Volume 2: Funeral Song of Crows Chapter 65: Choice
Valk's summoning day is the fourth day of the rainy month every year, which is known as April Fools' Day or Beggar King's Day.
It is said that during the Golden Calendar, Valk once replaced the identity of a beggar with that of a king on his summoning day. The beggar wearing the crown issued many extremely absurd orders that day, causing great chaos in the entire capital. But at midnight, when Valk's summoning day was over, the beggar turned back to his original ragged appearance with sores all over his body. The golden crown on his head also turned into a crooked crown made of cardboard and bamboo.
Later, in order to prevent such things from happening again, on the fourth day of the rainy month every year, the king would take the initiative to change into ragged beggar's clothes, remind himself in advance that all the orders he gave that day were jokes, and allow beggars across the country to go out on the streets to party on this day.
Somehow this tradition became a carnival festival. On the fourth day of the rainy month, all the nobles would change into plain clothes and stay indoors. Beggars would put on fake crowns and claim to be kings to party in the streets. All the people who saw the beggars had to salute them and could not refuse their requests for food or money.
The crown in Valk's hand now is the same shape as the beggar's crown on April Fool's Day, or it can be said to be its earliest prototype.
"You plan to crown him?"
Ms. Hungry looked at Valk in surprise.
Valk whistled in affirmation.
"I thought you would be the last person in the entire Moon Realm to do this."
"No, I'm probably the only one in the entire Moon Realm who would do that."
Valk replied with a smile.
The pale poet Poke at the side reminded:
"You know, the plan of plane fusion will not change just because you are the one being crowned."
The four Void Kings present knew that the clown-dressed guy in front of them was the king in the entire Moon Realm who most strongly opposed the launch of the Vic Continent Plane Fusion Plan.
The thirteen Void Kings hold a meeting in Graycastle every one hundred and sixty-nine years, and the most important topic of the last meeting was to discuss the specific implementation plan for the plane fusion plan for the Vic continent.
At that meeting, apart from the Nightmare Lord Clawmara who was absent as usual and only sent his nightmare maidens to convey his objections, only the Mad Fool expressed strong opposition.
The four Void Kings who had supported Coles before could not believe that he would suddenly change his nature.
Now the entire ceremony is anchored in the land of Blackwater Province. It only needs Camilla, the rotating monarch of the Year of Hunger and Corruption, to start activating the ritual fuel. Then, someone with control authority over Black Crow's Watch will use the Seed of Hope to begin the final stage of the ceremony.
And this process will inevitably lead to the fusion of planes.
Unless Valk and William can work together to expel all four Void Kings from Black Crow Watch and then rearrange the main body of the ceremony, they can reopen the promotion ceremony without triggering a plane fusion.
Unless this is done, who performs the coronation will not have much impact on the final outcome of the ceremony.
After all, this is something that Coles' crow group has been planning in the world for thousands of years, and the four Void Kings have strongly supported for so long. It is impossible for it to be changed so easily overnight.
Moreover, without their support, the most important fuel for the ritual would be gone.
But Valk just said indifferently:
"It all depends on the choice of this guy."
He pointed to William and continued:
"He is the protagonist here today. Please don't misunderstand me. I am only responsible for bringing a crown here today, and then coming here to laugh at your previous irrelevant 'perfect plan'."
As soon as these words came out, six red lights flickered under the black veil of Beatrice, which was a sign that His emotions had changed drastically.
Frankly speaking, Beatrice has tried her best to adjust various parts of the plan this time, such as winning over the Nightmare Lord Clawmara in advance to keep Him neutral in the competition of this ritual; for example, by controlling the changes in the conspiracy network, the time for Valk to arrive at Black Crow Watch was greatly delayed.
The two biggest variables, the two Void Kings who held different attitudes towards the plane fusion plan, were restrained in advance. The Moon Realm Disaster was just a mortal. In the Moon Realm, he alone could not stop the ceremony.
But Beatrice had never expected that William would be willing to sacrifice the entire Dusk Fortress to buy time, and that he would be able to completely kill Coles, who was already a half-step Void King, in less than three minutes.
No matter what, the other party's goal has been achieved now, and this cannot be denied even if the other party is killed.
Not to mention that with Valk's help, William could just walk away. The entire Black Crow Hope will completely dissipate in the near future. Perhaps the conditions for the birth of the fourteenth Void King will reappear in the future, but the plan to start the plane fusion this year through this ceremony is doomed to fail.
unless……
Beatrice turned her red eyes towards William.
If William was really willing to cooperate with them to continue the ceremony, then it would indeed be able to remedy the previous losses.
By the way, it also completely eliminated a trouble for Yuejing.
After all, once the former Moon Realm Disaster becomes the Void King himself, whether he is willing or not, he must rely on the emotions of the present world to survive. In other words, the will of the other party as a human being will become extremely weak, and he will show more of a concrete personality as his symbolic domain.
There may be various conflicts between the Void Kings in high positions in the Moon Realm, but most of the time their attitudes towards the real world are the same.
No matter what, helping William Kane become the new Void King is definitely the best option now, but Beatrice always feels that things will not be that simple.
As the Void King who holds the power of conspiracy and betrayal, Beatrice can see the direction of the future by feeling the trembling of the conspiracy thread. However, when he looked at William, he could only see a blank space.
All the conspiracy threads concerning his future seemed to be burned.
Not being able to grasp the direction of things is probably what He hates most.
But what can the other party do now? What is that clown Valk planning?
Since Disaster gave up the chance to escape from Black Crow Watch and stayed, it means that he still can't let go of the position of the fourteenth Void King - this is normal, after all, no mortal will give up the opportunity to be promoted to eternity.
But if the other party wants to conduct the promotion ceremony right now, then the entire ceremony must be under their control, and in this way, Valk's plan to prevent the fusion of the Moon Realm and the Vic Continent plane will inevitably fail.
Could it be that the other party really had a backup plan that could change the entire ceremony arrangement right under the noses of the four kings? Just like when they suddenly summoned the End Scene and trapped them outside?
Thinking of this, Beatrice looked at the dilapidated castle behind Disaster.
The Dusk Fortress, after the Scene of End was completely destroyed by them, this fortress that had caused them countless troubles more than a thousand years ago had fallen directly from the real world into here.
The Moon Realm that anchored this fortress had been shattered, and before it was anchored by a new Moon Realm, it was just an ordinary stone castle.
There's no way there's any hidden trick there...
A roar sounded around, and a huge black crack appeared on the entire island reef. At the same time, the lighthouse not far away also showed signs of cracks.
This is a sign of the impending collapse of the entire Black Crow Hope.
Seeing this, William took out the last remaining soul fragment of the Father of Crows in the storage space, held it together with the Seed of Hope in his hand, and asked:
"So what is your choice? Watch me destroy these two things together..."
As William spoke, a magic circle of [Item Destruction] appeared in his hand.
"Or should you please get out of the way and let me go to the lighthouse and finish what I need to do?"
