Miss Witch doesn't want to be a diva!.

Chapter 513 Idlia's Gift

"Which card is Tilan going to draw?" Ores held up the five cards in her hand, her eyes full of anticipation and interest.

In the lounge, four singers sat on mats and played a game of drawing joker cards. Because the singers could read each other's emotions, this card-drawing game was particularly offensive and tested each other's ability to perceive and block emotions.

"Is this the one?" Tilan asked Orlais, pressing her finger on one of the cards.

"Guess~" Ores blinked, and her inner emotions were like a nimble rabbit, making it difficult for Tilan to grasp them.

"This should be it." Shui Yanqing, who was standing by, gave Tilan some advice. She felt that Ores was too happy at the moment, and it must be a bad joker card.

"I think Ores will be very happy no matter which card Tilan draws. I can't guess it." Blanche knelt aside, looking a little discouraged and giving up.

"What about this one?" Tilan thought about it and changed another one.

"I won't tell you the answer, hehe." Ores said that she would not easily reveal her true thoughts.

"Yeah."

Tilan thought about it, closed her eyes, and then moved her fingers again, slowly stroking the cards in Orlais's hand.

As her perception extended, Orlais's lively and agile emotions slowly came into her mind and gradually became clearer.

A few seconds later, when Tilan's finger moved to the rightmost card, it was like a drop of water spreading ripples. Although it was extremely subtle, she still caught it.

This should be the one, Tilan thought for a moment, opened her eyes, and pulled out the card.

"It's a joker card. Oh, Orles' plan worked." Blanche was surprised when she saw the pattern on the card.

"Tilan couldn't have done it on purpose." Shui Yanqing on the side felt that Ores' luck was too good.

The four of them started laughing and joking again, and then Blanche shouted that she wanted to start a new game.

When the four of them were having fun, the door in the distance opened, and Idelia brought Prin into the lounge hall and saw this scene.

"The four of them seem very happy." Pulin said a little enviously.

"Do you want to play too?" Idlia turned around and asked.

"Well, although I kind of want to, I still won't go." After saying that, Pulin walked to the side and leaned against the wall, with his hands behind his head.

"Is it because I'm here? Sorry?" Idlia could see that Prinn was not as indifferent as he seemed.

"That's... a little bit."

Although she wanted to find other excuses, considering that lying in front of her senior would only bring humiliation upon herself, Pulin could only admit it.

"I'm not a completely unkind person. I won't disturb you guys while you're having fun during your break and ruin the atmosphere." Idlia shook her head.

Then she walked to the sofa nearby and sat down, watching the four people playing the card drawing game in the distance with Pulin, and the two also chatted about the topic of the four people.

"You and Tilan are from the same star field, and you had a lot of interactions in high school, so you should know her better."

"Yes, it is quite familiar." As he said this, Pulin recalled the scene five years ago.

At that time, she had just entered the first year of high school and was full of energy and vigor. Because her identity as a singer was very glorious, she also liked all kinds of exciting and novel things. When Yulandojia asked her to perform in Arpeggio City, she naturally agreed, wanting to take this opportunity to give a fresh and exciting surprise performance.

The process was just as she expected. Carried by a heavy aircraft, she and her companions arrived above Arpeggio City, and then, carrying the performance equipment, they rushed straight to the deep underground entrance like a ground-penetrating missile. The process was extremely exciting, and that performance was also the most interesting one she thought in those two years.

After the excitement of the performance, she met Tilan for the first time. To be honest, she did not pay too much attention to this junior at that time. Her mind was full of thoughts on composing a song and melody about today's excitement and enthusiasm. When they met, she simply said a few polite words, gave him a gift, and left in a hurry.

The first time she and Tilan truly got to know each other was during the battle on the bridge during the club confrontation. It was also from then on that she truly regarded her as a singing rival who was equally matched with herself.

It has to be said that Tilan's growth rate is amazing. After a few years, she was no longer able to compete with her in the Winter Festival Competition. In the following years of high school, the two of them also fought against each other several times. Later, under the leadership of senior Youlan Duojia, they had dinner and played together, and their relationship became really close.

But this closeness also contains a lot of competition. As singers from the Four-Leaf Crystal Star Region, she is often compared with others. She is not willing to fall behind Tilan, so after entering university, she has worked harder and paid more attention to her development as a singer.

"Before Tilan...when you first met her, you would involuntarily ignore her."

"She was very unconfident at that time, and seemed timid. Perhaps it was caused by her past experiences." Prin thought of Themisia.

"Actually, her biggest transformation happened in high school, but since she and I were not in the same school, I don't know the specific process." Pulin then slowly talked about Tilan's sister and Tilan's family experiences. Compared to the beautified and abridged information in the news, Pulin, as a former student of the Sixth University Campus, knew more of the inside story.

“It turns out it’s so tortuous.” Idlia sighed, and then her eyes stayed on the black-haired girl for a long time.

After a pause of a few seconds, she stood up.

"It's almost noon now. You can ask them to go to lunch together. There will be special training this afternoon. It will no longer be watching the live performances of the past singers."

"Okay." Prin stood up, stretched, and walked towards the four people, while Idelia left the lounge.

……

In the afternoon, the six new generation singers gathered together again. They were in a clearing in the woods of the school, about the size of a football field. They were surrounded by tall beech trees, lush and green.

Unlike the ultramarine dress she usually wore, Idlia's attire today was somewhat similar to that of an ancient priest, a white robe with gold edges, with only the dark blue pendant on her chest giving it a personal touch.

"Good afternoon, children."

Judging from her age, Idlia is more than qualified to be the great-grandmother of these young singing girls. So in her eyes, these newborn singing girls around 20 years old are actually not much different from ignorant babies.

"Hello, senior." The six people bowed and saluted, then looked at her curiously, wondering what kind of training would be today.

"Today I will not talk about all kinds of lessons and concepts that will give you a headache, but will instead give you some easy and direct training." As a singer, she naturally understood the emotional state of the six people over the past few days.

"I don't know if you have ever raised small animals. As creatures that are less intelligent than humans, their behaviors are much simpler and more innocent than humans."

"It is much easier to communicate with them and guess their thoughts than to deal with humans. This is why, in the early stages, I suggest you practice with animals."

"However, now that most of you are no longer newbies, I will teach you new techniques today to connect with these little guys."

After she finished speaking, she raised her hand, and several snow-white pigeons flew from the sky, landed on her wrists and shoulders, making cooing sounds.

"These are homing pigeons that have undergone a certain level of training. They are familiar with humans and understand a lot of instructions."

"The skill I'm going to teach you now is how to establish a conscious connection with the pigeons, and then use them to see the scenery and situation in the distance." After saying this, she stroked the pigeons on her shoulders with her fingers, causing a faint halo to appear on them. Then, under her command, the three pigeons flew around the six people, sometimes in a straight line, sometimes spinning in circles in the air, and then flew to the woods not far away to fetch three branches of the same length. "How amazing! Can I learn this today?" Blanche said with envy.

"For you, it may not work yet." Idlia kindly comforted her and told her that it would take another two years. Then she began to tell the five singers present in detail how to use their skills to communicate with the pigeons and then slowly establish a spiritual connection.

After about two hours, the five young singers had roughly mastered the technique.

Seeing the carrier pigeons flying around the five people, Idlia nodded with satisfaction and then stated the training goals.

"All of you stand still and let your pigeons fly out. I have people put five signs of different colors five kilometers away from the school. Each sign has a number on it. Let your pigeons fly out and then tell me what the numbers on the five signs are after half an hour. Remember, the more numbers you have, the higher your score will be."

"Senior, is there a reward for high scores?" Pulin asked, raising her hand.

"Yes, I have collected many interesting gadgets over the years. You can choose according to your scores." She smiled and was not as strict as before.

"Thank you, senior." The five people replied.

"What about me? Is there no way I can participate?" Blanche said she was left behind.

"As for you, I'll give you other training goals, and there will be rewards if you complete them." Idelia waved her hand, and another carrier pigeon landed, allowing Blanche to follow it.

"Okay, senior~" Blanche agreed happily.

Afterwards, the five singers released the pigeons in their hands and then closed their eyes to sense what the pigeons saw. It must be said that this experience was very special, as if a single display screen that had been used for more than 20 years was suddenly added with a new one. If they hadn't closed their eyes, the two would probably interfere with each other and be very confusing.

The white carrier pigeon spread its wings and flew up, soaring through the woods and passing sideways by the tall clock tower of the school. The field of vision kept shifting and changing. As the experience deepened, it was like being immersed in a movie, and the five people gradually got into the state.

not good!

Shui Yanqing suddenly felt a sharp pain, then her vision spun and she fell straight to the ground. Fortunately, this carrier pigeon was very tenacious and it spread its wings at the last moment and barely dived across the street without falling to the ground dead.

What was going on? She manipulated the pigeon to flip over and scanned the sky. She finally spotted a gray-brown kestrel flying across the sky and swooping down again.

If it were her own business, she would have many ways to deal with it, but the carrier pigeon that established the connection was just an ordinary animal and had no way to fight back. She could only panic and run into a shop on the side of the street to avoid it for the time being.

After entering the store, the pigeon stood on a cabinet and checked itself, and found a wound on one side of its wing, which was still bleeding.

This is bad, Shui Yanqing thought, today’s training goal might not be achieved.

Just when she was about to cut off contact and give up, she heard a slight knocking sound outside the glass cabinet next to the shop.

When he looked up, he saw two other carrier pigeons outside flapping their wings to greet him. It looked familiar; it must be Tilan and Ores.

Seeing the two people flying down to care about her, Shui Yanqing felt warm in her heart, and her bad mood just now was relieved a lot.

Three carrier pigeons met each other through the glass window, and then, encouraged by the two carrier pigeons outside, the one inside slowly flew out again. However, this time, the three did not fly high, but flew low along the street. In this way, with the help of the complex environment on the ground for cover, it was difficult for the kestrel in the sky to completely locate the three guys, and it did not want to hit the branches and various building obstacles on the roadside when diving, so it turned a few circles and flew away.

Later, three snow-white little pigeons flew together all the way, keeping watch and guarding each other. Finally, before the time came, they found the three signs and wrote down the numbers on them.

"The time has come." Idlia clapped her hands to wake up the five singers.

Although only half an hour had passed, the five of them felt a little dazed, as if they had experienced the short life of a homing pigeon.

"Isn't this feeling very novel?" Seeing that the five people were still savoring the experience, Idlia spoke kindly.

"Okay, now you can tell me what happened to you, and then write down the numbers on the signs."

"It went basically smoothly. I controlled the carrier pigeon to tour the location and wrote down the numbers on the five signs." Pulin spoke first.

"I wrote down four signs, but I got lost in the middle of the flight, which took me a little longer." Odney was a little discouraged.

"Where are you guys?" Idelia turned around and saw that the three of them were not very proactive.

"We wrote down the data on the three signs." Tilan replied.

"Only three?" Idlia was slightly disappointed.

"It took us a little longer because we helped the injured Shui Yanqing avoid the attacking Red Falcon, but we were still very happy." Ores took the initiative to explain.

Idlia glanced at Shui Yanqing who was lowering her head beside her and nodded slightly.

"You guys are pretty good too."

"Okay, today's training has come to an end. Follow me first." Then she stood up and asked everyone to follow her.

So the group walked through the beech forest next to them and came to a wooden house they had never seen before. It had three floors and was similar in style to those of the ancient elves. It was built against a big tree next to it, giving a feeling of being in harmony with nature.

"This is my temporary residence, please come in."

Afterwards, the five of them walked up the wooden steps and entered the house. Blanche had arrived first. She was now sitting on a circular wooden chair in the hall, looking at the ingeniously mechanical owl in the sky. Its body was hollowed out and made entirely of retro alchemical gears, and it also had a miniature magic crystal power device. It was very beautiful.

"Can I have this owl?" Blanche asked immediately when she saw Idelia come in.

"Okay, but you have to take good care of it. It was a gift given to me by Vsevolod Merlin, the only remaining alchemical master, more than a hundred years ago." Idria waved her hand, and the alchemical owl flew down, and she handed it to Blanche.

"As for its construction and maintenance instructions, I will send you the chip information later. If you don't know how to do it, you will need to find an expert in alchemy to help you in the future."

"No problem, thank you senior." Blanche took it happily.

"You five can sit down too. You can look around here and tell me if you are interested. Most of these are small gadgets that I have accumulated. Some are gifts given by others, some are collections I bought, and some are made by myself when I was interested in them." Idlia was unusually gentle and generous, which made the few people who had undergone weeks of rigorous training quite uncomfortable.

"Thank you~"

The five people looked around with curiosity. There were retro alchemical small creations, old books, beautiful feathers of unknown birds, seeds of exotic plants, lifelike sculptures, exquisite handmade ornaments, etc. Many of them were works of masters and they looked very valuable at first glance. Some of them were also very rare.

It was obvious that Idlia had put a lot of thought into collecting these things, but today she let several new singers choose freely, which was really unexpected.

She first went back upstairs, took off the white priest robe with gold edges she had just worn, and changed into a dark blue retro dress with black edges. She sat in a corner of the house, holding up the teacup in her hand, and looked at the young girls walking around the room with soft eyes.

The expression in his eyes was as if he was recalling something that happened long, long ago.

Or perhaps only at this moment would others realize that she was already very old, both as a singer and as an elf.

(End of this chapter)