Josiah's proposal worked. In the end, the Venerated Skeleton gladly accepted Josiah's request, turning Josiah's group from rude intruders into his territory into distinguished guests who came from thousands of miles away to listen to his concert.
As far as humans were concerned, the live experience of this concert was a little creepy.
The Venerated Skeleton in the castle had a concert room dedicated to performing. The instruments in it ranged from pianos to violins. It could be used to stage a grand classical concert.
Some of the musicians playing these instruments were skeletons, and the other part was a rotting corpse with a few pieces of flesh hanging on their bodies.
Their attire was a bit similar to that of the British gentlemen of the nineteenth century Victorian period, which made them look elegant when they picked up the instruments.
The only drawback was that the flesh on their bodies was a little less. The appearance of the white skeletons alone could not be described as elegant gentlemen, let alone those rotting corpses whose eyeballs had fallen to the ground.
The Venerated Skeleton was not the conductor of this special band. He was the pianist in this performance!
The slender and excessively white fingers tapped on the piano, and a series of strange melodies flowed out of the piano. The classical concert held by the undead officially began.
"What's going on?"
Hiri didn't know how to appreciate classical music. She just felt that when these notes entered her ears, she felt a chill that went deep into her bones, making her shiver a little. For this reason, Hiri had to hold her arms.
When she was standing in the snow-covered forest just now, Hiri didn't feel the slightest cold in her clothes, but these strange notes made her feel like she was thrown under the ice.
What's worse was that in the dim lake under the ice, there was an unknown water monster staring at her!
This feeling made Hiri shudder.
"It's useless to hold your arms. You try to imagine things like the sun or flames," said Josiah to Hiri.
"I can't imagine anything listening to this performance at all!"
Hiri's complaint also spoke Josiah's true thoughts.
From the very beginning, Josiah found that this performance was fundamentally different from what he had heard before.
The Venerated Skeleton's performance was not an ordinary concert. The notes that flowed out of the Venerated Skeleton's piano were not only felt by Josiah with his sense of 'hearing,' but also his sense of touch, vision, taste, and other senses. He understood the meaning of this note.
It was cold and silent, like the loneliness of swimming in a frozen lake. It was so cold that it made people want to suffocate.
Josiah's skin seemed to be covered in frost, and his mouth was filled with the cold lake water.
A spell that can affect the mind of others?
When the song ended, Josiah finally recovered from the bone-chilling cold. Josiah found that his hands were covered in frost and his body temperature was frighteningly low.
This was no longer as simple as affecting one's mind! Josiah wiped off the frost on his arms with his hand, and the cold breath he just exhaled turned into white mist.
If the Venerated Skeleton continues to play, the listener's body temperature may directly drop to the point of hypothermia, and even their lives may be taken!
Carol of Death? This word inexplicably emerged in Josiah's mind.
As a chaos demon, Josiah's physique could still support it, but Hiri's condition was a little worse.
Her lips began to turn white, and frost appeared on her long eyelashes as if she had walked for several hours in a harsh environment of minus ten degrees.
Josiah took off his coat decisively and put it on Hiri.
"Your … your clothes … are wet!"
Hiri's voice trembled as if she was about to cry, but if her tears fell down, they might freeze into icicles.
Josiah held Hiri's hand and found that it was as cold as ice.
At this rate … Hiri will die because of the imbalance of body temperature!
It seems that if you want to enjoy the Venerated Skeleton's performance, it is not as simple as just buying a ticket. If you are not strong enough, you will have to pay the price of your life in exchange for the ticket.
"You don't even have the ability to listen to a performance? The human body is so weak that it is vulnerable. "
The Venerated Skeleton noticed Hiri's weak state. He stopped playing the piano in his hand, and the frost on his bony fingertips fell off.
When the music stopped, Josiah's symptoms of hypothermia eased a little.
At this moment, Josh began to clap with his frozen hands. It wasn't because of how outstanding the performance was, but purely out of the most basic courtesy of a spectator.
Hearing Josiah's applause, the Venerated Skeleton's face looked a little better. No, it should be said that the shaking soul fire in his eye sockets became a little more stable.
"Sir Duke's performance is really extraordinary. After listening to it, I feel immersed in it …"
It was more than immersed in it. If he continued to play, Josiah would freeze to death.
To think that Josh was able to experience the virtual senses that countless video game designers on Earth were hoping to achieve during this performance.
"But, Sir Duke, your performance is not only limited to humans. Perhaps most humans in the Demon Realm can't enjoy it until the end."
Josiah could swear that if the Venerated Skeleton went to the capital to play the same piece, more than 50% of the residents in the capital would be frozen into ice cubes.
"It's because they don't have the ability."
The Venerated Skeleton was a proud classical musician. He didn't think there was anything wrong with his performance. It was just that the group of ignorant and weak idiots didn't have the ability to appreciate it.
"It is true that they don't have the ability to appreciate Sir Duke's performance, but … Sir Duke, don't you feel that you are shivering from the cold?"
Josiah was the first to admit that the Venerated Skeleton's performance was quite good.
The tune itself had a quiet, cold, and lonely feeling. If this tune was used in the music of a horror game, it was definitely music that could add points to the overall atmosphere of the game.
Josiah always believed that music itself had no difference between good and bad. Except for some noise, no matter what kind of music it was, there was a group of people who appreciated it. Just like some people liked classical music but stayed away from electronic music, some people liked pop music but were not interested in traditional folk songs.
No one could distinguish between good and bad music of different genres. If someone did so, it would be arrogance!
Whether it was good or bad was a matter of personal perception.
If it weren't for the Venerated Skeleton's performance being too 'real,' to the point that Josiah wanted to hold a heater to listen to it, Josiah would definitely appreciate it until the end.
It was not only Hiri and Josiah who were affected, but even the performer himself was affected.
It seemed like the Venerated Skeleton's fingers were already covered with frost, so he had to move his five fingers to remove the frost.
"This is a necessary effect for the performance."
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