Silent Crown - Chapter 514: Blood Rain

Chapter 514: Blood Rain

The Holy Palace of Sarroman had turned into a scary region that had been cut off from the human world. 

The light was distorted; the storm was sweeping across the land, and the burning flame rose up and became a cloud in the sky.

Steel and iron were melted in the cloud of fire. The steel and iron liquid then fell onto the ground. It dropped on the ground and blossomed.

The broken holy statues stood on the ground and were hit by the droplets of steel and iron liquid. For some statues, their heads were surrounded by their arms, and their distorted faces were full of despair or grief.

For other statues, there were only two hollow eyes left on their faces. The rain of iron was flowing across their cheeks, and it looked like they were crying.

It seemed that everything here was being transformed by a pair of scary hands. The big hands crushed both heaven and hell into pieces, mixed them together, and created a malformed hybrid.

In the middle of the palace, the Holy Ax was floating in the air.

Inside the Holy Ax, the most fierce fight in the Aether World was still ongoing. The light and the dark were fighting against each other, and the sound of the holy anthem of heaven and the whining of the abyss were echoing in the world.

Hyakume was gradually approaching the Pope. 

The black grains were spreading on the surface of the ax and nearly covering the whole body of the ax.

On the backside of the Holy Ax, the Pope was expressionless, and his holy and solemn face was full of tiny cracks and looked like over-burnt porcelain.

On the other side, Ludovic, the former dark Pope, was exerting the magnificent power of its scary original form—a catastrophe .

The Holy Ax was their battlefield. They fought against each other so hard, trying to be the one that got to sit on the throne of God.

Countless music theories intertwined with each other and destroyed each other. They were broken again and again and repaired again and again; they would all vanish together in the blink of an eye, then be reborn and declare a new fight in the next instant.

Obviously, Hyakume had the advantage. It had waited for a few centuries and had tried numerous ways to reach this day. Now, it finally made it.

With the help of the infinite power projected from the Aether World, Ludovic had become the only incarnation of Hyakume. He managed to protect himself from every attack from the Pope, or the King of Red, who was in a defensive state.

The bell towers in the enchantment of the Sacred City were ringing, and the Sacred City finally began to function again and seclude itself from the outside world.

Numerous music theories formed a huge buffer layer between the Physical World and Aether World. The connection between Hyakume and Ludovic was affected by the buffer layer and Ludovic started to find it hard to move freely.

Moreover, the former dark Pope’s body that was made of pure darkness began to weaken and thin. In a short while, the King of Red leveled the score.

“It seems that things are not going as you have planned,” the King of Red said coldly. “You waited for this day for such a long time and you were so well prepared, and still I have managed to level the score. You have already lost in this regard; are you sure that you want to continue this fight? Hyakume, be sensible! You still have to retreat, remember this world will never be yours.”

“This world will not be mine?” Ludovic sneered. “F*ck off! Don’t pretend, I know you! To forcibly occupy the originator, the human race has fallen onto the wrong path. They consider themselves justice and condemn us for our degradation, while doing dirty jobs… It is your church group who has destroyed the past and the future of humanity, and it is you who wiped away the bad deeds you have done in the past! You are such a coward, since you do not dare to let others know what really happened before the dark age!”

“I did it for humanity’s sake.” Inside the body of the King of Red, ten Popes all replied together. “As for whether we are right or wrong, it is up to history to judge, not you.”

“Hahahaha!” Ludovic laughed. He then moved closer to the Pope and managed to stop the Pope from fighting back.

He pressed on the brink of the Holy Ax with both of his hands and held it tightly, as if he wanted to absorb it into his body. He began to laugh, and at the same time, the Holy Ax resonated with him and trembled with his laughter.

“See? Only I can make it to resonate with me!” Ludovic stared at the King of Red. “All these years, you have regarded me as a devil and your enemy. You all know that my power originates from you, but you never admit it. Why not tell this to the humans? I am the only proof of the existence of your God!” A magnificent sound from the Aether World came out from Ludovic’s body. “I am the only incarnation of that illusory God!”

“You are just a defective good.” The Pope shook his head. “You are just like Arthur, who had the ambitious dream of becoming a catastrophe and building a holy kingdom of his own. He then chose the road to degradation and you… throughout history, countless existences have tried in vain to be a God. You, Arthur, and all the other ambitious catastrophes are all the same! God’s throne is right in the originator, but no one could ever get close to it!”

Bang! 

The body of the King of Red began to collapse again, and burning hot holy light shone from his body.

A shimmering Crown of Light appeared on the top of the Pope’s head. It looked like a god-bestowed scepter, both magnificent and glorious. A ray of light flew out from the crown and into the Holy Ax. Immediately, the ax turned red and hot, and Ludovic’s hands were burned. He removed his hands and stepped a few steps back.

“Hyakume, the ax does not belong to you either!” the King of Red said coldly.

Hearing this, Ludovic laughed very hard, as if he were insane.

“If you say so, then let the ax float in the air then!”

The music note of destruction was played.

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In the wilderness outside of the Sacred City, a figure walked out from nowhere. He was wearing a bone mask and black clothing, and riding on a scarlet horse.

An old crow hovered above his head and shouted in human language, “He is coming! He is coming! The most glorious man is coming! Death is coming!”

It the flew to the Sacred City and hovered above the city and shouted so loud that everyone in the city could hear it. 

“Wait and see, you ignorant! The sky is going to break, the land is going to shake, you will all be burned to ashes by his anger! Wait and listen, you faithless! The living will scream, and the dead will whine, life and death are going to be controlled by him! Wait and tremble, you betrayers! The abyss is going to open, and hell will befall you, and every living thing in the world will become his servant!”

The crow’s sound was echoing in the air. The knight in black took out a horn and began to blow it with all his strength. The horn’s sound was piercing and echoing in the Sacred City, as if there were tens of millions of ghosts screaming.

Bang! It was thundering and lightning.

Everyone was scared and worried. They could feel something approaching nearer and nearer!

Just as the crow had said, the sky broke, a huge crack appeared in the sky, and one could see the infinite darkness behind. An air of the abyss spurted out of the crack, and it was deep, dark, and full of viciousness. The air began to quake and the rule of the Physical World began to crumble. Even the sun dimmed and almost disappeared.

The long crack and the dim sun hanging in the sky together looked like a bizarre eye. The eye stared at the world, and it was full of cruelty and coldness. Anyone who looked at it would lose their mind and the ability to counterattack.

In the core of the enchantment, Ye Qingxuan closely felt the terrible impact, and his soul was almost taken away by it. He was in terror and chaos.

He forced himself to cut off the connection between himself and the enchantment. He was sweating like a beast and breathing heavily. Right at this moment, in the central holy temple, all the aether waves in the star chart dimmed and dispersed. There was a huge dark whirlpool floating above the stars. The whirlpool was the frightening path to the abyss, and the door opened by Hyakume in the aether world as well.

“What do you want to do?” Ye Qingxuan stared at the whirlpool, stunned. He saw countless music theories moving inside the whirlpool…

The scarlet blood spurted out and flew along the crack and dropped onto the human world. A rainstorm of blood was sweeping across the entire world!

“Blood?” Ye Qingxuan was stunned.

In the abyss, numerous devils were whining together. Led by Hyakume, many devils exploded one after another. Their blood gathered together and formed a magnificent stream.

On both sides of the blood stream, the demogorgons suddenly began to bleed. In the blink of an eye, they became a few dried corps and fell into the bloodstream.

The blood stream then flew out from the abyss and into the human world. The rain of blood poured down, and the sun turned red and shone in a bright red color.

The bizarre eye was still staring at this world. 

The enchantment turned extremely weak. The whole iron and steel-made Sacred City became red as well. Surprisingly, the blood was alive, and it flowed on the surface of the steel and iron and infiltrated into them.

The next moment, the rain of blood stopped. The blood water was infiltrating deeper and deeper into the earth and gathered together underground. 

The seed of Disaster was absorbing the blood water.