Chapter 932: I Am… the King?
“What? All the fragments are in the same place?”
At this moment, Tan Heng frowned as she looked at the message sent by Ming Xueming.
Not only will all the fragments gather in the same place in the coming time, but the fragments held by the All-purpose Workshop are also there!
They promised that as long as Tan Heng and the others went to take them, they would hand them over willingly, without any resistance.
But everyone knows there’s a problem here!
If you hand them over willingly, then what about others?
Tan Heng didn’t expect that others would set a trap for them, mainly because she was thinking about delaying time at that moment, and there were no excessive restrictions on the contract.
Ultimately, this led to such a result.
Now Tan Heng didn’t dare to take the fragments from the All-purpose Workshop, and even if she got the locations of other fragments, she didn’t dare to go there.
Plus, with Luxien’s resignation process and declaration, the contract was thus fulfilled by the other party!
This undoubtedly made Tan Heng very uncomfortable at this moment.
However, it wasn’t all bad; the other party foolishly restricted the main forces of other Extraordinary Academies to the Laboratory Ruins, which undoubtedly bought them a lot of time!
Even if people from the All-purpose Workshop and the Witch Secret Realm Association came and accurately found them, they wouldn’t be able to engage in battle!
Thinking about it this way, Tan Jun felt that things weren’t as bad as she initially thought.
The Ancient Ice Remains tribe had almost completed constructing the Ice Crystal Temple these days, and the ceremony could begin at any time!
Even if this wasn’t a complete ceremony, the Ancient Ice, which could exert strength far beyond that of royal families, would still be a huge help!
It could even allow them to launch a surprise attack on the Laboratory Ruins and catch that bunch of idiots all at once.
But all of this had to be built on the success of the ceremony.
Moreover, the Ancient Ice that would achieve kingship had to be powerful enough; otherwise, it would really be delivering food.
Looking at the current chat room, Tan Jun unilaterally ended the conversation.
After all, scrolling up would reveal Ming Xueming and the others’ earlier questioning.
However, Tan Jun felt quite wronged; there wasn’t much good stuff left at the Laboratory Ruins, so why should she be blamed?
She should have been happily waiting to receive the fragments, but after being messed around by them like that, she felt very uncomfortable.
Nevertheless… no matter what, they only needed to quietly wait for the king ceremony to begin.
Some time passed.
At this moment, Tan Ya and her three companions stood at the ceremonial observation point.
This grand kingship ceremony had no rehearsal!
When all the members of the Ancient Ice royal family gathered here, the ceremony had already begun.
Or rather, when they established the Ice Crystal Temple’s ritual altar, the ceremony had already started.
Thus, it was said that the construction of the temple could not be interrupted.
Because what was interrupted was not the construction, but their faith and rituals!
And when all the royal family members gathered before the altar, the secrets of the Ice Snow Throne also changed.
All the Ancient Ice, whether guards or commoners, seemed to awaken at that moment.
They shook off the ice crystals and drifting snow and embarked on a pilgrimage.
The secret realm of the Ice Snow Throne was vast; it buried the ancient and ignored Ancient Ice.
But at this moment, they all completely awakened and headed in the same direction.
The king of the Ancient Ice tribe, in the annals of the Void, had once stood at the peak of the Extraordinary Holy Realm.
Thus… the beginning of the kingship ceremony was also the start of a pilgrimage for all the Ancient Ice.
No one could block the determination of the Ancient Ice pilgrimage, nor could anyone question this race’s faith in their king.
Unless the ice crystals shattered, consciousness severed, and they turned to ice dust.
Even so, their bodies sublimated into wind and snow, guiding the yet-to-arrive tribesmen forward.
At this moment, the snow in the secret realm… the wind changed direction.
As if in some mysterious way, a consciousness annotated here, the brilliance of a tribe seemed to rise at this moment!
The strength of the entire tribe!
Achieving the kingship ceremony, if unsuccessful, would only become a handful of wind and snow in the secret realm.
“What… is going on here!”
The joint development team at the Laboratory Ruins had just arrived at their marked position.
Before they had officially started digging, the secret realm experienced such an unexpected event.
Everyone was startled by this sudden change.
The ground shook as they walked, and rough bodies composed of ice crystals crawled up from beneath the snowy earth.
In just a moment, everyone was ready to respond to the enemy.
But soon they realized that these usually violent Ancient Ice were no longer attacking them at this time.
They seemed to have a common goal and marched steadfastly toward that direction.
At this moment, the highly vigilant crowd watched these Ancient Ice in confusion.
However, the sharp-minded felt the issue with the secret realm.
“The wind direction has changed…”
Although those Ancient Ice did not show any desire to attack, everyone remained cautious of these massive creatures.
But no one dared to act rashly, as there were simply too many of these monsters!
If someone suddenly drew the aggro of these Ancient Ice, even if they could deal with these commoner-level Ancient Ice, they would ultimately end up in a very messy situation.
“What the heck are those guys doing? Why did they suddenly…”
“Who knows? Is it possible that Yaoyao and the others are up to something? Who said the wind direction changed earlier?”
“It was me; the wind direction indeed changed earlier. The current wind and snow are blowing in the same direction as these creatures are advancing.”
“How about we follow these guys to see what’s happening?”
At this moment, someone proposed.
But when he prepared to step forward, suddenly a restraining force prevented him from taking a step alongside those Ancient Ice!
“*! It’s the Witch Contract! Damned thing… it won’t let us leave, just wait for us, huh? Where are the people from the Witch Academy? Come out and explain this!”
At this moment, some members of the Witch Academy were also quite puzzled; they were just there to organize information about the Laboratory Ruins!
What does it have to do with them?
“Don’t slander us! What does this have to do with us? We’re just as surprised!”
“You must know something, which is why you’re setting this trap for us, right? Even if we assume for a moment that you know nothing, what about those in your club?” At this moment, they still relentlessly questioned.
“Calm down! Calm down… should we go back? Or send someone back to report the situation inside the secret realm?”
“How can we go back? Until a joint announcement is made that the exploration is complete, no one can leave!”
“Then let’s abandon this place and announce the completion of everything, bypassing the contract…”
“I disagree! How can we do that? Without a contract, how can we ensure fair distribution for this exploration of the Laboratory Ruins!”
In an instant, many people began arguing due to disagreements.
Among this large crowd, some came specifically for this ruins, while others were forced to come due to the contract list.
With the issue in the secret realm, or rather the anomaly, how could they just sit by and watch?
“Everyone quiet down! Trust our partners outside the secret realm; it’s not like we have no one. If anything happens, others will definitely investigate for us.”
“Isn’t it good for us to just focus on our entrusted tasks? The secret realm won’t collapse just because one person is missing!”
Amidst the noise, some pragmatic individuals had already begun surveying and excavating, but because of this unexpected happening, this group nearly fell apart.
If it weren’t for the binding power of the Witch Contract, they would have really scattered.
Besides these people, the scattered individuals still left in the secret realm also noticed this anomaly.
After some operations, those outside the secret realm quickly learned about this news.
Faced with such an unexpected situation, Ming Xueming from the All-purpose Workshop prepared to contact Tan Jun again.
Her intuition told her it had to be Tan Jun’s doing!
But when she sent the message, she found out she had been blocked by the other party.
Looking at the chat stuck on the interface where she sent her location, Ming Xueming felt a surge of anger with nowhere to direct it.
“It’s Tan Yun… it must be their doing! Damn it… what did they do?”
At this moment, Ming Xueming, who usually kept her emotions hidden, also vented her anger.
Luckily, she was alone, or else her usual image would probably collapse at this moment.
“Or are they using the Laboratory Ruins they released as a smokescreen to conceal their actions?”
Quickly, with the information and intelligence she gathered, Ming Xueming came to this conclusion.
This conclusion was actually easy to deduce, but what was difficult was not thinking of it.
She had been overly immersed in what she thought were their schemes!
“Damn Tan Yun…”
After figuring this out, there was at least one not-so-bad piece of news for the Witch Academy side; the main force members of the Witch Academy were not constrained by the Witch Contract over there at the ruins.
They had more people to explore what had actually happened in the secret.
At the beginning, when they found the laboratory and confirmed it had been “looted” by Tan Jun and her team, it was obvious that they reasonably speculated Tan Jun must have found something in the laboratory.
Most likely, it was something extremely important related to the Great Spellbook!
That’s why they were so eager to gather all the fragments.
Now it seemed that gathering all the fragments in one place had disrupted some of Tan Jun’s plans.
That’s why Tan Jun blocked her so decisively.
Very well… everything is connected!
After feeling regret, they quickly assembled a brand new exploration team to investigate the anomalies within the secret realm.
Regardless of anything, their actions were seriously lagging.
However, exploring what exactly happened in the secret realm seemed much easier than they had expected.
Because the unusual behavior of those Ancient Ice seemed to naturally point them to the source of the anomaly.
Not only the Witch Academy, but other academies also organized personnel immediately.
Faced with this sudden situation, the people from other Extraordinary Academies didn’t even have time to question them about what had happened.
Ming Xueming decided to personally enter the situation due to this incident!
And representatives from other academies were also the same.
With such a sudden anomaly occurring in the secret realm, they felt a severe sense of crisis; if they didn’t step in personally, something could happen that would be irreversible!
Ming Xueming directly entrusted all matters to the Vice President while emphasizing that Happiness Lei and the others must always pay attention to the situation in the secret realm.
If they encounter something unresistable, without hesitation, they should directly seek help from the academy!
After all, if this secret realm were to collapse, it would probably affect the entire academy!
Just thinking about the wind and snow within that secret realm and the accumulated ice fields and glaciers… any part could not withstand such a sudden collapse!
While these people experienced the arduous wind and snow, they quickly locked in on a specific area.
It seemed to be a massive snow mountain, but the closer they got, the more densely the Ancient Ice became!
The Witch Academy students, fearing the risk posed by the ravages of wind and snow, rode their flying broomsticks high into the sky.
Then, they witnessed a magnificent scene they would never forget in their lifetime…
Countless Ancient Ice gathered there, coming from all directions of the secret realm.
They trampled out a pilgrimage path!
“This snow mountain… what the hell is going on?”
“This snow mountain seems too wrong, don’t you think? If we use detection, this snow mountain doesn’t even exist!”
“What?!”
When everyone discovered this anomaly, the bolder among them struck without hesitation, directly bombarding the “snow mountain.”
Then this continuous range of snow mountains was completely exposed.
It was a snow maze disguised as a snow mountain!
And the sudden attack enraged all the Ancient Ice present.
Within the snow maze, that was their king about to be born!
How could they allow these guys to be so rampant!
As the Ancient Ice erupted in turmoil, Tan Wei and her companions within the snow maze also sensed the commotion.
This time was different from the resonance of the Ancient Ice coming for the pilgrimage; instead, it was a very violent impact.
So Tan Wei quickly judged that someone had come.
Tan Wei anxiously looked at the group of Ancient Ice conducting the ritual at this moment.
The snow maze could indeed sustain them for a while, but if the ceremony failed…
Then they would find it very hard to have a second chance.
As Tan Suan and the others worried, the Ancient Ice had already arrived at the most crucial moment of the kingship ceremony…
They, at the altar, reshaped the glory of the ancients with their own bodies!
Drawing from the power of the Great Spellbook, they would recreate the grandeur of old!
Every one of their bodies shimmered with reverence for the king, their eyes filled with fervor…
Their lives were condensed for this purpose!
At the very center of the Ice Crystal Temple, on the main altar that led the kingship ceremony,
The purest ice crystal generated terrifying power under the ceremony’s blessing.
It was as if something awoke at that moment, a chaotic consciousness gradually converging into an order of life…
And at the forefront of the royal family, the main priest held the Absolute Cold Crown, chanting ancient blessings.
The power of the ceremonial resonance gradually broke through the snow maze, while those outside had yet to break through this maze, but the kingship ceremony blossomed at this moment with the most magnificent miracle of life!
“Ancient king… your kin await your awakening…”
“回应我们吧！”
The ceremony commenced, and the Ancient Ice tribe offered everything.
They did not conduct it in the conventional manner of the Great Spellbook, for they could no longer obtain all the fragments.
But at this moment, these fragments were merely offerings to awaken the king, as well as an explanation of power at the moment of kingship, and a re-creation of the glory of the ancient tribe…
They awaited a voice that would respond to them!
But as the ceremony persisted, despair increasingly filled the gazes of these royals…
Their king did not respond to them…
Until a crystalline voice echoed through the heavens and the earth, as if its voice resonated with the divine realm!
“I am… the king…”
…
At this moment, far away in the Primordial Dream Laboratory.
I, lost in the chaos of cloned consciousness, heard a distant call.
As if countless faiths anchored that consciousness from chaos… the call resonated, with no place to rest.
Until I attempted to respond to them…
“I am… the king?!”
At that moment, countless faiths and fortunes surged upon me!
