Hawke Empire, in the palace of Merinder City.
A steak weighing a pound, two pieces of bread, a dozen slices of bacon, plus a chicken leg and two black pepper sausages. Annelotte cleaned everything in front of her and wiped her mouth gracefully.
To be honest, the food in the palace is indeed very delicious, plus she was not in a good mood some time ago (she eats extra large when she is in a bad mood). Driven by these two factors, Annelotte's appetite has increased significantly in recent times. This delicate girl now has enough appetite to rival a burly man like Kordak.
What drives all women crazy is that Annelotte not only has a huge appetite, but she is also the type who doesn't gain weight no matter how much she eats. Her food intake has almost doubled recently, but her weight has only increased slightly compared to before, and those extra pounds have grown exactly where they are needed. Although Annelotte is not as tall and plump as Vera now, she is definitely curvy.
"Put them away." Annelotte ordered calmly.
To be honest, life in the palace was very comfortable compared to the previous life of a mercenary, very comfortable. In terms of food, the imperial kitchen will select the most exquisite ingredients to cook food for her every day according to her requirements. Compared with these things, the meals she ate when she was a mercenary were like dog food. In terms of accommodation, she sleeps on a soft silk bed every day, and the servants help her lay out the bedding every day. How can this kind of treatment be compared to the original tent sleeping bag
But even Annelotte herself had to admit that life is much better now than in the past. But she still misses her past life as a mercenary, and she misses her companions who lived and died with her. Although those people were poor and rude, they were the first friends she met. They were far cuter than the pretentious guys with fake smiles around her now.
There were several times when Annelotte regretted following Malolite to Merindle. But whenever she thought of that guy, the anger in the girl's heart quickly overshadowed her regret. She misses her companions, but that guy, he'd better pray he doesn't run into her again!
But that guy came over like an idiot. Not only that, he also participated in this competition.
"Is it for me?" Annelotte's face would turn slightly red every time she had such a thought, but when she thought of the mean expression on that person's face, Annelotte shook her head firmly. So what if it's for me? Anyway, I have made up my mind not to deal with that guy anymore.
"Anne." A tall and heroic young man with long golden hair walked in. He was the eldest son of Emperor Larvin and the one who placed Annelotte here - Geoffrey Hawke.
"Your Highness." Annelotte stood up and saluted. She was arrogant and indifferent, but she was different from other arrogant people.
Maybe other proud people will resist these secular rules. Even if they see the prince, those self-proclaimed proud people will twist their necks and refuse to bow their heads. In this way, they show their pride - neither fearing nor caring about the identity of the other prince.
But Annelotte doesn't. She doesn't resist or follow these secular rules. She has always had an indifferent attitude. Since saluting can make the other person feel happy and prevent other people's words from causing trouble to her, she will do this action. To her, it was just an action and had no other meaning. To put it simply, Annelotte's salute was not to show respect, but to avoid other troubles.
"No need to salute me." Joffrey waved his hand very generously: "There is a competition for you this afternoon."
"I know." Annelotte nodded. She originally didn't want to participate in this contest, but under Joffrey's strong request, she could only obey. After all, she, a magic consultant in the name of the Palace Mage Association, has not made any contribution so far, and now many people are dissatisfied with her doing nothing. Although she didn't care about those people, the muttering behind her back would make the Frost Girl feel irritable, so she decided to play a good game to make those guys shut up.
"Work hard. I'm looking forward to your performance on the field. I believe you won't let me down." Joffrey said with an old-timer tone. It's no wonder that the twenty-six-year-old Joffrey is now a fifteenth-level high-level mage. Although his achievements are not as good as those of his younger brother Alexander, in the eyes of the world, he can reach this level before he is thirty years old. Guys who reach high levels are monster-like existences.
Therefore, Joffrey, who has always been praised as a genius, will naturally feel a sense of superiority in front of Annelotte, who is lower than himself. But he forgot that Annelotte was almost ten years younger than her and only one level lower than him.
"I will." Annelotte replied calmly. She actually didn't like this Joffrey, but her natural personality made her rarely express her likes and dislikes. Except for the three mercenaries, even if she met No matter how annoying people are, they always have that cold look.
"Okay, I will watch your game, come on." Joffrey showed a charming smile, causing the eyes of the maids behind him to become confused, but he was disappointed to find Annelotte's ice-blue eyes. But there was no slight fluctuation due to this.
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"I didn't expect Annie to meet that Nigrila in the first game. Boss, just watch how Annie takes care of that idiot!" Regner said. He not only came to watch this game, but also deliberately spent a lot of money to buy it. In the front row seat, he was now only two meters away from the edge of the arena, so it was easy to see Annelotte.
"It's a pity that Vera can't see it." Kordak shook his head. Vera couldn't move freely because of her injury, so she still stayed in the hotel to recuperate. Kordak wanted to stay with her, but then Niuer refused to die.
She knew that Annelotte must still be angry with Regnar at this moment. Without Kordak as a buffer, Regnar might not even be able to talk to Annelotte. Therefore, under Vera's strong request, Kordak had no choice but to follow.
"But it doesn't matter." Kordak continued: "Anyway, two people from each group will qualify. As long as this kid's strength is not too bad, he shouldn't be kneeling here. I will just deal with him in the competition in the future."
"Oh..." Regnar covered his face in distress. He originally hoped that Kordak would be relieved after Annelotte beat Nigrila, but now it seems that this man still feels that it is more satisfying to do it himself. Just when Regnar was thinking hard about how to persuade Kordak, the arena suddenly became lively.
Regnar looked up and found that two contestants had already appeared in the arena.
One of them is the young assassin Nigrila who secretly attacked Vera a few days ago. He was wearing dark red leather armor, with two long swords on his back and two daggers on his waist. He looked fully armed.
As for the other person, she had long, soft, ice-blue hair. Most of it was tied into a high ponytail and lifted behind her head, leaving only a few strands of bangs hanging gently in front of her smooth forehead. The originally beautiful and cool face has become a bit clearer and more charming. She was wearing a white robe as usual, but this robe had a hint of light blue, which matched her ice-blue hair.
There is no doubt that her robe is very precious, because the light blue on her robe is not dyed with dye, but the light blue magic light emitted by enchantment. Look at the blue gem inlaid on the chest of the robe. The gem is as big as a baby's fist.
According to the records in Veles' notes, Regnar recognized this gem - the Heart of the Ocean, because this stone can only be found in the deep sea of the Central Sea. It is a very rare magic storage crystal that can only store the magical energy of water elements, but its storage capacity is five times that of normal magic storage crystals of the same volume! According to records, a heart of the ocean as big as a peanut is enough to store a third-level water spell. And such a large piece of the heart of the ocean is probably enough for Annelotte to cast three or four additional seventh-level water spells!
You know, sometimes a high-level spell can even change the situation on the battlefield, but how terrible would it be to have so many additional high-level spells
In addition, Annelotte also holds a fiery red staff in her hand. Although the specific function is not known, it is not difficult to guess from Annelotte's robe alone that the staff in her hand must also be Not ordinary.
"An... Annie..." Regnar looked at the beautiful figure not far away and couldn't help but feel a little stunned.
Irene on the side couldn't help being surprised when she saw Annelotte. She had heard Regnar talk about Annelotte's beauty. But until she saw it with her own eyes, Irene truly understood the meaning of Regner's words, "She is the most beautiful girl I have ever seen." Annelotte's appearance completely exceeded Irene's imagination. Don't compare yourself with her. Even the pure and lovely Inelise would lose some of her color standing in front of Annelotte.
Erin looked at the beautiful frost girl not far away with complicated emotions. She couldn't help but feel a little ashamed of herself. She touched her ravaged face with some pain, then pulled up the corner of her mouth and revealed a wry smile.
Not only Erin, but everyone on the field who was close to the arena saw the appearance of the second contestant. The men all cheered wildly, but no one dared to say anything outrageous here due to their status as the magic advisor of the Annelotte Court Mage Association. And many women have been looking at the young mage in the center of the field with jealous eyes.
But as the person involved, Annelotte didn't care at all about the emotions of the people around her. She just looked at the assassin not far away in front of her coldly. She had heard a lot about the past two days. Especially the guy named Nigrila in front of him, he performed very well in the preliminaries. At the last moment, he sneak attacked a twelfth-level ranger, obtained a large number of badges, and entered the top sixty-four with the first place in this round of preliminaries, and the name of that ranger was Vera Trikle.
"I didn't expect that my first performance would be with a beautiful lady like you." Nigrila bowed gracefully, and then said: "Don't worry, I am very gentle to beautiful ladies. , you won’t get hurt too much, this is a gentleman’s promise to a beautiful lady.”
Annelotte looked at the coquettish assassin in front of her in silence, but she was repeatedly considering a question in her heart: Should she completely destroy him