Translator: Yang_Wenli
“They’ve already left.”
Joshua was standing by the entrance looking at the highly tensed Messai and the calm Herolia standing next to her.
“Mister Joshua, thank you for your shelter,” Herolia seemed to have also sensed the departure of the two legion commanders. She stood up and expressed her thanks to Joshua.
“Aren’t they supposed to be protecting you?”
Joshua knew that the two uninvited guests that intruded into Norland Nation Theater were templars.
Fortunately, Norland Nation Theater was affiliated with Norland. Per Norland’s laws, Joshua sent his men to drive the uninvited guests out of the theater. No matter how unwilling they might be, they had no choice but to reach terms.
Likely, they’re outside guarding Norland National Theater waiting for Herolia to exit.
“However, they belonged to the Pope Faction. If I am captured by them, I would be forcibly brought back to the Holy City. But, before I obtain the World’s Singers victory as Lia, I am not planning to return to the Holy City.”
“You’re that confident?”
Joshua turned to look at the nun lady who was able to maintain her calm even before the Lich Overlord.
“No, not confidence... It’s merely my desire.”
Herolia looked at the undead ensemble that were still performing on the stage below. Following their music, she began to softly hum.
Joshua doesn’t understand what she was humming about. The reason for that was because she was singing in elventongue... Herolia’s voice gradually increased. In the end, together with the undead ensemble’s accompanying music, she started singing.
Just from hearing Herolia’s singing voice, Joshua could feel the tiredness he accumulated from preparing the World’s Singers gradually disappearing from his body.
The Saintess’s singing had a buffing effect?
Suddenly, Joshua recalled something the dark elf mentioned to him.
In the Nation of the Holy Church... only the Saintess’s singing could appease the crazed mutterings in the minds of the Heresy Tribunal’s inquisitors.
When Herolia’s voice gradually weakened, the undead ensemble’s performance also gradually came to a stop.
“The elven epic’s Traveler’s Song,” said Herolia after she finished singing. “That said, the song was slightly altered. Furthermore, I’ve never heard of such musical accompaniment with that song before. But, it is still an elven song. Is this the song you’ve prepared for the Blackwood Elves?”
“One of the Blackwood Elves... Her name is Oranka, a senior Blackwood Elf priestess. I’ve told her that Norland’s citizens might have grown tired of the elven epics. But, she still insisted on singing her race’s epic on the stage.”
Joshua opened his magic network interface and tapped into the ‘World’s Singers’ sub-forum to check out the votes Priestess Oranka received. He discovered that she only received some seven thousand votes.
“It would appear... that not all of Norland’s audiences are fond of elven epics,” said Herolia with a smile.
“That’s why I’ve written a new song for the next Blackwood Elf.”
“A new song? Mister Joshua, it’s not the first time you mention that. I am very curious what style of music you would write.”
Herolia looked at the young demon. She had spent a long time on the Mage Forum and also inquired the Heresy Tribunal for information about Joshua.
What she found out was that the Chaos Demon was brilliantly gifted in the field of arts.
Not only did he personally wrote three outstanding screenplays that piqued even her interest, he also created the miraculous communication medium known as the magic network.
Even now, Herolia was unable to understand the principle behind the magic network. As for those screenplays Joshua wrote, they were not only interesting, their accompanying musics were also outstanding.
Because of that, she came to Norland not only to obtain more believers. Most importantly, she was here to reach a cooperative relationship with Joshua.
It was only only so that she could draw support from Joshua’s magic network to stabilize her position in the Nation of the Holy Church... She was also extremely interested in Joshua’s artistic talents.
Regretfully, Joshua directly refused her conditions on becoming allies. To ask him to become a cooperative partner in music and songwriting would be even more out of question.
Nevertheless, this does not stop Herolia from discussing music with Joshua.
“Is it music in the Nation of Steel’s Syrov style or is it in Farucci’s Barona style? Or is it an elven sacred tune?”
As Herolia had lived in this world for a long time, she was, in addition to being a respected saintess, an excellent composer and singer. Her appreciation toward music is not only limited to ‘hearing’ them.
“I’ve never heard of any of those complicated-sounding musical styles you just mentioned,” Joshua felt baffled by the series of different musical styles Herolia mentioned.
“Then, could it be in the style of the Nation of Frost’s Larsik War Songs?” Herolia continued to ask.
“Miss Herolia, my understanding of the different musical style names might be slightly different from yours.”
Joshua said only that and did not bother to mention the various genres of music from earth to Herolia.
After all, there were simply too many different genres of music... even Joshua couldn’t remember them all.
“Is... that so?”
“If you don’t mind, you can go ahead and wait at the backstage. A Blackwood Elf by the name of Luvita will soon appear on stage.”
Joshua stood up from his seat. He looked at the Duke of Bones who had returned to her conductor stand.
While the Lich Overlord was completely hostile toward the two audiences from the Nation of the Holy Church, she was very concerned with Lutiva’s performance. Right now, she was ordering her undead subordinates to make last minute adjustments.
“Luvita?”
Herolia tapped open the Mage Forum. On the World’s Singers’ sub-forum, the number of posts discussing ‘Lia’ were still the most numerous.
The earlier performance by that Blackwood Elf priestess Oranka was akin to a pebble being tossed into the lake. While it brought upon a small ripple, it didn’t manage to create any waves.
The initial songs performed by the Frost Elf Tylene on the Voice of Norland were elven epics too. The audiences of Norland considered her songs to be lullabies that helped them sleep...
Even though Priestess Oranka’s elven epic was slightly different from ordinary lullabies, it did not diverge too far from the source melody.
Right now, Herolia was looking forward to finding out how the upcoming young Blackwood Elf would be able to smash the miracle she brought upon.
Over twenty thousand votes... That number was akin to a quarter of the overall audiences.