Chapter 531: Hotes Complains
Time flies, and it’s half a month later.
The day before, Ivan sent away Jenny, who was anxious to return to the underground world, and the treeman guard Inom.
The next day, Ivan was still a little upset, so he accepted Hotes' repeated invitations and went to the banquet he organized, and brought the fine wine from the Night Elf Royal Court that Hotes had been thinking about.
"Your Excellency Ivan, please come in."
"Colum, we are old acquaintances. There is no need to be so polite."
"The etiquette cannot be abolished."
In the outer city of the City of Truth, Ivan and Ze Yi arrived at their destination, a manor built entirely on the top of a mountain. The manor was not large, but it gave people a feeling of being isolated from the world.
At the gate of the manor, Ivan met the elemental creature Coram, with whom he had fought side by side.
Coram can be said to be Hotes' personal servant, and his status is incomparable to that of ordinary servants, just like the marsh ant to Ivan.
Under the guidance of Coram, Ivan walked into the "Lonely Mountain Manor" and found that it was planted with rare and ancient plants. The owner of the manor had obviously spent a lot of effort on them.
"Where is that guy Hotes?" They had already gone deep into the manor, but hadn't seen anyone else. Ivan couldn't help feeling a little strange.
"The master is in front." Coram pointed forward.
The two continued to move forward for a distance. A strong aroma of wine wafted in the air, and a dozen strange buildings made of stones appeared in front of them. They looked like hollow round low towers.
Ivan quickly recognized that these were wine cellars.
"Your Excellency Ivan, please come in." Coram stopped before he got close.
"Ze Yi, you stay here with Colum." Seeing this, Ivan ordered Ze Yi who was standing beside him.
"Why don't I take Mr. Ze Yi to the front yard of the manor, and I will treat him well?"
"also."
Afterwards, Ivan went straight to one of the wine cellars, where he heard some noise.
He walked in and saw that even Hotes had started drinking. There were several wine barrels on the ground on one side.
"No, why are you drinking by yourself?"
"Ivan, you're here, come and drink with me."
"Just the two of us?"
"Two people are nothing. Two people can still finish all the wine in the wine cellar. By the way, where is your thousand-year-old wine? Take it out quickly. Let's get drunk today."
Ivan could tell that this guy came here to drink up all the wine in the wine cellar. It seemed that he had already drunk a lot, far more than just the few barrels of wine here.
He was a little amused and confused. So this was what the so-called banquet meant.
The will of an arcane wizard is extraordinary, it is difficult for him to get drunk, and it will not harm his body, but why do he drink so much?
"Okay! I won't leave until I'm drunk."
Ivan did not refuse. After being busy for so many years, he also wanted to relax.
What a pity, there was no "brothel to listen to music" as he had originally thought, only a drunkard.
"Haha, I knew it. Ivan, you are the most suitable for my personality. We are both people of temperament. It is right to establish the Five Colored Demon Robe Organization. From now on, the organization will only recruit people of temperament."
"The thousand-year-old wine you asked for is here."
"Come on, drink this bottle full!"
“——”
From Hotes's noisy voice, Ivan finally understood why Colum wanted to bring Ze Yi to the front of the manor. He probably didn't want to hear anything he shouldn't hear, so as not to violate taboos.
Ivan was puzzled.
Hotes came from a wealthy family since childhood, and successfully became an arcane wizard who was above thousands of people. He had both strength and status, so how could he be so drunk?
Hotes said nothing, and Ivan asked nothing either, they just kept drinking barrel after barrel of wine.
Soon, all the wine in the wine cellar went into the two men's stomachs, but their stomachs did not swell at all.
"Let's go to the next wine cellar."
"Okay, this wizard will sacrifice his life to accompany you."
"Hahaha, but I can't hurt you or me."
Coming out of the wine cellar, Hotes walked in front, staggering, looking half drunk and half awake.
Ivan knew that as long as Hotes wanted, he would immediately lose all his drunkenness and become completely sober.
As for the strong liquor that can get arcane wizards drunk, no one in the entire wizarding world has explored this aspect in depth, so naturally such liquor does not exist.
"Not this one, next one."
The two came to another wine cellar, and found that it was full of overturned barrels, which were obviously drunk by Hotes. So the two continued to walk to the side and came to the next wine cellar, which contained another kind of fine wine.
After one day and one night.
Ivan didn't know how much wine he drank before he felt a little drunk.
But Hotes could not stand at all. He was in a drunken state.
“Brother Ivan, do you know why I want to drink up all the wine here?”
"why?"
"I'm happy."
“——”
Ivan looked at him speechlessly and almost said, "You don't look very happy."
"You don't believe it?" Hotes stared at him.
"A little bit." Ivan is an honest man.
"Don't disbelieve me, brother. I am really happy. Tell me, I have contributed to your growth, and I have contributed to your becoming an arcane wizard, right?"
Hortez protested.
Ivan nodded involuntarily, but he didn't understand what he meant.
"That is to say, when you become the top figure in the wizarding world, it will also be due to my contribution. This also proves that I, Hotes, am a person who has made great contributions to the wizarding world."
"The top big shot? I'm still far away."
"You are different from me. I believe you can succeed. Am I right?"
Ivan still didn't quite understand what Hotes wanted to say, but that didn't stop him from nodding in agreement.
"And Tanya, she will definitely become the Knight King, don't you think?"
"Correct."
"Look, all the sins I committed before have now been paid off. How can I not be happy?"
"It is indeed worth celebrating. Let's continue drinking, drinking, drinking."
After hearing this, Ivan realized that Hotes was really brooding over Tanya, and his previous actions had a sense of atonement.
Ivan didn't know that the wine stored in Lonely Mountain Manor was actually the wine used in that banquet.
At the banquet, Tanya suffered a great disaster, and Hotes never drank the wine again. He moved it here and kept it here until now. To Hotes, the wine has a special meaning.
"Ivan, do you have someone you love very much?"
The wine was still being drunk, and there was a long pause in the conversation, when Hotes asked another question.
Ivan was stunned, not knowing how to answer for a moment.
"I know that a wizard like you must love knowledge and truth more, right?" Hotes shouted before he could answer.
This is indeed true, Ivan nodded involuntarily.
At the same time, this is also the life creed of most wizards.
"I'm different from you. I used to have someone I loved very much, but fate is unpredictable." Hotes continued to yell.
"Fate is indeed unpredictable and always unpredictable." A figure appeared in Ivan's mind, an exceptionally serious and beautiful figure. That should be the person Hotes was thinking about.
However, he still did not ask any further questions. This matter was really difficult to get involved in.
"Yes, it's hard to figure out!" Hotes patted his shoulder and nodded heavily. After sighing with a humorous tone, he suddenly blurted out:
"You said, this is the first time I fell in love with someone, and she is such a conservative woman. How could she be someone else's concubine?"
“——”
Ivan was speechless again.
It’s not that I have nothing to say, but I don’t dare to gossip.
No one would have thought that Grace was actually the woman of the King of the Sky. No wonder Hotes was so afraid of the King of the Sky. No wonder he said he would never marry Tanya at all. This matter was indeed very risky.
It is not difficult to guess that Hotes must have confessed his love to Grace before, but Grace froze him with just one sentence.
Life is indeed like a big intestine wrapped in a small intestine, what a sin!
"Ivan, I'm so unlucky, I--"
"Drink, drink to your heart's content."
"Drink. You must drink all the wine here."
On this day, the two arcane wizards fulfilled their boast and drank up all the wine in the manor, thus ending the drinking party.
This was also the first time that Ivan drank so much. (End of this chapter)