Dragon Raja: Lu Mingfei Returns from the Elden Ring

She had a bad feeling after entering the underground passage, and now, judging from the other party's reaction, they had indeed realized they were being followed.

She no longer cared about the executor's orders. As long as she could track Lu Mingfei without being discovered, everything would be fine, but if she came face to face with Lu Mingfei, it would mean that the mission would be in serious trouble!

Chapter 105 Three's Company

A teahouse hidden in the bustling city. After going up to the second floor from the narrow and dimly lit corridor between two shops, you open a black wooden door and suddenly find yourself in a bright and spacious room.

Once the door is closed, the noise of the outside world is shut out, and the dimly lit environment is quiet. On the tea table, the tea utensils are already prepared, steaming hot.

Caesar and Gao Mi sat facing each other.

“If the branch wants to negotiate with us, they should be looking for Lu Mingfei, right?” Caesar opened a white paper folding fan with the inscription “He who has not climbed the Great Wall is no true hero” and said with great interest. “Besides, this doesn’t look like a branch’s stronghold.”

He released the Kamaitachi when he entered and did not notice the third heartbeat in the tea room. Gao Mi met with him alone.

"Because what I have must be kept secret from both the branch and the other members of your team." Gao Mi handed him a file folder.

Caesar picked up the file folder; the seal was stamped with a red "SS," indicating that the documents inside were top secret. "The Board of Trustees' mission?"

The contents of the file folder were not extensive; it contained only one instruction sheet.

The gist of the story is that the board of directors provides Caesar with a special set of equipment and requires him to kill the Dragon King alone.

What truly interested Caesar was the accusations made by the school board against Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang. Lu Mingfei was suspected of having unstable bloodlines, while Chu Zihang was involved in an incident involving an unknown dragon clan.

In other words, the board of directors doesn't want Lu Mingfei, this uncontrollable factor, to continue growing. A rebellious S-class student and a rebellious dragon slayer are two different things. They don't trust Lu Mingfei, yet they can't control him... no wonder a conflict arose.

Caesar understood.

"Where is the Board of Directors' equipment?" Caesar looked up at Gao Mi.

Gao Mi moved the silver suitcase onto the table.

Inside were experimental weapons carefully selected by the equipment department. The most eye-catching were two bullets with the Philosopher's Stone embedded in their warheads. The bullet caliber had been adjusted so that they could be fired through Caesar's two modified Desert Eagles.

“The files say there’s intelligence support.” Caesar picked up his teacup, took a sip, and said, “I can’t even be sure if that dragon exists, how can I slay it?”

“Last night, someone was selling information about the Dragon King in the Hunter Market. The Board of Directors contacted him immediately and paid 10 times the price to have the bounty removed. This is the account the Board of Directors used to contact him.” Gao Mi took out a card and handed it to Caesar.

“Very good.” Caesar took the card, memorized the account and password on it, picked up the Dupont heavy steel lighter from the equipment box, and lit the card, along with the SS-level file folder.

A thin, sharp flame shot out from the lighter, a full seventy centimeters long. There is no lighter in the world that burns so fiercely; it's practically a lightsaber!

Caesar's face twitched, and his hair was almost burned.

He had used lighter-shaped bombs modified by the equipment department on missions before. They worked normally, but only after pulling the mechanism at the bottom would the small lighter turn into a grenade with a kill radius of more than 15 meters.

Indeed, you can't judge the behavior of mentally ill people based on experience; they never follow the usual path.

"Oh, and tell the head of the board of directors," Caesar said casually before leaving. "I have no interest in their power struggles. Slaying the dragon was just my way of proving myself, nothing more."

……

Chu Zihang, a chocolate bar dangling from his lips, sat upright at the table, typing away on his keyboard. He pressed Enter, and the data was loaded into the mathematical model he had just completed. On the map projected onto the screen in the hotel conference room, countless ripples instantly spread out, as if Chu Zihang had just sprinkled a handful of fine sand into a calm lake.

“Efficiency has improved by 5% this time.” Norma’s voice came through his earpiece. “Friendly reminder, a lady has already sent you more than a dozen messages, averaging one every 15 seconds.”

Chu Zihang was taken aback. He temporarily handed over the model calculations to Norma and then logged into the chat software.

"Senior brother, are you there?" ×18

Each message was accompanied by a cute panda knocking on the door emoji, making it seem like a panda army was attacking Chu Zihang's account.

"What do you want?" After a moment of silence, Chu Zihang asked directly.

"Are you in Beijing?" Xia Mi replied instantly.

"How did you know?" Chu Zihang frowned. When he was in the academy, he had explained some alchemical chemistry-related issues to this preparatory student and added her contact information at that time, but she shouldn't know his location.

“Modern chat software can check IP addresses. Once you arrive in Beijing and log in, your IP location will be updated accordingly,” Xia Mi replied. “This is a beta feature; you can see it by updating your client, senior.”

Chu Zihang was shocked; he realized that he had a blind spot in his confidentiality operations.

"Senior brother, can I come visit you?" Xia Mi's message popped up again.

“I have a mission. After you come to my place, I need to send you to the branch for brainwashing according to procedure,” Chu Zihang replied expressionlessly.

"Would you like to come over to my house, senior brother?" Xia Mi asked again.

"I really don't have time." Chu Zihang said patiently.

"Alright, then let's talk about it when you're free, Senior Brother." Xia Mi logged off very reluctantly.

……

The woman ran wildly along the route she had come from. Her Word of Power was a physical enhancement type, and even without activating it, her stamina and physical attributes were excellent.

In just a few seconds, she was almost at the exit.

But suddenly she heard a gust of wind, and a sharp sound piercing the air.

She immediately abandoned her escape attempt, pulled two short swords from her sleeves, and turned to defend against the sudden attack.

The woman was skilled in martial arts; even in complete darkness, she could fight multiple enemies equipped with night vision goggles by relying on her hearing. But when she turned around this time, she couldn't see the enemy's appearance.

A sharp cone made of stainless steel spun at high speed, leaving afterimages in the air, and shattered the woman's two short swords in succession.

In an instant, this expert fighter was in danger. She knew all the weaknesses of the human body and the subtle differences in sound and breathing between different attack or defense movements, but her opponent was just a small, sharp cone.

She stopped drawing her gun, because the sharp cone rested silently on her neck, a chilling sensation on her carotid artery.

Word of Power: Sword Control?

Her face was very pale, and she was somewhat confused about the situation. According to the information given by the family, Lu Mingfei's Word of Power was Time Zero, and Fingel's Word of Power was Bronze Throne.

At this moment, Lu Mingfei and Finger appeared at the end of the corner; there was no third person.

The woman suddenly realized that one of the two people in front of her possessed a second Word of Power.

She was considered one of the best among the executors, having undergone her family's experimental hybrid bloodline enhancement program. Because her physique was much stronger than that of ordinary people, even after being anesthetized on the operating table, she could vaguely hear the doctors' conversation and learn that the final stage of the experiment she underwent was to create a hybrid monarch, breaking the limits of critical bloodlines and the restrictions of a single incantation.

That's why women are the most loyal of all the executors. They know what the family is doing, that the hybrid race will inevitably come into the open in the future, and that the family wants to create the king of the hybrid race!

Chapter 106 Assassination?

"Tell me, who sent you?" Fingel spat viciously. "Dare to follow me? What's your scheme? Tell me the truth!"

Lu Mingfei stood silently beside the "fierce and menacing" Fingel.

The woman closed her eyes, appearing calm and accepting of death.

"So chaste and virtuous?" Fingel exclaimed in surprise.

Just then, Lu Mingfei pressed down on his shoulder.

Behind the two, a man in a black suit slowly walked out, a smile on his lips, his eyes fixed on Lu Mingfei. "Hello, Lu Mingfei."

In Lu Mingfei's perception, two of the three trackers were guarding the entrance and exit, while only the woman followed them down.

This person is the one at the exit, and also the only one with an S-class bloodline. His spiritual flame is stronger than Chu Zihang's, but weaker than Angers'.

The woman seemed to have been waiting for this moment. She opened her eyes and looked at the esteemed Executor. Although they were both Executors, her status was far below his. If she was the family's assassin and spy, then he was the dark shadow behind the family.

The real killer.

The "Executor" gave the woman a look, and her pupils lit up, a low chanting sound emanating from deep within her throat.

The power of the dragon pattern formed an invisible domain around her. With a loud bang, her back bulged exaggeratedly, and the twisted muscle groups resembled the roots of an ancient tree. Then came a series of loud bangs, and her wool coat and knitwear were blown to pieces. Her height increased at a visible rate, and her skin turned bronze.

Word of Power: Bronze Throne

The spike immediately began to spin, attempting to pierce the woman's body and penetrate her shoulder blade, but the head of the spike struck her bluish-black skin, only scattering shallow sparks. The woman casually caught the spike, crumpled it into a ball like a wad of paper, and tossed it away. The tiles shattered, and the iron ball became deeply embedded in the concrete.

This sharp cone was made by Lu Mingfei using a spoon from a dim sum restaurant; it can hardly be called a weapon.

“My lord, he has a second power of words.” The woman’s voice was like a deep rumble of thunder.

Lu Mingfei remained calm and placed his hand on the stainless steel handrail of the underground passage. The handrail immediately became red-hot and shiny, and a section about two meters long melted into molten iron, which floated in the air and then quickly cooled and solidified, shaping into several short swords.

The several short swords hovered in the air, then shot out simultaneously in an instant, weaving into a gleaming net of killing intent that enveloped the woman's massive body.

The woman covered her head with her hands, but suddenly sprinted forward like a human tank, charging towards Lu Mingfei and Finger. She was confident that she could withstand these seemingly light toys.

The short sword clashed with the woman, but this time there were no sparks. The gleaming blade easily pierced through the A+ grade hybrid's bronze throne defense, and several lines of blood spurted from her body.

The short swords that Lu Mingfei conjured out of thin air were all alchemical weapons.

The woman's body trembled as she collapsed to her knees, several bloody holes oozing thick, black blood. She looked at the Executor with resentment, the light in her eyes gradually fading.

The man didn't make a single move from beginning to end.

“Your companion is clearly trying to coordinate with your attack.” Lu Mingfei looked at the round-faced man with a leisurely expression, somewhat surprised.

"She was already dead when you subdued her, so it doesn't matter." The man shrugged. "The losers are eliminated, it's that simple."

"Who sent you?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"Do you think I'll answer you?" the man laughed. "You do have some secrets, and you're a troublesome fellow for your family, but I'm different. There aren't many hybrids in this world qualified to fight you, and I just happen to be one of them."

"You look confident of victory."

“There are still some risks, after all, the family has explicitly forbidden us from getting close to you.” The man leaned against the wall behind him and squinted. “But today’s opportunity is too rare. You have come to this remote place on your own initiative, losing the protection of Angers and that computer. I believe the family will understand my little adventure.”

Lu Mingfei took out his phone and found that the signal was indeed blocked.

"Moreover, when I took over this team, I found that the three of us would work together very well." The man smiled. "That's about right."

A new field has fallen from the sky.

The third person arrived at the top of the passage and activated the Word of Power: King's Servant.

A slow, heavy heartbeat suddenly came from the woman who had fallen.

She slowly rose to her feet, her eyes burning with golden flames. A violent dragon transformation began to occur throughout her body. Tiny scales grew on the surface of her body, which was maintaining the bronze throne, her joints mutated, and her fingernails turned into sharp bony claws.

At the same time, the man's "spirit" suddenly expanded, and his figure suddenly disappeared from Fingel's eyes.

Word of Power: Time Zero.

The woman's speed far exceeded that of before. She swung her sharp claws and charged towards Lu Mingfei. The sharp bone spikes tore through the concrete walls and steel handrails along the way as easily as cutting tofu. She alone formed a devastating force, like a storm of swords pressing down on Lu Mingfei. There was no room to dodge in the narrow passage. Even if Lu Mingfei activated Time Zero, he was helpless.

As the man said, this opportunity was too rare to come; the timing, location, and people were all in place.

With the King's Servants enhancing the Bronze Throne and pairing it with an assassin possessing zero time, they could kill the vast majority of hybrids in the world, but unfortunately, Lu Mingfei was one of the exceptions.