Who hid My Corpse!

Hewinia had slightly adjusted her mentality and then stepped onto that straight staircase, walking towards the other end that resonated with the Seventh Note.

If she was not mistaken, her floor was seven because it corresponded to the Seventh Note.

This spiral staircase allowed the Player to play their destined note, and only then could they reach the corresponding floor, which is why there was a similar note resonating on the other end.

It must be said, it was a very ingenious design.

When Hewinia stepped onto the seventh floor, she saw a person sitting at the end of the corridor, and it was from this person that the Seventh Note resonating with her emanated.

Hewinia thought it was the person who had connected the staircase for her, and immediately went forward to thank him, "Hello, I am..."

She stopped mid-sentence and could not continue.

Because the person also seemed like a statue, at first glance similar to the Eternal Notes in the front hall.

But unlike those Eternal Notes, this "statue" was clearly a living person dressed in a clean, crisp robe, looking not much older than Hewinia by age.

However, he always maintained a meditative posture, eyes closed, without any reaction to Hewinia's greeting, as if deep in sleep, with only the note responding to Hewinia.

And when Hewinia left the staircase and fully stepped onto the seventh floor, the resonance of the note slowly ceased, and the staircase behind her also gradually retracted.

But he still did not open his eyes.

...What was this?

Now, Hewinia truly did not know, and she greeted the person again, but still received no response.

So she slowly approached the person, and then observed a wax-like luster on his face that looked somewhat eerie.

After hesitating for a moment, Hewinia reached out her hand towards his face.

But just then, she was interrupted by a mature woman's voice from behind, "Do not disturb the tuner."

Hewinia immediately turned her head and saw a tall, elegant woman smiling behind her.

...When had she come?

Hewinia was quite surprised, as she hadn't sensed her at all.

Although she didn't dare to use the eyes of Visas here, after acquiring several Golden Notes, her power was far beyond that of an ordinary Player; still, she had not sensed the woman's approach.

A very powerful person.

Hewinia made a judgment in her heart.

But she did not show it and asked curiously, "What is a tuner?"

"It is a great profession that only the First Academy, or rather, only the Holy Mountain can have," the woman explained smilingly, standing near Hewinia, "As the name implies, it's a person responsible for tuning. You should know, the Seven Notes were created by the Lord, and the Seven Notes created by the Lord are the most beautiful, the most standard. The notes carried down by later generations, however, are somewhat deviated."

"You mean the Golden Note and the Silver Notes?"

"No, no, those are ranks of notes. I am speaking of timbre," the woman explained with a smile, "Even the lowest rank, the Copper Rank, can produce a melody more pleasant than the Golden Rank, and that is because this Copper Rank's timbre is superior, closer to the original Seven Notes created by the Lord."

Hewinia understood, "So tuning is for making one's timbre increasingly aligned with the original Seven Notes, thereby becoming more perfect?"

"You could say that," the woman nodded slightly, then looked at Hewinia with interest, "You are the Golden Seventh Sound from the Lawrence Family brought over from the Third Academy, right? You seem to be... Hewinia? Hehe, I just saw you hesitating on the spiral staircase for a long time, wondering who it could be."

"...Sorry."

"There's nothing to apologize for," the woman shook her head, smiling and said, "It's clearly Phinis who forgot to tell you the rules here. But it's not his fault, the rules are different for girls' dormitories and boys' dormitories. But you are quite smart. I was going to help you, but you figured it out on your own."

Hewinia blushed slightly, "I tried it out blindly."

"Hehe, climbing up here on your strength is a skill in itself. Many freshmen during enrollment, if no one tells them, they would all be stuck up there for a whole morning, frantically crying and stomping their feet to no avail," the woman paused, "Back to our earlier conversation, you just noticed, when you played the note, the tuner resonated with you, thus opening the corresponding staircase, and that is the method of the tuner's tuning."

"...Ah?" Hewinia clearly did not understand.

But the woman was not in a hurry, continuing to explain in a gentle, soft voice.

"Why are the original Seven Notes the most perfect, but when passed to later generations they become increasingly deviated? The reason is simple, because humans are impurities."

"If the original Seven Notes are likened to the purest water, then humans are the impurities that affect the water. Desire, greed, good and evil, preferences, all these can influence the timbre. This is why, when the notes are first formed, the timbre is most perfect. But as human age increases, the notes also fade, affected by too many such factors."

"And the tuner, takes the opposite path."

"They use secret methods to block their own senses, use persistence to erase good and evil, placing their souls in an endless darkness, simply put, isolating themselves from the outside world."