Dragon Raja: Lu Mingfei Returns from the Elden Ring

"Damn it, it really is you!" Caesar cursed as he released his restraints. "What are you doing here?"

Chu Zihang silently moved the iron plate away. He had taken a class with the head of the Alchemy and Mechanical Engineering Department, that balding, pot-bellied old man—was his first love actually a love triangle?

You really can't judge a book by its cover.

"Your Excellency Chairman, you've worked hard. I was just caught off guard here." Fingel said with a smile. "By the way, have you seen Lu Mingfei? I have a package for him."

Caesar and Chu Zihang exchanged glances. The earthquake in the subway tunnel had stopped, which most likely meant that Lu Mingfei had successfully dealt with Fenrir's counterattack, but they couldn't be sure.

"Lu Mingfei is at the deepest part of the tunnel. What did you send him?" Caesar asked.

“A few weapons.” Fingel pushed out a box from the corner. “It looks like Lu Mingfei bought them.”

Chu Zihang searched the box for a while, found the hidden clasp, and opened the box, revealing the seven alchemical weapons to the air once again.

“This is an alchemical weapon.” Chu Zihang drew an eight-sided Han sword and looked at Caesar.

Without hesitation, Caesar drew one of the Kramer swords. The blade gleamed with a dark light, and the inscriptions in two languages ​​included Latin, which Caesar was most familiar with.

“Mine is ‘Greed,’ and yours is ‘Pride.’ This set of swords should be named after the seven deadly sins,” Caesar said.

"Your Excellency, I think you should use 'lust' instead," Fingel flattered sincerely. "Just your pectoral muscles alone could be on a magazine cover!"

Caesar frowned. "You still read those kinds of magazines?"

“As journalists, we all know a little bit about this,” Fingel said modestly.

"If a weapon is named after a crime, it can only be a weapon that corresponds to the crime committed by the enemy," Chu Zihang said calmly.

“Then lust becomes even more suspicious.” Fingel stroked his chin. “Why would you resist if the enemy used sex to seduce you?”

"Stop!" Caesar was unwilling to discuss it any further. "Fingal, you retreat immediately and notify the Executive Department to send reinforcements with heavy weapons. Chu Zihang and I will take the weapons and go back to find Lu Mingfei."

"Yes, Your Excellency!" Fingel stood at attention and saluted.

"No need." At this moment, Lu Mingfei's voice rang out, "Let's go, the matter is resolved."

Caesar immediately pinpointed the direction of the sound, but the Kamaitachi brought back no breathing, heartbeat, or friction sounds; it was as if the sound came from nothingness.

Chapter 143 Invitation

Lu Mingfei's voice seemed to come from very close by, but it was a while before his figure appeared at the other end of the track.

His armor had disappeared, and he was now wearing a brand-new Executive Department uniform, except that it did not bear the insignia of the Half-Decaied World Tree.

As they drew closer, Caesar and Chu Zihang immediately assumed a tense fighting stance, wielding greed and arrogance as their weapons.

The reason was that Lu Mingfei was carrying a dragon, a living dragon. The Secret Party had captured a third-generation red dragon cub, which had been soaked in formalin solution for years and kept in the archives as a teaching aid, experimental material, and observation subject. Countless professors and senior students had used it to publish papers.

"Is that a dragon?" Caesar asked.

“This is Fenrir, the one you’ve met before,” Lu Mingfei said calmly. “It’s no longer a threat.”

"Holy crap, a living dragon!" Fingel was the first to approach, touching Fenrir's scales and tugging at its wings. "This thing could sell for at least 10 billion, no, 100 billion, right?"

Caesar and Chu Zihang watched Fingel's actions in silence, without stepping forward. Lu Mingfei said there was no threat, perhaps meaning that this dragon still had the strength of a next-generation species.

Fenrir disliked the clumsy Germanic man very much. It opened its mouth and, like a burp, spat out a string of flames.

Fingel was caught off guard and took a solid hit to the face. He fell backward to the ground, clutching his face and howling in pain.

Fenrir wanted to give chase, but it could no longer breathe fire; only a wisp of smoke emerged from its mouth. However, it never tried to escape from Lu Mingfei's grasp; it just kept baring its teeth.

Lu Mingfei slapped it across the face, then made a muzzle out of metal from the ground. Fenrir whimpered for a long time before finally giving in and lowering its head, no longer struggling.

Caesar and Chu Zihang then believed that Fenrir had completely lost its power; the flames it had just spat out were not even as strong as the lighter that Caesar's equipment department had modified.

Fingel touched his eyebrows and found that his eyelashes and eyebrows were both burned. "Junior brother, does this count as a work injury?"

"You can just ask Su Enxi to submit the application," Lu Mingfei said, not particularly concerned.

Caesar and Chu Zihang seemed thoughtful. They had never heard of a financial specialist named Su Enxi in the executive department, and Fingel was asking Lu Mingfei for permission... Had Angers already sidelined Schneider? Had Lu Mingfei become the crown prince of Kassel College?

But on second thought, if someone like Lu Mingfei appeared in their situation and position in Angers, it wouldn't be unreasonable to immediately relinquish the position of principal.

“Let’s leave. The problem here is solved,” Lu Mingfei said.

“As a member of the squad, I need to report any potentially necessary intelligence to you.” Caesar coughed. “There are many members of the Board of Trustees and the Gattuso family in this branch, so you’d better be prepared.”

“You seem to be from the Gattuso family too,” Fingel said, raising his hand.

"Don't think of the Gattuso family as just one family; its power is far greater than it appears," Caesar shrugged. "Even small families have factional struggles. Do you really think the Gattuso family is a monolithic entity?"

“I understand.” Fingel nodded. “You are the leader of the princeling faction, but there are other heirs or high-ranking family factions.”

"In short, Lu Mingfei doesn't want to be questioned by the board of directors again, so he'd better think of his explanation before going out." Caesar didn't say much about the family issue; it wasn't his family. The reason he didn't change his surname to Gulweg was because he considered the Gattuso family as one of the goals he was determined to conquer in his life.

The list of targets was extensive, with Nono and the Gattuso family ranking high on the list. Tonight, he also crossed two things off the list: Lu Mingfei and the position of principal of Kassel College.

"Don't worry, someone will handle it." Lu Mingfei didn't think too much about it. In his opinion, the Angers forces and the Su Enxi group were used to handle similar incidents, while the board of directors were used to deal with the infiltration of the mixed-race Dragon King forces.

“We have four wounded soldiers. They may need stretchers for long-distance transport. Their physical condition is very bad.” Chu Zihang found Gao Mi, Wan Boqian, Zhao Menghua and Chen Wenwen unconscious in a corner.

“It’s okay, there’s a subway waiting for us not far ahead,” Lu Mingfei said.

After taking control of Nibelungen, he immediately communicated with Su Enxi and received information about support.

The subway actually stopped very close together. After the group boarded, the driverless subway headed towards the Nibelungen exit. They would stop at a subway station that was closed for maintenance, where the executives would meet them.

……

Upon arrival, the people who met them were actually specialists from the academy headquarters, and even the armed forces deployed in the subway station were all from the academy.

In addition, Gattuso's Percy was also present.

Medical personnel immediately put the injured and unconscious people into ambulances, while the rest were taken to the empty station hall.

“Young Master.” Percy stepped forward and draped a trench coat over Caesar’s shoulders.

"Percy, you're actually in China." Caesar frowned slightly. "So the Board of Trustees' mission is family-run, right?"

“Young master, please come with me to a safe place first. Your health is the most important thing,” Percy said, bowing.

"I'm afraid that wouldn't comply with the Executive Department's regulations," Caesar said lazily, waving his hand.

“There were many irregularities in this incident, and your health is the most important thing,” Percy said. “Your family has much better medical resources than the college.”

“I think Mr. Percy is a bit too confident, and Caesar looks quite energetic!” The old man in the black suit stepped in, his posture upright and his voice cheerful. “Let’s have our academy’s medical specialists give the dragon-slaying heroes a check-up.”

“Principal Angers.” Passy nodded in respect.

“I haven’t received any notification. Are you here to pick up Caesar as the secretary of the Board of Trustees or as Frost’s secretary?” Angers asked with a faint smile.

"In his capacity as Caesar's secretary," Percy replied neither servilely nor arrogantly.

“Oh, my student is so lucky to have such an excellent subordinate as you.” Angers patted Caesar on the shoulder. “Don’t you agree, Caesar?”

“Go back,” Caesar said to Percy.

"But……"

"Do you expect me to investigate here for your secret manipulation and control of me?" Caesar said angrily.

“Then I’ll take my leave now, young master.” Percy lowered his head. “If you need anything, please contact me anytime.”

Percy led a third of the people in the station hall away.

Only Angers and the dragon-slaying team remain here.

“Headmaster, what brings you here?” Fingel asked curiously. “I thought you should be in Paris right now.”

“Haha, just at the invitation of an old friend,” Angers smiled. “Get in the car with me.”

"Aren't we going to the branch office?" Chu Zihang asked.

“Two beautiful ladies invited us to dinner, and it was impossible to refuse,” Angers said.

Chapter 144 The Banquet

Caesar and Chu Zihang were settled in a guest room, a villa hidden on an artificial island.

The artificial lake divides each building in the villa area. The greenery and landscape of the lake and islands have been ingeniously designed. Looking out from the floor-to-ceiling windows of the guest rooms, the stone revetment outlines the shoreline, complemented by natural vegetation, forming a harmonious transition between soft and hard landscapes. The lake water even has a winding and meandering beauty.

"Your poet said, 'In the new chill, wine taps on the window in the rain,' is that what it is?" Caesar sat in his rose chair, admiring the rainy scenery outside, swirling a glass of chilled vintage champagne in his hand. The full line of the poem is, "In the new chill, wine taps on the window in the rain, lingering fragrance wafts with autumnal mood," expressing the poet's bitter longing, which is seriously at odds with Caesar's artistic style.

If Fingel were here, he might complain that Caesar's burly physique and the temperament of a thug in a suit are more suited to the heroic style of "drinking wine and eating pork shoulder, crossing the river in wind and rain." But here is only Chu Zihang, and Chu Zihang will only explain Caesar to him with the rigor of a Chinese teacher.

"The new cold is early autumn, the middle of the wine is drunkenness, only rainy days are correct."

Chu Zihang then said in a low voice, "There are no more students from the academy in this building."

“After we got into the principal’s car, we, including the wounded, were taken into custody.” Caesar was not particularly nervous. “Lu Mingfei left Fenrir on the subway, and I guess it will be taken into custody at the next station as well.”

“Don’t you find it strange? The relationship between the college, the board of directors, and Lu Mingfei is very strange… I just connected to Norma through the computer in the guest room,” Chu Zihang said. “Norma refuses to provide any information.”

"Since the principal is here, let's treat this as a regular banquet." Caesar put down his wine glass, stood up and straightened his suit. Less than half a minute later, the villa's butler knocked on the guest room door.

"Distinguished guests, the dinner is about to begin."

……

Caesar and Chu Zihang walked through the quiet corridor, and the butler stopped behind them.

Dressed in formal attire provided by the villa's owner, they arrived at the dining room entrance at the end of the corridor. This door was different from the surrounding decor. The corridor walls were made of wood-grain composite panels, but the door looked as if it had been taken from another building and stuffed into the modern minimalist villa.

The tall, fan-shaped door panel appears to be carved from solid wood, exuding a grand and imposing presence. The surface, crafted using some unknown technique, features intricate tree-like patterns that flow smoothly and are full of life. The interplay of shadows and highlights emanates a rustic yet warm aura, inexplicably giving the impression that it is alive.

Caesar and Chu Zihang each pushed one side of the door, and with a heavy turning sound, the door slowly opened.

Unbeknownst to them, behind them, the well-informed butler stared in astonishment down the corridor. Thick fog, as if drifting from a distant lake, completely enveloped the restaurant and its guests, silencing them completely, as if the fog had swallowed them whole.

He was ordered by Miss Su to organize tonight's banquet, but apart from providing clothes and showing the way to the guests, he did nothing else. He even felt like a security guard rather than a butler.

However, Miss Su's order must be correct.

The old butler stood at the restaurant exit, waiting for the banquet to end so he could provide bathing and other services to the tired guests.

……

The interior space was far larger than the two had imagined. The first thing that caught their eye was the towering dome, covered with a grid of recessed coffered ceilings. The Gattuso family admired ancient Roman civilization, and Caesar was very familiar with this architectural style, similar to the Pantheon of ancient Rome. Wall lamps and candles mingled, casting a soft, warm light into every corner. The walls of the hall were adorned with many gilded pillars, but the niches between the pillars and the pedestals of the statues were empty.

In the center of the restaurant, a huge, long dining table occupied the central position. The tabletop was made of meticulously carved oak, smooth as a mirror. An elaborate and gorgeous tablecloth was laid on the table, with long tassels hanging from the edges, embroidered with tree-shaped patterns, similar to those on the knights summoned by Lu Mingfei.

The tableware was a complete set of exquisite silverware, from knives and forks to bowls and plates, each piece gleaming brilliantly in the candlelight.