novelonline Chapter 3579 Silver Flute
Chapter 3579 Silver Flute
Chapter 3579 Silver Flute
Xia De also had his own ideas about the accompanying personnel:
“I’ve informed Vanessa and asked her to come tomorrow. Also, have Claire come along. The church already knows about the cooperation between the Evokers and the Fatu people, so let Claire represent the Fatu people.”
The reason he didn't choose Megan or Sylvie, who were already there, was naturally because Vanessa was at the thirteenth level. When meeting the diviner, who was at the highest level in the material world, even though it wasn't a duel, Shad wanted to bring some high-level girls along for support.
Sylvie and Megan were well aware of Shad's thoughts. Megan, however, didn't care. She had only advanced to the twelfth rank last spring, and because of family matters, she didn't like dealing with the Prophet's Association, so whether she went or not was irrelevant.
But the Great Witch of Light had many more ideas. Currently, the Great Witches had generally reached the twelfth rank, and she was one of the earlier twelfth-rank Great Witches in the council. She actually wanted to go with Shad, but she also knew that it would be safer to have Vanessa come instead.
Luvia seemed to understand everyone's thoughts at that moment:
"Is it just the two of you? Let Sylvie come along too, it's better to be on the safe side."
The girl with purple eyes said this, and Sylvie looked at her immediately, feeling as if those purple eyes could see right through her soul.
With nothing else to do that evening, after returning home from the snow mountain, Shad received Dorothy's "musical education" at home. He chose the living room of room number two on the second floor, which was relatively spacious, and next door was number seven St. Teresa's Place, which also belonged to Shad, so he didn't have to worry about disturbing the Smiths, his neighbors at number five.
"Why not use the silence spell?"
"Because I want some noise coming from the house from time to time, so that people won't be constantly wondering what Detective Hamilton is doing every day."
Luvia didn't leave either. She observed Dorothy's lesson, and after Shad played the melody of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"—a tune that didn't exist in this world—on his silver flute in fits and starts, she smiled and clapped.
"Shad learns very quickly. He used to say that he didn't understand music. I thought he meant that he couldn't even distinguish the pitch."
"Although Xia De can't read sheet music, he has clearly received basic music education. And he probably played a simple flute before, otherwise he wouldn't have picked it up so quickly. All he needs to do now is familiarize himself with the fingering of the silver flute and learn to read sheet music. If he doesn't have any higher aspirations in music, diligent practice will be enough."
Dorothy said, then asked Shad curiously:
"What tune are you playing? I've never heard it before."
"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, a tune I heard in the past."
Shad put down his flute, looked up at the cat lying on the windowsill, and it didn't seem to mind Shad's noise at all.
"How much skill level do I need to improve if I want to join a large orchestra for ensemble playing?"
“Shad, you can’t expect to fly when you’ve just learned to walk. Unless you’re just pretending to play in the orchestra, you’re still a long way off.”
The blonde writer shook her head, while Luvia reminded her:
"Doesn't Shad possess a magical technique called 'The Sound of Music,' which can be used to record sounds and release them using one's own timbre?"
This magical technique can only record one sound at the lower levels. After recording the performance of the Traveler God in the Lost Forest, Shad had not recorded any new sounds. However, the performance of that god did allow Vanessa to advance from the eleventh to the twelfth level.
After Shad arrived at the High Ring, the number of sounds that this magic could record increased, so theoretically, if he knew the pieces to be played in advance and had heard them once, he should be able to join the orchestra as a "singer".
"It's better not to use any special techniques. To be on the safe side, at least we should learn to read sheet music."
Shad picked up the silver flute again, intending to continue practicing.
Although Tobeskoye is still shrouded in fog tonight, three moons are faintly visible outside the window. The moonlight illuminates the cat on the windowsill, and the cat sees Shad there sighing:
"It is said that 'music' was also the domain of the Sage of the Moon during the mythological era. If that's the case, perhaps the ancient gods' order possessed lost divine arts that could instantly make someone proficient in a certain musical instrument."
Luvia, Dorothy, and "she" all laughed, and Shad smiled as well, signaling Dorothy to continue tonight's lesson.
Since the writer had put in the effort, Shad should naturally offer an equal reward when they rested in the evening. As for Luvia, the purple-eyed girl said she had taken advantage of Dorothy, but she certainly hadn't been polite to Dorothy at all.
After falling asleep with the girls in his arms, Xia De was surprised to find that the silver moon in his dream that night seemed brighter than usual.
He stood on the edge of the field gazing at the moon for a while, then sat down and stretched out his hand in the night breeze. A silver flute appeared before him. This flute was designed like the "Butterfly Summoning Flute," a feature that had been a consideration in Shad's initial choice of the silver flute as his model for learning.
The silver moon illuminated him, and he continued playing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" under its light. The outsider was neither a musician nor a music lover in his hometown, so he could recall few tunes related to his childhood and school.
Perhaps he could get Dorothy to rewrite the scores of some songs by humming them, but tonight he wanted to play all the scores he had dug out from the depths of his memory in his dream, under this silver moon.
"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", "Ode to Joy", "Edelweiss", and "Jasmine Flower".
It was as if he were playing a melody for the silver moon, but the enormous silver moon in his dream did not respond at all; only the wind in this wilderness grew gentler.
In another dream next door, a long-haired girl sitting on a rooftop gazing at the black sun hears the intermittent sound of a silver flute amidst the sandstorm.
At first, she thought she had misheard, that listening to Shad and Dorothy play all night had made her unable to forget the sound of the silver flute. But she soon realized it wasn't her imagination; the sound of Shad playing the silver flute really had appeared in her dream.
She looked around suspiciously, even considering checking the house beneath her feet to see if Xia De had wandered into this dream. But as soon as she stood up, she suddenly looked up again.
The dusky sky had never changed in her memory, but tonight, a gigantic, silvery moon, which shouldn't exist in this scene, vaguely appeared in the depths of the sky. And within that silvery moon, Xia De's figure, sitting on the edge of the field, practicing diligently, was clearly visible.
The moonlight, which shouldn't have been there, shone into this dreamlike world. When it fell on the long-haired Luvia, she actually felt a long-lost surge of power, and her damaged soul was repairing itself at an even faster pace.
"What do you mean? Do you want me to prepare to do something?"
She guessed with a very pragmatic mindset, but after waiting for a while and nothing else happened, she sat down again, adjusted her angle, and looked up at Xia De while supporting her face.
She didn't dislike such dreams.
(Mia is running.)
Having played the flute all night in his dream, Shad wanted to try his dream practice when he woke up to see if it would increase his "instrument proficiency" in reality, but Dorothy and Luvia stopped him:
"Stop! Absolutely, absolutely never play the flute again!"
Both girls said they vaguely heard the sound of a silver flute in their dreams last night, and the sound lasted all night. Although it didn't disturb their sleep, they really didn't want to listen to it again first thing in the morning after listening to the flute all night.
Shad then suspected that his dream had been "leaked".
The letter to the Prophet's Association in Time Wheel City should arrive early that morning. Shad hadn't left a return address; he planned to go directly to the appointment with the witches that afternoon. That morning, after bidding farewell to Dorothy and Luvia, he arrived at the snow mountain and saw Sylvia inside the tower.
Sylvia wasn't waiting for Shad on the first floor, but Shad smelled the aroma of breakfast as he entered. Following the scent to the top-floor library, he indeed saw Sylvia sitting there eating breakfast. Shad then reminded her:
"Generally speaking, eating is not allowed in libraries."
"You mean the public library? This is my private library."
Sylvia smiled and said to him:
"Would you like to have something else to eat with me?"
Although he had just enjoyed Dorothy's cooking at home, Shad sat down again. The meal on the table was for two, and Sylvia had clearly been waiting for Shad.
“Margaret has been asking me lately when we’re going to the snowy mountains. But with war approaching, Margaret is quite busy as a princess in Velendale, so I’m thinking of coming over later. That girl just wants to see you, but I understand her feelings.”
After they had breakfast, Sylvia handed Shad a beautiful black velvet jewelry box:
"Here, it's from a trade with the moon. I set off overnight to get it for you, please check it."
Upon opening the jewelry box, an exquisite silver pendant appeared before one's eyes. The pendant's chain was not part of this magical item, but the Great Witch of the Moon had still sent over her own matching pendant chain. It was a silver chain decorated with patterns of the moon, laurel, and stars, with two five-pointed stars on the clasp.
Because the moon phase last night was a full, silvery moon, the pendant now appears almost perfectly round. Its surface texture is somewhat like mercury, and seeing it, for some reason, Xia De thought of the primordial moon beast he had seen on the 25th floor of "Whispering Hills" yesterday morning.
Compared to this pendant that changes with the phases of the moon, the Moon Beast's "Hundred Phases of the Moon" is indeed ugly. This divine artifact truly displays the changes of the moon's phases, and Shad's decision to forgo experiencing the Moon Beast yesterday was the right one.