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"Oh, by the way, Creon said he wanted to petition Brother Ars. He wants to get a new, independent family name from the Reed family."

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"Creon, that's him. That's the guy who likes to sing. He was a terrible singer at first, but he's getting better and better, isn't he?"

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"Yes. I'm pretty good now. When I hear Creon sing, I feel like I'm being moved from the bottom of my heart.

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"I guess things change if you keep at it. The first time I really heard him sing, all he did was make a grating sound. And you finally succeeded in turning it into a spell?"

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"Yes, it is. I think I made up a spell called [Singing]. If you mutter the spell and then sing, you can move people more than if you do nothing. Please listen to Creon's song later, Brother Ars.

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"[Singing] or ....... I guess you can make that kind of magic too."

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　The rice breeding was finished, and I was enjoying the rice that Kyle and I had made together.

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　Suddenly, as if remembering something, Kyle started talking about a man named Creon.

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　Creon is an aspiring singer who came to Vulcania many years ago.

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　The first time they had met was when he was among those who had come to recruit after the first battle against the Uruks.

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　At that time, I would say that we were in the same class as the painter Moshe.

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　When I first took possession of the territory, there was a lack of talent, so I used the magic of Kyle's House of Reed as bait to gather people from all over the land who excelled in one art or another.

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　One of them, Creon, performed a song in front of me and Kyle, the interviewers.

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　Unfortunately, his singing was so bad that it was unbearable to listen to.

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　I thought I would wish Creon good luck in the future and turn him away.

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　But it seems that Creon's family had money.

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　As a condition of the recruitment at that time, I was supposed to provide books for the library that we had built at that time, and the books that Creon had were quite valuable and good ones.

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　Lilina, who knew a lot about books, told me that it was a book that was rarely seen, so she made a special exception to allow it to be accepted.

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　Creon, however, was serious about his desire to sing.

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　Since then, he practiced singing every day, and I gave him some advice on abdominal breathing and vocal exercises that I knew a little bit about, even though I was an amateur.

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　But the most useful thing for Creon was the use of magic power in his voice.

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　I have experienced that when I speak in front of others on the battlefield, if I concentrate the magic power on my vocal cords in my throat, my voice can be heard far and wide.

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　Creon heard this and became conscious of his magical power when he sang.

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　He also conducted his own research and found that his voice came through better when he concentrated his magical power not only on his vocal cords but also on his abdomen to assist his abdominal breathing.

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　Perhaps his singing skills are still not as good as usual even though he has been practicing.

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　However, Creon's singing voice has become a great inspiration to those who listen to it, as he has achieved a high level of magic control by distributing and concentrating the magic power in his vocal cords and abdomen.

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　Perhaps this is a kind of magic.

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　Creon has acquired a singing ability that moves the heart on a level that would normally be impossible.

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　And one day, he petitioned me like this.

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　He asked me to grant him his independence, as he had acquired a singing ability that no one else could produce.

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　But then, I waited for him.

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　The singing ability that Creon had acquired was a personal skill called magic, and it would be lost if Creon were to leave.

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　I suggested to him that he should make the magic into a spell and sublimate it to magic.

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　In fact, there are several other cases like this.

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　There are several people in Barka who have mastered the magic of using magic power to perform mysterious phenomena that ordinary people cannot do.

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　Generally speaking, however, most of them end there.

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　They are not able to make it into magic and leave it to the future generations.

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　To put this in a simple way, suppose a martial arts master is able to perform an attack that no one else can imitate.

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　Suppose it is a Shokken-tsuki.

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　The Shoken-tsuki would be a personal skill and would be equivalent to sorcery.

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　However, in order to change it from sorcery to magic, we need to make it into a spell.

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　In other words, you must not only do a regular shoken-tsuki, but you must keep doing it with the same form, the same trajectory, and the same power each time while muttering "shoken-tsuki" each time.

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　No martial arts master would ever do this unless he knew that this could be made into a spell.

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　At least, I have never seen a master who would bother to mumble the name of his technique every time he does a shoken-jutsu.

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　In the same way, those who unconsciously use magic to cause mysterious phenomena will live their whole life without making it magical.

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　In other words, no matter how well-trained a magician is, he or she will rarely become a wizard unless he or she knows how to convert it into magic.

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　This was the case with Creon.

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　He was so focused on training his singing ability that he did not even think about making his skills into magic spells.

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　So I suggested to him that if he wanted to become independent with a new family name, he should first make his singing skills magical.

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　Creon accepted this suggestion and worked hard.

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　He had finally succeeded in casting a spell after several years of trying for several years with no success.

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"Okay, I get it. Creon will now be known as Creon-li-Opera. He will have to go to the church to undergo the rite of succession so that the [singing] can be properly passed on to future generations."

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"Thank you, brother Ars. I'm sure Creon will be pleased."

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"Okay. That was the deal."

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　After listening to Kyle's story, I decided to give Creon the last name Opera.

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　But it was a long time coming.

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　Finally, someone other than me, Kyle, and my brother Bite had succeeded in creating magic.

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　Could it be due to the influence of the labyrinthine nucleus called Atmosphere that newly appeared in Vulcania?

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　No, it is more likely the result of Creon's efforts over the years of hard training.

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　Thus, for the first time in Vulcania, a cultural magician has appeared.

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