Chapter 178 Use My Power (4K5)

The person who walked out of the darkness was Arianna.

As usual, she held a book in her right hand and a staff in her left hand, with a faint smile on her face, looking elegant and calm as if she was here to attend class.

However, her eye was reflecting the only light source in the church - the azure magic flame hanging above her head, which made her elegance look cold and weird.

"Ah, Helvinia." Arianna spoke slowly, her voice like the cool wind blowing from the valley, "It's almost the seventh syllable, why are you still staying here alone? Aren't you going home?"

Hevinia dispersed the flames in her palms, and then whispered, "My family will be here to pick me up soon. Will Professor Arianna let me go back?"

"Why not?" Arianna replied with a smile, "You are my favorite student, Helvinia."

Hevinia didn't move, but just looked at Arianna quietly, because she knew Arianna didn't finish her words.

Sure enough, after a pause, Arianna spoke slowly again.

"If, you are really Helvinia."

As soon as these words were spoken, a strong wind blew outside the church, causing the magical blue fire under the ceiling to sway wildly.

The two looked at each other, one with a smile and the other with a calm expression.

"May I know why?" Helvinia asked.

"Of course." Arianna said with a smile, "It's a teacher's basic job to answer students' questions. What do you want to know?"

Hevinia nodded slightly, and then asked directly: "Why do you doubt me? The golden score has not appeared for many years. Normal people would not think about it in that way."

After hearing Hevinia's question, the smile in Arianna's eyes became more intense.

"Before answering your question, I must say... Is this your true character?" Arianna slowly walked towards Hevinia. "Before, if you wanted to achieve a certain goal or ask a certain question, you would always lay the groundwork for a long time, trying every possible way to beat around the bush, and finally say it timidly, like a cautious child. I have to say that it was a very good disguise. It is precisely because of this harmless image that you have such a good relationship with people in the academy, and most people in this academy like you."

Arianna walked in front of Helvinia, slowly stretched out her hand, and lifted Helvinia's chin.

The movement was gentle, as if treating some kind of work of art.

"But how can I put it? I still prefer you like this now compared to the delicate image you pretend to be like." Arianna's eyes reflected Helvinia's face, "You are like a weed that will not break no matter how windy or rainy it is... Of course, it is precisely because of your personality that you have been able to hide until now. For more than a year, no one has discovered your existence, not even your parents, oh no, I should say Helvinia's parents."

“But you still found it.”

"Yes." Arianna smiled and released Helvinia's chin, then slowly took two steps back. "Helvinia, even though you often fall asleep, daydream, and lose focus in my class, and even do some unclear things with that bronze-ranked boy... you should not forget who I am as a teacher, right?"

"Of course not," Helvinia replied. "You are the teacher of the Scales and Temperaments of Music."

"Yes, but... this is not what I am best at." Arianna seemed to be back in class, tapping the staff in her hand, leaving a series of irregular traces in the air, "What I am best at is actually..."

She suddenly held her staff horizontally, and those originally irregular traces instantly turned into one gorgeous note after another, and finally intertwined into a piece of music.

Then she quickly swept her staff across the music score, and a passionate melody sounded, instantly breaking the silence of the night.

"...composing music."

Arianna said softly.

"Do you know, Helvinia, what the requirements are to stay in this academy and become a professor? Let me tell you, you need to independently create three or more four-note music scores, or a five-note music score. This is not an easy task. Your mentor Leonor took ten years, and Delamain, who taught music, took seven years, but I... It only took me half a year, you know? It only took me half a year."

"I am the best in this respect. Do you know how many songs I have composed?"

"Let me tell you, I own a total of... forty-three songs with more than four notes. Do you know what this number means? The two guys Leona and Delaman together have less than half of my music!"

Arianna's tone gradually became excited.

"But, in this academy, my status is much lower than theirs! I can't even teach the music scores and compositions that I am best at, because that old fellow Delaman is already there! I can only teach the most basic levels and laws, and have to endure you, a bunch of untalented idiots, every day. I even have to teach the bronze level that is no different from trash!"

Arianna swung the staff violently, and the wooden staff made a whistling sound as if it cut through the air.

"I am obviously better than them, more talented than them, and have gone further in the pursuit of music! But unfortunately, I can't get what I deserve!"

"Do you think this is fair, Helvinia?"

Arianna looked at Helvinia again.

And Hevinia's expression remained calm: "You seem to have strayed from the topic, Professor Arianna."

After a brief outburst, Arianna gradually calmed down. Looking at Hevinia's expressionless face, she said softly, "Okay, I take back what I said before that you are cuter now. I really still like the considerate you before. Even if it was just your disguise, at least at that time, you listened carefully to every word I said. And, I have actually told you the answer."

Hevinia didn't ask any further questions, but just looked at Arianna quietly.

"Okay." Arianna sighed softly, "It seems that the lovely Hevinia will not come back. You now only remind me of that annoying kid named Ogg. The same clear stupidity is revealed in your eyes."

"I've already said it before, I'm good at composing music, but composing music is not something that can be achieved by hard work. It requires talent, and a very high talent at that. One must be able to clearly feel the energy and vitality of each scale. This is something that Leonor and Delamain can't do, but I can do it, and I can do it to the extreme. I can even judge a performer's recent state and...mood through the sound he makes." Arianna said, "Although I don't want to know what kind of stupid moods you idiots live with every day, I can do it."

"And as your teacher, I naturally heard your voice."

"The Golden Seventh Tone is indeed perfect. In this academy, no matter who listens to it, they will say so... Perfect, it's really too perfect."

"But I was the only one who could hear it. Only I could hear the unnaturalness in that perfection."

“Although it was only a hint, I still heard it.”

Arianna walked in front of Helvinia again, looked into her eyes, and then her gaze gradually moved down to Helvinia's white neck, and continued down, as if she wanted to see everything under the robe.

"I heard it, the feeling of being trapped," Arianna said, "like a fish caught in a fishing net, like a bug caught in a spider web, like..."

She paused, then spoke softly.

“The notes are in the score.”

Hevinia's pupils narrowed slightly.

She thought of many possibilities, but she never expected it to be this one.

This was completely unexpected and beyond her understanding.

"Of course, based on this alone, I can't directly confirm that you are the score. After all, the Golden Score hasn't appeared for so many years, and Hevinia herself is indeed the Golden Seventh Note, although it seems now that she was the one who participated in the test at that time. So I really didn't think that the Golden Score would appear like this and really kill Hevinia." Arianna shook her head and said, "So at the beginning, I was not sure and just thought it was my illusion. But I also started to observe you from that time and started to contact the people around you, wanting to see what you are like. As for the result..."

She paused.

"Although you have done a good job and Jin Pu's disguise is also excellent, fake is fake after all, and you can't become the real Hevinia. I still found some clues. Although they are not enough for me to directly confirm that you are Jin Pu, at least it gives me the courage to tell you... hm?"

Arianna lowered her head and saw that two small black snakes had climbed up her legs without her noticing and were now spitting out their tongues dangerously.

When they noticed Arianna had noticed them, the two little snakes sprang up like springs and rushed towards Arianna's neck.

Arianna smiled slightly and shook her wrist lightly. The staff in her hand made only the simplest sound, and the two little snakes disappeared in mid-air.

"Helvetia."

Arianna raised her head and looked at Hevinia in front of her with a smile.

"What are you doing?"

Hevinia said nothing, but pointed her staff at Arianna, and a series of twisted black snakes flew towards Arianna.

【Three Sounds·Black Snake】!

Arianna also raised her staff, and ripples appeared where the staff was swung, and those ripples shattered the black snakes.

In the church, Arianna's laughter almost drowned out the sound of the wind outside.

"Are you going to use my magic against me?"

"Helvetia!"

Hevinia didn't say anything, but just kept casting spells at Arianna.

These spells were dissolved by the spell barrier drawn by Arianna so casually. Hevinia's spells hit Arianna's spell barrier like raindrops falling on the lake, which did not cause any damage except splashing ripples.

Arianna approached Hevinia step by step with ease.

Therefore, Arianna is the opponent that Hevinia least wants to see.

After all, more than half of the spells she knew now came from the bundle of parchment scrolls that Arianna gave her a few days ago.

It can be said that Arianna now knows more about Hevinia's existence than Leonor, her direct mentor.

As Arianna herself said, there was no way Helvinia could use her magic against her.

But Hevinia did not give up. While she was attacking Arianna with those two-note and three-note spells, she was still injecting magic power into her feet.

She is preparing for [Three Sounds and Dance].

It was the spell that helped her defeat Aiman ​​a few days ago.

Arianna was undoubtedly much stronger than Eman, so Hevinia had to prepare a "Dance" on a larger scale than the one she had performed the other day.

So before that, we must use other spells to hold it back...

Suddenly, Hevinia's eyes widened and her whole body froze.

The spell that was halfway through was forced to end, and the dance that had been prepared for half a day returned to its original position in an instant.

She fell to her knees with a plop, feeling a pain like needles pricking her whole body.

"Oh, it finally worked." Arianna's voice came lightly.

Hevinia suddenly raised her head and stared at Arianna not far away.

"What did you... do?"

Hevinia felt that all the magic channels in her body were blocked, which prevented her from using any spells.

"What did I do...what do you think?"

Arianna stood in front of Helvinia and looked at her with a smile.

"Have you never thought about why I gave you my private music scores when I had already decided to take action against you?"

"Are you really just going to use my magic against me?"

Helvinia tried to stand up, but Arianna held her head against her staff.

"Miss Helvinia, you are always like this, always thinking that you can control everyone." Arianna said with a smile, "Just like Olenna and that guy named Og, but is there a possibility that you can control them not because you are so smart, but because they... are indeed fools, but there are not only fools in this world."

"You killed that guy named Aiman, didn't you?"

"Logically, you shouldn't be able to defeat that guy, but you did. Although I don't know what means you used, how could I not be on guard?"

Arianna said softly.

"I added some special syllables to the music scores I gave you. They won't have any side effects when used alone as music scores, but once you use them in multiples or repeatedly, they will become like this."

Arianna hit Helvinia on the head with her staff again, just as she had done countless times when Helvinia was distracted during class.

"If you had a great sense of musical scores like me, you would definitely be able to find the difference in these scores. But unfortunately, you don't have such a talent. You are just a... lucky idiot. Whether it's the golden sound or the golden score, it's all wasted on you, so give it to me."

Arianna moved her staff down little by little, slowly lifting up Hevinia's clothes. When the golden music and score slowly emerged, a light of desire finally appeared in Arianna's eyes.

"Perfect, really perfect." Arianna said softly, "Only something this perfect can be worthy of me. I really can't wait. Ah, I almost forgot."

Arianna suddenly remembered something and swung her staff again, tapping Hevinia's throat lightly.

Hevinia's eyes widened, and she felt a sharp pain spreading in her throat. She wanted to scream, but no sound came out.

"I heard that when the score is snatched, the one whose score is snatched away will feel as painful as being skinned." Arianna smiled and said, "I'm sorry, I'm too kind and can't stand that kind of noise, so I can only ask you to be quiet."

After the words fell, Arianna stabbed the staff directly into Hevinia's body.

At that moment, the sound and music score on Hevinia's back vibrated at the same time, and the severe pain that followed almost made Hevinia faint.

"I've felt it, I've felt it!" Arianna watched the sound and the score climbing up her body, and finally she could no longer remain calm and became excited.

But Helvinia's vision was blurry.

She could only feel her consciousness and vitality rapidly fading away.

But at this moment, a voice came from the deepest part of the mind, which seemed to lead people into the abyss.

"It's time, Helvinia."

"Use... my power."

Take a break, there will be another chapter later

(End of this chapter)