Almighty Alchemist

After dinner, the song and dance troupe will start to perform.

The girls rushed backstage and began to make up for themselves, chirping and making noise like a flock of larks.

The girls in the Violet Song and Dance Troupe all have good voices, and what they are best at is singing amazing arias with their wide range of voices. They wore gorgeous court costumes, walked gracefully, and stretched their singing voices to their heart's content.

Tonight's performance is "Tiranya", which is a traditional repertoire of the Reims Empire. It tells a love story between the three-hundred-year-old rose warrior Edie Stricker, the founding monarch of the Reims Empire, and his wife Tiranya.

A typical opera that sings the praises of the imperial monarch.

Daisy, the mainstay of the choir, plays Tiranya, and another mainstay, actor Bart, plays Edith Strick. I have to say that the performance of the Violet Song and Dance Troupe was quite good. Daisy showed off her style in a gorgeous court gown, and the handsome boy Bart wore a warrior's armor, appearing in front of everyone in a heroic and extraordinary manner.

Daisy's singing voice is very beautiful, just like a nightingale singing, and Lanti plays Tilanya's maid, a very scheming woman who deliberately tries to provoke the relationship between Edith and Tilanya, trying to replace Tilanya.

Xiuyi really doubts whether there is such a maid in history. It is not difficult to seduce the monarch to sleep with him, but if he wants the monarch to divorce his most precious woman-such a maid is not smart, but stupid enough to seek death.

"How are my girls?" Clarice stood beside Xiu Yi with her arms folded, and asked Xiu Yi in a very proud tone.

It looked like she was hoping for the kind words she was expecting from Huey.

Xiuyi thought for a while, and then said: "Captain Clarice, I must admit that you have a group of very outstanding girls. They are not only beautiful, but also have a good singing voice and good acting skills. I seem to see a group of angels singing and dancing on the stage. I heard that you trained them all?"

"Yes, I trained them all." Clarice said proudly.

"I also heard that you study singing and dancing, melody, and are good at seducing these girls. Therefore, the Violet Song and Dance Troupe has a nickname among its peers: the cradle of singing girls?"

"Yes." Clarice replied proudly.

"But in my opinion, this may be the biggest insult to you." Xiuyi said coldly.

"What did you say?" Clarice was stunned for a moment.

"You know what I mean, don't you? You cultivate them, but you can't keep them." Huey replied.

Although the Violet Song and Dance Troupe is only a small group, it has always been quite famous in the same industry. Clarice herself is a versatile singer, and the singers she trained are always very popular with other song and dance troupes.

Since Violet's own economic situation is not very good, many singers will leave and go to other song and dance troupes after they have some skills, in order to seek more benefits.

Violet therefore leaves a large number of excellent girls every year.

"The cradle of showgirls" not only means that Violet has the ability to cultivate excellent showgirls, but also means that they have no ability to keep them.

Clarice looked at Xiu Yi angrily: "I never interfere with my girls' going or staying. They have the right to choose whether to leave or stay. You must know that I am not the kind of greedy and shameless nobleman, and I will not force my girls to work for me. They have the right to pursue their own happiness."

She noticed that when she said that she would not keep someone by force, there was a playful smile in Xiu Yi's eyes, so she said coldly: "Of course, for a certain unknown liar, I will choose to keep him and teach him the principles of life."

"You're very good, Captain Clarice, but I think you still want them to stay, so that you don't have to take in batch after batch of girls every year and then work hard to train them. But unfortunately, Violet's situation can't support big names, can it?"

Clarice's voice was a little bleak: "Our business is not very good, and our reputation is only spread among our peers."

"So, Captain Clarice, you are excellent as a singing and dancing instructor, but unfortunately, you are not competent as a singing and dancing troupe. The Cradle of Showgirls only confirms your ability in singing and dancing talents, but at the same time, it denies your business talents in another aspect. You are a real artist, but not a real businessman. You may be the best in teaching girls, but you are the worst in running a singing and dancing troupe. You are not suitable to be the leader of a singing and dancing troupe, you are more suitable Go to some big city and be a dedicated dance and singing instructor in a theater or cabaret. That will definitely make your life a lot easier than it is now."

Clarice's arrogance was completely defeated by Xiu Yi at this moment. She shook her head: "You are very right. I am not a qualified group leader. I am not good at business operations, and I don't know how to keep those outstanding girls. Daisy is a girl with great potential. I have trained her to be the best singer, but I can't make her a household star. Without stars, our business will not be good."

"That requires packaging."

"Packing?" Clarice looked at Huey in surprise.

"Yes, in fact, I think Violet is not just short of famous stars. You also lack a lot of things. You lack enough funds to allow you to perform on a broader stage, you lack an effective system to manage your subordinates, you also lack a good marketing technique to help you build Violet's reputation, and you also lack good scripts—dramas like Tilanya have been staged for too many years, and people have long lost their freshness. If Violet wants to develop, it must have its own unique content."

"Oh, to put it bluntly, do you know how much a good screenwriter costs? Also, what you call an effective management system is suitable for a large singing and dancing troupe with a large number of people. In a small singing and dancing troupe, the emotional bond between people is sometimes more effective than the cold rules!" Clarice is not ignorant of these issues.

"But it lacks binding force." Huey replied with a smile, and Clarice was speechless.

She thought for a while and said, "Then I would like to hear what you think Violet should do."

So Huey said: "Captain Clarice, if you want to become an excellent song and dance troupe, performing in the countryside is meaningless. The influence of the city is unmatched by the countryside in any era. Only by making your name there can you get better development. So I don't think you should always run around like you are now. Look at your audience, the poor people can be counted with one slap."

"But there will never be people in one place going to watch cabaret performances in a row. And the number of people who can accept opera is actually limited. So we have to change places frequently."

"But that also makes your reputation disappear. No one knows what kind of song and dance troupe you are. People are more willing to determine the grade of the song and dance troupe based on your ostentation and lineup, and then make a choice. Of course, I am not suggesting that the song and dance troupe develop in only one city from now on, but I think you should shorten your itinerary. You should first find a map, and then make some basic markings on the map, indicating which cities are the most valuable in the past and most meaningful to stay. Valuable cities, then divide them, and finally work out an efficient route list. This will allow you to go to the most valuable cities in the shortest time, instead of walking along the simplest straight line like now, and then wasting most of your time on the countryside and roads. You should come to a fixed city at a fixed time, and strive to maximize the number of performances and effects at the same time. In this way, people will know that at a certain time period, the Violet Song and Dance Troupe they are looking forward to will come. And every performance of yours will be rewarded accept."

Clarice stared blankly at Xiu Yi, and she opened her mouth wide in surprise, as if all the fresh mushrooms she ate in front of her were about to come out at this moment.

She finally exclaimed: "My God, why didn't I think of such a simple solution?"

Xiu Yi said with a smile: "In addition, in order to further quickly gain your own reputation in the city and maintain your reputation for a long time, you should rent some truly influential large venues."

"But those places are expensive."

Clarice finally finds out about Huey's unrealistic proposal.

Unexpectedly, Xiu Yi shook her head: "I don't think so, Captain Clarice, many troubles don't necessarily need to be solved with money."

"Do you want the theater to use the venue for us?"

"Of course not, but you can get someone to pay for it for you?"

"who?"

"Other song and dance troupes."

"Oh, that's impossible."

"No, they will, and they will, if you agree with the girls who train them for them."

"You said I went to other people's song and dance troupes to train their girls? God, this is incredible. I will not agree with this stupid idea. They snatched the good girls I have cultivated from me at a high price, and now I have to take the initiative to help them? This is absolutely impossible!"

This sentence completely exposed Clarice's hatred for other song and dance troupes who kept poaching people from her. Obviously, she was not as magnanimous to the title of "Cradle of Show Girls" as she had previously shown.

Xiu Yi smiled and said, "No, it's entirely possible. I think you should do it. It's also good for you."

"I can't figure out what's in it for me."

"First of all, Violet's reputation is far less than your personal fame, and your reputation is mainly reflected in the cultivation of singers. This is your advantage, and you have to give full play to it. Secondly, if you go to other song and dance troupes to help them train singers, it means that other song and dance troupes don't need to poach your favorite girl from you. The girls they bought at a high price are actually your hard work, but you didn't get any benefits. And if you take the initiative to help them, for other song and dance troupes, they It is equivalent to getting a group of excellent singers at the same price instead of one or two. Obviously, this is a good deal for you and other song and dance troupes. In addition, your open-minded performance will also make other song and dance troupes favor you. I heard that this industry is not so good, and sometimes the competition is even cruel, and this way can make you more friends and less enemies to the greatest extent, and it will also make your future road easier. "

Xiu Yi's words completely moved Clarice. It is an obvious benefit that other song and dance troupes will no longer poach people from themselves, and getting a fee to train singers is another obvious benefit, but being able to reach good friendships with other song and dance troupes is equally significant. In any industry, there will always be a lot of help for those who are upright, and little help for those who are unjust.

Just emotionally, Clarice really doesn't like those other song and dance troupes, so she really doesn't want to do this. She muttered to herself: "Maybe I should keep a few hands away."

"No, you can't do that. Head Clarice, you must know that helping other song and dance troupes to train singers can not only get the benefits mentioned above, but also help your own song and dance troupe to become famous. Think about it, when other song and dance troupes accept your guidance and become excellent showgirls, how famous will Violet be? People will know that the head of Violet is the instructor of all the dance troupes in the Lance Empire. You can be so good after a period of time, so how can those singers who have been under your sex for a long time be so good? By then..."

Clarice stared at Huey dumbfounded, of course she understood what this meant.

This means she no longer has to worry about money.

Xiuyi is still talking to Clarice about how the song and dance troupe should be built and developed, and what rules and regulations should be established under the current situation. The freedom of come and go of singers can no longer be so indulgent, even if they are not treated as servants, an agreement should be signed.

The agreement can specify the time within which the singers must serve the song and dance troupe according to the agreement. If you want to terminate the agreement, you have to pay a sum of compensation and so on...

Clarice couldn't believe her ears. What she heard at this moment was something she had never heard before. It's not that there is no such thing as a contract in Fengming Continent, but obviously, the level of detail in the contract is far from what Xiu Yi said at the moment.

Clarice seemed to have discovered a new continent. It was completely hard to imagine how a teenager who was less than sixteen years old could have so many things in his mind.

If the previous meal only made her feel that the boy's craftsmanship was good, then now she realized that the boy's brain was his real most valuable place.

When it came to the end, Clarice had been completely overwhelmed by Huey's business ideas and methods, so much so that she felt that she was so happy that she almost fainted.

She was not an idiot, and she fully understood what kind of changes would be brought to the Violet Song and Dance Troupe if she did what Xiu Yi said.

"Then, in the end, there is only one problem left." Huey said to Clarice: "That is the script. The Violet Song and Dance Troupe needs a brand new script, with beautiful dialogue, touching stories, moving music, and innovation. Well, I have learned some script writing, but I am not good at composing music, but I can hum it to you roughly, and you should be able to solve the rest."

After Huey finished speaking, she noticed that Clarice's expression was a little stiff. He asked with some doubts: "What's wrong with you?"

Clarice suddenly hugged Xiu Yi and shouted: "You are amazing, Fink, I have decided, I want to forgive your debts! Just forgive... one Werther."

Huey was speechless.

Obviously, there is no intellectual property in Fengming Continent, but this has nothing to do with Clarice's stinginess towards Xiuyi.

In fact, Clarice realized the value of Huey right away. Although it was not the full value, it had already excited her enough.

It is precisely because of this that Clarice will only forgive one of King Witt's debts - if he is to be forgiven completely, who knows if he will run away immediately? Clarice has already decided that after ten months, as long as the song and dance troupe really develops and grows, she will definitely give Xiu Yi a very generous sum of money as a thank you, but right now, it must be kept secret.

She was still waiting to read the script Huey had written for her.

Although she didn't believe that Xiu Yi could write any scripts, considering Xiu Yi's outstanding performance before, she felt that there was nothing wrong with letting him try once.

That night, Clarice took the script of "Turandot" written by Xiuyi to her and shouted excitedly: "We are going to get rich! We are going to Fragrant Leaf City, to use the Lanya Grand Theater, and to become the best song and dance troupe in the entire empire! I want everyone to bow down under my skirt!"

Daisy shook her head regretfully, and said to her partner, "She's dreaming again."

"It's hopeless." Randy also had a headache.

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The performance is over, and the members of the song and dance troupe are ready to rest.

Xiu Yi didn't feel sleepy at all.

He stood by the bonfire, listening to the crackling of dry wood, watching the bright sparks emerging one by one, enjoying the joy of freedom to the fullest.

The elements of the wind gathered around him, coiling up the dead branches and fallen leaves on the ground, and those fallen leaves danced around him, as if the wind was dancing happily.

If someone who is proficient in magic sees this scene at this moment, he will definitely exclaim that Xiu Yi has made rapid progress, because in terms of understanding of the wind element, he has reached the point where he can master the breath of the wind, and can let the wind element feel his mood and make corresponding changes as his mood changes.

The mastery of this breath of wind is a kind of realm understanding.

Magic is different from martial arts fighting qi. To be a magician, one must not only have powerful magic power, vast knowledge, and extraordinary talent, but also have a sufficient understanding of the existence of magic elements. This is the realm. People who can't reach the corresponding level, no matter how powerful the magic power is, it is difficult to cast high-level magic. Even if it is barely used, its effect will be reduced, and the effort will be even greater.

The breath of wind is the advanced state of wind magic. If the range of elemental resonance represents the attack distance of magic, and the ability of element vibration represents the power, then the breath of elements represents the speed and magic power consumption when using spells.

Different from magic power, magic power needs to be accumulated over a long period of time. Like grudges, it is the basis for magicians to use magic. Elemental resonance and elemental vibration are talents, while the breath of wind depends entirely on people's ability to understand magic.

At the beginning, Cross discovered that Hugh Iglesne had an extraordinary ability to understand magic, and the easiest place for this understanding ability to be manifested was the mastery of the realm. The realm is the only one that can be possessed beyond the level.

Even though Xiu Yi was only a junior mage based on his magic power, even if there were many senior mages, he couldn't do better than Xiu Yi in terms of the use and understanding of the element of wind.

Perhaps because she also felt that her understanding of the element of wind had further deepened, Xiuyi casually released the wind-type detection magic——Wind Oriole.

The elements of wind began to condense in an instant, forming a faint image.

Xiu Yi was pleasantly surprised to find that when releasing this spell, the magic power consumed by herself was significantly reduced, and the time for the magic to form was greatly accelerated.

With a slight movement in his heart, he waved his hand towards the carriage, and Feng Ying flew towards the carriage where the girls were.

Fengying sent the girls' conversations:

"That Fink, I guess he must have served some nobleman."

"Why?"

"Only in a noble's home can one have the opportunity to learn such a fine craft."

"You are right. I guess he must be a servant of a certain nobleman, and then escaped. Only nobles would study how to turn poisonous things into delicious food."

"Oh, he can only ask himself that."

"Anyway, he is a smart, cute, beautiful, and very capable young man. Haven't you noticed? He is very polite, and his bearing is much bigger than that of many adults. The leader blackmailed him, but he was not angry at all, and worked hard, even helping the leader come up with ideas and write scripts."

"Yes, he is indeed an excellent boy."

"The point is he's a really good-looking guy."

"He's so capable, maybe we should keep him a little longer."

"I don't think he will. Clarice is so stingy, I guess he will never want to stay. I mean, if he can really sell his potion for money when he gets to Fragrant Leaf City."

"Maybe we can make him owe us a little more money."

"How to do it?"

"How about seducing him? Then take the opportunity to blackmail him, threaten him, and force him to stay."

"Wow, that's a great idea."

"Then who is going?"

"I go……"

"I go……"

"Oh, are we being too active, this is not ladylike at all..."

Xiu Yi's face twitched slightly, her right hand flicked lightly, and Fengying dispersed.

"They're cute, aren't they?" Huey asked the little dragon.

The little guy answered him with disdainful eyes.

Xiu Yi said helplessly: "Well, I admit that they went too far this time, but I believe they are just talking. They don't have evil intentions, Xu, sometimes you have to learn to be considerate of others. Everyone has shortcomings and mistakes. For example, Clarice is a little greedy for money, and those girls are also a little bit lustful and... smart, but these are not big problems. If possible, we must learn to be tolerant. Of course, we must resolutely stop some mistakes."

The little demon dragon whimpered, and crawled into Xiu Yi's arms. It seems that it is not willing to discuss this issue with Huey.

Two clear chirps sounded in the sky, which were red and green voices of denial from the treetop branches after hearing Xiuyi's whisper.

"Oh, it seems that you guys have other ideas too?" Xiu Yi looked at red and green with a smile.

Red and Green looked at each other, and then flew into the sky at the same time.

They hovered above Xiu Yi's head, and their long flame-like tails drew a few big words in the air.

Avril Lavigne.

Huey's smile froze.

With blurred colors in his eyes, he said lightly:

"No, that's completely impossible. It's impossible for me to have any intersection with her again."

Ignoring the unconvinced red and green flying in the sky, he closed his eyes, and the elements of wind gathered in the next moment, quietly surrounding him.

Instead of letting the illusory feelings in my heart entangle myself, it is better to hurry up and practice.

After the soul mage formally advanced, there is not much to learn. In fact, soul magic has always been pitifully rare. What interested Xiuyi was that junior soul mages possessed four very special spells—spiritual concentration and spiritual exploration, will-strengthening and will-weakening.

Spiritual concentration makes people's spirit more focused, while spiritual exploration can explore the surroundings, but it is only effective for life forms. The advantage is that it is not easy to be discovered like Fengying.

Strong will is the best weapon against soul spells, while weakened will is the opposite.

These four spells didn't seem to have much effect, but Xiu Yi didn't think so.

In his opinion, spiritual concentration is a good spell. The high concentration of mental power can be used to improve the effect of cultivation. With the concentration of wind elements, the cultivation of magic power can be multiplied with half the effort. In addition, spiritual cohesion can also play an important role in the battle with the enemy, strengthening the body and mind. Of course, this kind of determination may not be meaningful to a magician, but it is different for a warrior. The biggest difference between Xiuyi and others is that he is not only a magician, but also a warrior.

These four kinds of spells may be nothing more than that to others, but to Xiu Yi, they are like tailor-made treasures for him.

At least now, the spiritual concentration is working - Xiu Yi released a spiritual concentration on himself, and entered the state of researching magic with all his heart, leaving the girl who never forgot him behind and no longer need to be affected by it.

Red and Green flew angrily in the sky, full of indignation at Xiu Yi's "cheating".

Compared with the pitiful spells that soul mages can learn, wind mages have much more elementary wind spells, and the range of choices is much larger and more troublesome.

In terms of assistance, the advanced level of Wind Spiritual Art is of course Wind Flying Art, but it also has a subsidiary advanced level—wind vision, wind smell and wind touch, and further up is wind strengthening, which is a kind of self-strengthening spell advancement line.

In terms of defensive spells, on the basis of the air shield, in addition to learning the wind vortex, you can also learn the ethereal shield. This is a physical shield of the wind element, which can already be displayed on the outside. Compared with the air shield, which can only reduce the damage, the wind spirit shield can effectively absorb the damage, and the defense effect is stronger.

As for the wind vortex, it is actually a trap spell that combines offense and defense. It has good lethality, but unfortunately it cannot move and cannot actively attack the enemy. Among the active offensive spells, the best choices he can learn are Wind Split and Air Slice.

There is actually not much difference between the two attack spells of wind splitting and air cutting, but they represent different advanced directions. Wind Cleave is a surface attack spell, which creates dozens of small wind blades to attack the enemy, while Air Cut is a single-target attack spell, but its attack power and attack distance are much stronger than Wind Cleave.

They represent two ways of range attack and single attack.

Back then on Purgatory Island, Xiu Yi chose to major in Wind Crack without hesitation, and he didn't even touch the air cut.

After all, the wind spell itself is a range-based attack-based spell. Moreover, the enemies he will face in the future will also be a large number of imperial soldiers. As for those Lancelot-like characters who are so strong that they are against the sky - there is no need to think about beating them in a short period of time. No matter how good the air cut is, it is still a problem whether they can break through their body protection.

Besides, the air cut can be completely replaced by Huey's samurai technique thrusting. Although at the samurai level, it is difficult for him to break through due to lack of practice, Huey's thrusting ability itself is still greatly strengthened.

However, further bifurcations will occur in the later stage of wind splitting and air cutting. For example, after Wind Crack, there are two choices: Wind Counterattack and Wind Strong Attack, which represent the primary and secondary directions of attack range and attack intensity.

After hundreds of years of development, wind spells have formed a huge branch-like system of magic, which is also true for similar water, fire, and earth spells.

However, low-level spell cultivation directly affects the effect of high-level spells. Just like if Xiu Yi directly learns and uses Wind Flying Art without learning Wind Spirit Art, the effect of the spell will be greatly reduced. The basic development determines the superstructure, even in the practice of magic.

Therefore, in many cases, just to choose a major direction, it is enough for magicians to study for three to five days. After all, once they are selected, it is tantamount to wasting time to regret it.

Fortunately, for Xiu Yi, these are not in a hurry for the time being.

Today's Xiu Yi, the level may not be lower, every stat looks very pitiful, but he has multiple abilities at the same time, after using them in combination, Xiu Yi believes that even if he is facing a magician of level 3 or 4, it is impossible for him to be his opponent.

After confirming the direction of her efforts, Xiu Yi finally stopped her cultivation and prepared to sleep.

That night, Huey spent her first free and relaxing night since she came to this world.

He slept soundly and deeply, never had he slept so peacefully and securely.

The only fly in the ointment is that when he fell asleep, his mental concentration could no longer help him continue to strengthen his will. He dreamed of Avril...