Chapter 296 - Disguise (1/2)

Messai’s performance barely managed to receive the applause from all the audience present in the theater.

A portion of the audience Joshua invited were Sir Weissenasche’s noble friends. Those nobles were far more demanding in their appreciation for the arts.

The only reason why they were even willing to applaud Messai was due to her voice. After all, even an non-expert like Joshua could tell that Messai had many off-key moments in her performance.

“Miss Messai’s final votes are two thousand three hundred and seventy. So far, you are the one with the greatest number of votes. Miss Messai, what do you want to say to your two thousand-plus supporters?”

Tylene walked onto the stage and handed an originium crystal microphone embedded with ‘voice amplification’ magic to Messai.

Messai had just finished singing. Her face was still a bit red. After calming her breathing, she said in a very indifferent manner, “Thanks.” and exited the stage.

As she was forced to participate in the competition, Messai didn’t care about winning the competition. Naturally, she didn’t care about what the audience thinks of her.

However, Messai’s indifferent behavior actually caused her votes to increase by over two hundred more.

“A woman’s beauty is also their weapon,” said Joshua quietly.

“Unfortunately, that weapon is completely ineffective toward men with a significant other in mind,” refuted Gallolie.

Hearing the Flower of Farucci’s ridicule, Joshua shrugged his shoulders and said nothing. Soon, the third contestant appeared on stage.

The World’s Singers competition smoothly continued.

Unfortunately, the next couple contestants were not as lucky as the knight lady.

“Even if ordinary commoners are given swords, they will not be able to kill any demons on the battlefield.”

Bored, Vulture yawned in his seat. Even though the performances of the people on the stage were barely decent, Vulture couldn’t help himself from becoming sleepy.

When he was planning to take a nap and have Bishop Darco wake him up when it’s Saintess Herolia’s turn…

Vulture was roused awake from his sleepiness by a near stifling aura of death.

“Impossible…”

Vulture stood up in alarm. He looked all around. A large amount of cold sweat covered his forehead. His body was shivering involuntarily.

“Vulture, your breathing is in a complete mess. What happened?”

Bishop Darco spoke to remind the legion commander to keep calm. He was also curious as to what could terrify an experienced legion commander like so.

“Bishop Darco, I am very sensitive toward the undead,” Completely exhausted, Vulture sat back down. He was still looking all around. It was like he just detected the arrival of a wild Godzilla.

No… if it was a giant dragon-type creature, Vulture was confident that he would be able to escape from it.

“I know,” said Bishop Darco.

“Since the beginning of the performance, there are fifteen Day Banshees in the theater. While they’re dangerous, they do not possess any malice. Most importantly, those Day Banshees are incapable of injuring Lady Saintess.”

An unsupressable sense of nervousness was present in Vulture’s voice. His back was already soaked in cold sweat.

It was impossible for ordinary undeads to cause harm to Saintess Herolia protected by the Holy Light. Furthermore, that outstanding knight Messai was also with her.

That was the reason why Vulture was able to calmly sit in the audience seat to enjoy the competition. But, just earlier… he felt a… terrifying aura behind the stage.

That aura of death far surpassed all the undeads Vulture came into contact before. It was as dense and intense as the vast ocean.

That was an undead comparable to the Sages of Norland! In fact… it might be even more powerful than the Sages!

“That Chaos Demon does not possess any contestants that could defeat Lady Saintess. Thus, he’s utilizing this sort of despicable method?”

After hearing Vulture’s explanation, Bishop Darco furiously grabbed his crutch. He intended to leave his seat to set off to rescue Herolia.

But, at this moment, Saintess Herolia walked out from the back of the stage completely unscathed.