Dragon Raja: A Look Back at Lu Mingfei's Legendary Life

Chapter 40 Lu Mingfei's "Enrollment"

Beyond the Golden Screen: The Real World - Kassel College Square

The image on the screen froze at the moment when Lu Mingfei and Nuonuo clasped hands.

The square was deathly silent.

Everyone stared blankly at the mad boy who had detonated the Word of Power Rhine in the Bronze City, at the red-haired girl who held his hand in the hospital room, and at the mad father who carried the bone vial and declared that he would destroy the whole world.

Then, a deafening uproar erupted.

"Holy crap! Lu Mingfei detonated Rhine?!"

"50,000 tons of TNT equivalent?! That's nuclear bomb level!"

"He's still alive?! How could he survive at the epicenter of an explosion?!"

"S-rank physical attributes...that's terrifying..."

"Norton's flask is empty... What does that mean? Did Norton run away?"

"Professor Lu Lincheng... he really brought the Dragon King's bone flask..."

"Leviathan, the king of the ocean and water... He said it was for Lu Mingfei's pet?!"

"They've gone mad...they've all gone mad..."

The professors were also engaged in a heated discussion. Professor Guderian was so excited that he was incoherent, Professor Manstein was pale, and Professor Schneider stared at the bone flask on the screen, seemingly lost in thought.

Principal Angers stood quietly, his silver eyes reflecting everything on the light screen.

"Lu Lincheng..." he murmured to himself, "You've really come this far."

At the edge of the square, Chu Zihang gripped Cunyu tightly.

He watched the moment Lu Mingfei detonated Rhine on the light screen, witnessing the destructive power and those burning golden eyes.

Then, he remembered his father's dying words:

"He is the key...and the lock..."

"He can usher in a new era... or he can bring... Ragnarok..."

It turned out to be the case.

Lu Mingfei is no ordinary S-class.

He is both a disaster and a hope.

It is destruction, but also rebirth.

"Lu Mingfei..." Chu Zihang murmured the name, "We will really meet soon."

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Beyond the Golden Screen: The Real World - The Gates of Kassel College

A taxi stopped in front of the college gate.

The car door opened, and Nuonuo got out first. Then she turned around and said to the people inside the car, "We're here. Get out."

Lu Mingfei climbed out of the car.

He was wearing a plain T-shirt and jeans, carrying an old backpack, his face showing the fatigue of a long flight and the bewilderment of jet lag. He looked up at the ancient college in front of him—towering spires, thick stone walls, vine-covered arcades, and the enormous bronze gate carved with the World Tree.

Everything was just like in my dream.

No, it's more real, more magnificent, and more... awe-inspiring than any dream.

"This is...Kassel College?" he murmured to himself.

"Yes, welcome to the real world." Nono patted him on the shoulder. "Come on, I'll take you in."

The two walked towards the gate.

The guard at the door saw Nuonuo and immediately stood at attention and saluted: "Miss Chen!"

Nono nodded and led Lu Mingfei straight through the gate.

Students strolled through the campus in twos and threes. They nodded to Nuonuo when they saw her, but when they saw Lu Mingfei—

Everyone was stunned.

Then, whispers spread like a tide:

"Who is that?"

"A new student? At this time?"

"Wait... he looks like..."

"Lu Mingfei?!"

"It really is Lu Mingfei?! The S-rank from the light screen?!"

"Wasn't he still unconscious in the hospital room? How could this be...?"

"Wait, this Lu Mingfei looks younger..."

"Could it be... Lu Mingfei from the real world?"

More and more people gathered around.

Lu Mingfei felt uncomfortable under her gaze and instinctively hid behind Nuonuo.

Nono laughed, reached out and pulled him to her side, then loudly announced to the crowd, "That's right, this is Lu Mingfei. Lu Mingfei from the real world. I brought him here from China."

The crowd erupted into an even greater uproar.

"Lu Mingfei in the real world?!"

"Senior Nono really went to see him?!"

"That thing in the light screen..."

"Two Lu Mingfeis?!"

"What's going on?"

Surrounded by people, Lu Mingfei felt like a polar bear in a zoo, being pointed at and talked about by everyone. His face turned bright red, and he was at a loss for what to do, wishing he could disappear into the ground.

Nono's smile grew even brighter.

She put her arm around Lu Mingfei's shoulder and said to the crowd, "From today onwards, he is a freshman in Kassel. If any of you dare to bully him—"

She paused, her smile turning dangerous:

"I'll let someone experience what a real 'red-haired shrine maiden' is like."

The crowd fell silent instantly.

Everyone remembered Nono's "glorious deeds" at the academy—painting her senior's sports car pink, putting a frog in the professor's water glass, and setting off fireworks in front of the principal's office...

We can't afford to mess with them.

They're really not to be trifled with.

Nono nodded in satisfaction, took Lu Mingfei's hand, and walked through the crowd that automatically parted to head towards the dormitory building.

Lu Mingfei followed behind her, watching her red ponytail sway in the sunlight, watching her slender yet upright back, watching her shield him from all curious and scrutinizing gazes.

Suddenly, a warm feeling spread through my heart.

It felt like a dream.

It was as if it were destined.

"Nono," he called her name softly.

"Um?"

"Thank you," he said. "Thank you for coming to see me."

Nono turned to look at him and smiled: "Don't thank me yet. The training ahead will make you want to run back to China."

Lu Mingfei smiled too: "I won't run away."

Why?

"Because..." He looked into Nuonuo's eyes, his voice soft but firm, "I want to become strong. Strong enough to protect the people I want to protect, strong enough... to be worthy to stand beside you."

Nono was stunned.

Then, she blushed.

Although it was only for a moment, Lu Mingfei saw it.

"Stop talking nonsense." She turned her head away, her ears still red. "Come on, I'll take you to the dorm. Fingel can't wait to see you."

"Finger? That Minister of Information?"

"Yes, he's also your future roommate," Nono said. "Get ready, that guy... he's special."

Lu Mingfei nodded.

He looked ahead, at the ancient academy, at this new world, and at the red-haired girl beside him.

There was no more confusion or fear in my heart.

There was only an unprecedented calm and determination.

he came.

He came regardless of whether heaven or hell lay ahead.