Silent Crown

Chapter 516 The Abyss Was Staring at Me

The next moment, hundreds of thousands of arms appeared in the huge shadow that was behind Ludovic, and moved to the sky.

The arms all folded!

Bang!

A hurricane appeared and swept across the land. Wherever it went, it tore all the barriers in its way to pieces as easily as blowing away dust.

Countless palms appeared and cruelly opened the slowly folding abyss to its extent. Then, the palms reached to the huge abyss.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Ludovic was tightly held inside the folded palms, like a mosquito that had been tightly squeezed by two hands. He struggled to get out, and his face twisted due to the extreme pain.

The land was rising, and the Sacred City made of iron and steel collapsed. The ruins of steel and iron were drawn into the air by an invisible force. The light reflected from the steel and iron and lit the hurricane.

All the steel and iron drew together and formed a metal giant that was hundreds of thousands of meters tall.

The abyss shook and a piercing sound came out of it. The infinite air of abyss spurted out and shrouded the giant.

The Sacred City was buried in darkness. The fire burned and the steel and iron collided with each other. A terrifying energy wave was spreading in all directions and destroyed one-third of the Sacred City.

The hundred-armed giant was roaring. Due to the powerful sound wave, its body made of steel and iron fell into pieces and merged together again and again.

At that very moment, the scary aether wave was spreading across the sky. The will of Hyakume, all the dark devils, and countless demogorgons\' power together pushed the abyss to its limit, making it exert a magnificent power.

The air was rolling, as if the real catastrophe was coming.

The land was falling apart and collapsing, and it seemed that the whole world was shaking. The Pope Palace, the central holy church, the holy praying hall, the inner circle of the city, the central area, and the outer circle of the region all shook.

Tens of thousands of countries were shaking! Because of the vibrations, the seawater moved rather quickly, creating huge tsunami; the mountains and hills fell into pieces.

The flying birds were torn apart by the sweeping hurricane; the earth cracked and collapsed; the plain turned into a basin. The whole topography was transformed.

Everything in the center of the Sacred City was distorted.

However, the hundred-armed giant was still alive. The shaking had not killed it, in fact, it was immortal. Among the Four Living Creatures, it was famous for its immortality and was addressed as an abomination.

Even God could not kill it and could only seal it in the ruins, waiting for the day when the last breath left its body. However, it was still alive; it had been imprisoned in the ruins for a few decades, but it was still alive.

It walked out of the ruins and went back to this world. "Like I have said… don\'t hurry to leave," it said, while staring at the abyss, where the iron and steel giant turned red after being burnt.

It was sneering and its face was hard to see clearly. The steel and iron giant had grown a few times larger, and half of its body was in the Aether World. It was embracing the abyss. In part of its chest, the flesh made of steel and iron as well as the bone beneath the skin slowly opened like a blossoming flower. There was a heart made of iron stone, and right on the heart was sitting a slim figure.

The slim figure was Ye Lanzhou.

"You know what? All these years, I have been thinking about a question…" Ye Lanzhou rested his elbows against his knees and held his chin while staring at Ludovic, who had been sealed by the invisible hands. "When the abyss is staring at me, I am also staring at it!"

Hearing this, Ludovic\'s face twisted. He knew what Ye Lanzhou\'s words really meant. His body began to convulse and he screamed, "Ye Lanzhou!!! How dare you…"

Ye Lanzhou snapped his fingers, and the next minute, Ludovic stopped screaming. It was completely silent. Ludovic\'s body became stiff and still, as if he had turned into a mud-made statue. His furious face now became emotionless and numb. Still, his eyes were moving and tracking Ye Lanzhou\'s slightly moving finger.

If Ye Lanzhou\'s finger moved to the left, Ludovic\'s eyeballs would move to the left and vice versa.

"I knew it. Hyakume is really something." Ye Lanzhou sighed slightly. "Your \'personality\' almost resembles a real human\'s, and your consciousness connects perfectly with your body. Apart from your sophisticated thought, your subconsciousness and emotion reflection are almost perfect. In fact, you are just like a real human. I never thought the technique which was designed for Hermes would be so compatible with you."

A roaring sound came from the abyss, and a scary blast wave fell onto the steel and iron giant. The giant died on the spot and became alive again.

Ye Lanzhou sat still, while staring coldly at Ludovic.

Ludovic was both motionless and emotionless. Beneath his skin, the purple blood veins were swollen, and his heart was beating very fast, as if it was going to explode.

"Are you angry? Are you feeling regret? Hyakume," Ye Lanzhou said darkly. "I think you expected this would happen, and you have stored your consciousness in your incarnation. But the consciousness is bound to influence your incarnation, which is Ludovic himself. Besides, the influence is not something like the conflict between the senses and feelings of a human. Rather, it was something more metaphysical—the conflict between divinity and humanity. Creating Ludovic\'s personality may have seemed a good way to get into the core of the Sacred City, but you should remember that when you are staring at a human, the human is also staring at you. When you turned yourself into a human, you became easier to understand and defeat… That is why you lost."

Hearing this, Ludovic convulsed, and the purple veins crawled up to his face. His body was controlled by Ye Lanzhou and he could not move at all. There was a powerful energy flowing all over his body, and the energy controlled Ludovic\'s vocal cords. He began to speak in a very ancient and strange tone.

It was not a human language but a murmuring of the abyss. It sounded like a strange symphony and the symphony\'s notes had overlapped all together. This sound was the mind of God, a bunch of bizarre syllables that no one could understand.

Ye Lanzhou smiled. "Don\'t you think it is already too late for you to grant me some good stuff in exchange for sparing you?!"