Chapter 109 [Bonus ] 109 - Shot of Whiskey

    ??While performing on stage, I felt the difference between the two levels of [Stage Presence] and [Guitar], as well as the new level in [Sing].

    All in all, I was surprised at how well I performed on stage.

    Even though I had just done a performance where I was practically "in the zone", I felt that my performance was even better now because of this difference in skill level.

    Especially Stage Presence, which I felt I had a good level of before and was used to doing, now I realized that I should focus even more on this skill to improve the quality of my show as a whole.

    If my stage presence was as high as Fedrick''s, I would completely dominate him because of my charisma, but because of this big difference in our skill levels, he had the upper hand...

    However, seeing how his final show was, I had to be very careful not to use my Observe skill on him again... I couldn''t risk having my mana dwindle to zero and not even being able to finish the show.

    Meanwhile, I just watched him normally without using the skill.

    Looking at his choice of songs, I had to admit that he chose well, but I felt that something was missing.

    Since I always use an original song in special moments to handle more difficult situations more gracefully, I felt he was missing that.

    Most of the songs he sang weren''t his, and he only sang 3 of his originals, one less than I did, which seemed to make his show lack a bit of personality.

    For an artist with a 6 year career, he should have dozens of songs to choose from, right?

    But that was fine with me, even though he acted and sang very well the last time he was on stage, it wasn''t at such a high level that I wouldn''t have a chance.

    If I sang my new song, I''d have a chance to win over the audience and win this musical battle.

    "For the next two songs, since these are the last two songs before Lila Brooks comes on stage, I thought I''d sing something special..." I said smiling, causing the audience to surprise and celebrate with curiosity.

    "I''ve been working on an original country song for a while, so since today is a special occasion, my first musical battle with the awards is to sing the opening of Lila''s show, I thought I''d sing this original song of mine today!" I said with an excited smile.

    "Wooooo!!!" The audience shouted excitedly, curious to see what I was going to do.

    "But before I sing my original song, I''m going to prepare you by singing ''Last Night'' for you, I hope you like it!" I said, making them excited and celebrating even more.

    Because "Last Night" was a famous song in this world, the country audience was happy for me to sing it, and the normal audience didn''t think it was a bad song.

    So it was a good transition song to prepare them for the song I was going to sing next.

    As I sang, I saw that just singing a country song was enough to get the audience excited, especially since I had chosen a good song.

    Now that I was going to sing my original song, I felt that I really had a chance to win this musical battle.

    "Guys, for my next song, I want to know who''s drinking whiskey?" I asked as I raised my glass and looked curiously at the audience.

    Hearing my question, dozens of hands went up, holding glasses full of whiskey like mine, which made me smile.

    "All right, let''s have a sip of whiskey for the next song, and for those of you drinking beer or other drinks, I want to see you drinking too!" I said as I raised my glass to my mouth and looked at the audience, who got excited and did the same.

    The scene of hundreds of people drinking at once in the bar made not only my eyes light up, but also the bar manager''s eyes light up as she knew that just that one sip I was asking everyone to take from their drink meant several hundred dollars for the bar in sales of other drinks afterwards.

    "Now for the music!" I said as I swapped my guitar for an acoustic and started to strum the tune.