The welcoming banquet at Sea Blue Castle lasted for over an hour. Regarding tomorrow's fleet wager, Guan Xiyi, the chief shopkeeper of Golden Roc Bank, publicly exchanged calm views with Zhang Tie, Connor, patriarch of the Renard Family, and Blaiman, patriarch of the Willis Family, the representatives of Ewindara Archipelago's powerful clans. This displayed Golden Roc Bank's firm resolve as the guarantor ensuring the fulfillment of the wager contract. At least on the surface, Golden Roc Bank's stance was indeed impartial and scrupulously fair. It was precisely this that left the representatives of Ewindara Archipelago's great clans beaming as they departed Sea Blue Castle after the banquet, as though they had already won this wager beyond doubt.
Tomorrow, both the Ice and Snow Wilderness and Ewindara Archipelago had accepted Golden Roc Bank's invitation. Each side could send one hundred people aboard Golden Roc Bank's airship and fly together above the waters where the two fleets would fight their decisive battle, watching and supervising the clash on-site.
Everything would be decided tomorrow.
Yet Zhang Tie seemed somewhat absent-minded. Tang De's shadow kept flashing through his mind.
During a lull in the banquet, Zhang Tie drew Lady Olina aside and whispered a few words into her ear. Lady Olina looked at Zhang Tie, then glanced at Tang De, who was chatting with a representative from one of Ewindara Archipelago's families in the distance, and gave a faint nod.
The central figures of the entire banquet were Guan Xiyi, Golden Roc Bank's chief shopkeeper, and the beautiful female knight called Gongsun Liniang. There were several dozen other Golden Roc Bank attendants. Apart from a few managers like Xu Tao, who drew a little attention, the rest were unremarkable. Thus, more than ten minutes before the banquet ended, Tang De accepted a glass of