Afu didn't have time to think too much. She pretended to be calm and found a random excuse to stop the recitation and sent Noel back to the bedroom.
Knowing the situation, Noel was very understanding and asked no questions, watching his mother leave obediently. When he was left alone, he rolled around in his room excitedly, his tail almost leaving an afterimage.
Finally, he no longer had to blame his family! He no longer had to hide things from them!
Noel was so happy that he wanted to dance with the jellyfish. However, due to his excessive excitement, he accidentally pulled off two of the jellyfish's tentacles when he flung his hands. Noel paused, then continued waving the two tentacles in a dance that only he could understand.
However, after swimming out of the range of Noor's bedroom, Afu could no longer hold back the waves in her heart. She rushed back to her room like an arrow and sent a mermaid to the shore to tell her husband and the high priest to come back as soon as possible.
Covia knew that his wife was a sensible mermaid. Unless it was an urgent matter, she would never disturb him with trivial matters while he was working, especially since he was currently working on a major matter concerning the entire mermaid race.
So almost as soon as he heard the news, he couldn't wait to rush back. The high priest was one step slower than him. He instructed the mermaids who served him to take good care of the people on the shore who were hired to build the base. After the people of other races had done their work well, he followed him back to the deep sea at a leisurely pace.
"What?"
Covia was stunned, and the high priest who arrived late could not maintain his calm expression and widened his eyes in a slightly funny way.
"It's true! How could I possibly lie to you?" Ah Fu knew how unbelievable her words were. "Who would have thought that mermaids, besides singing, could also recite poetry to unleash their inner strength?"
This is something that can subvert all mermaids' cognition!
Kovia was still a little surprised, but the high priest reacted quickly and led the two to the library. After he personally found the book and tested it, the three mermaids stayed in their respective bubbles, looking at each other in silence.
The high priest said solemnly, "Find a few more books, and try as many as you can regardless of the category."
From morning to night, the three mermaids read nearly a thousand books and came up with a rough scope and vague results.
Works that can stimulate the energy in mermaids are not limited to poems written by bards. Operas and songs created by other races can also be used. It is worth mentioning that the majority of them come from the human kingdom.
It had to be admitted that humans did have some talent in this area, just like the elves who were known for their rich bard heritage, each with their own strengths. This was just a coincidence, not a conspiracy against merpeople.
In addition, not all three types of works are effective.
The ones that didn't work were mostly ones they hadn't heard of, while the world-famous works they knew all worked. Does that mean that as long as one is famous enough, or has existed for a long time, one can activate the power of mermaids?
In order to conduct experiments, the three mermaids found a textbook written by the mermaid race itself, but the result was disappointing.
Kovia threw the textbook aside in disgust. "Why are our mermaid textbooks useless? We mermaids don't even have the responsibility to take care of our own affairs."
What's so good about what's written by other races? Their textbooks have existed for hundreds of years and are famous throughout Atlantis. Why are they useless?
The high priest pinched a lock of his silver hair, frowning in thought. Poetry, opera, songs, biographies, textbooks…
He suddenly realized: "So that's how it is."
Afu asked nervously, "Do you know the reason?"
"It's just speculation," the high priest said slowly. "Whether the work is famous and widely circulated is one requirement. Another important point is that it may also need to contain some kind of rhythm. So far, the ones we've found to be effective are all within the realm of 'song'."
Afu opened her mouth and said, "But some poems are also acceptable."
"When troubadours first created poetry, they used singing and music to express it. As it was later disseminated, the singing styles could not be recorded and were lost, but the content was preserved. However, it is undeniable that it is a kind of 'song'."
"Opera lyrics and songs would be very inconsistent when read, but these poems don't."
The high priest loosened his hair and shrugged. "When we talk about them, we subconsciously call them 'poems', don't we?"
His inherent impression of troubadours was a group of people wearing gorgeous and casual pointed ears, holding a harp only forearm length and singing lazily.
The troubadours sang about their experiences during their travels. Some of the songs were very interesting, but some were just boring and embarrassing praises of the gods of their race.
It is a pity that those interesting ones were recorded as travel notes and circulated only among the people, and some were even "accidentally" lost while being passed on.
However, those poems praising the gods and the beauty of certain kingdoms were deliberately preserved and passed down by certain races, resulting in the boring and tedious nature of the older and most well-known poems circulating today.
Of course, this is just his personal opinion.
The high priest scoffed inwardly, and after this brief moment of intensely personal emotion faded, he continued to explain, "Our textbooks are ineffective, perhaps because they contain only dry text, mere passages that can be read aloud, but are not suitable for chanting."
The songs that they believed to be unique and that inspired the mermaids' powers, which had been passed down orally for countless generations, happened to fit all of the above assumptions.
After listening to this, the Kovia couple were speechless for a long time because they both thought of another thing.
Mermaids can sing the "songs" of other races to inspire strength. For those mermaids with intact voices, this is just icing on the cake, and the icing may not be a good thing. Not all mermaids will be happy to learn the "songs" of other races, but for mermaids with defective voices, this is a great thing that can change their lives.
For example, Noel.
Apart from race, the only person they care about is Noel.
Noel is tone-deaf, so there's no need to try to sing opera songs or anything like that. The ending will be the same as the song Afu taught him without him listening to it. As for the rest, can the poems from the troubadours, which can be used by people to exploit loopholes and are only recited but not sung, stimulate the power in Noel?
This should have been a delightful opportunity, a chance to free Noel from being a useless mermaid in the eyes of others. But at the last moment, Afu began to hesitate. She turned to look at her husband, trying to discern his thoughts, only to find he was equally hesitant.
How could the high priest not know what they were thinking? But some things would happen if they didn't want them to.
"Before, when there was no other way, I hid it from Noel for his own sake. I didn't let him know too much because even if he knew, he wouldn't be able to do anything about it. He's tone-deaf and can only survive by relying on the protection of his tribe. How could he find a way out for his tribe?"
"It's different now. Noel can become stronger. He will no longer be a king who can only grow up under the care of others."
The high priest lowered his eyes, hiding the reluctance in his frosty silver eyes: "Kovia, Afu, disaster is coming, none of us can defy God's will."
Kovia and Afu couldn't help but hold each other's hands tightly. After a while, they relaxed their grip slightly, bowed slightly to the high priest, and said, "Yes, we understand."
In the face of disaster, only powerful force is real.
After agreeing, Afu couldn't help but add: "Then, High Priest, can we wait for Noldor to learn some poetry until he grows up a little? He is not even a year old now."
"Of course." The high priest breathed a sigh of relief. "There's still time. He has enough time to grow taller."
I just can't wait until I'm an adult.
After getting the promise from the high priest, the Kovia couple continued to stick to their original plan of concealing the truth from Noel. They would never let Noel know what they had traded with his teacher or what big moves were happening on land, unless Noel ran out and discovered it himself one day.
Just like Afu said, he's not even a year old yet, just a cub a few months old. He just needs to grow up without worries. This period of time may not be long, but it's necessary.
Next, in order to take care of Noel's mood, the Covia couple carried out a series of detailed and comprehensive plans, including "separately find Noel to help him enlighten him", "Oh, I accidentally drew the book of the Bard", "Then just read it", "Come on, let's read it aloud together", "What, it actually stimulated the power in the body", etc.
Make sure Noel believes that the mermaids stimulate their internal energy by reciting poetry, which was discovered by him and his parents accidentally. The common knowledge about the mermaids' power that they had taught him before was outdated and needed to be rewritten.
The couple, who racked their brains to act seriously all day, had no idea that the little mermaid in front of them, who was cooperating obediently and putting on a cute face, had already known the truth.
What it didn't know was that the little fish was almost praising itself to the sky in its heart.
Hey, Noel is the smartest one. Look, with just a few words, he managed to get his parents to accept his differences without any obstacles. They even offered to teach him and said they would announce their new discovery to the entire mermaid community. He's really amazing!
"That's it, Teacher Zhuofeng, am I very powerful?" Noel sat on a small pillow the size of a palm, raised his head and said proudly to the two people next to him and in front of him.
Yesterday, he received a private message from his teacher, asking if he was free the next morning. She said she had something to discuss with him and Zhuo Feng. He had just found a gift for the teacher that satisfied him, so he replied with a yes.
As soon as he came to the teacher's world, he couldn't help but feel proud. Without waiting for the other person to speak, he started talking about his experiences in the clan, and at the end he asked for praise without any reservation.
As for misunderstanding the teacher's aesthetics? What is that? Don't ask him, he doesn't know.
Zhuo Feng knew this was a knot in Noel's heart, and that he and Noel had kept it a secret from their teacher. So, after hearing this, he spoke up before the teacher and said, "Congratulations, you'll be a powerful mermaid in the future."
Yan Jue was surprised by the mermaid high priest's guess as to "why one can recite poetry to stimulate power".
It turns out that after using his power for a long time, Noel still couldn't get around the scope of "song", and reciting poetry was just a loophole?
But no matter what, it's a good thing that Noel can become stronger. And this is not called taking advantage of loopholes, this is called making reasonable use of loopholes!
The author has something to say:
Many people asked if Noel could rap, and I thought about it——
Others: Yo~ Yo~ Check it out~
Noel: A pale yellow dress...
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