Dragon Clan: Start by obtaining the Sett panel

Chapter 294 The End of the World
Enoshima, inside the Dragon Cave.

Gu Ye glanced at the figure of Suzuki Rina in the distance, and then he felt relieved. It seemed that this girl, who was also visiting the Dragon Cave for the first time, did not notice the small movements of Gu Ye and Xia Mi behind them.

"It's okay, don't worry... She didn't seem to notice what we were doing, so there's no need to find a suitable excuse or anything..." Xia Mi also raised her head and glanced at Suzuki Rina, then spoke to Gu Ye.

"After she goes back, we'll find a chance to investigate it carefully," said Gu Ye.

Generally speaking, whether it was Gu Ye and his group or the half-bloods in Cassel, they would not attack ordinary people by default, nor would they deliberately reveal the existence of the dragon race. Even though Gu Ye had left the half-blood society, he had not changed this.

"Okay, I seem to have some idea... about how the White King survived..." Xia Mi nodded.

Sometimes when the same race meet, some strange visions will appear. It can be said that they are obsessed before death, or it can be said that they are the last traces left in the world. But no matter which one it is, the vision must contain some past events that happened here.

Xia Mi saw clearly that the white silk thread was definitely not as simple as a cocoon, but more like some special life form...

"How is it? Are you finished with the tour? Next, I will take you to the Dragon Palace. Didn't Mr. Gu Ye ask for a talisman? The talismans in the Dragon Palace are also very famous..." Suzuki Rina came to the two of them and asked.

She looked around and found that the Dragon Cave was not as interesting as she had imagined. It was not much different from ordinary caves, and could even be said to be unremarkable.

"Places like this are just gimmicks. Instead of seeing these, you might as well go to enjoy the cherry blossoms... Although there is no such place in my shrine, the large area of ​​cherry blossoms is much more interesting than the Dragon Cave, right?" Suzuki Rina looked at Xia Mi.

"It's a pity that Miss Xia Mi didn't go up last time. I think taking photos under the cherry blossom tree is much more meaningful than taking photos here."

"It's indeed more boring than I thought. If I had known earlier, I would have gone to your family's shrine." Xia Mi followed Suzuki Rina's words and touched her little head at the same time.

"Hehe, huh? If Miss Xia Mi comes, I can give you some sakuramochi I made!" When Suzuki Rina heard Xia Mi's words, a bright smile appeared on her face.

This girl has good taste. The only thing missing from her own shrine is its lack of cultural heritage...

Boom... The ground began to shake restlessly, and Suzuki Rina lost her balance and fell to the ground.

In the dragon cave, the top gradually cracked, countless rocks kept falling, the entire cave seemed to be shifting, and groundwater on the side gradually seeped out...

"Oh no! It's an earthquake!" Suzuki Rina finally got up and shouted to Gu Ye and Xia Mi to warn them.

"We have to get out quickly, otherwise we will be buried here!"

However, it was too late. As the earth shook, the only hole with a glimmer of light was blocked by countless falling rocks. In an instant, the entire dragon cave fell into pitch-black darkness.

"Ah!!!" Suzuki Rina screamed subconsciously and her body kept shaking. She never thought that she would encounter such a thing.

Although Japan experiences earthquakes all the year round, she was usually trained on how to evacuate from high-rise and modern buildings. This was the first time she was trapped in a cave.

The darkness aroused her most primitive fear. This place was very remote, and no one else had visited the Dragon Cave except the three of them. In other words, there was a high possibility that they would be trapped and die here.

"What...what should I do? Mr. Gu Ye..." Out of fear of death, Suzuki Rina instinctively asked for help from Gu Ye, the strongest of the three.

"We are just trapped in the cave. It's not a big problem. Find a safe place to hide first. There may be aftershocks later. We can consider how to get out after the earthquake stops completely." Gu Ye's steady voice came.

"The entrance here is already very narrow, and there should be no exit behind it. We will definitely die, right?!" Although Suzuki Rina received Gu Ye's reply, she was still extremely desperate. She couldn't help squatting on the ground and began to sob.

After all, she was just a kid who had just graduated from high school. It was her first time facing this situation, and she was already panicking.

"Don't cry, it's just an earthquake, it's okay." A gentle female voice came from not far away, and Suzuki Rina raised her head.

She wanted to identify where Xia Mi was, but she couldn't see clearly. However, her vision in the darkness was calm and confident, as if she would not retreat even if she was close to death.

Perhaps it was because both of them were very calm that Suzuki Rina finally stopped sobbing. She struggled to grope her way and squatted in a depression at the edge of the cave.

"Ms. Xia Mi, Mr. Gu Ye...Have you found a place to hide?"

"Well, we've found it...we will all survive." Xia Mi replied to Suzuki Rina in a low voice.

Suzuki Rina's emotions gradually stabilized. It seemed that the only sounds left in the entire cave were the breathing of the three people, but she was no longer so scared.

So that's why Mr. Gu Ye likes Miss Xia Mi so much? They are really similar, so steady and reliable...

On the other hand, it was a bit embarrassing for me. Not only did I scream and shout, but I even gave up hope of survival at the beginning. Suzuki Rina felt a little guilty.

If it was someone else, they would have been affected by my mentality, right?
She knew that fear was the easiest thing to spread between people. When she was a child, Suzuki Rina liked to suddenly speed up and run fast when she was walking on the road at night with her friends. Then her friends would quickly follow her as if there was some danger behind them.

Although everyone knows that there may be nothing behind them, the fear has already spread, and even if they know, they will not stop...

Sigh... Rina Suzuki, please stop holding us back! Now we can only survive if we unite as one and encourage each other!

After adjusting her posture, Suzuki Rina took a deep breath and wanted to continue talking to Gu Ye and Xia Mi. She knew that the quieter it was, the more likely it would breed fear, so she couldn't go on like this.

And it is necessary to discuss together what to do next. At least we can't rely entirely on Mr. Gu Ye and Miss Xia Mi, right?
Splash, splash... Just as Suzuki Rina was about to speak, the sound of rushing water was heard, and a silver-blue light band flashed in the darkness, illuminating the cave.

"Mr. Gu Ye! There is a water source over there. Maybe we can find the exit by following the water source!" Suzuki Rina showed a hint of surprise on her face. She quickly stood up and walked towards the glowing water.

After groping her way to the edge of the water, Suzuki Rina looked along the water. It seemed that this was underground water that was exposed by the earthquake. She just didn't know where it would lead to...

Should we try to find the source? Maybe this is the only hope of escape... Thinking of this, Suzuki Rina took off her shoes and prepared to enter the water.

It was still pitch black all around, with only a faint glow from the water, so she decided to move forward in the water, at least that way she wouldn't be in danger due to not being able to see the terrain clearly.

"Wait! Don't rush into the water..." Just as Suzuki Rina was about to put her feet into the water, her wrist was grabbed by Gu Ye.

"Why? Mr. Gu Ye..." Suzuki Rina asked puzzledly.

"Look carefully in the water..." Gu Ye did not answer, but gestured to Suzuki Rina to look carefully in the water.

Suzuki Rina then looked carefully into the water. The water still emitted a faint fluorescence. She originally thought it was some kind of mineral or something, but now she realized that it was not.

Some tiny fish are densely packed in the water, thousands of them, glowing with a faint blue light, like a vortex of starlight. This scene should be accompanied by Joe Hisaishi's music, just like a battlefield under the night sky, with fireflies surrounding the bodies of dead samurai, as if to pay tribute to his heroic spirit.

The slender little fish are covered with beautiful silver-blue scales, and the light comes from a long tentacle on the top of their heads.

"What...what kind of fish is this? It's so beautiful..." Suzuki Rina couldn't help but speak.

"Salmoniformes, Salmonidae, viper, viper..." Xia Mi, who was following the glowing water flow to meet the two people, suddenly spoke.

"Viper... sounds very dangerous..." Suzuki Rina imagined a ferocious snake, which seemed to be incompatible with these glowing little creatures.

But the next moment, a relatively large viperfish swam in front of Suzuki Rina. After taking a glance at it, she subconsciously shuddered violently.

The little creature looked more like a snake than a fish, with a slender body, small tail and pectoral fins, and a huge, ferocious mouth. Its mouth was full of transparent teeth that stuck out like daggers, like an angry king cobra about to spit venom.

"It...they...are really like snakes!" After taking two steps back, Suzuki Rina spoke with a pale face.

"We have to move away from it, look..." Gu Ye pointed to both sides of the water flow, and bursts of crackling sounds were heard.

The range of the water flow seemed to be getting wider and wider, and the land on both sides was gradually shrinking. This group of viperfish was actually constantly gnawing at the rocks of the Dragon Cave! "How can they even bite rocks?" Suzuki Rina's body was shaking constantly. Everything that happened before her eyes had overturned her perception of the world.

"Those things are called 'Ghost-toothed Dragon Vipers', and they are legendary creatures. Dragons use them as torture instruments. Nobles who commit serious crimes will be tied to bronze pillars and sunk into the deep sea, where a large group of dragon vipers will eat both the nobles and the bronze pillars." Xia Mi spoke again.

"Historians believe that the Hittites invented iron smelting around the 15th century BC. However, the college once bought iron tools that were even older. They were made by the Sumerians, who were older than the Hittites. But in the Sumerian era, humans should not have had flames that were high enough to melt iron ore..."

"The final result of the technical restoration is that the Sumerians used biological methods to smelt iron. They raised dragon vipers to eat iron ore. The iron in their bodies became increasingly enriched and purified. Then the Sumerians burned the vipers with low-temperature flames to obtain iron with a relatively high quality. Transparent crystalline substances can be found in this iron. Those are the teeth of the dragon vipers."

"So these fish can eat the minerals themselves?" asked Rina Suzuki.

"That's right. They are very dangerous. If Gu Ye hadn't held you back, you would probably be a pile of bones now." Xia Mi said.

"How could such a creature appear in nature?" Suzuki Rina really couldn't believe how such a thing that went against scientific common sense could appear.

"They should be sub-dragon species, right?" Gu Ye asked Xia Mi.

"Yes, that's right... In fact, they do have dragon blood flowing in their bodies..." Xia Mi nodded. The reason why she was familiar with these guys was because the one who first created them was actually the Dragon King.

"What are you talking about?" Suzuki Rina was completely confused.

"You don't need to know these things. Find a place to hide first. The migration of such a large group of viperfish must not just be due to the earthquake!" Gu Ye did not answer Suzuki Rina, but instead asked her to hide quickly.

"Maybe something has awakened, forcing them to flee everywhere..." Xia Mi said.

"I don't understand what you are saying at all. Can you tell me..." Suzuki Rina couldn't help but interrupt their conversation. She was very afraid of such unknown things, so she was eager to know the truth.

Wow!!! The water suddenly exploded, stopping the second half of Suzuki Rina's sentence. She stared blankly at the figure that jumped out of the water.

Illuminated by the light of the viperfish, the figure in midair glowed with a metallic luster, and its pupils were a ferocious golden color. Its slender lower body was constantly twisting, and its facial features were more than twice as large as those of humans. Its huge mouth extended all the way to the edge of its lower jaw, and was tightly sewn with threads similar to fish tendons.

Its long, dry white hair fluttered as it slowly opened its mouth. The fish tendons broke one by one, and its long, thin teeth protruded from its lips one by one. Finally, its entire mouth opened completely, large enough to swallow a calf. A human being could never have such an exaggerated mouth crack!
"It looks like this is the one that drove these viperfish here..." Xia Mi looked at the monster in the air. The darkness did not affect her vision.

"Monster...monster!" Suzuki Rina subconsciously kept backing away and screamed.

The guy in the air was attracted by her scream, and his golden pupils locked onto Suzuki Rina who was about to escape. His long tail kept swinging, and a sound like firecrackers was heard, and the monster rushed straight towards her.

"Help!" Suzuki Rina cried for help. The monster was moving so fast that she could smell the foul stench from its mouth close to her cheek.

"You dirty beast, be quiet!" The next moment, Xia Mi appeared beside Suzuki Rina. Her pupils also burst into golden light, and a gust of air suddenly pushed the monster into the water.

Plop! The water suddenly exploded, splashing with water, bringing with it countless tiny viperfish emitting blue light. Suzuki Rina vaguely seemed to see a giant dragon with wings spread and roaring.

"Master Benzaiten?" Suzuki Rina murmured subconsciously. As a student who has accepted modern culture, she has always been dismissive of this traditional belief.

But seeing Xia Mi at this moment, she could only think of the mythical Benzaiten who was incarnated as a giant dragon. Could it be that the myth was true? Did the goddess always protect Enoshima?
"It came from the sea. Let's go to the coastline and take a look. The thing on the seabed should have woken up..." Xia Mi's voice came faintly again.

Suzuki Rina felt her eyelids getting heavier and heavier, her vision went dark, and she lost consciousness.

"Hu! Hu..." Suzuki Rina opened her eyes again and gasped heavily. She raised her head to see if the monster was still alive, but found that she had returned to the small shrine at home.

"Was that just a dream?" Suzuki Rina looked at the torii and cherry trees in the distance. As usual, a lot of petals had fallen from the cherry trees.

At this moment, she was still lying on the small table in the corner of the shrine entrance, as if she had just taken a nap.

"Rina, are you slacking off and sleeping again? How can I trust you with the shrine if you're like this?" The old man said with a hint of sarcasm, leaning against the gate of the shrine.

"Stop talking nonsense! I've wanted to sell this shrine for a long time!" Suzuki Rina replied as if by muscle memory.

"This really makes me sad, your dad. You loved the shrine so much when you were a child..." Dad sighed.

Was that just...really a dream? Suzuki Rina ignored her father and continued to think, if it was a dream, it would be too real, right?
Her eyes subconsciously moved to her feet, and Suzuki Rina's pupils shrank instantly. One of her shoes was gone... In other words, what just happened was not a dream!

In a flash, Suzuki Rina stood up quickly and ran down the mountain without even changing her shoes.

"Where are you going, Rina? The news said that there will be a second tsunami soon, so it's better to stay home." Dad shouted to stop Suzuki Rina.

"I'm going to do what a shrine maiden should do..." Suzuki Rina paused and spoke seriously.

Regardless of whether it was Benzaten who saved her, it was shameful to escape alone. Even if she couldn't do anything, she didn't want to just watch.

After all...even though she hated Enoshima, this place was her hometown. She couldn't rely entirely on outsiders to protect it, right? At least...she had to contribute a little.

"Hmm... you seem a bit like a witch. So... go for it, my daughter!" Dad smiled.

Although he didn't know what his daughter wanted to do, it was the first time he saw her so determined.

"Yeah!" Nodding, Suzuki Rina quickly left the shrine.

The sky was covered with dark clouds, which seemed to be about to fall at any time and was extremely depressing.

Rina Suzuki worked tirelessly to disperse the crowd at the beach, and she only breathed a sigh of relief when the last tourist was away from the shore.

Walking cautiously towards the coastline, she knew that she, an ordinary person, could not deal with such a monster, but even so, she wanted to try her best not to leave behind anyone who was still on the beach.

After all, this is the only thing she can do...

After checking along the coastline and not finding anyone, Suzuki Rina was completely relieved. But then the earthquake struck again.

She quickly squatted on the spot and did not stand up until the shaking disappeared, only to see a scene she would never forget.

Two figures appeared on the coastline at some point. They were Gu Ye and Xia Mi.

As the waves surged, countless monsters emerged from the bottom of the sea, making bursts of strange noises.

The sea breeze brought the baby-like crying sound to Suzuki Rina's ears. Hundreds and thousands of babies were crying in the sound of the tide. Their cries were so heart-wrenching, like a steel knife scraping their eardrums.

Lightning snakes struck the sea, illuminating the dense shadows in the tide. Their long tails were tangled together, and the scales on their bodies glowed with metallic blue. The tide threw them into the sky, and sometimes pressed them underwater. They kept squirming, fighting the tide with all their might.

The group of unknown monsters were like a group of mating snakes entangled together, but they made cries like babies. The cries echoed on the vast sea, like the ghosts in hell singing a dirge.

"Is it the end of the world?" Suzuki Rina muttered to herself.

But the next moment, as Xia Mi raised her hand slightly, a hurricane swept them all up and floated in the air. Gu Ye snapped his fingers, and the hurricane was dyed with platinum flames.

The dim sky was illuminated, thick smoke billowed, and countless charred corpses fell from the hurricane like raindrops.

The end of the world was easily reversed by these two people...

(End of this chapter)