Chapter 22: Magical Drama

Harvey, dressed in a formal suit, was still quite attractive, and when he went downstairs to invite the girl Jared had his eye on, she said yes with a shy face. In today's era when women are not valued, they will not be pretentious enough to refuse the invitation of a person with status, even if it is a one percent chance, they may fly to the branches and live an enviable life of a noble lady with no worries about food and clothing.

This is not a matter of face, but a necessary means of survival, if a family has sons and daughters, the son will receive all the right to inherit all the property, and if the daughter without property rights is expelled from the family, she will be reduced to beggar or, most commonly, sell her body to survive.

Harvey sat comfortably in the ordinary seat and waited for the play to begin, he preferred the excitement of the ordinary seat, and while the play did not start, he recited a difficult incantation in his mouth, and an invisible force surrounded his body, dispelling the mixed perfume smell that filled the air.

Not long after, the drama he was looking forward to officially began, and as soon as the curtain of the stage was opened, two horses composed of flames ran from the audience towards the stage, the fire lit up the theater, and the heat wave swept through the audience, causing countless audiences to exclaim. The flaming steed raised its head and neighed, colliding together from two directions into dazzling fireworks to write a line of text: "Eva's Secret - Brenda Theatre Company." ”

The opening effect was full of points, and even Harvey, who is used to seeing Hollywood blockbusters, was amazed by the visual effects of magic.

The fire dimmed, the last spark of the written words was extinguished, and the audience waited with bated breath, when suddenly there was a thunderclap, a heavy rain fell, and a powerful narration sounded with the clear sound of a sharp confrontation: "In the year 875 of the French calendar, the great King Jean was poisoned, his sinister and cruel brother was peeking on his throne, the fragrance of power tempted him to fall, he was so cruel and cold-blooded, he killed his brother with his own hands, an upright and great king. He would not allow anything to jeopardize his position as king, not even his niece Eva, who was less than three years old. ”

The voice was muffled and frustrated, and one sentence after another, the illusory black figure of the performance stage disappeared, representing the shadow of the king being beheaded by someone else with a sharp sword, and the fall of the crown caused the audience to exclaim. The shadow representing the murderer turned his head and his outstretched hand turned into a monstrous wizened paw that was approaching a little girl with her back against him.

"Khooth!"

The sword neighed, and a knight rode up, the cold light of the blade cutting through the shadow's claws, and he took the little girl away. The shadow roared angrily, and more shadows appeared behind him in pursuit of the knight.

"The mightiest knight of the kingdom rescued the princess, ah, what a noble chivalry! He would never allow anyone to hurt an innocent little girl in front of him, even if it would put him in a catastrophe! His noble chivalry will be resurrected, and even if he is dragged to hell by demons, the fire of purgatory will not hurt him in the slightest. ”

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"Eva's Secret" tells the story of a usurped princess who takes the throne from her father's murderer, and is a textbook-like history of heroic poetry. Princess Eva was rescued by the most powerful knight of the kingdom and lived incognito, Eva has no memory of her childhood, she was too young when her father was killed, and the knight who rescued her raised her.

The king bestowed upon her a noble lineage, making her fearless of danger, upright and kind, and knights endowed her with a noble spirit and great martial arts.

When Eva was seventeen years old, she went to play in the town, the knights of the kingdom found her village and slaughtered the inhabitants of her village, and her adoptive father died of exhaustion due to the old age of the soldiers.

When Eva returns, she finds a letter from the Knight under a large tree based on the dead Knight's last words, detailing the reasons for everything and asking her to seek the protection of an old friend of his.

Overwhelmed by her anger, she vows to guillotine the murderer of both of her fathers, the dastardly usurper. Following her adoptive father's instructions, she found another trusted and true father's right-hand man, and with his help, she contacted the rebels across the country who were dissatisfied with the current king.

Since the new king took office, the knights who had been loyal to the old king were either killed or exiled, and the nobles and commoners were endangered by the repressive policy.

The rebels clashed with the soldiers of the kingdom again and again, and finally the rebels raided the capital under the wise leadership of Eva, and the people cheered for her arrival, opened the city gates themselves, and the soldiers saw that she was no longer fighting each other, and bowed their heads to offer their loyalty to the next king. Eva found the usurper and fought a duel to the death at his behest, which was eventually defeated by Eva despite his despicable tricks.

The usurper was guillotined and died to the cheers of all his subjects.

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The story is simple and straightforward, and the effect of the play is much greater than Harvey expected, and I don't feel the dullness of the drama at all when I read it in one breath. This theatrical performance does use spells, mostly used for scene arrangement, and some traces can be seen from the light source or sound effects. Harvey's entire attention was on the spell show behind the scenes, and he was able to watch it with gusto.

The most surprising thing for him was a projection spell, I don't know what principle was used to directly project a heavily armored knight, the metal texture is quite realistic, and it is impossible to judge the authenticity of the projection with the naked eye when sitting a little farther away, which is much more powerful than the three-dimensional projection technology on the earth.

"It seems that the magic of this world is not so rigid, and it can be used in the civilian field to explain a lot of problems." Harvey held his chin in contemplation with his right hand as the play ended, and the actors of the troupe bowed to the audience, who gave him thunderous applause.

At the end of the play, which lasted more than an hour, Harvey returned to the VIP room where Jared was.

"Tuk-tuk."

Knocking politely on the door, it took a while for the disheveled Jared to come and open the door, and when he came out, he knew what was going on inside, and when he came out, he said softly to the VIP room: "Honey, you can stay here for one night, I mean I'll be back soon, we still have a lot to talk about about this drama." ”

Harvey touched his nose and said in an embarrassed tone for a while, "It looks like I'm not here at the right time." ”

"No, you came at the right time, thanks to you and I can get rid of her temporarily, I can't believe that she asked me about the wedding date just now!" Jared said with a look of palpitation, trying to pat Harvey on the shoulder and he dodged it again, God knows what his hand just touched. Realizing this, Jared snorted: "So my dear friend, what are you looking for me?" ”