Lu Mingfei, become the King of Elden!

Chapter 165 I Have Someone I Must Protect

"Then, Mr. Lu, let's part ways here."

Natsuki Subaru, carrying the spiral-shaped greatsword, spoke casually to Lu Mingfei.

“I won’t be able to help you with the map progression anymore. I will explore south along the Fam Bridge, and you should follow the map I drew and head along the main road of Galid.”

Lu Mingfei nodded:

"It just so happens that I can also look for the Great Dragon Sacrifice Church along the way."

"The Great Dragon Sacrifice Church?"

Natsuki Subaru paused slightly; this was a new term he had never heard before.

"It's the church where even more powerful dragon-eating power gathers."

Lu Mingfei explained:
"The previous Dragon Offering Church was too small; its power was insufficient to completely transform Gui'er's heart power. I have acquaintances who told me that there is a place in the East where even stronger Dragon Offering power converges."

I was thinking that east of Nymgfort, besides Galid, there's only the sea, right?

Surely those dragon warriors wouldn't have gotten so brain-damaged from eating dragon hearts that they built a church in the sea?

Natsuki Subaru grinned widely:
"Maybe it's in the sky?"

After saying that, he nodded to Lu Mingfei:

“I will keep an eye out. If I find any buildings related to the church, I will let you know immediately.”

As he spoke, he was about to brandish the "severed finger knife" in his hand to sever his connection with Lu Mingfei's world.

"Wait, Subaru."

Lu Mingfei suddenly spoke up, interrupting him.

Natsuki Subaru put down the knife, his dead fish eyes filled with confusion.

Lu Mingfei hesitated for a moment, but still asked:
"What happened in real life?"

Natsuki Subaru stood there, stunned, staring at Lu Mingfei, momentarily lost in thought.

Then, he suddenly grinned again:
"Lu, you're actually even more sensitive than Kaneki, aren't you? It seems you were right to focus on 'sensory perception'."

Lu Mingfei shrugged, neither agreeing nor disagreeing.

Natsuki Subaru was silent for a moment, then slowly said:
"Because I have people I must protect."

He turned around, his eyes fixed on the distant, crimson sky, his gaze resolute.
"Lu Jun, to achieve that goal, I must obtain even greater power."

An awkward silence fell over the room.

Are they people we absolutely must protect?

Several faces flashed through Lu Mingfei's mind in an instant.

Ah, yes, perhaps Lu Mingfei also has someone like that.

"gone."

Subaru Natsuki's voice broke the silence and became cheerful again.

"Don't get lost without me guiding you."

Lu Mingfei rolled his eyes:

"I'm not you. I've developed some of my senses, so I'm more than capable of finding my way around."

Natsuki Subaru stopped talking. He raised the hand holding the severed finger knife high and waved it forcefully at Lu Mingfei behind him, striking what he thought was a clumsy and dashing farewell pose.

The next second, the severed finger knife drew a cold arc of light.

The space rippled like water.
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"Lost"

Lu Mingfei glanced at the row of stone coffins along the cliff edge, then at the "abstract map" from Natsuki Subaru in his hand, and his lips twitched slightly:

"How the hell could I forget that this guy's drawing ability is negative... Now look what's happened, we can't even see a glimpse of the main road, what's the point of looking?" He irritably crumpled the piece of paper, stuffed it into the gap in his armor, and tried to walk down the "steps" in front of him, whose edges were blurred by weathering and decay.

"Eh?"

Instead of a solid feel, my feet felt an emptiness.

Lu Mingfei's heart sank suddenly, and his body's center of gravity had already irreversibly tilted forward.

"Fuck-!"

Before the screams could even land, a feeling of weightlessness instantly overwhelmed them, and the sarcophagus complex and the scarlet sky in their field of vision suddenly inverted and spun.

Bang! Crash—

The expected death by being smashed to pieces did not occur, but the pain from the impact was definitely not small.

He felt like a sack of potatoes slammed to the ground, his head spinning inside the helmet of the Knight of the Lost Land. Thankfully, the armor protected him from direct contact with the uneven, rocky ground.

"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts!"

With a series of clanging sounds, Lu Ming stood up, supporting his back. He felt pain all over his body.

But despite the pain, the survival instincts forged in the blood and fire of the border region still made him subconsciously observe his surroundings.

Ahead was a dark cave entrance, located directly below the cliff face from which he had fallen.

A brazier was set up not far from the cave entrance, its orange-red flames leaping and emitting a pungent odor of sulfur mixed with grease. This was a common tactic of the Red Lion Legion, used to drive away lower creatures corrupted by decay, indicating that this place should be under the control of the Red Lion Legion.

"Cave?"

Lu Mingfei was panting, his brows furrowed beneath his helmet, muttering to himself:

"It doesn't look like an underground cemetery at all."

There was absolutely no smell of death or decay here.

For any faded survivor struggling to survive in this border region, the guiding principle when facing such an unknown, dark entrance is always...
"It's all here."

Lu Mingfei muttered to himself, his eyes flashing beneath his helmet. He sheathed the Greatsword of the Lost Knight, and with a flick of his left palm, a torch made of twisted steel wire appeared out of thin air.

The steel wire torch was one of Lu Mingfei's spoils of war in Moen City.

This thing is heavier than a regular torch, but the heated steel wire can increase the firepower of the flames and can be used to attack enemies.

What's even more interesting is that Lu Mingfei discovered that when he blew a lot of air into the torch, the flame would spread outwards, making it an ideal choice for home use, travel, and tomb exploration.

laugh--

The torches were lit, and the steel wires quickly glowed red-hot in the flames, radiating a scorching heat that dispelled the darkness at the edge of the cave entrance.

Lu Mingfei had only walked a few steps along the cave entrance when he noticed the glow of flames not far ahead.

someone!

Lu Mingfei's steps froze instantly, his breathing became light and slow inside his helmet, and his right hand silently gripped the Lost Knight's Greatsword.

He moved quietly, carefully controlling the impact of the armor plates, stealthily moving in the shadows towards the dangerous light source.

The firelight outlined the shape of a simple wooden platform piled with messy wooden crates, sacks and barrels. A soldier in armor held a torch with his back to him, and the embroidered roaring lion on his cylindrical red coat was faintly visible.

There is more than one aura.

Lu Mingfei glanced to the other side.

Sure enough, in a corner not illuminated by the firelight, in the dark shadows, another soldier was sitting against the wall. He was also wearing the armor of the Red Lion, with his longsword at his side, his head slightly lowered, seemingly relaxed, but clearly in the blind spot of the cave entrance and behind his companions.

Two. One in the open, one in the shadows. One a decoy, the other a sentry.

Excellent military skills.

However, in the face of absolute power, all of these seem meaningless.

(End of this chapter)