Under the Red Dragon.

Chapter 249: Truth - Law
Lonely smoke in the desert and setting sun on the sandy river.

The lonely smoke is a sandstorm that stretches from sky to earth. The setting sun is dim, and the afterglow falls on the dark yellow desert sand.

Karon strolled on the fading sand. When he walked with his claws and toes, all the stress points of the sand were perfectly covered by him, making the red dragon that had grown to 21 meters look like it was walking on normal ground.

There were no depressions in the sand, no flowing sand and gravel. It was as if the giant dragon, weighing tons, was like a dead leaf sliding across the sand, leaving almost no trace where it stepped.

The giant demon Fafna, who was following beside the ancestral red dragon with a soft silk covering her eyes and tied behind her head, could not do what Caron did so easily.

Although Fafnir's body weight was far less than that of the ancestral red dragon, even if she controlled it with her own strength, she could not do it as instinctively and easily as Caron, and her feet would leave dents of quicksand and scattered gravel.

Although Fafner covered her eyes, the giant monster, which was difficult to control due to its huge increase in mental power, could be seen more clearly with her mind's eye than with her naked eyes.

This is not the ancestral red dragon using its own power, talent regarding the earth or any spell, it relies entirely on the instinctive adjustments of the brain.

Let every muscle in the body and every movement of force fit in with the surrounding environment, changing with every step, as if naturally.

Even if Fafnir tried hard to learn the methods of the ancestral red dragon, she was unable to acquire such a skill. She could only give up her inner thoughts and walk on the sand at her own pace, following her master into the distance.

This place is thousands of miles away from the floating island where the Imperial Legion’s headquarters is located, but Charon set out on the journey of pursuit with only a maid by his side.

After ingesting the spice for the first time, both Charon's brain and body were given the opportunity to evolve.

According to the research of the Mage Corps and the common sense gained from the mental torture of Laban, a warrior of the Harkonnen family, although spices have powerful effects, continuous intake of spices will make the body develop resistance to this magical product, causing the effectiveness of the spices to gradually decrease.

However, consuming too much spices can be seriously addictive, and the side effects are difficult for ordinary people to bear.

In order to prolong the effect of the spices and reduce their addictive side effects, ordinary low-level mages need to wait at least one month after the first large-scale intake before using them for the second time.

The third time will need to be at least three months apart.

Compared to the foundation of low-level wizards, the foundation of the ancestral red dragon seems unfathomable. The upper limit of spices used by others may not even reach the lower limit of spices used by the red dragon.

But in order to make the spices more effective, Karon still formulated his own intake plan according to the rules studied by the mages.

Therefore, after the second intake of spices on the tenth day, Caron set out on the journey with his maid Fafner, carrying enough spices for the third use.

While walking, the information of the world is collected by Caron's brain and sub-brain and organized in an orderly manner, which is different from the world in the real vision state.

If Charon wanted to, he could easily calculate from the salt beds he swept and the traces of structural changes in the rock layers exposed or buried deep in the desert that the planet Arrakis had undergone water erosion three million years ago.

If Charon was willing to invest more energy and gain more information, he would be able to calculate the exact year three million years ago in an instant.

But Caron had no intention of investing his energy into these meaningless calculations, because in his brain, the memory of accidental images from his past life kept running.

He thought divergently, using the information he had previously found to calculate the best direction for the Empire's forces to take after arriving in this world.

And, the best route for Kallon himself.

After entering the interstellar civilization, the human social form finally changed due to the "Butler" holy war with intelligent thinking machines. The major families rose up through revival, and eventually formed an imperial feudal system with the emperor as the main body in the galaxy universe.

The various nobles cooperated with each other, but also competed secretly.

The Leo Empire, with the Colino family as the imperial family, sitting high on the Golden Lion Throne and ruling all the nobles, is the highest political power in the universe.

But it is not the imperial government of the united aristocracy that has the exclusive power to rule the universe.

Because of Butler's Jihad, the civilization system regressed, and information exchange and transportation were hindered by time and space.

Among humans, ancient religious doctrines have risen again and set rules: You cannot create machines that pretend to be human thinking.

The Navigators' Guild, which controls the key to interstellar transportation in the universe, has also become a powerful force.

Therefore, the Leo Empire is actually a joint rule of three major forces: the Imperial Government, the Guild of Astronautics, and the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, which integrates all religious doctrines.

It just so happens that humans who have special abilities because of spices are the members of these three major forces. They are the navigators of the Navigators' Guild, the military strategists of the nobles - the Mentat Crystal Masters, and the Truth Masters of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood!
The Harkonnen family, to which the warrior Laban belonged, was a member of the aristocratic forces in the imperial government. The head of the family, Baron Harkonnen, originally controlled Arrakis, a planet that belonged to the Harkonnen family.

However, the emperor of the Leo Empire was afraid of the Duke Atreides family, which had the title of successor to the empire and had powerful strength, so he moved the Atreides family to the planet Arrakis.

This led to the Harkonnen family, which originally controlled the spice production area and gained huge profits, to unite with the scheming emperor. The emperor sent the Saccardo Legion to work together with the Harkonnen family to destroy the Duke Atreides family forces that had moved to the planet Arrakis.

Now, Arrakis is back under the rule of the Harkonnen family.

Laban, the senior commander of the Harkonnen Family Legion, was accidentally captured by the dragon's mage legion on his way back to the base, and thus learned this obvious information.

But from his ups and downs in memory, Charon knew that the Duke of Atreides' only son Paul Atreides and his mother Lady Jessica of the destroyed Atreides family were not dead.

Combining the scene that flashed by with Laban's memory, Caron was able to confirm that Paul and Lady Jessica, who were abandoned in the desert by the Harkonnen warriors and left to be devoured by sandworms, should have fled to the center of the desert and were seeking help from the local indigenous people, the Fremen.

It was not based on his own ability to deduce. Caron had not yet encountered these two survivors, so there was no information to provide a basis for his deduction.

His understanding of this world comes from memories of past lives and existing information, but compared to the real and vast universe, feathers are nothing.

But Charon's powerful spiritual intuition told the red dragon that perhaps as long as he met that special son of the era, the focus of the convergence of various forces, the web of the past and the future connected to the center of the present - Paul Atreides.

He can follow the clues and, through the intersecting information, get clues about leaving this world and heading to the world of ice and fire.

So, Charon took his maid and walked along the desert towards the stronghold where the indigenous Fremen might live.

For the Red Dragon, it was more like a challenge during the journey. He did not use any strength, but relied on the calculation and deduction ability of his brain to explore the settlement of the Fred people through clues.

The concentration of water molecules hidden in the air and the traces of accidental activities hidden in remote corners were all captured by Caron's eyes.

Occasionally, he and Fafner could see tiny flashes of lightning on the sand surface, which were signs of the friction effect caused by sandworms passing through the desert underground.

However, after tasting the taste of sandworms, Kallon no longer intends to hunt these precious spice producers. These sandworms have become a fountain of wealth that can produce treasures continuously in the eyes of the dragon.

The setting sun sank beneath the sand, and two moons gradually appeared on the horizon, one large and one small.

But in front of Charon, there was a raging sandstorm. The storm, with speeds of hundreds of kilometers per hour, was like a dark shadow that swallowed everything under the dim night sky, sweeping in the raging sand.

However, Caron did not take Fafner to avoid this smaller storm.

The ancestral red dragon opened his claws, and a dazzling ball of magical light condensed at his claws, forming the shape of a rotating seed.

The 68,960 magic runes he mastered were like dazzling bands of light. The light bands formed by the tiny runes flowed and flashed on the surface of the seed, and instantly arranged into spell models.

Dozens of spells were immediately released along with the model, casting a spell on Fafner who was following quietly beside her.

Steel Bones, Qi Growth, Dragon Scales, Spell Shield, Earth Barrier, etc., one spell after another wrapped Fafner tightly, enough to easily withstand the bombardment of magic heavy artillery.

The magic problem that once troubled the ancestral red dragon was solved after taking the spice and successfully starting the evolution. Now, Kalon can release dozens of low- and medium-level spells with just a wave of his claws, which can be called a torrent of spells.

Fafna smiled, a master and a servant, they were already familiar with each other, no need to say more. Then the dragon and the man stepped directly into the sandstorm.

A true gale is a force that destroys everything, making all destruction created by humans ashamed.

These small or coarse gravels swept by the sandstorm hit all exposed objects within the field of vision with amazing kinetic force. Between the sky and the earth, there was only raging sand, nothing else.

This is not a momentary impact. Any object exposed to the madly swirling sand and dust will be subjected to continuous impact.

Even if they become an interstellar civilization and their alloy spacecraft are able to travel into the starry universe, they will be polished away bit by bit by the continuous impact of the sand and turned into fragments finer than gravel.

If an adult dragon falls into a sandstorm, it may be able to hold on for a short while with the help of its scales, but eventually its scales will be worn through by the sandstorm and it will have to flee the area. However, Caron stepped into the sandstorm, and with his right wing slightly opened, he protected Fafner under his wing, allowing this mighty force that was enough to destroy everything in the mortal world to hit him.

Countless grains of sand washed over the scales of the ancestral red dragon with amazing kinetic energy, grinding out a series of bursting sparks, like a grinding wheel cutting steel, grinding on the scales of Charon, making a teeth-grinding friction sound.

Wisps of lightning lingered on the wings and body of the red dragon. It was the static magnetic field caused by the raging sandstorm, which, together with the sand, polished the red dragon's body.

The gravel was grinding against the red dragon's scales, removing the luster of the scales that were not protected by any force bit by bit, and grinding the thick and solid dragon scales into a thin piece. It was about to grind through the dragon's scales and then destroy the dragon's skin, flesh, tendons and bones.

But after taking the spices, Caron's control over his body had reached the level of every cell. He mobilized and extracted a little of the energy contained in each cell, and distributed it to the deliberately polished subscaly skin as a reserve.

Whenever a red dragon's scales are about to be worn through, abundant energy will immediately flow into them, causing the dragon's scales to grow rapidly and form scales with greater defense and toughness.

The same was true of the skin and flesh on his body that were not covered by scales. As they rotted, the muscles squeezed out the sand and gravel, then grew, and then destroyed, gaining new life in the pain of growth and destruction.

In this world, there are many creatures that hone themselves through the stimulation of being injured, repairing themselves and gaining stronger bodies.

The same goes for the ancestral red dragon. Without any training, relying solely on natural growth and construction, even with a secondary brain, he is unable to increase his physical strength again, just like an experiment requires a large number of samples to obtain better choices.

And Charon's body continued to move forward in the sandstorm only by relying on its natural tonnage, not because his weight was heavy enough to be overturned by such amazing force.

But in his extremely clear brain, every existing vector and every inch of change in the storm in the raging sand were under his control.

Caron fully mobilized all the muscles and strength in his body. Relying on his strong body and perception, he was able to feel the trajectory and changes of the movement of billions of gravels, every change and direction of the wind, and the purpose and effect of the force.

By adjusting his subtle movements and balance, the membranes on his wings endured the trials and tribulations of the storm while adjusting their movements to relieve the impact of the sweeping wind, allowing him to walk through the sandstorm with just his body and brain.

The huge amount of computing information made Charon's brain and sub-brain work at the same time. Countless huge vectors and wind changes flashed in the brain, causing a long-lost breath of steam to emerge from the red dragon's scales.

This was an extraordinary amount of calculation that required him to provide a large amount of energy, and the huge amount of energy running through the red dragon's body caused a strange phenomenon.

It had been a long time since Caron had experienced such a rapid brain operation. He opened his mouth wide and excitedly showed his long teeth, forcing himself to endure this state so that he could quickly adapt to the results of his growth and evolution.

Every time the Ancestral Red Dragon thought that his brain was gradually approaching its limit in calculating huge amounts of information, his will would bring him new surprises.

In this constant pressure and training, Caron's potential was squeezed out. He put all his energy into his brain and let his body's instincts run wild, wandering aimlessly in the sandstorm.

Until a certain moment, Caron felt the pressure around him suddenly relax, his body instinctively stopped supplying large amounts of energy, and his extremely active brain instantly returned to a calm state, and then he came to his senses.

The natural sandstorm that seemed like a natural disaster was already far behind him, moving away from him like the shadow of the sun.

There were two moons in the sky, one big and one small, hanging above the sand dunes, casting silver moonlight, and the earth was like mercury and yellow sand.

On a sand dune in the distance, a man and a woman stood on the top of the dune, looking in surprise at the man and the dragon who had walked out of the grandfather-level desert storm, their faces filled with shock. Even the danger of a raging sand wave coming from beneath the sand surface could not make them move.

The most terrifying creature in the desert, the sandworm, moved across the sand at a very fast speed, but when it got close to the dragon and the man, it suddenly turned around, rolling with lightning and sand waves, and fled far away in another direction.

"what is that?"

Paul Atreides and his mother Jessica stared at the man and the dragon walking slowly towards them. As they walked slowly, the dragon turned into a human again, but the previous scene was not an illusion.

The two people saw each other very clearly, just like Moses parting the sea, parting the sand and dust in the ancient myth that was circulated on the mother planet whose planet coordinates had long been lost.

"No, I don't know...!"

Lady Jessica's trembling voice betrayed her fear and seriousness.

Lady Jessica is a member of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, a religious order that possesses special abilities and awareness.

As a sisterhood that unites all religions, it is different from other sects, which either wait for the coming of a savior or worship a savior.

The Bene Gesserit knew that there were no gods in the world, so they created a savior, a chosen one with their own hands, a savior who was controlled by the sisterhood like a messiah.

This savior was called Kwisatz Haderak by the Sisterhood.

For thousands of years, members of the Sisterhood have been attempting to achieve this goal.

They rely on mating with outstanding members of each family to conduct genetic selection, obtaining and studying the genes of all human families.

To this end, these sisterhood members have mastered unparalleled abilities through the use of drugs made from spices and rigorous physical and mental training.

The most outstanding people can even control their own bodies at the cellular level, and when they obtain the genes of the target family and carry out pregnancy and breeding, they can control the gender of the fetus at will.

Before the creation of the sisterhood's 'Messiah', all children born were girls used as breeding stock in the future.

They can also control blood flow, body temperature, heart rate, and consciousness, and their physical prowess is extraordinary, with fighting skills that are almost unmatched.

He can even use his spirit and mantras to temporarily control the minds and thoughts of others, and can easily distinguish between lies and truth.

After taking the special product of the sandworm's death - the water of life, these powerful people like witches can also open up the ancestral memories in their blood, gain insight into all history, ancient and modern, and possess all the knowledge and wisdom of past female ancestors.

The savior they want to create, 'Quisatz Haderak', will be born as a male according to the plan, and will be able to possess all the memories of all male and female ancestors of the human family, becoming a human-shaped computer Mentate.

He can also predict the future like a navigator, become the Golden Lion Emperor of the Leo Empire, rule the empire, and lead all human beings towards the desired future controlled by the Sisterhood.

Although Paul Atreides was an unplanned creation caused by his mother Jessica falling in love with Duke Atreides, he also possessed the potential and qualifications to become a savior.

He possesses the knowledge and skills of a witch, as well as the ability to observe fragments of the future in dreams. He is temporarily recognized by the Sisterhood as one of the targets of the plan.

But even if these sisterhood saviors really came, they would not have the calm power to walk in the sandstorm.

Even though Jessica is a witch and Paul Atreides is stronger than ordinary people, they still need to wear survival equipment just to walk in the desert.

It is impossible to walk in this raging sand just like those two god-like beings wearing simple and luxurious silk robes.

As a member of the sect, Mrs. Jessica was terrified.

As the other person got closer, both of them could see that the other person was extremely tall. In front of the other person's 3.5-meter body, the two of them were like weak children.

However, his tall stature could not destroy the perfection of the other party, but instead enhanced the divine brilliance of the other party.

Although the man had a gentle gaze and his features and bones were perfect in a way that could not be described or shaped by the world, the indifference deep in his eyes was like the divinity in the eyes of God, which sees all living beings as equal.

Although the woman's eyes were covered with silk ribbons, her beautiful body and face looked particularly holy, like an angel saint accompanying the gods.

A terrible possibility flashed through Mrs. Jessica's mind. Her shrewd brain was confused by this terrible speculation, causing her to tremble and shout, "Stop and tell me, who are you!"

The air around them seemed to be vacuumed out, and the ancient, witchy voice sounded like an echo, at the same time as Lady Jessica's voice, majestic, powerful and authoritative.

It was as if when Jessica made the sound, she summoned the full power of her ancestors.

But Jessica's true words could not control the thoughts and behaviors of either Caron or Fafner. As Jessica spoke, Caron instinctively analyzed the changes in the language.

He instantly remembered Jessica's accent and pronunciation, the tone, the pitch, the volume, and every detail of her throat movements. He also instantly detected Jessica's emotions and thoughts when she instinctively used the truth.

Then he opened his mouth, and an ancient voice mixed with the echo of a dragon's roar sounded at the same time.
"kneel!"

A majestic and powerful voice sounded, and the roar of a dragon also shook. Its extremely powerful mantra made Jessica and Paul Atreides fall to their knees in an instant. The previous mental training had no effect at all.

In this instant, Charon learned the witchcraft of this mantra, but in the mouth of the Dragon Emperor, this mantra was like a command.

(End of this chapter)