Dragon Raja: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

With each strike, dodge, slash, and parry, the opponent's breathing grew heavier, and his sword swings became larger and more chaotic. It seemed that even Charlotte could hear the sound of the opponent's blade flashing.

It wasn't just a feeling; she really heard it.

In the stinging vision, the sound of the blade slashing became clearer, along with the other person's breathing, the slight vibration of the train wheels rolling over the tracks beneath their feet, and even the sound of rainwater rushing against the glass window.

Although the five senses of hybrids are far superior to those of ordinary people, more than 90% of human understanding of the outside world comes from vision. Therefore, humans also rely heavily on vision and thus ignore information other than what they see.

But as Charlotte gradually adjusted to her loss of sight, her other senses became tenfold, a hundredfold, sharper. Under Lu Mingfei's guidance, she actually began to hear the sound of his sword churning in the air.

The sharp sound was deciphered in Charlotte's ears, and the world in her ears became more and more vivid as the sound was dissected. The entire structure of the carriage was even constructed in her ears.

The opponent swung their sword down again, but before Lu Mingfei could even warn her, Charlotte had already raised her cane. The sound of bones breaking filled the air as the sword spun and flew into the air, slicing through the air.

"I hit it!" Charlotte shouted.

Lu Mingfei didn't expect Charlotte to comprehend it so quickly, but immediately, with a "whoosh" of wind, he caught the sword that Charlotte had sent flying after shattering the opponent's hand bones.

Immediately afterwards, the two of them released each other's hands and brandished their weapons, but their target was not the man blessed by the King's Servant who was blocking their way, but rather—the train window.

Charlotte used her cane, and Lu Mingfei used the hilt of his sword, together smashing the train window.

With a series of shattering sounds, a large amount of cold wind, carrying rain, rushed in. Portuguese trains don't travel very fast, only around 100 kilometers per hour, so there isn't much of a pressure difference between the inside and outside...

However, if the opponent's Word of Power is Kamaitachi, the whistling wind blowing inside the carriage will be able to interfere with Kamaitachi's judgment.

The stinging sensation in her eyes had mostly subsided, and Charlotte groggily opened her eyes, her vision still not fully clear. A series of hazy shadows overlapped before her.

The middle-aged man fighting Charlotte covered his ears and knelt on the ground, blood flowing from them. He had obviously failed to deactivate his Word of Power in time when the car window was smashed, and the sharp whistling wind and the loud thunder had ruptured his eardrums.

"Are you really that bold?" The manipulator frowned and finally spoke again, "Aren't you afraid that the Word of Power of the person we're responsible for scouting the location isn't 'Kamaitachi' but 'Snake'?"

In low-resistance environments, such as rainy days, the "snake" will possess an amazing power of words.

"To be honest, it doesn't really matter. The carriage isn't very big to begin with. Even if one of your people's words of power is 'snake,' increasing or decreasing the range will still allow them to detect my location."

Lu Mingfei said, "But if your Word of Power is 'Kamaitachi,' you will lose the ability to control the coordinates and will be forced to deactivate 'Blazing Sun.'"

"A truly exciting gamble."

The manipulator was silent for a moment, then suddenly drew a rapier from the umbrella beside him.

Before Lu Mingfei could realize what he was about to do, he saw the Mediterranean man with bloodshot eyes unleash the Word of Power, Blazing Sun, once again. Lu Mingfei instinctively covered his eyes with his hands, recalling the last scene he saw before closing them.

What was that guy trying to do, charging towards us with his sword? Was he planning to use the last thing he saw before casting Blazing Sun to remember our location and then blindly kill us and Charlotte?

Thinking of this, Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment, and quickly shouted, "Get out of the way!"

He heard a loud "boom" in front of him, and a wave of intense heat hit him. The residual force of the heat wave sent Lu Mingfei flying backward, crashing heavily into the side of the train.

It was as if a grenade had been detonated in front of them.

……

Chapter 204 Lu Mingfei? I'll remember you.

The oncoming heatwave not only had a strong recoil but also carried a pungent smell of smoke.

Lu Mingfei covered his mouth and nose and coughed for a while before suddenly realizing that the influence of the blazing sun in front of him seemed to have disappeared.

He barely managed to open his eyes, and after a while, his vision blurred, he saw Charlotte kneeling on the ground, one arm outstretched, panting heavily.

In front of her outstretched fingers was a charred mess, as if scorched by flames. The train seats were melted, the windows were shattered, and the entire carriage was burned and deformed.

At the far end of the carriage were two charred, unrecognizable mummies lying face down at the junction of the carriages.

"This is……"

Lu Mingfei stood up and stood there, stunned.

He had seen this scene before. Not only had he seen it, but he was also very familiar with it. Of course, it wasn't a grenade explosion, but the effect of a word of power.

The Spirit of Words·Jun Yan.

If they had been in a confined space, the explosion caused by Junyan igniting the surrounding fire elements would have blown the entire carriage apart, and they would probably have been severely affected by the aftershocks.

Fortunately, they had broken several windows beforehand to disrupt the enemy's use of their incantations, thus preventing the carriage from becoming a sealed space.

Charlotte suddenly turned around, staring at Lu Mingfei in disbelief. She immediately covered her mouth with her hand and ran to the window to gag. Lu Mingfei quickly went over to her, supporting her and patting her back.

After gagging for a while, Charlotte finally raised her head again, staring blankly at the scenery rushing past the window, and said in a daze:

“I thought… I thought they wanted to take advantage of the chaos to attack us, that’s why I used the Word of Power,” Charlotte said. “I didn’t know they just wanted to escape…”

Lu Mingfei was taken aback, and suddenly understood why Xia Lüdi was gagging.

In any case, Charlotte is just a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl, and judging from her previous social anxiety, she's probably been well protected by her family. Although she's of mixed race, she's still just an innocent young girl.

In the rush just now, she unleashed her Lord's Flame, instantly killing the two middle-aged men in front of her.

Although his original intention was self-defense, the guilt he felt upon learning that the controller only wanted to unleash the Blazing Sun and escape in the chaos, along with the disgust he felt upon discovering for the first time that he had killed someone, overwhelmed him instantly.

Lu Mingfei had also experienced something like this. When he first joined Kassel College, he happened to be there on Freedom Day. He watched helplessly as Nono was hit by a sniper bullet in front of him, and blood spurted out. His heart was pounding, his head was throbbing, and it felt like something deep inside him was about to burst out.

Lu Mingfei didn't know what to say to comfort Charlotte, so he could only pat her back repeatedly to offer some solace.

……

The train stops at its final stop, Santarém station.

Many people boarded at this stop; some were wearing police uniforms, some were wearing black suits, and some were wearing doctors' white coats.

These people rushed into the carriage where Lu Mingfei and his group were. Upon seeing the charred corpse lying on the ground, not a single person showed any sign of panic.

The police directed the doctors to carry the two charred corpses and the middle-aged man whose eardrums had been ruptured off the train on stretchers. The man in the black suit walked to both sides of the carriage with a notebook in hand, while the woman dressed in the most ordinary clothes among them took a wool blanket and draped it over Charlotte, whose face was still somewhat pale.

“Miss Charlotte, I’m sorry to have startled you. Your family has contacted us, and we will handle the rest,” the woman said. “I am one of the executive officers of the Solomon Temple in the Santaren District. You can call me Jean.”

After speaking, the woman looked at Lu Mingfei, who was sitting next to Charlotte, and asked.

"Who is this?"

Charlotte glanced at Lu Mingfei beside her and said calmly, "This is the tour guide I hired in Portugal. He has nothing to do with this matter."

This explanation was given to him by Charlotte at Lu Mingfei's request, since his mission in Portugal was simply to protect Su Xiaoqiang. Although he had inexplicably rescued a beautiful mixed-race little girl along the way, he still wanted to avoid getting involved in the world of mixed-race people so early on.

“That’s right.” Although Qin felt a little strange about the Portuguese tour guide with an Asian face, she couldn’t refute Charlotte’s statement.

“Miss Charlotte, according to the rules, I need to take your guide back to the Temple first so that the hypnotist can erase his related memories,” Jean said.

“No need,” Charlotte said. “I will take care of the memory issue.”

To be fair, although she acted quite socially awkward in front of Lu Mingfei, Charlotte displayed a composed and dignified demeanor when facing this group of people who called themselves members of the "Solomon Temple." For a moment, she truly resembled a noble lady from a prestigious family.

Qin clearly hadn't expected Charlotte to say that, "But this has never been done before..."

"Does the Temple of Solomon think that our Gottingen family can't even erase the memories of ordinary people?" Charlotte asked, looking at Qin.

Although the Solomon Temple and the Gottingen family do not belong to the same power, both are mixed-race forces in Europe, and the Gottingen family has been rooted in Europe for thousands of years, with deep-rooted and complex influence.

Although the Göttingen family has declined somewhat in the last century, it is still a long-established dragon-slaying family. Even the headquarters of the Temple Order has to give this heir of the Göttingen family some face, let alone just one of their branches in Portugal.

“I understand,” Qin said, bowing her head. “Then your guide… will be left to you to handle. I also believe that you understand the consequences that would be if the secret of hybrids were to be revealed to the world.”

Even after handing Lu Mingfei over to Charlotte to deal with, Qin didn't forget to use words to threaten him about the potential consequences of the change.

“Of course I know,” Charlotte said coldly.

"Your hotel has been arranged; it's the best hotel in town. Just give your name and you can check in directly. To express our apologies, the priest of this parish has also prepared a banquet. Would you do us the honor of joining us?" Qin handed a card to Charlotte.

"Let's have the banquet in the evening." Charlotte took the card and put it into her small bag. "I have some things to take care of during the day. I'll be back at the hotel in the afternoon, and you can contact me then."

"But……"

"No buts. You guys clean up the scene, I'm leaving now. The person with the ruptured eardrum is the only survivor, please make sure he gets proper treatment."

As Charlotte spoke, she stood up and walked ahead. Lu Mingfei quickly helped her carry her luggage and followed her off the train.

The extent of the rain was unknown; it continued to rain all the way to Santarém. The two walked around the unfamiliar city streets several times with their umbrellas until they were quite far from the train station and, after confirming that no one was following them, they stopped and found a place to take shelter from the rain.

"We've come this far, we should be almost there," Charlotte said.

"Then I'll be going now. Thank you for keeping it from them for me."

Lu Mingfei breathed a slight sigh of relief, thanked her, and was about to leave when Charlotte called him back.

"Wait."

Lu Mingfei turned around in surprise, "What's wrong?"

“I have a few more questions for you,” Charlotte said.

"A problem?" Lu Mingfei was taken aback.

“I helped you conceal the fact that you are also a hybrid from the people of the Solomon Temple. According to the principle of equivalent exchange, you should also provide me with corresponding compensation.”

“We haven’t mentioned this before.”

"I'll tell you now."

"Depend on!"

"First question, which faction do you belong to?" Before Lu Mingfei could agree, Charlotte spoke up, "Judging from your appearance, you should be from East Asia. Are you from the Snake Clan?"

Lu Mingfei then realized that he hadn't told Charlotte his name yet.

"Don't talk nonsense, I'm a genuine Chinese!" Lu Mingfei snorted. "You can... think of me as someone from Kassel College."

"People from Kassel College?"

Charlotte frowned, looking at Lu Mingfei, who looked to be only about fifteen or sixteen years old, and wondered if Kassel College had such young students now.

However, Charlotte remembered the pinned post she had seen on the hunter's portal website. It was after reading that post that she secretly came to Portugal alone. But her runaway was clearly not a clever move; within hours, her family discovered her disappearance and immediately contacted the Solomon Temple in Portugal.

Although the poster of that pinned bounty post wasn't a high-level user, it was easy to find out by tracing the IP address that its origin was very messy, involving several layers of proxy botnets, making it impossible to trace back to the source...

The inability to trace the source precisely indicates that the other party is likely from Kassel College! Only Norma possesses such a rigorous and intricate anti-tracking logic.

Since the Kassel College had detected the unusual amount of antimony being imported from Portugal, it was only natural for them to send several executive officers to Portugal to personally track the flow of this antimony.

But... why send only this guy? Charlotte looked at Lu Mingfei and wondered to herself.

Could it be that this guy, despite being lecherous, shameless, and frivolous, is actually already a capable executive specialist?

Indeed, that guy's ability to pinpoint sounds is something that ordinary Kassel students wouldn't be able to master.

After some speculation, Lu Mingfei's image in Charlotte's mind became even stronger.