East Lainer, West Hill Manor.
Knock, knock, knock!
"Come in."
Blaise strode briskly into the office.
"Roland, I have some good news for you."
"What good news?" Roland asked without looking up, bent over the weekly work reports submitted by the Lainer people. "I'm busy here."
Blaise braced both hands on his desk, his face alight with excitement. "The incantation-chanting method for turning vernacular Chinese into magic has been verified and put into practice!"
"What?" Roland looked up despite himself.
"Let me make this clear first: the credit belongs to Morella, not me.
"But this is undoubtedly a glorious achievement for us card enthusiasts.
"This brand-new chanting technique uses the tonal compatibility between vernacular Chinese and chant melodies, making it a perfect fit for card games!
"We call it the 'Storytelling Chanting Method'..."
Blaise, the card fanatic, began explaining.
After listening for a while, Roland covered his forehead and smiled wryly.
"That actually works?"
What Blaise described had already existed in embryonic form in the arcane community.
However, Morella really had only just invented "storytelling chanting" in the true sense.
The reason was simple: simplifying many earlier magical languages caused their resonance rates to plummet, stripping them of their ultra-magic properties.
They even struggled to maintain high magic.
Yet forcibly extending the signifier chain through the principle of wholeness, stacking phonemes to achieve resonance...
Would make the number of syllables grow exponentially, becoming extremely long-winded.
It was like translating classical Chinese into modern Chinese, then reading it aloud with feeling.
But that was a comparison across time, between ancient and modern usage.
In a comparison across different languages, Seris was already restrained enough.
Some games and animated works from Blue Star in his previous life demonstrated this: when comparing voice tracks in multiple languages, the Chinese versions were often relatively