Lu Mingfei Development Program

Chapter 451 Blood Covenant

"Zero, do you want to tell me something?" Lu Mingfei looked up and looked at the Zero that had returned to its original state.

The faint light, so dim that it could be ignored, flickered intermittently, unable to illuminate this palace made entirely of spirits. A pitch-black giant shadow stood in the darkness, its outline illuminated by the faint light as solemn as a demon.

After returning from the hotel, Lu Mingfei, who was about to rest, suddenly felt something, and his consciousness sank into the deepest part of his mind. Then he found that the Zero, which was severely damaged after the battle with Izanami, had recovered as before.

Not only that, some new changes also occurred that he could not understand.

The Zero's fuselage lit up with golden lines, and three pairs of large red wings were placed on both sides of the fuselage, with golden lines also lit up on them. The lines on both wings seemed to be able to form a pattern, which was a huge golden cross surrounded by complex patterns.

Lu Mingfei had seen similar holy light on the body of the Omega. It seemed to be some kind of symbol, related to their beliefs.

It sounds a bit outrageous that Omega has faith, but it is also so reasonable. Because they are too similar to a certain monotheistic religion on this planet, people can't help but wonder if they are the angels who will blow the trumpets of doomsday on the Day of Judgment.

But compared to these, the changes that happened to Zero surprised Lu Mingfei even more.

Zero is still Zero, with a black body dotted with golden lines. Rather than a holy angel, it is more like a demon king from hell ready to challenge heaven. It seems that it was born to destroy Omega.

...But, at this moment, Zero is becoming more and more like Omega.

It is both holy and corrupt, full of radiance and entangled with demonic flames, almost the embodiment of an angel and a demon king. These two sides should have been irreconcilable, but in Zero they have achieved a perfect balance.

Even Lu Mingfei could only marvel at it, what an incredible existence... just like him.

The Zero came from the Broken Plan, or the Hand of the Little Witch. Its entry described it as a culmination of all mobile armor and alchemical weapons. Lu Mingfei didn't know what was mixed into this "culmination".

He also didn't know whether Zero's changes were good or bad, just like he himself didn't know where his own evolution would lead.

However, Lu Mingfei could still feel that Zero's steel body was filled with his will, just like another body of his. Zero's existence seemed to be part of his evolution, similar to Constantine who assimilated with Omega, but completely different.

After confirming that Zero's transformation was complete, Lu Mingfei left the black palace.

All that meets the eye is a vast expanse of white. In the white prison, Izanami, who is wearing an anachronistic white dress and should have been noble and beautiful, but has been thrown into prison again, is in deep thought, as if thinking about how to make this prison more beautified.

Seeing Lu Mingfei coming over, she seemed a little surprised, then chuckled: "I can see that you didn't come here just to see me."

Lu Mingfei glanced at her and said, "The King of Bronze and Fire is still alive, and Constance on the throne is still alive, although her life form is a little strange..."

After listening to Lu Mingfei's story, Izanami was a little surprised: "A hybrid of Omega and dragon?"

Then she chuckled again, and it was unclear whether she was sighing or mocking: "It's amazing that they really found a new way of evolution."

Even she, who was once as powerful as the emperor, was amazed by this unprecedented evolutionary path. This shows what an unexpected evolutionary path Constance took.

"I really want to see with my own eyes what she looks like now and how far she will evolve." Izanami said softly, and then sighed regretfully, "Unfortunately, there may still be no chance."

She looked at Lu Mingfei and smiled softly: "I guess you can feel the changes happening to you, right? "

Lu Mingfei knew what she was talking about. He could feel the changes in Zero, and Izanami, who was imprisoned in his mind, could also feel it. However, unlike Lu Mingfei who could feel the changes in Zero at a deeper level, she could only feel what happened next door at most.

But this did not prevent her from guessing that some strange changes had taken place in Lu Mingfei.

"Your evolution has progressed further." Izanami approached Lu Mingfei, her fair, elf-like face looking like the incarnation of the goddess of beauty. "But what kind of changes will this evolution bring about? This is something that I am far more curious about than observing Constance's evolution up close."

As the high priestess of the dragon clan who once sat on the throne of the world, even though she was the embodiment of beauty, the kings were astonished... But this could not change the fact that she was now a prisoner.

"As a prisoner, I have no right to say this." Izanami had a clear understanding of her situation, "But..."

There was a hint of pleading in her eyes that were gleaming with a faint golden light, which was quite incredible for her who always talked about the pride of the Dragon King.

Lu Mingfei looked at her indifferently. The effect of imprisonment seemed to be good. The high priest of the dragon clan had now learned to make requests. However, compared with what she had done before, this was too insignificant.

Izanami pleaded, "Can you come here more often? I want to see your evolution up close. Although I may seem insignificant to you, I am now a part of your spirit. My spirit is at your disposal, and I am you. The authority of the Dragon Clan High Priest belongs to you."

She continued, "Everything about your evolution is unknown, even more mysterious than those mysterious Omegas. You should also use my knowledge. It will make things much easier for you."

Lu Mingfei listened to her in silence and looked at her calmly: "Do you think that what I want to know still needs your consent?"

Although this metaphor may not be appropriate, Izanami is now a hard drive installed in a host named "Lu Mingfei". She can maintain her consciousness, but she can't do anything to the host, or even herself.

On the contrary, if Lu Mingfei wanted to know what was in this hard drive, he didn't need to go through her. He could control all the resources in the hard drive, and Izanami could only watch and could do nothing. But the only thing he couldn't do was format the hard drive. Although she didn't want to admit it, Izanami had become a part of this host system. In other words, she was also a part of Lu Mingfei's evolution.

"But, isn't it much better to have someone tell you in person than to look through those boring memories alone?" Izanami raised her head and looked at him, as if the boredom in her words was not referring to Lu Mingfei, but to herself.

Although this prison was monotonous and boring, it was better than the execution ground where all elements were dead. Occasionally, Lu Mingfei would come to "visit" her.

"...Let's talk about it later." Lu Mingfei glanced at her and prepared to leave.

"Wait." Izanami stopped him. "Although I have never lived with the kings, I understand that there is a deep friendship between two kings on the same throne."

When she said this, she looked a little strange. After all, she had always believed that dragons were a tyrannical race, and she never believed that there was a true friendship between dragons.

"This friendship is both a blessing and a curse." Izanami continued, "If the kings want to become complete, they must devour the other party on the same throne. I think this is something they cannot accept."

This sounds a bit strange, but it cannot be refuted. For some unknown reason, the Dragon Emperor who created the kings set up almost fatal weaknesses in the two kings on the same throne.

Fenrir, the king of the earth and the mountains, possesses a powerful dragon body that ranks among the best among the kings, and a strong vitality that can revive again after thousands of years of tragic war. However, because he does not like to think, he cannot use his power effectively.

In contrast to him, Xia Mi likes to use her brain, and her strong learning ability even makes her forget the brutality of dragons, and she is like a human from the inside out. However, compared with other kings, her power is too weak.

Although she kept saying that she was not able to recover her full strength due to developmental problems, her fragile appearance during the battle with Constance made people wonder if her words were just empty talk.

She seemed to be the weakest among all the kings.

Each king has his own weakness, which is why Izanami always looks down on them. In order to eliminate this weakness, they need to devour each other.

Brothers killing each other, sisters fighting each other, this is considered a heinous act in the eyes of humans, and it is even more unacceptable to the kings. They do have the cruelty described by Izanami, but they will not allow a brother or sister on the throne to disappear.

"The destroyed Nibelung you described seemed like almost the entire world was burned through. Even I would have found it difficult to deal with it when I was in my perfect period. It is definitely not something that a single king on the throne could have caused." Izanami continued with her speculation.

She looked at Lu Mingfei and said, "At the end of that battle, one of the kings on the bronze and fire thrones must have devoured the other king and become the true king of bronze and fire."

Lu Mingfei understood what she wanted to say: "But, it was Ruoton who left the dragon bone cross, which means it was Constance who was devoured. But the latter survived, and the former, who should have been complete, died."

"Yes, a king in his complete state will not be killed easily." Izanami said, "Although not as good as me, a king in his complete state will not die so easily, and will not be burned to death by the words he has triggered. Death from exhaustion is even more ridiculous."

The complete Bronze and Fire King failed to show the power that matched her title, which was not right no matter how you thought about it. Especially when the other party, who was supposed to be devoured as evolutionary material, came back to life after tens of millions of years, it was even more surprising.

"Constance's resurrection is, as expected, the work of Ruoton." Izanami said slowly, "And for Constance's resurrection, she also paid the price of her life."

Although there are still many things that don't make sense, Izanami is indeed the Dragon King who knows dragons best. In her narration, Ruoton did not die together with Omega, but died from resurrecting his sister.

This sounds a bit unreasonable, but for the Dragon King, whose sisterly bond far exceeds that of ordinary species, it seems reasonable.

Izanami chuckled after making such a guess: "Perhaps this is why Constance hates the King of the Earth and the Mountain so much."

“Isn’t this a bit far-fetched?” Lu Mingfei glanced at Izanami. “The friendship between the sisters Bronze and Fire is indeed touching, but it is a bit unreasonable for a complete Dragon King to die in order to resurrect his sister and for the resurrected sister to resent other Dragon Kings.”

Izanami looked at Lu Mingfei silently, and shook her head in disappointment: "At this point, you are still using a human's mindset to think about the relationship between dragon kings. Although dragons are intelligent species like humans, they are two different creatures after all."

"Even though I have been trapped in the execution ground for a long time, I still know that the relationship between the kings is quite complicated." She said softly, "They can attack each other for a long time, until the last dragon servant dies. Or, when a powerful enemy appears, they can unite and fight against the enemy together."

The covenant signed with blood has an unimaginable binding force. The kings can continue to attack each other after the covenant ends. However, during the covenant, they must abide by the terms of the covenant. Violators will pay an unimaginable price.

Lu Mingfei, who had once made a covenant, naturally understood this.

Izanami smiled faintly: "The fierceness of the battles in ancient times must have been far beyond our imagination. The enemy that almost wiped out the dragon civilization must have been a difficult problem for the kings."

The existence of this enemy forced the kings to treat it with caution, so much so that they also used the last resort of devouring another person on the throne. Their souls could fall into a deep sleep and wake up again, so they actually had the choice of not fighting the enemy to death.

Unless, not being able to use sleep to avoid battle is one of the contents of the covenant.

"In fact, the kings will not resort to devouring brothers and sisters until the last moment. Unless... the covenant contains a clause that in the most urgent situation, even if it means devouring brothers and sisters, they must completely destroy the opponent." Izanami also guessed the content of one of the covenants.

She looked at Lu Mingfei and said softly, "Then it is obvious that a dragon king did not abide by the terms of the covenant. What Constance hates is not a specific dragon king, but the dragon king who failed to abide by the covenant."

(End of this chapter)