New Style Drama

Once he had confirmed that there was truly nothing on the stage but a pile of magical components and a Crystal Array, Count Balin believed he had grasped the essence of this so-called "New Style Drama."

It was not some particularly ingenious new technology, but he still had to praise it—it was a brilliant idea.

Traditional dramas were recorded onto Recording Crystals, then repeatedly played and broadcast over a wide area through Magic Net Terminals. A single performance became a "commodity" that could be endlessly replicated and reenacted. Cheap Magical Devices reduced the cost of such "dramas" to an unimaginable degree, yet their quality did not suffer in the slightest.

That was why there was such a decidedly "popular" theater, why tickets originally cost only six Ers, and why ordinary citizens could freely watch this "New Style Drama."

There was no doubt that this conformed to the "New Order" His Majesty Gawain Cecil had been vigorously promoting, as well as its two central principles: "technology serves the people" and "mass production lays the foundation."

No wonder it had received strong support from the Administrative Hall and been promoted so spectacularly throughout the imperial capital.

Count Balin could see all this, and the others present could more or less see it as well—none of those accompanying Victoria were fools. During their time maintaining the Administrative Hall's operations in the Old Royal Capital, they had encountered many examples involving Magic-Conducting Technology. At the very least, with their ability to understand and make connections, it was easy for them to guess how this New Style Drama worked. The technology itself was not surprising, but they still admired whoever had come up with the idea. In an era changing by the day, simply being able to think of a good idea was an extraordinary