79 – Three Musical Styles
[Greetings, God of the Internet.
I have come to request your presence to discuss urgent matters affecting our territories, as well as good news from Luna Nyx.
New discoveries about demon invasions like the one in Eldoria are surfacing in neighboring lands and require a direct and detailed discussion.
I await your answer and your visit to the Arcantor Magic School.
With all due respect,
Jaina Proudstone, Archmage of Arcantor].
Reading Jaina's message, I turned my attention away from the AI development I had been so focused on for the past few days and became curious about both the information they had received from the mages in other realms and the good news from Luna.
To deal with this curiosity, I lowered my consciousness into the mortal world through the physical marble body that was in Robert's church and looked around curiously.
Although I normally kept a simple watch around the church, I hadn't paid much attention to how the place looked in the last few weeks because I had more important things to do.
I was surprised at how it looked, because in just a few days the place had undergone a lot of renovations.
The main one was to replace the furniture and decorations with much better quality options than what was used here before.
If before this church had just looked like a poor place, now the powerless look that churches should have was taking shape.
The pews had been replaced with nicer and more comfortable options, the walls were painted with drawings of the invasion of Eldoria, the alliance with Lucy, the first battle against Zack...
It was interesting to see these things from a mortal's perspective.
Another big change was the space of the church, which used to hold only about 100 people comfortably, now that number has risen to at least 300 people, and with renovations on the way to increase the amount of people that can fit even more.
Not wanting to interrupt the lesson Robert was giving, I quickly walked to the Arcantor Magic School and went to Jaina's office.
Entering the room, I saw that she was with Luna, drinking tea and eating some cookies.
When they saw me arrive, they smiled, and Jaina greeted me with more formality and a little naturalness, showing her respect for me, but not in a submissive way.
Luna, on the other hand, was much more submissive and stood up to greet me.
"Hello Lord Athenos." She said as she bowed to me.
"Hello Luna, Jaina told me that you have good news for me?" I asked as I sat down at the table with them and tried a cookie to see if I could taste anything.
Unfortunately, having a marble body didn't allow me to taste, but as the god of creativity, I was able to use some divine power to simulate the taste of this cookie and enjoy it like mortals.
If other lesser gods knew that I had spent 300 Divine Power just to eat a few cookies, they would go crazy.
"Yes, Lord Athenos... for some reason, I felt my creativity soar while I was thinking of lyrics to prepare for the Internet... it helped me a lot!" She said excitedly, her long blue hair swirling around her.
"This is information that not many people know, but the God of the Internet is also the God of Creativity, so if you pray to the God of the Internet sincerely, with every prayer you say, your creativity goes up a notch, to the point that if a constancy of sincere prayers is maintained for several days, the change can be great." I said with a smile to the amazement of Luna and Jaina.
Luna because she could receive more creativity while praying, and Jaina because she discovered that the God of the Internet had another deity.
"Sure, that's not the only reason. When I told the God of the Internet about your situation and how special you are, he decided to invest in you and gave you a blessing of creativity, which is probably why you feel your creativity soaring," I said. I said before taking a sip of my tea.
"Really?!" Luna asked in shock as she looked up in surprise. "The God of the Internet actually took an interest in me and decided to invest in me?"
"I think now is the best time for you to tell Lord Athenos about your achievements, Luna." Jaina said quietly from the side, bringing the young girl back to reality.
Hearing this, Luna realized that she had lost her concentration and came back to me with the big smile still on her face.
"I got together with my family and together we managed to produce a total of 45 songs!" She said excitedly before changing to a slightly embarrassed expression. "Despite being blessed with the blessing of creativity, I still couldn't come up with 45 songs with the style that Lord Athenos showed me, so only 20 of these songs have a more youthful and romantic style, another 20 songs have a more classical and scholarly style as we usually do, and the last 5 songs have a different style..."
When I heard her say this about the last style of songs, I was confused.
"What do you mean different?" I asked.
"I think the best way is to demonstrate it..." She said as she picked up a guitar-like instrument.
As she began to play, I realized that she was using the idea of rhythm that I had shown her with the simpler romantic songs that focused on commoners.
The melody was simple and catchy, and when I heard her sing it, I was surprised.
"In your eyes I see the sea, so deep and endless...
Your smile lights up the night like a sweet clarion...
The stars in the sky dance to the rhythm of our love...
In your arms I found my peace, my eternal dove..."
Luna's voice was so beautiful that I was sure she could compete with professional singers from my old world and win without too much trouble!
When she finished singing, Luna looked at me expectantly, but if the smile on my face wasn't enough, I verbally reinforced how pleased I was.
"Well done, Luna, this song is perfectly up to the standards that the Internet God and I had in mind for [Mystic Melody], I'm sure this song will be a big hit among the commoners!" I complimented her, making her smile with excitement and relief, before showing me the more classical style of music.
Just like the classical music of my old world, the focus was only on the instruments, with the singing only in some more specific parts, with the main focus on the artist's voice and vocal range, making her voice an instrument like the others, rather than the lyrics themselves.
Which didn't go down well with me because she couldn't reproduce so many instruments being played at the same time while singing with the precision needed for the song, but which I still liked a lot because I knew it would be a hit with the nobles.
Now, what attracted me was the third style, which she hadn't explained very well so far.
Nervously, Luna finally started to explain it to me.
"About the third style... instead of just focusing on the lyrics or the musicality of the instruments like the first and second style, the third style is more complex, with the focus on the visual part of the music..." She said embarrassed.
"What do you mean by the visual part of a song?" I asked confused.
Nodding her head without explaining, Luna held up her finger and used her magic to make the guitar start playing by itself.
Surprisingly, as the sound came out of the instrument, magical musical notes began to emerge from the instrument and change shape in the air!
The melody played was the same as the first song Luna had played, with lyrics she had sung about eyes that saw oceans, the magical musical notes reproducing images of oceans just as the music represented.
Everything the lyrics said, the magic musical notes represented visually in such a way that I could really see everything Luna was trying to represent, much like a music video, but made with magic!
When Luna finished playing this song, I wanted to ask her a lot of questions, but she started to stagger in her seat and fainted.
Surprised, I reached out and caught Luna before she hit the floor and gently placed her in the chair she had been sitting in when I arrived.
Although weak, Luna looked at me with an expectant expression, waiting for my reaction.
"What did you think of the third style of music, Lord Athenos?" She asked in a weak voice, which I already understood was due to the fact that I had almost no mana left in my body, having spent almost all of it on this performance.
Smiling at her, I replied sincerely. "That was amazing, Luna, you have no idea how useful that will be for the Internet God!"
"Really?! I'm happy to help..." She replied weakly before collapsing into my arms as I sat her down in the chair.
She had no idea that this way of displaying images through magic had really helped me a lot in terms of studying and developing possibilities for a possible way of posting videos on the Internet in the future.
Sure, it was still a very embryonic idea that required an absurd amount of mana or divine power per second to keep running, but I was confident that I would be able to decipher it and use it in a better way in the future.
With the 40 songs that she and her family had made for the Internet, I could now record them playing it and put all those songs on the Internet, and the new app would finally appear!
But first I had some serious business to discuss with Jaina, who looked at me worriedly.
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