"What?"
The three of them faced one another, eye to eye, all looking bewildered and uncertain.
Han Su was astonished by how unexpected Xue Zhi's arrangement had been, and bewildered that Xu Ji had actually affected such a massive ascension ceremony. He had no idea how it had happened.
Xue Zhi, meanwhile, had been startled when Han Su smacked Xu Ji on the head. Yet the result had turned out exactly as he'd hoped, and now that one of his suspicions had been confirmed, a whole host of new questions had sprung up.
As for Xu Ji, he was just completely dumbfounded.
He had no idea what had just happened, or why the other two were looking at each other with such intense curiosity and scrutiny.
But it really had worked...
"How did they do it?"
At that moment, in Light Machine City, Wei Lan felt countless gazes turning toward her from the depths of reality. She also felt the resonance between herself and the countless disaster-stricken cities—including Light Machine City—growing ever more solid, almost as if it were under her control.
The level she had thought was merely a temporary boost was becoming an eternal authority under the influence of a Mysterious Power.
A joy too intense could make a person feel afraid.
"Did they crown me?"
Having been trained by the Queen organization since childhood and then worked her way up to become the Qinggang Empress, she couldn't understand it.
She knew all too well that the crowning ceremony for a Queen's ascension was shrouded in mystery. It could even be called one of the Queen organization's most closely guarded secrets.
Every Queen had to learn to respect the elders who had stepped down, to obey their plans, and even to sacrifice herself at their direction. That was