Silent Crown

Chapter 259 Purification

Boom! Boom! Boom! The entire banquet hall suddenly shook. Cracks appeared on the walls. An enormous object seemed to be charging against the wall on the other side of the banquet. It had come…

"Everyone, stop wasting time and hurry up!" Aloise commanded loudly. "The object is here. Hurry and find it! Otherwise, we’d have sacrificed everything for nothing."

The remaining ‘three-and-a-half’ men quickly began moving without needing his command.

Eziz took his bag off and flipped it over, dumping out a pile of metal plates onto the ground. The music scores carved onto the plates flashed. They absorbed the aether and transformed into hundreds of spiders. The teeming metal spiders spread from him and combed the ground, looking through everything carefully. The others showcased their skills as well. Even the musician with only a head was looking nonstop.

The ceiling, walls, corners, tables, cups, the fossilized royal musicians… Soon, the entire banquet hall had been searched over but they did not find anything except silver utensils!

Nothing! Nothing! Nothing! Nothing! Nothing…There was nothing!

"Search again!" Aloise roared. He began hacking at the floorboards in hysteria, searching for the object that did not belong there and destroying everything he touched.

Boom! Boom! Boom! The crack on the wall grew bigger and an almost-tangible black aura seeped in from the crack. The seal of the entire banquet hall had collapsed. Time that had been at a standstill for a millennium began flowing again. It transformed from a small trickle to a waterfall. Years flashed past in a snap of a finger. Everything began aging, eroding, and turning into dust.

The gentle melody now transformed into a howling and wailing cry. It broke down and dissipated. All opulence quickly faded, turned obscure, and became rubbish. The bodies of the thirteen musicians at either side of the table quickly cracked as well. The solemn faces caved in, wrinkles growing.

They instantly became aged. Their hair turned white and fell, revealing the ugly scalps. Wrinkles covered the fossilized flesh and decayed, revealing white bones. Everything turned to flying dust. Flying dust and smoke.

Boom! The wall collapsed!

Eziz turned in shock and saw it, and his upper body disappeared. All that remained were two legs standing on the ground. However, Eziz did not feel anything. He just looked at the guests of the banquet hall in ecstasy.

Something shone within the thirteen weathered skeletons.

As the skeletons shattered, the glow hidden within reappeared with the wind and burned like fire. As if sensing the reappearance of the glow, the clock tower at Avalon’s peak abruptly began ringing. The bell was grave and awe-inspiring. The corpses dissipated; the light shot to the sky and transformed into meteorites, flying in all directions of Avalon’s Shadow.

"Capture them!" Aloise reached out and his ten fingers left his hands. Blood spewed from his fingers like living snakes and enveloped the scattering light with a wild melody. The other dimmer rays of light had scattered in all directions, but four beams were caught. There was a solemn sword, an odd black hat, a crystal eye, and an ancient scroll…

"Here!" Ecstatic, Aloise grasped them. "You’re here! Oh, God bless!"

"Really?" Someone smiled in the darkness. "Then, thank him for me."

A beam of moonlight suddenly shone in from outside the steel gate’s crack. It rushed toward the four meteorites stopped in the air. This sudden change caused everyone’s expression to change. The youth’s speed under the moonlight was incredibly fast and he flew into the sky instantly.

"Stop him!" Aloise yelled.

The bodiless musician flew up. He sang a dark hymn and swelled into a strange bird that rushed toward the youth’s face.

Boom! In the air, the human figure waved and a flame ignited on the arm’s armor plate—the Sighing Shake!

The strange bird was hit squarely. The power enough to siege a city stronghold poured onto him without restraint. Six levels of defenses crumbled instantly. Being so small, the bird exploded. The newly-born feathers fell to the ground. The hairless bird caved in, turned into a ball of ground meat, and was slapped onto the wall. One could not even peel it off.

Immediately after, the human figure raised his cane toward the other preparing musicians with an odd smile. With a shake, the cane narrowed and a mist of blood seeped out, dying the amber tip red. Chaotic lightning brewed inside the bloody red.

"Do not let the three realms turn to ash!"

Blinding light shot out, a scalding flood surged, and electricity flew. Thunder dragons plowed through two musicians in the way and finally converged on the cane, tearing apart the surroundings of the blood light. The four beams of light instantly flew in all directions.

In a hurry, he randomly snatched the closest one and found that it was the strange hat. Though it was old fashioned, it seemed durable and easy to clean. The inside was also carved with music scores and had strong waves of aether. This suited him well!

"This hat is nice. It’s mine now!" The youth laughed in the air and rolled onto the ground.

Aloise had no time to bother with him. Abandoning everything, he pounced onto the crystal eye shooting toward the wall. A ray of blood light flew out of his aged body, shedding the flesh like taking off clothing.

He transformed into a sinister demon with a man’s body, eagle’s head, and two wings on his back—he was clearly a soldier transformed by a natural catastrophe! Using all his power, his speed was unbelievable and instantly caught up to the eyeball that was about to fly out the wall. But…did he forget something?

"Garbage, back off!" Outside the broken wall, a sharp roar sounded in the surging darkness. A translucent jade-like hand clawed at his face. They were meters away but his five sharp claw-marks appeared on his body, practically ripping him apart. Blood shone and his wounds could not heal. It was as if he was naturally incomplete.

Firebird! It was Firebird?!

Aloise screamed instantly, ordering the two others to protect him. The two dark musicians were forced to transform into their true nature and pounce on the creature attacking from the dark.

The darkness swallowed them and there was no more sound from them.

In the blink of an eye, Aloise had the crystal eye in his hand, quickly swallowed it, and rolled onto the ground. The two dark musicians that had charged into the darkness finally reappeared. Their corpses rolled out from the darkness.

They were completely broken as if they were wearing many layers of clothing. One layer was skin, one was flesh, one was internal organs, one was bone. It was as if they had been sent to the surgical table, were quietly dissected by dozens of doctors for hours until each organ was dissected, and were now placed neatly on the ground.

They were a beauty and joy to look at…as if!

"No way!" Ye Qingxuan muttered.

Seeing the corpses roll out, he was tongue-tied. He looked toward the ball of burning darkness. It danced and thinned, revealing half a scaly claw from within. It was a slim yet wild body. The white clothing had been dyed red. For a moment, the figure was beautiful, dazzling, and flirtatious.

The Ripper!

"What drug did you take? How are you suddenly this powerful?"

Ye Qingxuan’s entire body froze. Those two dark musicians were many times more powerful than him, but had been turned into that state instantly. If the Ripper was this powerful last time, it would not be enough for her to play with even if Ye Qingxuan had two hundred legs!

"Dirty." a hoarse voice sounded in the darkness as if in reply or just a monologue. "Dirty again, dirty again…Purify, must purify…purify the outsiders…purify disgrace…purify garbage, purify, purify, purify, purify, purify…"

"Hey, can you say something else?" Of course, Ye Qingxuan was not stupid enough to say that aloud but it felt good to mutter it silently. It was clear that the Ripper found him dirty and wanted to clean him out.

"But isn’t it tiring to clean the entire Avalon’s Shadow? When will you even finish? Won’t you go crazy? Wait…the Ripper’s probably crazy already." For a moment, realization flashed through Ye Qingxuan’s eyes and he felt pity. It was so sad that she had gone crazy from cleaning.

To be honest, he was impressed by himself for being able to talk nonsense to himself under this kind of situation. However, it was clear that he was not the Ripper’s main target. It was Aloise, Satan’s soldier who had a much darker aura. That guy’s destructive aura was almost thick enough to be juiced. If Ye Qingxuan was the Ripper, he would be the first to go! But what happened next was totally unexpected.

On the ground, Aloise watched as the Ripper walked toward him. He suddenly laughed and shook the small bell in his hand. Ding dong~

The crisp sound was mixed with the odd cawing of an eagle. The blood light around him shook, left his body, and flowed into the bell, which shattered immediately. It transformed into a bloody vortex. A hand reached out and pulled him away.

He escaped? Escaped! That *sshole had activated Avalon’s Shadow’s exit and escaped!

Ye Qingxuan was dumbfounded.

"F*ck, where’s your dignity as a musician? Aren’t you afraid of embarrassing your god by running without a fight?! And if you ran…then what am I going to do?"

Not only was his wish of leaving shattered, his body began trembling before he even had time to fear, because the Ripper looked over in the darkness, as if looking at something dirty. The cleaning was about to begin…