Vol 3 Chapter 19.2 (1/2)
Chapter 19 – Power Shaking Heavy Cavalry (II)
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Ferguson’s gaze swept over everyone present, receiving the students’ veneration and attention. The wrinkles on his old, aged face heaped up because of his smile. “At last, the final stage of the Annual Freshman Compet.i.tion has arrived once again. I am very glad that this year’s Freshman Compet.i.tion has so many remarkable young individuals in it. I hesitate to speak pompously, but I hope that this year’s new members of the Milan Inst.i.tution of Magic and Martial Arts, who are joining this big family of students, will learn from these elite students entering the final stage. Today, all your invested effort will be the backbone of the continent’s capital1 in the future.”
Thunderous applause echoed. With the strength of a Violet Rank and a clear, simple speech, he’d made the students, especially the new students, aware that he was the senior Milan Inst.i.tution President. As the Milan Empire’s Chief Court Great Magister, they must recognize him.
Ferguson clapped his hands, and the applauding ceased. “Next, the students of the Divine Music division will perform a song, < raiment of=”” rainbows=”” and=”” feathers =””>>. After this song finishes, the competing students of the Divine Music and Heavy Cavalry divisions will enter the field to start their match. I will personally referee this match.”
A hundred tall, st.u.r.dy Martial Arts students ran forward at lightning speed from the side and towards the middle of the training field, laying down tables and benches. Almost immediately after, a beautiful scene emerged before the students of the Milan Inst.i.tution for Magic and Martial Arts.
Attired in pink dresses with their long hair combed into ponytails, the Divine Music division stepped lithely forward. Their graceful and dazzling appearances were accented by heartwarming, delicate faces, and each figure a.s.sumed several gorgeous postures. Walking at the very front was the awe-inspiring, most beautiful woman of the Milan Inst.i.tution for Magic and Martial Arts—Xiang Luan. Today, she appeared especially alluring, her remarkably exquisite complexion being only faintly accentuated. Like the Creator’s most perfect work of art, almost no one dared to believe that there would be such perfection in this world. All of these 81 female Divine Music division students could be described as beautiful, but at this very moment, the other 80 females were doomed to serve as a background in order to bring out Xiang Luan’s brilliance.
A faint smile in her starry eyes, she embodied the word ‘perfection’ with her slim waist, delicate and perfect contours of her shapely bottom that was hidden by her dress, and those terrifyingly long legs. Even as she walked forward, she had already eclipsed all of those adjectives.
< raiment=”” of=”” rainbows=”” and=”” feathers=””>> echoed out, but for this moment, the overwhelming majority of the audience’s souls still hadn’t returned after seeing the breathtaking Xiang Luan.
Eighty-one people and close to twenty kinds of musical instruments simultaneously resounded. As none of the Divine Music mages embedded their music with magic, only the moving music was left.
Xiang Luan sat at the table and hugged her jade pipa like the treasure it was. She was the core of the song; the others were only there to accompany her. Jade fingers like spring green onions lightly plucked the pipa strings, and < raiment=”” of=”” rainbows=”” and=”” feathers=””>> rose out in spirals. With the rotation of her hand, she played two or three notes, yet the audience already fell in love with the incomplete tune. From her body, people could completely understand why the Divine Music mage was called the most n.o.ble vocation.
The poignant music unceasingly drifted from her hands. Ye Yin Zhu exclaimed softly, “As the hazy dream starts to end, it transitions to a soft tone and enters the third phase of breaking. I didn’t expect Xiang Luan’s musical comprehension to actually be this deep with that blunt temperament of hers.”
Hai Yang said, “Elder Sister Xiang Luan is the number one student in our Divine Music division. Others only know her as the number one beauty, but where could they have learned that she is the genius of the Divine Music division? As a third-year, she has already reached Advanced Level Yellow Rank. Even among the teachers of the Divine Music division, only a few can match her.”
The large strings hummed like rapid rain while the small strings sliced through the air like whispers. Humming sliced through the jumbled plucking, like large and small beads falling onto a jade plate. Everyone that had gathered on the field grew quiet as the song < raiment=”” of=”” rainbows=”” and=”” feathers=””>> and its ‘master’ made everyone feel as if they were looking upon an imaginary scene, like a dream.