602 The Path to the Top (2/2)
the sky and gave a weird smile.
Arthur stared at the young man, shocked.
The young man raised the shabby scroll in his hand slowly. And he said, ”let
there be light…”
Then, there was light.
A pure white moon quietly raised out of the reflection in the sea. It was
shinning brightly. The light full of peace and tranquility filled the whole country
of shadow, giving life to the deserted realm of the dead. The grand music
theories of the Genesis were operating in the moon light and covered the
whole city in the shadow. By the will power of Ye Qingxuan, the combination
of ultra-light domain music theories and ultra-fine music control brought great
changes to the situation. It was as if time were flowing back.
The shattered streets were coming back to its original appearance, the
collapsed walls began to rebuild themselves and broken beams and columns
began to rise from the ruins. Then, bricks flew back to their original position
from all over the city. The city was being pieced together
In a short time, the city was intact again as if nothing had happed to it at all.
The floor was clean, the walls were shiny, and the oil painting on the roofs
were as fresh as it had ever been.
The hundreds of years of time was turned back in a split second. The heaven
on earth, which had been sucked out of all its resources and values, revived
from the ruins and was now full of moonlight and miracles.
And all the power needed for this, was drawn from the path of godly
ascension, which should have belonged to Arthur only.
Like a burglar broken into a treasure vault, he stole all the treasures and then
used all of them up in a blink of his eyes. Everything was wasted. And all this
was done in front of the owner of the vault.
This was ridiculous!
”This is not right! Not right!” Arthur opened his eyes and stared at the sword in
his hand. He figured everything out instantly and roared, the firebirds rioting
around him, ”the sheath, where is the sheath? Maxwell! Where is my
sheath?!”
Arthur drove the firebirds onto the stone sword, which shook violently, causing
the breaking of numerous music theories. The soul in the stone sword
suffered great pain, yet instead of moaning, he burst out a crazy laugh.
Where is the sheath? Where can it be? Of course it was where it should be!
At that moment, with the heaven on earth being restored, the rhythm of the
Chapter of the Golden Victory sounded all over the space, from the center of
the country of shadow.
In the imperial court, the white-dressed young girl who had been prisoned by
Arthur for hundreds of years sat on the throne. Golden firebirds filled the
whole space like ocean tides.
All the power that Arthur had prepared for himself for the godly ascension was
under the control of the new king. With the power of the whole Anglo
converging with her, numerous music theories weaved a virtual figure of the
sheath in the ocean-deep golden firebirds behind her.
In the reflection, the figures of the golden hunt dogs were looming. They were
looking at Arthur coldly. They were as proud as ever.
The new king had the same blood of Leviathan, the same Chapter of the
Golden Victory, the same key to the stone sword and the same rhythm of King
of Anglo enhanced by the Pomp and Circumstance (March) I.
The heaven on earth supported by the Genesis re-appeared, bringing with it
the pull no less than that of Avalon's to fight for the power of Leviathan against
Arthur.
Thus, the path of godly ascension was divided into two!
Several hundred years ago, on the day when Arthur was to ascend to be a
god, Maxwell betrayed him and cut off the path to godly ascension. Maxwell
also left Arthur a severe wound on his chest and he anticipated the coming of
this day at even that time.
He knew that Arthur would come back one day and re-start the path of godly
ascension.
Yet, due to the core music theories of the stone sword, Maxwell couldn't kill
Arthur or himself. So, after he wounded Arthur severely, he chose to injure
himself. Then, the music theories of the stone sword were divided into two
parts, one of which was under Maxwell's control and the other sealed in the
sheath. He endured the suffering of division and threw the sheath into the
dark world. To keep it at a place as far as possible to Arthur, he even
entrusted it to the church to seal and hide it.
The stone sword then became incomplete and the path to godly ascension
was thus divided into two.
If Hermes could see this, he would have laughed heartily. The dead king took
the throne on the earth, yet the king of the human world struggled in the realm
of the dead…This is hilarious!
”What a pity, your majesty.” Maxwell's hoarse voice was heard from the
sword, ”it seems that your path to godly ascension will have to end here…”
Suddenly his laughter stopped and a painful roar was heard.
With no obvious expression on his face, Arthur clenched his fist and said,
”Lancelot.”
”Your majesty.” Lancelot half-kneeled.
”Your sword is broken. Take this one instead.” Arthur stretched his arm and
the Lance of the Dragon Slayer fell onto his hand. The dragon slaying music
theories became iron hot when in contact with his hand.
Holding the blade of the spearhead, he let it sucking his dragon blood until the
shaking lance went quiet as if satisfied.
He gave the lance to Lancelot. Then, he waved his hand. The dark firebirds
converged and the masters of the first-generation royal music divisions
emerged from the shadow. Those people had given all their lives to king
Arthur. And now, the symphonies of predestination engraved on the bottom
layer of the city were waken up. The holy spirits sealed in the symphonies,
with the firebirds as their carriers, came back to the human world with all their
powers.
Driven by the will power of Arthur, the firebirds enveloping numerous music
theories were transmitted onto Lancelot and turned into a virtual dark sun.
”I bestow upon you the power of catastrophe. Take the royal music division
and crush those who dare to claim my throne.” The furious king, sitting on the
throne, gave his order, ”bring my sheath and my power back to me!”