

“Did she ask you to tell me these words?” Old Xie suddenly asked coldly.

“No, but, I don’t think I will misunderstand her meaning, after all, we have lived together for 20 years, I almost watched her grow up!” Arthas said affirmatively.

“That means you are interfering in my affairs with Constantine for no reason?” Old Xie suddenly said angrily, “Do you know? When I’m chasing a girl, I hate some self-righteous guys coming to mess things up for no reason, I warn you, don’t interfere in the affairs between me and Miss Constantine anymore, otherwise, your charming face will be beaten flat by me!”

“You are too rude!” Arthas couldn’t stand Old Xie’s provocation no matter how good his upbringing was, he immediately said angrily, “Your Excellency Stephen, you are so vulgar, how can you be worthy of the elegant and holy Miss Constantine? You don’t even deserve to be a Noble!”

“Scorn!” Old Xie immediately curled his lips and said disdainfully, “If Noble refers to a sissy pretty boy like you, then I definitely don’t want to be a Noble even if you beat me to death!”

“Who are you calling a sissy?” Arthas was immediately furious, he couldn’t help but stand up abruptly, and said angrily to Old Xie, “I warn you, Your Excellency Stephen, although the Elves advocate nature and love peace, but facing unreasonable provocation, we also have the courage to draw our swords to fight. You must apologize to me immediately, if not, I don’t mind teaching you a lesson!”

Because Arthas himself was the protagonist of the banquet, his every move was secretly observed by everyone, plus he was angry now, his voice and movements were a bit loud, so he immediately attracted everyone’s attention, the entire hall fell silent for a time, everyone looked at everything here dumbfounded.

Those Nobles who had offended Old Xie just now were secretly happy in their hearts, in their view, this time Old Xie would definitely apologize to him in an extremely embarrassing way. You know, the Stephen Family is indeed very arrogant in the Griffin Kingdom, but compared with the Elves, it is nothing.

However, what everyone present did not expect was that Old Xie stood up without showing any weakness, and then said to Arthas word by word with an extremely contemptuous tone, “Then come and teach me, sis~sy!”

“Ah!” Everyone present was scared silly, especially Little Hercules, he never expected things to turn out to be such a terrible situation. He originally thought that as long as Arthas came forward, Little Stephen would definitely give in, and then he could easily solve this trouble without hurting the harmony between the two families.

But the current situation was completely different from what Little Hercules expected. Old Xie’s tough attitude caused the situation to deteriorate to an unimaginable level. It can be foreseen that no matter who teaches whom in the end, the Hercules Family will completely offend the Stephen Family because of this. Getting no benefit but offending such a powerful enemy for nothing, this is obviously not worth it. Undoubtedly, this is simply an unprovoked disaster! Little Hercules almost regretted it to death.

“Hiss!” Although Arthas was elegant and magnanimous, his anger at being publicly humiliated by Old Xie again and again had reached a peak. He didn’t say any nonsense, he directly pulled out a delicate dagger, then flicked it hard, making it stick into the table in front of Old Xie, and then he said angrily to Old Xie, “I’ll wait for you at the Martial Arts Arena in the back, if Your Excellency is a man, please don’t keep me waiting!” After saying that, he turned his head and left.

Only then did Little Hercules wake up, he didn’t dare to stop Arthas who was furious, so he had to stop Old Xie who pulled out the dagger, and whispered with a pleading tone, “Little Stephen, let’s count it as my fault this time, okay? I beg you, just slip away quickly, don’t fight with His Highness Arthas!”

“You think of pleading for him now? Let me tell you, it’s too late!” Old Xie sneered, “I must teach that sissy a lesson!”

“I’m not worried about him!” Little Hercules was so anxious that he was covered in cold sweat, and quickly said to Old Xie, “Don’t look at His Highness Arthas looking about the same age as us, but he is an Elf, he is over 120 years old this year! You can’t beat him!”

“Hehe!” Old Xie suddenly smiled and said, “I understand, you kid are afraid that I will get beaten and cause a rift between the Stephen Family and the Hercules, right?”

“Oh, you can see that?” Little Hercules said with some surprise.

“Only an idiot like you can’t see it!” Old Xie then shrugged and said, “Don’t worry, the relationship between our two families can’t be wiped out by one fight, anyway, after this matter is over, your father will beat you up severely, and then bring you to my house to apologize, and then nothing will happen!”

“This!” Little Hercules touched his butt and said with a bitter smile, “I don’t care if I get beaten up, but the question is, if you are disabled by His Highness Arthas, that will be hard to say!”

“Hmph!” Old Xie said disdainfully, “With that sissy, he’s not qualified to disable me!”