Translated by: La0o9
Proofreader: Arya
Let’s rewind time a bit .
At the time the Pope had received the call from the Seven Holy Apostles and had just returned to the church .
The Fiendkind had yet to begin their attack .
The Fuxi Empire .
The Empire’s Grand Holy Church .
Varona’s grand coronation was taking place .
The coronation of an Empress was a spectacle for the whole world to see .
Because Varona was going to become the first ever ruling Empress of the Fuxi Empire .
Every nation had sent their own team of news crew to directly record this historical moment .
At this moment, the TV announcers were discussing about the late Fuxi Emperor .
The real reason for his death was purposefully hidden by Varona .
Either to prevent massive panic or to preserve the honor of the Fuxi Empire, the late Fuxi Emperor was declared killed in action while fighting against the Frozen Hell .
Ever since the frost started to spread around the world, the Frozen Hell was no longer a secret .
In despair, riots broke out in many countries .
The rulers of the nations couldn’t help but use Mechs and Professionists to try and uphold the collapsing social order .
In the Fuxi Empire, Empress Varona had given the military the temporarily right to judge .
The military judging process was greatly simplified into only two steps .
Step one, confirm the truth of the crime .
Step two, executing the criminal on the spot .
Everyone across Fuxi, robbers, murderers, vandals and the likes were ‘cleaned up’ completely .
At this point in time, it’s been determined that hell was coming for them all, and humans could possibly become extinct in this calamity .
If someone still dared to use the panic to cause unnecessary strife, they might as well be shot dead before the Apocalypse claimed them .
In just a few days, corpses had littered the streets of Fuxi .
Such extreme measures would of course be met with discontent by a portion of the people .
And so a few rebel organizations tried reaching out internationally to pressure Empress Varona from the outside .
But this time, they made the wrong choice .
Across the entire world, no country even tried to speak up against these actions .
No one tried to criticize Varona’s methods .
Facing the Apocalypse, any half-decent leader would only seek stability for their own country .
The leaders of such rebel organizations were secretly judged and executed by Varona .
Following that, Varona begun a propaganda campaign, to officially ease the people’s minds and give them real-time update of the situation .
News channels begun 24-hour streams reporting detailed updates of the Frozen Hell .
Following Gu Qing Shan’s suggestion, Varona also captured a few dead people and threw them into cages, letting the citizens view them like zoo animals .
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At the start, the viewing venues were packed full of people .
Due to the existence of the Game of Eternal and the Murder Clown from before, humanity did not feel too panicked at the spread of the ice .
When news become old news, most people found that there wasn’t anything that interesting to see .
-------the reason why so many people were afraid of death is because death is unknown .
No one knows for sure what death will be like .
Will they disappear completely?
Will they gather somewhere?
Now they have an un-living proof in front of their eyes that there is indeed a place to go after death .
Then death itself was no longer difficult to accept .
A few people speculated the possible existence of a Heaven or Nirvana .
Some people even began to do charity, hoping for a good life after death .
As more people did charitable and good deeds, society itself was becoming brighter by the day .
It got to the point where a random old lady crossing the street might be escorted with a princess carry -------sometimes by more than one person .
Thanks to that, the Fuxi Empire society that was tethering on the verge of collapse, having been through a baptism of blood and fire, slowly stabilized .
In fact, public order in the Fuxi Empire got better compared to before .
Seeing how effective that was, other countries followed suit, with varying degrees of success .
Varona’s fame sky-rocketed, obtaining the support of the majority of large powers in the world and officially settling in her throne .
The situation was completely different from the past life .
Dead people eats people .
This is a known fact, but since dead people only appear from frozen grounds, as long as they’re discovered in time, no big problems arose .
Numerous teams were formed to locate and collect the dead people, sending them to space .
Society’s attitude towards this wasn’t too strong way or another .
Everything seems to be changing for the better .
All the way until a certain strange person was discovered within a frozen river in Confederate borders .
When he was discovered, he had already broken out of the ice .
He managed to kill a squad of 30 people and sucked their blood dry .
He became incredibly strong .
Fortunately, a mysterious powerhouse acted and killed him in time, preventing further casualties .
Then the top brass of humanity received a trustworthy anonymous tip .
These types of monsters will appear in undetermined numbers .
World leaders decided to gather on the date of Varona’s coronation at the Fuxi Empire to discuss emergency measures .
Now .
The Empress’s coronation .
Led by a Bishop of the Holy Church, 12 priests stood around the future Empress, heading out from the grand church hall .
The Empress headed from the church hall to a tower platform behind the church .
This platform was called Gods’ Blessing Grounds .
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It was considered a most divine location in the Holy Church .
On the platform, the Bishop bestowed the Empress with a golden crown with 12 points .
This represents the Empress’ coronation to be bestowed by the heavens .
The guests stood up from their seats, following the Empress and the priests towards the tower platform .
Gu Qing Shan, Zhang Ying Hao and Ye Fei Li were also there .
The three of them followed the flow of people while whispering to each other .
“I feel like something is off” Ye Fei Li commented .
“Which part?” Zhang Ying Hao asked .
“There seems to be too few people here” Ye Fei Li replied .
“That’s obvious” Zhang Ying Hao told him .
“Why is that?” Ye Fei Li asked .
Zhang Ying Hao explained in a low voice: “The Fuxi Emperor uses his world-class might to rule over the powerful Professionists in the country, but now that he’s dead, the crowning Empress doesn’t have such might, so there are a few who aren’t willing to listen to her”
“Such a thing still happens?” Ye Fei Li asked .
“Yeah, quite a few powerful Professionists who hold authority didn’t show up” Gu Qing Shan told him .
According to Impartial Goddess’ analysis, over half of the Professionists who hold authority aren’t here .
Ye Fei Li questioned: “Hell is already here and they’re still in-fighting, is that really fine?”
Zhang Ying Hao answered: “Compare to uniting against an enemy, people in power usually prefer in-fighting first”
“I thought I’d come here to learn a bit more about the world, but I’d rather not learn THIS” Ye Fei Li complained .
Gu Qing Shan was also a bit annoyed .
The Frozen Hell is still silently spreading .
What I want to do next requires the full support of the Fuxi Empire .
------but it’ll probably take quite a long time for Empress Varona to thoroughly control the Empire .
There’s simply no time to wait for the Empress to slowly eliminate her competitions to settle and solidify her reign .
While he was thinking, Zhang Ying Hao came closer and whispered: “I heard there are a few people wanting to choose a grown male from the branch family to succeed the crown”
“There is indeed that, the military as well as a few other with authority support this idea greatly, Varona had to use all her wits just to barely push it down” Gu Qing Shan commented .
“They want a puppet Emperor?” Ye Fei Li asked .
“That’s right, that is the most beneficial for them” Gu Qing Shan answered .
“Aren’t they worried what state this country is going to become?” Ye Fei Li asked naively .
Gu Qing Shan and Zhang Ying Hao exchanged looks and said nothing .
Gu Qing Shan sat silently for a while before suddenly deciding on something .
The Empress had already walked onto the tower platform .
All the guests stood below, waiting for the most important moment of her coronation .
The Bishop was about to place the golden 12-pointed crown on Varona’s head .
Every member of every nation, as long as they aren’t busy with something, currently have their Holo-Brain turned on to tune in to this historic moment .
At this time, the number of people streaming the same video has reached a new record peak .
But at the scene of the Empress’ coronation, something strange was happening .
People were occasionally looking down at their Holo-Brain .
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Some people were whispering, discussing something .
A sort of stifled worry and discomfort silently spreads .
Including the Confederate President, many politicians checked their Holo-Brain one after another .
As they listened to the report, their expressions became grim .
The world leaders then began giving out orders .
Even the President had remotely ordered the entire Confederate’s military to move .
“This isn’t right, something big must’ve happened” Zhang Ying Hao whispered .
“Impartial Goddess, what’s the situation?” Gu Qing Shan asked .
[…A certain something is happening across deserts all over the world]
[The corresponding intelligence is incomplete, unable to compile into a proper report] Impartial Goddess answered .
Gu Qing Shan was a bit surprised .
“Show me what’s going on” he said .
[Very well, sir]
A scene appeared on his Holo-Brain .
The Confederate’s Great Masala desert .
A giant figure that eclipses the sun was slowing moving in the desert .
This figure was as tall as a skyscraper .
A Giant .
A Giant has appeared .
It walked with quick strides, with each step it took, the desert trembled .
All the sand that touched its body were turned an ashen grey .
Heavy black shackles wrapped the Giant’s legs, occasionally bursting out bright orange flames, burning the Giant .
But it endured the pain, roaring thunderously:
“Move -----your -------asses!”
It growled: “Before the living discover, we must finish building the capital of the dead!”
“Uhmmm!”
Hundreds, thousands of gigantic figures responded .
The grey desert city began to take shape .
The scene turned off .
Gu Qing Shan pinched his forehead, sighing deeply .
The worst that can happen always happen .
On the entire desert, there wasn’t even a shred of ice .
Those black shackles on the Giants’ bodies were also completely unrelated to the Frozen Hell .
They clearly aren’t from the Frozen Hell .
-----the second Hell has descended upon them .
Gu Qing Shan couldn’t help but glance at the War God UI .
A line of text floated in the middle .
[Estimated time until Huang Quan reinforcements arrive: 11 hours]
Damn it!
I delayed the Frozen Hell but another hell come early instead!
Gu Qing Shan asked: “System, why didn’t you tell me before?”
[Ting]!
The War God UI answered: [The System did not know that another Hell would descend, in fact, even the Frozen Hell was your discovery first and foremost]
Gu Qing Shan recalled and bit and found that really was the case .
“But you were able to summon the Huang Quan reinforcements” Gu Qing Shan questioned .
The War God UI continued to explain: [I only secretly reported it to them, they were already looking to get out of Huang Quan]
As Gu Qing Shan was about to keep talking to the System, he went silent .
The tower platform .
The ceremony was still continuing .
“Varona Medici…”
The Bishop spoke the Empress’ given name, about to give her the blessing .
Then the sky turned dark .
Something happened -------
Everyone looked up .
“Something isn’t right; I can feel the disturbance in space” Zhang Ying Hao become serious .
“Something is coming -----look!” Ye Fei Li also commented .
They all beheld the same place in the sky .
The sun was blocked out by the blurry blowing wind .
A black hole opened up in the sky .
Then, a casket appeared in midair .
This casket was extremely large, almost as big as the church itself .
The casket was made entirely out of bones, occasionally some blood would drip down from the openings .
Bang!
A loud impact, like a cannon blast .
The casket’s door was knocked opened, a monster roared thunderously, struggling to climb out .
It was a jet black corpse .
Gu Qing Shan released his inner sight to check and saw that inside the casket, there were nothing but sharp spikes .
These spikes pierced the monster’s body, trapping it inside the casket .
That’s why it was struggling .
A casket and sharp spikes .
This was another form of Hell’s punishment, once again completely unrelated to the Frozen Hell .
Gu Qing Shan instantly understood .
In the meantime, he stared straight at the sky, unable to say anything .
That’s right, right at the scene of the Fuxi Empress’ coronation, under the watchful eyes of billions of people, the third Hell has descended on the Human Realm .