748 An Evil Balance (1/2)
At the moment, above the ruins, Ye Qingxuan looked at the middle-aged stranger, stunned. ”Bro, who are you?”
The figure projected by the Holy Cauldron tilted his head to one side and looked at Ye Qingxuan, then asked back, ”It shouldn't be hard for you to guess the answer?”
Ye Qingxuan looked at the sky subconsciously, then looked down at the projection in front of him, and asked cautiously, ”The King of Yellow?”
The person shrugged slightly. ”The one and only.”
Ye Qingxuan was silent for a long time, then said flatly, ”I thought the King of Red would be the one to come.”
”It should have been him.” The King of Yellow looked around and said calmly, ”He should have come here 15 minutes ago. By trying to split the physical world, Asgard has defied the principles of the Sacred City. He would never sit aside and watch it happen.”
Ye Qingxuan understood what he meant. ”You had a way to stop him?”
”His long-distance transmission is based on the aether cycle of the human world. Coincidentally, I'm in charge of this aspect,” the King of Yellow replied, not bothering at all to disguise the fact that he didn't get along with the King of Red. ”By the way, the King of Blue has also given up on interfering in the changes taking place in the human world. His overly strong power has become a barrier between him and other humans, and the Kings of Blue of each generation in the past eventually chose self-exile as well.
”So, you don't have to worry about him becoming your enemy. Even if he makes up his mind to act, his enemy will not be you.”
Ye Qingxuan took a deep breath and slowly exhaled. No longer paying attention to the thoughts going wild in his mind, he looked at the supreme king, whose intention was unclear, and asked directly, ”So, have you come here to fight?”
”Tasks like destruction have always been the job of the King of Blue. I am only responsible for wrapping up and making amends.” The King of Yellow did not care about the New Testament Sword aiming at him at all, nor did he show any hostility. He simply looked at Ye Qingxuan. ”So, you need not test the water so boringly anymore. Why don't we have a chat openly and honestly??”
”Sorry, I don't have the time to.” Ye Qingxuan responded indifferently, ”If you don't want to fight with me, then remove the blockade in the space around, I still have matters to attend to.”
The New Testament Sword was flipped, and the metallic gleam on the ridge of the sword reflected the void around the two. The sound of steel scraping against each other was heard. Before Ye Qingxuann had realized it, the two were in a cage.
”I'm sorry about it.” The King of Yellow sighed. ”Although I don't want to fight, I can't let you go to the Golden Palace. If you insist on taking up arms against me, I can tell you the result—if I focus solely on defense, you can't kill me. Although you will win, if I don't die, you can't leave. I won't give others a chance to stick a finger in the fight at the Golden Palace. Its results are crucial to me.”
Ye Qingxuan's gaze became colder. ”That's your reason?” he snickered. ”I thought everything on the ground has got nothing to do with you.”
”Times have changed,” came the reply.
”No, since you have made up your mind at the start to let go, don't step in again as things progress because of such a ridiculous excuse.” Ye Qingxuan lifted his hand and pointed to the sky. ”Don't you want unfettered freedom? Go back to the sky, go back to your iron cage. The King of Yellow, the freedom you seek is not here.”
”You are right indeed, but this place has a meaning equally important to me. This is the last time I appear in the world as the King of Yellow.” The King of Yellow softly laughed self-mockingly. ”Or to be more exact, I've come here to retire from my position.” He paused and looked at Ye Qingxuan. ”How about you make a bet with me?”
”Do I have the liberty to reject?” Ye Qingxuan asked coldly.
”Although it is not fair to you, aren't you going to at least hear me out on what it is about and what I'm willing to bet?” The King of Yellow withdrew his gaze and looked in the direction of the Golden Palace. Through such a far distance of thousands of miles, he could still see the fierce lights flickering in and out of existence one after another and hear the nerve-wracking rumble.
He suddenly asked, ”Ye Qingxuan, who do you think will win?”
”What about you?” Ye Qingxuan looked at him, his tone harsh. ”Who would you like to see emerge victorious? The church you cast aside like an old shoe?”
”No, on the contrary, I hope that the Sacred City will lose, but I don't want Charles to win either.” The King of Yellow said calmly, ”To be exact, I hope that both sides suffer immense losses.”
Both sides suffer immense losses…
Ye Qingxuan was surprised. ”What do you mean?”
”All along, everyone says that only you are the most similar to me out of all the people in the world. But can you understand what I feel, Ye Qingxuan? That sort of,” after a moment of thinking, the King of Yellow sighed softly and uttered the term, ”that sort of... 'disappointment' in all this.”
Ye Qingxuan was silent.
In the silence, the King of Yellow found some broken steps to sit down by himself and continued, ”I have been confused over one thing all along, namely, how should I look at all this?
”From the perspective of the King of Yellow, I don't want the order of the increasingly distorted world to be gradually lost, and eventually fall apart because of the original sin human beings are born with, but I can't do anything about it.
”From the perspective of a musician, I also don't want everything in the world to be locked up in their cradle by a particular organization in the name of justice and righteousness. I can't even breath carefreely, but at the same time, I have no courage to overthrow it all.
”From the perspective of a mortal, I long to throw away all the restraints and obtain freedom, but I can't cut myself off from it all. I am destined to be the least free person in the world.
”Such is the most ridiculous part. Regardless of the perspective you look at it from, I can't possibly get what I want.”
He toyed with his scepter and laughed mockingly. ”From the moment I put on the crown, I have been destined to forever be unable to obtain what I have been seeking my whole life.”
”In a nutshell, what you hate the most, is still yourself, no?” Ye Qingxuan looked at him coldly. ”You are just hiding from yourself, running far away, pretending that none of it has happened and that you have not seen anything. You seek illusory peace and freedom, in an iron cage floating in low earth orbit.
”You are here now only because you hope that someone else will rush out and smash the stall up completely [1], giving you an excuse to abandon all this and continue seeking and hiding!”
The King of Yellow was stunned.
After a long time, he laughed loudly.