Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste-Chapter 523 - 492: Before the Banquet

In the history of New Shaker City, it has never been as lively as today, or should I say, crowded with dignitaries.

The coming-of-age banquet held to celebrate Perfikot’s birthday gathered all notable dignitaries and celebrities from across the Victor Empire, as well as envoys and political figures from other countries.

If it were in the original world, Perfikot felt she could even say that anyone you frequently see in television political news could be found at her coming-of-age banquet.

The reason for such an exaggerated situation, besides Perfikot’s original invitations to numerous important figures and the internal dignitaries of the Victor Empire hoping to attend this banquet, is that other countries in the old world wish to use this event to get closer to the Victor Empire, ensuring a retreat pathway for their own country.

The news of the end of the world has now been confirmed and believed by all countries worldwide, which undeniably creates a rather awkward situation.

That is, for the vast majority of countries in this world, they are totally unprepared for the end of the world.

They haven’t even made any preparations, not even a basic plan.

This has worried most countries; they may ignore the life and death of their citizens, but they cannot disregard the lives of their country’s aristocrats.

Especially since most old-world countries in this world are still under monarchic rule, their royal families do not wish to be buried with the entire nation.

Moreover, the royal families of old-world countries frequently intermarry; although Her Majesty the Empress of the Victor Empire is not as exaggerated as that old European grandmother, the old world’s royal families can essentially be linked to the Royal Family of the Victor Empire.

Some with sufficiently close relations can even reach Perfikot.

After all, her parents didn’t spring from a rock. Although the Brandelis Clan isn’t a renowned one, it is long-established, tracing back to the founding of the Victor Empire as a knight family, having intermarried with quite a few.

Though Perfikot’s mother’s family has declined and has no relatives, if someone were to truly trace back and establish connections, they could find some ties.

Not to mention, at such a venue as Perfikot’s coming-of-age banquet, even those with no connections would try to come and establish ties.

If it weren’t truly difficult for some countries to attend, Perfikot’s coming-of-age banquet might have been grander.

Still, even so, the originally booked hotel venue almost wasn’t sufficient, necessitating the opening of all three floors of banquet halls to barely accommodate all the guests.

This resulted in a serious issue, where only the top old-world aristocrats could enter the key level of the original venue, while others of less eminent or honorable status had to remain on the other two floors.

Not to mention the hotel hadn’t initially hosted such a large-scale banquet, leading to a severe shortage of staff.

Fortunately, Perfikot’s status is well-placed; whether borrowing palace attendants from the Royal Family or bringing over her maid squad from the Northern Territory, isn’t a problem—after dispatching several high-speed Flying Airships for urgent transportation, the staffing issue was quickly resolved.

As for the hotel’s inadequate preparation for guest numbers, shortages in drinks, dishes, and other things weren’t that significant an issue.

After all, attendees aren’t coming to the banquet for food and drink; although items need to be prepared, being in short supply isn’t much of a concern.

The real issue lies in which of the many guests have the qualification to enter the main floor’s core venue and who must remain in the other two floors’ banquet halls.

After all, the guests who could enter the venue are elites whose identities are often looked up to in daily life.

It is only because the top aristocrats present at Perfikot’s birthday banquet are extremely numerous that some less heavyweight guests appear less significant.

But these issues do not trouble Perfikot. She has her loyal old butler and palace attendants dispatched by the Royal Family to handle them.

Perfikot’s only participation was to summon the White Bear and Iron Fire Knight Orders to take over the security work, also bringing in 120 Autonomous Knights due to the venue’s expanded scale.

This, in a sense, also counts as a show of force, as in this way, a total of 160 Steam Knights and 120 Autonomous Knights from two Knight Orders were concentrated at the venue, adding up to 280 Steam Knights.

Perfikot certainly isn’t displaying her wealth for no reason; she already received some information that among the guests attending her birthday banquet, there were guests from old-world countries whose nations didn’t have good relations with the Empire in the past, and now facing the apocalypse crisis, they haven’t prepared adequately. Hence, they hope the Empire could offer them help.

This help, preferably, should be gratuitous—if the Empire doesn’t agree to their demands, they won’t hesitate to issue wartime threats.

Undoubtedly, this is reminiscent of the effects similar to the seventeen-day war two years ago.

If war indeed breaks out, even if Perfikot can replicate the glorious victory of the seventeen-day war, swiftly annihilating the enemy, it would bring extremely adverse repercussions.

Disrupting Victor’s response to the apocalypse disaster is one, but the greatest problem is provoking severe hostility from old-world countries against Victor.

Despite Victor facing no issues once the apocalypse arrives, there’s still more than half a year before it descends—during this period, if all old-world countries are enemies with Victor, even if they can’t win, they can definitely vex Victor.

Therefore, to prevent anyone from misunderstanding the situation, Perfikot can only display these powerful war machines at the banquet to properly intimidate those with ulterior motives.

As for Steam Knights being unable to deter those unreasonable thoughts, this is not a problem.

Because at this banquet, although Steam Knights serve as a show of force, they are only part of the forceful intimidation.

Or rather, they are not the main characters for forceful deterrence at this banquet; it is the Godslaying Armor, already designed and built by Perfikot.

Indeed, the Godslaying Armor prototype manufacture was completed during Perfikot’s handling of New Continent issues, and it will make its debut.