600 The Way of Relief (1/2)
Now Ye Qingxuan understood what Mary meant. It was not Leviathan that
was to be resurrected. It would never be…
Ye Qingxuan deciphered the alchemy metrics, reading the remained
messages in there to dig out the dark facts that had been buried there in the
long history of time and piece them together to get the facts.
No body knew exactly why Arthur had failed to finish his path of godly
ascension. However, the path didn't seem to have failed, it was rather paused
due to some unexpected cause.
All the alchemy metrics that were running smoothly indicated this. everything
was running perfectly as anticipated by Hermes. All the steps were taken,
except the final crucial step – to turn Arthur into a catastrophe.
The consciousness of the Leviathan was wiped out and all its power
separated from her, waiting to be endowed upon Arthur.
Yet the path stopped right there. And with this one final step less, the path
went nowhere.
Although no one knew what happened exactly, the result was as seen by
everyone. The failed Arthur was sealed in the palace in the Shadow of Avalon
and the power of Leviathan, separated from its owner, turned into a periodical
phenomenon and tried to converge to its core to finish the last step of the
path.
That as the cause of everything. The hundreds of years of suffering and pain
began.
As long as Arthur was alive, the power of Leviathan would never disperse and
would come back again and again. And what's the funniest, was the fact that
it was the descendants of his – his descendants who had inherited the dragon
blood and the curse that had been stopping Arthur taking the last step in the
hundreds of years.
On one hand, every generation of the royal family had tried to reinforce the
seal of the Shadow of Avalon. Yet on the other hand, they sucked the power
of Leviathan out with their dragon blood royal family members as bait, and
then destroy the power together with the family member to postpone the last
step of the path of godly ascension.
This was a paradox. Without the dragon blood, the royal family member could
not control the defense line of Anglo to stop Leviathan's power from coming
back. Yet anyone with the dragon blood could not resist the order given by
Leviathan, or we should say, Arthur. The bloodline of Leviathan endowed
them with power, and with it, the curse.
Just like Ye Qingxuan, he could not fight against even several drops of blood
of Leviathan, not to mention Leviathan itself. Ye Qingxuan could never get rid
of the threat of the curse without the Blood of Deva which was not afraid of
the iron of decay.
Once the dragon blood got dense enough to wake up the firebird, the beast
nature in the dragon blood would gradually control the consciousness of the
host. It would break the stability of the host's mind and cause wickedness and
madness. Mary was the example for this.
Ye Qingxuan fell silent. After a while, he suddenly raised his head and looked
coldly at the bottle in Shi Dong's hand. ”Is there anything you haven't told me
yet?”
The shadow in the bottle shivered and said frightfully, ”I've told you
everything! I've told you everything that I know.”
Ye Qingxuan heaved a sigh and waved his hand. Shi Dong smiled and raised
his hand. Then, he began to shake the bottle violently. He liked this so much,
and would never miss any chance to do it. While playing with it, he felt he
could live for another hundred years.
The fire writhed like water, bringing suffering and pain beyond the limit. This
was the fruit of hundreds of years of wisdom of the Religious Court of
Inquisitors, and it was inflicted upon the Dark Sovereign without any mercy.
He shouted curses; he roared in pain; he moaned in weakness; and finally, he
could not give any sound. He was like dead. Shi Dong stopped shaking the
bottle.
Looking at the bottle coldly, Ye Qingxuan said, ”is there anything you want to
say now? like, why did you make so many efforts to control Mary and bring
her to the Palace in the Shadow of Avalon?”
The figure in the bottle twitched in pain and managed to say, ”body… Arthur
needs a new body…”
The figure in the bottle didn't dare to hide anything anymore and spilled out
everything he knew, ”Arthur cannot hold it any longer. His body is dying and
was jointing with the seal…To get freedom, he must have a new body…”
Silence fell. Sitting on the ground, Ye Qingxuan lit up the cigarette on his lips.
”You should tell earlier.”
Understanding the order, Shi Dong went to the side and began to shake the
bottle like crazy.
Ye Qingxuan smoked the cigarette in silence, looking grim. He finally figured
out why Maxwell rebelled: he had to kill Mary. He had to do it because the
dragon blood in Mary's veins was too dense. She should have died 15 years
ago after all the suffering and pain. Yet Hermes prolonged her life, together
with the curse – the dragon blood would grow stronger with time. If Ye
Qingxuan got it right, Elizabeth's dragon blood was too dense, it was beyond
the limit. To pass the throne down to Mary smoothly, she turned herself into a
monster.
Yet at the same time, she became a spare body for Arthur.
After Maxwell's assassination, Elizabeth got killed by the Lance of Dragon
Slayer. The dragon blood in her body began to deteriorate and the body was
thus unusable. That left Arthur only one choice.
Mary.
To control Arthur, the Dark Sovereign struck first. He planned to take Mary in
his hands and use her to threaten Arthur. Otherwise, if Arthur was resurrected
and took control of Leviathan's power, he would have the combined power of
the scepter of heaven and the power of the king of hell and there would be no
chance to have him under control.
Yet, he planned everything except one thing – he was abandoned by Arthur.
Or, Arthur had never trusted him from the very beginning.
Ye Qingxuan raised his head and gazed at the dark sky above.
Is it too late now?
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