The beautiful melody echoed in the restaurant, and the quiet notes made people's hearts settle involuntarily. However, there was no small indoor band around, only a magic gramophone placed on the table against the wall slowly turning.
Black plate covered with gum.
After a few minutes, the music gradually died down, the black plate finished rotating, and the servant standing guard quickly changed one.
Hearing the sound of music playing again, John put down the knife and fork in his hand and said to Lucien with a slight sigh: "Ordinary black rubber disks can only record a few minutes of music, and it is difficult to present a complete symphony unless a higher level of pure music is used.
The magic black disk, but this is something that ordinary people cannot bear."
He has not forgotten his past life, so he pays great attention to ordinary people.
"The problem is that ordinary people can't even afford a magic gramophone." Lucien joked while cutting foie gras, "Of course, the price of a pure magic black disk is not cheap, it is equivalent to a second-level alchemy item.
Now, the little nobles can only buy one occasionally, and most of the time they have to use rubber black disks, but Viscount Wellesley's family should not have this problem.
Since it was combined with the simplification of magic, Lucien himself did not have a mature plan. He could only redesign and arrange the magic circle according to the concept. It could not be done overnight and had to be done step by step.
After Joel became the director of the Rentat Musicians Association, he became energetic, as if even aging had been delayed: "But the number of small nobles is far more than that of big nobles, and most of the restaurants use gum.
Black disks have become the mainstream without a doubt and are an important source of income for most musicians, so I find that they are increasingly inclined to create simple music of a few minutes, which is both easy and profitable."
The musicians in Rentat are not as good as Artaud, and there are not as many concert opportunities. In the past, their income mainly came from serving the nobles, serving as their music consultant or chief musician. After the invention of the magic gramophone, they had one more
The important channel is the "music royalties", which extract a certain share of money based on the sales of gum black disks and magic black disks filled with your own music.
Because there is a precedent for "royalty fees" in the exchange and use of magic. In addition, Mr. "Atomic Control" is also a great musician himself. Magicians are not opposed to "music royalties". In addition to dividing music according to three, six, and nine grades,
In addition to stipulating different share ratios, all countries have normally implemented the Intellectual Property Bill passed by the House of Lords and signed by the Queen.
Although the magic gramophone is currently only enjoyed by the nobles, it is expensive and allows musicians to gain a lot. Therefore, under the stimulation of money and the influence of the "light music" trend, most musicians are increasingly accepting the magic gramophone.
In the form of short pieces of music, this simple and uncomplicated "casual music" has also been welcomed by the general public, making Rentat's music development trend increasingly different from Aalto's.
In Lucien's words, Rentat sooner or later became the place where pop music and pop songs were born.
Hearing Uncle Joel's concerns, Lucien smiled and said: "Sometimes, changes in musical instruments, changes in the form of music transmission, and changes in the form of music carrying will affect the development direction of music, such as the music of the lyre era, the violin
Music after the invention, music after the invention of the piano, and only in this process of constant change can music remain vital rather than gradually drying up. Therefore, Uncle Joel, don’t worry about the small capacity of the rubber black disk to allow music to develop.
There is a trend towards shorter formats, which will allow us to see more different kinds of music than we currently imagine."
The most famous musician at the moment stated this point of view so confidently, and Joel himself was a bard and street performer, with a natural preference for short music, so he had no doubts about changing the topic to food itself: "
I didn’t expect you, little Evans, to have a talent for gourmet food. This sweet and sour meat is so delicious!”
"Yes." Aunt Alisa nodded without any time. After tasting these delicacies, she was completely focused on them.
Except for a few Trian-style dishes such as foie gras, most of the food on the table was something she had never seen or enjoyed before. It was completely different from the current food style of any country.
She couldn't stop eating once she ate.
"Thank you, Natasha also likes these delicacies very much." Lucien accepted the praise unceremoniously. Although there are many Chinese dishes, not every one of them can be liked by people from other worlds. The ones on the table are from Natasha.
The parts carefully selected by Lisa as a "guinea pig" will certainly make Joel, Alisa and John feel like they have swallowed their tongues.
Moreover, Lucien is good at magic and identifying animals and plants, and there are many strange and weird things here that are not found on the earth. Therefore, the "hunting scope" of Chinese dishes has expanded again, and the number of varieties has at least tripled. What about salted dragon meat?
, the braised thorn demon tree, and so on.
Hearing Lucien mention Natasha, Joel said a little strangely: "Why didn't Her Majesty come tonight?"
Normally, Lucien would visit Joel's family at least twice a month as long as he was in Arlinge, and Natasha followed him most of the time.
Before Lucien could answer, John said first: "Recently, Rentat is undergoing urban reconstruction. It is necessary to reorganize the defensive magical array and magic array. Since it involves many noble villas, real estate and manor, the noble
The House often quarrels, so Her Majesty is very busy and must mediate and overwhelm."
"The changes in Lentat are so fast. I have lived in Alto for more than 20 years and have not experienced as many changes as Lentat in a few months. I don't know what Lentat will be like in the future."
Joel felt a little emotional.
After dinner, Lucien and John each held a glass of red wine and stood by the floor-to-ceiling window of the small living room on the second floor.
Looking at the lights in the aristocratic district that were as bright as the stars outside, John suddenly sighed: "From the moment you were implicated by the witch, I felt like I was in a dream. It is a dream that I have not yet awakened from today. All my expectations for the future are realistic.
However, it is not what I imagined, but it deviates greatly.”
"Me too." Lucien looked out the window, his eyes darkened, and although his tone was plain, he truly spoke from the bottom of his heart. The dream was not impossible.
Although Lucien has basically ruled out the possibility of dreams in his exploration and research of the world, there is still a lack of conclusive evidence to deny other similar realities, even if he already has preliminary guesses about the world.
It is also impossible to completely conclude that the "brain in a vat", "virtual world", and "experimental site" are wrong.
Naturally, John couldn't hear the implication of Lucien's words. After taking a sip of red wine, he said: "My original dream was to become a real knight so that my father, mother, Alvin and you could all live a prosperous aristocratic life. But who knows
You accomplished this goal before me and became a musician..."
"After I became a knight, I was ready to sacrifice myself in the northern fortress or the dark mountain fortress. This is the destination of knights, but you told me that you were a magician, which made me fall into a long-term confusion..."
"When I thought we would never meet again and began to serve the principality and the church with peace of mind, Her Majesty the Queen brought me to Rentat..."
As he spoke, he laughed: "When I got used to being protected by many strong people and could live the rest of my life safely without facing too much danger, worshiping devils often happened in the kingdom.
The incident with the pollution of the abyss' breath forced me to run around and deal with it, facing battles again and again."
He did not complain, but showed a little excitement. The completely stable life without a trace of trouble made him stop moving forward, unable to become a knight in the sky.
"Life is always full of surprises and will not go as you expected." Lucien clinked wine glasses with John, "Furthermore, you've eliminated that it is very difficult for bloodline to be promoted to a heavenly knight. There is not enough information in the kingdom for you to
study."
Through the inheritance from generation to generation or the exploration of a certain epic knight, the bloodline nobles have the best way to temper their own bloodline and the method to harmonize with their will. Therefore, they are also knights, and nobles with inheritance are better than newly promoted nobles.
It is easier to be promoted, so they agreed to the Magic Council to publish the previous training methods of knights in order to cultivate more talents to fight against the church and develop more and more alien spaces-this bloodline tempering method is their real capital and
A secret that must be strictly guarded.
The "elimination" bloodline itself is rare, and has basically been absorbed into the ranks of the church's holy knights or night watchmen. Therefore, none of the nobles in the Kingdom of Holm has this bloodline, and naturally there is no corresponding tempering method for them.
John.
Lucien didn't take this issue to heart at first, because the power of blood was created by ancient magicians. The council kept relatively detailed information on various bloodlines, and could design a plan for John by studying the "elimination" of bloodlines.
A reasonable tempering method. However, the information collected by the council did not include any information about "eliminating" the bloodline. This made Lucien doubt the source of this bloodline and thought it was the research result of Viken.
John smiled unconcernedly and said: "All the tempering methods were discovered by the previous knights. I am not stupider than them, nor am I lazy or afraid of death. Why can't I explore it myself? And Lucien, didn't you also say that?
, don’t be bound by past experiences, maybe this will be a good thing for me.”
He joked humorously.
After leaving Joel's house, Lucien put his hands in the pockets of his long dress, lowered his black top hat, and walked leisurely in the city of Rentat. Watching a city change according to his own ideas is a full of achievement.
Feeling things.
When passing through a civilian area where alchemy workers gathered, Lucien suddenly saw a dwarf walking towards him. He covered his eyes with his right hand and saluted: "Steam is supreme."
Then, he smiled and said: "Sir, I wonder if you would like to join our Steam Church."
Directly recruiting people to join the guild openly? This is completely contrary to his instructions to the dwarves! Lucien's eyes narrowed slightly and he said in a deep voice: "Who are you?"
"Haha." The dwarf laughed, "Although we haven't really met each other, we can still be considered to have met directly."
He spoke very strangely, but Lucien narrowed his eyes: "Viken?"