After Joshua finished making the introductions, the World’s Singers officially began.
The first person to step on stage was the Flower of Farucci, Gallolie.
Joshua could imagine the cheers from the audience before the televisions after seeing Gallolie being on stage. However, their cheers would not cease with only that.
Wearing a magnificent dress, Belle’s actor Ynor also emerged on the stage. Unlike Gallolie, the succubus was not as skillful in showing his most beautiful side to the camera.
Standing on the stage, Ynor appeared a bit reserved. He was not used to the dress he’s wearing either.
Fortunately, at this moment, the Frost Elf Tylene walked onto the stage. Tylene gently grabbed Ynor’s hand and led him to the judge seats located before the audience seats.
“What are we to do by sitting here?”
Gallolie quietly asked Joshua who was seated next to her upon sitting down on her seat.
“We only need to give some simple... evaluations for the performances of the upcoming contestants.”
Fortunately, Joshua managed to shift the focus of the camera to the stage. Else, the scene of Gallolie leaning toward him would’ve been seen by all the audience watching in Norland.
“Evaluation?” Before Gallolie could ask anything, Ynor sat down next to her. As for Tylene, after she led Ynor to the judge seat, she returned to the World’s Singers’ stage as the hostess.
“Just watch, you’ll understand later.”
Using his thought, Joshua controlled the Day Banshees to focus their camera on the stage. At the same time, he summoned out the magic network interface.
For the sake of this competition, Joshua had established the ‘World’s Singers’ sub-forum in the Voice of Norland sub-forum.
New posts and comments were appearing rapiding in the new sub-forum. The majority of them were praising Gallolie and Belle’s beauty.
Majority of the posts and comments were about Belle. Perhaps it was because the actor playing Belle, Ynor, rarely appears in public.
The channel for the audience to cast their votes would also be through the posts on this sub-forum.
For the sake of allowing the audience that did not sign up with the magic network to see the contestants’ vote counts, Joshua deliberately used an originium crystal to project the voting screen onto the wall behind the stage.
“Vulture... when it’s Lady Saintess’s turn, support me up there.”
Bishop Darco looked at the projection poll on the wall. Before the first contestant even got on stage, he received twenty-four votes.
Not all of the tens of thousands of audience were watching World’s Singers competition ‘in earnest.’ Those twenty-four votes might be some people’s prank.
It was also at this moment that Bishop Darco realized that this was Chaos Demon’s home field and that he could falsify the votes casted by the people.
Moreover, the singing performance this time around was not the same as the audition. Saintess Herolia would have to sing before tens of thousands of people. As such, Bishop Darco refused for there to be no accompanying music for her singing.
“You should sit right and watch that demon’s so-called... performance first,” Vulture spoke in a slightly mischievous manner.
He believed that it would be impossible to find singers among a bunch of ordinary commoners. Yet, that demon decided to do exactly that.
The first contestant entered the stage. She looked like a middle-aged woman. Even though Sir Weissenasche has given this middle-aged woman a makeover backstage, an ordinary person like her still immediately gained stage fright the moment she got on stage.
She was even stuttering when answering questions from Gallolie and Joshua.
“Then... contestant one shall begin her performance!”
At this moment, the Frost Elf Tylene promptly spoke to rescue this awkward situation.
After being a broadcaster for the Voice of Norland for some time, she has become proficient in handling situations like these.
The accompanying music began to quietly emerge from the background. Naturally, the ones providing the accompanying music were the Duke of Bones’ Undead Orchestra.
Before the competition began, Sir Weissenasche had confirmed with all the participants their songs and guaranteed that they will be provided with accompanying music when they’re on the stage.
Fortunately, the middle-aged woman successfully completed her singing performance. Unfortunately, the quality of her singing was simply too far from that of professional singers.
Only a sparse amount of applause sounded for her from the audience seating area after she finished her performance. In the end, she only received a bit over a hundred votes.
‘Would a performance of this quality truly be alright?’
Joshua received a message from Gallolie. Indeed, they entered the live broadcast stage without going through any rehearsal, something extremely reckless.
But...
‘Although it’s a bit cruel, they’re nothing more than stepping stones. In the end, there will forever only be a small number of lucky fews in this world.’
Joshua sent a message reply to Gallolie.
Slowly, the second competitor entered the stage. The moment she stepped onto the stage, she received a hundred and twenty-seven votes. Those votes all came from her appearance and figure.
“Could you give everyone a small introduction of yourself?” Joshua tried his hardest to contain the smile on his face as he looked at the girl wearing a white dress with an ice-cold expression.
“Messai.”
She said the two syllables and nothing else. If it wasn’t for the saintess’s order, she would definitely not show herself to the public in such a manner!
Furthermore, seeing how Joshua was containing his laughter made her want to pull out her knight’s sword to hack at the Chaos Demon.
Unfortunately, it was obvious that with the white dress she’s wearing, an attire that made her look like a noble lady, she would not have a knight’s sword with her.
“It would seem that Miss Messai is very shy...” As Joshua wantonly teased the knight lady, her votes had increased to five hundred and seventy-two!
A lot of posts saying things like ‘Miss Messai is so pretty today!’ has appeared on the World’s Singers sub-forum.
Judging from the names of the users, Joshua could tell that they were all Hearthstone Tavern’s frequent guests. The mages and dwarves in the Hearthstone Tavern were most definitely discussing Messai’s lady-like makeover.
“May I... begin now?” Messai tried her best to make her voice sound a bit more friendly. Joshua’s questionings was simply akin to a cruel torture to her.
She knew quite many people in Norland. Most of them were her card buddies from the tavern. For her to appear on the stage with such an outfit, her image as a serious templar has been completely shattered.
“Of course.”
Joshua did not continue to embassass the knight lady. He decided to give way to her.
After the questioning stage ended, Messai’s accompanying music began to slowly rise through the stage. Her votes have also increased to seven hundred and twenty-one.
Joshua carefully listened to the accompanying music. The undead performing the music must be feeling very complicated.
The style of the music was that of the ‘hymns’ originating from the Nation of the Holy Church. If one knew how to imbue one’s voice with magic while singing, the song would most definitely be able to purify undeads.