Dragon Clan starts from digging the corner of Kassel

Chapter 388 Return to Self (4K)

"Dong dong."

There was a regular knock on the door, and a familiar, blood-red scent emanated from outside. A young man's gentle voice echoed outside the training room:

"Ming Fei, I'm here, can I come in?"

"Come in please come in!"

Lu Mingfei quickly spoke out to welcome his friend.

Yuan Zhinu pushed open the heavy protective door, walked into the training room wearing cotton socks, with a gentle smile on her face that Lu Mingfei was familiar with.

"You didn't wait too long?"

Putting the sword bag down from her shoulder and leaning against the wall, Yuan Zhinu narrowed her eyes slightly and took in the scene inside the house.

Soft fluorescent light streamed down from the dome.

The young man with fluffy black hair sat cross-legged on the soft floor with his eyes slightly lowered. In his tranquility, he looked as gentle as a portrait.

But his upper body, covered in a black vest, was covered with powerful muscles, which was a far cry from the thin appearance in Genji's memory, and made Genji feel a little melancholy about the changes in the world.

If he looked with his devil's eyes, he could experience a different feeling.

Every muscle fiber has been tempered by trauma and pain, and is soaked in the memory of war, like a weapon forged from refined metal.

A fierce aura emanating from deep within his bones permeated every cell, like black thorns surrounding the young man's body. If one wasn't careful, one might even suspect that a ferocious beast was crawling and grinning.

Fighting and doomsday eventually changed the once timid and decadent boy.

However, Genji was clear that no matter what the boy in front of her became—

"Lu Mingfei will always be Yuan Zhinu's lifelong friend."

Lu Mingfei, with his eyes closed, twitched his nose slightly, revealing a relaxed smile: "Girl, Brother Shun said the time is almost right, so he asked me to ask you to come over and help... It shouldn't waste too much of your time."

Genjiro knelt quietly before him, her eyes as gentle as falling cherry blossoms. "I can finally solve your problem... I'm so happy, how could I find it troublesome?"

At this time, there were two more cold knocks on the door.

"The door is open. I'm coming in." Chu Zihang's calm voice sounded. He stepped into the training room barefoot and closed the heavy protective door made of super alloy. "It's about the time we agreed on."

It seemed that he had taken a shower during the break, and the young man still had the scent of shampoo on his body.

He wore a loose white T-shirt and sweatpants, and a bright red snake-like tattoo wrapped around his neck and extended to his left shoulder.

The half-dry hair fell wetly on his forehead, slightly softening the cold aura of Chu Zihang. He looked like the male protagonist in a youth idol drama. If he walked on the street, maybe some little girls would fall in love with him.

However, the other two present knew very well that their roommate would not be the male lead in an idol drama, but rather the "Count of Monte Cristo" with the Avengers script...

Just like the "God-killing Sword Murasame" he always carries with him.

Before Chu Zihang entered the house, Lu Mingfei could smell the lingering cold murderous intent on Murasame. Even though its owner was not targeting him, he still felt a chill on his back.

"Then everyone is here."

"Mingfei, are you ready?"

Yuan Zhinu turned her head, closed her left eye, and looked at Chu Zihang who was standing silently with her right eye with a cross-shaped pupil that was flashing with a blurry color: "Without further delay, Chu Jun, let's get started."

Chu Zihang nodded, standing like a telephone pole at the door - actually not much different.

Lu Mingfei, who was sitting cross-legged, slowly formed a hand seal in front of him and slowly exhaled: "...I'm ready."

"First, I will draw the formation diagram."

As Chu Zihang raised his hand, the bluish-white electric light unique to alchemy leaped in his palm like an elf.

The young man was no longer silent. He spoke eloquently, like an old professor explaining a point of knowledge to students in a small classroom, uttering solemn and ancient words:
"Three and a third parts of the tears of wind, one and a half parts of the heart of fire, two parts of the spinal cord of earth, and two and a half parts of the bones of water! Carve out the shackles that discipline yourself, and seek the gold of thought within!"

The bluish-white electric light zigzagged around Lu Mingfei like a snake, drawing a neat triple inner circle.

“From the top down.”

"From the earth to the heavens."

"Blue blood, boiling core, golden flesh, flowing bones."

As Chu Zihang chanted the dragon script, he used alchemical techniques to densely inscribe delicate runes into the interior of the triple circle. The sigil representing the four elements was placed in a corner of the array, while the circle symbolizing the spiritual aspect encircled Lu Mingfei in the innermost circle, thus forming an internal cycle of the four elements and the spiritual element.

Genji raised her left wrist, extended her right index finger, and stroked her left wrist.

Lead-gray, highly concentrated dragon blood flowed out of his blood vessels, and under his control, it meandered into the formation pattern etched by Chu Zihang on the floor, coupling with the leaping bluish-white electric light, twisting into bright colors, lighting up the ritual formation that Bu Shun had taught them.

The divine name that activated the "Memory Destruction" was also chanted by the Genji girl, her voice carrying a metallic echo:
"Fill the altar of the spirit with blood."

"Creation of Heaven and Earth!"

The next moment, Lu Mingfei suddenly opened his eyes! In the gap between heaven and earth!

He has come to a world that is extremely familiar to him, but at this moment seems very strange... The night view of the city that Lu Mingfei had seen before, where he lived and grew up, seemed to be distorted by an abstract painter, becoming extremely weird and unbelievable.

Skyscrapers filled the sky, pointing vertically to the ground like inverted mountains. The viaducts and roads below were like runaway snakes, circling aimlessly between the buildings.

—The vortex was stirring everything here.

He stood on the ceiling of his aunt's former home. The sky and the earth had never been so close, as if they wanted to wrap him up and squeeze him into a narrow shell.

Lu Mingfei could feel this kind of atmosphere that made him feel a little uneasy.

It was as if there was an invisible dragon and snake, crawling between heaven and earth, stretching and twisting its body, and making a mess of everything in this world.

He could still smell a scent that had not yet been erased from his memory... the smell of iron and fire.

As cold as bronze and as aggressive as fire, Lu Mingfei couldn't help but recall the arrogant king, the enemy who was once his friend.

The Fire Lord's willfulness, rage, pain, hatred... the various appearances of each other when they were fighting lingered in Lu Mingfei's consciousness, making him feel an indelible sadness.

Heavy drops of water fell on his shoulders. Lu Mingfei raised his head and found that it had started raining again in this twisted city without him noticing.

"You've come... Brother." The little devil's voice rang out behind him, following the sound of rain. Lu Mingfei turned around and saw "Lu Mingze," who was no longer bound by chains, holding a black umbrella... or rather, the abnormal being who claimed to be his younger brother.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

For some reason, when he saw the familiar little face of the little devil, these words suddenly came out of Lu Mingfei's mouth.

Hearing his words, the young man under the black umbrella suddenly smiled brightly, like a child who had received candy, his face filled with honey-like joy. He pretended to be a gentleman, clenched his fist to his mouth, and coughed twice: "Hmph, it seems that after not seeing you for so long, brother has missed me a lot~"

"Stop being such a mouthful."

Lu Mingfei pretended to be impatient and waved his hand, as if trying to wipe away the embarrassment of the words he had just blurted out, "You should know why I came here... and where is the teacher?"

It seemed that because Lu Mingfei mentioned another person, the smile on Lu Mingze's face suddenly faded.

He raised his thumbs up somewhat unhappily and pointed behind him. Lu Mingfei looked in the direction of his finger and soon saw a familiar figure standing on the top of a broken viaduct pointing to the sky, her silver ponytail swaying slowly in the rain.

"Xixiao".

The mentor in his dreams, the one who guided him to where he is today... perhaps a phantom that doesn't exist.

"Teacher, didn't he chain you?" Lu Mingfei looked at the relaxed little devil, recalling the bronze chains wrapped around him the last time they met. He pouted, "And teacher... what is he looking at?"

He did not know where in this world his inner world was, where the figure that symbolized a part of the "Power of God's Name" within him was watching over.

Lu Mingze's face immediately showed displeasure: "If you want to know, just go ask him, brother!"

But perhaps it was the relief he felt that had changed him somewhat. Lu Mingze sighed again, "Forget it. There's no point getting angry with that cold guy. Brother, you must be in a hurry right now... Otherwise, there's no need to come to see me this way."

Lu Mingfei thought to himself, I can’t just come to see you.

But there was no need to upset his younger brother right now, so Lu Mingfei followed his words and said, "Yeah, I'm about to fight the boss... So, there's no need to restrict my power anymore, right?"

Ever since he forcibly used the Seven Deadly Sins to fight Norton, his power has been declining since the war.

Even after the guidance of Teacher Liv and the treatment of Professor Hippocrates, he still did not recover to his perfect condition.

The wonderful state in which he could feel the dragon blood rushing through his veins and the power of the divine name filling his spirit was gone forever. What was left to him was a feeling... often like the feeling of waking up the next day after having read a novel with a flashlight all night in bed.

Bu Shun told him that this was the power in his body that had experienced new growth after being stimulated by the Seven Deadly Sins. The growth of the dragon blood further promoted the growth of the Divine Name and Self.

However, the power of dragon blood and the power of God's name cannot always remain in a harmonious and unified state.

Obviously, both sides became stronger, but the antagonism between them led to his weakening.

It would be fine at other times, Lu Mingfei has experienced being weak before, and there is nothing wrong with doing rehabilitation training slowly and spending daily life with his companions.

But now Bu Shun told them that they had to prepare to fight a guy who seemed too strong based on the information... Lu Mingfei could no longer tolerate his own half-baked appearance.

"Humph--"

Lu Mingze let out a deliberately drawn-out snort, his pretty face grimacing. "You actually told me that I was the one who restricted your power... Haven't you ever considered that it was all because of that guy?"

"Ah?" Lu Mingfei couldn't hold back his expression. "Is that so?"

Shaking the umbrella in his hand vigorously, Lu Mingze bared his teeth and huffed, "That's right! It's all that guy's fault, okay!"

"It's indeed partly my fault, Mingfei."

A cold and lonely voice came along with the flying hem of his clothes. Xixiao's broad and oppressive figure suddenly walked out from Lu Mingze's shadow and appeared in front of Lu Mingfei.

Looking at his stern face, Lu Mingfei felt relieved. "Teacher, I know this is just you here, but it's been a long time since we last met."

"You've grown up."

The man's sharp eyes seemed to soften a little, but this tiny change disappeared the next moment.

"Let's get to the point." Looking at the taller Lu Mingfei, Xi Xiao patted his shoulder as he faced the little devil's bared teeth. "Originally, I wanted you to gain more control of his power in this power confrontation..."

He shook his head: "But... things have changed."

The little devil also said with a sullen face, "The one you're about to face is no ordinary creature. Njord, the King of the Ocean and Water, the first... or perhaps the second Dragon King born in this world. I never thought he would revive at this time, and in this worst form..."

It was the first time that Lu Mingfei saw a hint of gloom on the little devil's face.

The boy-like guy bit his thumb nail like an anxious child.

Suppressing the anger in his voice, he glared at those cold, merciless golden eyes:

"This thing that should never have happened has actually happened; the Water King, who had been stripped of his wisdom, has regained his rationality..."

"If we don't deal with him here, things will only get even more chaotic!"

“Even among all the Dragon Kings, the Water King is the most troublesome.” Xi Xiao added, “The Water King created the precursors of countless lives in the Central Court. In the realm of life, He possesses an attainment that even the Black King and the White King cannot surpass.”

"The ability to kill is not the most frightening thing. Apart from Jormungandr, any Dragon King has the power to destroy all life on earth. However, since the Water King has been resurrected at this time, and it is Njord, whose wisdom was once stripped away by the Black King Nidhogg, then he will definitely..."

He stretched out his palm, and the raindrops falling from the sky accumulated in his palm, forming a shallow patch.

Before Lu Mingfei could ask, the rain in his palm suddenly turned bright red, and bright red tentacles suddenly grew out of the water, baring their fangs and claws at Lu Mingfei.

"Creating the magical beasts that have been exterminated in the Midgard and the Nine Realms, in order to face the [Promised Day]... The Water King creates the ecology, controls the ecology, and transforms the ecology. Njord will definitely do so."

Lu Mingze said coldly, "Brother, you don't want to see your familiar female classmate transformed into a monster that can only make strange gurgling noises when you meet her again, do you?"

Lu Mingfei suddenly felt a chill running down his forehead.

"Brother, you're always so soft-hearted. Even when you treated your uncle and aunt like that, and even that fat kid named 'Lu Mingze' who has the same name as me...you actually didn't want to see them turn into monsters."

Lu Mingze raised his umbrella and looked at Lu Mingfei intently: "So, I reached an agreement with him."

Elbowing the tall, white-haired man beside him, he raised his head proudly like a swan: "We have reconciled. Next, I will teach you how to use our power to defeat this unexpected Dragon King..."

"Knock it down!"

　Finally, an update! I'm so sorry, so very sorry, my friend.

　　(End of this chapter)