Fourth Sound Obtained

He Wei Ni Ya sat by the window, quietly watching the slowly setting sun.

She had been planning for this day for a whole month.

Over the course of the past month, she learned about the academy through various means, and finally took action last night, attacking three hidden Mountain Guardian to create the illusion of an invasion by Xi Ze.

This is both to find a scapegoat for their future actions and to bring out Golden Sound, who has not yet shown up.

For example, there Dean, and also the Note School Doctor named Roland. If it weren't for this method, she really wouldn't have been able to detect that these two players, who were clearly over the age limit, were also going to participate in the Grand Ceremony Golden Sound.

If He Wei Ni Ya really follows the original plan and only targets Finnis and Ka Lun, then no matter how secretive her actions are, everyone will definitely place their primary suspicion on her, who is in the same team.

As for why this made all the Golden Sound wary, there was nothing that could be done about it.

As for their response strategy...

He Wei Ni Ya glanced at the Soul Chain on her wrist, then asked in her mind, "Mr. Visas, do you have a way to resolve this?"

"Okay," Bai Wei replied briefly again.

He Wei Ni Ya nodded and said no more. After glancing at the sky again, she picked up her pen and began to write a letter.

This is a letter written to Auger, with open books next to it.

"To be honest, although the methods I wrote for you are all directly copied from ancient books, I don't know how effective they really are. There are very few cases of successfully restoring damaged musical notes, but I still hope you won't give up. After all... what if?"

"So please read this knowledge I've written down for you carefully, just like you would in the academy. You must take it seriously. Once you give up on yourself, then you really won't have any chance at all. So, cheer up, memorize this forbidden, non-transmitted knowledge, and understand it well. Only when that time comes will you know what you can truly gain."

"Today I'm going to share with you a passage from 'The Rise of the Primordial.' Please write it down:..."

"... That's all. I don't have much time each day, and I can't take these books with me, so this is all I can do to help you. I hope it will be of some use."

"By the way, that guy named Xi Ze might have come to the One Academy again. But don't worry, he already has the Seventh Note, so his target shouldn't be me... I hope so. To be honest, I'm still worried. So I should go to bed early tonight to try and get through the night quickly."

"But I don't know if I can fall asleep. You know, I haven't been in a very good mental state. If I really can't fall asleep no matter what, I think I'll go to the Self-Study Room to read a book and have some apple pie to pass the night. Anyway, the Grand Ceremony is approaching, and there are always quite a few musicians staying up all night in the Self-Study Room. Being with them is better than being alone in my room, right?"

After I finished writing, the sun had completely set, and darkness had swallowed the world.

He Wei Ni Ya lit a candle and placed the letter she had just written, the ink still wet, next to it.

This is an insurance policy.

In case tonight's operation goes wrong and she fails to return on time, and someone breaks into her room, she wants to make sure that the person sees this letter immediately.

In this way, even if the person finds that she is no longer in the room, they will subconsciously assume that she went to the Self-Study Room based on this letter.

Although it's unlikely that anyone will break into her room, it's never a bad thing to have a backup plan.

Then, He Wei Ni Ya put on her clothes and picked up her staff.

Just as she was about to leave, Bai Wei's voice rang in her mind.

"If your target is that guy, then I must remind you again that I can only remain silent in that area, and you will have to make your own judgment."

"Of course, I will remind you as before when necessary to pay attention to distinguishing between them."

He Wei Ni Ya nodded slightly, then pushed open the door and went out.

Roland Ether looked at the sky, which had completely darkened, and then said calmly, "I said, you don't need to follow me like this, do you?"

An old man in a gray robe stood behind him.

Upon hearing his words, the old man replied, "Young Master, the situation is too dangerous now. We have already lost Young Master Daniel, and we absolutely cannot lose you as well. Please understand."

"I understand you, but who can understand me?" Roland looked at the old man. "The Grand Ceremony doesn't start for another month. Do you plan to stay by my side like this for the entire month?"

"This is the safest way."

"I think this is the most dangerous thing," Roland said coldly. "In this academy, apart from a few people, no one knows that I am from the Ether Family, and no one knows that I am Golden Sound. But you guys are just surrounding me like this, aren't you just announcing my identity to the entire academy?"

"This..."

"Besides, I have important things to do, don't I?" Roland said. "You'll scare my food away."

Upon hearing Roland's words, the old man immediately hesitated. "Young master, haven't you finished yet? There's only one month left, if you've already..."

"What good will it do me now that I've finished?" Roland looked into the old man's eyes. "A month is a long time. Who knows what might happen? What if this month of fasting caused the fading? What will happen to the Grand Ceremony? Daniel is gone. Are we just going to give up completely? Will you take that responsibility?"

The old man naturally dared not take responsibility, and after hesitating for a moment, he nodded.

"Alright, young master, we'll stay outside and keep watch over you. Of course, we'll keep a safe distance so no one will notice us."

"It's best not to."

After coldly uttering those words, Roland quickly left, heading towards a small building a hundred meters away.

The old man bowed to Roland's retreating figure before slowly disappearing into the darkness.

Upon entering the small house, Roland immediately adopted a friendly expression and smiled at a girl who was already waiting in the room.

"Have you been waiting long, Kang Ni?"

Kang Ni immediately stood up, her face slightly flushed. "No, Dr. Roland, I just arrived too."

"Hehe, no need to be so polite, just lie down, like always." Roland pointed to the bed in front of him.

Kang Ni nodded repeatedly, then lay down on the hospital bed in the room.

"How are you? How have you been feeling these past few days?" Roland asked. "Are you still experiencing that fading feeling in your heart?"

"There is still a little, Doctor," Kang Ni asked softly. "Are my symptoms getting a bit serious?"

"There are some problems," Roland said with a smile, "But don't worry, I will do my best to cure you."

Looking at Roland's handsome and kind face, Kang Ni blushed again. "Thank you, Dr. Roland."

"This is my job, there's no need to be so polite." Roland patted Kang Ni's hand reassuringly. "Alright, go to sleep as usual. When you wake up, the treatment will be over."

"Please, Dr. Roland." Kang Ni's voice trailed off as a strong wave of drowsiness washed over her. She murmured, "I've been chosen by the Inner Melody Orchestra. I can't fade away... I still want to participate in the Grand Ceremony."

Roland looked at Kang Ni's eyes as they gradually closed and gently comforted her, "Of course, it's all for the Grand Ceremony."

The smile on Roland's face slowly faded after Kang Ni had fallen completely asleep.

Then, as usual, he took out a flexible tube and slowly removed Kang Ni's clothes, exposing the beautiful silver musical notes painted on her body to the air.

Then he unbuttoned his clothes, revealing his golden musical notes.

However, his brilliant and magnificent Golden Sound contained a dark tone that was completely out of place with the overall sound, as if it had faded.

So Roland connected one end of the tube to Kang Ni's note and the other end to the darker part of his own note.

Magic Power surges, music resounds.

Silvery gas began to rise from the hose, flowing from Kang Ni's end towards Roland.

Kang Ni, still unconscious, let out a low moan of pain, and her body trembled involuntarily.

Roland leaned back in his chair, slowly closed his eyes, and let out a soft hum.

Under this transmission, Kang Ni's notes darkened at a visible speed, while the dimmed parts of Roland's notes slowly regained their color.

"Yes, that's it, that's it," Roland murmured softly. "It can't fade yet, it can't fade yet..."

Roland graduated almost ten years ago.

Ten years ago, he was also a prodigy of this academy, a renowned Golden Sound Performer, and also a member of the Primordial Two Great Families, whose status and strength were unmatched.

Unfortunately, there were no Grand Ceremony in the era he lived in.

He happened to be caught in the middle of the Grand Ceremony only once every twenty years.

This made him extremely unwilling.

Although he was trying his best to maintain the color of the notes, he devoted himself to research, abstained from women, and did nothing that would harm his health, all for the sake of the music. He tried to postpone the fading time like the principal, not even twenty or thirty years, but even ten years, as long as he could participate in a Grand Ceremony, he would be satisfied.

Unfortunately, he couldn't do it.

Five years ago, he felt he couldn't hold on any longer.

No matter how hard he tried, his notes were decaying and fading at a visible rate.

In that case, he simply cannot hold on for another five years.

Therefore, Roland turned his attention to some special methods, which is the one he is now using—enhancing color.

Simply put, it's about transferring the colors of other age-appropriate players onto yourself.

However, this method is not that simple.

Because the best object to enhance the quality is the same pitch, that is, the Golden Sound enhances the Golden Sound.

However, this is essentially a matter of transferring from left to right, sacrificing the color of a suitable Golden Sound to enhance the color of another Golden Sound that is no longer suitable for its age, and this process also involves losses.

Therefore, it is highly unlikely that anyone would use this method, and the Golden Sound Ether Family would not support him doing so, since even among the Primordial Two Great Families, Golden Sound performers are not available in large quantities.

Therefore, Roland could only turn his attention to the Silver Sound Player.

However, for Silver Sound Player to enhance the Golden Sound performer's performance, it's definitely not something that can be done one-on-one. It would require ten to one, or even twenty to one, or thirty to one, and as the Golden Sound performer gets older, this cost will only increase.

Even if the Ether Family could afford this price, they would absolutely not be willing to pay it.

After countless attempts to gain his family's approval failed, Roland had no choice but to fend for himself—he returned to the One Academy and became a doctor of musical notes under an assumed name.

Because only One Academy possesses a much larger pool of musicians than the Ether Family.

And so, Roland successfully delayed his music by five years, until now, with only one month left before the Grand Ceremony begins.

Of course, the Ether Family's help was indispensable, but Roland's own efforts played the most crucial role.

He changed his name and pretended to be an ordinary Silver Sound Player, all to blend in with those musicians who had no talent and lure them to his place for treatment.

This is no simple matter.

For a genius like him, being around mediocre people was pure torture.

Fortunately, the torment is about to end.

The gas in the tube became increasingly scarce, Kang Ni's notes dimmed, while Roland's previously dimmed parts once again burst forth with brilliance.

Roland slowly opened his eyes, his blue pupils revealing excitement.

There's still one month left.

There's only one month left.

He let out a long breath, ignoring Kang Ni was trembling in pain on the hospital bed, and slowly got up and dressed.

A month later, he was able to make the Lord hear his voice.

Thinking of this, Roland couldn't help but smile.

But the smile lasted for less than a second before it disappeared.

Because he saw a slender female figure standing behind the door.

He was looking at the shadowy figure, and the shadowy figure was looking at him.

"Who are you..."

Roland's lips parted slightly, and after a few seconds of stunned silence, he suddenly realized something was wrong.

He immediately grabbed the staff that was on the bedside table.

The moment the fingers touched the staff, it shattered into several pieces.

Black threads shot out from the staff with a whistling sound as they sliced through the air, severing Roland's fingers and quickly wrapping around his body.

This made Roland realize that the other side had already laid an ambush.

But how did she do that?!

This is One Academy!

This is the closest place to the Lord!

Even the servants of the Ether Family were not far away!

How dare she?! And how did she do it?!

Even though he was shocked and angry, Roland did not give up. Although his staff was destroyed and he could not cast many Movement Spell, he knew that as long as he made a commotion, the people outside would see it and rush in to save him.

And he also has a bracelet!

Roland endured the pain as he poured Magic Power into the bracelet.

Sure enough, a dazzling red light burst forth from the bracelet.

But even more dazzling.

It's the one on the other side.

Roland was stunned when he saw the same light burst forth from the shadowy figure's wrist.

"How is this possible?!" His eyes widened. "You are..."

Before he could even speak, Roland was constantly retreating, suddenly lost his footing, as if he had stepped into a trap, and was lifted up.

A Rubik's Cube trapped him.

[Five Sounds · Magic Cube].

The Rubik's Cube is turned gently.

Roland's body was torn to pieces.

It turned out to be Movement Spell based on the five notes of a pentatonic scale.

Is it instantaneous?

How could that be...

Roland tried to turn his twisted neck, and then found that he was surrounded by miniature Rubik's Cubes. No matter which way he went or which one he touched, it would immediately turn into this state.

So that's how it is; this guy arrived a while ago.

They were enjoying their meal in Roland, even though they had arrived there much earlier.

But she didn't make a move until Roland had "eaten and drunk his fill" before she began the hunt.

At that moment, an indescribable anger welled up in my heart.

Did they mistake me for food?!

How could that be!

Roland's eyes flashed with a final, frenzied madness.

The bracelet then unleashed a powerful burst of energy, which quickly transformed into a fiery serpent that spread toward Roland's musical notes.

Only the weak become food, like that guy in the bed!

He would never allow himself to become someone else's food! Even if it meant death!

Roland roared and charged forward to meet the fiery serpent with its bared fangs.

Then.

With a "snap".

A crisp snap of the fingers.

The fire serpent suddenly vanished into the void.

Roland's final madness came to a standstill.

On his deathbed, he watched the woman emerge from the darkness and slowly reach out her hand to him.

It's like Butcher raising a cleaver.

The Fourth Sound, obtained.