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Chapter 291 - 116: Hallelujah!_3

Chapter 291: Chapter 116: Hallelujah!_3

After tapping the three bells in sequence as instructed,

"Buzz!!!"

a sound like an air raid siren echoed through the entire sky!

It came with a trembling shake of the screen.

Soon, the oppressive low-hanging clouds were dyed with a blood-red light.

The crimson glow seemed to pour down from higher in the sky, casting pillars of light upon the sea’s surface.

Looking around, the red light enveloped everything, changing the colors of heaven and earth.

This scene made Dai involuntarily lean back.

"No kidding, it’s kind of scary."

"Just hope some giant ghost face doesn’t fly out from the sky.... Ghosts would be somewhat fine, but I have a phobia of massive objects...."

While Dai spoke, the door to the top room of the Lighthouse had already opened.

It was empty, except for a modern-looking leather chair placed inside.

With no other choice, the players naturally could only sit down in this chair.

And at the moment the player took a seat,

"Click!"

As if they were sitting in a restraining chair, the player’s hands and feet were locked tightly by iron hoops that sprung forth.

"Wait... what’s going on?" came a struggling murmur from Booker in the game.

A mechanical voice, devoid of any emotion, sounded beside the ear.

"Pilgrim, be prepared, these bindings on your limbs are to ensure your safety."

"What pilgrimage? Where are you taking me... no, I’m not ready, let me go!"

The mechanical voice ignored Booker’s shouts.

On the ground, what one might have assumed were just decorative patterns, the iron petals now slowly closed up like an iron lotus.

Soon, they had trapped Booker inside.

It looked as though he was being locked inside a small rocket.

The mechanical voice broadcasted once more.

"Ascension... ascension countdown begins... five... four... three... two... one..."

Boom!!

Amidst the roaring sound of the rocket’s ignition,

this oddly-shaped small rocket was already shaking and trembling, breaking away from the Lighthouse, and started to rapidly climb towards the sky.

Perhaps it was because of the extreme speed,

or maybe the high-altitude air currents were unstable.

The entire screen shook violently.

"Ascending... ascending..."

The players could only watch helplessly through the transparent glass in front of the rocket as they were carried into the high skies.

The heavy, low-hanging dark clouds became increasingly closer, accompanied by bursts of blue-purple lightning and thunder.

Along with Booker’s agitated, anxious roars inside the game,

and the cold mechanical notifications.

All at once everything became entangled into a tumultuous mass.

It gave off a chaotic and agitated sense of oppression.

No one knew what would be above the clouds.

"Five thousand feet... ten thousand feet... fifteen thousand feet..."

The mechanical voice continued to report the altitude.

By then, the Fire Arrow had shot straight into the dense cloud cover, the transparent glass almost completely obscuring any view, with only whirls of grey and black clouds rapidly pulling away.

The tense background music also played at this moment, the sharp sounds of a violin being frantically plucked with taut fingers.

All suspense was nearly pushed to its maximum at this moment!

And the next instant.

The rocket burst through the clouds, and the screen flickered with blinding white light.

The abrupt appearance of the light caused Dai and all the viewers in the live stream to squint reflexively.

The next moment, the piercing violin sound abruptly stopped.

The mechanical voice spoke for the last time, in a low tone.

"Hallelujah."

Dai’s eyes snapped open once again, and a complex emotion of astonishment and shock suddenly climbed over his entire face!

He stared dumbfounded at the scene before him, and all the viewers in the live stream were equally flabbergasted.

The black clouds were gone, the red light was gone, and even the flashes of lightning had disappeared without a trace.

In front of them was the City of the Sky, suspended above the azure skies!

The melodious sound of bagpipes echoed in their ears, and elegant white clouds swirled around modern city islands, shrouded in a misty glow.

Above the clear blue sky, sunlight filtered through the clouds, casting a gentle golden powder glow.

It coated the City of the Sky in a layer of honey-like hazy frosting.

Towering buildings dotted each floating island, with huge exposed steel gears embedded within the structures, rotating crisply and methodically. Cottony soft bridges, as delicate as ribbons, linked the islands together. They fused Victorian style with steampunk artistry to perfection.

Zeppelins, steam airships laden with passengers and cargo, buoyed by hydrogen-filled leather bags as round and taut as footballs, floated slowly, belching rolling white smoke from the steam engines.

These bizarre scenes interwoven before their eyes painted an epic steampunk tapestry.

It was a sharp and intense shock compared to the extreme tension of the eerie tableau before the ascent.

Dai’s pupils trembled, feeling a prickling sensation on his scalp!

The live stream’s comment section was boiling over like crazy frothing water!

"Oh my god, what did I just see?... This scene is simply amazing! It must be heaven!"

"This is too beautiful... just like Fairyland..."

"Stunning! The arrival of this moment is really super shocking! My heart trembled with that ’Hallelujah’..."

"Player One comes out swinging with a big move? Shocked my mum!"

"What kind of divine art department is this? My god! This rich Victorian retro-art atmosphere satisfies all my fantasies about steampunk! Player One really delivers whatever they promise!"

"I heard Chief Beauty from Player One mentioned once that all the initial sketches and line drawings for the game seemed to come from Baby Ke’s ideas, and the art department was responsible for processing and perfecting them. I must say, Baby Ke’s talent is simply too charming..."

"What did you expect? That’s why Baby Ke is a legend!"

"I thought Infinite’s demo was already a big move, crafted to attract players with the essence of the entire production team. And now I find out Baby Ke was holding back something like this? If this stunning scene had been in the demo, I can’t even imagine what the trending searches would have exploded into!"

"Just this scene of the City of the Sky alone could probably go head-to-head with this year’s visual arts, right?"

"Ahhh! This is the first time that just seeing an opening makes me uncontrollably want to buy this game! Enough talk, I’m going to pay right now!!!"