The next day, at the Royal Conservatory of Music, in the open lecture hall.
For hundreds of years, the Royal College of Music has maintained the tradition of holding open classes once a week. All students, regardless of college, faction, or grade, can attend.
Sometimes, well-known musicians and scholars will give lectures to introduce their research and exploration experiences to these students.
It's just that over the years, no one wants to pay attention here. This tradition has become a practice in name only.
Everyone likes to be self-conscious, and the things taught in public classes have become clichéd. Only a group of big shots with the titles of college professors came here to talk.
Apart from some book contents that everyone knows, they only talk nonsense about working hard and working hard.
Of course, fewer and fewer students came, and eventually it became a place where a large number of students who skipped classes at the end of the semester went to collect credits and class hours.
But today, the entire classroom has lost its previous loneliness and become full.
In the crowded classroom, even the aisles were filled with students who came to watch the fun. In the darkness, there was no sound of anyone speaking. In the silence, only the soft whispers came from the lecture hall.
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The college has always adhered to a strict etiquette system in order to cultivate gentleman students with aristocratic demeanor.
Etiquette that is rigid enough to include sitting postures runs throughout the school, and the group of black-clad mad dogs in the Student Union Executive Office ensure that it is implemented perfectly and carefully.
For a long time, everyone who comes here to take classes, even saints, will keep standing behind the podium, be polite and energetic, and not show any signs of weakness or laziness to show their elders' demeanor.
But today, behind the podium, there was a rare chair. Sitting on the walnut wooden reception chair was a girl. The girl's feet were hidden in the hem of her skirt.
The hem of her skirt trailed on the ground, spotless.
She doesn't look like a famous historical scholar or a world-famous exploratory musician at all. Instead, she looks like an eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl.
Laura Kraft.
Her skin was slightly pale, as if she was recovering from a long illness, but her hair was golden. When her long hair went around her slender neck and fell on her chest, it looked like sunlight flowing on the plain brocade.
She leaned back in her chair and spoke softly about today's content. Sometimes I talk too quickly and I start coughing. The attendant handed over the pills, but she waved them away. After taking a breath, she started teaching again.
The audience was silent, and everyone was staring at her intently. Even when they were whispering, they were suppressing their breathing, fearing to disrupt her words.
Always staring into her eyes unconsciously.
Those who can get into the Royal Conservatory of Music are almost all elites, and there are no people who have not seen the world. But these people are used to seeing ladies with heavy makeup, and they have seen too many delicate girls who make people feel pitiful, but they have never seen such a pair of eyes.
Like the emerald in the mirror, it is full of demure beauty when it is still, and it has an intoxicating light when it is flowing. It is clearly close in front of you, but there is an unreachable distance.
Ever since nine years ago, the eldest daughter, who was born in a poor and famous family and was frail since childhood, became a musician, she devoted herself to the historical research of the Dark Ages and became a researcher of the history of the Dark Ages.
At the beginning, everyone regarded this news as a joke: obviously, compared with most exploratory musicians who live in the wild and go deep into the dark world, this eldest lady is undoubtedly at a congenital disadvantage.
The fragile body simply cannot bear the exploration mission in the harsh environment, nor can it enter the ruins site immediately to search for traces of ancient documents.
The only thing that can be done is to sort out and interpret the documents that have been unearthed so far. As we all know, humans have not made any progress in the language exploration of the Dark Ages for three hundred years.
—If we just stay at home, will the research results fall from the sky
Some people say so.
But soon, those ridicules and suspicions were overturned after she successfully decoded the first chapter of the "Voynich Manuscript".
The manuscript that has caused countless scholars to fail for hundreds of years, and countless people who have spent their entire lives unable to uncover the truth, was actually decoded by a girl who was so weak that it was almost ridiculous.
All the academic circles who openly questioned Laura's ability were so beaten by the hard facts that they could no longer take care of themselves, and almost quit research out of shame and anger.
Interpreted the first chapter of the "Voynich Manuscript", found the introduction of the legendary alchemy manuscript "Jade Record" that had been buried for hundreds of years from the pile of old papers, and re-added the remnants of the ancient oriental document "The White Emperor's Yin Fu Jing" Chapter…
In the next few years, almost every once in a while, this closed-door woman would cause an almost earth-shaking shock in the academic world.
Five years ago, she accepted the title of honorary professor awarded by President Maxwell. Every once in a while, she would take a day to give a public class for the college. Every class was full, and she never failed.
Since five years ago, more and more students have graduated from the academy and have devoted themselves to exploring the dark world. It must be said that the influence of this Miss Laura is terrifying.
However, this time the lady did not start to talk about the theories and interpretations that are like a heavenly book for these students. Instead, she accepted the suggestions of some teachers: to supplement the foundation for these students who are becoming more and more impetuous and ambitious. .
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“At the end of the Dark Ages, the original Three Kings re-established a new system of musicians based on the classical school.
They divided musicians into three realm levels: musician level, resonance level, and scepter level. Among these three levels, there are nine stages.
It has become what we currently call - 'the ninth level of musicians'.
For everyone here, the three stages of musician level are undoubtedly the most important.
After preliminary study and research, I believe that in the next few years, everyone will be able to successfully break through the apprenticeship and be promoted to the 'Rhythm Level'.
From this stage, basic knowledge will transition to professional areas.
All apprentices need to choose the most suitable faction from seven directions for their future.
This is one of the most important decisions in a musician's life.
Of course, students at the Royal Conservatory of Music have chosen their areas of expertise based on their own talents from the very beginning, and then they only need to learn the movements in a logical manner. "
On the podium, Ms. Laura curled her lips without any trace, as if she did not agree with this education method. But this trace of objection was well covered up, and he just smiled.
She paused, waved her hand, and a tree-like pattern appeared on the blackboard behind her.
Under the same foundation, seven branches extend in different directions. Sometimes they overlap each other**, and sometimes they are like parallel lines, maintaining a long distance.
"This is what I'm going to talk about today, the seven factions of musicians."
Laura said: "The so-called seven major factions are the classification method proposed by the third generation of Popes based on the accumulation of predecessors, and represent the direction of exploration. After the addition and revision of musicians of all generations, it has finally formed There are seven different paths and realms. This is what we now see as the seven lines of the Musician: transformation, summons, chant, revelation, illusion, image, and forbidden.”
"Of course, you will think that these things are nothing to talk about, right? Even a fool knows it. People from the Transformation Faction can release thunder and ice, people from the Summoning Faction can control demons and beasts, and the Psalm School is as good at healing as doctors. Technology. The gods and goddesses of the Enlightenment School can detect dangers and avoid trouble. The Illusion School operates illusions, and the Imagery School controls the mind... Although the Forbidden School can restrain the previous six factions, it is easy to learn and difficult to master, and has many flaws. Moreover, There are some schools of thought that merge two or even three factions, giving birth to some unimaginable power... You have already heard these things, and you don’t need anyone to explain them. But what I want to talk about here today is something deeper. .”
She paused, her eyes no longer indifferent and became serious.
At this time, she no longer looked like a girl at all. She stood in her own lecture hall, in her own field, with an awe-inspiring expression, and wanted to tell these confused students the truth behind the phenomenon.
"The seven factions all have their own unique core concepts and goals, which are things that every musician cannot bypass. These are things that musicians only need to consider after entering the resonance level or even the scepter level, but they only start to consider it at that time. If so, I’m afraid it will be too late.”
"Although no matter which faction is involved, in the end, they all reach the same goal through different paths, which is to explore the Great Source. However, the seven schools of thought all have different starting points and research directions.
They are completely different in terms of performance, function, and ultimate purpose.
To put it simply, for example, the change faction creates the effects of fire, frost, and thunder through changes in matter, which brings terrible destructive power.
But in fact, what the Change Faction studies is the nature of all things and their relationships with each other.
And the Summoning faction explores the nature of demons and scourges.
Therefore, they will split out 'fragments' in their personality and consciousness, and raise them into beasts and monsters. When the musician condenses the ether and constructs a physical form for these fragments of consciousness, he can create a fantasy beast.
The most popular among the clergy of the order is the Psalm faction, which focuses on the origin of life, so it is good at treating diseases and saving people. But don't forget that there is another branch of the Psalm faction that studies the 'nature of death'.
So if you don't want to get strange illnesses or end up with internal organ failure for no apparent reason, I hope you won't mess with those seemingly harmless 'medical musicians'.
The desire of the Revelation faction is to 'reveal the future', and they are good at insight, exploration and search. Able to interpret and decipher ancient documents and music.
The Apocalypse faction is called the Scholars faction, and almost most of the exploration musicians in the dark world are from this faction, including me. Most of the current exploration of civilizations in the Dark Ages is excavated from the ruins by the Apocalypse faction.
And the factions that have always been the most feared because of their external image are... the two schools of illusion and mental imagery... "
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When she said this, her voice slowed down, as if her attention was attracted by something in the crowd.
At the end, she stopped speaking, frowned slowly, and stared at the back of the classroom. Looking at the young man who was burying his head in his mouth and stuffing something into his mouth, his expression became strange:
"That classmate, yes, the one with white hair... is eating! Sorry, are you listening?"