An hour remained before the Ascension Ceremony began.
The earth suddenly began to quake violently.
Without warning, the entire world began to collapse.
The powerful professionals sensed the arrival of the apocalypse. They set out one after another to investigate the changes in the world.
The Imperial Palace.
The powerful people's attention had been drawn by the earthquake, and the palace grew even quieter.
—The situation was unusual this time. The Old King was dead, the New King was only three years old and had yet to take the throne, and the Civil and Military Officials had not hurried into the palace.
So when the apocalypse descended, there weren't many people in the entire palace.
At that moment, in a remote corner of the palace.
In front of a certain tower.
A voice suddenly rang out from the void:
"Light of the Crown."
The tower door opened at the sound, allowing Gu Qingshan and the others inside.
They followed the stairs all the way to the top of the tower.
It was a library, filled with precious books from generations of the royal family.
Everyone stood among the books, looking around.
"Where is it?" Lola asked.
"I'll look for it—found it," Gu Qingshan said.
He walked up to a bookshelf and pointed at a thick, dust-covered book.
"The Kings didn't trust me, but the two guardians had sworn loyalty to the royal family, so they knew where the Kings of each generation were hiding," Gu Qingshan said.
"Didn't they know we were coming?" Zhang Yinghao asked.
Gu Qingshan smiled. "They were afraid of being discovered by the monsters and the Four Gods, too, so they concealed their auras and hid in the book. They won't wake until just before the Ascension Ceremony begins, then they'll come meet me."
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