Magus: Rise of the Darkness Empress

While Elise went to save her aunt and bring her back, Weiss was participating in the grand party alone. This was actually not a problem for her and she was doing fine.

The main help that Elise gave Weiss in this party was to handle the vast amount of people greeting her at the start of the party. But that rush was already over, so Weiss had nothing to worry about.

There were a few nobles who were curious about why Elise needed to suddenly leave in the middle of the party. But after learning from their men that she had directly entered her room and had not came out ever since, they had came to the conclusion that she was feeling ill for one reason or another.

Even though official knights were way too sturdy, it was not like they were invincible or free from all kind of sickness. There were even life force related special illnesses that only an official knight could show symptoms of.

There were a few nobles who tried to start some kind of ill intention rumours regarding this incident, but they were unable to do so.

Most of the nobles wanted of make some kind of deal with this new rising star who was also most probably the most beautiful young lady of the Brightshine kingdom.

So for the time being, except for some absolute idiots, there were no one who wanted to piss her off.

So before the idiots could do anything, they were taken down by stronger nobles. So all in all, Weiss had not need to face any unpleasant thing regarding this matter at all.

Now Weiss was currently sitting on a luxurious sofa while getting served various foods and drinks by her new noble followers. She was sitting with her legs crossed and was showing off her sexy body to the world without a care in the world.

This was the time for a very exciting event to start. And that exciting event was gift giving. In this event, an announcer would tell the whole party room and all the nobles present here about the gifts that the other nobles had prepared for the host, marquis family of Skepa.

This was an event for showing off and bragging for the nobles. They were also planning to establish their economical power and create a good relationship with the Skepa family through this event. So for various reasons, if was a very important matter for most nobles.

Weiss had already submitted a gift and it was something that would not make the Souran family to look bad, that was for sure. So Weiss was not worried about this matter at all, unlike many other nobles who were worried that the gift that they had chosen was too cheap.

But it was not like Weiss was not interested in this event. She was actually looking forward to observing this. The main reason for her curiosity was because this was a very good opportunity for Weiss to find out various things about various noble families.

With what kind of gift they had prepared and the expression on the face of the gift giver, there were a lot of things that Weiss was able to uncover. Not just the current financial situation of the family which was a very easy thing to do but also the intelligence, culture and quality of the family head and his advisers.

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For the gift giving announcement, it always started with the lowest ranking members present in the room, which for this party were a few merchants.

Now, normally this first round would not be very exciting for the people but that was definitely not the case this time.

And the reason for that was simple. Even though the merchants had the lowest ranking in the room, they most of the time would have more wealth than even an average high ranking noble.

So the gift that they had prepared, there was very high chance that they were going to be very valuable and expensive.

And that actually turned out to be the truth. The very first item that was brought into the display stage was a beautiful looking sword made from translucent crystals. It definitely did not have any value in the battlefield but it was definitely a work of art.

So immediately the excitement level in the party hall increased. That crystal sword would cost at least a few hundreds of gold coins, which was a sum that many low ranking noble houses could not even think about.

The next few gifts given by the merchants were also just as amazing. None of them were less than 100 gold coins in price. It was really dazzling to the eyes of many baronets and barons who were struggling to gather even 10 gold coins in some cases.

This also made them very jealous. They were definitely higher up in the social ladder compared to these merchants but actually, they were poorer. How was this fair ? But there was nothing that they were capable of doing regarding this matter.

The merchants themselves were quite satisfied with the reaction that they had gotten for the gifts that they had prepared. It was once in a lifetime opportunity for them, so all of them had prepared quite a bit.

Finding these kind of not only expensive but also luxurious gifts that matched the taste of a noble was not easy. But as this was something like an advertising opportunity for them, the merchants had went all out in preparing for this.

That was why all the gifts were so dazzling. It was definitely expensive and had cost the merchant quite a bit of money, but in the long run, it was not a loss for them.

Seeing that they were capable of preparing this many valuable things, the rich nobles here might contact them with business opportunities. And that alone would be enough to offset the losses that they had suffered.

And even though these gifts looked very impressive to the lower ranking noble families, they were actually not a big deal for the high nobles. So it was not like the merchants had stepped out of their league.

Now it would be interesting to see how many low ranking nobles would be able to match the grade of the gifts given by the lowly merchants.