From Naruto onwards, I've become a dreamer.

Chapter 353 Assassination of the King (Part 1)

"elder brother……"

"Brother, where are you?"

"It's so dark here... I'm so scared, brother."

"No, don't leave me..."

Inside the snow-white cocoon, Constantine murmured, the nightmarish hallucinations deeply etched into his mind, impossible to shake off or avoid.

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When the Dragon King is enraged, the heavens and earth change color!

Although he has not yet returned to his original form, Norton is still the Dragon King, and is fundamentally different from humans and even hybrids. It is an insurmountable barrier that no human or hybrid can easily cross!

Word of Power: Lord's Flame!
With a casual wave of his hand, Norton unleashed a violent burst of intense heat and flames, followed by a deafening explosion that instantly engulfed the humans before him.

Rumble!
The long steps outside the bronze temple were blasted into a huge crater.

Fortunately, Nono reacted quickly and rolled backward, managing to escape unscathed, though she was a bit disheveled.

"Dragon slayers, is this all you've got?"

Norton's eyes turned icy, and his five fingers suddenly clenched together, emanating an unparalleled will: "Come, let me see just how much courage the dragon slayers of this era still possess!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the snake-faced humanoid statue holding a halberd in front of the temple seemed to be awakened again, its pupils blazing with dazzling golden light, and then it strode forward.

"No... right?"

Nuonuo's face turned pale, and her pupils dilated in shock.

Boom!Boom!Boom!
The two 20-meter-tall snake-faced statues seemed to shake the earth with every step they took, their huge feet creating pit-like depressions in the bronze ground.

Without the slightest hesitation, the palace guards, awakened from their thousand-year slumber, raised their bronze halberds, several meters in diameter and nearly thirty meters long, and thrust them out with thunderous force!
Boom! ! !

The bronze halberd resembled a dragon emerging from the sea, or two giant pillars supporting the sky, stirring up the air currents and causing the fierce winds to spread out!

run!
Adhering to the principle of running away if you can't beat them, she wouldn't be foolish enough to compete with two twenty-meter-tall bronze statues in strength. Besides, her small arms and legs wouldn't even be enough to tickle them.

With golden eyes, Nono mustered all her strength and jumped off the bronze steps. Thanks to the advantage of the height difference, she jumped a long distance and just managed to dodge the bronze halberd that was thrust at her.

Rumble…

A violent gale, carrying shockwaves like the waves of a tsunami, sent Nono flying.

Rolling down the bronze steps felt like being stuffed into a washing machine and then spun around at top speed, with centrifugal force practically tossing your internal organs to the side.

It takes ten minutes to go up and ten seconds to come down...

Feeling the vibrations from the ground, Nono shook her head vigorously, suppressing the urge to vomit her dinner, and staggered to her feet, intending to run into the tunnel.

Due to its limited width and height, the two enormous bronze statues could not possibly enter the bronze passageway.

As for what happens next... we'll talk about that after we get through this!
Nono took a deep breath and then dived directly into the lake. She had to swim all the way from the bottom; only in this way would she have a chance. Two bronze giant statues strode after her, but fortunately, due to their enormous size, their movements were quite slow, which gave Nono a glimmer of hope. She was a good swimmer at the academy.

She swam 100 meters underwater in 49 seconds, close to Olympic level, and when her life was threatened, her potential burst forth and she went even faster.

puff!
Nono surfaced, panting heavily. The intense underwater swimming had nearly drained her.

But now, there's no time to linger.

Seeing that they couldn't catch up with her, the two enormous bronze guards gripped their bronze halberds tightly, gathered their strength, and hurled them out.

boom!
The sonic boom that pierced the air split the lake surface in two.

Two jet-black bronze halberds moved like streaks of light, so fast that they even created visible shockwaves, resembling two roaring dragons sweeping across the boiling, exploding lake.

"What happened..."

Exhausted, Nuonuo had no strength left. Her eyes widened as she stared at the growing shadow in her vision, a chilling sense of death enveloping her.

Suddenly, at that moment!
A stream of blazing black fire flashed past inside the passageway!

Boom——!
The bronze halberd aimed at Nono was instantly melted by the high temperature!
As molten bronze dripped down, a ferocious figure covered in fine scales, resembling a bluish-black armor, emerged step by step from the bronze passageway, wielding a long, blazing sword in one hand and carrying a massive dragon head in the other.

That's... Chu Zihang?!
Nono stared in disbelief at the hideous and savage dark blue-black figure. If it weren't for the alchemical knife 'Murasame' from the Equipment Department, she would never have been able to associate this monster, which was almost indistinguishable from a dragon, with Chu Zihang.

The head he was holding was none other than Samson, the second-generation Dragon Servant who had tried to ambush them in the tunnel earlier!
Looking at the dragon's head, which was dented all over and its body was covered in blood and gore, with bare bones and wounds, it was hard to imagine... what a terrible battle Samson had encountered!
"Chu..."

Nono was about to speak when she was stunned by the ferocious aura emanating from the golden eyes of the hideous figure.

Completely transformed into a dragon, Chu Zihang carried the dying Samson, ignoring the intimidated Nuonuo, and headed towards the opposite side of the lake, where a small yet towering figure exuded an aura of absolute dominance... the Dragon King, Norton.

His target for hunting... is the Dragon King!

As if in a provocation, Chu Zihang grabbed Samson's iron mask with his left hand, his muscles suddenly bulging as if wrapped with steel bars, and with a long roar, he flung his body, weighing more than ten tons, directly away!

Hurala!
A heavy object breaks through the air!

Samson's massive body traced a parabola across the lake before crashing precisely into the palace on the celestial steps, landing right in front of Norton.

Boom!

The massive object, weighing over ten tons, crashed down, denting the hard bronze and sending up dust and shockwaves.

“My… Lord…”

Samson, on his deathbed, his golden eyes beneath his iron mask gazing at the indifferent Norton, said with shame, "Please...forgive me...Samson...can no longer...protect...you..."

Being a dragon servant and being tortured to death by a half-blood is already a disgrace, but to be thrown in front of the king is an even greater disgrace, tantamount to humiliating the dragon king's face.

Having committed such a grave crime, Samson should have committed suicide.

But he couldn't, because this body, and even his life, belonged to the Dragon King, and he had to give everything for the King!
Norton raised his hand and stroked Samson's iron face, his eyelids lowered, his voice devoid of any emotion: "Rest now, Samson... You've had a hard time all these years."

Samson responded with a low, long hiss. He could no longer speak. The power of the Lord's Flame was too domineering, almost destroying his internal organs. He had only been able to hold on until now thanks to sheer willpower.

(End of this chapter)