The elegant sweet floral fragrance, the slightly fishy earthy smell, and the slightly cold night breeze quickly disappeared from Lucien's side as if being pulled away, and everything around was only the bright and twinkling starry sky, and the round of uncovered The beautiful silver moon where the stars live.
The connection between the reflection in the soul and the main star of fate reappeared brightly, eagerly absorbing the power of the main star of destiny and integrating into itself, blooming a faint light.
Under the fusion and compression of star power, Lucien's soul seemed to undergo some changes, and then began to slowly condense into "substance".
After an unknown amount of time, when Lucien opened his eyes, the pupils were as deep and dreamy as countless stars.
After closing and opening his eyes, his eyes returned to normal. Lucien felt more energetic than ever, and his soul had a significant improvement, as if some tiny things had condensed, like the dust of wraiths.
"What exactly is the composition of the soul? Is it a special element or a uniquely composed wave field? What is enhanced by meditation?" Lucien is very interested in the changes of the soul, but limited by his own lack of knowledge and materials, he can only guess out of thin air , "However, only when such a mutation occurs in the soul can a spell model be constructed in it."
After finally becoming a high-level magic apprentice, Lucien turned all his attention and goals to a formal magician. In this world, only reaching this level can be regarded as surpassing the power level of ordinary people, and possessing good strength, as A knight who has inspired the power of his blood can also obtain a status and identity corresponding to his strength. This is not like the existence of musicians. It is more because of the preferences of clergy and nobles. If one day they abandon music, the status of musicians will be greatly reduced.
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Because Natasha had instructed the officials of the city hall before leaving Alto, and because of Lucien's status as a famous musician, Lucien only used It took half a day, normally it would take seven days.
Although many adventurers can travel around without such documents, border fortresses and cities that have been strictly inspected, or when encountering someone looking for trouble, are more dangerous. They may be regarded as heresy by the church and spies by intelligence agencies.
Afterwards, Lucien continued to stay in Alto, on the one hand planning the route and accompanying Joel and the others, and on the other hand waiting for the approach of April 10th.
On the morning of April 9th, after bidding farewell to Joel, John, Elena and others who were seeing them off, Lucien boarded a long-distance carriage hired by the association and headed northwest of Alto, using the excuse that he had first arrived in the north of the principality Tilan province, and then turned east to the Kingdom of Syracuse.
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The majestic Alto City gradually disappeared behind him. Lucien put his head back into the car window, picked up his identity documents and looked through them idly.
At the end of these documents, there is a divine seal to ensure that it will not be forged by people outside the church, so it is a very powerful proof, and there is no need to worry about not being able to pass the border openly when going to the east of the mainland.
Flipping through the pages, Lucien suddenly found that there were several newspapers in the carriage, so he picked them up curiously, and took a closer look. It turned out that they were "Music Review" and "Symphony Guide" that were published after the festival.
"Is it Elena who thought I didn't read it, so she bought it specially for me to pass the time in the carriage?" Lucien confirmed the person who put the newspaper after a little thought. I haven't been to the association, and naturally I haven't read these few newspapers.
The first edition of "Music Review" was divided into two halves. The left side was a black and white painting of Christopher's curtain call, and the right side was a colorful oil painting of Lucien playing the piano.
Then the two lines of words are thick, large and symmetrically written:
"The end of an era, the beginning of an era."
And in the second edition is the full text:
"Mr. Christopher's curtain call is over, forever. This is the end of an era."
"The past 70 years have been an era in which the development of symphony music began to improve and its structure became rigorous. It was an era in which symphony music flourished rapidly and dominated the elegant stage. Mr. Christopher is the epitome of this entire era and a true master of music , let us thank and pay tribute to the master and this era with the most solemn etiquette."
"I don't want to enumerate the honors Mr. Christopher has won, because this article will become very lengthy, I just want to emphasize that the symphony of "Dawn War" at the end of the concert is an unprecedented attempt by the master, breaking through the past It has achieved great success and showed us the trend of theme music in the future. And Mr. Christopher was already seventy years old when he wrote this piece of music. This reminds me of a sentence, The heart of music never stops beating."
"Thanks to the Lord for His gift to us, miraculous magical items will preserve these classics for us, and we will be able to enjoy them in the music library."
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"This is also the beginning of an era. Although Mr. Lucien Evans' command and performance are still immature and there are still many problems, he has shown us new possibilities for the development of music, whether it is his symphony, The sonata, conducting, and playing the piano are all full of changes."
"Such a change may not be accepted and liked by many gentlemen, but I think it is very appropriate to start a new era in this way."
"Brand-new symphony connotation, brand-new sonata structure, brand-new conducting style, brand-new playing fingering, and brand-new concert format, I can already imagine a bright and colorful future, which will be an era of change."
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"Thanks to Mr. Lucien Evans, thanks to this unrestrained musical genius, he is the beginning of this era, and I also wish him the epitome of this era, a legend and a master of music."
"Mr. Christopher's curtain call, Mr. Lucien Evans begins, and the music never ends."
This article is not signed, which means it is a joint article of the Aalto Musicians Association.
The content of the first and second editions of "Symphony Guide" is similar to that of "Music Review". They are all overviews and evaluations of the two-day concert. Lucien’s praise, such as: “This is a new concert, Mr. Lucien Evans showed us a completely different sonata form, conducting style and playing performance, let us know for the first time Solo piano has such a charm. I don’t think anyone would mind me calling the piano the king of instruments, right?”
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"We want to be thankful that we live in an age where genius doesn't wait until death to be discovered and accepted, thank God, thank you Mr. Lucian Evans."
Lucien read the beginning, and casually flipped through the following articles. Except for the unanimous praise for Christopher, most of them were affirmation of the connotation and structural form of the "Pathetique" sonata, affirmation of the innovative attempt of the conducting style, and affirmation of Of the affirmation of piano playing fingering and performance charm, only a few judged Lucien's command as a lunatic or a sick person, and Lucien's playing seemed to be smashing the piano without elegant temperament.
In these few articles, Lucien saw Wolfe's name, and it seemed that he, who could only be a critic, still couldn't forget himself.
Closing the newspaper, Lucien stared at the title of the music review in a daze: "The end of an era, the beginning of an era."
"The musician Lucien's life is over, can the magician Lucien's life really begin?"
Outside the car window, one after another country cottages quickly retreated and disappeared, the surrounding road gradually became deserted, and the trees became thicker and thicker.
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At six o'clock in the evening on April 9th, the long-distance carriage arrived in the town of "Masawa".
The entrance of the town is a fork in the road, heading north to Tilan Province, one of the territories directly under the Violet family, and driving west for two hours is the small town of "Bonn" on the shore of Lake Elsinore.
"Mr. Evans, the sky is already dark. If you continue to move forward, you will be easily attacked by robbers, wolves, and goblins. We might as well stay in Massawa Town for one night, and then set off for the north tomorrow morning." The captain of the mercenary team, Joe Iss signaled the carriage to stop, and walked to the door of the carriage to ask Lucien respectfully.
In the entire continent, monsters can no longer be seen near cities, large towns, and villages, except for occasional bandits. When encountering monsters with strong reproductive capacity but poor strength and human bandits attacking, unless you have the strength of a formal knight, otherwise you must go to the adventurer's guild to hire adventurers or mercenaries to protect yourself if you want to travel or do business.
This is why the adventurer and mercenary industries are still flourishing in a world where the church is powerful and the nobles are powerful. Of course, the financially strong business houses have their own guards.
The mercenary team that Lucien entrusted the association to invite has a total of six people, two captains with the strength of high-level knight servants and four members with the strength of ordinary or apprentice knight servants. They need to pay them 300 silver nair every month, and the board and lodging expenses are not included.
This is an unaffordable fee for ordinary people. They can only pay a certain amount of money to follow the caravan or rich people like Lucien. However, after Lucien finished the concert, he received a large amount of money. One hundred and five gentalers, more than enough even if there was no show at all on the way to Sturk.
"I respect the advice of professionals, and I will stay in Massawa Town tonight according to your arrangement, Captain Joyce. Please find a hotel, I need a very quiet room." Lucien opened the door of the carriage and looked Looking at the tall, strong, silent and steady Joyce said.
This was originally Lucien's plan, because it is easy to meet magicians, magic apprentices, and other adventurers when going directly to Bonn. It is better to live in Massawa and sneak there after dark.
Joyce is a thirty-two-year-old warrior who is good at two-handed giant swords. He is still working hard to save money to stimulate the power of his blood. His simple face shows gratitude for respecting Lucien and not discriminating against himself: "Okay , Mr. Evans, I'll arrange it right away."
The experienced Joyce quickly booked a high-end hotel in Massawa Town. Lucien's room was on the leftmost side of the second floor, next to a small lake with no one there, so it was very quiet.
There are many strangers in the town of Massawa, it is said that they are tourists returning from the music festival.
Under Joyce's arrangement, Lucien directly entered the room through the side door without meeting those passengers.
After having dinner in the room and ordering everyone not to disturb him, Lucien quietly waited for the night to come.