481 Thou Shall Bow (1/2)
The world shook. The vast iron city seemed to be stifled. Water rippled across the land and an illusory moon rose up.
Alarms rang throughout the Central Church. The sudden burst of aether released enough danger signals, frightening the surveillance musicians. They looked up in shock and studied the starry sky above them that represented the Sacred City. Amongst the glittering stars, there was a shocking white space.
There was nothing there but it glowed hotly.
”What is that?”
”Why is it blessed by the Bell Tower?”
”It was a request from the Silent Authority one hour ago! Wait…” The worker in charge of recording froze and looked up blankly. ”The blessed is…Ye Qingxuan?”
Ye Qingxuan? Who was Ye Qingxuan?
Everyone sank into confusion. This was beyond the range of a grandmaster. The aether waves were practically into the scepter territory…Which school's representative had stepped out? The name sounded like an Easterner.
”Is it the one who murdered someone at the city gate?” someone murmured in the silence. He made himself laugh before he even finished. But no one around him laughed. He continued awkwardly in the dead silence until finally, he stopped. Everyone stared at each other with pale faces.
”He is only the Disturbance level. This should be impossible. Even with the Bell Tower, he shouldn't have that ability.”
”Most importantly, what is he doing at this time?” someone muttered. ”I remember…isn't he on the wanted list?”
Dead silence.
”F*ck!” someone yelped. ”Alert the Papal Chamber!”
The alarms went off.
Chaos spread.
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Two minutes ago, the white moon rose up from the ruins of the Judgement Tower and hung in the air. Material objects had a gravitational pull. The Moonlight score was performed with a grandmaster's power. Integrated with Ye Qingxuan's sub-originator, it turned into something terrifying. Absorbing the immense amount of aether, it turned into a beast.
Innumerable music theories were born, destroyed, and evolved in the moon at any given second; finally, it turned into a terrifying 'gravitational pull.' It distorted reality, pulling all rules toward it.
The territory under the moonlight became uninhabitable. Under the rumbles, Passion and Moonlight clashed. Instantly, it seemed that two large vortexes collided in the aether sea. Thunder, fire, and the earth crashed. At the core, no one knew how many horrible explosions occurred.
Reality was torn apart instantly. Countless strange illusions came out in the turbidity. It seemed to become an absolute vacuum with nothing in it. However, it had a stifling sense of murder.
In the void, something seemed to still be alive. It fought against the white moon without falling back. Terrible waves spread instantly, destroying all aether waves in the proximity. The musicians flying in the air dropped to the ground. They would have turned into ground meat if not for the timely rescues.
The white moon was still rising.
The abominable object was crawling up into the sky. With each inch, its wild attraction multiplied. At this moment, it was trying to push the purple-eyed griffin beneath. The strength of the white moon's disturbance was heavier than a mountain. If not for Passions' effect, the griffin would have been squashed long ago!
The music theory changed and under the intense disturbance, the white moon 'stepped' on the griffin to rise up into the sky. The immense attraction pulled at the aether sea, transforming it into something tangible. It turned into a sea of moonlight that protected the moon.
It was like a mountain.
In that case, the purple-eyed griffin was like terribly sturdy alloy. No matter if it was blades, lightning, or thousand-time magnified pressure, his self-protection and music theory were still unmoved.
This was extreme self-preservation. No matter how the outside world changed, he could still keep the music theory in order and unaffected. Inside the 'vacuum,' the griffin released the grating melody. Flames danced around him.
Under the griffin's mask, the purple eyes burned with cold light.
Among the countless wails and noise, a hoarse voice began singing. ”Rest in peace! Rest your tired body!”
Riding the terrible sound, the griffin guided the solemn melody to the climax. Thus, countless people began roaring in the cacophony.
”Eli, Eli, lama-asabthani!”
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Ye Qingxuan was aghast. Blood trickled from his nose.
”It is…”
The moment Passion was played fully, the still-tangible and solid music theory shot out from the griffin's limbs and buried themselves in the air. The response came from the Sacred City's enchantment.
Under the shrill alarms from all the departments, his music theory forcefully entered the enchantment! Just as how Ye Qingxuan had once tried to control Avalon's enchantment, the griffin was now trying to steal the Sacred City enchantment's power?
What a madman!
The nature was the same but the difficulty was day and night. One was a failing enchantment that had not been maintained n years. The other was the incomparable weapon and the largest object in the world!
Since its establishment, the Sacred City enchantment had been absorbing the endless power of the aether sea. It continuously adjusted all rules and music theory in the city. At its peak, there had been more than two thousand musicians working for it… Even a scepter would be unable to take a shred of its power without permission!
But Ye Qingxuan began sweating.
A gust of power rose out of thin air and gushed into Passion… It was a success? Such a fast and easy success?
While he was sensing, the territory of the Judgement Tower separated from the Sacred City enchantment and became something individual. The griffin had used some sort of authority and key to snatch the Central Church's control command. Before they could react, he had used Passion to break into the outer shields and decipher the core music theory, turning it into his own…
Ye Qingxuan clenched his jaw and swore. This was getting bad!
”How dare you!” The auras of countless saints in the wind tunnel above the Papal Chamber raged.
The music theory operating in the air unfurled. Under the control from the other end of the wind tunnel, the attack came. Dozens of blazing light streaked past. The world rumbled and shook as the lights were swept into the duel between the moon and griffin. Light bright enough to burn eyeballs shot out.