Chapter 199 Free Poet
Ether home.
One of the two oldest great masters of holy music.
The family emblem on their chest, surrounded by seven golden musical notes, was a symbol of their superior status. Because in their long family history, they had owned the golden musical notes from the first to the seventh. If it weren't for the irresistible scythe of time, the two great families of Taichu could have relied on their clansmen to play the divine music of the seven notes.
Hevinia didn't expect to meet someone from the Taichu family at this time. You know, she returned to the academy early and didn't notify anyone beforehand.
So, did this guy in front of her receive the news a long time ago and come here to wait for her, or is there some other reason?
Helvinia's vigilance was at its highest.
Because what concerned her more was why Bai Wei refused her use of [Gaze]?
This has never happened before.
In just a few seconds, countless questions surged into Hevinia's mind, but she did not show them. She just pretended to be "a little surprised to see the Taichu family" as much as possible, and then responded politely: "Hello, Mr. Daniel."
Daniel smiled and said, "I didn't scare you, did I?"
"Indeed, a little bit." Hevinia was still unsure of Daniel's character, so it was difficult to come up with a specific response. She just smiled and replied in the most ordinary way, "I didn't expect to meet you here."
"No need to use honorifics, Miss Helvinia. Although I am a little older than you, we are barely of the same age. And I didn't mean to scare you. I originally thought that you would not return to the academy for a few days, so I was quite excited when I saw you suddenly, and I couldn't wait to come over to say hello. Please don't mind."
Hevinia raised her eyebrows, looking a little surprised: "You came to the Third Academy just to find me?"
"Of course, apart from you, I don't know what else is valuable in this academy."
...What an arrogant answer.
But there was no trace of unnaturalness in what he said, as if what he said was the truth.
"Can we talk for a minute, Miss Helvinia?"
Daniel made a gesture of invitation, as if he wanted to walk with her alone.
But Hevinia was not very willing to do so, because she instinctively felt danger from Daniel. Especially after Daniel appeared, Bai Wei suddenly stopped responding, which made Hevinia even more concerned.
So she politely declined: "If you are here for the ceremony, then Mr. Daniel doesn't need to waste too much time."
"Oh?" Daniel slowly withdrew his hand, "Is it because you accepted the invitation from the Lawrence family?"
"You already know that?"
"If you don't even know this kind of news, then you are too disrespectful to the Taichu and Taichu families." Daniel said with a smile, "And there is no need to deliberately inquire about this kind of news. No one knows better than us what the Lawrence family wants to do. If the Lawrence family wants to surpass us at the ceremony, they can't miss the only gold-level seventh tone in this ceremony."
Helvinia noticed the key information and immediately asked, "Am I the only one?"
She was not sure about this at first, as she only knew that the seventh tone of the Golden Level was extremely rare, but she did not know whether the other two academies, especially the First Academy with its many talented people, would have hidden seventh tones.
"Of course, Miss Helvinia, I can tell you responsibly that you are the only Seventh Sound of the Golden Stage in this ceremony." Daniel said, "That's why Phoenix came to you so quickly, and... he must have offered you a good offer. Otherwise, you wouldn't have rejected me without even thinking about it. But how can I put it? Miss Helvinia, although our sincerity is definitely not as good as Phoenix's, our foundation determines that as long as we increase the stakes a little, the Lawrence family cannot match it, so why not listen to it?"
After a slight hesitation, Hevinia said, "Mr. Daniel, I have already promised Mr. Phoenix, so it is not appropriate for me to contact you without informing him."
Having said this, Hevinia paused, then raised her head and looked at the setting sun.
"But it's getting late, I think I should go back and rest. If there is a gentleman who can take me back and chat with me, I think I can't refuse it."
Daniel immediately understood what Hevinia meant, and smiled as he touched his chest and saluted: "Of course. Although I am not a gentleman, I am willing to send a beautiful lady like you home."
So, the two of them set out on the journey back to the dormitory together.
On the surface, this was just Hevinia's pretentious whining, but in fact it was because the way back to the dormitory was much safer than the lakeside. There were very few people at the lakeside now, and it was close to the Forbidden Forest, so if something really happened no one would notice it.
But the way back to the dormitory is different. Before you take two steps, you can already see students and school workers coming and going.
Hevinia felt relieved.
No matter what Daniel's plan was, he couldn't do it in public.
In this way, Hevinia could feel at ease while also exploring the background of this heir of the Taichu family.
Hevinia originally thought that Daniel would directly present his chips like Phoenix did, but she didn't expect that Daniel would first say...
"Miss Helvinia, do you know any free poets?"
Helvinia turned to look at Daniel, "What?"
"Freelance poet." Daniel said with a smile, "It seems you haven't heard of it. Well, that's because there haven't been any successful freelance poets for a long time."
"I've certainly never heard of it," Helvinia asked. "Is it some special profession?"
"No, it's not a profession. It's just used to refer to a group of strange people." Daniel said, "Miss Hevinia, you should know that those who participate in the ceremony are all bands, right?"
Helvinia nodded.
"Basically all orchestras come from noble families. They use the music passed down by their families, recruit idle notes to form an orchestra, and then participate in the ceremony in the name of the family." Daniel said leisurely, "Finally, they are ranked based on the quality of the notes, the timbre, and the completion of the music. This is the case in most cases."
"Is there any other situation?"
"Of course there are." Daniel said with a smile, "These are the free poets I'm talking about. They often don't have a particularly good family background, and their voices are not that outstanding. But they are very talented, or at least they think they are very talented, so they often throw away the conventional rules, compose their own music, find their own sounds, and finally take such an orchestra to the festival, just to prove one thing, that is, they are no worse than anyone else. This can be said to be their obsession."
Hearing Daniel say this, Hevinia couldn't help but think of Arianna who was no longer alive.
"This is my seven-tone piece, it's mine! It's my original creation. I believe it's no worse than anyone else's, even the principal's 'Noise' from twenty years ago. All it takes is someone to play it, just one chance... Please, help me. As long as I can play this piece at the ceremony, as long as I can prove that I'm no worse than those nobles, no worse than the performers of Taichu, no worse than anyone else, I won't mind... even if I die."
Arianna's dying pleas echoed in Helvinia's mind.
"Really?" Hevinia didn't show much emotion, and asked curiously, as if she had heard the word for the first time, "Has anyone succeeded?"
"Of course there are." Daniel said, "The old songs nowadays are all derived from new songs. But that was a long time ago. After the songs were almost developed and the power of each family was determined, it was difficult to find soil for free poets."
"Why?"
"It's very simple." Daniel said with a smile, "Suppose you are a silver-level note, and now there are two people inviting you. One is a noble band, and they have a piece of music that has already won a prize at the ceremony, and the other is an unknown young man who says he is very talented and has created a new piece of music, waiting for you to join... Which one will you choose?"
"Will anyone really choose the second one?" Halfway through her sentence, Hevinia looked at Daniel as if she had suddenly realized something. "Mr. Daniel, are you talking about the Taichu family and the Lawrence family? Are you using this example to make me choose you?"
"No, no, no, Miss Hevinia, you're overthinking this." Daniel shrugged. "I won't make such a self-righteous and thankless analogy. Besides, whether it's the Taichu family or the Lawrence family, they are actually the former. I just have some regrets."
"sigh?"
"Yes." Daniel looked at the anxious students running around and said, "People here basically think about how to join the former and become a part of the fixed movement. They want to join in at all costs, even at the cost of taking some extreme and unorthodox ways. But even so, few people think about becoming the unique free poet."
Helvinia was silent for a moment, then said, "You also said that there are very few successful people."
"Yes, there are indeed very few. And almost every successful one will be remembered in history." Daniel said with a smile, "I remember the most shocking thing, a hundred years ago, an orchestra consisting of seven bronze notes finally got the qualification for the inner song, but in the next hundred years, there has been no more. Although many people say that the principal is the one who made countless people feel sorry for the song "Seven Notes·Noise" that was one note short, but I don't think he is one of them. After all, the principal was born into a noble family, so there must be something missing."
Helvinia frowned slightly.
She felt a little strange and didn't understand why Daniel said this to her.
Moreover, during the time they were talking, they had already finished their journey and were standing at the door of the girls' dormitory. Daniel obviously could not follow them in, which meant that the conversation was about to end.
But Daniel never put forward his own conditions. Instead, he talked about free poets, as if they were really just chatting.
"It's been a pleasure chatting tonight, Miss Helvinia." Daniel said with a smile, "I hope you have a good night."
It was as if he had forgotten what he was here to do.
Seeing some doubts in Helvinia's expression, Daniel smiled and said, "It's not that I forgot the important things, Miss Helvinia. I just think that I didn't prepare much for tonight. You know, I originally prepared a very good gift for you, but the meeting was too sudden, and it would be difficult to invite you empty-handed. But we still have time, don't we? I will come to see you again tomorrow, and I hope you won't refuse me then."
After saying that, Daniel bowed gracefully to Hevinia, and then slowly disappeared into the night alone.
During this period, Hevinia wanted to turn on [Watch] again to find out more about Daniel.
But it still failed.
But at this time Bai Wei spoke up, and he said slowly: "Don't look at it, this is for your own good."
When she heard Bai Wei's voice, Hevinia's heart, which had been hanging in the air, finally relaxed a little.
For a moment, Helvinia was actually worried that Bai Wei was gone.
After calming down, Helvinia asked calmly, "Can I know the reason?"
"Of course." Bai Wei said with a smile, "Because there is some kind of connection between the corpses."
Is there some kind of connection between the corpse parts?
Hearing this, Hevinia was stunned at first and didn't react at first.
It was not until a few seconds later that she suddenly realized what Bai Wei meant.
"You mean..."
"Yes." Bai Wei said, "This guy also has some of my body parts on him."
Helvinia's breathing slowed down without her noticing.
She had thought of countless possibilities, but this one was not one of them.
"Don't worry about it." Bai Wei comforted Hevinia thoughtfully, "I don't know how many pieces my body has been cut into. It's normal to occasionally run into one or two people who have pieces of my body in their hands."
Hevinia: "..."
"And this guy doesn't just have my body parts." Bai Wei said calmly, "I can feel that he has something else on him. This guy is very dangerous. I don't want you to fight him too soon, so I blocked your ability... I'm afraid that you will see Jin Yin alone and can't help but go up and attack him."
After listening to Bai Wei's explanation, Hewinia nodded slightly.
But she did have some complicated feelings.
Should we say that they are worthy of being the Taichu family? There are also body parts of Visas.
In an instant, Hevinia felt the huge heritage of the legendary family coming towards her.
Although she really wanted to ask Bai Wei for more information, Bai Wei had no intention of answering, so Hevinia had to give up temporarily and return to the dormitory.
While returning to the dormitory, Hevinia saw a familiar person walking past her in a daze.
It's Olenna.
Her mental state was very bad, even worse than Hevinia's who had been ravaged by Bai Wei for two days.
She was so unsteady when she walked that she almost knocked Hevinia down, and she didn't realize that the person blocking her way was Hevinia. If it were in the past, she would definitely give Hevinia a vicious look and glare at her without thinking.
What is going on here?
Hevinia frowned slightly, and she turned to look at Olenna who was gradually moving away.
Then he discovered that blood was oozing out from under her robe.
...What is going on?
Maybe the pace is a bit slow. I originally wanted to speed up the pace and start the ceremony in the next chapter instead of following the original plan. But I felt it was not working when I was halfway through writing. I skipped some very important things, so I decided to continue writing as planned.
(End of this chapter)
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