Work Prophet
Chapter 562 - 180 Beneficial Competition

Chapter 562: Chapter 180 Beneficial Competition

Claudio listened to the Lady’s intentions without hesitation and readily agreed, not even bothering to ask what hardship fee the young lady might require.

As a result, the next morning, someone came to inform the Lady that she could collect her reward, totaling thirty thousand gold lions.

Additionally, the time for the investiture ceremony was set, to take place tomorrow afternoon, where Gars would take time to distribute lands to the top three contestants of the tournament.

The Lady is now a vassal of Marquis Kuren, as Green Field was granted by the ancestors of the Figrola family to the ancestors of the Arias family.

In return, the successive Heads of the Arias family swore fealty to the Figrola family, and were obliged to send troops to join them in battle when necessary.

If Ireya were to receive Crab’s Corner from Gars as well, she would also become a vassal of the Vespasian family, pledging allegiance to two sovereigns simultaneously.

Such cases were uncommon, but not unheard of.

Especially before the establishment of the Empire, it was said that a minor lord, not wanting to offend the powerful forces around him, successively swore fealty to more than twenty families.

And his life thereafter was also... quite good, for to win him over, each sovereign granted him quite a few privileges.

However, on the Bratis Continent, most people still pledged allegiance to only one sovereign throughout their lives, unless their territories came from different sovereigns, like the Lady’s case.

Miss Rabbit had not yet decided what to do with Crab’s Corner, but since Gars intended to honor his father Edward II’s promise and give her the harbor, she decided to accept it for the time being.

The Lady had Thomas call twenty guards from the Arias family to transport back her prize money.

Afterwards, she dealt with several nobles who came to visit, having heard of her fame. With the assassination of Edward II and Gars’ coronation, along with the reappearance of the Winged-tribe assassins, Miss Rabbit’s limelight had been greatly overshadowed.

The people of the city seemed to have forgotten the newly-crowned champion for a while.

However, once Gars took his place upon the Skeleton Throne and everything settled, visitors to the Lady began to increase again.

All this was not unrelated to Kieren and the newly initiated Silver Hand.

During this time, both had been performing tirelessly in taverns large and small throughout the city, singing the champion song of the young lady, and had been invited by many nobles to perform at their homes. They successfully revived Miss Rabbit’s popularity and indirectly attracted a group of potential followers interested in joining the Double Rest Sect.

Minstrels, especially those with strong creative talent and excellent singing voices, were the best mobile billboards in this era.

Kieren had both of these qualities, it was just that his luck had been poor before, unable to find suitable inspiration, and that’s why he had been struggling.

Silver Hand’s situation was somewhat different; his singing was mediocre, and his songwriting... rather hard to evaluate.

Writing poetry was not his forte, but when it came to live performances, particularly those infused with dramatic elements, Silver Hand could be said to be in a league of his own.

That was also the reason why his "Head! Head! Head!" had surpassed Kieren’s "Resurrected Murderer" previously.

After joining the Double Rest Sect, Li Yu had no time to pay attention to him, merely letting him tag along with Kieren for the time being.

Performing together, Silver Hand was essentially Kieren’s backing vocalist, singing the songs that Kieren wrote.

However, Silver Hand was not content with this. One must remember that when they were in Golden Valley, the two were rivals, often locked in intense competition, with Silver Hand frequently gaining the upper hand.

As a result, just because Kieren got a head start in securing patronage, and Silver Hand was a little late, Silver Hand felt chafed for being firmly pinned under Kieren’s grip.

It wasn’t that he particularly disliked Kieren; after all, there was no deep hatred between them, and now they were both believers of the Sabbath, belonging to the same faction, and should get along harmoniously and advance together.

But after having fought for so long, the idea of how to get ahead of Kieren had almost become an instinct for Silver Hand.

Not to think about it for a day was to feel uneasy.

But how could he surpass him?

Silver Hand was clear that he indeed wasn’t as good as Kieren at poetry and singing, so he had to blaze a new trail just like before.

And just as he racked his brains for how to forge a new path, Silver Hand met Hua Meiniao.

Hua Meiniao had entered the second round of the first Green Field Open Mic Missionary event with various modernized pop songs, but unfortunately, his material was still a bit too new for the audience at the time.

He didn’t manage to continue his momentum to the top three, and he later went astray, becoming obsessed with rock music.

He stopped playing his Layakin, instead developing a drum kit which he carried everywhere, banging away.

The believers were annoyed by his drumming; whenever they heard the drums from afar, they knew he was coming and all would run away.

This caused Hua Meiniao’s missionary efficiency to plummet until Li Yu later had a talk with Hua Meiniao, and he somewhat reined himself in, at least no longer engaging in rock music missionary work.

But when it was time to rest, he would still bring out his own drum, banging on it and shouting a few lines.

"...He understands! He understands! I can’t afford!!! So he turned and walked toward the sea!!!!!"

The first time Silver Hand saw Hua Meiniao, he was also shocked, thinking this person must have a problem with his brain, probably beyond saving.

But later, when Hua Meiniao helped Kieren and Silver Hand catch up on the Double Rest Sect’s doctrines and precepts, Silver Hand got to know Hua Meiniao after a few sessions.

As the two chatted together, Silver Hand learned about the open mic missionary activities from Hua Meiniao and realized how crazy the Sabbaths of the Double Rest Sect were about preaching.

After researching various bizarre ways of missionary work, although most weren’t successful, Silver Hand still found inspiration.

Especially when Hua Meiniao performed a fast beat rhythm at Silver Hand’s request, Silver Hand was immediately attracted to this novel form of presentation.

And he outright ignored Hua Meiniao’s later admonitions that rock music was the future.

That stuff was too noisy, and a mess, not something anyone would want to listen to, but fast rhythm was different; it’s light, with an addictive feel.

The reason why the Sabbath who performed fast rhythm at the first Green Field Open Mic Missionary event didn’t do well was mainly because the accompanying poetry wasn’t good enough.

But this part wasn’t a problem for a minstrel, and compared to Green Field, the artistic atmosphere at Lion Heart Castle wasn’t so conservative.

The people here were generally more open to new things.

Silver Hand prepared to use this new instrument to create a few poems to compete with Kieren.

After Li Yu learned about this, he didn’t stop it. He welcomed such healthy competition, as music had always been one of the missionary methods Li Yu valued greatly; he had high hopes for Hua Meiniao before.

Unfortunately, Hua Meiniao later became hopelessly addicted to rock music, and then Kieren arrived. As a minstrel, the poetry he wrote was very moving and had a good dissemination effect.

Still, it was mainly traditional hymns of praise and heroic poems from the Bratis Continent that collected a lot of faith for Li Yu, however, there was still room for improvement in terms of spreadability.

Silver Hand was more than willing to put his mind to work in this regard.