Dragon Clan: Thought So Far.

"I wonder if our Miss EVA can still be restarted and put into work, Mr. Turing." The old man with long silver-gray hair showed a peaceful smile like a priest on his face. Behind him was always the silent man in black, who was holding a narrow metal box in his hand.

The dragon slayer of this generation, St. George, is of incalculable age. There is evidence that this man has been active in Kent, England since 1867. At that time, the revived dragons in the whole of Europe had to remain silent in the face of the reputation of a man like St. George, otherwise they would inevitably die completely.

Faced with such a distinguished predecessor asking him questions at the conference table, even Mr. Turing, who held real power at Kassel College, had to stand up, take off his hat, and nod slightly to show respect.

"I think that with the authority of everyone here, you can easily understand where the war personality of EVA, the academy's artificial intelligence, comes from." Mr. Turing looked around, and everyone straightened their backs involuntarily, as if they were in a panic.

This is one of the ultimate secrets of the academy. It is not even stored in any form of data, but is only kept in the minds of the elders of the secret party.

"In the fall of 2001, during the Greenland Ice Sea incident, due to leadership errors by the executive department, a seven-member elite team conducting deep-sea exploration was almost wiped out, with only Fingel von Frings surviving." Mr. Turing said, "Professor von Schneider, who led the team at the time, urgently carried out the rescue mission. He encountered an unknown dragon under the sea and suffered severe injuries, but he did not see the door described by the team members during the dive, nor did he see the body. He only brought back a crystal of the Philosopher's Stone with a volume of 3.14 cubic centimeters and a weight of 21 grams. The Night Watch analyzed the Philosopher's Stone and extracted a pure spiritual element from it that was very different from that of dragons."

When the old secrets were mentioned, every elder's face was as cold as the arrival of winter.

The fifth element, "spirit", is concentrated in the bones of dragons. It can be used to refine the legendary elixir of immortality and the philosopher's stone. Ancient alchemists called it the "philosopher's stone". This mysterious crystal is a weapon that can kill the first generation. It is the ultimate achievement of alchemy and the fifth element that surpasses the four elements. The dragon kings and their descendants who master the laws of the four elements cannot give orders to this element that commands rules. It is invincible and penetrates everything.

"Its structure and resonance with the rules of this world are no less impressive than the dragon bone cross we extracted from dragon skeletons in the past. However, it does not come from a certain god, but from humans." Mr. Turing looked across the long conference table and met everyone at the table. Everyone in the room was silent.

Mentor Flamel took over the research and analysis of the Philosopher's Stone, and eventually communicated with the soul inside through powerful alchemical techniques, confirming that the Philosopher's Stone belonged to EVA. Lawrence, an A-level student who enrolled in 1999. In the system of the academy's executive department, her code name was Norma, Norma. Lawrence.

What really made almost all the top leaders of the entire secret party boil was that during the research process, Mentor Flamel actually communicated with the EVA in the Philosopher's Stone and established a stable connection.

This discovery, which was a landmark discovery in the world of hybrids, caused a commotion beyond imagination. Ancient alchemy had clear records that fluctuations of spiritual elements could be clearly observed in the bodies of humans or hybrids, but these elements could not be utilized. In layman's terms, the most intuitive manifestation was that hybrids did not have the ability to separate their spiritual core from their bodies like dragons and plant a cocoon outside their bodies that would allow them to be reborn.

For the vast majority of second-generation and above dragons that transfer their nuclei in advance and leave behind embryos, death is nothing more than a lonely long sleep. After the long sleep, they will hatch again and return to the world with their own power and strength.

The current technology and alchemical knowledge of mankind cannot explain the principle of the dragon's cocooning, but everyone knows that the reason why the dragon can cocoon is because they can transfer their own spiritual elements.

Since ancient times, how many kings have pursued eternal life, but from the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors to today's Windsor royal family, who can escape death?

Even if the lifespan of those powerful hybrids could reach two hundred or even three hundred years like St. George, which is unimaginable for ordinary people, how many heroes who assassinated kings and killed their kings in history died in the end?

EVA, who condenses her own spiritual elements into the Philosopher's Stone and exists in the form of a soul in a religious sense, gives hope of eternal life to the elderly who hold almost all the power and authority in the world.

But after six months of in-depth research, Night Watcher, the strongest known alchemist, asserted that the miracle of EVA could not be replicated.

The fact that her spirit could be preserved in the form of the Philosopher's Stone is a one-in-a-million special case, even rarer than Siegfried in the epic who used the poisonous dragon blood from the heart of an adult dragon to complete his evolution.

Moreover, humans do not have the ability to create embryos that can fully adapt to their own spirits like the dragon race. Even if EVA leaves behind her soul, she cannot exist as a human being again.

However, an unrecorded and special experimental error caused the Philosopher's Stone extracted from EVA's body to disintegrate itself. The spiritual element without its support should have collapsed, but with the unremitting efforts of the Night Watchmen, the girl's soul was uploaded to the supercomputer being built two hundred meters underground in the library through electrical signals with the help of some special alchemical matrices, thus becoming the academy's intelligent secretary.

The school board would not allow all the secrets of the academy to be kept under the nose of a girl from the Lawns family. Therefore, from 2003 to 2005, the technical department and the Gottingen family tried to separate EVA's spirit from the academy's host computer, but her existence was beyond the academy's imagination. Mr. Turing even asserted that EVA had completely evolved into another species. She was neither human nor dragon, but a digital life that transcended the real dimension.

"In my opinion, there are only two possibilities for Miss EVA's offline." Pompey leaned forward slowly. He supported his temple with one hand and tapped on the mirror-smooth table with two fingers of his other hand.

"The first guess is also the most likely guess after we confirmed that the White King's descendants do exist... During the Tokyo incident, EVA posed a devastating threat to the Japanese supercomputer Kaguya-sama. Those descendants of the White King used a certain spiritual word spirit that we have not yet collected to directly penetrate the digital level and destroy our Miss EVA."

The elders looked at each other, and for a moment countless glances passed across the conference table. They used this form to convey their complex emotions and doubts in their hearts to each other, and at the same time, a faint anger was slowly ignited in the air.

Judging from the current situation, the Eight Clans of Sheqi do have reasons and motivations to do such a thing.

The intelligence system of the academy is already operating at full capacity, and the news received is that after the war that was enough to overturn the existing rules, the Eight Snake Families and the Menggui Clan reached cooperation for the first time since 1940.

And the previous leader of the Snake Eight Families, Uesugi Yue, a super hybrid with super S-level bloodline, who had resigned and disappeared for decades, has confirmed his return. Intelligence says that the old man chose to enter the Night Food Field to block the alchemical zombies awakened from the Nibelungs at the beginning of the war, and eventually returned to the family with his genetic son, another super hybrid, Yuan Zhisheng, and became the true master of the Uesugi family. In addition, Yuan Zhinv, the leader of the original demon group, was also confirmed to be a member of the super hybrid. In the final defection of Lu Mingfei and the blocking of Odin, he showed amazing strength, and even the gods could not kill him.

The new generation of the secret party did not know that the so-called super hybrids really existed, but old people like St. George and St. Cadmus clearly remembered the heinous crimes committed by the young man named Uesugi Yue in France many years ago.

The mere awakening of his bloodline and the unconscious stimulation of his words destroyed an entire city block and killed thousands of ordinary people. The only reason he survived was because the French government at the time did not find evidence to prove that this guy was the murderer who caused the disaster.

However, soon after his defeat by Angers, Uesugi Yue chose to leave the Sheqi Eight Clan and disappeared from the sight of the secret party under an assumed name.

The return of such a ferocious old guy at this moment will undoubtedly cause huge turmoil to the now precarious Kassel Academy.

After getting the real super hybrid bloodline in charge, the Sheqi Eight Families also have the confidence to challenge the academy. So before doing this, it is not impossible to use the power left by the White King to destroy EVA's soul.

"In fact, if it is really the Eight Snake Families who are responsible, then we can rest assured a little." Pompey sighed, his aura tired and weak. Although it fits the appearance that the current head of the Gattuso family should show, it is definitely not Pompey's personality.

Instead, it looked like he had fought a big battle with someone not long ago and was exhausted.

However, considering that this guy was originally an unkempt playboy, who had the greatest wealth in the world but was not keen on gaining more power, but just hunted for beauties all over the world, and it was even said that he changed his girlfriend every three days, then his tiredness can be understood.

"EVA means a lot to us. It is the strategic trump card of the academy. Its destruction by the Eight Snake Families is a huge blow to us... I don't understand what you mean, Mr. Gattuso." The slender white fingers held the bell and shook it. The speaker was Charlotte Gottingen. Her housekeeper, who never left her side, stood behind the girl's high chair, watching indifferently at this meeting aimed at solving the current problems facing the academy.

"My dear Miss Charlotte, I must say that if you were ten years older, I would definitely pursue you..." Pompey cleared his throat, as if frightened by the butler's eyes, and shrank his neck back and straightened his collar.

"Your age limits your vision. What do you think are the main problems we are facing now?"

"The exposure of the Dragon Clan's secret and the counterattack of the Eight Snake Families, aren't they?" "No, no, no, no, the exposure of the secret is of course the most important, but although the Eight Snake Families are powerful enemies for the Secret Party, they are by no means an unsolvable crisis. We have many ways to deal with those Japanese who are not very smart, such as appeasement, recruitment, or even crushing... I think even the so-called super hybrids are not invincible enemies for our Holy Family, right?" Pompey swept his eyes over Saint George, Saint Cadmus, Saint Beowulf and Saint Siegfried one by one.

The four old men, whose lives were almost exhausted but who were terrifyingly powerful, remained silent and did not respond, but no one showed any fear.

"Never forget that the real enemy of the academy is the Dragon King." Pompey said, "The new White King Herzog and the Yamata no Orochi were killed in Tokyo Bay by Lu Mingfei, Uesugi Eri and Xia Mi. Obviously, the one who could kill the White King should be at least at the level of the four monarchs... Oh my god, I really don't want to complain about this. All the people in your academy's admissions office should get a dismissal email and pack up and leave immediately. Let's not talk about Lu Mingfei's special situation for now. Why would someone like Xia Mi, whose background is so opaque, be recruited into the academy by you?"

This guy was scratching his head anxiously, and his performance was as intense as a gorilla on stage.

"If EVA was not executed, then there is only one possibility left, that she hid herself... Logically, the girl should stand with us, but she disappeared when we needed her to solve the problem, and it happened to coincide with Lu Mingfei and his escape time. It is hard not to make people think of something." Pompey said,

"If she wasn't executed, then she must have betrayed us and chose to stand with our enemies. The enemy of the secret party is only the Dragon King. Xia Mi beside Lu Mingfei is the real Dragon King."

There were whispered conversations on both sides of the conference table.

The elders and tenured professors were discussing the possibility of the speculation that Pompey had mentioned at this time, and the voices in Valhalla were becoming louder and more undisguised.

But Pompeii suddenly became quiet.

He quietly watched everyone in front of him lower their voices and argue with the people around them. He sat down, leaned back, and leaned against the wide chair with his fingers crossed.

"The former dictator Gilbert Jean Ange has fallen, and now we are in a dilemma of being leaderless... The Secret Party urgently needs a new leader at this moment." Pompey suddenly said.

"The old dictator has fallen, and we don't need a new dictator," said Baroness Laurent in a serious and even angry voice.

The conference room was so quiet that only the sound of breathing could be heard, and the elders sat like sculptures.

"My dear Elizabeth, please don't be so angry." Pompey laughed contemptuously.

"Do you want to be the new leader of the secret party? Or those old guys from the Gattuso family who are almost the same age as us?" St. George smiled but did not refute immediately.

"I can change the desperate situation that the secret party is facing at this time, and all I want is to become the consul of the empire. This is a business, isn't it? The Gattuso family got started with business. We sell Sicily's red wine and seafood to Italy, France and even the whole of Europe, and then allocate part of the money to buy weapons. These weapons eventually became the foundation for us to establish such power today." Pompey spread his hands,

"Of course, slaying dragons is also a business for us. We get wealth, fame, and power from this business. This is fair. We should get rewards for our efforts, right?"

In the dimly lit Valhalla, pairs of golden eyes suddenly lit up one after another.

The senators looked angrily at Pompey, who had a businessman's face. Only St. George and the taciturn St. Siegfried remained humble and peaceful.

"You and your family are from Sicily, right?" Beowulf's golden eyes illuminated the old and majestic face, and pale scales extended back along the corners of the old man's eyes.

Pompey adjusted his collar. "Yes," he said. "We are rich in citrus and mafia, Beowulf."

"We have paid the blood of countless people for the cause of slaying the dragon. If all the corpses of the heroes were put into coffins, the entire Portofino in the Bay of Genoa would be filled with crosses." Beowulf said, his breath was rising, which was a sign of the boiling blood of the dragon after the anger.
"You, a businessman who made your fortune through flattery and robbery, actually insult our business by using the word business!" He began to roar angrily. Charlotte, who was closest to him, turned pale with fright. The butler stepped forward and stood between Beowulf and his lady.

The old man with the blood of a dragon slayer flowing in his body was angrily expanding his territory. In this conference hall, the bloodline of Saint Beowulf was undoubtedly not inferior to anyone else. Even when Angers was still the dictator of Kassel College, he had to show his respect to the elders.

His domain was only aimed at Pompeii, but the invisible iron wall was suddenly pinched when it pushed to one meter in front of the man sitting in the main seat.

The person who made the move was actually the middle-aged man dressed as a monk on the school board.

"I noticed that Mr. Gattuso said that you can change the desperate situation that the secret party is facing now?" The monk smiled.

"Bingo, it seems that not all of us are bad teammates, right?" Pompey raised his eyebrows at Beowulf.

"Then let's treat slaying the dragon as a business, Mr. Gattuso. If you can solve the main problem we are facing now, then after Angers falls, the title of leader of the secret party will undoubtedly fall on your head." Mr. Turing said.

"To continue to maintain the mystery of us aliens in this world, all we have to do is let everyone pretend that the incident never happened. It's so simple. You people are so old that your brains are rusted." Pompeii showed a sarcastic expression on his face.

Everyone was slightly stunned, and their golden pupils went out one by one. However, everyone was confused, except Charlotte, who had a pale expression on her face.

"Alchemy, the Seven Kingdoms, and the separation of cause and effect." Pompey revealed those obscure things in Valhalla word by word. Charlotte trembled violently. "This is impossible!" She screamed in a low voice, "That is the privilege of God!"

"It may be impossible for others, but we have the highest achiever of alchemy," said Pompey.

"No, even Master Flamel can't do that!"

"But Norton can." Pompey licked his lips. "His dragon bone cross. The Gattuso family has developed the oldest alchemical secret. The separation of cause and effect is no longer just a concept. We can do this using Norton's dragon bone cross as a medium... Of course, it only affects ordinary people who are not in our world."

"Everything that happens in Japan will become the result of a natural disaster. The Yamata no Orochi is just a collective hallucination caused by a hallucinogen leak, and the dragon subspecies on the streets of Shinjuku is the product of illegal human experiments by the Japanese government. Everything that Lu Mingfei and the Dragon King beside him did is just an illusion, because..." Pompey looked around, examining the eyes of each elder.

“The world doesn’t remember them.”

"This way, we can focus all our energy on hunting down the Dragon King, right? The world will remain the same, but the Japanese will bear all the losses." (End of this chapter)