353 Barrier of Knowledge (1/2)

Five days. There were no traces or progress in five whole days. The frustrated musicians had flipped through the entire palace, pushing aside and smashing the statues and looking through all the coffins but they found nothing.

They did not find the King of Yellow, but they did find a dozen yellow cloths wrapped around corpses. It was enough for everyone to use for blankets at night. Some musicians were still investigating closely but many impatient ones had gone home already. Others had just started fighting the palace, practically beating each other's brains out. However, there was no progress.

The King of Yellow was still missing. His disappearance was strange and unnatural, dumbfounding everyone.

As the days passed, autumn was coming to an end and winter was coming. With the wind, Auschwitz's temperature dropped lower and lower. Many people changed into their winter clothes.

In the sky, gray clouds clumped together, brewing with a blizzard. It was rare to see sunlight. Under this suffocating atmosphere, many had either lost the motivation to continue searching or felt anxious to do something big.

Ever since Colt returned from the underground palace, he locked himself in the church's library. He rarely came out and his teammates gradually stopped contacting him.

In the library, the bedraggled Colt sat amongst scattered books. He read book after book of records in silence, trying to find some clues. However, it was to no avail.

After he flipped through the excavation records for the fifth time without any results, he closed the book expressionlessly. The book turned to dust under the angry aether waves and fell from his hands. The white dust fell into the scattered records on the ground.

”Those Romulusians…” Coldness flashed past his narrowed eyes. ”They must've hidden something important!”

It was a pity the Sacred City forbade musicians to do anything to the Romulusians. Otherwise, Colt definitely would not have wasted all this time. As he pondered in silence, his expression changed. He tried to think of a way to make the Romulusians talk.

Unfortunately, Caligula was a trickster who did not care about anything. He took drugs and drank every day. It was clear he was the worst off mentally of these refugees.

If Colt did something wrong, he could ruin it all. If there was a commotion, the School of Rock might get ordered directly by the Sacred City to modify itself and pay for it.

The current pope was not merciful. His tactics were comparable to the fifth pope who had resealed the Dragon of Armageddon. He was never lax with those who went against the Sacred City's orders.

The ring on his finger suddenly flashed while he was deep in thought. His eyes brightened. Pulling out a pitcher of water, he poured it out seemingly carelessly. However, the water never reached the ground. It turned into a thin water mirror in the air under the gently flowing melody.

This was just a medium. It was actually a projection from a scepter in the aether world. The 'Torchlight' that shrouded the School of Rock thousands of miles away now projected into his mirror. It also established the connection between him and miles away.

A blurry figure soon appeared in the water mirror. He said, ”Mr. Colt, there is news about what you wish to investigate.”

In the North, above Asgard's frozen earth, the School of Rock was perched at the peak of a cluster of mountains. It rose out of stone that contained a rich iron mine. It was the highest point on Earth and was the closest to the stars.

There contained the world's oldest School of Revelations and the source of all ”Starry Eye musicians”—the ”Secret Keepers.” Colt's teacher, Heisenberg, was one of those grandmasters.

For millenniums, the Secret Keepers received signs of the future from deep within the stars. They also listened to the voice of the earth. Under the guidance of the few generations of grandmasters, there were people all over the world to provide information to the Secret Keepers. They continuously provided secrets and messages, pushing the School of Secret Keepers closer and closer to the legendary point of 'all-knowing.'

As Heisenberg's student and the future inheritor, Colt naturally had the right to use this vast information web to his advantage. Now, days of silence later, he finally received feedback from the informants.

Colt only nodded. ”Speak.

”Ye Qingxuan is a member of the music history department of the Anglo Royal Academy of Music,” the man in the mirror said. ”This music academy is particular about heritage and knowledge. However, he was able to enter the academy with unprecedented full marks on the written exam.

”Because of his qualifications, he was seen as the disgrace of the academy, but those who mocked him all disappeared within the academy. During this year's school trials, he went against the entire academy by himself and won first place. At the same time, he helped an infamous failure of a senior graduate with the highest score…

”Within half a year, he went from a student with nothing to an official musician. He may even break into the Resonance level within a short period of time. His teacher is Abraham, who made the biggest ancient academia discovery within decades due to his interpretation of the Voynich Manuscript.

”I'm sure you've heard about the plagiarism scandal. According to investigation, Ye Qingxuan played a major role in this. To take revenge for the plagiarism, he singlehandedly forced Ingmar, professor of the School of Revelations, to insanity. Ingmar died in the asylum two months later, mysteriously just like everyone else who had wronged him before.

”This includes Gavin's brother Banner. Gavin had become enemies with Ye Qingxuan due to this and was affected. The entire Adrian family had fallen during Anglo's political cleansing last year…