by Feng Yue
“Is this the last piece of destiny?” the third prince whispered softly. “Such an honor to see it.”
Different from the Stela of Destiny that stood in the Square of the Sacred City, it was once the unique “destiny” and real miracle.
The three kings of the first generation set up the Holy Caldron system on which they forged a holy relic named “Destiny”—the Spear of Destiny.
With that, humans had created a golden age for themselves.
The cost, though, was that it fell down and fell apart in the first battle between the Holy Caldron and the Hyakume. The three pieces that remained also dispersed into the world.
The owners of the pieces were eager to repair it and restore its former radiance.
The Pope of the second generation put one of the pieces into a furnace and used alchemy to sublimate the vast amount of metal into the “star antimony” of which the swords of the Popes and the “the Gate of Heaven” of the King of Red were made.
The second piece was later retrieved from the deep sea by the Knights of the Round Table.
Arthur’s descendants expected it to cut their destiny, take out the curse in their own blood and suppress the dragon’s blood. Therefore, they built it into a sacred gun to kill the dragon, named it “the dragon killer” and the “fallen iron.” Unfortunately, the final result was not satisfactory.
Well, this was the last piece held by the Chainsaw Fraternity.
“What a pity.” The third prince couldn’t help sighing.
A hand stretched out, picked up the piece of destiny, and held it in his hands. “There is nothing to be regretted about the dead things. As long as people still exist, they can be remade in the future…”
It was Bach.
He handed the long scepter in his hand to the third prince. “Go backwards. Ordinary people can’t bear the changes that will happen.”
“I am also a musician.” The third prince stood persistently. “Of the best kind.”
Bach glanced at him, smiled, and didn’t say anything.
In the next moment, the bass of a harpsichord sounded.
Like the sound of the Big Lu, it made the earth quake, and the aether trembled. All the music theories got involved in its frequency involuntarily and danced.
The third prince became pale, hesitated a second, and stepped back.
Then, one more step back.
518 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 an
d 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 covered 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…
519 Desperate Figh
Perceiving its own anomalies, the abyss shook violently and roared. It collapsed and reformed again and again, regardless of the innumerable big demons and monsters who were destroyed in the crazy process.
For the very first time, the Hyakume suffered the evil consequences of humanity’s infiltration of his divinity.
But Ludovic couldn’t help laughing, laughing loudly and with joy.
“Yeah, laugh, ha? You look better when you laugh,” Ye Lanzhou said sincerely. But when he spoke, he didn’t smile; his eyes were full of coldness, and his pale face was full of indifference.
“Born as a human, shouldn’t you laugh and face the pain?”
Ludovic’s body collapsed in the seal.
It was like a pile of bones covered with dark mist that boiled and strangled itself. Amidst the mist, Ye Lanzhou’s face was partly hidden and partly visible. Ludovic’s face struggled to occupy its position, but it couldn’t keep Ye Lanzhou from eroding it away.
At the end, the two faces seemed to blend into one deformed and ugly face.
The face seemed to be laughing, crying, raging, and sympathizing…
Numerous emotions rose one after another in Ludovic’s body, which made him like a gambler who fell into hell, desperate and regretful. He was also like a speculator who was heading towards the peak of life, happy and satisfied. Then he was like an old man who died in the company of his family, delightful and peaceful. At the same time, he became a young man who squandered his family properties and youth, but felt empty at heart…
In an instant, he became one human, then dozens of humans, living turbulent lives. Numerous emotions and perceptions flowed into his consciousness, burned like flames, then burst out.
Using Ludovic as a springboard, Ye Lanzhou pushed the innumerable emotions into the infiltrated body of the Hyakume!
Burning fire with oil!
Boom!
Under the impact and torture of countless emotions, Ludovic’s skeleton shook.
“Ye Lanzhou!!!” he shouted hoarsely. “Admit your defeat!”
Ye Lanzhou shook his head indifferently. “You have landed yourself in the human dimension. Why do you complain that human beings have defeated you with the rich experience of ‘killing the same species’?”
The scorching sun came down from the sky, its radiance running through the shattered black clouds and falling silently into the abyss.
From there, a sharp roaring sound burst out, one that seemed to have lost everything but pain.
At that moment, the abyss suddenly collapsed.
The giant monster shrank inwards, as if it was cramping unconsciously. Then it collapsed and reduced to a point that was small enough to be barely visible, and then suddenly expanded.
The impact of terror swept through the entire aether world.
Unprecedented turbulence and changes were happening in the abyss, from which countless incomplete skeletons of demons were thrown out, including the Abyss Black Branches, Menti, which also uttered a painful shout.
In that instant, the abyss seemed to have been torn in half, revealing grievous cracks and scars.
Numerous crazy eyes opened and darkened.
In the deepest part of the abyss, a beam of light shone silently. Like the light of an incomplete candle in the wind, it swayed in the abyss.
That was the remnant piece of the Spear of Destiny.
It was parasitic on the essence of the Hyakume, and almost integrated with it. In the darkest abyss, a beam of light was released.
The light was so faint and even darker than the insignificant stars.
But what it represented was yet so terrifying.
The Spear of Destiny didn’t kill or defeat the Hyakume. It didn’t even cause it to suffer any damage. Not shred of music theory was destroyed.
It just sent a glimmer to the darkness.
Even so, it was enough to have a terrible impact on the Hyakume.
Is darkness with light still darkness?
If a rare and unique art piece had a little flaw, it would fall in value.
A saint who was admired by people would fall from the altar if there was even a trace of misdeeds in him.
Even if there was just a hint of a clue, problems that were originally thought to be impossible to resolve would reveal their solutions.
The essence of the Hyakume was the absolute darkness that had split from the chaos of the Originator and the absolute evil of human beings. Once that was changed, its essence would become very different, or even… its divinity would collapse!
At that moment, the Spear of Destiny gave the abyss’s essence a heavy blow.
It tore up and then reorganized the core of the Hyakume, leaving it a fatal flaw.
It left a light in the darkest place .
The abyss was collapsing, and the deep and terrifying eyes that looked like stars were breaking and darkening…
Heavy damage!
Undoubtedly heavy damage!
For the first time ever, a human left such a terrible wound on t
he Hyakume that it couldn’t even maintain its own existence or the great music theory in the abyss. Even if it slept for thousands of years, it wouldn’t be able to heal the wound.
Although the heaven catastrophes didn’t die, they would still enter a long slumber and disappear from the world temporarily.
“The result has been set,” Ye Lanzhou said lightly. “You can make a curtain call. The next time, there will be a stage after a thousand years waiting for you.”
“Has been set?”
In the seal, Ludovic was suddenly set on fire from the inside out, from the core to the exterior, from bones to flesh and blood. The black fire of the abyss rose above his body.
Hoarse laughter burst from Ludovic’s body.
“You said to me… that the result has been set?”
The heavy body of the real Hyakume didn’t, as expected, escape, enter a long slumber, or return into nothingness with the abyss.
Instead, it devoted most of its strength to this incarnation!
One time, two times… ten times, one hundred times!
In a flash, the strength bursting from Ludovic’s body jumped to an unimaginably horrible degree. His face reappeared from his body, hideous, distorted, and hysterically frenzied, shouting out the choices of the moment with human emotions.
“Never!”
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
The soon-to-be-disintegrated abyss suddenly expanded, and an extremely loud ringing sound burst out of it again.
The crack that led to the Physical World suddenly expanded a hundredfold!
At the deepest part of the abyss, the massive body of the Abyss Black Branches was ignited and became a terrifying fire. Numerous root-like music theories extended and radiated the power of the Hyakume to the entire Physical World.
The dying god came to earth!
Calling and growling!
Announcing!
“Wake up, dark ministers!”
Countless chaotic meteors flew out of the abyss, fell to the Physical World at incredible speeds, and flew in all directions.
At that moment, in the Physical World, at the deepest part of the dark world, it was hard to know how many large thresholds were opened and led the way to the human world.