Dragon Raja 5; Chapter 387: For Your Majesty (202)

Dragon Raja 5

At the very center of the matrix was a huge circular pool of mercury. All the mercury in the matrix flowed in and out of this pool. Whether the matrix itself generated heat or the pool was heated by special equipment, it appeared to be gently boiling, bubbling slightly. A rusty metal bridge spanned the mercury pool, covered with ghastly mercury stains, resembling a shipwreck submerged at sea for decades. The bridge was likely constructed of a highly corrosion-resistant metal, yet it too had succumbed to the relentless erosion of mercury over the years.

Lu Lincheng pushed the wheelchair to the center of the metal bridge. “Start the elevator!”

A rumbling sound came from beneath the bridge, and something enormous rose from the mercury pool—four broken bronze pillars, just like the ones Lu Mingfei had seen in “Takamagahara.” They were undoubtedly relics from a dragon-fed city; despite being submerged in mercury for so long, they showed no signs of rust. totems. Each was supported by a crimson-gold chain, suspending a pale humanoid figure in the center pillar. A twisted, dark-gold spear was impaled in the figure’s chest.

He had been immersed in the mercury pool for an unknown amount of time, and the mercury had seeped deep into his skin, giving him an eerie grayish-white color, as if he had been carved from limestone.

Mercury streamed down his face, revealing a childlike face. At that moment, Lu Mingfei felt as if he were being torn apart by pain, wanting to wail but unable to cry.

Countless times in his deepest dreams he had seen similar scenes: an abandoned church, a seemingly endless, dark corridor. In the deepest part of the church, he saw a pale little devil nailed to a cross by a golden spear, his posture resembling the crucified Jesus. He seemed to be dead, yet also as if he had slept for a thousand years. But when Lu Mingfei stood at the foot of the cross, he opened his eyes, smiled, and said, “Brother, you’ve finally come to save me.”

Lu Mingfei had already guessed what was hidden in the mercury pool at the center of the matrix. Each chain matrix required a high-ranking dragon similar to the array master, and this Nibelungen was actually constructed by his will.

But he didn’t expect it to be Lu Mingze.

“Now you know why the committee members were shocked when you described what that demon looked like, right?” Lu Lincheng said softly, “But you shouldn’t have seen him.”

Lu Mingfei stared blankly at the little devil; this was their first meeting outside the illusion. He waited for the little devil to slowly raise his head and give him a strange smile, but the child didn’t. He hung there alone, head bowed.

“No…no…no! No! No!” Lu Mingfei covered his face with his hands and roared in pain.

He didn’t know how to face all of this; he simply couldn’t bear to look. “He was captured on the Sino-Russian border, and many people were killed in the process,” Lu Lincheng said softly. “He seemed to have been walking along the Trans-Siberian Railway, trying to get to China.”

Under the lamplight at home, the father and son sat facing each other, and Giovanni was not even allowed to know these things.

Lu Mingfei remained silent, trembling. He had been trembling like this ever since he saw Lu Mingze.

“Remember when I told you that the Dragon King might have escaped from Black Swan Harbor? He’s the one believed to be the Dragon King’s child. Someone sold this information to the Secret Society through clandestine channels, and of course, the Secret Society couldn’t stand idly by. We mobilized almost all of our elites, some from Cassel College, others with gray-area identities. It was an extremely brutal battle. He was unlike any dragon we’d ever encountered; he was incredibly versatile, cunning, and almost human-like. He wasn’t as powerful as Norton or Fenrir, but with just a black military dagger, he killed hundreds of A-rank and S-rank Secret Society members along the way.” As the mission neared utter failure, the highest command issued a clearing order. This meant they would deploy their most powerful weapons at the time to finish off the dragon, even at the cost of sacrificing members nearby of the Secret Society. Not nuclear weapons or missiles; the weapon was a person, someone capable of wielding the Word of Power ‘Rhine,’ a power he could only use once in his life, with an effect similar to a nuclear explosion. He himself would be destroyed in that explosion. I was nearby. I was prepared to sacrifice myself, so I threw your mother onto a passing train and then trekked alone across the snow towards the predicted epicenter. And so I became a witness to a miracle.”

“This child had many ways to escape, but the guy who wielded the power of words captured his companion, a little girl. He did something completely contrary to the rules of dragons; he carried that black military dagger, killing people along the way, forcibly pushing towards the epicenter. The people he killed were actually bait; he probably didn’t expect that a nuclear explosion awaited him.” Lu Lincheng said slowly, “‘Rhine’ was released indeed, but I survived. Because that child held the girl in his arms, using his back to shield her from the shockwave, and I was right in front of him.”

Lu Lincheng sighed deeply, “What a lonely child, that’s why he’s unwilling to give up his last companion.”

“I passed out, and when I woke up, hundreds of square kilometers of forest in front of me had been burned to ashes by the Rhine, and the surrounding snow had melted. The child was lying at the epicenter of the explosion, but the girl was gone. He was still alive; even being directly hit by the ‘Rhine’ at close range hadn’t killed him, but he had temporarily lost the ability to move. So the spear you saw was airdropped to me, and I personally plunged it into his heart. That spear is called…”

“Gungnir, the Spear of Destiny, Odin’s weapon in Norse mythology,” Lu Mingfei said softly.

“You’ve seen that gun?” Lu Lincheng was taken aback.

“Many times, I remember breaking it,” Lu Mingfei said, looking up.

“No, that’s impossible. Gungnir has appeared many times in history, but they all seem to be some kind of imitation. Although they possess similar abilities, they can’t compare to the real Gungnir. The real Gungnir has been a collectible of the Secret Society for many years. It’s an extremely terrifying weapon; anyone who comes into contact with it will die instantly. is the spear of fate, and also the spear of death, but even it couldn’t kill that child. It merely sealed the child’s life force. Saying it sealed it might not be accurate; it’s more like its lethal effect and the child’s resurrection effect reached a balance. He can’t die, and he can’t wake up,” Lu Lincheng said.

This argument makes sense. Chu Zihang was just a substitute for Odin. If the Gungnir he’s holding was the real thing, then the boss behind the scenes was being far too powerful.

“Our research on him has continued for many years, but we still cannot confirm whether he is the Dragon King. Apart from that incredible power, he is no different from a human. However, the research has yielded some results. For example, based on his subconscious, we constructed this safe haven. On the day he dies, the interface protecting this safe haven will also collapse. We are afraid of his death and also afraid that he will wake up, so Gungnir has never been pulled out. We also used the bronze pillars found in the ruins to create a special prison for him and hid him in the deepest mercury pool.”

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