The Banquet (Part 2)

The luxurious and harmonious welcoming banquet continued...

With a bright smile, handsome face, and elegant and humorous speech, Hai Wentian's amiability made the originally boring lunch not so dull.

After introducing the past glory of the Armisa Tolly family, Hai Wentian confided in Raymond.

Because of City Owner Armisa's long illness, Hai Wentian, who had been enjoying life, had to get involved in the management of Port Kaidun prematurely.

Except for distant relatives, the direct descendants of the Tolly family in the City Lord's Mansion were only Hai Wentian's half-brother Saiche and Saiche's sister Wen Lan Pu. The once powerful Tolly family now had so few descendants that only Hai Wentian could come out to support the family business.

When talking about his bedridden father, City Owner Armisa, Hai Wentian told Raymond in a very sad tone that according to family tradition, his twelve-year-old brother Saiche would go to the family fief to practice after City Owner Armisa passed away to contribute to the family's prosperity.

Frowning regretfully, Hai Wentian was very worried when talking about his young brother: "My poor little brother Saiche is still a child! If he is sent to a remote fief, I really fear he will not be able to control those distant relatives. But I cannot violate the family rules. The only hope now is to pray that my father will recover soon!"

For Hai Wentian's distress, Raymond could only offer sympathetic consolation. It seemed that even the lord of a city had unavoidable troubles.

Regarding Saiche, whom Hai Wentian mentioned, Raymond's impression, due to limited contact, was of an immature child who was reserved and shy. Although he also had exquisite etiquette skills, compared with his brother Hai Wentian, Saiche's performance seemed too nervous and rude.

Hai Wentian's concern for his brother Saiche was evident. Raymond was somewhat envious of such a harmonious brotherly relationship. For Raymond, who had no brothers, such friendship was incomprehensible, although he felt that being alone was the most comfortable.

Perhaps seeing Raymond's impatience, Hai Wentian quickly changed the topic to Raymond.

For this question, Raymond had thought of it on his way here. Now he just needed to briefly describe it.

An apprentice who accompanied an old wizard, living in an isolated forest hut, only came into contact with his powerful teacher every day, with talking trees, strange beasts as company.

So when the teacher thought he should go out and practice, Raymond appeared before Hai Wentian.

Out of love for his disciple, the old wizard gave him a wizard's badge he had owned for many years, allowing him to travel freely on the continent. The only test for him was to find a large ship that could cross the sea.

Because Raymond still needed to go to Goran Plateau across the sea to visit his teacher's old friend.

Raymond's casual description gave Hai Wentian a solemn expression. Under his somewhat overly curious questioning, Raymond simply described in detail the talking tree he met in the forest.

But in Raymond's description, this talking tree became the old wizard's friend, Raymond's nanny in his childhood, and his best friend before leaving the forest.

Hai Wentian's face showed some uncertainty. When he heard that Raymond often ate red fruit with children's faces when he was young, his face turned amazing.

It took Hai Wentian a long time to recover after Raymond's description. He explained the reason with a wry smile.

Such trees were extremely rare throughout the continent and were so powerful that even ordinary official wizards could not contend with them.

And that kind of red fruit was extremely precious and rare for wizards as medicine. Hai Wentian, with the blood of wizards in his family's ancestors, thought of this in the family records.

"My God, Respected Sir Raymond, your teacher must be a great wizard to have these creatures accompany you in the forest. Your future achievements must be limitless!"

In response to Hai Wentian's praise, Raymond remained silent, knowing that too much talk would inevitably lead to mistakes. So he only briefly touched on his life in the forest and his teacher.

After the banquet, when Raymond was invited to the living room for dessert, he politely apologized to Hai Wentian: "Because this is the first time I have left the forest and my teacher, I am very unfamiliar with the customs outside. If there is anything improper To Hai Wentian's amiable apology, Hai Wentian praised Raymond again and told him generously that as a wizard, he had privileges anywhere. Just by the badge on his chest, he could walk sideways throughout Port Kaidun.

In response to Hai Wentian's praise, Raymond just smiled without speaking. After Hai Wentian finished praising, Raymond tactfully expressed his idea: "Because my teacher did not tell me how to cross the sea, I came up with the idea of coming here directly after meeting Sir Heige. Now I need to ask, how can I get across the sea from here and find Goran Plateau? This is my teacher's test for me."

Raymond's question made Hai Wentian's handsome face embarrassed. He thought for a moment and smiled wryly: "I'm really sorry. If you just want to go to sea simply, it would be very easy. Port Kaidun has countless ships available for your use. But if your destination is Goran Plateau across the sea, you can only go through the wizard's organization."

Somewhat embarrassed, Hai Wentian immediately explained.

Although there were many ships in Port Kaidun, they were generally navigated along the coastline. And he had no concept of the name "Goran Plateau" at all.

Hai Wentian could not confirm whether "Goran Plateau" was a place name or an organization because after the Tolly family was granted fiefdom, the descendants of the family had once had a person who reached the strength of a second-level apprentice. But all subsequent descendants lost the possibility of becoming wizards due to their diluted bloodline.

So to find out how to sail across the sea to "Goran Plateau", Raymond could only go to Heihe Valley, northwest of Port Kaidun, where there was a wizard academy.

Sitting calmly on the sofa enjoying fine wine, Hai Wentian finally solemnly told Raymond some bad news: "Respected Sir Raymond, because wizards are fundamentally different from ordinary people, your doubts can only find answers there. But the old dean of Heihe Valley is an old stubborn man..."