A man among dragons, building a mysterious ancient church.

Chapter 422 Encirclement from both sides, sled escape
"Senior Brother Chu is flying?!"

"If you slap me, I might freeze to the point of having a nervous breakdown, or I might be so frightened by a group of dragons that I start hallucinating."

"That doesn't make sense. In the Word of Power class, the professor said that a few wind-type Words of Power, such as the Eye of the Wind King, can allow hybrids to glide briefly in the air, but they can't fly at all. Chu Zihang's Word of Power isn't wind-type either! Could it be that the overheating caused an updraft that lifted him into the air?"

On the icebreaker, the students saw Chu Zihang flying eastward, and they all began to doubt their own education and common sense.

Some even began to suspect Chu Zihang, such as Professor Schneider, whose last disciple and most promising student was Chu Zihang. But Chu Zihang's current behavior was too much like that of the Human Dragon King, so even if Schneider cared about Chu Zihang, he couldn't help but be wary.

Fingel had no choice but to take the blame: "This is my latest flight alchemy, which allows Chu Zihang to fly briefly."

Only after this explanation did the professor and students reluctantly accept and believe in the alchemical master Fingel.

The dragons showed no mercy to Chu Zihang, who could fly. Enraged by the previous fireball sword sheath, they unleashed their spiritual power and launched an attack.

The Lava Sub-genus and several fiery red dragons unleashed various incantations of fire, charging head-on towards Chu Zihang.

The Ice Armored Second Generation and more than ten elegant sea serpent-like dragons manipulated the glacial water flow. A huge current of water broke through the glacier and gathered into a vortex, waiting directly below to shoot down Chu Zihang. There were also attacks such as ice crystal spears, ice spikes, and high-pressure water cannons that rose into the air from the glacier.

The deadliest attacks come from the sky, from those incredibly agile dragons with wings like glass, weaving a web of slaughter high in the air.

The tornadoes created by the Eye of the Wind King, and the highly compressed, visible pale shockwaves, were like invisible giant whips, tearing everything apart as they surrounded and attacked Chu Zihang from all directions in the sky.

The few yellowish-brown dragons, unable to unleash their full potential, could only foolishly charge forward, attempting hand-to-hand combat.

The dragons' encirclement and suppression by their words was not something Chu Zihang needed to be wary of, because he had already been blessed with good fortune by Su Xi before he jumped ship and rushed towards the dragons.

Under the influence of the powerful force, the dragons and the students and professors witnessed an unbelievable scene: the ice spikes and spears that were gradually rising into the air, the huge whirlpools of water, and even the high-pressure water cannons were all hit by bursts of flame!

That's the flame of the Lava Sub-Generation!

When the flames met the ice water, a massive explosion occurred just as the wind elemental attacks, such as the tornado and the Pale Shockwave, were about to arrive, engulfing the wind elemental attacks.

Chu Zihang remained flying there without moving. The dragons' own words canceled each other out, and not a single word could harm Chu Zihang.

The dragons were all dumbfounded! What kind of luck did this guy have?
The leading Lava Generation and Ice Armor Generation looked at each other, their four large golden eyes filled with doubt. Was their teamwork really that bad?

The students cheered: "Sure enough! Dragons are all good at one-on-one combat! They have no teamwork whatsoever! They're trash in team battles!"

"The more dragons there are, the less of a threat they pose!"

"How lucky! Senior Brother Chu is so lucky! I thought he was going to die, but I didn't expect it! The dragons' words of power canceled each other out!"

The professors, however, remained calm, sensing something was amiss. They were scholars who had studied dragons for decades; how could they be as naive as the students, immediately concluding that dragons lacked cooperative understanding?
It is important to know that in the ancient times, the dragon race was frequently engaged in internal wars, constantly fighting against each other. The four monarchs led their subordinates in large-scale legion wars every day.

Group battles were practically commonplace for dragons. Given this history, how could a group of dragons not know how to cooperate? How could they lack tacit understanding?
The dragons' attack just now was clearly coordinated and sealed off all of Chu Zihang's escape routes. It was only by chance that they neutralized each other, or perhaps Chu Zihang secretly used some means they couldn't understand to interfere with the dragons' attacks, thus managing to escape.

As for how Chu Zihang did it? Before the professors could ponder this further, the increasingly howling wind interrupted everyone's thoughts: "What? Why is the icebreaker going faster and faster?"

"Didn't Professor Schneider say that Norma had already pushed the icebreaker to its maximum speed? How could it go even faster? Could it be that those lunatics in the Equipment Department urgently modified this icebreaker?"

"The Equipment Department is changing ships? Does that mean... I might as well jump ship?"

"The wind has become so strong, and it's so fast! We can escape... No, if we leave, what about Senior Brother Chu?"

Under Fingel's 'Ice Courtesy' spell, the icebreaker's speed has increased, all the glaciers in front 'automatically give way', and the glaciers behind will exert a repulsive force to further accelerate it.

The entire icebreaker sailed as if it were on a normal sea surface, cutting through the waves at an incredible speed.

Just as the professors were about to check the situation, another unexpected event occurred: the icebreaker's speed gradually decreased, and it was once again trapped by the glacier.

It wasn't that Fingel's spell had failed, but rather that a new horde of dragons had appeared ahead of the icebreaker! If they continued to accelerate like this, they would only crash headlong into the dragons' encirclement.

Ahead, led by a second-generation species with a pure green body, more than thirty dragons formed a wall of despair, blocking the icebreaker's path.

The Kassel students, who had just been celebrating their narrow escape, fell into a deathly silence. Surrounded by dragons from both sides, they were trapped, unable to advance or retreat. Moving forward meant certain death, and running backward also meant certain death. They shouldn't have opened the champagne halfway through. "Susie, you were right." Fingel canceled 'Ice Courtesy,' finally confirming that the encirclement by the two waves of dragons was indeed a conspiracy by some being.

If encountering the first wave of dragons was considered bad luck, then encountering the second wave would be simply unacceptable.

The source of the dragons' resurgence is the call of the Black King's Word of Power, the Emperor, deep within the Arctic Ocean. Logically speaking, the second wave of dragons, being closer to the Black King and located in the deeper Arctic, would never disobey the Emperor's call and should never turn back to block the icebreaker.

The second wave of dragons turned around and came straight for them. Under these circumstances, Fingel was able to confirm that they were being targeted and that the two waves of dragons were deliberately lured by the mastermind.

Fingel looked at Lu Mingfei. The only one who could control the dragons was the Dragon King. It was known that Odin had just died and could not break out of his cocoon now. Moreover, the King of the Ocean and Water had been taken by the Old Church as material for advancement.

There are only two possibilities for the mastermind behind this: one is the unseen twins of the Wind King and Water King; the other is Lu Mingze, who is behind Lu Mingfei.

Fingel leaned more towards the latter, which is why he looked at Lu Mingfei. The Wind King Twins weren't at the Red Well at the time and didn't know that Odin was killed by the Old Church. How could they possibly have come to them?

Not to mention the twins of the Water King, if you're going to look for them, look for the erroneous Mr. who has already become a god, or the old church, why would you look for Kassel?

Of those suspected, isn't Lu Mingze the only one left?
The question is, what exactly does Lu Mingze want to do? Kill them to provoke Lu Mingfei? Due to insufficient intelligence, Finger couldn't deduce anything further.

Faced with being surrounded from both sides, the students and professors were at a loss when suddenly, Principal Angers appeared on the deck, bringing with him two sleds.

“Principal…” Before the students could ask any more questions, Angers’ expression turned stern, and he pressed his hand down: “Everyone, take your sleds and jump off the boat. Vice Principal and Fingel, come here! Find a way to use alchemy to pull the sleds.”

"I have urgently contacted our ally, the Ivanov family. Their icebreaker is very close to us and can launch missiles to support us."

"Stop talking nonsense, everyone jump!"

After speaking, Angers' expression suddenly became strangely and abruptly flushed, and two more sleds appeared out of nowhere on the deck.

The students were amazed by Angers' speed and even more surprised that the academy had come prepared with so many sleds.

There was no time for idle talk; the situation was indeed urgent. Everyone followed Angers' instructions, carrying their sleds and jumping down. They were all elite mixed-race individuals specially selected, so this height was nothing to them.

Only Lu Mingfei, looking at the deck and the glacier, at a height that could almost kill someone from a fall, was so frightened he almost had a heart attack: "Jump? Jump down? What's the difference between this and asking me to jump off a building?"

"Don't be afraid." Before Lu Mingfei could say anything, Fingel held Eva on his right, casually grabbed Lu Mingfei's waist with his left hand, and suddenly jumped down, scaring Lu Mingfei into leaving a lingering scream in mid-air.

"Awooo... Huff!" Lu Mingfei was still panting heavily when he landed, but Fingel had already released him and used alchemy to create four ice mud puppets from the materials on the spot.

This is also a classic alchemical creation. Generally speaking, clay figurines are made from mud and soil, and are humanoid temporary laborers that can only do simple manual labor.

If one is willing to invest time and effort in gathering dragon blood materials, one can forge even more advanced guardian statues to protect their base or home. The gargoyles in folklore across Europe and America originate from these guardian statues.

If you can get your hands on some extremely rare high-grade dragon bones, you can even forge them into the most powerful guardian colossus.

Of course, with the progress of the times and the development of technology, alchemical products such as clay figurines and stone statues have been gradually phased out and replaced by more advanced and convenient alchemical firearms.

But in places like the Arctic, pulling sleds with ice and mud is still no problem.

On the other side, Vice Principal Nicholas also created four ice clay figurines, which were even more anthropomorphic in detail than the clay figurines created by Finger.

"Haha, you still need to practice more..." Before the vice principal could finish his sarcastic remarks, he had already taken off and was thrown onto a sled by Angers, who was always driving at zero time, putting on a show of aerial acrobatics.

Angers has produced eight sleds, all of them large enough to carry 12 people: "Old friend, don't waste time, hurry up and head east! The Ivanov family's icebreaker is over there!"

Eight ice mud puppets pulled a sled, and they were running quite fast, giving a feeling of speed. In reality, it was Fingel's on-the-spot improvement of the 'Ice Courtesy' spell.

The subtle repulsive force between the bottom of the eight sleds and the glacier is not enough to tear the glacier apart, but it allows the sleds to maintain a very small gap with the glacier, indirectly achieving an effect similar to magnetic levitation.

In this way, the ice mud puppet could pull the sled effortlessly and run very fast.

(End of this chapter)