Silent Crown

by Feng Yue

  Soon, ten burning suns appeared in the sky.

  “They are coming! They are coming!” The observers in different countries yelled and screamed.

  Hearing the ring of the Bell of Ruin, all the catastrophes in the forbidden area of the dark world woke up.

  Following the sound of the bell, they came to the human world.

  The beast of chaos, Bahamut, Eagle Wing Mother, the son of spider, Certus, the eyeless snake…

  In just a few seconds, more than ten scary catastrophes had already woken up.

  Even the Dark Gaia had showed herself again.

  In the abyss, all the dark creatures cast their eyes to the physical world and stared at the Sacred City.

  In the deepest part of the abyss, an extremely huge and scary figure opened its eyes.

  One pair of eyes, two pairs of eyes, three pairs of eyes… countless eyes were blinking in the darkness. This was the body of Hyakume, and it was waking up!

  “Your golden era is over!” it said, via the incarnation of the former Dark Pope. Everyone heard its hoarse sound, which was so loud that their souls were shaken. Accompanied with the ring, it seemed that everything was going to be devoured by the abyss.

  “From now on! The eternal dark shall befall!”

  495 You Are Asking For Trouble

  “Does this mean that the Dark World has declared war with humans?”

  The ring was still echoing.

  Ye Qingxuan was sitting on the bloody stairs. He took a blood-soaked cigarette from his pocket and lit it.

  He sighed. “Hyakume, you are asking for trouble…”

  Half an hour ago, Ye Qingxuan was decapitated. His head fell onto the ground with a loud thwop.

  Samuel crawled onto Ye Qingxuan and sucked his blood as if insane. Although Ye Qingxuan’s blood was burning him, he didn’t stop.

  The former Master had changed into a blood-sucking monster, and soon, he managed to tear Ye Qingxuan into pieces.

  When the clothes of original sin collected itself, it found Samuel chewing on Ye Qingxuan’s corpse.

  Seeing this, the clothes of original sin could not help sighing. “What a pity.”

  Ye Qingxuan’s broken hand was still nailed to the wall. The clothes of original sin looked at the hand and recalled what Paganini had said to it.

  “Ye Qingxuan always holds his ground, and he has good character. Even if he is our enemy, still, I perceive him as a genius. I am so glad to have him as my enemy.”

  “Once you are in the Sacred City, if you have the opportunity, please to catch him alive. After we transform him, he will be as strong as I am in just a few decades.”

  However, Ye Qingxuan had died just before.

  The clothes of original sin was made by Paganini himself, and naturally, it also had the same personality and music theory as Paganini did.

  The clothes of original sin was very angry after Samuel simply neglected its existence; at the same time, it also felt a bit sad. “The Ye Family is really powerful! Now that both Ye Lanzhou and his son are dead, I am afraid that the ‘seal of moonlight’ will soon become just another part of history!”

  Then, it was drawn by the blood dropping from the broken hand.

  The hand began to tremble mildly, blood oozing out of the puncture in the center of the palm and flowing along the creases in the skin.

  It was just like a blossoming scarlet flower that looked strangely beautiful.

  Suddenly, the clothes of original sin felt a bit bewildered and realized something was wrong.

  However, it was already too late.

  It found that it could not move at all, and the music theory inside its body began to work very slowly, as if it was a machine that had rusted. It felt that its mind had been frozen and could no longer react.

  “Is this the music theory of Mind? Or have I been implanted with some sort of hint? If so, when and where did this happen?”

  A scarlet rose grew from the blood oozing out of the broken hand, and in the blink of an eye, the rose blossomed and grew larger and larger. At last, the clothes of original sin was devoured by the rose.

  “Go to sleep, go to sleep,” Ye Qingxuan murmured in the clothes of original sin’s ear. “You have been living in this world for such a long time, and you do not even have a woman’s dress of your own. How pathetic this is! If I were you, I would go to sleep and never wake up. Don’t worry, when you fall asleep, I will burn some woman’s clothes in front of your grave. Tell me, which do you prefer? Stockings or lingerie?”

  “F*ck!” the clothes of original sin was furious. It quickly activated the music theory inside its body without considering the consequences. Accompanied by the magnificent melody, its body started to shake heavily and revealed its original form. By doing this, it managed to get rid of the music theory of Mind that was forced upon it.

  Bang!

  The music theory of Channeling Change materialized and flew out of its body.

  The music theory began to erode the surrounding Physical World and broke the illusion the clothes of original sin had seen earlier.

  At that moment, Samuel, who was just devouring the corpse of Ye Qingxuan, disappeared. His body mutated and became a pool of sticky blood. In the blink of an eye, the clothes of original sin was shrouded by the blood.

  Inside the sticky blood, the clothes of original sin was struggling to get out. Samuel activated his scepter and began to play the music movement of Fate. Accompanied by the music, the sticky blood absorbed all the energy of the clothes of original sin.

  “Samuel, what are you doing?” the clothes of original sin shouted angrily.

  Samuel smiled to him and said, “It is my duty to punish evil and to promote good!”

  “Today!”

  Someone was yelling, “Today!”

  Suddenly, the disciples of Samuel all came into the room and started to smile at the clothes of original sin. Then they transferred their energy to Samuel via the “Blood of Element.”

  With the help of his disciples, Samuel managed to imprison the clothes of original sin with full strength.

  “Are you crazy? Samuel!” the clothes of original sin shouted. “Ludovic will not let you go!”

  “Ludovic?” Samuel laughed. “He is just a short-sighted coward! He is not strong enough to be a threat to me! You have to know that what I serve and believe in is the orthodox!”

  “Orthodox!” his disciples shouted together, looking very frenzied. It seemed that they all believed in what they had said just now.

  Hearing this, the clothes of original sin became desperate, as if it had fallen into an ice cave.

  These guys have all turned crazy! No! Their personalities and consciousnesses are also changed!

  “Hey, you woke up!” Ye Qingxuan looked at the clothes of original sin and smiled to it in a very strange way. “You reacted much faster than I thought; you really deserve the title of ‘clothes of original sin.’ I think you must be very confused now, and you must be wondering when I brainwashed them, right? Beg me, if you beg me, I will tell you!”

  The clothes of original sin sneered and angrily stared at Ye Qingxuan. “You will pay for this!”

  “How can you say things like this? I haven’t done anything yet!” Ye Qingxuan smiled. He glanced at the slim figure wearing a gray robe and said, “Lola, do something to make it quiet. It is too noisy and annoying.”

  Hearing this, the girl grinned and began to play the bone flute. Immediately, a frightening illusion appeared again.

  Lola played twenty-four musical movements one by one, and the clothes of original sin had been dragged into the deepest illusion. The “goodnight” almost made it go crazy; the “frozen rain” nearly broke its heart; the “wet dreams” created many temptations that were hard for it to resist; the “white head” sapped all its strength; the “crow” made it see an ominous scene… at last, the “old musician” degraded its music theory to a lower level.

  The energy of the clothes of original sin was continually being w
eakened. Soon, its energy dropped from the level of Peak Scepter to the level of Greenhand Scepter. If it were not an artifact that possessed Paganini’s powerful and systemized music theory, it would have already been weaker than a Master.

  The clothes of original sin was shocked by this and wanted to know where Ye Qingxuan managed to find this powerful Master of illusions!

  Compared with Ye Qingxuan’s flexible and unpredictable style, the twenty-four music movements made the clothes of original sin feel depressed and creepy.

  For a Master of illusions, if his illusions were see-through, the effect of his illusion would be greatly weakened.

  Throughout the ages, all the masters of illusion worked very hard to create an illusion that no one could see through.

  However, even if the clothes of original sin knew clearly it had been trapped in the illusion created by this girl, it still could not escape. It seemed to have been trapped in a quagmire, and no matter how hard it tried, it was all futile. As time went by, it sank deeper and deeper into the quagmire.

  Even worse, the clothes of original sin suddenly felt very cold, cold that it had never experienced before. Then it realized that it was being invaded by Ye Qingxuan’s music theory.

  “Ye Qingxuan, what are you!” it shouted through clenched teeth.

  This b*stard! How dare he invade my body and rewrite my music theory with his own, while I am sealed and trapped by this girl’s illusions!

  Inside the sticky blood, a raging cloud of dark air was struggling to get out. Everytime it slammed against the sticky blood, the illusions and seal that held it would grip even more tightly.

  Ye Qingxuan was standing right behind the sticky blood. Countless lines of moonlight extended from his ten fingers and connected themselves with the music theory of the clothes of original sin.

  Paganini’s music theory of Channeling Change, contained inside the clothes of original sin, was being altered by Ye Qingxuan.

  Ye Qingxuan wanted to completely rewrite its music theory and make it his own possession!

  Earlier, when he rose up from the operating table and stabbed a silver knife into Samuel’s head, he had already known that he was trapped in Ludovic’s underground palace. He knew that even if he defeated Samuel, there were still many dangers waiting for him.

  At that time, he gave up the idea of killing Ludovic, and instead he destroyed most of Samuel’s brian and drove him insane. Then he implanted a shred of his mind into Samuel’s brain.

  Then he made a scene in the palace and was willingly caught by the clothes of original sin.

  He knew he could not defeat it, so he stopped fighting back.

  But before he was caught, he had managed to make a connection with Lola, who was hiding outside the Sacred City via his Heaven Ladder, and send his position to her as well.

  With the help of her illusions and the information she got from Ye Qingxuan, as well as her bloodline of powerful blood musicians, she disguised herself as a disciple of Samuel and sneaked into the underground palace.

  When she approached the severely injured Samuel, she finished the process of brainwashing Samuel and totally destroyed his remaining defenses.

  After this, she brainwashed all Samuel’s disciples one by one.

  In fact, the so-called Vampire Musicians were just a bunch of copycats of hydrargyrum. So it was very easy for her to deal with them.

  She not only got the “blood of element,” but also implanted the purifying music movement into their bodies. When this business was done, she would give an order with her mind, and they would be burnt from the inside out and turned to ashes.

  When Lola was young, she was surrounded by thugs, and had lived in the downtown of Avalon ever since. She was born a monster, and her moral values had all been twisted.

  Her cruelty was really frightening.

  She controlled Samuel’s disciples’ consciousness, changed their music theory, and devoured their bodies.

  When she tried to get Ye Qingxuan out, he told her that he wanted to make the clothes of original sin his own possession.

  You want to make the clothes of original sin your possession? You must be crazy! It is an artifact that has Paganini’s personality, and besides, it also has its own consciousness! Maybe I am too old now, so I can’t understand this young man’s audaciousness and crazy ideas.

  Ye Qingxuan was attacking the clothes of original sin with the line of moonlight! He not only used the trick of “Nature Interference” of the Path of Domain, but also the trick of the “Path of Commandment.”

  In the school of commandment, students of the Path of Domain majored in the construction of music theory and planning of domain, while the students of the Path of Commandment majored in counterspells and the destruction of music theory.

  Earlier, Ye Qingxuan had been as strong as someone of the primary level, but now he had grown terrifyingly powerful.

  The clothes of original sin had already guessed that he would grow much, much more powerful in a few months, but it never thought that in just ten hours, Ye Qingxuan would grow this strong!

  Ten hours earlier, it could easily defeat Ye Qingxuan. However, now it could not even stop its own music theory being changed!

  “This is impossible!” The clothes of original sin gritted its teeth and felt that its consciousness in its core was about to collapse. “In just ten f*cking hours, he has grown this strong!”

  “There is no need to be so shocked,” Ye Qingxuan murmured. “Ten hours ago, only I was fighting with you.”

  Suddenly, the music movement of Fate inside his body began to expand and grow more powerful. Its structure became much more complex and sophisticated, more magnificent.

  Three minds that belonged to three different schools gathered in the music movement of Fate and resonated with each other, thus creating an infinitive energy.

  The clothes of original sin heard someone talking next to its ears.

  “Brother Zhiyi, goodbye!”

  In the blink of an eye, the music theory of Channeling Change inside its body collapsed. Along the lines of moonlight, Ye Qingxuan’s music movement of Fate crawled into its body and began to erode and change its body.

  The clothes of original sin started to shudder with silent screams.

  It felt that it was back in the smelter where it was created, and an invisible iron hammer was striking it until it fell to pieces… then it felt like it was being rebuilt.

  Its consciousness collapsed and its intelligence faded away.

  The personality Paganini left in its core was wiped away. It was being rebuilt by the music movement of Mind.

  The clothes of original sin lost.

  496 You Are Asking For…

  Half an hour later, Ye Qingxuan sat on the stairs outside the basement. In front of him, there was a closed door.

  He was in the Sforza Family’s underground palace. This palace was heavily guarded and well built. The door of the palace, of course, was also specially made as well. It was two meters thick and would not make any sound while being opened or closed. Besides, the wall was excellent soundproofing.

  “How desolate this place is.”

  Ye Qingxuan was sitting outside the door and smoking. He was not sure if there was someone screaming behind the door, since the sound of it was too weak.

  He could only hear the sound of a flute echoing in the underground palace.

  It was Lola who was playing the flute. All the guards in the underground palace had been bewitched by the sound of it. They stood in a line and walked out of the room.

  Ye Qingxuan had no idea what was happening behind the door. He could see the sticky blood continually oozing out from beneath the door.

  The blood flowed along the ground away from the door and down to the sewer.

  Ye Qingxuan put out his cigarette and looked at himself.

  Against the dim yellow light, he was wearing a strange long coat. This silver grey coat was made of some mysterious materials and had the same texture as silk an
d iron. Most importantly, Ye Qingxuan could change its form at will.

  It would turn into armor, or a uniform of the Anglo Royal Music School, or a long robe of the east, or a corslet that shrouded Ye Qingxuan’s whole body.

  In fact, this coat was the former clothes of original sin that had been transformed by Ye Qingxuan.

  The clothes of original sin inherited the music theory of Channeling Change from Paganini, and had also received the scepter of “Dark Sky.” It specialized in simulating reality with music theory and suppressing enemies on a large scale.

  Ye Qingxuan had managed to duplicate the “Governor Armor” inside the clothes of original sin’s body, and the “Sigh Sword” as well. Although the robe might have looked very ordinary, it actually worked better than gospel armor in defensive and auxiliary power.

  In a word, for a musician, it was even better than gospel armor.

  Ye Qingxuan had wiped the personality of Paganini from the clothes of original sin and degraded its level. Since he knew how powerful Paganini really was, he had also wiped out every mark Paganini had left on the clothes of original sin, even if he knew he would also cause the clothes of original sin to lose many powerful abilities.

  Flowing out, forming, creating, and moving… now, apart from the already transformed music theory of Channeling Change and Ye Qingxuan’s music movement of Fate, there was nothing inside the clothes of original sin’s body.

  In this way, Paganini could no longer take the clothes of original sin away from him. Ye Qingxuan could finally take as much time as he wanted to make good use of this divine object.

  For the first time, Ye Qingxuan realized the great benefits a divine object could bring to a musician.

  The Stone Sword was very powerful, and its tenacity and spirituality were even stronger than the clothes of original sin’s. But since it was the divine object of the Country of Anglo, it didn’t recognize Ye Qingxuan as its master.

  Currently, both the tenacity and spirituality had not been activated, so Ye Qingxuan could not bring the Stone Sword into full play, and could only use it to frighten others.

  In this situation, using the clothes of original sin as an auxiliary divine object could be of much help to him.