Today's fifth update! A genuine fifth update!
To one side of the Goldshell Family's banquet hall stood an exquisite little building, rich with the elegant charm of the elves. Inside, a beautiful elven woman sat in a delicate great chair of green jade, smiling as she watched the three-meter-tall bronze mirror before her.
Like the bronze mirror Huali had once used to spy on Lin Qi's every movement, this too was a replica of an ancient magical device that had just been smuggled out of the Goblin Continent. It emitted not the slightest magical fluctuation, yet through the ingenious coordination of lenses and prisms, along with the illumination and shifting of light and shadow, it could clearly observe every movement in the banquet hall a hundred meters away.
A short but sprightly old man, with a gleaming, broad bald forehead and a great silver beard beneath his chin, stood beside the beautiful elf with his hands clasped behind his back, smiling as he watched the reactions of the people in the bronze mirror.
"That Dragon Mountain Count is rather strange!" The beautiful elf chuckled softly. "His reaction was far too quick. It was nothing like the behavior a true noble ought to have. On the contrary, warriors who slaughter on the battlefield and mercenaries who adventure in the Abyssal World are the ones who would react so directly."
The sprightly old man nodded and said gravely, "My dear, you are quite right. This Dragon Mountain Count gives me a very dangerous feeling. Though his appearance is vulgar, low-class, and makes him look no different from the customers in those filthy brothels, there is something within him that makes me feel danger."
Shaking his head, the old man let out a long sigh. "Worthy indeed of the Dragon Mountain Count,