According to legend, true bards had always believed that music possessed power.
It allowed people to use music to soothe the soul or lift the spirit.
Thus, through their constant exploration, they sensed the [Creation Sacred Word] that originated at the birth of the universe beyond the Magic Web. By listening to and manipulating its echoes, they discovered the possibility of touching the Magic Web and weaving spells.
Later, poets realized that a legend from the past, a true history, and even a fictional story could all move people's hearts.
People would shed tears because of words, empathize with characters because of a plot, and draw inspiration from them.
Thus, using similar methods, they explored the spiritual power interwoven within "stories" themselves.
They named this spiritual power the "spirit" of a story.
The spirit itself manifested as historical figures who had truly existed, fictional archetypes created by people, or even an indescribable objective spiritual entity.
As for Song of the Vampire, a spirit born from the Twilight Forest, it naturally originated from its subject--
[Song of the Vampire:
Spend one Inspiration to awaken the spirit nurtured within the story.
At the instant the ballad is played, you will summon the spirit of the story's beginning, "Dark Lord Lilith."
This spirit represents only the "story itself" embodied by the ballad, carrying the story's thoughts and will rather than the actual person herself.
The summoned spirit will bestow the "Dark Gift" upon every visible creature within a 20-meter area of your choice.
Lilith's Gift--
For the duration of the ballad, each target will be temporarily transformed into a "Half-Blood," gaining all the positive and negative traits of a Half-Blood until the song ends.
Note: She is a prisoner, a prisoner without a sentence.]
Tang Qi studied the lyrics recorded in the log.