Lu Mingfei is transforming into the final boss.

Chapter 96 The Man-Made Messiah

"I am Lu Mingfei. The Lu Mingfei you know."

Lu Mingfei repeated.

Humans wouldn't show that kind of expression, and it doesn't fit the tyrannical black emperor recorded in the history of the dragon race.

Instead, it was a detached pity.

He has a great vocabulary to describe Lu Mingfei.

"Angel, what a pity, I'm not what you think. It's very impolite of you to presume to classify me as non-human."

Mind reading?

What do you think?

It has directly communicated with his inner thoughts, which is undoubtedly mind reading.

"I had no idea there was such a thing as the power of words."

"What people have recorded is only a small part."

Lu Mingfei never denied that she was Nidhogg. For her, Word Magic was just a technique, a way to manipulate phenomena through words.

Things have far exceeded Hilbert Jean Angers' predictions. What exactly is awakening within Lu Mingfei's body? Or rather—what is it? Is it truly the Black Emperor they know?

Tyranny and compassion are completely opposite words; compassion shouldn't be associated with Lu Mingfei.

Angers will not continue to ask that question; it is no longer valuable or meaningful. Lu Mingfei will not say that she is not Lu Mingfei.

"It seems we've all been too arrogant."

Whether it's me, the Secret Service, or your parents.

No one knows what will happen if the emperor's soul is placed into a vessel.

In retrospect, everyone's predictions were wrong, and things have spiraled out of everyone's control.

He felt he could find an answer to end the dragon race; the Black Emperor was the origin of the dragon race, and could also be its end.

The Secret Society believed they had obtained the perfect tool for slaying dragons.

Lu Lincheng and Qiao Weini believed that their daughter would ascend the highest throne.

But everyone was wrong, terribly wrong. What was born was not Lu Mingfei, not a hybrid with the power of an emperor, but something else, something they didn't know.

He suddenly remembered a word Lu Mingfei had just used.

The power of God.

Could he consider Lu Mingfei to be a god, and from the beginning he has been trying to activate his Word of Power - Time Zero, which is the most powerful weapon that allows him to rule the world of hybrids?

But there was no reaction, which almost made him think he was a mortal. However, the power of the dragon blood was still flowing in his body, otherwise he would have died long ago. Humans cannot live to be over a hundred years old, let alone maintain such a good physical condition.

"Are you a god?"

Angers asked.

"Gods? I did describe them that way just now. What do you think?"

Hilbert Jean Angers was always in the most passive position. He thought he had everything under control, everything about Lu Mingfei, but that was not the case. He actually knew nothing, yet he had to seek Lu Mingfei's power.

No matter how Lu Mingfei questioned him, he had to answer.

When Hilbert Jean Angers put himself on the scales, he had already lost.

"I don't know, but just like you said, people are indeed arrogant."

Only those who stand at a higher level are qualified to judge everything about people; people cannot judge themselves.

"I am glad that you can recognize this, Hilbert. I think you are more of a corpse driven by desire than a human being."

"What exactly are you?"

"It's not a thing."

Do you think I would think that way?

"People have their own free will. Whatever you think is your free will, and I have no right to influence your thoughts."

The more Lu Mingfei talked, the more unreal Angers felt. Those eyes, which belonged to an ordinary person, filled him with an unprecedented, subtle fear.

Hybrids are still part of humanity, but the deepest fear lurking in humankind is the unknown.

He experienced the uncanny valley effect on Lu Mingfei. The more Lu Mingfei repeatedly emphasized that she was human, the more he felt that she was not human. It was not a kind of rebellion, but a fear of the unknown.

"My free will?"

But this way of describing it made him realize something.

Hilbert Jean Angers had once studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Lu Mingfei's way of describing it suddenly reminded him that it was a philosophical concept that he had almost forgotten.

After all, in the small world of hybrids where violence is the core, philosophy has only a little value. You can only talk nonsense when you can defeat your opponent.

Yes, your free will.

Therefore, I will not blame you for this behavior, just as one would not blame a young child for a mistake.

But if they continue like this, I can only consider it a deliberate and intentional act of blasphemy.

"I see, I understand now."

"But your heart is telling me that you don't know at all, you're completely unaware of this, and being inconsistent with your words is not a good habit."

Humans are incredibly vulnerable when faced with mind readers, even Hilbert Jean Angers was no exception. People can deceive others, but they cannot deceive themselves.

Because people can stop their actions, but they cannot stop their thoughts, nor can they stop the constant inner calling. No one's inner self is an empty void. If it were nothingness, where nothing exists, then it would be something inhuman.

"Everyone seems naked in your presence."

"A somewhat explicit description. I could interpret it as—"

"Then I must apologize. I didn't mean that at all. Please forgive my lack of fluency in Chinese."

"But didn't you gladly accept compliments about your Chinese proficiency?"

She could see everything he did after he landed; there was no secret from him.

No—I can't think. The more I think, the more my weakness will be revealed to her.

"Mind reading is really cheating; it's completely impossible to deal with."

"I think so too, but what's wrong with that? This way I'm seeing the most authentic side of things."

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"I will remove all surveillance from your side and will not react to you in any way."

He should leave. This was a completely unequal conversation. Lu Mingfei knew everything he was thinking, while he could only make a rough judgment about Lu Mingfei's character based on baseless guesses.

The longer he stays, the fewer chips he has left, and the more he will lose.

They attempted to create a vessel containing the emperor's power, but even when contained within that vessel, the emperor remained the emperor, possessing a greatness and overwhelming power that they could not reach.

"I don't mind~"

"It's about basic respect for people," Angers added.

"Is it only now that I've remembered I'm still a person with independent thought?"

Her voice carried a hint of sarcasm.

Angers didn't answer. He was a very thick-skinned man. In situations like this, the more he said, the more mistakes he would make. It was that simple. When you feel unfamiliar with someone, don't assume what they will do, because that's just wishful thinking on your part.

Before this, they only considered Lu Mingfei their possession, their prop, their tool, but the bird has proven to them that she has long been freed from her cage and has the freedom to no longer be restrained by them.

Or perhaps it is a ferocious beast that can shatter its cage and break free.

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