644 Stone Plate (2/2)

As the first round of cruel showdowns in the city ended, the number of aether waves that could be sensed was directly reduced by one-third. Meanwhile, as the fights came to an end, silence came.

The musicians subdued their respective aether waves and hid into the shadows.

But just as they did so, mighty bell tolls sounded again.

They rang out from the sky.

The phantom image of the Holy Cauldron slowly emerged.

A glistening glow of scarlet rippled within, as if the Holy Cauldron was filled with blood. It was the music theory that the Symphonies of Predestination of the countless deceased in the Ultimate had gathered into, the essence that had remained after undergoing refinement by the Holy Cauldron.

As everyone gazed at it, the blood-colored music theory rose and turned into a mist of rain, sprinkling down from the air. But it passed through each person's body and fell on the ground on the Ultimate.

It was like a phantom.

The phantom blood sank into the bottommost layer of the Ultimate, irrigating the catastrophe that was being nurtured. Then, the huge city quaked violently.

Innumerable ruins rapidly restored themselves.

It was as if tens of thousands of invisible workers had begun to carry out the process of construction rapidly, The gaps on the broken roads were closed once more, the collapsed walls were re-erected, and the dilapidated buildings were restored to their original shape.

Although they were still covered in the traces left by age, were full of weeds, and looked to be in an unparalleled state of decline, they had taken a step towards restoring themselves to an intact state.

For some reason unknown, the style of design of the post-restoration landscape, the countless buildings, and the huge city... seemed to have gotten closer to that of the Sacred City.

It was probably the infection of the catastrophe by the Holy Cauldron. When the restoration of the city was totally complete and the catastrophe was born, the city would have probably become exactly the same as the Sacred City.

And right in the middle of the city, amid countless broken bricks and tiles, a huge foundation quietly emerged.

It was like the foundation of a great palace.

And in the disorderly foundation, a ray of light rose upwards.

The light paused in the sky, and everyone got to see it clearly.

It was a fragment.

It was as if an ancient sundial was broken and the stone plate had fallen apart. One third of it revealed itself in the sky and hung high above the sky.

Pay attention to the stone plate.

Ye Qingxuan subconsciously remembered the words with no rhyme or reason that Liu Ran had spoken to him, and in a flash, he came to a sudden realization...

— The core of the catastrophe!!!

In an instant, everyone's eyes had turned green with desire.

Innumerable hidden aether waves suddenly rose upwards, like hundreds and thousands of stars that had suddenly emerged from the night, emitting dazzling light.

Then, a jaw-droppingly bright star appeared from within, and fiery bursts of light spilled down.

A scepter musician!

A scepter musicians had acted!

Huge elements rose from within the city. Countless music theory integrated with each other, the Symphony of Predestination that had combined with the elements was exalted and became a scepter. The scepter composed of music theory showed its corporeal form in the Physical World.

A majestic sun emerged.

Innumerable streaks of lightning and a horrifyingly great amount of heat were emitted from it, a loud rumble sounded, and a ghastly green light radiated from within, illuminating everyone who was nearby and making their hairs stand on end, as if tens of thousands of long needles were poking them.

It was an illumination that resembled the Iron of Decay.

The ghastly green light shrouded over the head of everyone who dared to approach it, as if someone was loudly shouting 'Of course you should choose to forgive her!' in their ears [1]. But what emerged in their hearts was not rage, but fear.

Wagon of Burke, the scepter musician!

He was the most talented genius of the school of modifications, a shadow that had been shrouding over countless musicians for centuries. He was widely recognized as the musician with the greatest destructive power, the genius who had combined the element of fission.

It was why the School of Rock and Iron, which he was based in, was crowned as the strongest.

His title was the Wagon of Burke.

— Nora Guy!

Amid the fierce light of destruction, the ghastly green sun rose, and a phantom shadow emerged from within. It reached out and grabbed the fragment of the stone plate.

Just by appearing, he had crushed everyone's probing attempts. The musicians who were too impatient to wait and flew into the sky melted as a result of being burned by the sun. Before they could even land, they had turned into piles of ashes which were blown away by the wind.

But before the stone plate fell into his hands, a crown of glory appeared out of thin air.

Schubert, the saint.

Amid the music of the mighty movement, everything was frozen, and the cold wind swept across the entire Ultimate in an instant. In the sky, even the air was frozen by the terrifying coldness.

But in the blink of an eye, the cold turned into a furnace once more.

It was the clash between two of the most talented experts of the school of modifications of the current generation. The afterwinds they stirred up swept across the Ultimate.

Despite the suppression of the Ultimate, the scale of the fight was still terrifying. Horrifying cold waves and fiery winds alternated with each other. Without the protection of his shield, Ye Qingxuan would have probably been completely frozen at the very first moment, or had his lungs burn into charcoal.

Then, the third scepter musician joined the battlefield.

The fight intensified once more.

[1] The author is referring to a Chinese saying that literally translates as ”wear the green hat”. If one is said to have worn the green hat, it means that one's significant other has cheated on one. The line 'Of course you should choose to forgive her!' is a sarcastic attempt to criticize bystanders who often deal more damage to those who have been betrayed by their significant other with their insensitive words. It has since become fairly well-known among Chinese netizens and can be used in various contexts.