Dragon Raja 5; Chapter 123: Thunder and the Watcher (33)

Dragon Raja 5

Could it be that his eyes really betrayed him? Or was Lancelot simply bluffing?

“You must be wondering if you’ve tricked me into landing me on this ship, with nowhere else to go, and I’m forced to feign composure in hopes of finding another way out,” Lancelot said. “Because my men are here, I can’t capture Lu Mingfei, who’s already sailed to the high seas. But with your intelligence network, you should also know that the academy sent a plane to deliver some supplies to me.”

“Isn’t that the thing with several knives on your back? I heard it was the weapon that killed the Dragon King.”

“The Seven Deadly Sins were indeed brought to Japan at that time, but only incidentally. The real supplies on that plane were another type of weapon. Those weapons had been preserved in an icy environment for many years and were rarely activated. However, they were activated to deal with this extreme situation.”

“They?” Crow felt a huge shadow slowly looming over him.

Yes, how could he have overlooked this crucial intelligence? Could it be that the supplies that needed to be transported by plane were just these seven deadly sins?

But no matter what kind of weapon, it always needs someone to deploy and use it. Lancelot and his men are here. Could those weapons automatically search for enemies and attack like missiles? This speculation made him very uneasy. If the weapons the academy equipped Lancelot with were indeed missiles, could they be flying on their way to blow up that garbage ship right now?

“We call them ‘Monsters Under the Ice,'” Lancelot continued. “It’s not an official designation. The academy doesn’t want to publicly acknowledge the existence of these weapons, so they’re using cryptic language.” Lancelot continued, “They were all accomplished dragon slayers in their lifetime. But as you know, the more skilled a dragon slayer is, the more easily they become troubled by the dragon blood within them. The more they rely on the power of dragon blood, the more their draconic side summons them. As Nietzsche said, if you fight a dragon too long, you become a dragon yourself. As they age and falter, their control becomes increasingly uncontrollable, their identities oscillating between human and dragon. Therefore, previous dragon slayers developed a secret technique that, through alchemy, transformed these hybrids into walking weapons. Just like the immortals of the ancient Persian Empire, they gave up their human identities to gain immortality, and even after death, they would stand on the front lines of dragon slaying.”

The crow’s face turned pale and his body trembled slightly.

The story Lancelot told was too bizarre, yet too detailed. If it was improvised, then Lancelot would be the real drama queen. What made him even more uneasy was that Lancelot was in the mood to tell him the story slowly, which showed that he was not in a hurry.

Could it be that the technology to transform humans into weapons through alchemy really existed? Had those alchemically created humanoid weapons already boarded Lu Mingfei and his crew’s ship?

Lancelot handed the phone to Crow, “Would you like to say a few words to your old friend Captain Aleyev?”

“I’m sorry, my dear friend. I know you can’t forgive me, and I don’t ask for your forgiveness. I’m talking to you only because Mr. Lancelot asked me to do so.” It was indeed Aleyev’s Japanese with a Ukrainian accent.

“So what did you do?” Crow’s hand holding the microphone trembled slightly.

“Soon after the ship went out to sea, my crew and I left the ship. I dropped anchor, drained the fuel, and pierced all the lifeboats,” Aleyev said. “Before sailing, Mr. Lancelot delivered a cargo to me: large blocks of ice with human bodies frozen inside.”

“Your family is still in my hands!” The crow roared, its voice ferocious and terrifying.

He sent Aleyev’s family to the Shiraha Tengu Shrine, claiming that they were going on vacation in the mountains, and the armed priests were responsible for taking care of and guarding them.

“Mr. Lancelot said he would ensure the safety of my family,” Aleyev said. “But if I don’t, he will send evidence of my smuggling to the police and I will be sentenced to life imprisonment. I’m sorry, Saeki, but I really don’t want to do this.”

Aleyev hung up the phone. Crow stood there blankly, and suddenly smashed the phone to pieces.

“For those transformed into swords, dragon blood has eroded their minds. They no longer remember who they are, but are extremely sensitive to prey that also sheds dragon blood. They are belligerent and irritable, and the higher their blood temperature, the more violent they become. Therefore, they must be preserved in ice; low temperatures stabilize them.” Lancelot said slowly, “For a long time, they were the academy’s most concentrated armed force, used to target the most dangerous targets, like using beasts to hunt beasts. They can be expendable, as they are no longer considered human. The only drawback is that they can only be deployed in uninhabited areas. After awakening, they will indiscriminately hunt all kinds of creatures, even attacking each other. By the time they are recovered, the surrounding area is often a sea of ​​blood. So without your help, I would not dare to activate those monsters. The land without sky and earth is the perfect battlefield for them.”

“You’re going to use those monsters to kill them?” The crow was furious, but still had a hint of doubt.

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