Silent Crown

by Feng Yue

  “Until balance reappeared in the Originator.”

  “It is an insurmountable boundary, the guardian of the scale and itself. Therefore, human beings use the phenomenon of ‘the Silent Moon’ to describe it.

  “Because of it, the Hyakume had to make a detour and go into the Physical World. To get rid of the Silent Moon, the Hyakume paid a huge price.

  “In order to make itself complete again, it chose to start from the Holy Caldron… Unfortunately, it was down on its luck that year, and it offended me. That was why it got itself into such big trouble!

  “Sometimes, humans are terrible things.”

  Bai Xi looked at him in silence.

  “Are you finished?”

  “Yes.” Hermes nodded. “Why, did you miss something?”

  Bai Xi frowned. “Where is the consciousness that has been stripped from the Holy Caldron by humans?”

  “Who knows?” Hermes shrugged his shoulders and smiled meaningfully. He chose a very comfortable position to lie on the sofa, lowered his eyes, and whispered, “Perhaps it is still floating in the Originator…”

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  At that moment, Ye Qingxuan suddenly opened his eyes in the Central Temple with ecstasy.

  “Finally…”

  He looked into the deepest part of the Sacred City.

  “Found you!”

  514 Courage

  The low and deep sound of the harpsichord echoed in the air. Hearing this, the third son of the king began to feel more depressed.

  He backed away a few hundred steps, and finally felt the music theory inside his body begin to function properly again.

  In fact, the music theory itself had gravitational force. The steadier and more powerful a theory was, the stronger the gravitational force became. Sometimes, a person could be drawn in and killed simply by the force itself.

  Many people believe that the third son of the king would become a saint in ten years. However, he could not even stand the power of Bach, and was sweating like a beast. He was extremely shocked and terrified.

  Earlier, when Bach began to play the harpsichord, he immediately lost control of all the music theories inside his body. If he hadn’t managed to collect himself, he would have been killed by his own music theories.

  After he backed away a few hundred steps, he was finally relieved.

  Around Bach, everything with physical form had been replaced by the tumbling aether.

  The scepter had not revealed itself, but it had already turned the immediate surroundings into a world full of aether. With the sound of harpsichord echoing in the air, the music theory gradually changed and replaced all the principles and rules of the Physical World.

  Bizarre scenes began to appear in the huge snow plain, and at the same time, thunder crashed among the clouds.

  The clouds were glowing and some burning stars penetrated the clouds. The stars were flying across the sky!

  Each star was giving out frightening aether waves, and there were hundreds of stars. As they drew closer, he saw that the stars were actually holy spirits!

  There were one hundred and seventy holy spirits in this world, and they all gathered here today!

  Each of them was a powerful man or musician in his life, and each of them had developed their own interpretation of music theories and had pursued the truth of music theory.

  The burning stars were moving with the melody of Bach’s music, and all the holy spirit’s’ power fused together. Water and fire, heaven and earth, war and peace, and anger and mildness—countless elements that contradicted each other coexisted as Bach’s music played.

  “King of Blue, you are indeed something,” the third son of the king murmured. Throughout history, each musician who had been granted the title “King of Blue” or “Bach” was extremely powerful.

  There were hundreds of thousands of musicians in this world, and since each of them had their own way of interpreting music theories, there were also hundreds of thousands of different ways to interpret music theories.

  Bach had managed to grasp the core of all the different methods of interpreting music theories, and make them his own. Because of this, he was not confused by the constant changing of music theory, and managed to combine all the contradictory elements into a whole.

  One whose mind was trapped by insignificant or trivial things could never reach Bach’s level, and neither could someone who paid too much attention to themselves.

  Bach had managed to make the whole world his tool! Thus, he could freely play the music theory of Bach and take control of the huge system that was supported by the holy ax.

  Bach had turned the whole system of music theory into his own music movement! The magnificent and holy sound of harpsichord echoed in the air, and all the burning stars were trembling along with the sound, creating enormous power.

  “I will always obey you and do anything for you, your majesty.” The head of the holy spirits, who was wearing a silver crown above his head and holding an ancient sword in his hands, genuflected in front of Bach. “For the sake of the Sacred City.”

  The ancient sword began to make sound. Throughout history, every Pope had used it before. It stood for the glory and solemnity of the Sacred City.

  The Gate of Heaven!

  “For the sake of this world,” Bach murmured. He held the broken pieces of the Gate of Heaven and fate and said, “The killings that happened in the past, are happening now, and will happen in the future are all for the sake of justice.”

  “Please bless us.” Bang! There was a cracking sound and a ray of extremely bright light.

  The crowd backed away and covered their eyes with their hands; they were too scared to look. The broken pieces of the Gate of Heaven and fate were colliding with each other and making deafening noises.

  The blade of the Gate of Heaven fell into pieces. Gone was the long sword that represented the solemnity and glory of the Sacred City; instead, there came a ray of extremely bright light.

  Countless holy spirits began to play the solemn and holy “passion music”! Bach adjusted the music system and it began to operate, with the help of hundreds of scepters, he played a music movement that stood for the grief of God!

  Blue fire danced around his body. At that moment, he came out of his physical body and turned into a new existence. The blue fire that was dancing above his head formed into a real thorn crown.

  “Amen!” Bach gazed the sky and murmured. He continued to play the music and pushed it to its climax. At the same time, the whole seemed to have been buried in pure darkness, since Bach had changed all the light in the world into a burning spear!

  Both the Physical World and the Aether World were trembling! The power of the tumbling sea of aether spread in all directions, and in the next minute, it filled the whole human world, then broke the limit and poured into the Dark World.

  “The glory, the scepter, and the holy kingdom are all yours.” Bach stared at the burning spear in his hands and said, “Forever!”

  The next moment, the burning spear flew away. Everything in the world became still and was shrouded by the light of it. In the static world, only the burning spear was moving fast to the south, to the center of the world where the Sacred City was located, to the crack of the abyss.

  In the blink of an eye, the burning spear flew across the sea of aether and penetrated the abyss!

  Ludovic’s face was twisted by inhuman temperaments, and pure darkness was pouring out of the abyss. It struggled to leave, wanting to close the crack and go back to the state of “nothingness,” because only in this way could it prevent itself from being hit by the burning spear.

  The music theory created by the oldest three kings was burning inside the spear and giving out infinite light and heat. When it fell into the abyss, it would clear out everything that was in its way and destroy the enemies of God!

  Seeing this, Hyakume could no longer calm down and jumped out of the abyss. A ball of darkness rose up from the abyss; in the next moment, the darkness cov
ered the sky and condensed into a pure dark cloud.

  The crystals inside the cloud sparkled. The enchantment of the Sacred City was totally destroyed by the gravity of the cloud.

  In the Sacred City, those musicians who were not under protection exploded.

  Hyakume revealed his identity and played an extremely terrifying temperament.

  Stimulated by the gun of fate, Hyakume did everything he could do to transfer his energy to the Physical World to enhance himself.

  Meanwhile, he suddenly heard a mildly strange sound. The strange sound mixed with his music theory, and though it was mild, it almost destroyed his music theory.

  As his music theory was affected, so was his body. For the first time, Hyakume lost control of his own temperament.

  The strange sound came from… after realizing this, Ludovic shouted!

  “This is ‘fear.’” Ye Lanzhou smiled. “This is not my doing, and the reason it happened was because you were afraid.”

  Hearing this, Hyakume became furious.

  “Be patient.” Ye Lanzhou laughed and stretched out his hands to Ludovic. “We all have to go through tough times, and there is still much pleasure you have not experienced.”

  “Smile,” Ye Lanzhou said. “Smile for your life.”

  Hearing this, Ludovic’s face was twisted but he smiled as well.

  “Fear is part of humanity. Being afraid of fire, ferocious beasts, and death… and then we realized we could also be courageous,” Ye Lanzhou said. “Are you feeling very confident with yourself after hearing what I have said? Don’t be afraid, the entire human race is just motes of dust, and the so-called ‘Sacred City’ is just a shabby place, and even the gun of fate was trivial.”

  In the sky, the cloud suddenly shrunk to its half size, and it seemed that it was going to disperse. In the abyss, Hyakume scorned this world.

  The humble human being…

  515 F**k Your Mother

  In the dead silence, a horrifying voice came.

  Under the Sacred City, something was swallowing and drinking with great joviality!

  The monster that had been imprisoned under the Sacred City could finally have a great meal after having hungered for several hundred years.

  When people heard that sound, their expressions became extremely pale. They finally remembered that just under the Sacred City… was something they had totally forgotten.

  It was the horrible monster that caused a huge disaster even before the Remote Time, and burned half of the Sacred City to ashes. It was the real “natural enemy” of people in the Physical World.

  It was imprisoned hundreds of years ago, so nearly everyone had forgotten it or thought that it was already dead. But it was still alive after so many years of being imprisoned.

  It woke up from a long sleep and devoured the blood greedily, like eating manna.

  Once the monster was born, it was sealed by three kings of ancient times working together. It had only woken up once, but almost destroyed the entire Sacred City.

  It was a crowned beast.

  The dragon of disaster!

  “Wake up, sleepy son!”

  Ludovic laughed, stretched out his hands, and shouted, “The long sleep is over! Continue this blood sacrifice and turn everything into ashes!”

  The response was the roaring of the dragon from the deepest part of the earth!

  The steel city trembled, and everyone was unable to stand steadily in this terrible turmoil. The earth shook as if there were great waves rising up under the ground. The ripple-like quake emerged on the steel ground.

  Snarls sounded from deep within the earth.

  It was like a giant monster had finally gotten free.

  The loud noises continued.

  The earth distorted, and the steel structure buried deeply under the ground was torn up and contorted by an enormous force.

  With the loud roar, fiery flames rushed out of the earth, rose upward through small cracks, forming a well of blue fire.

  In an instant, the Sacred City was like a steel cauldron on fire, and people felt the horrible heat from hell.

  The flames burst out from the inside, lit and melted the steel. The melted steel spread in all directions with the blue fire of natural disasters.

  At that moment, in the central square, the earth was burnt red by the fire, and slowly bulged like a soap bubble blown by children.

  Snap!

  It sounded as if a huge pustule broke open.

  The hot and poisonous fire blew out.

  Surrounded by the flames of terror, the central square had become a big hole, like the entrance to hell. Something furious was snaring, and climbing upwards from down there. It couldn’t wait to pounce on the long-lost light!

  People’s music theories were driven away just by the bellow of the dragon.

  People who heard that, no matter how far they were away, lost their minds at the same time. They trembled, knelt on the ground. Then they went insane with their consciousness frozen by their own fear.

  There was no reason for that.

  They seemed to be unable to resist the greedy appetite shown through the bellow; everything was doomed!

  “This is your end,” Ludovic mocked, looking at the indifferent King of Red. “Accept your fate, because it was given by God! It was born to be your calamity and end. All struggles will be completely useless, and what you need to do is resign yourself to your fate with sincerity. “

  From the very beginning, the Red Dragon of Doom was a weapon that was created by Hyakume to fight against humanity.

  In an effort to clear up the remaining people in the Physical World, the Hyakume stepped over time and intercepted from the Originator a future era that should have been after thousands of years—a record of humanity’s destruction and end.

  It took him a lot of effort to integrate it with a growing natural disaster embryo.

  The destruction in the future was born hundreds of years in advance. What was created was a natural disaster weapon especially targeted at humanity.

  The Red Dragon of Doom!

  Its arrival declared the end of mankind.

  No measures nor creations of humans could change their fate.

  The core scepter element determined humanity’s extreme fear of it.

  It was the symbol of despair, an entity of destruction, and the doom of humanity that came ahead of schedule.

  Human couldn’t kill it, or even defeat it. What they could do was to delay the doomsday through all the measures that they could adopt.

  The ancient three kings paid heavily with blood to seal it and exchanged for three hundred years of peace. Hundreds of years ago, the King of Red of that age took the risk of turning many sacred gears into a shackle, which might have been at the cost of the entire Sacred City, all holy spirits and hundreds of scepters, and sealed the dragon under the Sacred City.

  It was sealed in a place that seemed to be the safest in the world…

  Hundreds of years had passed and it had not yet died.

  At an unprecedented juncture of the Sacred City, having been nourished by Hyakume with blood, it finally broke away from the seal and climbed out of the deepest part of the Sacred City.

  It climbed up, and up…

  It marched toward the place with light frantically, swiftly, wanting to return to the sky that belonged to it. It stretched out its wings, and dropped a shadow of death on the earth again.

  The end was coming!

  But at that moment, like an illusion, Ludovic saw…

  On the stony face of the King of Red appeared a mocking smile.

  In the next moment, the hot and red earth was suddenly broken, and the angry red dragon finally…

  Broke out!

  Dead silence.

  Still dead silence.

  All people were stunned and stared at a skeleton with a broken skull, messy flesh and blood, and an incomplete body…

  Was this the Red Dragon of Doom that the legend said could bring an end and destruction
to humanity?

  What a joke!

  It was obviously a large roast chicken left by someone!

  The bloody, giant dragon crawled out from under the ground, struggling to fly in the air and making pained groans, as if it was running for its life.

  Ludovic froze.

  He was dumbfounded.

  In the dead silence, one giant hand reached out from a crack in the ground and grasped the remaining wing of the Red Dragon of Doom gracefully.

  Like tearing a piece of paper, the wing was pulled off.

  The giant hand drew back, and a creepy chewing sound came out of the depths of the crack, as if it was chewing chicken wings and swallowing them bony.

  Immediately afterwards, the giant hand stretched out again, groped on the ground, and got stained with the flames of the melted steel on the ground. Then it broke down the body of the Red Dragon of Doom and dropped it into its mouth.

  There was only the fierce roaring of the Red Dragon of Doom in the dead silence.

  In the end, it was pulled back into the crack while it struggled and screamed out of fear. Then the chewing sound came out again. After a long time, a skull that had not been chewed up was spat out.

  The bare skull was flew out of the crack, fell onto the ground, rolled, and eventually dropped into the melted steel that was gradually solidifying. In the end, it was like it had been welded onto the steel.

  It became a quirky sculpture.

  Dead silence.

  Still dead silence.

  Everyone stared at the crack, dumbfounded. They were guessing what was hidden there, that could chew such a monster like a snack.

  Numerous aether fears spewed out of the crack in the dead silence.

  A vague shadow was visible within.

  The huge and distorted shadow seemed to have three heads and hundreds of arms, holding flames, lightning, swords, and Aquarius in those hands that could destroy everything!

  That was…

  “Hecatoncheir?!” Ludovic’s body trembled with anger, and his dark face twitched. He snarled, “You stupid monster with an empty body! Don’t you forget the pain you’ve suffered! You chose to stand on the human side. I want to cut you into pieces!”