Volume 2: Funeral Song of Crows Chapter 37 Promotion Ceremony
The tower keeper felt as if he had woken up from a nightmare.
Her vision returned to clarity, and at this moment she and the special envoy were still in the sealing room of the Star Lighthouse.
In the entire sealed room, there were no other changes except that the crazy box placed at the end of the room disappeared and the seventy-seven backup seals became ineffective.
It was as if everything that happened before was just an illusion...
Wait, what happened before?
The tower keeper covered his head which seemed about to explode and thought.
The complete memory in her mind only lasted until the Crazy Box shattered and the black mist gushed out. After that, all she could recall were some broken memory fragments.
Laughter, black smoke, dialogue, music, drama, applause...
And the most mysterious nihilistic king, the crazy and foolish jester Valk, appears.
The tower keeper felt as if his stomach was cramping at the thought of the name.
So I must have fallen into some kind of illusion just now. Otherwise, if I had been in such close contact with the Mad Fool for such a long time, I would have gone crazy with my mind...
The tower keeper comforted himself in his heart.
"No, you were already crazy."
The "Special Envoy from Thorn City" beside him suddenly spoke at this time.
Such a shocking statement made the tower keeper turn around and look at him.
At this moment, the holy object that was supposed to have been stolen was in the other party's hands.
"Why is the Sealed Relic here with you?"
Looking at the illusory crow feather, the tower keeper asked in surprise.
"Since the previously sealed demon general has returned to the Moon Realm, you don't need this thing anymore, right?"
William looked at the soul fragment of the Father of Crows in his hand and answered the question irrelevantly.
He looked at the soul fragment and recalled his previous conversation with Valk .
"So, your so-called bet will provide me with any help?"
After hearing the other party's bold words, William asked calmly.
"The birth of a Void King requires another Void King to crown Him. I can be responsible for this. Of course, the premise is that you win in the end."
Valk replied.
He did not lie. In the Eclipse ending, the protagonist became the fourteenth Void King and was crowned by the Whispering Queen and the Dead Blood King.
This also gives rise to another question: how did the first Void King come into being?
Of course, now is not the time to think about this.
"Besides that?"
William continued to ask.
"Besides that there is the ticket to the circus."
Valk replied with a smile.
It took William several seconds to understand what the other party was referring to.
"A fragment of the soul of the Father of Crows?"
Valk nodded and continued:
"After I got it, I persuaded Mania to come here and guard it for more than 800 years, just to wait for a destined person to get it... Only those who hold this ticket are qualified to enter and compete for the position of the Father of Crows. Didn't I keep it here specially for you?"
William frowned and said:
"Then the other party already has two tickets."
According to what the Crow Feather Prophet said before, there are a total of four soul fragments in the world. Their leader already has one, and the other three are in the hands of the Holy Tomb, the Blacklight City Star Lighthouse, and the Queen of the Riel Empire.
At the moment, he only has the fragment of the Blacklight City Star Lighthouse in his hand, and the piece that was previously in the hands of the Crow Feather Prophet has probably been taken by Coles.
Thinking of this, William couldn't help feeling a little annoyed.
When William proposed this theft plan, he was not careless. He made hidden coordinate marks on the "Crown of Original Darkness", soul fragments, and even on the body of the Crow Feather Prophet.
However, as his former subordinate, the other party was too familiar with his habits. The moment he got the things, he directly erased the marks he made.
The means he used to defend against outsiders ultimately failed to defend against his own people.
"I remember the last soul fragment is in the hands of the empress of the empire..."
William thought of this and decided to take action immediately.
But Valk shook his head and said:
"It's too late now. The other party has already reached a deal with that lovely girl. As long as she gives him the soul fragment inherited from the royal family, after he becomes the new Father of Crows, he will calm the storm of the Broken Sea and allow the Empire's fleet to sail to Ava without hindrance."
"In other words, the other party already has three fragments..."
William murmured.
"Hey, don't be so serious! You should say that the score is now three to one, which is just evenly matched."
Seeing this, Valk laughed and patted William on the shoulder.
Then He continued:
"And isn't the Seed of Hope still in your hands? Even if he has completely inherited the abilities of the Father of Crows, he still needs the Seed of Hope to take the final step. Otherwise, he will never be able to become the complete Void King."
Valk's words reminded William of the specific ceremony of being promoted to the King of Hope and Despair in the ending of the Lunar Eclipse.
First, use either the Seed of Hope or the Curse of Despair to shape the initial prototype of the Void King, and then fuse it with it to allow your life to begin to transform into a Moon Realm existence. After the transformation, the Ascension Ceremony truly begins.
Depending on the prototype chosen previously, there will be two completely opposite ceremonies.
If the Curse of Despair was used to shape the prototype of the domain, then the trigger for the Ascension Ceremony was the act of "betrayal". The fuel needed for the ceremony was to set off a huge disaster that swept across the continent in the real world, causing great suffering and sorrow in the real world and causing a violent storm in the Moon Realm.
If the prototype of the domain was previously shaped by the Seed of Hope, then the trigger for the promotion ceremony is the act of "redemption". The fuel needed for the ceremony is to keep a country peaceful and tranquil for more than ten years, so that the residents here can live a happy and fulfilling life, so as to calm the violent turmoil in the Moon Realm.
The final step of the ritual is the "reversal".
If the prototype of the domain was previously shaped by the Curse of Despair, it will be necessary to use the Seed of Hope to reverse it into its opposite and at the same time redeem those who have fallen into despair due to the disaster.
On the contrary, if the prototype of the domain was previously shaped by the Seed of Hope, it will need to be reversed into its opposite by the Curse of Despair, while betraying those happy subjects and throwing them into the abyss of despair.
William recalled the scene in the last act of the play.
There is no doubt that Coles chose the first ritual at that time, after all, the second ritual required too long to prepare. He used the Curse of Despair to shape the black cloud-like crow shadow, which was the initial prototype of the Void King.
He chose to hold the ceremony in the Holy Tomb of Thorn City in order to meet the fuel requirements for the promotion ceremony. In that era when the Moon Realm Rift was blocked and the seven disasters were all sealed, the only way to cause a huge disaster was to reawaken the "Corrupted Moon Undead Tide".
But Coles probably didn't expect that the prototype symbolizing the power of despair would choose Blake, who was more desperate at the time, as his host.
Blake followed the simple logic of restraint and believed that in order to suppress the Curse of Despair, he must rely on the power of the Seed of Hope, so he swallowed the Seed of Hope directly.
This is equivalent to entering the final "reversal" stage.
What’s even worse is that Black’s choice at the time did qualify as “betrayal” for Coles.
Then the trigger was pulled and the ceremony began.
This ultimately led to the birth of the incomplete fourteenth king, "Father of Crows".
If the cooperation between these two people was any worse, the ceremony would not have been launched so smoothly...
