The wind hurled upon the earth from the sky like iron sand . An enormous

cyclone appeared from nowhere and stretched onto the ground . It tore up lots

of buildings into pieces and flipped the rooves of palaces into the air . The

whole place was full of dust, which was sucked in by the cyclone and surged

up into the sky .

Then, a storm began to pour rains down . The dark sun pulled and dragged

the rain water . Those rain drops, captured by it, circled around it . The blazing

lava in the mirror of the h.e.l.l was s.h.i.+ning as if it were lit up .

A beam of light was shot at Ye Qingxuan .

Ye Qingxuan flipped the cigarette and raised his head to look into the sky .

"You are slow, s.h.i.+ Dong . " Ye Qingxuan asked . "You are so eager to get

another grand inquisitor for you?"

The ma.s.sive iron battle s.h.i.+p, appeared from behind the cloud, kept its

imposing posture and hovered in the sky upside down with its broad deck

toward the ground . Beside the row, a figure, as if nailed onto the deck, was

looking up at the ground . Hearing Ye Qingxuan's voice, he grinned, mocking

Ye Qingxuan for his misfortune .

"I told you, never believe anyone . " The figure said .

"Cut it off, s.h.i.+ Dong . " Ye Qingxuan answered . "You don't believe anyone .

That's all . "

"That's how one can live a long life, isn't it?"

"Cut the c.r.a.p . " Ye Qingxuan raised his eyebrow . "You have one minute to get

me out of this s.h.i.+t place . "

s.h.i.+ Dong heaved a sigh and said, "is it really appropriate for you to ask such a

huge favor, considering we've just met?"

"That was mean . When have I been appropriate? You know me, I was always

asking too much . " Ye Qingxuan raised his finger to show s.h.i.+ Dong the

cigarette on his fingertips . "You have 40 seconds before I finish this cigarette . "

"OK, OK . Ten seconds would be enough . " s.h.i.+ Dong didn't hurry but asked

leisurely, "regularly, it's the subordinates' job to finish the work, while it's the

obligation of the boss to be held responsible for the consequences . Right?"

Ye Qingxuan saw what he meant and couldn't help smiled self-mockingly . He

waved his hand and said, "as you like it . I sanctioned it . "

"That is good . " s.h.i.+ Dong said .

Seeing the dim figures behind the dark sun, s.h.i.+ Dong's eyes became full of

thirst and eagerness . "Seeing all those heretics wandering around, I cannot

help itching to kill some of them . Is this a sort of occupational disease?"

In the sky, the upside-down Mountain of Nomadism boomed to operation . The

heavy cannon barrel was raised out from below the deck . The dark muzzle

was aimed at the ground and super-hot light began to s.h.i.+ne in the cannon

muzzle . The terrible aether movement was initialized .

[Level six propelling power . Finished . ]

[Warm up finished]

[Lock up finished]

The great demons on the ground was transfixed in astonishment .

This bunch of stupid men! We have their boss is in our hands . They don't

even care about Ye Qingxuan? What are they doing? A riot? They want to kill

their boss in this chaos?

This was crazy for the dark musicians who abided by the strict hierarchical

systems . They had never heard of anything like this . This was beyond their

imagination…

"Wait!" A hoa.r.s.e voice was heard from the fog, "I require a negotiation with

your commander in charge…"

"Stupid pig…" Ye Qingxuan, smoking his cigarette in the blockade, couldn't

help shaking his head mockingly .

"Sorry, the Religious Court of Inquisitors never negotiate with heretics . " s.h.i.+

Dong Smiled grimly, obviously being happy and waved his hand while

speaking out the initialization word, "Pray! Give the world the gift of misery . "

- Pet.i.tioner, fire!

The whole world suddenly fell into darkness .

Then, a piercing beam of light fell from the sky . It was like a plough controlled

by the G.o.d to plough the earth, yet what it planted was only the seed of

destroy .

It was the light of doom . It struck on the earth, with no regard about Ye

Qingxuan at all . Under the impact of the light, the dark sun s.h.i.+vered violently

and collapsed quickly . The Landscape of h.e.l.l squealed and finally exploded

into pieces .

The light devoured everything . Windsor Manor, the summer palace where the

royal family had lived for several centuries, was utterly destroyed .

The light went out .

Ye Qingxuan tossed the cigarette stump on the ground and stamped it out .

Stepping on the ground that had melted due to the horrible heat of the light,

he walked out and bent over to pick up a corpse that was so badly burned that

only the head was still recognizable .

The head was in quite good shape and the face was recognizable .

"Now we can begin to negotiate . " Looking at the dying demon coldly and said,

"to have a quick death or an anguish one, it is your choice, which depends on

how you answer my question . "

Then, he paused and get closer to the head . Gazing at the only one eye left,

he said, word by word, "tell me now, where is Mary?"

Moonlight perception thread, with the music theories of the School of Mind,

extended from his hand and permeated into the brain which was badly

wounded due to the collapse of music theories .

When a musician ascended to the higher level, he would be able to get rid of

his mortal body and build a new body with the circulation of aether . Then, he

would be much stronger than the ordinary men, both physically and mentally .

And, this a great demon who had been transformed by the abyss . Even when

he was dying, his will power was not to be wavered easily . However, this was

of no help when Ye Qingxuan manipulated his defenseless mind with his Mind

Movement .

Every Mind musician has his own specific style . For example, Ye Lanzhou

was good at influencing people's mind without their noticing it . He didn't need

a music movement to help him . He could infiltrate into people's mind and

induce them to tell him what he wanted merely by a gesture or an eye contact .

But Ye Qingxuan was totally different with him . Ye Qingxuan didn't bother to

disguise himself at all . He always attacked with brutal force and broke

people's defenses to find the deepest part of their mind and find the answer

he wanted .

In just one split second, something clicked . The lock of the great demon's

mind was opened .

The pupils of the great demon contracted and dilated repeatedly . The great

demon was still conscious, but he could not stop himself telling Ye Qingxuan

the answer .

"The new king has begun his tour across the kingdom in the shadow…" The

great demon said hoa.r.s.ely, "the King of h.e.l.l will descend on the earth . "

"Very good . " Ye Qingxuan said, nodding his head . He plucked the head off the

body and tossed it over to s.h.i.+ Dong who had came down onto the earth along

a rope . He said, "this is yours now . Find something for the old fellows to work

on, in case that they get Alzheimer's disease . "

"As you wish, your Excellency . " s.h.i.+ Dong bowed to Ye Qingxuan respectfully,

but his expression was telling that he didn't care about the head at all . He

said, "I have two pieces of news for you . Which one do you want to hear first,

the bad one, or the worse one?"

"The bad one first, as an appetizer . "

s.h.i.+ Dong nodded and said crisply, "Leviathan began its attack this afternoon .

The third seal will collapse any moment now . I'm afraid it won't be able to last

to next dawn . "

It was bad . Really bad . Ye Qingxuan didn't know whether it was the bad one

or the worse one .

"How about Master Haydn? Is he OK?" Ye Qingxuan asked .

"I have seen him . He can hardly hold on any longer . " s.h.i.+ Dong said lightly,

"the Genesis matrix was overloaded and has aetherised half of his body . If he

was not saved soon enough, he would be totally 'melted' by the music

theories and integrated into the overloaded Genesis matrix…Master Haydn

knew about the incidents in the city but he could not spare any time to help .

He asked me to tell you to take actions as soon as possible . Once Leviathan

breaks through the third seal and descend on the world, then the final defense

that King of Bach, asked by the royal family, had constructed in Avalon will be

automatically initiated . The national defense line will overload itself and

extract the ocean of aether buried under the ground of the country to summon

something call 'the Holy Grail of Destruction' . Then, the whole Avalon will be

vaporized . " s.h.i.+ Dong paused for a while, and then continued, "I have done the

calculation . According to my calculation, half of Anglo will be destroyed by the

blast and the whole western world will suffer from it . It will be like the war

between the three kings against the catastrophe several hundred years ago:

huge oceans waves will be generated and four countries will be wiped off the

earth . Even the cities along the coast line of the oriental world will be

engulfed .

Ye Qingxuan frowned, and he said, "destroy the whole territory of Anglo? How

come that the defense is so powerful?"

"That will be the second piece of news, which is worse . " s.h.i.+ Dong heaved a

sigh and raised his head . He waved his hand toward the Mountain of

Nomadism . Following his gesture, the cannon was aimed at the ground and

under the propelling power of level four, the canon loaded the piercing matrix

and shot at the ground .

Without any sound, a hole of several hundred meters deep appeared on the

ground .

The hole, which was of a diameter of five to six meters, went straight down .

The earth around the hole was smooth and slippery, burned into carbon in the

moment of shooting . The hole went through to the bottom of Avalon .

s.h.i.+ Dong stretched his hand and signaled to Ye Qingxuan to take a look .

Ye Qingxuan went over and lowered his head to look into the hole . He saw the

sewer that was cut off by the hole and the deeper part of the hole . And he got

more and more concerned .

In the sewer, it was blood that was flowing . The blood circulated in the

complex sewer network that covered the whole area of Avalon . It was like

blood in the veins .

And in the deeper part of the hole, he saw clearly that large amount of earth

and rocks were infected with the life energy of the catastrophe's and turned

into blood and flesh . The infection had gone to the deepest part of the earth

and even may had already expanded to the sea bed around Avalon .

Shot by the cannon, large amount of flesh and blood was vaporized, yet new

tissue was growing quickly . The speed of growth was incredibly fast .

Blood surged out from underneath the ground and filled the hole . But the

blood didn't gush out from the hole after the hole was full . Then the blood pool

became even with the ground, with sticky red blood rippling in the hole,

reflecting Ye Qingxuan's face in it .

"Leviathan had broken through the seal of the Genesis and turned the whole

Avalon into blood and flesh?"

"That might be not correct . " s.h.i.+ Dong said after heaving a sigh, "if my guess is

right, Avalon was built on Leviathan . Or we may say, Avalon was the same

thing as Leviathan . Only that King Arthur had changed its name . "

He paused, and then told the truth, "Leviathan is Avalon . "

Ye Qingxuan couldn't believe it at all . It was all too ridiculous . Leviathan is

Avalon itself? For several centuries, numerous people lived on the body of

Leviathan?

"Do you have any other explanation besides that?" s.h.i.+ Dong laughed grimly .

"It is always a mystery how Avalon has come into being . It was recorded in no

history book . Somebody says that it was puled out of the sea by King Arthur

through The Chapter of the Golden Victory, somebody says that it was

developed by King Arthur in the world of darkness .

If Leviathan really loves King Arthur and has sacrificed its love to make him

king, then why didn't it sacrifice his body to make him the ruler of the whole

world?"

Ye Qingxuan fell into silence .

s.h.i.+ Dong couldn't help heaving a sigh . "We have trouble everywhere, my

grand inquisitor . " He said, "Avalon is such a small place, yet it has such a

huge problem…It is right to fight the evil until the end, yet the Religious Court

of Inquisitors is not powerful enough to fight this war . We'd better retreat when

we still can . We have too much left to do and too much things to handle . "

Ye Qingxuan didn't speak .

Looking at Ye Qingxuan, s.h.i.+ Dong said to him in a low voice, "my excellence,

it takes courage to admit defeat some times . "

"This is exactly why you cannot be a grand inquisitor, s.h.i.+ Dong . " Ye Qingxuan

raised his head and looked at s.h.i.+ Dong . "You have wisdom, you are good at

operation management, you have the experience and you even know

everything about politics . You are the best a.s.sistant to the grand inquisitor,

lobbying the church and the countries for the grand inquisitor . You have all the

abilities that the grand inquisitor doesn't . But you always overthink . The more

you think, the more you need to take into consideration . Then you would

compare all the different results and weigh each of the choices . Finally, you

will get afraid, you will become weak, drifting away from the original path,

even without knowing it .

Lowering his head, s.h.i.+ Dong didn't speak .

"I have said that I would rebuild the Religious Court of Inquisitors and set the

stake in the dark world again . I'm the grand inquisitor and I will not let anyone

have any control over my destiny . No one can manipulate my fate . I have

made my choice when I stepped out of the Holy City .

Staring at s.h.i.+ Dong, Ye Qingxuan enunciated, "My future will begin at this

place . No matter what happens, I will never give up . s.h.i.+ Dong, Never . "

After a long time of silence, s.h.i.+ Dong lowered his head and bowed to Ye

Qingxuan respectfully .

"We'll follow your order, your excellence . " He asked, "what's our next move,

then?"

"To be honest, I haven't figured that out yet . But things will become clear

soon . " Ye Qingxuan laughed self-mockingly . Looking at the blood path winding

into the ruins, he said, "before that, get our majesty back with me . "

. . . . The wind hurled upon the earth from the sky like iron sand . An enormous. cyclone appeared from nowhere and stretched onto the ground . It tore up lots. of buildings into pieces and flipped the rooves of palaces into the air . The. whole place was full of dust, which was sucked in by the cyclone and surged. up into the sky Then, a storm began to pour rains down . The dark sun pulled and dragged. the rain water . Those rain drops, captured by it, circled around it . The blazing. lava in the mirror of the h.e.l.l was s.h.i.+ning as if it were lit up A beam of light was shot at Ye Qingxuan Ye Qingxuan flipped the cigarette and raised his head to look into the sky You are slow, s.h.i.+ Dong . Ye Qingxuan asked . You are so eager to get. another grand inquisitor for you?. The ma.s.sive iron battle s.h.i.+p, appeared from behind the cloud, kept its. imposing posture and hovered in the sky upside down with its broad deck. toward the ground . Beside the row, a figure, as if nailed onto the deck, was. looking up at the ground . Hearing Ye Qingxuans voice, he grinned, mocking. Ye Qingxuan for his misfortune I told you, never believe anyone . The figure said Cut it off, s.h.i.+ Dong . Ye Qingxuan answered . You dont believe anyone Thats all . . Thats how one can live a long life, isnt it?. Cut the c.r.a.p . Ye Qingxuan raised his eyebrow . You have one minute to get. me out of this s.h.i.+t place . . s.h.i.+ Dong heaved a sigh and said, is it really appropriate for you to ask such a. huge favor, considering weve just met?. That was mean . When have I been appropriate? You know me, I was always. asking too much . Ye Qingxuan raised his finger to show s.h.i.+ Dong the. cigarette on his fingertips . You have 40 seconds before I finish this cigarette . . OK, OK . Ten seconds would be enough . s.h.i.+ Dong didnt hurry but asked. leisurely, regularly, its the subordinates job to finish the work, while its the. obligation of the boss to be held responsible for the consequences . Right?. Ye Qingxuan saw what he meant and couldnt help smiled self-mockingly . He. waved his hand and said, as you like it . I sanctioned it . . That is good . s.h.i.+ Dong said Seeing the dim figures behind the dark sun, s.h.i.+ Dongs eyes became full of thirst and eagerness . Seeing all those heretics wandering around, I cannot. help itching to kill some of them . Is this a sort of occupational disease?. In the sky, the upside-down Mountain of Nomadism boomed to operation . The. heavy cannon barrel was raised out from below the deck . The dark muzzle. was aimed at the ground and super-hot light began to s.h.i.+ne in the cannon. muzzle . The terrible aether movement was initialized [Level six propelling power . Finished . ]. [Warm up finished]. . . [Lock up finished]. The great demons on the ground was transfixed in astonishment This bunch of stupid men! We have their boss is in our hands . They dont even care about Ye Qingxuan? What are they doing? A riot? They want to kill. their boss in this chaos?. This was crazy for the dark musicians who abided by the strict hierarchical. systems . They had never heard of anything like this . This was beyond their. imagination…. Wait! A hoa.r.s.e voice was heard from the fog, I require a negotiation with. your commander in charge…. Stupid pig… Ye Qingxuan, smoking his cigarette in the blockade, couldnt. help shaking his head mockingly Sorry, the Religious Court of Inquisitors never negotiate with heretics . s.h.i.+. Dong Smiled grimly, obviously being happy and waved his hand while. speaking out the initialization word, Pray! Give the world the gift of misery . . - Pet.i.tioner, fire!. The whole world suddenly fell into darkness Then, a piercing beam of light fell from the sky . It was like a plough controlled. by the G.o.d to plough the earth, yet what it planted was only the seed of. destroy It was the light of doom . It struck on the earth, with no regard about Ye. Qingxuan at all . Under the impact of the light, the dark sun s.h.i.+vered violently. and collapsed quickly . The Landscape of h.e.l.l squealed and finally exploded. into pieces The light devoured everything . Windsor Manor, the summer palace where the. royal family had lived for several centuries, was utterly destroyed The light went out . Ye Qingxuan tossed the cigarette stump on the ground and stamped it out Stepping on the ground that had melted due to the horrible heat of the light,. he walked out and bent over to pick up a corpse that was so badly burned that. only the head was still recognizable The head was in quite good shape and the face was recognizable Now we can begin to negotiate . Looking at the dying demon coldly and said,. to have a quick death or an anguish one, it is your choice, which depends on. how you answer my question . . Then, he paused and get closer to the head . Gazing at the only one eye left,. he said, word by word, tell me now, where is Mary?. Moonlight perception thread, with the music theories of the School of Mind,. extended from his hand and permeated into the brain which was badly. wounded due to the collapse of music theories When a musician ascended to the higher level, he would be able to get rid of. his mortal body and build a new body with the circulation of aether . Then, he. would be much stronger than the ordinary men, both physically and mentally . . And, this a great demon who had been transformed by the abyss . Even when. he was dying, his will power was not to be wavered easily . However, this was. of no help when Ye Qingxuan manipulated his defenseless mind with his Mind. Movement Every Mind musician has his own specific style . For example, Ye Lanzhou. was good at influencing peoples mind without their noticing it . He didnt need. a music movement to help him . He could infiltrate into peoples mind and. induce them to tell him what he wanted merely by a gesture or an eye contact But Ye Qingxuan was totally different with him . Ye Qingxuan didnt bother to. disguise himself at all . He always attacked with brutal force and broke. peoples defenses to find the deepest part of their mind and find the answer. he wanted In just one split second, something clicked . The lock of the great demons. mind was opened The pupils of the great demon contracted and dilated repeatedly . The great. demon was still conscious, but he could not stop himself telling Ye Qingxuan. the answer The new king has begun his tour across the kingdom in the shadow… The. great demon said hoa.r.s.ely, the King of h.e.l.l will descend on the earth . . Very good . Ye Qingxuan said, nodding his head . He plucked the head off the. body and tossed it over to s.h.i.+ Dong who had came down onto the earth along. a rope . He said, this is yours now . Find something for the old fellows to work. on, in case that they get Alzheimers disease . . As you wish, your Excellency . s.h.i.+ Dong bowed to Ye Qingxuan respectfully, but his expression was telling that he didnt care about the head at all . He. said, I have two pieces of news for you . Which one do you want to hear first,. the bad one, or the worse one?. The bad one first, as an appetizer . . s.h.i.+ Dong nodded and said crisply, Leviathan began its attack this afternoon The third seal will collapse any moment now . Im afraid it wont be able to last. to next dawn . . It was bad . Really bad . Ye Qingxuan didnt know whether it was the bad one. or the worse one How about Master Haydn? Is he OK? Ye Qingxuan asked I have seen him . He can hardly hold on any longer . s.h.i.+ Dong said lightly,. the Genesis matrix was overloaded and has aetherised half of his body . If he. was not saved soon enough, he would be totally melted by the music. theories and integrated into the overloaded Genesis matrix…Master Haydn. knew about the incidents in the city but he could not spare any time to help He asked me to tell you to take actions as soon as possible . Once Leviathan. breaks through the third seal and descend on the world, then the final defense. that King of Bach, asked by the royal family, had constructed in Avalon will be. automatically initiated . The national defense line will overload itself and. extract the ocean of aether buried under the ground of the country to summon. something call the Holy Grail of Destruction . Then, the whole Avalon will be. vaporized . s.h.i.+ Dong paused for a while, and then continued, I have done the. calculation . According to my calculation, half of Anglo will be destroyed by the. blast and the whole western world will suffer from it . It will be like the war. between the three kings against the catastrophe several hundred years ago:. huge oceans waves will be generated and four countries will be wiped off the. earth . Even the cities along the coast line of the oriental world will be. engulfed Ye Qingxuan frowned, and he said, destroy the whole territory of Anglo? How. come that the defense is so powerful?. That will be the second piece of news, which is worse . s.h.i.+ Dong heaved a. sigh and raised his head . He waved his hand toward the Mountain of. Nomadism . Following his gesture, the cannon was aimed at the ground and. under the propelling power of level four, the canon loaded the piercing matrix. and shot at the ground Without any sound, a hole of several hundred meters deep appeared on the. ground The hole, which was of a diameter of five to six meters, went straight down The earth around the hole was smooth and slippery, burned into carbon in the. moment of shooting . The hole went through to the bottom of Avalon s.h.i.+ Dong stretched his hand and signaled to Ye Qingxuan to take a look . Ye Qingxuan went over and lowered his head to look into the hole . He saw the. sewer that was cut off by the hole and the deeper part of the hole . And he got. more and more concerned In the sewer, it was blood that was flowing . The blood circulated in the. complex sewer network that covered the whole area of Avalon . It was like. blood in the veins And in the deeper part of the hole, he saw clearly that large amount of earth. and rocks were infected with the life energy of the catastrophes and turned. into blood and flesh . The infection had gone to the deepest part of the earth. and even may had already expanded to the sea bed around Avalon Shot by the cannon, large amount of flesh and blood was vaporized, yet new. tissue was growing quickly . The speed of growth was incredibly fast Blood surged out from underneath the ground and filled the hole . But the. blood didnt gush out from the hole after the hole was full . Then the blood pool. became even with the ground, with sticky red blood rippling in the hole,. reflecting Ye Qingxuans face in it Leviathan had broken through the seal of the Genesis and turned the whole. Avalon into blood and flesh?. That might be not correct . s.h.i.+ Dong said after heaving a sigh, if my guess is. right, Avalon was built on Leviathan . Or we may say, Avalon was the same. thing as Leviathan . Only that King Arthur had changed its name . . He paused, and then told the truth, Leviathan is Avalon . . Ye Qingxuan couldnt believe it at all . It was all too ridiculous . Leviathan is. Avalon itself? For several centuries, numerous people lived on the body of. Leviathan?. Do you have any other explanation besides that? s.h.i.+ Dong laughed grimly It is always a mystery how Avalon has come into being . It was recorded in no. history book . Somebody says that it was puled out of the sea by King Arthur. through The Chapter of the Golden Victory, somebody says that it was. developed by King Arthur in the world of darkness If Leviathan really loves King Arthur and has sacrificed its love to make him. king, then why didnt it sacrifice his body to make him the ruler of the whole. world?. Ye Qingxuan fell into silence s.h.i.+ Dong couldnt help heaving a sigh . We have trouble everywhere, my. grand inquisitor . He said, Avalon is such a small place, yet it has such a. huge problem…It is right to fight the evil until the end, yet the Religious Court. of Inquisitors is not powerful enough to fight this war . Wed better retreat when. we still can . We have too much left to do and too much things to handle . Ye Qingxuan didnt speak Looking at Ye Qingxuan, s.h.i.+ Dong said to him in a low voice, my excellence,. it takes courage to admit defeat some times . . This is exactly why you cannot be a grand inquisitor, s.h.i.+ Dong . Ye Qingxuan. raised his head and looked at s.h.i.+ Dong . You have wisdom, you are good at. operation management, you have the experience and you even know. everything about politics . You are the best a.s.sistant to the grand inquisitor,. lobbying the church and the countries for the grand inquisitor . You have all the. abilities that the grand inquisitor doesnt . But you always overthink . The more. you think, the more you need to take into consideration . Then you would. compare all the different results and weigh each of the choices . Finally, you. will get afraid, you will become weak, drifting away from the original path,. even without knowing it Lowering his head, s.h.i.+ Dong didnt speak I have said that I would rebuild the Religious Court of Inquisitors and set the. stake in the dark world again . Im the grand inquisitor and I will not let anyone. have any control over my destiny . No one can manipulate my fate . I have. made my choice when I stepped out of the Holy City Staring at s.h.i.+ Dong, Ye Qingxuan enunciated, My future will begin at this. place . No matter what happens, I will never give up . s.h.i.+ Dong, Never . . After a long time of silence, s.h.i.+ Dong lowered his head and bowed to Ye. Qingxuan respectfully Well follow your order, your excellence . He asked, whats our next move,. then?. To be honest, I havent figured that out yet . But things will become clear. soon . Ye Qingxuan laughed self-mockingly . Looking at the blood path winding. into the ruins, he said, before that, get our majesty back with me .