From Naruto onwards, I've become a dreamer.

Chapter 322 Sword of Damocles

Snapped!
Suddenly, a crisp clap of hands rang out in the quiet night.

"Okay, that's all."

Adam clasped his hands together, a gentle smile on his face, and said, "Time for your experience is over."

As soon as he finished speaking, the surrounding environment suddenly changed.

The turbulent, boiling elements in the atmosphere, and the devastating sea of ​​fire, collapsed in an instant, like a dream, crumbling away like a shattered mirror.

Then, the scorching heat that felt like it was melting, and even the mountain that had been flattened by the explosion, all returned to normal in the blink of an eye, as if nothing had ever happened.

Angers, Chu Zihang, Caesar, Genjiro, Kazama Ruri, Miyamoto Shio, and others have just experienced the ultimate fire-type incantation, the Candle Dragon, up close. People who were burned to ashes from the inside out were as if time had reversed, and from their internal organs to their bones to their skin, they were restored to their original appearance.

"Were we just... dead?"

Caesar seemed to wake from a dream, and he checked his entire body in alarm until he was sure that not a single part was missing before he was relieved.

"It felt so real, like I really died once." Chu Zihang stroked his beating heart. The feeling of being engulfed by flames and his consciousness falling into darkness still made him tremble with fear even now. So, after death, nothing really exists anymore.

"A dream-eating beast? No, it feels even more real than that."

Yuan Zhisheng looked shaken, because it felt so real.

The only one who remained relatively calm was Angers. He was stunned for a long time before slowly raising his head and saying in a deep voice, "From the very beginning, we've been in the dream you constructed, haven't we?"

"That's right, it was all a dream."

Adam smiled slightly, gently pushed up his black-rimmed glasses, and a faint golden light shone in his eyes: "Because I am very weak, I don't have the power of the other dragon kings."

Whether this statement was true or false, no one wanted to delve into it any further. A dragon king who could drag people into dreams at any time was, in some ways, even more terrifying than the Four Great Dragon Kings!

"When did it start?"

Caesar paused slightly, then asked.

At this moment, Chu Zihang spoke up, saying, "Look down at your feet, and you'll understand."

Caesar looked down, his pupils contracted slightly, and then he glanced around.

Sure enough, everything that had just happened was a dream, and they had been standing in the same spot the whole time, without moving at all!
"Hey, hey, hey, are you kidding me?" Genji laughed self-deprecatingly, covering his face with a helpless expression: "We've already given it our all, and they haven't even entered the second stage yet. Can we really win if we keep fighting? Isn't this just suicide?"

"Are all Dragon Kings this terrifying?"

Caesar was also overwhelmed by a deep sense of powerlessness and completely lost his fighting spirit.

No wonder even the Black King Nidhogg had to pay an extremely heavy price to suppress the White King beneath the icy sea.

Now, they have more or less come to understand the terror of the 'White King'.

"Can we finish now, Principal?"

Adam sighed helplessly and said, "To be honest, I really don't want to fight you. After all, we all have the same goal, so there's no need to fight to the death here, is there?"

“Adam Angelweid, I admit, you are truly remarkable.” Angers took a deep breath, and suddenly a radiant smile appeared on his face, completely devoid of any frustration, but rather revealing a hidden, irrepressible elation: “But this does not mean you have won, because victory will always belong to humanity!”

“Principal Angers, is there perhaps another way?” Looking at Angers, whose reaction was somewhat strange, Yuan Zhisheng felt that the whole thing seemed to be full of incongruity from beginning to end.

The principal of Kassel College, hailed as the greatest dragon slayer, who could even plan for a century to slay a dragon, would such a powerful and aloof avenger really come to slay a dragon unprepared, with only two students?
No, absolutely impossible!
“Actually, I knew from the beginning that it was impossible for just a few of us to kill you.” Angers said slowly, his anger barely concealed, a slight smile playing on his lips. “It’s been about ten minutes since we made contact, hasn’t it?”

"Nine minutes, just a little short."

Adam said calmly.

“Caesar, give me a cigarette. I feel like having a smoke right now,” Angers said.

Although Caesar didn't understand, he still tossed over a Cohiba in a metal box; it was the last one.

"Could I borrow a light?"

Angers, holding a Cohiba cigar, spoke to Adam.

Snapped!
Adam snapped his fingers, and the cigar was lit.

Angers expertly put the cigar into his mouth, took a deep drag, and slowly exhaled the smoke before saying, "Thanks, but it's all thanks to your dream that I've been able to stall until now."

Yuan Zhisheng was slightly taken aback, then quickly realized: "Principal Angers, have you been stalling for time?"

"That's right, this is the moment I've been waiting for."

Angers flicked his cigarette ash and said calmly, "Although we are in a dream, you are still in this area, Adam Angelweid."

He didn't tell the others present about this plan, because when the plan succeeded, everyone would die.

"Ah, so it wasn't a dream after all."

Angers looked up at the sky, smiled slightly, and said, "Do you know about the Skywatcher? It's an artificial satellite that, at a certain time and coordinates, will launch a tungsten rod here."

"Yes, just like in the movies, the Rod of God!" At this moment, he no longer needed to hide it. Trembling, he opened his arms wide, looked up at the scene of the sky being torn apart by six beams of light, and shouted: "With the support of super-high-speed kinetic energy, wipe out this mountainous area along with it!"

Six parallel streaks of fiery meteors ripped through the night sky, plummeting straight down toward the Tama River mountains.

The Skyscanner in near-Earth orbit completes one orbit around the Earth every ninety minutes, and everything Angers has done is in anticipation of this moment!

Divine retribution has arrived!

Six scorching hot, high-density tungsten rods, traveling at speeds exceeding 3,900 kilometers per second, were like the Sword of Damocles hurled by God!
The immense wind pressure from the sky poured down, as if the entire sky had collapsed. The pressure of several mountains pressed everyone on the ground down, making them unable to move. The enormous kinetic energy of the falling tungsten rod caused it to tear through the atmosphere with a piercing sonic boom even before it hit the ground!

"Seriously, these kids are making a huge fuss."

Staring at the six falling tungsten rods, Adam's hair flew wildly in the wind. His playful expression vanished, replaced by a blank look: "Didn't I tell you? The game is over!"

Then, to everyone's astonishment, Adam's body swelled up as if inflated, and fine, hard, grayish-white scales quickly grew from his body, as if he were wearing a layer of granite armor. His limbs became thick and huge, and his back muscles bulged high, from which two skin-covered wings grew.

Almost instantly, Adam transformed from human form into a giant dragon covered in gray-white scales and with ferocious horns.

Gazing at the gray-white dragon, Chu Zihang was instantly shaken, his heart filled with turmoil.

"It is Him?!"

(End of this chapter)