Dragon Clan: Force me to be reborn and slay dragons

Chapter 271 Wait a minute, where's the dragon I'm supposed to slay?!
Despite the sudden hatching of the embryo hidden deep within the abyss, the Trieste's descent proceeded without incident.

There was no sudden loss of control or rapid sinking, and the oxygen tank did not detach. It safely dived into the deep sea 7000 meters below.

Caesar is a sailing enthusiast and has participated in many competitions over the years, but he has very little experience in underwater operations.

Fortunately, with two highly professional individuals, Angers and Cheng Shuangfan, in control of the Trieste, he didn't need to intervene at all.

This made him feel superfluous, like a rich kid who was just going through the motions at a big project to get some prestige.

Although the principal assigned him some manageable tasks to keep him from getting bored, they were ultimately too easy; anyone could have done the same.

He pressed his head against the porthole of the submersible. It was pitch black outside. The 7000-meter-deep sea blocked out all light and heat. The searchlights of the Trieste only illuminated the seawater; he couldn't see anything else.

Fortunately, he brought a camera with him on this trip, hoping to take some pictures of the deep-sea scenery to show Nono back.

Of course, Caesar wasn't the kind of person who would expect some major upheaval to occur so he could become a lone hero and save the world. It would be best if he could smoothly defeat the White King.

Moreover, as the Trieste continues to descend deeper, the risks they face will increase with every meter they dive.

When the ship descended to a depth of 7500 meters, an unusual glow appeared on the seabed.

A red glow, like the setting sun, shone through the portholes, turning the white light in the cockpit into the color of dusk.

Looking at the footage captured by the surveillance cameras on the Trieste, Cheng Shuangfan offered a reminder:

"It looks like we've reached the top of the Abyss."

Angers nodded slightly: "It's even more lively here than I imagined. It seems that even the White King, imprisoned for ten thousand years, must feel lonely."

At this moment, the sea area shrouded in red light is full of life, and all kinds of strange fish can be seen swimming in the glowing water.

“These marine creatures have all undergone some degree of mutation.” Caesar was standing by the porthole, watching several sea turtles slowly swim past, chasing a school of fish; their massive carapaces resembled cracked red basalt.

But this was just the appetizer. Further down, he saw a giant whale over a hundred feet long, which caused everything to give way, making it look like the overlord of the sea.

"That's the Basilosaurus, which has long been extinct. I didn't expect to find a living one here. It seems that the White King's embryo should be nearby."

Angers taught a course on "Dragon Family Genealogy" at the Kassel College, and he immediately recognized what that domineering giant below was.

As they continued their exploration downwards, they encountered even more dangerous dragon-blooded creatures.

A giant squid tens of meters long and a shark more than ten meters long engaged in a fierce battle, each targeting the other. But just as they became entangled, before the battle was over and the outcome was decided, a group of small, silvery-blue fish emerged from the depths of the trench, like locusts swarming across the land, surrounding the entangled squid and shark.

It's clear that these two top predators are terrified of these small fish; they immediately stopped fighting and tried to scatter when the fish appeared.

Unfortunately, they had fought too fiercely just now, and their bodies were still entangled together, so they couldn't escape the pursuit of the silver-blue fish.

"This is... a Ghosttooth Viper?!"

Angers and Cheng Shuangfan were both startled when they recognized the small, silvery-blue fish that were struggling to catch both sharks and giant squid.

They shut down all of the Trieste's lights, engines, and other systems that could attract attention, to prevent it from becoming a target for those monstrous fish that could easily tear apart steel.

Soon, the two intertwined deep-sea predators were devoured, leaving only bones, and the true top predator of the ocean returned to the depths of the trench with satisfaction.

"Keep your mind calm. We are now in the White King's territory. Report immediately if you feel dizzy, experience hallucinations, or any other abnormalities."

Although anti-interference drugs were taken before diving, the dragons' abilities were hard to defend against, especially since the one buried at the bottom of the sea was a monarch of spiritual elements.

Angers waited a moment, then restarted the Trieste and headed towards the trench where the Ghosttooth Viper had disappeared.

If nothing unexpected happens, the White King's embryo is hidden there.

During incubation, dinosaur embryos continuously release secretions rich in genetic information. When marine creatures attracted by these secretions ingest them, their genes mutate, leading to a leap in life level and the transformation from ordinary marine creatures into dinosaur subspecies.

The Trieste sank into the trench with as little noise as possible. The rock strata here looked as if they had been split open by Pangu, leaving a scar that stretched for thousands of miles, and the bottom was covered with scalding lava.

The collision of seawater and magma produced a thunderous steam explosion.

The depth gauge showed that they were currently at a depth of 8500 meters. The external water temperature of the Trieste was over 200 degrees Celsius. Although there was a heat insulation layer inside, the cockpit was still unbearably hot.

Cheng Shuangfan and Caesar had already taken off their combat uniforms, leaving only their underwear, and were sweating profusely from the heat.

Angers was a bit more patient than them. Perhaps out of consideration for the principal's image, he was still wearing a white shirt, but it was already soaked with sweat, revealing a dazzling and ferocious pattern.

Caesar's attention, which had been diverted by the intense heat, snapped back to reality. Looking at the principal's incredibly cool tattoos, he couldn't help but marvel.
"Principal, I never knew you had such a wild side."

Regardless of whether the weather is cold or hot, Angers always appears in public dressed in a well-fitting suit, and very few people have ever seen him shirtless.

Therefore, not many people actually know his secrets.

Cheng Shuangfan was also seeing it for the first time, and her face showed surprise. The full back and arms of tattoos looked like Japanese Ukiyo-e style.

"'The tyranny of all realms,' a gift from the Snake Clan to me," Angers said calmly.

"What's his identity?" Caesar asked curiously. Could it be that the principal was a yakuza boss when he established the Japanese branch?
"The wickedness of all realms is the highest level of tattoo in the underworld, and only you can bear it."

In the communication channel, Inuyama He suddenly spoke up: "I thought you had removed your tattoo a long time ago."

“Why should I wash it? It’s proof of my identity. Back in the day, I was MacArthur of the Japanese underworld.” Angers chuckled.

Upon hearing this, Inuyama He and Uesugi Kotsugi on the offshore platform both looked enlightened, as if these words had transported them back more than seventy years, to when they were still...

"Gentlemen, now is not the time for reminiscing," Miyamoto Shigeo suddenly interjected, interrupting the nostalgic chatter of the group of old-timers.
"God must have sensed the threat. The embryo's hatching progress is skyrocketing, and it's now at 51%!"

We must hurry! God could hatch at any moment!

These words immediately turned the relaxed atmosphere created by the earlier banter back into a somber mood.

The Trieste sped underwater, disregarding its own safety, and activated its sonar to search for the White King's embryo. However, being in the White King's territory, the sonar system seemed to be affected, with rhythmic heartbeats echoing everywhere ahead.

Soon, they discovered an ancient city that had sunk to the bottom of the sea.

This ancient city is probably the Takamagahara that sank to the bottom of the sea along with the second Yamata no Orochi, as recorded in the murals of the Snake-Gi-Hachi family. It really did exist.

But now is not the time to be shocked. The embryo hatching progress has reached 60%. Angers has not even been able to circle the towering tower in the center of the ancient city, which, like the Bronze Pillar of the Ice Sea, records the history of the dragon race, and scan all the information recorded on it to upload to the database of Kassel College.

The sonar system seemed to be completely paralyzed at this moment, and the heartbeat of the monster could be heard from all directions, as if they had fallen into a carefully prepared trap.

"What's going on? The White King can split itself?" Caesar asked, puzzled, pressing his head against the porthole to look outside.

He wanted to find the whereabouts of the Lenin, a large ship hundreds of meters long, which should still be conspicuous even in this ancient city that had experienced volcanic eruptions.

However, when his gaze fell on the porthole, he was surprised to find that the scenery outside had changed.

It is no longer an ancient city steeped in a sea of ​​red, but a Catholic church with carved beams and painted rafters.

Caesar blinked hard, and the scene before him changed again. He found himself inside the church, where the neatly arranged seats were empty, and a woman was kneeling beneath the statue of the Virgin Mary, her hands clasped in devout prayer.

The moment Caesar saw that figure clearly, he guessed that he might be hallucinating. His mind went blank, as if a boulder had been thrown into his calm heart. His hand, which wanted to slap himself to regain his senses, froze in mid-air and could not fall.

That person, could it be...?

Caesar couldn't resist taking a step forward, wanting to go around to the woman and see her face clearly.

But he wasn't completely lost. He remembered what he was doing and what he was about to do, and he forced himself to stop, raising his hand high again.

However, just as the slap landed, the woman kneeling in prayer suddenly swayed and collapsed weakly to the ground.

The sudden turn of events left Caesar's mind blank. Childhood memories flooded his mind, and a host of negative emotions, including hatred, regret, guilt, and pain, surged up. He could barely control his body and was about to rush forward.

But someone stopped him.

A large hand pressed down on his shoulder with great force, making his shoulder ache.

Someone was shouting loudly in my ear, but it was as if there was a thick layer of mist behind it; I could only catch the emotions in the voice, but not the content.

Caesar thought it was one of those family bastards who had stopped him from going to his mother when he was a child, so he turned around and threw a punch. This punch was the result of more than ten years of accumulated anger, and it was fast and fierce.

But he failed to hit anyone; his outstretched fist was caught.

Then a sharp pain suddenly shot through his philtrum, and the world returned to normal. He saw Commissioner Cheng Shuangfan holding his fist with one hand and pressing hard on his philtrum with the other, shouting, "You little brat, wake up!"

"What am I..." Caesar's eyes cleared, realizing he had been tricked and almost lost himself in the illusion.

Seeing that Caesar had returned to normal, Cheng Shuangfan stopped pulling him: "You almost punched the porthole just now. If you had cracked it even a little, we would all be finished."

Although he didn't think Caesar was that strong, he was just being cautious and pulled the boy over to sit down beside him, just in case.

Caesar went to the control panel, intending to apologize for his mistake, but found that the screen showed the embryo hatching progress had soared to 999%!

It's not 99%, it's not 99.9%, it's a fucking 999%!

"What... what's going on?" Caesar was a little incredulous. He had only experienced a hallucination for a few seconds, so how could the embryo's hatching process have suddenly accelerated so much?
"There's something wrong. It's not the White King that's hatched."

Angers had already opened all the observation windows of the Trieste and was looking at a small hill of lung snails not far ahead with a grim expression.

An unknown tremor occurred on the seabed, causing millions of lung snails to fall and exposing a strange object nearly 100 meters long.

Half of it was inserted into the seabed, and the other half was wrapped in layers of lung snails. The exterior was not metal, but rather constantly wriggling tendons and fascia... probably.

"That's... a hatched embryo?" Caesar felt his throat go dry; the thing looked like a giant creature.

“It’s the Lenin.” Cheng Shuangfan shook her head, pointing to the steel section not covered by deformed flesh and blood, where blood vessels were even visible:
"It has been occupied by the embryo and transformed into part of the embryo."

Caesar looked closely and quickly noticed something was wrong: the blood vessels attached to the steel were constantly pumping. "Why is this embryo actively transporting fetal blood outwards?"

“That’s already a stillborn fetus. Although its vitality is still strong, there is no possibility of it hatching.” Angers’ face was grim. They had prepared for so long, but the White King was not here.

That embryo was merely a sacrifice that had been killed; the White King had already returned to life and made his escape, leaving behind a nutrient-rich embryo and fetal blood to provide nourishment for the city.

Boom boom boom——

The more violently the ancient city of Takamagahara trembled, the more the seabed cracked, and this ancient city from the Age of Gods, which had been dead for many years, was awakening.

"No wonder these dragon subspecies dare to roam freely in the pure-blooded dragon hatchery. This dragon is dead." Caesar realized this as well, his gaze falling on the hatching value, which had soared to 9998%.

"So, who is our enemy now?"

He recalled the monster with a human head and a snake's body depicted in the murals; that thing was called a Corpse Guardian, a legendary guardian used to protect the cities of the dragon race.

"You already have the answer, don't you?" Cheng Shuangfan looked at the observation port at the bottom, her face grim.

The three of them looked at the Lenin, which resembled a tombstone, and saw that it was still continuously supplying blood to the city below. Crimson mist rose from the ruins around it, and bronze monsters wrapped in placenta crawled out of the ground that had cracked due to the tremors.

With a human head and a snake's body, and red-gold eyes, it was exactly the same as the snake-like Dead Servants trained by Herzog.

Bathed in the blood of the ancient dragon, their long-dormant bodies regained their vitality and slowly floated towards the sea.

Hundreds and thousands of corpse guardians emerged from the cracks, and tens of thousands more rose from the ancient underwater city, struggling to swim towards the surface, eager to return to the human world and find the monarch they served.

"Recover the Trieste and prepare to drop the nuclear bomb. We absolutely cannot let these monsters appear in the human world!"

(End of this chapter)