Crown of Silence

Chapter 391 Faust

In the sky, the burning river of souls came in response to the call and poured into the flames.

They passed the last flames and heat to each other, gathered the light and power in the holy fire, and finally, turned into gray embers and fell like a blizzard.

Those souls were completely burned out. As a price, they were exchanged for the mighty sacred fire!

The flame condensed by the memories, lives and souls of countless Romulans!

"——Elsa!"

Ye Qingxuan stood up from the ground against the terrible pressure, looking up at the girl who had become so strange, vaguely understanding something, but dared not believe it.

"Do you hear my voice!"

He roared: "Answer me!"

A drop of rain fell from the sky.

It fell on his face.

It was tears.

In the flames, the pair of empty pupils finally lit up.

She curled up in pain, enduring the pain of the holy fire burning her body, looking at Ye Qingxuan, her eyes were blank and painful.

"Don't be afraid, I'll come right over..."

Ye Qingxuan struggled to move forward from the ruins, his feet deeply sunk into the gray dust, as if he was trudging through the cold snow.

"--Don't come over!"

Elsa whispered softly, but the sound was like a roar, and the frantic pressure burst out, lifting him up and blowing him away. Ye Qingxuan desperately dug into the crack of the broken wall, raised his head, and looked up at the girl in the air.

She held her head and struggled in pain.

"I am...she...no, I am...I am..."

She murmured incoherently, but her voice stopped abruptly.

She just stared at the crack on her chest and the flame that didn't look like a human in the crack.

"--What am I?"

Ye Qingxuan opened his mouth to speak, but a surging torrent of flames fell from the sky.

The flames engulfed her.

-

At that moment, everyone saw it.

The brilliant and magnificent sacred fire rose into the sky.

It covered the glory of the kingdom of heaven and the land of the abyss, and even... extracted the power of both sides and swallowed up the huge ether torrent!

"What is that!"

In the dark sky that was shaking violently, Crowley frowned, the sound of the piano was shrill, the darkness rose into the sky, and turned into a giant hand, clawing at the flame.

But then, the movement of the giant hand suddenly stagnated and was frozen in mid-air.

Because in the holy fire, a pocket watch engraved with a double snake emblem flew from nowhere, emitting a low and distant hum:

"Stop, time."

It said:

"- Just because you are gorgeous compared to anyone."

It was like a key was inserted into the lock.

At that moment, in the sky, on the ground, and in the ruins, countless alchemical matrices were awakened, they absorbed the power from the holy fire and suddenly started.

It was as if time suddenly stopped here, just because the flame was so beautiful.

All external music theories were forcibly frozen in this sky, and all changes were forcibly solidified, and even dust could not escape its bondage.

This is the product of the combination of the School of Change and the School of Forbidden, the pinnacle of "Faust"!

So, everything was suddenly frozen.

Only the holy fire formed by countless fires in the air was burning vigorously.

In the shining of the light, phantoms emerged from the sky one after another, which were the last traces of the souls and times that had long passed away.

In the call of the holy fire, the overlapping crack of the material world and the etheric world suddenly fluctuated.

Above the earth, the huge shadow became thicker and thicker.

And in the roaring melody, the crack suddenly bulged and expanded... Then, the world shook violently, and a huge city "fell" from the etheric world, passed through the nine layers of the etheric sea, and emerged from the material world!

It was a city that seemed to have been sleeping for thousands of years, with gorgeous carvings and towering spires, exuding a sharp and ostentatious beauty. Right above the city, there was a terrifying emblem of a huge pair of entangled snakes.

The sacred flame slowly descended on the altar in the city, shining brightly.

In a terrified silence, the sharp-edged city hung high between the sky and the earth, casting a terrifying shadow covering the entire Auschwitz.

The whole world was stunned! -

"So... so... so!"

At that moment, in the ruins, Colt finally realized it, gritted his teeth, and whispered in a low voice: "The Romulans tried their best to extract the power of heaven and the abyss, create a scepter, and turn people into natural disasters... and become gods! Caligula, that guy, is simply..."

Simply what?

Audacious? Or audacious?

He had no time to think about it.

He was shocked by everything he saw.

From the earth to the sky, everything is covered by the light of the alchemical matrix. Everything is connected into a whole. Those who step into it are the variables in the "formula". No matter how they struggle and resist, it is meaningless.

Because the result on the other side of the equation has already been determined.

Is there anyone in this world who can complete an alchemical matrix of such a terrifying scale! And hide it under everyone's nose...

What kind of monster did those Romulans find!

Colt was swallowed by the cold.

——

"Yes, I did it."

In the Palace of Saints, Hermes nodded: "It was I who set up the alchemy matrix in Auschwitz. It was I who moved the holy fire they have inherited to this day into Elsa's body. It was I who arranged the attracting shadow. Aoi’s Matrix, it was also me who found the Yellow King for them... In the end, I handed that city over to them."

"Why? Hermes."

In the air, the gentle voice asked: "We both know what that city means to you. It is your source. If you give yours to them, then you will have no way to survive.

- This is suicide. "

"It's very simple, Nibelungen."

Hermes was smoking his pipe and suddenly laughed softly: "Have you ever thought about truly being a human being? Not a monster, not a god, but truly a living person?"

"..."

The Nibelungs were silent.

"To be honest, it was really difficult to make this decision."

Hermes sighed: "I can't accept the thought that my figure will be deformed and gain weight. But there is nothing I can do if I can't accept it. After so many years of hesitation, there must be a result.

Now, I am finally not a monster. To be honest, this feeling is pretty good. There are no other shortcomings except that I will die. "

"It was the death of 'Aeneas' that stimulated you."

"That's part of the reason."

Hermes shrugged: "Who told me that I owed him a favor back then?

I didn't care at the time, but when I looked back, I realized that the interest rate on this debt of gratitude was too high. I want to pay back the money, but the hole in my bill is so big that I can’t close it anymore...

So, since you have to make sacrifices, why not be generous and give to others what you don’t want? "

Nibelung was silent, and after a long time said: "We cannot understand."

"You don't need to understand."

"Don't you hate killing people the most?"

Nibelungen asked: "Then why was Caligula's daughter sacrificed?"

"First of all, Elsa is not Caligula's daughter. She inherits the bloodline of Aeneas. She was born with the responsibility of inheriting the flame."

Hermes said calmly: "If the empire still exists, then she should be the contemporary Emperor Romulus and the 'Augustus' of all Romulans.

Unfortunately, the empire is gone, and the people are displaced, struggling to survive, precarious, and almost on the verge of destruction... She must shoulder this responsibility.

That is the sacred fire that only she can pass on. She will not die, but will gain strength and become the new Holy Spirit. But as a price, all her memories will be used as firewood and burned up.

This is a cruel thing, I understand, but someone has to sacrifice, not to mention..."

He paused, his expression became expectant and complicated, and whispered softly: "What's more, I'm also very curious."

"——Is there anything in the human heart that cannot be burned?"