Aurelian sat by the window with a guitar in her hand, playing it gently. Her best friend, Winona, was leaning on the windowsill in excitement.
“Elder sister Aurelian! Look over there… It’s a magic-powered machine just like a horse.”
Winona pointed at the bustling street below. A magic-powered car was slowly driving through the street.
She was glad that Joshua was not here. Otherwise, Winona’s excitement could be said to be a disgrace to the High Elves.
“Winona, aren’t you afraid of those humans now?”
Aurelian fiddled with the strings and glanced at the street below.
She had still underestimated the speed of human reproduction. As far as the eye could see, the entire street was filled with humans.
Most High Elves were afraid of humans. Aurelian could still rely on her pride to hold on for a while. If it were Winona, she would have thrown this girl onto a street filled with humans.., she would have been so afraid that she would have found a place to hide.
“A little, but I just feel that the scenery in front of me is very beautiful,”Winona said softly as she looked at the distant street.
In her eyes, Aurelian could see the yearning and shock. What Winona yearned for was not life in the human world, but… the light ball floating in the sky above the city.
“The power of faith is gathered in the center of Nolan.”
Aurelian stared at Nolan’s sky. Even though she had been sitting here for almost two hours, she still did not feel that the scenery in front of her was a little boring.
In the past, Aurelian had listened to the stories related to humans from the elders. She had always believed that humans were a group of creatures without any faith, even if on the surface they believed in a certain God, however, there were many people who would abandon their faith for the sake of their own interests.
However, after coming to Nolan, Aurelian realized that she was wrong. Humans were not just creatures without faith. They were simply pilgrims, martyrs, and the most loyal servants of the gods depicted in ancient books.
However, what surprised Aurelian the most was that the god they believed in was actually a world tree!
“Joshua Arnold, how did he do it… to make humans worship the world tree.”
Aurelian was not only surprised but also envious of what she saw.
“This explanation is a little complicated, but if you are interested, you can experience it for yourself immediately.”
Joshua quietly appeared at the door of the two elven rooms. Their sharp senses had long detected his presence.
“Right away?”
Aurelian came back to her senses and found that Joshua was staring at the guitar in her hand.
“Are you familiar with the music scores I gave you before?”Joshua asked.
Aurelian’s slender fingers lightly tapped the strings a few times. The next second, Joshua heard the melody that he was so familiar with on Earth. This high elf lady was using this method to show off her unparalleled talent.
“I still can’t believe you,”Aurelian said. “But I can’t deny that the songs in the music score you gave me are all very beautiful.”
“It seems that I can officially perform on stage now.”
Joshua had previously mentioned the matter of performing on stage to Aurelian. She had also mentally prepared herself.
“I have another question.”Aurelian held the guitar in her hand and hesitated for a moment before suddenly asking, “Will humans really not do anything excessive to us?”
“Excessive?”
Joshua noticed that the eyes of the two high elf girls suddenly became very strange.
Aurelian gently bit her lower lip, but she still managed to overcome the shame in her heart and said it out loud.
“Elder Enya said that the humans will treat us as slaves, and then they will hunt us down.”
“You got this setting from that book… First of all, slavery is already illegal in many countries in the world, and Nolan is one of them… also, are you high elves really that weak?”
Joshua’s last provocation successfully aroused Aurelian’s fighting spirit.
“I have never been afraid of humans.”Aurelian directly took the guitar and walked out of the room that Joshua arranged for her.
… ..
On Nolan’s street.
“Is this bardic performance really okay?”
Hiri glanced at the venue that Joshua chose. This was a relatively prosperous commercial street in Nolan. At the end of the street, there was a wooden platform used for speeches.
This wooden platform was the property of the sacred land. Many years ago, the missionaries had passionately made speeches on this wooden platform about their beliefs or denouncing some people who did not believe in them.
Now, the churches in the sacred land had been supervised by Nolan’s law enforcement team. Of course, they did not dare to put up flyers everywhere. Of course, this wooden platform was also abandoned.
“Actually, I really want to record a record for them and then sell it. But if that’s the case… the accumulation of popularity is a little slow, so I need a dramatic performance.”
Joshua glanced at the group of people who were preparing behind the scenes. Other than the few musicians invited by Sir White Thorn Flower, the most eye-catching ones were the two High Elves.
“Are the two of you ready?”Joshua and Hiri came before the black-clothed man and Aurelian.
Aurelian had already changed into a mage-style robe that was popular in Nolan. Judging from the way she tugged at the hem of her robe from time to time, she was still not used to wearing human clothes.
“I used to be a bard for a period of time.”The black-clothed man glanced at the pedestrians on the street outside. “But at that time, what I sang was an elven poem, which only attracted a small number of people to listen to it. The two songs you gave me, can they really… make so many people stop?”
The Man in Black had a wealth of experience as a bard. He also understood that it was not easy to do this job. The pedestrians on the street would not stop for a stranger, no matter how good the song was.
“If you rely on songs, I think the possibility is very small…”Joshua shook his head regretfully, he said an answer that made the man in black very uncertain, “The two songs I gave you are to keep people, not to attract people.”
“I have confidence in the songs you gave me.”
The Man in black once again looked at the music score of the two songs that Joshua gave him. When he sang them for the first time, even without accompaniment, he still felt a kind of shock from the soul.
“Let’s put the comments aside for now. It’s time, you guys should go on stage.”Joshua pointed at the wooden platform in the distance and said.
The Man in black walked onto the wooden stage without saying a word. As a sage who had been through hundreds of battles, he was used to such situations. On the contrary, Aurelian hesitated for a moment, however, under the gaze of Jose, she gritted her teeth and walked onto the stage.
“Why do I feel that this group of High Elves all have a fear of humans?”
Hiri’s gaze swept between Aurelian and Winona for a while. The High Elf named Winona was already in a stiff state.
“Humans used to have demon phobia too. This needs time to ease up,”said Joshua.
“There are still a lot of bards performing these days. I always feel like they will fail.”
Ever since the magic web came online and Tyreen’s concert was held, more and more people in Nolan had turned their dreams into music.
Sir White Thorn Flower was the most enlightened in this area. Joshua heard that young people often visited his music guild in order to find a chance to become famous overnight.
This also allowed Sir White Thorn Flower to find many talented seedlings. This was also the development that Joshua hoped to see.
“This time, I have a cheat code.”
“The same effect as ‘who is your father?’in Warcraft?”Hiri asked softly.
“You’ll find out later.”
While Joshua was talking with Hiri, the performance on the wooden stage had officially begun. This was the first time the temporary band had gotten used to each other. The result was not as good as expected, but it was also not as bad as expected.
The Man in black took up the role of the lead singer. The first song they sang was not a song written by Joshua, but an elven poem that the elven race was well-versed in.
Accompanied by the sound of Aurelia’s guitar, the man in black began to tell an ancient story.
The singing skills of the sage were really nothing to Joshua. Moreover, it was the kind that he had practiced before. His voice was gentle and full of vitality. Unfortunately, the people of Nolan had heard too many of his songs.
