A man among dragons, building a mysterious ancient church.

Chapter 181 You kid, you wouldn't have awakened the Rhine Great Self-Destruction Word of Power, would you?

"Senior brother, you're back! I'm in dire need of your help!" Lu Mingfei, who was sitting in his dormitory in a daze, immediately cried out for help when he saw Fingel return.

Fingel, who had just finished a meeting, was completely bewildered. He looked around, utterly oblivious to the fact that his junior brother seemed to need immediate help: "What's wrong?"

"A contest, a contest among young people!" Lu Mingfei, a master of social etiquette, held a juice in his left hand and a German sausage in his right, both freshly bought from the cafeteria, and shoved them into Fingel's hand.

Then he vehemently recounted how inhuman Principal Angers was, actually trying to conscript him to fight the ruthless men surrounding Kassel.

Those were incredibly audacious and vicious individuals who dared to surround even Kassel!
In Lu Mingfei's view, everyone at Kassel College was a dragon-slaying psychopath, a battle maniac, and now someone actually dared to surround such a college.

Wouldn't that make him an even more insane war demon?
He's just a loser, what makes him think he can fight anyone? He'd get beaten to death in a heartbeat! Lu Mingfei sighed, "What a miserable situation!"

Having just attended the party, Fingel finally understood: it turned out that Principal Angers had not only approached Caesar, Chu Zihang, and others, but had also targeted Lu Mingfei, a freshman.

But that's not right.

Fingel knew very well that Lu Mingfei was indeed hiding a great secret, at least of a very high rank, high enough to help them digest the magic potion.

However, their actual strength is indeed insufficient.

Why did Principal Angers send Lu Mingfei, who was less capable, to participate in the competition?
A malicious conspiracy to take advantage of the situation and kill Lu Mingfei?

No, no, Fingel shook his head, feeling that conspiracy theories were out of the question. His initial secret mission from Angers was to monitor and protect Lu Mingfei.

If Angers could issue the 'protection' mission, he wouldn't have plotted against Lu Mingfei.

What is Angers looking for?
Are they certain that Lu Mingfei will unleash his true high-level power in a critical moment? Are they trying to take this opportunity to probe Lu Mingfei's hidden secrets?

The more he thought about it, the more likely it seemed. Fingel was impressed by the old man Angers. Kassel had been surrounded for many days and was forced to compete, yet he still managed to rack his brains to test this and that.

Didn't Angers consider the possibility that Lu Mingfei might fail to unleash his full potential and thus lose the match? Is Angers really that confident?
"Senior brother? Senior brother Fingel?" Lu Mingfei became even more anxious when he saw Fingel lost in thought and not speaking.

His sycophancy reached a new level; he quickly took the juice, twisted off the cap himself, and handed it to his respected senior, Fingel: "Senior, please drink this."

"..." Fingel, who had just come to his senses, was speechless. What had Lu Mingfei, who was of such high status, gone through to become so obsequious?
"There's nothing I can do about this, Mingfei. I know all about skipping classes, being late, or leaving early, and I know how to erase those records. But how can I help with this kind of competition?"

"Even if I wanted to help you by taking shortcuts and putting laxatives in your opponent's food, I wouldn't know who your opponent is, or even the rules of the competition. What if it's not a one-on-one fight?"

Fingel, shameless as ever, chugs down the juice, eating and drinking heartily while simultaneously expressing his helplessness.

"Then at least you can help me collect my body, senior brother..." The moment Bai Lan finished speaking, time seemed to freeze.

Fingel's eating and drinking suddenly stopped. Through his wide-open mouth, Lu Mingfei could even see the frozen juice and bits of food.

It remained frozen in Fingel's mouth, motionless.

"Quickly, Lu Mingze, help me think of an idea!" Lu Mingfei was used to this and knew that it must be the little devil who called himself his younger brother who had come.

"Sigh." With a playful smile in his sigh, Lu Mingze suddenly sat on the upper bunk, his hands supporting him on the bed board, his short, childlike legs dangling in mid-air: "Brother, no way."

"When you ask someone for help, they offer you juice and food; but when you ask me for ideas, they offer nothing?"

Lu Mingfei blinked, seemingly realizing his approach to asking for help was inappropriate. He awkwardly scratched the back of his head and, from Fingel's temporarily paused hand, forcibly pulled out a half-empty bottle of juice: "Do you... want some?"

"囧!" Even the usually cool Lu Mingze couldn't keep up his composure. He forcefully suppressed the urge to complain and tried his best to ignore the half-empty bottle of juice: "Brother, what are you afraid of?"

"Simply make a deal with me, and all your enemies will be destined to grovel at your feet."

"Those guys surrounding Kassel? Hmph, they're nothing but chickens and dogs. How about it? If you agree to make a deal with me, I can give my brother the power to easily slaughter those guys."

Faced with an almost devilish temptation, Lu Mingfei, valuing his life above all else, shook his head and refused: "Impossible, don't even think about it. At worst, I'll pretend to be sick and not go."

Lu Mingze's lips curled slightly. Whether human or dragon, when speechless to the extreme, one can genuinely laugh.

However, that's just his brother's personality, so Lu Mingze stopped teasing Lu Mingfei: "That's a real shame." "Failing to gain the client's trust is my dereliction of duty as a salesperson."

"Since my brother is so resistant, why don't we go and confess to the principal?"

"Confess? That's it?" Lu Mingfei still had a long face. "What kind of idea is this? It's useless. Do you think I haven't confessed to Principal Angers that I'm a good-for-nothing?"

"Before I went to Philadelphia last time, I told the principal many times that Kassel must have made a mistake, and I am not an S-class student."

"Guess what the principal said? He said he believed in my potential, even I don't believe in myself."

Lu Mingze's face started twitching. Brother! How could you two, who were once so invincible, belittle yourselves like this?

This is his brother, this is his brother. He kept emphasizing this in his mind before Lu Mingze slowly suppressed his anger: "What I mean is, confess your words of power."

Leaving those words behind, Lu Mingze quickly made his escape; if he didn't leave soon, he was genuinely worried he would blurt out the curse.

If it weren't for the trouble caused by Kassel being surrounded and the worry about Lu Mingfei's safety, Lu Mingze wouldn't have bothered making this trip.

Time resumed its flow, and from Fingel's side came the sound of 'glug' swallowing, followed by a comfortable 'burp'.

Lu Mingfei blinked. Confess to the power of words?
Words of Power: Don't Die? What's the use of that?

Putting everything else aside, Lu Mingfei still believed that Lu Mingze wouldn't harm him; he just instinctively wanted to figure out what the purpose of this move was.

So he had no choice but to ask his senior brother Finger, whom he considered the most knowledgeable: "Senior brother, let me ask you, if, if I were to tell Principal Angers my words of wisdom..."

"Will Principal Angers change his mind and not let me participate in the competition?"

"Word of Power?" Fingel, who had just opened his mouth to take another bite, paused and turned to look Lu Mingfei up and down: "You kid, you've awakened Word of Power?"

Thinking about Lu Mingfei's high rank, Fingel suddenly felt a little scared. "You high-ranking loser, could it be that you've awakened some kind of self-destructing incantation like Rhine?"

If it really is Rhine, then Lu Mingfei should talk to the principal, and Angers will indeed change his mind.

"Yes, Word of Power: Do Not Die."

"???" Fingel was once very learned, and had been reading continuously since becoming a reader, but he had never heard of this Word of Power. Don't die?

Is this some kind of magical word?
Fingel's expression was easy to guess; that bewildered look was often seen on Lu Mingfei's face during class, so Lu Mingfei could understand it perfectly: "It's just... it's a kind of healing power."

"As long as I give the order to a wounded person, the wound will stop bleeding and heal. Even if the injury is very serious, the person should not die."

"What the hell?!" Fingel suddenly threw down the juice, spilling it all over the floor without a care, and grabbed Lu Mingfei's shoulders tightly with both hands.

He suddenly closed in on Lu Mingfei, almost touching nose to nose.

Startled, Lu Mingfei screamed and frantically tried to cover his private parts with his hands: "Senior brother! Senior brother Fingel! This isn't appropriate, we're really not suitable for each other!"

"Teach me, teach me!" Fingel and Lu Mingfei shouted at the same time, their emotions running high.

After Fingel was promoted to Sequence 6 Scholar, his method of digesting potions was simple: he just needed to continuously watch and collect numerous Words of Power, and analyze and imitate them one by one.

The higher the level of the incantation, the faster the potion will be digested after successful analysis and imitation.

Of course, Fingel's current excitement is not solely due to his greed for Lu Mingfei's high-ranking words of power, which can help the scholar digest the potion.

More importantly! He saw hope in reviving EVA!
EVA's soul still exists; all that's needed is to resolve her physical issues and then use some Old Church mystical methods to resurrect her.

Fingel, who had been diligently and frantically reading all along, had never been able to find a way to solve his physical problems. Now, Lu Mingfei's unreasonable Word of Power, "Don't Die," gave him hope!

If the Word of Power: Do Not Die is thoroughly studied and understood, wouldn't it, to some extent, solve EVA's physical body problem?
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