Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Doesn’t Want to Become a Night City Legend

Chapter 289 [Divine Retribution]

Lu Mingfei understood.

It was all 'designed'.

It's good to let Lu Mingfei enter a safe haven.

It would be good if Lu Mingfei could see Lu Mingze.

It would be good to let Lu Mingfei take Lu Mingze with him.

All of this is within Odin's acceptable range.

Or rather, it's like the branches in a visual novel, corresponding to different endings, but everything is just an 'ending,' there's no such thing as an 'error.'

If Lu Mingfei chooses to stay in the safe haven, that would be best, as it eliminates the only enemy.

If Lu Mingfei saw Lu Mingze choose to take him away but failed—that's fine too. Regardless of whether Lu Mingfei is dead or alive, it has already proven the strength of the Mobile Team.

If Lu Mingfei defeats the Mobile Team and obtains the test data, that would be good too.

[Divine Retribution] is a weapon of the European Secret Party, but keeping a weapon hidden is one way to use it, and using it is another.

Do you remember what Lu Mingfei said before about the 'guaranteed hit' of the [Gungnir] needing to be subject to conditions to limit this 'invincible' weapon?
【distance】

【Usage Interval】

Using .object?
The answer has now been revealed.

Gungnir's 'sure hit' effect is limited by the original mythical phrase 'throwing a bullet will kill', meaning that if the target survives, you cannot throw another shot at them.

Because it contradicts the rules governing the weapon itself.

Lu Mingze was once hit by Gungnir, but did not die immediately—this does not mean that Lu Mingze unconditionally ignored the rules of this weapon.

Because Lu Mingze is not 'immortal,' but rather 'not yet dead.'

Therefore, Gungnir could not achieve 'guaranteed hit' against anyone else before killing Lu Mingze.

In other words, Gungnir's [ultimate move] has a step-by-step process.

First, calibration.

Second, throw it.

Third, kill.

Lu Mingfei and Lu Mingze were subtly identified as 'the same person,' which triggered the 'guaranteed hit' at that time.

So! After Lu Mingfei was stabbed, Lu Mingze immediately appeared beside Lu Mingfei, and never appeared in Lu Mingfei's mind again!

It was because he had realized this as well, that as long as he existed within Lu Mingfei's mind, Lu Mingfei would be captured by the inescapable spear.

However, Odin had foreseen this step.

What now?
Lu Mingze (Zero) was taken away by Lu Mingfei to escape.

The coordinates once again appeared on Lu Mingfei's head.

From the moment Odin appeared before Lu Mingfei, from his perspective—

It's all too late.

He has accumulated enough advantages to secure victory.

Lu Mingfei saw from many facts that mixed-race families nowadays have hoarded a lot of resources and technology.

At the same time, as the strongest mercenary of the future, he also knew how insignificant the so-called 'battle' was.

Combat and war are different.

Lu Mingfei might be able to storm the Arasaka Tower in the city alone and capture their heir alive, but that would only be possible if Arasaka utterly disregarded individual strength and had Arasaka Yoriyuki assisting him. In reality, humanity has never been a race that boasts about the 'individual' since its inception.

Rather, it is precisely because humans do not boast about their individual strength that they are able to stand at the top of the food chain as creatures far superior to dragons.

Lu Mingfei has no way to defeat 'technology'.

If it weren't for Arasaka Yoriyuki's meddling, and if the Arasaka family were willing to drag him down with them, the best way to deal with Lu Mingfei would be to directly target the ground-attack weapons on the space satellites with Lu Mingfei's Arasaka Tower.

Let alone Arasaka Tower, given the technological level of the future cyberpunk era, destroying Night City in an instant would be a matter of a snap of the fingers.

It's just that after weighing the interests of all parties, they missed this opportunity to make a decision.

Now, [it is known that the hybrid nobles of the future have all ascended into space, and are likely living an unrestrained life in that Crystal Palace].

Therefore, it is not surprising that the European Secret Society, or the aristocratic symbiotic circle, which was its predecessor, now possesses the technological foundation of Crystal Palace.

This refers to the so-called space railgun technology, which enables high-precision, high-mass projection onto the ground.

Sword Mastery completes trajectory control.

Initial velocity control is completed in an instant.

The dust-free land breaks through any spatial barrier.

Beyond humanity's conventional imagination of technology, ultimately, "that" was projected down.

The clouds are disappearing.

The pale sky first cratered into ring-shaped ripples, then was pierced by spiraling burn marks. Some kind of falling object, beyond the concept of physical form, was tearing through the atmosphere. The ultra-high temperature plasma flow dissociated the cloud vapor into hydrogen and oxygen ions, and the abruptly changing refractive index distorted the sky into a terrifying composite color.

The color scheme is just like the bizarre color scheme in Cthulhu novels, and in the center of the screen is a weapon.

The spear-shaped metal artifact was shimmering with liquid light, its surface pattern resembling forged blood vessels, intricate and complex yet perfectly suited to its form.

Its descent violates the laws of physics; it is not a parabolic trajectory, but rather... Lu Mingfei had seen those kinds of videos, the kind that titled themselves "Putting a 3,000-degree iron ball on an ice cube."

In Lu Mingfei's words, the spear was like a 3,000-degree iron ball, and the space was like a huge block of ice.

The Siberian ice sheet began to spasm, and stardust rose from the surface of the permafrost, not blown by the wind, but pulled by gravity from above. At the same time, the snow was lifted up, like an avalanche rushing towards the sky in reverse.

Lu Mingfei regretted it the moment he raised his head.

As living beings, the fear of enormous “abnormalities” is deeply imprinted in their genes. Lu Mingfei is often jokingly called a monster, but he knows he is human. Even if he is just an ordinary person, he will be afraid of what others are afraid of.

Fear made him pause briefly, but in the next instant, it forced him to kneel on one knee.

His knees cracked through the ice, veins bulged on Lu Mingfei's face, and blood rushed to his head, turning his face red. However, he couldn't move.

He didn't know what kind of weapon "Divine Punishment" was or how it was made.

But the 'launch' alone already uses at least three kinds of high-end incantations for super-precise control.

If the instantaneous super acceleration, combined with the dust-free environment that reduces air resistance to zero, wouldn't it be possible to reach the theoretical maximum speed?
Weapons launched at tens or hundreds of times the speed of sound as they fall?

The prerequisite for launching the weapon was the 'Gungnir' that Lu Mingfei had encountered before, but it was probably a replica, since the original was in Lu Mingfei's possession.

And after it's fired, to ensure the enemy can't escape, this immense pressure—is [royal power]!
There's no escaping it!!!

The spear of fate was aimed at Lu Mingze.

The infallible spell created by complex words was also aimed at Lu Mingfei.

Even if the latter could escape by being cunning, it was impossible for him to take Lu Mingze with him.

Is that all?

(End of this chapter)