Throne of Magical Arcana

Alto in October is like the fruit dotted on the cake, sweet but slightly cold, and the vast area nearby is dyed with a layer of golden color, complementing each other with the falling leaves of the Lava trees in the city, weaving together a picture The poetic picture, coupled with the melodious music that can be faintly heard, everything looks so peaceful and beautiful, worthy of the title of "Music City".

"Only the Black Forest of Melzer is always dominated by black..." Natasha looked at the Black Forest on the other side of the quietly flowing Belem River and said with emotion. Her long purple hair was blown back by the autumn wind. .

This black forest has left her with many memories of hardships, pains and gains. Whether it is the rigorous knight training as a girl or the encounters that happened in it, they are all experiences that she will never forget in her life.

"Black fir, a unique tree near the Black Mountains, is suspected to have been infected by the breath of a different dimension..." Lucien said in a polymathic tone.

Natasha couldn't help being amused by his serious answer: "It doesn't make any sense to me why it is black all the year round. What is meaningful is that I was once hunted down by kobolds in it. Eat tree fruits indiscriminately so that the whole body hurts, poisoned and paralyzed fell to the ground and cannot move, and the abdomen was injured and had to be carried by someone to escape..."

She understood that Lucien's answer was to deliberately distract herself, so that she could return from "musician" to "knight", so that she could go on a "day trip to Alto" more happily.

"Have you ever been hunted down by kobolds? I think with your fighting talent, even if you haven't stimulated the power of your blood, you can still crush the kobolds." Lucien asked with interest. In his mind, Na Tasha has been a "Valkyrie" since she was a child.

The corner of Natasha's mouth twitched: "I can easily handle less than ten kobolds. The problem is that there were hundreds of kobolds at that time, and one of them could cast spells with talent!"

"What insane thing did you do to let the kobolds of several tribes jointly hunt and kill you?" Lucien asked with a smile.

Natasha let out an "uh" and raised her right arm: "I don't remember clearly!"

"Didn't you always say that you have a good memory..."

"Everyone makes mistakes, but I can't remember clearly!"

The two walked slowly on the banks of the clear Belem River, enjoying the familiar river wind, talking and laughing, recalling the past.

Suddenly, Natasha stopped, pointed at the remote river bank full of rubbish ahead, and looked at Lucien with a smirk: "Is this the place where you made your first pot of gold in life?"

"Yes, thank you Your Highness Princess for throwing a nightingale veil, which allowed me to successfully take the first step out of poverty." Looking at the garbage dump, Lucien was still quite emotional in his heart.

There, a few poor people in ragged clothes were enduring the stench and rummaging for valuables. On the river embankment next to them stood a big and round man, watching them with his arms around him. Even in the golden moon, he would Only a thin brown coat was on.

Natasha sighed slightly: "After all, this place is controlled by gangsters."

"After Aaron's gang, there seems to be a new gang in Alto City." Lucien was not surprised, but sighed. Given Alto's actual situation, it was only a matter of time before a new gang was born.

The gangster noticed a man and a woman on the road by the river looking at him and the poor people looking for garbage below. He wanted to warn them not to meddle in their own business, but he found that they were dressed like nobles, so he didn't dare to be reckless. Turning his head, pretending to be admiring the river, quietly watching the other party's actions.

Lucien and Natasha didn't do anything, they continued to bathe in the river wind, and walked towards the gate of the market area, which made the gangsters heave a long sigh of relief.

It was Rentat's afternoon tea time at this time, which happened to be the most exhausted and least active time for Aalto's gatekeepers, so they glanced at Lucien and Natasha, who had changed their appearance slightly, and saw They were well-dressed, so he waved them into the city gate.

The familiar and noisy market area, the lingua franca with Alto's accent, and the completely different but equally familiar clothing style from Rentatter gave Lucien and Natasha the most intuitive shock in the first place.

"The market area has not changed at all, as if we have never left..." Natasha often goes to the manor outside the city through this city gate, and often comes here wearing a veil to find strange and interesting things, so the market area Not unfamiliar.

Lucien nodded and took a deep breath. The familiar smell mixed with the smell of barbecue, spices, dyes, smoke, alcohol and all kinds of smells made him feel like he was back in the beginning when he was struggling in the market area. At the beginning of discussing life.

"I used to carry goods here. At that time, my body was not strong enough, and a package of goods could overwhelm me..." Lucien pointed to some small shops on the street.

Natasha smiled and listened, and followed him through the market area, pointing to a certain shop from time to time and saying:

"This grocery store has a history of 50 years. When I first came here, my grandfather was entertaining customers. Now it looks like a grandson's generation..."

"...that boss recognized me when I was buying an ancient lyre, and almost passed out..."

Lucien is also full of memories of the market area: "...It was on this street that John and I beat up all the thugs of Aaron's gang..."

That was the beginning of my initial identification and real integration into the world.

A passer-by looked at these two men and women who looked like aristocratic couples strolling leisurely in the market area, pointing and pointing from time to time, they couldn't help feeling strange, but how could Lucien and Natasha care about their gazes.

Walking, the two passed through the market area and entered the administrative area. The pedestrians began to decrease, and the street gradually became quiet. Only street musicians and bards were playing different pieces of music, creating a musical atmosphere. The ocean gives people the feeling of sublimation of the soul while walking.

Natasha listened carefully, and after a while she smiled and said, "String Serenade in G major..."Moonlight"...the second movement of "From the New Kingdom"..."Pathetic"...to, "To the West" "Sylvia"...I can't imagine that you have been away from Alto for so long, and your music is still played frequently. The more pieces played by street performers and bards, the more it represents its popularity. Classic music really doesn't matter. Always a classic..."

"There is also your march..." The Lava trees on both sides had golden fallen leaves. Lucien listened attentively and distinguished the different tunes.

Natasha hummed a melody triumphantly, and then sighed slightly: "But compared to before, the frequency of your repertoire has been greatly reduced. Most of the music you heard just now are the latest outstanding pieces."

Both have followed Aalto's musical development and are no strangers to the great ones in it.

"It's a good thing. Things are constantly evolving. They always stick to the past and do nothing to improve. It can only show that Alto's music is dead. Fortunately, that's not what we heard." Lucien Don't mind authentic.

Natasha didn't answer for the time being, but pulled Lucien to stop outside a restaurant, listening to the street musician at the door playing "Pathetique" on the piano, which is recognized as a very difficult piece, but he played it Very comfortable, so many Aalto people who know music stopped to listen.

He created the atmosphere of depression, depression, pain and tragedy very well in the early stage, so when he popped out bursts of high-spirited notes with dazzling movements in the last movement, he was especially able to arouse the emotions of the surrounding audience.

Crack, clack, after the piano performance, there was warm applause from around.

The young pianist seemed a little surprised by his popularity, and sat behind the piano in a daze, without responding for a long time.

He is a music lover who came to Alto from a small town to pursue his dream. He thinks that he has a solid foundation in music and has outstanding talents, and he will definitely achieve extraordinary achievements. However, what happened in the past few months made him fall into strong self-doubt. It made him painful, wandering, depressed and depressed, and the constraints in his life made him have to accept the request of the restaurant owner. Who knew that today's performance would get such a welcome?

"Very good, it's not a pale performance, it has emotional resonance." Natasha applauded lightly, then took out a coin, ready to throw it to the street performer like other listeners.

However, her movements were stopped by Lucien, and she said amusedly, "Are you going to give him the 'Queen's Gold Coin'?"

Due to the expulsion of the Southern Church, the Kingdom of Holm is also re-minting coins. Different from the general currency, the queen's gold coin is equivalent to quintal, except that the queen's head is engraved on it.

Natasha gave a dry laugh: "Ha, I didn't notice, do you have Gentale?"

Lucien shook his head, took the Queen's gold coin, and rubbed it lightly with his thumb, and then the Queen's gold coin became a quintal.

The young performer came back to his senses and thanked the audience for their kindness. Suddenly, he saw a shiny golden coin falling in front of him.

"Gintaler?" He was stunned for a moment, wasn't he too generous?

A gentle voice sounded beside his ears: "You play very well, you have integrated your own feelings and insights into the music, and this piece of music has a distinctive personal style, which is very rare, but you There are still some problems with my playing and understanding of music..."

"Question?" The performer hadn't come back to his senses, and then he heard Lucien's words of explanation and analysis one by one, each of which hit his heart, because most of these were places that he had always felt awkward for a long time, and some of them were It was an experience where I felt very satisfied, but after listening to it, I realized that I was wrong.

After a while, he really came to his senses, and found that the gentleman who guided him and his wife had gone a long way, leaving only two figures walking side by side.

He wanted to catch up and thank him, but the restaurant owner was still staring at him, so he could only say loudly: "Thank you!"

What a noble gentleman, no, he must be a musician!

Lucien didn't look back, but raised his hand to indicate that he had received it.

"You really like being a teacher." Natasha smiled and looked at Lucien beside her.

Lucien smiled: "It's not that I like being a teacher, but it's a kind of gratitude. If I hadn't met Mr. Victor and received his exceptional teaching, I certainly wouldn't have achieved later. Therefore, when I meet someone who needs guidance When they are young, I will give them some guidance, maybe their life is short of this impetus, hehe, I am giving back to the society.”

"Repaying the society..." Natasha thought of the joke of "repaying the society", with a half-smile on her face.

Just listening and walking, the two soon came to the vicinity of the Aalto Musicians Association, and saw the unique "Dancing Flame" building, which is famous for its light but complex asymmetrical beauty.

"It's still like this, it hasn't changed..." Lucien and Natasha sighed similarly at the same time, but Natasha quickly shook her head, looked around and said, "I don't know if it's a good idea. It’s bad, the places I passed before show that in the few years since I left Alto, it has hardly changed, as if it has been frozen in time, and Rentat, maybe this morning is the same, and it is completely different in the afternoon. Another 'face'."

Rentat, which is in a period of great development, is undergoing many infrastructure constructions. Just as Lucien expected, the entire city has undergone earth-shaking changes.

"Without mentioning the lives of ordinary people, perhaps such an Alto is more suitable for the current music style..." Lucien said without derogation.

"That's right. Rentat's current appearance always feels incongruous with the current symphony style. It should be suitable for other music..." Natasha nodded seriously.

"Different cultures and different eras will definitely breed different music..." Lucien said sincerely, but he thought in his heart that maybe one day Rentat would develop rock music...

Just as Natasha was about to speak, her expression suddenly became serious: "Uh, Mr. Victor..."

It was Lucien's music teacher Victor who came out of the Aalto Musicians Association. Surrounded by many musicians and performers, he boarded the carriage and drove towards the chant hall. He seemed to be of high status.

Lucien watched this scene quietly without moving his footsteps.

"Aren't you going to see him?" Natasha stared at Lucien with her silver-purple eyes.

Lucien shook his head, and said in a slightly erratic voice: "There is no need..."

It would disrupt his life, and it would be hard for the church not to pay attention to him.

Natasha chuckled, and deliberately changed the topic: "Then let's go to the chant hall to listen to the concert? I don't know whose it will be?"

"Okay." Lucien had no objection, the anti-magic circle had no effect on the legend.

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