Fang Hong heard and looked in that direction too, indeed seeing his teacher, Master Ande, had already spotted him and was making his way over, parting through the crowd.
He then turned back and nodded slightly to his counterpart.
The Old Bishop acted decisively as well, merely giving him a brief nod before retreating behind the Lizardman Ritualist.
And as Gita had said, the latter half of the banquet was specifically prepared for him. After Ande took him away, they navigated among the nobles, and the focus of the banquet naturally shifted onto the two of them — the nobles were friendly, showering Fang Hong with compliments unanimously, as though stars surrounding the moon, gathered tightly around this future Novastar of Fanric. There were a few nobles from minor families who almost exalted him as rarely found in the heavens and nowhere on earth.
