Crown of Silence

Chapter 117 Seven Departments of Musicians

The next day, at the Royal Academy of Music, in the lecture hall for an open class.

For hundreds of years, the Royal Academy of Music has maintained the tradition of holding an open class once a week, regardless of the academy, faction, or grade, and all students can attend.

Sometimes, well-known musicians and scholars will hold lectures to introduce their research and exploration experience to these students.

But over the years, no one wants to be here. This tradition has become a routine in name only.

Everyone likes to cherish their own things, and the things taught in the open class have become outdated. Only a group of bigwigs with the title of academy professor come here to talk.

In addition to some book content that everyone knows, they can only say some nonsense about cheering and working hard.

Naturally, fewer and fewer students come, and in the end it becomes a place where a large number of students who skip classes at the end of the semester collectively brush credits and class hours.

But today, the whole classroom swept away the loneliness of the past and became full.

In the crowded classroom, even the corridors were filled with students who came to watch the excitement. In the darkness, no one spoke. In the silence, only 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 aristocratic gentleman students.

The rigid etiquette, including the sitting posture, runs through the entire school, and the group of black-clothed mad dogs in the student union executive office ensure that it can be perfected and carefully implemented.

For a long time, everyone who came here to attend class, even saints, would stand behind the podium, polite, energetic, and not show any weakness or laziness, to show the demeanor of an elder.

But today, behind the podium, there was a rare chair, and a girl sat on the walnut guest chair, with her feet hidden in the hem of her skirt.

And the hem of the skirt dragged on the ground, spotless.

She doesn't look like a famous historian or a world-renowned explorer, but like a girl of eighteen or nineteen.

Laura Croft.

Her skin is slightly pale, as if she has just recovered from a long illness, but her hair is golden. When her long hair goes around her slender neck and falls on her chest, it looks like sunlight flowing on plain brocade.

She leaned back in her chair and talked about today's content in a soft voice. Sometimes she would cough when she spoke too quickly. The attendant handed her a pill, but she waved her hand to refuse. After taking a breath, she started to lecture again.

The audience was silent, and everyone stared at her intently. Even when whispering, they were holding back their breath, afraid of disrupting her words.

Always unconsciously, staring at her eyes.

Those who can be admitted to the Royal Academy of Music are almost all elites, and there are no people who have not seen the world. But these people are used to those ladies with heavy makeup, and have seen many delicate girls who make people feel pity, but have never seen such a pair of eyes.

Like an emerald in a mirror, it is full of quiet beauty when it is still, and has an intoxicating light when it flows. It is clearly in front of you, but there is a distant distance that cannot be touched.

Since nine years ago, the young lady who was born in a poor family and had a weak body since childhood became a musician, she has 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 musicians who have been exploring the dark world, this young lady is undoubtedly at a congenital disadvantage.

The fragile body cannot bear the exploration mission in the harsh environment, nor can it enter the ruins site in the first time to search for traces of ancient documents.

The only thing that can be done is to organize and interpret the documents that have been excavated so far. As we all know, human beings have not made any progress in the language exploration of the Dark Ages for three hundred years.

——If you just stay at home, will the research results fall from the sky?

Some people say so.

However, soon, those ridicules and doubts were shattered after she successfully deciphered the first chapter of the ‘Voynich Manuscript’.

The manuscript that had frustrated countless scholars for hundreds of years and countless people spent their entire lives trying to uncover the truth was actually deciphered by a girl who was so weak that it was almost ridiculous.

All the academic circles who had questioned Laura’s ability were beaten to the point of being unable to take care of themselves by the iron-clad facts, and almost withdrew from the research out of shame and anger.

She deciphered the first chapter of the ‘Voynich Manuscript’, found the introduction of the legendary alchemical manuscript ‘The Jade Record’ that had been sealed for hundreds of years from the pile of old papers, and re-added the fragments of the ancient oriental document ‘The Yin Fu Jing of the White Emperor’…

In the next few years, almost every once in a while, this woman who had never left her house would cause a nearly earth-shaking shock in the academic world.

Five years ago, she accepted the title of honorary professor awarded by President Maxwell, and every once in a while, she would take a day off to give an open class for the college, and every class was packed, without fail.

Since five years ago, more and more students have graduated from the academy and have devoted themselves to exploring the dark world. It has to be said that the influence of Miss Lola is terrifying.

However, this time the lady did not start to talk about the theories and interpretations that were like a mystery to these students, but accepted the advice of some teachers: to make up for the basics of these increasingly impetuous and ambitious students.

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"At the end of the Dark Ages, the first three kings re-established a new musician system based on the classical school.

They divided musicians into three levels: musician level, resonance level, and scepter level. And in these three levels, there are nine stages.

It has become what we are currently talking about - 'Nine Levels of Musicians'.

For everyone present, the most important are undoubtedly the three stages of the musician level.

After preliminary study and research, I believe that in the next few years, everyone will be able to successfully break through the apprentice level and advance to the 'rhythm level'.

From this stage, basic knowledge will be transferred to professional fields.

All apprentices need to choose the most suitable faction from seven directions for their future.

This is one of the most important choices in a musician's life.

Of course, students of the Royal Academy of Music have chosen their areas of expertise based on their own talents from the beginning, and then they only need to study the music in a natural way."

On the podium, Ms. Lola curled her lips imperceptibly, as if she did not agree with Zhang's teaching method. But this slight objection was well covered up, just a smile.

She paused, waved her hand, and a tree-like pattern appeared on the blackboard behind her.

Under the same root, seven branches extended in different directions, sometimes overlapping and intersecting each other, and sometimes like parallel lines, keeping a long distance.

"This is what I want to talk about today, the seven major 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, representing the direction of exploration.

After the supplements and revisions of successive generations of musicians, seven different paths and fields have finally been formed.

These are the seven systems of musicians we see now: change, summon, chant, revelation, illusion, mental image and prohibition."

"Of course, you will think that these things are nothing to talk about, right?

Even a fool knows. People in the change faction can release lightning and frost, and people in the summoning faction can Controlling demons and beasts, the Chant School is as good at healing techniques as a doctor. The people of the Revelation School are mysterious and can detect danger and avoid trouble. The Illusion School manipulates illusions, and the Imagery School controls the mind... Although the Forbidden School can restrain the previous six factions, it is easy to learn but difficult to master, and has many flaws.

And some schools have merged two or even three factions, giving birth to some powers that ordinary people can hardly imagine...

You have already heard and seen these things, and there is no need for people to tell you. But what I want to say here today is something deeper. "

She paused, her eyes were no longer indifferent, and became serious.

At this time, she was no longer like a girl. She stood in her own lecture hall, standing in her own field, with a stern look, 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 get around.

These are things that musicians who have entered the resonance level or even the scepter level need to consider, but if you start to consider them at that time, it may be too late."

"Although no matter which faction, in the end, they all end up exploring the source. But the seven schools have different starting points and research directions.

They are completely different in terms of performance, function, and ultimate goal.

In simple terms, for example, the change faction creates the effects of fire, frost, and lightning through the change of matter, which brings terrible destructive power.

In fact, what the change faction studies is the essence of all things and the relationship between them.

And the summoning faction explores the essence of demons and natural disasters.

Therefore, they will split "fragments" in their personality and consciousness and raise them as beasts and demons. When the musician condenses the ether and constructs a form for these fragments of consciousness, they can create a fantasy beast.

In teaching The most popular clergy in the group is the Chant Faction, which focuses on the origin of life, so they are good at curing diseases and saving lives. But don't forget that there is another branch in the Chant Faction, which studies the "nature of death".

So if you don't want to get a strange disease or have inexplicable organ failure, I hope you don't provoke those seemingly harmless "medical musicians".

The desire of the Revelation Faction is to "reveal the future". They are good at insight, exploration and search. They can interpret and decipher ancient documents and music.

The Revelation Faction is called the Scholar Faction. Almost most of the exploration musicians in the dark world come from this faction, including me. At present, most of the exploration of civilization in the Dark Ages is excavated from the ruins by the Revelation Faction.

And the factions that have always been the most feared because of their external image are... the two schools of illusion and mind image..."

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When she said this, her voice slowed down, as if something in the crowd attracted her attention.

At the end, she stopped talking, frowned slowly, and stared at the back of the classroom. Looking at the boy who was stuffing food into his mouth, her expression became strange:

"That classmate, yes, the one with white hair... the classmate who is eating! Excuse me, are you listening to the lecture?"