In Sumeru, pretend to be a scholar

"Hmph, kid, you're pretty good."

Scylla was very satisfied with Wang Yan's attitude.

Chapter 380 Wang Yan: Come out, Ronawa! You're the one I've decided on!

With Scylla's help, Wang Yan's musical research became not only faster, but also less lonely.

Perhaps because a dragon had been in the Old Sea for so long, it could talk to the king about almost anything except Remus and the Water Dragon King.

The key point is that although this old dragon has been outdated in the Old Sea for thousands of years, its knowledge reserves are indeed extensive. When it says many things, Wang Yan's eyes light up.

So Wang Yan spent his days studying the musical architecture left by Remuria and chatting with Scylla.

Two days passed in the blink of an eye.

"Kid, do you want to see more? You've already explored almost all of Capitol in the last two days, and you've even studied the Harmony Chamber's horn. Isn't that enough?"

Skula looked at the young man in front of her who was thinking about something with his eyes closed, and asked him with some curiosity.

Wang Yan did not open his eyes. He was rapidly calculating the musical knowledge he had gained over the past two days. Under his will, musical notes were constantly combining to form different musical movements.

“Not quite. I’ve reorganized most of the [Laws], but it’s still not enough.”

After a while, Wang Yan answered Scylla's question and opened his eyes.

At this moment, a magnificent [law] was gradually taking shape in his mind, but the most crucial position at the center was missing.

“Prince Scylla, let’s go to the Golden Palace. The final note should be there.”

Wang Yan looked at the giant golden palace located in the very center of Mount Capitol.

The entire palace looks like countless copper pipes pieced together; it looks very musical.

Scylla didn't refuse, since it had been dragging Wang Yan around the Old Sea for the past two days anyway.

Once Wang Yan was on the dragon, Skula flicked its tail, and the hundred-meter-long dragon whale carved a torrent underwater, carrying Wang Yan toward the center of Mount Capitol.

Not slow.

The seabed and reefs on both sides receded in rows, and the light shining down from above stretched into blurry lines in the curtain of water.

At first, everything was fine, but the closer Wang Yan got to the palace, the more strange feelings arose in his heart.

Wang Yan frowned.

He felt a familiarity with this feeling.

Back in Sumeru, when he was on Dolly's spaceship to Nordkalley, before he encountered the Super Holy Relic Red Falcon in the desert sky, it was a similar feeling that called him out of the cabin.

At the time, Wang Yan felt that it might be the blessing of angels guiding him.

So, what about now?

'Is there something?'

Wang Yan squinted, looking at the Golden Palace that was getting closer and closer.

'Could it be that the golden bee Sibyll left something behind?'

The thought popped into his head.

After all, this is the heart of Remuria. Sibyl transformed himself into a golden bee to provide Phoebus with computing power, and then buried all her wisdom and musical skills in this ruin.

If anyone had left a backup plan in this area, he couldn't think of anyone else besides this angel.

But the next second, he shook his head.

'No!'

Sibyl is gone.

He has been replaying the plot in his mind over and over again, remembering it very clearly.

The last golden bee, at the moment Phoebus collapsed, led the countless souls imprisoned inside back to Petrique, one by one.

Once the work was finished, the golden bee dispersed and never appeared again.

'So where does this feeling come from?'

Wang Yan sat atop Scylla's head, his fingers unconsciously tapping the dragon's horns.

The old dragon beneath him was charging forward with its head down, its tail swishing like a windmill, completely unaware that the person on its back was having a heart pounding with fear.

Before long, the golden palace came into view.

Wang Yan took a deep breath.

Leave it alone.

They're already at the door; just go in and see for yourself.

"I won't go in, lest I be reminded of you by these things." Scylla escorted Wang Yan to the door, then stopped himself.

Wang Yan didn't try to persuade him further, and nodded: "Okay."

After saying that, he went straight into the Golden Palace.

As he stepped inside, the angelic authority within him seemed to sense something and began to surge.

"No way, Sibyll really left something behind?"

Wang Yan looked on in disbelief.

Sibyl and Remus, these two fighters who defied the laws of nature, could be said to have been destined by fate.

He's far inferior to the other athletes.

The so-called Phoebus is actually a poor imitation of Fatuna.

But... if Sibyl could leave something behind under such circumstances, the situation would be different.

"However, in any case, it doesn't seem to be a bad thing for me."

Wang Yan's thoughts flashed through his mind, and then he responded to Boiling Angel's authority.

next moment.

In the once deathly silent golden palace, a certain melody seemed to begin to play.

The melody is like ocean waves and thunder, as if countless sounds are coming together to tell a story.

"This is..."

Wang Yan's expression shifted slightly, as if he had heard something from it.

The next moment, a story began to resonate in his ears, and some images began to appear.

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That was the year when the dark, deep sea returned to silence, and the old melodies finally came to an end.

Beneath the ruins of the golden capital, the golden bee flapped its already dim wings for the last time.

The embers of Phobos still flow in the waterways of the Spirit Dew, while Remuria's soul has long since scattered into the winds of the High Sea.

The prophetic bee that had burned itself for thousands of years should have vanished with the final note.

However, under the watchful gaze of the Mother of Time, in the blink of an eye, it saw a glimmer of light that had never appeared in the past.

"Traveler from beyond the boundary... I have seen countless endings, but I have never seen the path you take."

"You are neither a descendant of the ancient dragons nor a child of the heavens; you are a person blessed by angels."

The golden bees' voices were no longer the crisp buzzing among the silver trees, but carried a gentle and serene quality, like a candle about to go out.

"I once guided the white stone god-king to rebel against fate, but he has come to his end."

"Linglu's madness sank to the bottom of the abyss, and the golden melody turned into a lingering echo."

"But you came—with the blessing of angels, embarking on the path we had not yet completed."

It flapped its wings and flew towards the long-collapsed golden city, its golden scales falling like stardust.

Guided by it, a door that no one had ever seen before slowly appeared among the broken walls and ruins that had been soaked in spiritual dew for thousands of years.

"You will reconstruct the golden melody, not to imprison souls in immortal golems."

"You will rekindle your eternal dream, not to defy the ending written by the laws of nature."

"And I—the already defeated golden bee, Sibyl—will use my last light to open this door to angels for you."

"This time, let not arrogance cloud wisdom, nor let obsession distort blessings."

"Go, traveler chosen by the angels—you will play the new prologue to our unfinished symphony."

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The sounds in my ears disappeared, and the scene before my eyes vanished.

Wang Yan's gaze returned to the golden palace.

"This is... a scene before Sibyl's complete annihilation? No, it's a scene after Remulia's meteoric fall..."

"Sibyll foresaw Remulia's failure long ago; it gave Remus a prophecy, yet it couldn't stop Remus from walking the path foretold..."

"Logically speaking, it shouldn't leave anything behind."

"But... I think I just saw... the giant hand of time?"

Wang Yan tried hard to recall the scene from earlier.

The golden bee, on the verge of extinction, sensed a gaze from above, a gaze that opened a lifeline for it.

Through this crack, the golden bee seemed to see the future?

In the future, a person blessed by angels will come here…

"Isn't that me?"

"Wait, can the hand of time make the golden bee see me?"

"This isn't right!"

Wang Yan frowned, looking very conflicted.

When Ying resolved the problem here and freed the souls within the Golden Bee and Phobos, Wang Yan had not yet arrived in Teyvat.

Did Istaru foresee Wang Yan coming to Teyvat back then?

That's impossible. If that were the case, they would have just announced that Istaru had won.

"So, it wasn't Istaru who foresaw me in the past and informed Sibyl of my existence."

"Instead, through some means, the golden bee was transported from that time to the present, allowing it to see me!"

It still looks like a bug, but there's no doubt that Ishtar can do it.

Back in Nata, a girl named Tirel traveled through five hundred years of time to come before Ying. She then took the key to the spaceship back five hundred years, ensuring that the past rebels, upon seeing the key, would search for their sister and be distracted from the scene of the Kanria cataclysm, ultimately leading to Kanria's unsalvage and its eventual destruction.

This is Ishtar's large hand.

Don't let Shi Xiaomei's usual lack of action or quiet demeanor fool you; when she does act, it's always crucial.

"So, the golden bee, which was about to perish, saw the person from outside the world who bore the mark of an angel. When it returned to its own time, it burned everything in its path, leaving something for this newcomer, who is me."

Wang Yan felt that he had almost figured out the logic.

Of course, we shouldn't think that time is invincible.

The power of the Heavenly Ruler is limited, as can be seen from Wa's actions.

Shi Xiaomei certainly can't just use the power of time so casually.

But... Wang Yan is also a special case.

He is not bound by the "divine plan," and therefore is not protected by it.

Therefore, the power of time can be applied to him.

And what about golden bees?

As you can see from Nico's story, the angel who lost everything was also excluded from the "divine plan".

In other words, Istaru's use of the Time Power on the Golden Bee is also legal.

So, what did Sibyl give him through a perfectly reasonable operation that did not violate the rules of Sky Island?