Dragon Clan: My Dad is Ange

Lu Mingfei covered his mouth and almost screamed, but poverty still limited his imagination.

"You are absolutely right."

Selina suddenly activated her armor, and liquid metal instantly covered her entire body.

She swung her arm, and a blade of light shot out from her wrist, leaving a burning trail in the air.

"We are killing machines designed specifically to slay dragons." Her voice, cold and mechanical, emanated from her armor. "We are specifically designed to slay the four great monarchs and the legendary supreme Dragon Emperor!"

"To deal with that ancient being, all we can use is our own flesh and blood!"

Lu Mingfei took a half step back, overwhelmed by the murderous aura that was blowing towards him. The oppressive feeling emanating from this armor was even greater than that of Team 001.

"I've seen everything I need to see. Now I'll explain to you why we prepared all this."

Chapter 255 Lonely Twins

Ye Fan straightened his clothes and looked at Lu Mingfei seriously.

"The Dark King Nidhogg will awaken in five years."

Ye Fan suddenly said in a heavy voice, "With the four great monarchs and the deadpool army spread all over the world, humanity needs such power."

Lu Mingfei thought of the "war" mentioned by the boy in his dream, and the war mentioned by Ye Fan, and suddenly understood something: "So the Heavenly Court is..."

"For the survival of the species." Ye Fan interrupted him. "Justice? Morality? These are luxuries in the face of extinction crisis."

"So... these armored warriors are all fighting against the dragon clan?" Lu Mingfei stared at the black figures fighting on the training ground, his pale face reflected in the glass.

Ye Fan pressed the control panel, the elevator rose rapidly, and the three of them returned to Ye Fan's office.

The panoramic glass becomes opaque, and the office regains its privacy.

"Sit down and talk."

He gestured for Lu Mingfei to sit on the leather sofa, while he leaned on the edge of the desk.

"First of all, you have to understand that we are not fighting ordinary monsters." Ye Fan's pupils glowed with the color of molten gold, "but an intelligent race that has created civilization, the oldest existence among them -"

"Nidhogg the Dark King."

Selina suddenly answered, her silver hair fluttering slightly in the air conditioning.

She took out a bronze compass and placed it on the coffee table. The surface of the compass was engraved with dragon characters.

That was the scroll used by humans in ancient times to record Nidhogg's heroic deeds.

Lu Mingfei stared at the ferocious totem at the center of the compass: a black dragon entwined around the World Tree, venom dripping from its fangs. "The evil dragon from Norse mythology that gnaws at tree roots?"

"That's history tampered with by humans."

Ye Fan's fingernails scratched the compass, and a three-dimensional projection suddenly appeared on the bronze surface.

Above the treetops hovered the shadow of a dragon that blocked out the sun and sky, with countless little dragons submitting under its wings.

"The true Black King is the ancestor of the dragon race. He can raise mountains and reverse the flow of rivers with just his thoughts."

The projection changes, showing the tragic scene of the White King being nailed to the bronze pillar.

"His only mistake was creating the White King, who was as powerful as himself." Ye Fan's voice carried a certain ancient rhythm. "When the White King led one-third of the dragon clan in rebellion, the Black King used seven days and seven nights to bring down the punishment of annihilation."

Lu Mingfei found his hands trembling. The images of dragons fighting in the projections were so real that he could almost hear the crisp sound of dragon bones breaking.

"After the war, the Black King created four great monarchs." Ye Fan turned the compass, and four shadows rose up. "Bronze and Fire, Earth and Mountain, Ocean and Water, Sky and Wind. Each throne is shared by twins."

The dragon shadow in the projection suddenly came to life, showing the scene of Norton and Constantine embracing and burning themselves.

"Wait!" Lu Mingfei leaned back suddenly, "They... are brothers?"

"Yes, all monarchs are twins." Ye Fan pressed his trembling shoulders, "One possesses the spirit of destruction, and the other possesses an immortal body. Only by devouring each other can they become complete."

He pointed to the shadows of the four great monarchs on the compass. They were eight distinct beings:

"Brothers devoured their elder brothers, elder brothers killed their younger brothers, and sisters hacked their elder brothers to pieces. Almost every form of killing you can imagine is likely to happen to them."

"Their blood relationship is purer than that of any pair of twins, but their fate can only be to fight and devour each other."

Ye Fan looked a little puzzled, and didn't even want to look into Lu Mingfei's eyes.

He had to let Lu Mingfei know the cruelty of this reality. Although he had a solution long ago and had already started planning, Lu Mingfei had to understand the cruelty of these things!

Just feel the bitterness of separation, Xiao Mingfei. The more intense the pain at that time, the happier the joy of reunion will be.

"Only then can they become complete." Selina sneered. "Isn't it ironic? The Black King fears the emergence of another White King, so he lets his descendants kill each other."

"Of course there is also a saying that the Black King hopes that his children will not be as lonely as he is." Ye Fan added.

Lu Mingfei's stomach twisted. The images of dragons cannibalizing each other in the projections reminded him of the mantis mating videos from high school biology class.

"Now you understand why we need heavenly soldiers?"

Ye Fan turned off the projection, and the compass returned to its rusty appearance. "Any awakened monarch can make Tokyo or New York disappear from the map."

"The Immortal Legion is specifically used to deal with the Four Lords and the Black King, while the other ordinary heavenly soldiers are used to deal with the dragons sleeping around the world and their deadly subordinates."

"This is the entire layout of Heaven now." Ye Fan said.

"The mixed-blood world today is divided into three factions." Ye Fan held up three fingers. "The conservative faction represented by the secret party, the opportunistic faction headed by the Gattuso family, and..."

He smiled and pointed at his feet, "We are the kind of rebels ready to overturn the table."

Suddenly there was a deafening roar outside the window.

Lu Mingfei rushed to the window and saw a mushroom cloud rising from the training ground. An unharmed figure in armor walked out of the flames.

"Look carefully, Mingfei."

Ye Fan's voice was particularly clear in the aftermath of the explosion. "This is not a war between good and evil, but a life-and-death struggle between two races for the right to survive."

Ye Fan stretched out his hand and waved it, directly mobilizing the power of space and stealing a bullet from the battlefield into his own hands.

The bullets were still steaming, adding a hint of gunpowder to the office, which was already filled with the aroma of incense.

Selina took the shell from Ye Fan and then threw it to Lu Mingfei.

Lu Mingfei quickly spread his hands and caught the bullet shell in his palms. He could still feel the lingering heat from it.

"This is war, a battlefield where iron and fire intertwine!"

"Think of the world after the Black King awakens." Her golden eyes burned in the shadows. "Think about whether you would be willing to kneel down and be a slave."

Lu Mingfei clenched the shell tightly, and the residual heat from the metal edge made his palm extremely hot.

They returned to the office, where the setting sun tinted the room orange. Lu Mingfei stood by the window, watching the battle on the training ground below, his heart in turmoil.

"I understand your discomfort." Ye Fan handed him a document, "but some sacrifices are necessary. The deaths of those people in the casino resulted in the rescue of twenty-seven abducted children."

Lu Mingfei flipped through the files and saw photos of children reunited with their families. The smile on one of the girls' face, as she hugged a rescuer, made his chest tighten.

"Heaven walks in a gray area," Selina said softly, "We bear our sins so that more people can live in the sunshine."

Lu Mingfei sighed and closed the file. "I understand. It's just... this decision is too heavy."

Ye Fan patted his shoulder: "That's why we need like-minded people to share the responsibility. You still have a lot of time to think about it. Just leave the current matters to me, this world."

"You are too lenient to your brother. Caesar and the others don't treat him that way." Selina poked Ye Fan's head with amusement.

"That guy is the same age as me. How can you expect me to be nice to him?"

Ye Fan shrugged. Caesar was a few months older than him physically. He couldn't treat him as his younger brother!

Lu Mingfei looked towards the distant sea level, thinking of the smiling faces of the children in the mountains and the eager eyes in the Juyi Building.

Perhaps extreme measures are indeed necessary, and perhaps in the face of doomsday, morality needs to be redefined.

Chapter 256 I forgot to take the exam!

The midsummer sun poured into the office through the floor-to-ceiling windows. Ye Fan was standing in front of a global map, drawing a red line with his finger between Tokyo Bay and New York Harbor.

Selina stood aside, her silver hair shining coldly in the sunlight, and the tablet in her hand displayed a heat map of global dragon activities.

"The Black King's awakening will trigger a global earthquake. We must deploy buffer devices in the Pacific Rim seismic belt in advance."

Ye Fan's finger stopped near Hawaii, "This will be the first line of defense--"

His satellite phone suddenly rang. The caller ID read: Hilbert Jean Angers.

Ye Fan raised his eyebrows. This father and principal rarely disturbed him when he was dealing with the affairs of the Heavenly Court.

After pressing the answer button, Ange's elegant yet playful voice came: "My dear son and S-level student, do you remember what day it is today?"

"Being called son by an old man over 130 years old would really distress me, old thing." Ye Fan said coldly.

"Oh, that really makes me sad. Let's change the subject. For example, what day is today?" Ange's voice obviously did not become lost because of Ye Fan's words.

If Angers had lived for more than 130 years and become depressed because of a few words, then his life would have been in vain.

Not to mention, this was just a joke from my beloved son.

Ye Fan frowned and thought. Recently, the Heavenly Court has launched actions on three continents at the same time. He really can't remember what's special about today.

"June 6th? The first day of China's East China Sea exercises?"

"It's the first day of final exam week at Kassel College." Ange's voice was filled with laughter.

"The reason you were absent last semester was because the Heavenly Court was established. I helped you block it. If you are absent again this semester, you will be classmates with Finger."

The red pen in Ye Fan's hand fell to the ground with a click.

He, the Lord of Heaven, an existence that could stand shoulder to shoulder with the first generation, was almost held back because of skipping the exam?

"Damn it!" Ye Fan covered his forehead, "I'll go back right away."

"Haha, you have to be quick. Although I am the principal, you know Schneider's temper. At this time, I can't control him." Angé laughed.

"Then you are such a failure as a principal. You should implement some kind of centralized system."

Ye Fan finished his joke and hung up the phone. Selina was already laughing so hard that her shoulders were shaking:

"Do you need me to prepare a special plane, Lord Tiandi?"

"No need." Ye Fan gritted his teeth and tore open a space crack. "Tell Lu Mingfei that I'm going to take the damn final exam!"

"If he wants to stay in the Heavenly Palace to visit, he can stay a little longer. If not, he can go back and do his homework."