Dragon Clan: Start by obtaining the Sett panel

Chapter 164: Professor Guderian is dead?

"Why are you here again? Do you want to take the S-class car again?" The conductor looked at Finkel with disdain.

"Hehehe... I can't help it, I have to accept the request..." Finkel smiled shamelessly.

"You're in grade F this time. I really suspect that you're the principal's illegitimate child. You haven't been expelled yet." The ticket was swiped through the ticket machine, the green light came on, and with a "beep", the conductor looked amazed.

"It would be nice if I were you. At least I wouldn't have to take this train every time." Finkel took his ticket and shrugged helplessly.

"S-level Lu Mingfei, welcome to join Kassel." After checking Lu Mingfei's ticket, the conductor obviously changed his attitude and a friendly smile appeared on his face.

"Tsk... what a damned stratification system." Finkel complained in a low voice, and walked towards the platform with Lu Mingfei under the guidance of the conductor.

The high-speed train stopped on the track, with its dazzling headlights on. The train was black, with a streamlined body, and dazzling silver-white vine patterns spread out on the black paint surface, gorgeous like a work of art. Standing outside the only door that slid open was a familiar figure, Professor Guderian.

The train sped through the dark night. Lu Mingfei, Finkel and Professor Guderian sat opposite each other across an oak table.

Lu Mingfei and Finkel both changed into the school uniform of Kassel Academy. The tailor of the academy had never measured Lu Mingfei's body, but he still made the clothes fit perfectly. Lu Mingfei turned up the cuffs and saw the name embroidered in dark green thread inside, Ricardo M. Lu.

From the time he stepped onto this luxurious train and put on this school uniform, Lu Mingfei could be considered to have achieved a class transition, but he felt a little uneasy, as he always felt that something else was waiting for him, something that would reshape his worldview.

"Coffee or hot chocolate?" Professor Guderian asked. His back is against the wall, behind him is a large painting covered by a canvas.

"Hot chocolate." Fingel raised his hand.

"I'm not asking you. Be serious. I'm your temporary tutor, assigned by the school. It's the freshman orientation time," Professor Guderian looked at Lu Mingfei.

"You could also order a stiff drink or something."

"Meeting the mentor... and drinking?"

"They'll just give you a drink to calm you down so you don't scream in the middle of the orientation," Finkel whispered in his ear.

“Is it… that exaggerated?” Lu Mingfei shrank his head.

"It's more exaggerated than you think..." Professor Guderian whispered.

"I'm sorry I'm late. I went to Russia and found out when I returned to the academy that you didn't take the morning bus, so I decided to follow the bus..."

"Is there a car in the morning?" Lu Mingfei turned his head and glanced at Finkel, who gave Lu Mingfei an embarrassed smile.

Lu Mingfei had already become somewhat immune to Finkel's unreliability, and he didn't expect that he could still give him a little surprise. Never mind... at least he was in the car now. Lu Mingfei could only comfort himself in this way.

"By the way, please sign the confidentiality agreement first. After signing, I can tell you everything you want to know." Professor Guderian handed over a document.

Faced with the strange document written in a mixture of Latin and English, Lu Mingfei wrote down his name without hesitation. Now the express train he was riding was heading to the mysterious Kassel College at a speed of over 200 kilometers per hour. This was the road he had chosen.

Professor Guderian carefully put away the documents, a look of relaxation appeared on his face, and he spoke slowly.

"I won't say anything more. Kassel College is a classical closed-door education. Students must live on campus. Because what we are facing is very special, we have always implemented military management."

"It's okay. I'm ready. You can tell me now, Professor Guderian." Lu Mingfei took a deep breath and sat up straight.
"The research and combat targets of the Kassel Academy are..." Professor Guderian stood up, grabbed a corner of the canvas on the giant oil painting behind him, and shook it open.

The hideous picture was exposed under the light. The moment Lu Mingfei's eyes touched the painting, he felt as if he was being pushed away by a huge force. That was the pressure from the painting.

In the picture, the sky is iron blue mixed with the color of fire. A single giant tree stands there, its dead branches extending in all directions, weaving into a dense net that supports the cracked sky.

The wasteland was littered with dead bones, and a giant black beast was rising from the depths of the pile of bones, its wings full of skulls. After spreading its huge membrane wings, it spit out black flames towards the sky. A shrill roar echoed in Lu Mingfei's head, and he actually thought he could hear the roar of the giant beast.

"Dragon?" Lu Mingfei's voice was a little dry. He had seen this scene in his dream! So this is the truth about Cassel...

"Yes, a dragon. More precisely, the Dragon King Nidhoggr. According to the Norse mythology, the Old Edda, it will bite off the roots of the world tree Yggdrasil at the twilight of the gods. On that day, the world will be destroyed." Professor Guderian's fingers swept across the neatly arranged hardcover ancient books on the bookshelf.

"For thousands of years, countless generations of human beings have been searching for and studying dragons, and Kassel Academy is the culmination of all of these. At Kassel Academy, the ultimate goal of all your studies is..." He looked directly into Lu Mingfei's eyes.

"Slay the dragon!"

"Slay...slay the dragon?"

"Slay the dragon," Professor Guderian nodded.

"Unbeknownst to you, this has been going on for thousands of years. Humans are writing a history without dragons, but there are figures of dragons in every line of another history. But this secret is too shocking. If it is leaked, the consequences that may result are hard to judge."

"So several families we call 'blood descendants' have shared this secret for the past few thousand years and shouldered the mission of slaying dragons. They have continuously trained offspring who are good at fighting, spells, magic, and alchemy, and sent them to the battlefield to slay dragons, burying the efforts of the dragon race to revive time and time again. Until today, Kassel College has inherited their legacy."

"Legacy...Legacy?"

"Yes, because the dragon-slaying families in history were huge and most of them have disappeared. In the new era, we can no longer rely on family inheritance. We must introduce modern education mechanisms." Professor Guderian extended his hand to Lu Mingfei.

"Welcome again to Kassel Academy, Lu Mingfei."

"I understand, but are there really dragons in this world?" Even though he had experienced many supernatural events before, Lu Mingfei had never thought that this would be the result.

Kassel College is actually a school founded for dragon slaying. This sounds like a joke.

Before Professor Guderian could answer, there was a loud noise, the carriage shook violently, all the lights went out, and darkness fell. "What he said is true, right? Brother..." When the lights came back on, it was still the luxurious train, still the leather sofa, but Professor Guderian and Finkel were gone. Lu Mingfei turned around and saw the little boy who had reappeared.

"Where's the evidence?" Lu Mingfei asked. He could no longer tell whether this boy was an illusion or reality. It seemed as if time had gone back to the past. After accepting the boy, he turned back into the person who was always falling into illusions.

"It's just outside the window," the boy turned his head and gestured. Lu Mingfei followed his gaze and looked out the window. His pupils suddenly dilated. In front of that world, he even lost the strength to breathe.

It was no longer a pitch-black night. The train was running at high speed on the vast ice field. The white ice with a slight bluish tint covered the mountains that pierced the sky. The sky was a deep blood red, and it was raining heavily. Every drop of water was bright red, flowing down the window.

On the top of the ice peak, the giant dragon in the picture lay quietly, with its wings hanging down to the foot of the mountain. The thick and fishy blood dyed the entire ice peak red. Groups of people were climbing up along the dragon's wings. Those who climbed to the top surrounded the dragon's head. They nailed sharp iron spikes into the dragon's skull and beat the tail of the spikes with all their might. Every time a hole was drilled, white slurry gushed out like a fountain, and evaporated into thick white mist in a moment. Those people cheered and shouted, shaking the sky.

"Nidhogg, the black dragon king, was killed on his throne thousands of years ago. His throne was the mountain that was forever covered with ice and snow. The one who killed him placed his huge body on the top of the mountain, with his wings hanging down to the foot of the mountain."

"Its blood flowed down like magma, dyeing the whole mountain red and melting the ice and snow. It rose into the sky with blood-colored vapor, turned into dark red clouds, and rained down bright red rain. Those who killed it bathed in the rain and cheered. They called that day the 'New Era'," the boy said softly.

"New Era..." Lu Mingfei listened to the sound of the iron hammer hitting the tail of the iron cone coming from afar, it was almost as if it were real.

"This is the oldest emperor not recorded in history. On the day he died, thousands of people cheered." The boy's voice was calm. He seemed to enjoy the sound of the blows very much. He closed his eyes and appreciated them silently with a smile on his face.

"How wonderful! If it weren't for that day, the world wouldn't be what it is today." He opened his eyes and looked at Lu Mingfei. Somehow, Lu Mingfei felt that his smile was mixed with sadness, which was completely different from the enjoyment he had just shown.

"Are you sad about its death?" Lu Mingfei frowned. He suddenly doubted the identity of the boy in front of him. His hallucinations should not be able to imagine something beyond his memory, right? Moreover... he was a little too autonomous, just like... a real person.

"Sad? No…quite the opposite," the boy said softly.

"I am the one who wants to kill it the most. No one in this world wants to kill it more than me!"

“So that’s why you chose me?” Lu Mingfei asked. He seemed to understand a little bit. Maybe he was chosen by this boy and he was not just an illusion in his mind.

"No...it's not that I chose you, but...we are one, my brother." The boy shook his head.

"This is our fate. You can only choose to accept it."

Lu Mingfei opened his eyes and saw a strange creature in front of him. It was soaked in a light yellow formalin solution, with its long tail curled up like a fetus in the womb. The long whiskers around its mouth fluttered slowly in the solution. With its eyes closed, it looked as peaceful as a baby, with two membrane wings spread out behind it.

Is this... a dragon? He stared at the nictitating membrane covering the dragon's eyes with some doubt. The dragon cub soaked in formalin suddenly opened its eyes, golden eyes.

Its entire body trembled convulsively from head to tail, and it stretched its neck and roared at Lu Mingfei. Then, the burning dragon flame was ignited deep in its throat and spurted out! It spread its wings with all its might, and was about to break through the restraints of the glass bottle. It woke up, but its cat-sized body carried the majesty of a dragon.

The tiny dragon flame was extinguished in an instant, and the formalin solution poured into the dragon cub's throat, causing it to cough painfully like a drowning person. At the same time, it failed to break through the glass bottle. It vibrated its membrane wings vigorously, but it didn't even leave a trace when it hit the glass wall. This revival that had accumulated for hundreds of years ended as quickly as it began. Soon, the dragon cub curled up again, regained its peace, and fell into hibernation again.

"It's incredible! It woke up early!" Professor Guderian was sweating profusely and quickly moved the glass jar away.

Lu Mingfei suddenly fainted in the car. Now the two of them are already at Kassel College. This dragon was borrowed by Professor Guderian to prove the existence of dragons to Lu Mingfei, but he did not expect this to happen. If it were not for the replacement of the nanomaterial, Lu Mingfei would have been burned by the dragon flame just now.

"The data shows that it should wake up next time in 2077? Why is this so? Is it the call of its bloodline?" Professor Guderian looked at Lu Mingfei who was just coming back to his senses.

"So this is our mission?" Lu Mingfei looked at Professor Guderian. Now he felt that he had gotten off the car. This was the first time he had been immersed in the environment for so long.

However, compared to the dragon in the illusion, the dragon in front of him was so weak that he didn't even feel afraid.

"You're awake, that's right... This is the enemy we are going to face, but I didn't expect you to be not afraid of it at all." Professor Guderian showed a hint of satisfaction on his face. Although this S-level seemed a little weak and sickly, his personality was as fearless as Gu Ye.

"Professor, what do you mean by bloodline summoning?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"You should look at this yourself. I have compiled some information for you." Professor Guderian handed the book on the table to Lu Mingfei.

Ten minutes later...Lu Mingfei closed the book.

"I see. So that means we are all hybrids, using the power stolen from the dragon race to slay dragons, right?"

"You accepted it so quickly... That's the truth. I'll take you to the dormitory first. I was really scared when you suddenly fainted earlier. I think we should ask the school doctor to check on you." Professor Guderian took Lu Mingfei and walked out of the office.

Walking out of the medieval-style building, you will see green lawns, crimson cobblestone roads and castle-like buildings. Pigeons are flying up and down on the top of the church in the distance.

"By the way, has Brother Gu gone out on the mission?" Lu Mingfei suddenly stopped and turned to look at Guderian.

Gu Ye said he had something to do, so he must be on a mission, right? If possible, Lu Mingfei wanted to see him, the boy in the illusion, and Lu Mingfei wanted to ask Gu Ye's opinion.

"Are you talking about Gu Ye? He..." Before Professor Guderian could finish his words, a shrill alarm suddenly sounded.

Da da da! A burst of gunfire rang out, and Professor Guderian blinked and fell to the ground. A group of people in black combat uniforms just took a look and spoke into the intercom with a little annoyance.

"It's not Gu Ye. Repeat... It's not Gu Ye. Keep looking for his trace..."

Lu Mingfei's mind suddenly went blank. Professor Guderian died just like that? And... did those people still want to kill Gu Ye?
"Damn it! It's the professor... Let's retreat quickly..." The man holding the walkie-talkie then realized who the person on the ground was and shouted to remind others.

When the others heard this, they ignored the stunned Lu Mingfei and quickly dispersed around.

No! We can't let them attack Gu Ye! Even though his body couldn't help but tremble, Lu Mingfei still forced himself to be alert, staring at the last person to evacuate, and clenched his fists.

　Next up is Lu Mingfei vs. Gu Ye. Can Lu Mingfei, who has been paid in advance by the little devil, really defeat all the enemies? And this free day will be a four-way melee. Can Gu Ye still fight against all of them alone?
　　
　
(End of this chapter)