Dragon Raja: History Simulator

Chu Zihang stared blankly at the photos on the workbench between the old-fashioned cameras and the soft bed. Some of the photos had already been developed, while others had not. Every single one of them was a picture of him and his mother, Su Xiaoyan.

At that time, his mother's face was wrinkle-free and she was in her prime, while Chu Zihang, who had a blank expression, had an extremely cute baby face.

He almost choked up, his voice barely audible as he whispered "Dad."

At first, he thought his father was irresponsible. After the rainy night, he thought his father didn't want to bring danger to them. But he never imagined that Chu Tianjiao was actually watching him grow up in the dark and unknown corner.

He flipped through the photos one by one, repeating the process over and over again, as if conversing with his father, a stranger yet familiar, across time.

Wang Anzhi didn't even glance at the miscellaneous items, nor at the pistol and bullets with tiny alchemical patterns engraved on them that were clearly illegal and prohibited in China and were placed on the corner of the table. Instead, he went straight to the pieces of paper hanging in front of his bed, strung together by dangerous red threads. Each piece of paper contained a record.

In 54 AD, Liu Xiu launched a campaign against Shu, and the Bronze City vanished. For the next 1900 years, the King of Bronze and Fire disappeared without a trace.

……

In 452, Attila the Great, King of the Earth and Mountains, conquered Rome, marking the first recorded collective annihilation of the Secret Society. —A year later, the Dragon King was confirmed dead.

……

On August 30, 1900, during the "Summer Mourning," the Dragon King attacked Kassel College, and the only survivor was Hilbert Jean Angers. —This raises a big question mark.

On June 30, 1908, the Tunguska event occurred, suspected to be a war of immense scale. — A year later, the Secret Society formally split, with the "Doomsday Faction" being formed.

In 1992, on a snowy plain in Russia, the Secret Service confirmed the capture of a juvenile dinosaur, which subsequently disappeared without a trace. —This is marked with a large cross.

On November 7, 2002, a Dragon-level life form was confirmed to have revived in the Greenland Sea. The entire executive department of Kassel College was wiped out, with only one and a half survivors. —One year later, the college's secretary, EVA, was born.

On April 30, 2005, Chu Tianjiao, an S-level agent of the Secret Service, captured the "Black King's Egg." —The notes here are very hastily written, but one can imagine the author's joy, pride, and beaming expression.

The paper ends here.

The further back in timeline we go, the more questions arise, with a single statement becoming clearer as we move forward, and even photographs serving as evidence.

Chu Zihang had somehow walked up behind Wang Anzhi and also saw the last piece of paper. He muttered "Black King's Egg" to himself, realizing that this was what Odin had been looking for that night. Then, in a hoarse voice, he spoke.

"My father passed away on that day."

Xia Mi glanced at the note, then at the Odin mark on Chu Zihang's body, and instinctively shrank back, hiding behind Wang Anzhi. "President Chu, please accept my condolences."

At this moment, Chen Motong walked over carrying a box with the half-decayed World Tree symbol clearly visible on it. "Good news, Uncle Chu is from Kassel College. My A-level student ID can't even open this weapon box."

“But there’s no record of such an S-level specialist in the academy’s records.” Chu Zihang’s voice was soft but also angry. “The principal doesn’t remember him either.”

"This is the bad news," Chen Motong said helplessly, spreading his hands. "The enemy is too powerful; it's beyond what we students can handle."

Chu Zihang was silent for a moment, then nodded.

Xia Mi felt no empathy. On the contrary, looking at the fates of the "Dragon Kings" on the slips of paper, her expression became somewhat unnatural. No one knew the power of the Dragon Kings better than her, but the fact that her brothers had all died tragically made her tremble with fear.

What exactly happened during her four hundred years of slumber?

Chapter 20 The Victims on the Road to Slaying Dragons

At this moment, she saw her senior brother Wang Anzhi staring intently at a mirror placed directly in front of them. In the mirror, Odin was riding an eight-legged steed, seemingly about to cross the boundary between reality and illusion.

Meanwhile, Chu Zihang and Chen Motong were still discussing how the academy would handle the situation, completely unaware of the impending danger.

"Junior Sister, it's up to you now." Wang Anzhi gently stroked Xia Mi's warm, pure black hair. Despite the danger that was right in front of him and the fact that there was no safe place around him, he was not nervous at all.

The ancients said, "Even if Mount Tai collapses before you, you will not change your expression; even if a deer runs past on your left, you will not blink." This must be just like that!

However, Xia Mi had no mind to deal with her senior brother's intermittent neuroticism as she usually did.

She glanced around, but there was nothing that the Dragon King would find convenient. The small pistol on the table was not even as handy as a knife to her.

But this meant nothing to her. She was the Queen of the Earth and the Mountains, the "eye" that could see all things in the world, the weakest point in the material world. Whether she had weapons or not was unimportant to her.

So she casually grabbed a piece of paper from the side and tossed it away.

The paper shattered into pieces the instant it touched the mirror, and the mirror also broke into pieces, with fragments scattered all over the floor. The immense force generated at the moment of contact knocked over the pistol on the nearby table, creating the scene of the mirror being shattered by the pistol.

So timely.

Odin, still running in the mirror, continues to lunge forward, seemingly trying to break free of his restraints before the mirror shatters.

However, Xia Mi breathed a sigh of relief and felt at ease.

She had realized that this was not her brother in person, but a puppet of his, used to guard the Nibelungen that he had left here.

He always liked to play tricks like this, but a puppet is a puppet. Xia Mi could even guarantee that this puppet would not transmit any information, while she could still conceal her identity and continue to lie low "in the dark".

Then she glanced at Wang Anzhi with a relaxed expression. This senior brother had a smile on his lips, neither happy nor sad.

He felt neither fear because Odin was about to arrive, nor unease because his disguise had just been exposed; it was as if everything was under his control.

This made Xia Mi feel puzzled; she didn't understand where his confidence came from.

Was it that immense spiritual power? But that power could only prevent her from peering into his memories and could not protect his fragile body. In the eyes of the King of Earth and Mountains, who possessed the "strongest power," there was no barrier in this world that could not be breached.

It's impossible that the ancient White King really died and came back to life, right?

She had a premonition that the time for this senior to "confront" her was not far off.

She patted Wang Anzhi's shoulder, who was looking a little dazed, and said with a timid expression, "Senior brother, I accidentally broke the mirror."

Without the "medium," even if the Dragon King wanted to reposition and reopen Nibelungen, it wouldn't be an easy task, let alone for a puppet.

Among the four monarchs, the one who truly possesses the power to open the Nibelungen at will is Hela, the goddess of death formed by the fusion of her and her brother Fenrir. She has the authority to open all Nibelungen in the world, while Odin does not have this authority.

In mythology, Nibelungen is known as the land of the dead.

but……

Xia Mi secretly glanced at Chu Zihang. He had Odin's mark on him, which undoubtedly gave him a key to the Nibelungen, but at the same time, it also provided Odin with a natural coordinate.

Wang Anzhi didn't notice Xia Mi's little movements when she lowered her head, and looked at Chu Zihang and Chen Motong who had turned their heads with a guilty look.

"It was because I didn't notice that there was a pistol next to the table that my junior sister accidentally bumped into the table and broke the mirror."

At this moment, Chu Zihang and Chen Motong turned their heads and saw the debris all over the ground.

Chen Motong glanced at the Lionheart President beside him. He wasn't angry about it; he should have been.

She breathed a sigh of relief, then noticed a handgun lying among the shards of mirror on the floor, and couldn't help but mutter, "You guys are so careless."

"It was our first time on a mission, and we lacked experience," Xia Mi said, bowing her head and appearing very sincere in her apology.

The same applies to Wang Anzhi.

Only Chu Zihang stared intently at the shards of glass on the ground, his dazzling golden eyes unable to be concealed even by his black contact lenses.

He wasn't sure if it was just his imagination, but he felt like he saw Odin's figure running towards him through those lenses.

That was his nemesis, and he might spend his entire life searching for him.

During this process, the deity might not even deign to glance at him, even though he had never felt the great deity appear right beside him like this before.

"Alright, there's nothing else worth finding here. Let the academy handle it."

Looking at the mess on the ground, Chen Motong felt a chill run down her spine and could only suggest, "Let's go back!"

……

Meanwhile, inside the Regent Hotel, Professor Guderian's door was opened once again, by Ye Sheng and Jiu Deyaji.

"Professor, is there something you need?"

Ye Sheng asked first.

"Your real operation is about to begin," Professor Guderian said after a long silence. "Operation Kuimen has begun."

Operation Kuimen is an expedition organized by the Academy to explore the Bronze City, located in the Three Gorges area.

For some reason, the local orthodox faction was not very enthusiastic about this operation, and even somewhat evaded it, almost handing over this opportunity to explore the dragon's legacy to the Kassel College.

"Have the academy and the orthodox school reached an agreement?" Ye Sheng couldn't help but ask.

Although the Orthodox were not particularly enthusiastic about exploring Bronze City, they attached great importance to the Three Gorges Dam itself. As a result, negotiations between the Secret Society and the Orthodox were almost non-stop after Bronze City was discovered.

He and Shudeya came here not just for recruitment matters, but more to participate in this operation.

"We've almost reached an agreement. The orthodox authorities prohibit us from carrying weapons of mass destruction or other weapons that could damage the Three Gorges Dam itself. They only allow us to carry alchemical weapons with special attack effects, and they will conduct inspections."

Ye Sheng nodded, not surprised at all; even he didn't think there was anything wrong with doing so.

"So, are Aki and I going to Professor Mans's place next?"

Professor Mans is in charge of Operation Kuimen and is also responsible for negotiating with the orthodox forces.

Professor Guderian nodded and pointed to the black box beside him, which was his "educational tool" for Wang Anzhi and Xia Mi's entrance training—the legendary Durandal, one of the three great holy swords of Europe.

"Bring that to Mans too!"

Chapter 21 Chaotic Situation

2009 5 Month 5 Day.

Six days had passed since Chu Tianjiao's basement was discovered, and Chen Motong and Chu Zihang informed the main campus of Kassel College of what they had seen and heard.

It was impossible for them to keep it a secret. It involved a Secret Service S-class agent, the Black King's resurgence, the Dragon King's attack, and many other factors. As soon as the news reached the academy headquarters, it caused a huge uproar.

The reason is simple: this is not just the ramblings of a few students, but there is real evidence—the weapon case made exclusively for Chu Tianjiao by the main campus of Kassel College is the best proof of this incident.

As Wang Anzhi had predicted, this mess successfully threw the entire world into chaos.

As someone directly involved in the operation, Wang Anzhi was naturally included in the files of all those who had designs on him, but he simply didn't care.

……

Portofino, Italy.

Inside a white building nestled among the mountains.

"Is he a legitimate person?"

Frost Gattuso looked at the neatly folded document in his hand, which contained a photograph of Wang Anzhi, taken during his preparatory class. The person in the photograph was meticulous.

But this wasn't Frost's main concern. What displeased him most was that, apart from some trivial matters, there wasn't even any record of his Word of Power. This made Frost, who always considered himself the controller of the Secret Society and the acting head of the Gattuso family, quite embarrassed.

"Why is the information above so unclear? Where is Norma from the academy? And isn't he a student in the preparatory class? Are the main campus of the academy so ignorant about their own students?"

Norma, the "secretary" of the main campus of Kassel College, is the most powerful known artificial intelligence in the world. She is the product of the accidental intersection of two almost parallel lines: alchemy and human technology. This would have seemed unbelievable in the past hundred years, but in this era, it seems to have become a possibility.

That's why Frost never imagined that someone would appear so "thin" in the school's main records.