Lu Mingfei, become the King of Elden!

Chapter 343 Doomsday (Bonus Chapter for Group Members)

"What sir?"

Lu Mingfei frowned. To prevent the guy from suddenly coming back to life, he casually chopped off his scaly, eerie-looking head with a single sword stroke. The head rolled to the side, its strange smile seemingly still staring at them from the darkness.

"Do you know that what I hate most is riddle tellers?"

As Lu Mingfei spoke, he lightly shook the sword, flicking off the sticky blood that clung to it, leaving a glaring trail of blood on the ground.

He then turned around and turned his gaze to the mysterious figure shrouded in darkness in the center of the arena.

The dark figure was silently staring at Lu Mingfei and the headless corpse at his feet. It hadn't uttered a word since the fierce battle began, but its powerful and suffocating death domain had completely expanded into the interior of the space, like an invisible cage.

"You... are His offspring?"

The shadowy figure frowned slightly, a hint of doubt in his voice:
"But aren't you all?"

His words paused subtly here, not finished.

"I should be the one asking you this!"

Lu Mingfei interrupted him, his voice sounding somewhat muffled through the mask:

"Who are you? Why are you here? I clearly heard you trying to resurrect Constantine."

He pointed to the dragon bone cross on the altar:

"And you just sat there and watched me kill that Italian, without even trying to kill us all? That's not the attitude of someone who's protecting something important."

The shadowy figure remained silent for a moment, then the chaotic voice rang out again, carrying a condescending indifference:

"God's war should not be mixed with such ugly and greedy ants. His existence is a desecration of this reunion. Even if you don't make a move, I will eliminate him first."

"god?"

Lu Mingfei seemed to be deep in thought:
"It seems I was right after all."

He looked the shadowy figure up and down:

"Your aura is perfectly harmonious and seamless, like a retired master who has been killing fish at RT-Mart for thirty years. Not a single superfluous aura is emitted. Your whole body seems casual and relaxed, but in fact, there is not a single flaw."

And this powerful domain that envelops the entire space.

The shadowy figure said calmly:
"It seems you have guessed it."

He paused, his tone becoming increasingly certain:
"You're definitely not an ordinary dragon or hybrid. With your foundation and aura, you must be a first-generation dragon!"

The shadowy figure seemed to freeze for a moment, as if the shadow beneath the hood had stiffened.

Lu Mingfei, however, was quite satisfied with his reasoning and continued to speak eloquently, seemingly stating an obvious fact:

"And you're a descendant of the King of Bronze and Fire, right? After all, you're handling Constantine's dragon bones."

"Tsk tsk, I didn't expect that the next generation could transform into such a near-perfect human form? It seems your lineage's alchemy is indeed quite something."

He adopted an attitude of "I've seen through you," waiting for the other party to confirm or refute.

A long silence spread through the air thick with the smell of blood.

The vast realm of death still shrouded everything; the mournful mass played on the organ had ceased sometime ago, and only the music box continued to play its dirge softly.

Several seconds later, the shadowy figure's chaotic voice sounded again, its tone becoming somewhat strange.

"Secondary species?"

He repeated the title, as if savoring something, his tone revealing displeasure.

"I see."

The shadowy figure said calmly:
“You are not His offspring at all. No wonder you killed that guy. You are nothing but a despicable thief who stole power.”

Lu Mingfei was taken aback at first, then finally realized what was going on. Did this guy think he was a dragon too?
"Hey Hey hey"

Lu Mingfei shouted:

"Can you watch your mouth? It's the 21st century, and you're still playing that old-fashioned game of trash talk before a war. Where did you come from?

Or are you from Japan? Have you been completely poisoned by anime and manga culture?
That's understandable, since all mixed-race people are prone to chuunibyou (middle school syndrome).

Lu Mingfei muttered to himself:
"It's quite reasonable that you're a severe case of chuunibyou (middle school syndrome)."

Calm, utterly calm.

But beneath this calm, Lu Mingfei's intuition, honed through countless life-or-death battles, frantically sounded the alarm.

The surrounding death zone did not expand, but the pressure within it was silently rising, making each breath heavy.

The mocking look on Lu Mingfei's face vanished instantly.

He abruptly turned his head, and speaking rapidly in a low voice to Mai Shude, who had been standing vigilantly at the edge of the battlefield:

"You, the one named Shude Mai, listen up! When we start fighting, don't worry about anything else, just use your Word of Power to run! Run as far as you can!"

He gripped his twin swords tightly, and the aura that had been slightly restrained around him began to rise again, subtly resisting the omnipresent pressure of death.

"I can only hold them off for five minutes at most!"

Lu Mingfei's expression was extremely solemn.

"I can't say what will happen in five minutes or even later."

The words have not yet fallen.

The shadowy figure's combat suit tore open, revealing her beautiful body covered in bluish-gray scales. Only now did Lu Mingfei realize that this person's apparent gender was actually "female".

Her body suddenly swelled up, and her scales stood up like a steel thorn bush!
Bone spurs pierced through the skin and protruded. They were her black bones growing toward the surface of her body and turning into sharp bony blades.

The molten metal chips began to condense as they attached to the bone blade, and metal crystals precipitated on the surface of the bone blade.

Without the slightest hesitation, the moment Lu Mingfei finished speaking, her graceful figure transformed into a blurry black shadow, like a ghost blending into the darkness, and she raced at an astonishing speed toward the entrance of the passage she remembered coming from!

She didn't even glance back, because the sudden burst of dragon might and another terrifying aura had already swept through the entire space like a tsunami.

In this situation, any hesitation is fatal.

Lu Mingfei's estimated time was still wrong.

Once a battle of this level begins, the damage and impact on the surrounding environment will be completely unpredictable.

This is a clash of rules, a battle of authority, and the lingering force of its impact is enough to shatter matter.

Just as Mai Shude's slender toes touched the emergency elevator leading to the ground, a muffled thud came from behind her and from all directions.

The metal platform beneath her feet trembled violently, and large amounts of metal fragments, concrete debris, and twisted steel bars crashed down like a waterfall, instantly sealing off the only exit.

The dust it stirred up spread like a thick fog.

Then, a chain reaction occurred. The long and complicated passage she had come through, starting from the far end, collapsed section by section like toppled dominoes, with a series of deafening crashes.

Everything is like the end times written in the prophecy, and in the face of the end times, everyone is as insignificant as dust.

Mai Shude stood on the elevator platform, which seemed to be on the verge of collapse at any moment. Looking at the apocalyptic scene before her and feeling the terrifying aura behind her that seemed to be tearing each other apart like primordial beasts, her beautiful face was expressionless, except for her pupils slightly contracting.

She murmured softly, her voice almost completely drowned out by the deafening roar of the collapse:

"Five minutes... those two monsters are truly a miracle to have escaped in this situation."

After the flames pierced the ground, they gushed forth from the well in front of the Hall of Heroes, the foundation well of the academy. In the days before running water, teachers and students drilled the first spring here.

(End of this chapter)