Chapter 129: song of the ocean
“What strange knowledge—”
Up until now, Jia Na, who had already advanced to Second-level Wizard Apprentice, had contracted a total of four summoned creatures.
They were, from Contract Summoning, the Celestial Sparrow-Afu, and the Hundred-Eyed Mirror Demon-Silver Mirror.
And, from Elf Summoning, the Thorn Flower Fairy-Lola, and the Flame Guardian-Yan Yade.
Perhaps because her Soul Projection talent had upgraded to Spiritual Body Shuttle, Jia Na's soul power had increased far more than she had anticipated.
Precisely because of this, Jia Na could still contract one more summoned creature at the Second-level Wizard Apprentice stage. However, she found it a bit difficult to choose the fifth contracted creature.
The demand for soul nourishment couldn't be too high (like the Hundred-Eyed Mirror Demon), and their attributes couldn't overlap.
After weighing the options, Jia Na found that the summoning Witchcraft that could currently meet her needs had to be Elf Summoning, which consumed less soul power.
“Let's wait until my soul power is fully recovered before deciding—”
After carefully putting away the Ancient God Contract, Jia Na's gaze couldn't help but fall on the remaining nine source energy fragments hidden in the magic plant pot.
Logically speaking, since Jia Na had already broken through to Second-level Wizard Apprentice, she could use the source energy fragment again for a second level-up.
However, Jia Na had only recently broken through, and her Wizard ecosystem was not yet stable enough. Without a certain degree of accumulation, upgrading recklessly would be counterproductive and unfavorable to solidifying her Wizard foundation.
“I still need some time to adapt—as long as I continue steadily at the current pace, soon,
I will be able to absorb the second source energy fragment.”
Not only that, but the Celestial Sparrow was also in a similar situation to Jia Na.
Although with the help of that 'Lower Angel', the Celestial Sparrow had digested most of the source energy. However,
Jia Na still found that a small portion of the source energy remained within the Celestial Sparrow's body.
Even though it wouldn't cause much impact, in the short term, she would still have to wait until the Celestial Sparrow had completely absorbed it,
before the next absorption could take place.
“Hoo—”
She lightly exhaled, looking at the mechanical clock which showed there was still some time until lunch. Taking advantage of this, Jia Na began practicing the mana Shaping techniques taught in her Primary Medical class with purpose.
She found that even though Shaping had been upgraded to its current level cap using skill experience,
as she practiced more and more, her casting focus also received a corresponding increase.
For Jia Na, this was also a pleasant surprise, neither big nor small...
Saturday, early morning.
After a period of alarm, due to the successive closing of the shadow rifts and the Formal Wizard personally taking action to eliminate the Shadow Creatures, the unrest in the Turin Third-level Wizard Gathering Place was quickly contained.
Precisely because of this, the city of Turin gradually restored its original order, and the Nightingale Opera Troupe, which had been closed for a week, also officially resumed business yesterday.
“David, I heard from Zhu Li that you were looking for me?”
Gently pushing open the door to the currently somewhat deserted rehearsal room of the Nightingale Opera House, Jia Na looked at David-Berg, who was sitting alone on a chair beside the stage with his legs crossed,
and walked directly up to him, asking pointedly.
“You're finally here. I've been waiting for you for over an hour.”
Seeing Jia Na enter, David-Berg directly pulled a chair from beside him and placed it in front of himself, gesturing for Jia Na to sit down.
“Then you arrived quite early.”
Although the theatre had reopened, it hadn't been officially announced to the public.
Besides the many matters that needed to be handled before the official return to work, it was also because of the continuous invasion of Shadow Creatures during this period, which had affected the major theatre troupes in Turin, as well as many casinos and entertainment venues to varying degrees, resulting in a significant drop in customer flow and sluggish business.
On the other hand, with the continuous popularity of 'blood shadow rose' for a period of time, it had now gradually entered a period of stagnation.
Even if the customer flow was still decent, constantly relying on past success would only deplete the dividends from 'blood shadow rose'.
It was precisely for this reason that, after discussions between Director Roman-Roland and Crane-Roland, they planned to create another 'hit' production.
And the basis for the 'hit' production was another script written by David-Berg—'song of the ocean'.
The story of 'song of the ocean' was relatively simple. Although the plot twists were not as numerous as in 'blood shadow rose', the 'tragic core' within it, which was enough to resonate with the audience, was deemed by Roman-Roland to have full potential to become the next 'hit' selling point.
However, this 'selling point' needed to be repackaged. Besides continuing to delve into the 'tragic core' as the emotional explosive point, Roman-Roland planned to re-employ a new lead in this 'old wine in a new bottle' project.
That is, the newcomer opera actress who could be described as red-hot throughout the city of Turin recently—Jia Na-Roland.
At the same time, the overall director for this project was no longer Crane-Roland, but David-Berg, who was taking on the main responsibility for the first time.
“You mean, you want me to be the lead actress in your new play?”
“Exactly!”
Looking at David-Berg's eyes, which were overly bright with excitement and filled with bloodshot veins around the pupils from fatigue, Jia Na could clearly sense that David-Berg had unparalleled enthusiasm for the project where he was about to take on the main responsibility as the overall director for the first time.
“Let's be clear beforehand, my working hours are still weekends; I cannot change to normal weekdays. I have classes at the academy.”
“Don't worry about that. I won't delay your classes.”
Seeing a seemingly troubled expression on Jia Na's face, David-Berg couldn't help but scratch his somewhat thinning hair.
“This is an opportunity many people dream of—Tsk tsk, no wonder Richard said you're a witch who only knows how to study.”
“Then he understands me quite well.”
Gathering the hair behind her back, since this new project wouldn't affect Jia Na's daily studies, and if successful, it would also be very beneficial for her to negotiate a new round of salary terms with the Nightingale Opera Troupe next year. Therefore, Jia Na didn't think too long before readily agreeing to David-Berg's invitation.
“Oh, right, if—I mean, if this new project is successful, will I get an extra bonus?”
“Of course. If the troupe's income increases, your share at the end of the year will definitely increase accordingly.”
“I mean, a bonus outside of the contract—”
?
Seeing that David-Berg didn't understand her meaning, Jia Na had to be more direct.
“I suddenly realized, you're actually quite a money grubber.”
Hearing David-Berg's lukewarm insinuation, Jia Na didn't even blink.
“My dear Director David, I think you should understand the principle that a horse won't grow fat without night feed—””