The lone wolf of Freyrdrand

Four: The Shy Diva

“Seraphine! Seraphine! Seraphine!”

Loud cheers erupted from the crowd. They shouted the name in unison, and the waves of sound and applause tended to intensify.

“Thank you! Thank you everyone!” In the center of the crowd, a girl standing on a small suspended stage held a microphone in her hand and thanked the audience.

The girl looks very beautiful, wearing a very fancy performance dress, her light pink wavy long hair can almost reach her ankles, even though it is already late at night in the dance corridor, her existence is still like the brightest star in the night sky Just as dazzling and dazzling, it is difficult to take your eyes off her, especially after listening to her singing that is called heaven.

“The concert…” Lothar asked a nearby Zaun, “Who is she?”

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The people of Zaun who were still fanatically shouting Seraphine’s name proudly patted Lothar’s chest: “You don’t even know that she is our best singer in Zaan! Seraphine!”

“Wait!” A Piltover man turned his head and stared at the Zaunite in dissatisfaction, “What is it from your Zaun! Seraphine obviously belongs to us in Piltover! She is a native of Piltover!”

The people of Zaun were unconvinced: “Salafini said that her parents were both from Zaun! They just moved to Piltover! She has Zaun blood in her blood! Her singing sings It is the spirit of the people of Zaun!”

“Come on!” the Piltover sneered, “If Seraphine grew up in Zaun, it would have buried her talent! You have the heart to let such a sound of nature be ruined by Zaun’s stinking sewers and poisonous gas ?”

“What did you say!” The Zaunites glared at the Piltovers.

“What I’m telling you is the truth!” The Piltover man pointed to the small floating stage that Seraphine was stepping on. “She used the noble hex technology! It’s not your Zaun alchemy scrap!”

“You!” The people of Zaun pinched towards the people of Piltover in a rage, and the conflict between the two of them instantly detonated the explosive barrel between Piltover and Zaun like a lead wire, and many nearby people of Piltover and Zaun People also joined in the fight.

Seraphine, who was far away on the stage, noticed the commotion here. Her complexion changed, and she hurriedly took the microphone and said, “Everyone! I will do it again for you tonight!We present the last song! Please listen! ”

The stage under Seraphine’s feet played melodious music, and her singing voice spread throughout the square in an instant. The floating stage seemed to have the function of sound amplification. Lothar felt that Seraphine seemed to be in her presence from a long distance away. Like singing in the ear.

Seraphine’s singing quickly calmed down the anger and stopped what might have turned into a big fight. Lothar saw with his own eyes those people who were still fighting each other just now, when Seraphine’s singing sounded Soon after, they hugged each other like brothers, and continued to sway to Seraphine’s singing, with intoxicated and fanatical smiles on their faces.

“Singing with spiritual magic…” Lothar couldn’t help but feel joy in his heart. The singer’s singing was not just a simple voice, but a kind of magic that relied on singing.

Spiritual magic can infiltrate people’s hearts and change people’s thoughts and even character. For example, Ahri, a Vastaya who met in Losar, possesses the spiritual magic that charms people.

“I really don’t know anything about spiritual magic…” Lothar pressed his temple. Although after the fusion of [Luo Sa], Lothar’s abilities in all aspects have improved a lot, and he knows that the joy rising in his heart is the influence of magic, but He still couldn’t resist.

Spiritual magic is quite rare, and none of them has formed a mature school of magic. Only talented people occasionally master it. Diva Seraphine is obviously such a person.

But what Lothar cares about is not only the spiritual magic of the diva, but also the small floating stage under her feet.

It looks like a very delicate mechanical device, and it seems to be equipped with a crystal that exudes a strong magical atmosphere.

The Hex Crystal, that’s what the people of Piltover called it.

A natural crystal containing powerful magic, the existence of the Hex Crystal can be said to have completely solved the energy supply problem of Piltover Technology. Basically, the city of Piltover has made a fortune. In addition to its unique geographical location, Hex Technology is also Critical.

And the Hextech stage under Seraphine’s feet, of course, can’t just be a floating stage that can emit light and play music, otherwise there is no need to install a Hex crystal inside. This stage is not only beautiful, it is also Helping Seraphine’s singing spread out, greatly enhancing the range of her psychic magic.

But when Seraphine used spiritual magic on so many people, the purpose was not to control them, but to really make them feel happy.

Lothar silently waited for the song to end. After Seraphine’s voice of thanks and the sound of people’s reluctance to leave the venue disappeared, the concert, which lasted until midnight, finally came to an end.

The crowd gradually dispersed. It stands to reason that there should still be fanatical fans staying to pester Seraphine, but perhaps due to the influence of spiritual magic, the audience dispersed very cleanly, as if the concert just now was a dream. Everything is back to the original point.

“No, maybe there is still a change.” Lothar saw that the Picheng man and the Zaun man who had just quarreled were leaving after a happy conversation, and seemed to plan to have a drink together.

Lothar turned to look at Seraphine. The girl smiled and watched her audience leave one by one, and then stepped on the suspended stage to the long bridge of the dance corridor.

Lothar thought about it and decided to follow her.

Seraphine didn’t notice Lothar, maybe she was too tired after singing for a long time, she went directly to a street ice cream stand, bought a large sundae, and then sat on the edge of the bridge People ate.

Seraphine looked at the sky for a while, and the ground for a while. Above her was neat and bright Piltover, and even at night you could see the bright lights streaming down from it, Piltover’s brass lamps that never went out.

But the bottom of Seraphine is indeed different.

Chaotic, hard to tell what color smog rises from the city below. You can often smell the pungent smell. Through the smog, you can see the city below. It is a very messy urban area with stained glass windows , Stone walls and metal pipes make it up, and almost every building has a chimney, and all kinds of chemical fumes converge together above.

There is Zaun, a city adjacent to Piltover, but completely different.

Seraphine bit the spoon, ate the sundae listlessly, sighed for a while, and lost all the energy she had when she was performing on stage.

“That fellow Luoxia…” Seraphine swayed her legs, and whispered sullenly, “Don’t come to see me… Sigh…”

“Who is Luoxia?” A voice suddenly sounded from behind Seraphine.

“Ahhh!” Seraphine fell forward in fright, the sundae in her hand slipped from her hand, and fell directly into the city below, and Seraphine herself fell down immediately. .

A hand grabbed her wrist and pulled her back.

“Are you okay?” It was a man who spoke.

“Thank you… thank you…” Seraphine pressed her chest in shock. She was almost going to fall in the afternoon just now, and she didn’t want to know that the headlines of Piltover and Zaun tomorrow morning would be the number one singer in the two cities The news of Xiang Xiaoyu’s death.

Lothar will let go of Seraphine’s hand. He hides his face in the shadow of the cloak to prevent the girl from seeing him: “Excuse me, let me buy you another sundae.”

“No, no, no!” Seraphine waved her hands and said, the cloaked man in front of her made her feel suspicious, and she didn’t want to have too much contact with him. “It’s not very expensive, so you don’t need to pay.”

“How kind ofSi, the dessert you bought looks quite big. “Lothar insisted on buying it for Seraphine.

“It’s really useless, it’s not worth much.” Seraphine smiled at Lothar, thinking that he was an outsider who didn’t know the specifics of Piltover, “Since Professor Wright of Piltover University and him a few years ago After our experimental team cracked the secret of True Ice from the Freljord, the price of frozen products in Piltover became very low, and now you can buy an ice cream without two copper coils.”

“That’s it.” Lothar smiled a little when he heard Wright’s name. Of course, he still remembered the old man with a white beard. After all, he was his partner who once searched for Zhenbing in the Howling Abyss of the Freljord.

“However, after Wright brought Zhenbing from the Freljord to Piltover, he actually came up with something like ice cream…” Lothar couldn’t help but wonder, if the ice blood in the Freljord tribe Knowing that the Zhenbing they revered was actually used to make sweets, what kind of expression would they have?

“Well… I’ll leave first if I have nothing else to do.” Seraphine didn’t want to chat too much with someone who didn’t want to show her face, so she planned to leave right away.

“I see you are in a bad mood.” Losa stopped her, “Is it because of your boyfriend?”

“Ma…boyfriend!” Seraphine’s body trembled violently, she hugged herself tightly, her eyes wandering, “Wh…what boyfriend…”

Lothar thought it was a little funny. The shy and embarrassed appearance of the delicate girl in front of him was really interesting. He continued to deliberately tease: “Is that the Luo Xia you just mentioned? He is your boyfriend.”

“No… Nope!” Seraphine shook her head so that her hair was going to fly, her long fluffy wavy hair looked like a big pink cotton candy, “He’s not…not…”

“That’s right, a person with such a strange name probably won’t be your boyfriend.” Lothar shrugged.

“It’s… not surprising!” Seraphine suddenly became agitated, she puffed up her cheeks, and gestured at Lothar out of righteous indignation, “The name Luoxia is very good! You haven’t seen the Logic Building in Picheng Huh! That is a landmark building! His name is named after the Logic Building…ah…”

Seraphine suddenly realized that she shouldn’t be so excited with a stranger, she hurriedly closed her legs, put her hands on her knees and bowed to Lothar: “That… sorry… I’m too excited In short, Luo Xia is not my boyfriend anymore!”

“Really?” Lothar folded his arms and said, “I see that you keep talking about him, and you look unhappy. No matter how you look at it, it must be the trouble of being in love.”

“That’s not true!” Seraphine’s eyes began to circle in confusion, “I only read him because…he…he…he owes me money! Yes! He owes me money! I want him to pay it back That’s all!”

“That’s it.” Lothar laughed like crazy in his heart. Of course he knew who the Luoxia was talking about in Seraphine’s mouth, and also knew the relationship between Luoxia and her, but he didn’t point it out, and continued to tease the poor man without interruption. After the girl, he changed the subject, “I just saw your show, it was wonderful.”

As soon as the performance was mentioned, Seraphine’s flustered expression calmed down, and a smile appeared on her face: “So you have heard it, I hope you like my singing, but I didn’t bring a pen out today, maybe I can’t give it to you.” You sign.”

“I’m not here to ask for an autograph.” Lothar said.

“I don’t want to sign.” Seraphine clenched her neckline vigilantly, and took a step back. From the very beginning, she wondered why this man was not affected by her magic. It stands to reason that she would consciously keep people away from her when she was not performing. In order to obtain a quiet private resting space, otherwise, with her popularity in Piltover and Zaun, she would not be able to play in the streets like an ordinary girl, and would be blocked by fans as soon as she appeared.

But the man in front of her was not affected by her magic, which made Seraphine start to be vigilant.

She stepped on her floating stage with one foot and was ready at any time: 9? 8; 0; 2? . 0′. 5,,8″5.;6 Be prepared for any unruly intentions of the man in front of you.

But Seraphine’s worries were unnecessary, Lothar had absolutely no plans to do anything to her.

He pointed to the floating stage under Seraphine’s feet: “There is a hex crystal inside, right?”

Seraphine was taken aback for a moment. Basically, people who approached her would ask about her beauty and singing voice. Very few people asked about the stage.

“Yes… that’s right…” Seraphine hesitated for a moment before admitting it. After all, this is nothing to hide. “You are… a craftsman”

“Probably.” Lothar nodded and said, “And I’m very familiar with Hex crystals.”

“Hex crystal…” Seraphine didn’t understand.

“Hex is the name given to it by the people of Piltover, its real name.” Lothar’s voice became lower and lower, “It should be called Shellman Crystal.”

Seraphine’s complexion changed, and she widened her beautiful eyes: “Shellman…you…can you hear it too? The voice in the crystal.”

“I don’t know what you heard from the crystals, I just know that these crystals were not mined from the mine veins of Shurima as the Piltover executives said.” Lothar moved closer to Seraphine’s ear Bian, said in a low voice, “They killed the Shellmen and dug out their hearts alive.”

“Stop talking!” Seraphine covered her ears hard, squatting on the ground with a painful expression.

Lothar looked at the Hextech floating stage aside, and he could clearly feel the sea inside.The X crystal conveys a strong magical atmosphere.

“Sure enough, this girl can hear magic directly…” Lothar thought to himself, Seraphine’s painful appearance at this time was definitely not pretending, but the will in the Hex crystal was conveyed to her mind.

That is the magic of the Shellman, the magic that [Luo Sa] has experienced before, and the music that directly enters the mind is the symbol of the Shellman.

But this melody is already very weak. After all, this crystal has been separated from the shell man’s body. It is impossible to cast any magic by itself, but it is so weak that even Lothar can’t catch the melody if he deliberately listens to it. Sale But Fanny could hear very clearly. Judging from her painful appearance, she could not only hear the Shellman’s magic, but also hear very clearly, even the noise.

Lothar knelt down and pressed Seraphine’s shoulder: “Don’t be afraid, relax and take a deep breath.”

Seraphine’s chest kept rising and falling. She finally adjusted her state and looked at Lothar with a pale face: “Who the hell are you?”

“It doesn’t matter who I am.” Lothar said softly, “What matters is that you are one of the few who know the secret of the Hex crystal, and this secret is enough to shake the foundation of Piltover and even Zaun.”

Seraphine’s pupils kept vibrating, and it was obvious that there was a huge wave in her heart: “What do you mean?”

“You want to heal the wounds between Piltover and Zaun with singing, right?” Lothar stroked Seraphine’s head, “The idea is good, but immature, the power contained in this crystal is not only goodwill, There is also the hatred of being slaughtered by humans, and if you rely on it blindly, something may happen.”

Seraphine looked at Lothar in confusion, she didn’t know why she didn’t dislike this stranger touching her head, but felt a sense of peace of mind, as if a familiar person was comforting her: “What the hell are you… …who is it”

Lothar didn’t answer. He stood up and left two copper coils in Seraphine’s hand: “I pay you for the sundae.”

Seraphine watched Lothar disappear around the corner of the dancing corridor. She really wanted to chase that man, but her head was still buzzing. Others couldn’t hear the magic melody in the Hex crystal, but she could , Just now she felt that her head was about to explode.

“Luoxia…” Seraphine looked down at the copper coil in her hand, “Go buy a sundae and eat with him.”