In another world, Lu Mingfei is learning card making.

This leads to another question:

What exactly does this LV level mean?

Take Ron as an example. He has been learning wand combat since he was a child, and he has been practicing under the guidance of an old soldier. He has been training hard in the coldest and hottest winters and summers for five or six years, and he has only reached the level of lv1.

Of course, it's not enough to say that this is the limit he can reach—but it's enough to illustrate the value of this LV level.

Level 1 is the level that a slightly talented practitioner has studied for five or six years. So, is Level 2 the level that a practitioner has studied for ten or twenty years?

"Okay, actually it's not like that." Lu Mingfei held the violin between his face and shoulder, gesturing to Liu Miaomiao.

A more accurate way to put it is that LV1 and LV2 are the dividing line between having some talent and having real talent.

Level 1 signifies proficiency and mastery of techniques—in other words, it means being a machine simply for reproduction; in the music field, it's a player, and in other fields, it's a different machine.

From the ordinary level 1 to the pinnacle of level 1, it's nothing more than the difference between a portable music player and Hi-Fi sound quality.

However, level 2 is different. After reaching level 2 in music theory, Lu Mingfei suddenly discovered something:

I can infuse my emotions into these musical pieces, directly affecting the listeners!

If it were any other instrument for which he had only taken one or two lessons and knew how to play, he would need to design a piece of music and achieve this through performance.

But if it's the piano or violin, then there's no need for these tricks at all. Even in an impromptu performance, the audience's emotions can be naturally stirred without needing these little tricks.

Lu Mingfei suddenly recalled a story his piano teacher had told him: a foreign musician was invited to play a piece, and after he finished, everyone in the concert hall burst into tears, sobbing uncontrollably. But amidst the weeping, the musician laughed and said they were all fools.

At the time, Lu Mingfei thought it was just a clever trick by his teacher to get him to continue learning the instrument, but now it seems...

This story is probably more than just a story; there must have been people in history who were able to achieve this level of accomplishment.

I just wonder what the next stage, level 3, will be like...

While Lu Mingfei was deep in thought, Liu Miaomiao took a deep breath and began to play a repeated melody.

Lu Mingfei was a beat late, but it didn't have much of an impact. He found the right moment and precisely inserted the melodious violin before the background vocals.

"Небаутреннегостяг…Вжизниваженпервыйшаг…"

Russian lyrics and subtitles flashed across the background, accompanied by the violin melody, making the singer's emotions even more intense.

The piano's melody perfectly transformed into a deep, powerful background sound, as a dark-toned marching scene unfolded on the screen behind them. Amidst the marching sounds, the singing grew increasingly soaring, its emotion ever more intense—

The audience couldn't help but clap along to the rhythm, and some older teachers even secretly sang along with the vocals coming from the loudspeakers.

Liu Miaomiao couldn't help but glance up at the audience. It wasn't that she hadn't performed in front of people before, but none of them had ever been this amazing…

Sense of feedback?

Yes, a sense of feedback—that's the only word Liu Miaomiao can use to describe her current feelings.

Her own piano playing, in the end, is still at the level it was a few months ago. Even if she practices every day, she can only improve her feel at most, and there is no change worth mentioning.

However, the performance today in front of the entire school was far more effective than the performance at the end of military training a few months ago.

It was as if with each note played, the audience instantly understood its 'meaning' and offered their praise—

Just like the very popular story of Bo Ya and Zi Qi.

But even Bo Ya, whose fame has lasted for thousands of years, only had one good listener, Zhong Ziqi, in his entire life. Now, you can find a school full of kindred spirits just by playing a few notes.

Liu Miaomiao gritted her teeth inwardly, her eyes involuntarily glancing at Lu Mingfei, who was standing beside her playing the violin.

That must be the violin's doing!

……

"ИЛенин–такоймолодой, ИюныйОктябрьвпереди!"

The final verses provided a stirring ending, accompanied by the vibrato of the violin. Lu Mingfei and Liu Miaomiao, both having fully concentrated on their performance, stepped down from the stage, bowed, and awaited their final evaluation.

But Lu Mingfei didn't follow at the back; instead, he immediately ran out of the school and into his new home.

—Because what he had been longing for, an eternal transmutation array placed in the basement, was finally completed!

The permanent transmutation array is different from the transmutation array he used when he first tried to create the Earth Plate. The transmutation array he used then was drawn on a layer of special sand, which was a temporary transmutation array.

However, the permanent transmutation array is directly imprinted on the ground. The intricate patterns carved into the ground are more than ten times more complex than the transmutation array Zhilu Mingfei used last time—

Because that one time, only the runes and meanings related to green mana needed to be considered, and nothing else was needed—but the perpetual spell array is different.

Even a magic circle specifically designed to create a colored spell power might involve at least twice as many factors as a single creation. If we consider all spell power...

To put it another way, Lu Mingfei overheard upperclassmen at the Knights Academy chatting, and they all considered "creating a perpetual forging array specifically for forging cards with all types of magical power" as a display of the nobles' ambition and love of grandiose achievements.

This kind of thing has been widely regarded by all Summoners as a typical example where its demonstrative significance outweighs its practical significance.

"But it's different on Earth—first of all, the intelligence of the red-robed acolytes is quite compatible with the nature of modern society on Earth, and given Earth's productivity, creating such a surface wouldn't be a huge expense—"

...Compared to mages using fossils to create mud and mud to create the same magic array dozens or hundreds of times, the consumption is very small.

Perhaps this is one of the advantages of Earth over St. Marian? Mass production in factories can drive down product prices to extremely low levels, thus allowing the entire society here to benefit from technological advancements.

Unlike other worlds, even with magic cards and magical spirits, they are still confined to workshops and have no intention of taking things any further.

"Never mind that, let's not talk about that. Let me see if this array diagram works well—"