As soon as Baiyi's chant ended, the tidal waves that had been surging towards the city began to shatter like crumbling walls.
Outside the city, petals of white frosts soared up towards the sky from the sea, tracing the outline of the tidal waves until most of the waves turned into icy pillars. The capital city looked as though it was covered in brambles made of ice crystals.
The speed at which the waves were getting frozen did not match the speed with which the waves rushed towards the city. The top of the waves, which was saved by its slower, lower halves, which were getting frozen, managed to stay liquid and struck on the water resisting barrier surrounding the city.
Fortunately, from the sound of the impact, one could tell that they, too, had lost much of their momentum.
"Hmph. We're lucky there was still some distance between these waves and the island, or else…" Baiyi did not even have to finish his own monologue.
TL MUSING:
Not gonna lie. I enjoyed this chapter so much! I love it when an author gets into describing scenes and events because my best friend (my brain) would string them seamlessly into movie scenes. And that compels me to be emotionally invested!
Is it obvious that I was more invested than usual? I wonder if my emotions leaked into the translation…
Anyway, when a chapter is very obvious in its background theme, it becomes easier for me to select the accompanying music! This time the theme was obviously something along the line of “The Armageddon!” “Desolation!”
For these, I sometimes pick post-rock or mathrock jams. Sometimes, because I have this thing for music-event dissonance, I pick big band swings and jazz, or even gagaku music (I don’t know why, seriously. It just works for me). When more actions are required, I might add in a little bit of the more conventional rock, but usually they have this little bit of melancholic undercurrent to it. Like for this chapter there were “Wolf Like Me” (TV on the Radio), and “Passive” (A Perfect Circle), “In the Backseat” (Arcade Fire) and that “Speed and Friction” song (Amazarashi).
What’s your go-to music when it’s that sorta themes? Epic music? Video game BGM? Or maybe you don’t really pick any special genre for it? Perhaps if you pick some songs for me, I get to make a very different movie in my head even if the scenes were the same!