Chapter Twenty-Three: Adrian
Harvey approached Jared again to introduce him to the Brenda Theatre Company, which was not a difficult task, and they also needed to entertain some local nobles after performing at the opera house.
Harvey didn't want to miss the chance to get in touch with the real caster, and Jared readily agreed.
When the two go backstage to the opera house, they can see many richly dressed people coming and going, most of them holding flowers or gifts, and Harvey notices that most of the flowers and gifts are given to the girl who plays Eva, who is the protagonist of the play, and her appearance is not bad, so it is natural that she will be popular.
Harvey asked Jared to introduce him to the directors of the Brenda Theatre Troupe, the Brenda couple.
There were also a lot of people talking to them, Jared walked over and took off his hat and bowed slightly, "Excuse me, Mr. Brenda, this is my friend Harvey Adrian, who has always been very interested in your theater company, and hopes to get acquainted with you. ”
"Oh~ Of course, I'm Maxwell Brenda, and this is my wife, Alina, it's nice to meet you." Maxwell smiled and stretched out his right hand to Harvey, who had a short beard, a long and thin body, and a handsome face that was calm and gentle, and Harvey's rather attractive appearance had become dull in front of him. He did not introduce his wife's surname, because most women in this era married with their husband's surname.
Harvey recognized him as the one who had just played Eva's father on the theatrical stage.
His wife, with her long blond hair curled and dressed in a conservative classical blue dress, had a gentle face and greeted Harvey with a gentle bow. The people around the two frowned and glanced at Harvey, unhappy at the two young men who suddenly interjected.
Harvey smiled and stretched out his right hand to shake Maxwell: "I'm Harvey Adrian, and it's a pleasure to meet you, what Mr. Jared said just now is not entirely true, your theater troupe performances are very interesting, I always thought they were very boring stuff before I saw your theater troupe perform." ”
"Haha, it's a great pleasure to change Mr. Adrian's perspective on theatre, it's a great honor for us."
While chatting, someone else interjected: "Mr. Brenda, your performance just now was really perfect, and I seemed to see the wise King Jean in you." ”
"Mr. Brenda, I wonder if our Jacobs would have the privilege of inviting your troupe to dinner?"
Harvey looked at those people, and before being squeezed out, he stretched out his head and hurriedly opened the door and asked, "Mr. Brenda, I am very interested in the performance of your theater troupe, especially in terms of magic props, I wonder if you can let me meet that magician?" ”
Maxwell stretched out his hand to signal the others to calm down, and looked at Harvey in surprise, he was the only one here who had asked him this question, and after thinking for a while, he said: "I don't have the right to decide on the meeting of others, Mr. Kenneth, who is in charge of the theatrical props, is in the next room, you can go to him if you need to, but Mr. Kenneth has always disliked contact with strangers." ”
"Thank you very much."
Harvey thanked him and turned to leave to find the magician, and Jared said goodbye to Harvey after his introduction.
When he came to Maxwell's prop room, he knocked on the wooden door, and when the door opened, there was a thin old man standing in front of Harvey, with frosty white sideburns, dressed in simple linen clothes, his eyes were as cloudy and gloomy as that of an old man in the twilight, and when he saw Harvey, he was stunned, and then a strange light flashed.
"Hello, I'm Harvey Adrian." Harvey breathed a sigh of relief and took off his hat in return.
"Adrian? No wonder..." The old man chattered for a long time, nodded and said, "My name is Kenneth Randolph, Mr. Adrian, what are you looking for me?" ”
Hearing him stunned for his honorific title Harvey, he nodded subconsciously: "The magic performance effect of this play is really great, I heard Mr. Brenda say that you are the caster in charge of magic props, so I want to visit you once." ”
Hearing Harvey praise his magic prop effect, Kenneth's old face slowed down, turned back to the room and said hoarsely: "It's not convenient to stand in the corridor and talk, let's come in first." ”
This room was originally a vacant room in the theater, but now it is full of props needed for theatrical performances, scene layouts and all kinds of strange dressings, armor, weapon props, gothic dresses, and prisoner costumes. You can also see a simple workbench filled with transparent crystals of different shapes. Kenneth sat down at a workbench full of crystals and said slowly, "I thought the Adrians would never have another spellcaster. ”
He even knew about the Adrian family?
Harvey was stunned, and he had the impression that his family's fame was not yet known to people outside the city of Elroy.
Kenneth glanced at the surprise on Harvey's face and continued to explain: "The Adrian family is still quite famous in the Wizards Association of the Barron Kingdom, at least in my time, that Adrian represented the genius among the civilian spellcasters, but it is a pity that he died early, otherwise the Adrian family is estimated to be the most prestigious family in the royal capital." ”
In the end, Kenneth's face somehow showed a little loneliness and self-deprecation.
Harvey thought for a moment and stepped forward and said respectfully, "Mr. Randolph, can you tell me about the Adrian family?" I never knew anything about my family, and my father didn't seem to want to know anything about spellcasters. ”
Kenneth didn't mind, fiddling with his crystal and slowly speaking: "It seems that you don't know anything about your family and magic, of course, after all, you are a civilian, once there is an accident, the family's magic knowledge inheritance will be broken." It's all in the past, and I haven't communicated with anyone for a long time. ”
He shook his head, and the old voice was full of self-deprecation.
"Your grandfather, known as Adrian, was famous in our time for breaking the curse that civilians could never become high mages······"
"I was just an apprentice then, and Adrian was the hope of almost all civilian spellcasters, including me."
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The old man continued to speak for more than half an hour, Harvey's understanding of the caster deepened, in the eyes of the caster, blood is a very key factor, related to the affinity between the caster itself and the spell network, occasionally there will be highly talented casters among civilians, but civilian origin means that the level of knowledge is limited, unless they are tapped from an early age and receive an orthodox education, otherwise the talented civilian spellcasters are also "Muggles".
Now the situation has improved a lot, and as magic is declining, some magic families are more than happy to recruit magicians with foreign surnames, and are also willing to share some basic spell casting knowledge.
The founder of House Adrian was a civilian spellcaster, and his experience was legendary to outsiders, and he achieved the achievement of being a high-ranking spellcaster in a very short period of time, standing at the peak of spellcasters in the Kingdom of Barron at that time. But so far, the official has only announced Adrian's death and has not released any other information, at that time, the heir of the Adrian family did not have much magical talent himself, and he had no choice but to move out of the royal capital of the Barron Kingdom and live in Elroy City as a hereditary nobleman.
As for Kenneth, who calls himself the unwilling median spellcaster and chooses to earn pension expenses for his services at the Brenda Theatre, it is also evident from his tone that he has a respect for the surname Adrian.
- I didn't expect the Adrian family to have some origins, so the strange temper spellcaster in Maxwell's mouth was willing to deal with him.
Harvey was secretly glad that he came from.