Chapter 326
Nightti.
The end of the World’s Singers competition was announced. As usual, Joshua returned to his study on the Hearthstone Tavern’s second floor.
However...
“Diamond! Ciri! I’ve mined a diamond!”
“I got a Fortune III Pickaxe here.”
Joshua lowered the book in his hand. He looked at the four people playing co-op in his study.
Since Gallolie started playing ‘Minecraft,’ her skills beca increasingly proficient. She was now capable of entering underground to mine ores by herself. This was also Gallolie’s first ti mining in her life.
The competent miner girl was grabbing onto her elven bodyguard and shouting in excitent.
“Miss Gal...Gallolie... zombies!”
As usual, the Frost Elf Tylene was not very good with the ga. Even when it cos to food, she would need the help from others.
“My apologies... Mister Joshua.”
With an apologetic look, Priestess Oranka walked over to Joshua. This was not the first ti Gallolie ca to Joshua’s study just to play Minecraft.
Priestess Oranka had reminded Gallolie countless tis that she should not spend too much ti on this ga. Regretfully, the only person capable of discipling Gallolie was her mother.
“Don’t worry about you. You just have to imagine this place as a net cafe.”
Joshua placed his book on the table and took a glance at the excitent-filled diamond miner girl Gallolie before turning his line of sight to Priestess Oranka.
“Are you all planning to return to Farucci after the competition?”
“Yes, that’s right. Our kinsn are still waiting for us. Son of Chaos, we thank you for the aid you’ve provided us with. That child Luvita’s outstanding performance in the competition has provided the Holy Tree with a great amount of Belief Power.”
Compared to when she first ca to Norland, Priestess Oranka was no longer on guard and distrusting toward Joshua.
The World’s Singer competition had transford her opinion toward humans.
“Is Luvita also planning to return?”
Joshua recalled the World’s Singers competition today. Even though Hol’s performance was breathtaking, Luvita and Herolia were still the most powerful contenders for the competition’s champion.
“The competition will only serve to be a start for her career as a singer.”
“I understand what you’re trying to say, Son of Chaos,” Priestess Oranka was a bit hesitant, “I am unable to have that child Luvita stay in this city by herself. But, I will respect her decision.”
“Perhaps I should go and ask her directly.”
Joshua kept having a feeling that the country girl would not be willing to leave now that she had experienced city life.
“That said, the World’s Singers competition is about to end too.”
Joshua took out a piece of white paper from beneath his desk. There were so scribble-like characters written on the paper. It was a brief program outline for the Voice of Norland.
Compared to the television programs from earth, the programs on the Voice of Norland were pitifully few.
Currently, there only exist two daily programs. They were respectively Norland Today and Tylene’s story-telling and music-sharing.
Joshua cannot imagine that he would be able to support an entire television station with only two hosts.
“I guess there’s still too few programs.”
Joshua took out a pen and began to ponder on how to add new programs to support the Norland Television Station.
Perhaps he should film a TV drama? That would be a pretty good idea. Joshua imdiately began writing the screenplay.
But, ti was needed to film a TV drama. Compared to movies, TV dramas would be much more troubleso to make.
If TV dramas wouldn’t do, then only variety shows and docuntaries would be left?
At this mont, Joshua once again realized that he was truly lacking in talented personnels. Hosts and caran were concepts that do not exist in this era. He would need to cultivate everything from the start.
Suddenly, an owl landed on the study’s window sill. The owl’s hoots interrupted Joshua and brought him back to reality.
“The Gray Mage’s owl?”
Joshua waved at the owl. Intelligently, the owl leaped over to Joshua’s table.
The next mont, Joshua received a ssage from the Gray Mage. Essentially, the ssage was stating that ‘he would be coming to visit.’
Joshua took a glance at the diamond miner Gallolie. He suspected that this Flower of Farucci wasn’t even this excited when she saw the box office numbers for ‘Léon: The Demon.’
Joshua did not bother to spoil the girls’ moods and quietly left his study and quietly closed the door behind him.
Ciri noticed Joshua’s departure and had wanted to follow after him. But, Joshua gestured for her to stay. Because of that, she stayed in the study and continued her underground mining and exploration adventure with Gallolie.
“This place is as lively as ever.”
Joshua saw the Gray Mage again on the tavern’s first floor.
Donned in a filthy robe, one cannot imagine this old man to be one of Norland’s Seven Sages. Instead, he seed more like a street-beggar or vagabond.
“A bit too lively, I’d say,” Joshua took a glance at how crowded the tavern’s first floor was.
The number of dwarves had clearly increased. At the beginning, the dwarves that would frequent the Hearthstone Tavern were mostly from the Frostaxe Clan.
But, after all this ti, all the clans of Norland’s underground dwarves had learned about the existence of this Hearthstone Tavern. A large portion of the younger dwarves found themselves enchanted by Hearthstone.
“Nowadays, so of the dwarves would even consider fighting over the seats to be a battle between their clans,” Joshua must admit that no matter how much he expanded the footprint of the Hearthstone Tavern, he would not be able to contain the enormous amount of custors.
It was ti for Mrs. lina to set up a branch tavern.
“I’ve heard from Frostaxe that they’ve had a disagreent with another dwarven clan over an ore vein. In the end, they decided the ownership over the ore vein through a Hearthstone competition,” said the Gray Mage.
“Well, let’s find sowhere quiet to talk.”
Joshua led Gray Mage Lursk to the tavern’s second floor. Although his study was taken over by the girls, the Noiseless Room next door was absolutely quiet.
In the Noiseless Room, one would not even be able to hear the noise from the tavern’s first floor.
“Is it another question concerning programming?”
It was not Gray Mage Lursk’s first ti coming to the Hearthstone Tavern. This mage who considered his curiosity to be his life was so eager to learn programming that it gave Joshua a slight headache.
Even if it was very late into the night, if he was to encounter so problems that he cannot solve on his own, he would imdiately rush over to the Hearthstone Tavern to ask Joshua about them.
Gray Mage Lursk shook his head regretfully. Then, with a slightly serious tone, he said, “No, I ca here today because of what happened in the Sage Parliant.”
“Sage Parliant? So this day finally ca?”
As Joshua has been in Norland for close to half a year now, he had already gotten a clear understanding of Norland’s nobles. But, the nobles would always change sowhat following the yearly Sage Parliant.
Joshua does not believe that the Seven Sages would ignore the existence of the magic network. Because of that, he wanted to make the majority of the Sages view the magic network to be sothing beneficial and not detrintal.
That principle holds true in his other entertainnt endeavors too.
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