Silent Crown - Chapter 696

Chapter 696: Catastrophe Net of Aether

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

The Ultimate was plunged into a strange silence when the Scepter that was swiftly moving away was immersed in it.

The waves of aether that were chaotically spreading out suddenly disappeared, as if they had never been there. There was only the endless stream of aether flowing inward as if some invisible giant in its embryonic stage had opened its eyes and was sucking the aether in.

When the blueprints for the Land of Dreams had been immersed in the Ultimate, that empty body had given birth to a soul and had been entrusted with its original spirituality.

And then its nature had interfered.

The interference of the incomprehensible nature of humanity had occurred in the depths of the Ultimate, just as the stars are born from the darkness of the universe. Every minute, every second, every moment, every instant, thousands of them exploded and were extinguished.

“Genesis”! The devastation all over the Ultimate gradually healed, but it was not enough to stop the collapse of the temple. The earth and stone quickly faded back to its original color.

The Firebird swept out from the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth, covering the whole Ultimate and turning it into a huge furnace. It was covered in numerous complex alchemy arrays that continuously changed. The alchemy covered the entire Ultimate, a miracle that no alchemist could have imagined.

The Ultimate was changing.

It was changing in Ye Qingxuan’s hands.

Every minute, every second limitless aether was accumulating. A power strong enough to burn the Ultimate into ashes was silently seeping into the deepest parts of the earth, turning into flames that tempered the island that had flowed out of the Originator, pushing it to new heights.

In an instant, the entire Ultimate was covered in electric lights and flames. It changed rapidly under the interference from its intrinsic nature. It roared and spun, collapsing in the flames of rebirth and regathering in the destructive electric light.

The flames and electric light washed away the colors off of the earth and stone like water, giving them a crystal-like texture. Numerous huge blocks were born out of the lightning bolts.

In the end, the entire Ultimate was transformed into sparkling clear crystals. Thousands of streams of light flowed beneath the crystal, intertwining and gathering together. Tens of thousands of alchemy arrays overlapped on top of it, complicated beyond human imaging and wrapping through the Ultimate like blood vessels. The followed the meter of the movement as they carried the torrent of aether.

Music theory was born and died within it. They joined together and formed an exaggeratedly huge movement. It seemed as if there were countless people within the void singing in unison, yelling and roaring as a grandiose melody burst forth from the core, resounding between heaven and earth.

It was only praise, but it set off countless waves in the sea of aether.

It was only revolution, but it cracked the seabed, caused the seas to boil and numerous electric lights to surge out.

And in the protection of that unlimited power, the reborn Ultimate broke free from the confines of gravity. It lightly and easily distorted the laws of the Physical World and wrote new ones. Within that chorus of countless voices, it slowly rose up from the sea, shaking off the dust and dirt and revealing its new form.

The darkness was dispelled as its glow hit everyone’s eyes.

It was cut and polished as if by the gods, as exquisite as a miracle: a perfect crystal cube!

Under the pull of music theory, numerous crystal blocks precise to a scale of less than a millimeter made up its suffocatingly huge form, each of which was thousands of meters long.

Under the electric light, the blocks slowly rotated around an axis as if pushed by some invisible hand. There were no obstructions, but as they rotated music theories collided with each other, giving off terrifying thunderclaps.

A stream of light flew out of it and spread out in all directions before it was finally hidden in the void as it plunged into the depths of the sea of aether, echoing the resonance of all things.

The music theory changed rapidly along with the rotating blocks, showing many different faces. Soon, the alchemy arrays gathered at the axis were revealed.

Was this… an instrument of harmonious melody?

A giant instrument of harmonious melody the likes of which had never been seen before and never would be seen again!

Even if all the Church’s instrument’s of harmonious melody that were scattered around the world gathered together, they would not compare with this crystal cube that had just been born.

It seemed to be directly connected to the sea of aether. Massive waves of aether spread out in all directions. The Heaven Ladder and Haydn’s ultra wide-area character interference had combined, it had increased to hundreds of times its original size.

Even though they were in international waters, the huge interaction range still reached to the Anglo Kingdom, Burgundy, and Asgard, and even faintly reached to the endless deserts of the North. And in the center of the crystal cube, the Scepter called “Land of Dreams” slowly rotated, driving the final transformation.

At that moment the deep sea was illuminated by a light, and the magnificent scenery of the Kingdom of Heaven and earth emerged from the reflection. Numerous people cheered and sang. The throne room appeared in the reflection. The queen looked across the vast distance, her line of sight seeming to pierce through the reflection and fall upon Ye Qingxuan.

Then, the Firebird swept out from Avalon. It was the resonance of the music theory from the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth.

A brilliant stream of light rose up from the ocean and refracted through the crystal cube. The roar of the Jiu Xiao Huan Pei could now be heard. The Heaven Ladder extended out in all directions under the guidance of the crystal blocks.

…

In Avalon, Christine awoke from her dream to find that the light of the Firebird was shining right in front of her. This formless object formed by willpower and aether covered her body, shrouding her and turning into intangible armor. Next, a complicated alchemy circuit formed on it, imbuing her with spirituality, and the music theory was connected to her spinal cord, merging her and the Firebird into one.

Christine was stunned.

“Is this…” she whispered softly. She looked behind her in a daze but saw only a stream of light extending out from the void and entering her body.

The armor felt strange to her, but also familiar. It was as if she was destined to wear it.

“Lancelot?”

…

And in the deepest part of the Royal Institute of Research, there was a constant roar in the underground testing site. A blazing light streamed continuously from old fingers, turning into real flame and frost and flew forward in accordance with the will, completely destroying all the iron testing blocks. The loud noise continued to ring out, shaking the dust off the floor and ceiling, which fell onto the old man’s ecstatic face.

The researchers who were awakened by the loud noise threw on their coats and rushed to the testing site. But all they found was Newton flying in the air and letting loose fire and destruction.

A musician?

Had Newton become a musician in a single night? Everyone looked at him in a daze. Only Newton continued to shout with abandon, letting loose his miraculous power, constantly releasing the movement.

“What…what the h*ll is this?”

“This is change, children!” Newton laughed hoarsely as he beheld their stupefied expressions. “Change is coming!”

Outside the Anglo Kingdom, the same changes were happening all over the world.

As long as they were in range of the crystal cube, every musician in the Royal Navy felt their music theory rising wildly under the blessing of the light, reaching its peak in an instant. Even apprentices turned into full-blown musicians in an instant.

This strange scene lasted a few short minutes and then disappeared with the stream of light. But a blazing hot sun had appeared in their perception, shining on them from a distance.

It was as if they had but to think and endless power would be at their fingertips.

The news spread throughout the nations in an instant. In a few short moments, countless people were woken from their pleasant dreams and read the news. Their backs were drenched in sweat, and they wanted nothing more than to open the window and have a smoke.

They all more or less understood…

The world might have changed at this moment.

It might have changed under Ye Qingxuan’s hoarse declaration.

“With this achievement…

“…the Catastrophe Net of Aether!”

Under the guidance of the blueprint given by the Originator, the purely conceptual King of Aether had finally reached perfection, even though compared to what it was expected to be in the future it was still merely a model, a prototype. After merging the Chapter of the Golden Victory and the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth, it was able to give all users the full music theory of a Royal Musician.

After completing the “Virtual Alchemy Array Projection,” it had even surpassed the limitations of materials and manpower. It was able to create Armor of the Round Table at any time through the use of the Firebird, allowing for an almost unlimited expansion of the Knights of the Round Table.

After this, the Royal Musician Division and the Knights of the Round Table would enter the era of mass production!

And what was more, as long as Ye Qingxuan integrated the core music theory that he had plundered from dozens of different schools into the Net of Aether, it would be easy to mass produce other Masters. Even though it was limited by the range of the Net of Aether, as long as there were relay stations to extend its range its coverage would be nearly unlimited!

No matter how far away it was, the Heaven Ladder could provide a supremely stable transmission.

The thousand-year dream of the Ye family had been destroyed at Ye Qingxuan’s hands. He had no intention to revive the inheritance of the Ye family.

Let old things stay in the old days. In the future, there would be no need to seal off the gradual improvements of generation after generation. As long as you could access the Net of Aether, the whole world would inherit the Ye family’s music theory.

The whole world would be the heirs of the Ye family.

At this moment, the Net of Aether had just been officially born and had not yet had far-reaching impact. But everyone there had already sensed the stormy waves of the future.

It was not only because it could create musicians.

Nobody was worried about there being more musicians. There were about 100,000 musicians in the world at that time, but even if another 100,000, 200,000 or even 300,000 were added they would simply be swallowed up by the vast world.

But that was not where the damage was coming from.

It came from the complete destruction and subversion of musicians’ inheritance!

Starting from the age of eight, an apprentice would undergo decades of training, and with the held of their teacher’s careful cultivation and with a little bit of luck, and after consuming who knows how many materials, only then could one officially become a musician before the age of 25.

The Royal Academy of Music enrolled 600 people each year. These 600 students underwent six years of research, after which it would be ridiculous to think that even thirty of them would graduate and become official musicians.

And now, it would only take a moment.