Chapter 237 The Most Perfect Movement
Helvinia sat at the window of her dormitory, watching the sun in the distance illuminate everything.
The night is over.
The music dedicated to the Lord of Holy Sound has crossed the Hall of Eternal Notes and officially stepped into the Holy Mountain.
This means,
The Lord of Holy Sound has awakened.
He is "watching" this world, "watching" the stage this world has prepared for Him, and the music that is being played for Him.
Hevinia could clearly feel His presence.
Because of her notes, her music scores were beating slightly at this moment, like vital blood vessels, or like piano keys being played, as if her body was also cheering for the Lord's arrival involuntarily.
"Miss Hevinia." A female voice came from behind.
Hevinia turned around and saw a silver musician kneeling behind her holding a thick stack of music scores.
"These are all the seven-tone divine songs recorded in the history of holy music." The female performer said, "Please choose whatever you like."
Hevinia walked forward slowly and looked at the music score in the female performer's hand.
Just as she said, these were not ordinary songs, but seven-tone divine songs, which were absolutely rare and precious even in the two great families of Taichu. But now, they were quietly presented in front of Hevinia, just like those women in the lower city who were desperately trying to own the seeds of the upper city, ready to be picked by anyone.
"If you want to create independently, there is no problem at all." The female performer said, "Principal Ulysses has already instructed that from now on, everything in this academy will be open to you. You can read any book in the library at will, and you can ask all the professors and mentors in the academy to answer your questions and help you complete the divine song. Of course, if you want the assistance of the principal, that's no problem either, Principal Ulysses is always there waiting for you."
Helvinia did not take the music, but after a brief silence said: "I want to be alone."
"No problem."
The female performer put down the music score and snapped her fingers.
The servants who were waiting outside the room immediately retreated respectfully, and in the blink of an eye, Hevinia was the only one left in the room.
Helvinia glanced at a nearby mirror.
The girl in the mirror is as graceful and elegant as a work of art.
If you only look at this scene, no one would ever think about what kind of fighting she had experienced last night. Even Hevinia herself could not tell whether it was a dream now or last night.
"...Ulysses." She whispered the name.
All of this was brought about by Ulysses.
It wasn't just Hevinia who took action last night, but also Ulysses.
While Hevinia was fighting to the death with the Dean Raoul, Ulysses also attacked the people from the two Taichu families at the same time.
Todd, Phoenix... and many more, all the performers from the aristocratic forces who failed to withdraw from the academy were killed by Ulysses' men.
And these subordinates of Ulysses were originally very inconspicuous people.
Some of them are cleaners, some are librarians, some are the most inconspicuous students in the classroom, and some are tutors and professors without any qualifications.
Just like... Anita.
Just as Anita said.
Over the past twenty years, the principal has traveled all over Shengyin, met many people, and found many people.
Everyone knows about this.
But no one, including the two Taichu families, took it to heart.
Except for Ulysses' former disciple, Provost Raoul, but what he saw was just the tip of the iceberg.
Of course, if it were just these people, they would not be able to directly compete with the two Taichu masters. If it were in the past, once the two Taichu masters came to their senses, it would definitely not be something that Ulysses and other disciples could withstand.
But this is not the "old days", this is a grand ceremony.
The inner music started, the music dedicated to the Lord had already sounded. Even the two great masters of Taichu could not rush into the academy at this time and disturb the Lord's grand ceremony.
So, no one could stop Ulysses at this ceremony.
Just as Provost Raoul said before he died.
Everyone is Ulysses' pawn.
Including Hevinia, even though she has now obtained seven golden sounds, she can hardly dispel the feeling of powerlessness in her heart.
"Mr. Visas," she said softly, "Did you expect all this?"
Bai Wei did not respond.
Not only was there no response in the heart, but there was also no movement in the body.
When the first inner song sounded, he disappeared completely as if he had never existed.
As far as Hevinia could remember, this was the first time she could not get any response or guidance from Bai Wei.
Hevinia closed her eyes gently.
It seemed as if she was the only one left in this world again.
After a while, she slowly opened her eyes.
That being the case.
It's time for her to meet this great principal.
…
In just one day, the academy is completely different.
The orchestra playing the inner music sat on a high place wearing snow-white robes, and stretched out their hands towards the falling snow, as if they wanted to embrace the invisible Lord.
Their notes continued to sound under the instigation of magic, as if they had transformed themselves into piano keys and the melody into holy music dedicated to the Lord.
It was like the eternal notes in the Eternal Hall, but the difference was that their faces were filled with extremely happy smiles, and when Hevinia walked past them, they would not even glance at her.
They are rejoicing.
Even though some of them had been replaced by Ulysses, the rest seemed to be completely unaware or simply didn't care.
All they care about is their own melody.
Hevinia looked at it for a moment, then moved on.
Soon, she set foot on the mountain path that she had walked countless times in the past two months.
After passing through the melody and wind and snow, I stood in front of the old tree hung with wind chimes again.
Ulysses was waiting for her under the tree, with his usual amiable smile on his face.
The only difference was that the dormitory manager named Anita was no longer with him.
Helvinia continued to move forward until she was standing in front of him.
"Helvinia, please sit down." Ulysses pointed to the chair in front of him, "Have some tea."
Helvinia sat down and looked at the tea poured in front of her.
But unlike the hot tea in the past, this cup of tea had already gone cold.
"Anita made it before she left." Ulysses said with a smile, "If you had come here last night, you might have been able to taste some of the heat."
Helvinia said nothing, but drank the tea in her cup.
The biting cold cut through the throat like a sharp knife, causing waves of pain.
"I know you have a lot of questions to ask me." Ulysses said slowly, "But before that, can you let me know your real name first?"
Helvinia was silent for a moment, then said, "I had forgotten it long ago."
"I see." Ulysses said with a little regret, "It seems that I still can't get into your heart."
"Why do you say that?"
"Because you are not like my students, and you are still unwilling to share everything with me." Ulysses said, "I know you come from the Seed Zone, and I know what it is like. I have seen too much, and many of my students avoid talking about that experience, but they are willing to tell me... Miss Hevinia, after that, have you told your name to others?"
Helvinia said nothing, but the following conversation played out in her mind.
…
"Yes, yes, that's you."
"It would be too cowardly to die here."
"If you don't want to give in, then grab my hand. Then... swear allegiance to me."
"The Pledge of Allegiance requires a name."
"The real name."
…
"It seems there is such a person." Ulysses said with a smile, "Then Helvinia, if you win, will the wish you make to the Lord be related to this person? Ah, of course, you don't have to answer me, I'm just talking to myself."
Helvinia did not answer. She looked at Ulysses and asked, "Why did you do that?"
Ulysses asked with a smile: "Which ones do you mean?"
"all."
"Everything... that would be very long." Ulysses leaned back in his chair slowly, "But I still have plenty of time... at least today, I can answer you one by one."
Helvinia thought for a moment, then asked the first question: "Are you going to participate in this ceremony in person?"
"Oh?" Ulysses smiled even more after hearing what Helvinia said. "It seems you have guessed it. As expected... you are worthy of being the last student I liked. You didn't ask such a vulgar question as 'Why should I help you get the Lord's Wish'. If that were the case, I would be very disappointed."
"I never believe that someone would be kind to another person unconditionally." Hevinia said calmly, "Especially the Lord's wish, so I always thought that you would kill me after I took the seventh note, but you didn't do that. Instead, you let Anita give me the remaining two notes."
"That's impossible. Am I simply trying to witness the Seven-tone Divine Comedy?" Ulysses said, "And right now, you're the only one who wants to play the Divine Comedy."
"If that's the case, you should have specified my repertoire," Helvinia said. "Of course, there's another more important point. You've always been pursuing the most extreme and perfect notes. So you can't hand this process over to others, because even if others really play the seven-tone divine music, they can't reach the perfection you think... At least that's what you think."
Helvinia's words made Ulysses look even more satisfied, and he kept nodding his head in approval.
"Very good, very good." He said with a smile, "You are my last student and the student I have spent the shortest time with, but you are also the one who knows me best. I am very pleased, Hevinia."
If it were usual, Hevinia would have responded to Ulysses with a smile, but now there was no need.
She looked at Ulysses's old body and asked, "Do you also have the golden score and the seven notes?"
"Yes." Ulysses nodded with a smile, "But I didn't paint it on my body because my body is too old and can no longer withstand such excellent works of art."
……really.
Ulysses also has musical notation and seven notes.
"In fact, I have been collecting music and scores a long time ago. Well, you should have guessed that this is why I traveled all over the Holy Sound." Ulysses said, "It was a long process. It took me about fifteen years. It was mainly the music scores, which are really rare. Especially since the holders of the music scores appear very late, most of them do not live to adulthood in the seed area. I was able to find him, which can be said to be my first great luck in the past twenty years. The second greatest thing is because I met you."
Hevinia said nothing, but just listened quietly.
"Perhaps you want to ask, why I have collected all the music and scores long ago, but am still helping you?" Ulysses looked at Hevinia with a smile.
Hevinia was silent for a while, then said, "Because only in this way can you complete the most extreme and perfect piece of music in your mind?"
"Haha, as expected, I knew you would understand." Ulysses continued to nod, "Fifteen years ago, when I got the music and the score, I was thinking about a question. What is the ultimate, what is perfection? If I am the only one playing the seven-tone divine music at the ceremony, then where is its ultimate? Where is perfection? If from beginning to end, the only person competing with me is myself, then what is the meaning of everything? The music I pursue should be the best, not the only one, so how can I be the best?"
Helvinia said softly, "Defeat another seven-tone divine song."
Ulysses smiled but said nothing, but his expression clearly expressed that what Helvinia said was correct.
Helvinia asked again, "What if I am the winner?"
"That proves that you are a better and more perfect player than me," Ulysses said. "I was defeated by such a player, so what's wrong with that?"
"But I will get the Lord's wish."
"What does it matter?" Ulysses said with a smile, "Helvinia, do you know what I will wish for God if I win in the end?"
Helvinia shook her head.
"I won't make any wishes."
Hevinia's pupils suddenly froze.
"Are you surprised?" Ulysses said calmly, "Some people may think that I want power, I want wealth, or... I want eternal life. But in fact, I want nothing. What I pursue is never that wish, but the music, the most perfect music. Apart from that, nothing else matters."
Helvinia certainly hadn't expected this answer.
But she didn't seem that surprised because she thought of Anita last night.
"This is what a performer should be like." Ulysses said with a smile, "The Lord has bestowed upon us such wonderful, artistic power, freeing us from foolishness and ignorance, so we should respond to the Lord in the most perfect way. Coming here for rankings, for desires, is a deviation from the performer's path, and I want to get everything back on track, that's all."
"Simply put, we should be humble, we should be joyful, and we should...despite everything."
"That's it, Helvinia."
(End of this chapter)
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