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

Chapter 309 [The Bronze Purgatory of the Alchemy Realm]

Chapter 309 [Alchemy Realm: Bronze Purgatory]

The friendship between Pompeii and Angers dates back to the first half of the 20th century.

In that era, Angers, as the sole survivor of the Summer Mourning incident, had already distinguished himself and was highly respected throughout the mixed-race community. However, due to his age, he was not well-liked by all parties.

In this situation, Angers often mingled with young talents like Henkel and Flamel.

Although Angers didn't say it explicitly, perhaps it was because after leaving Meneque and others, he subconsciously and urgently sought out talented people like those from the past as his partners.

But these ambitious young people soon ran into obstacles.

It's not a matter of when, but that barrier can be broken. Menek's defeat symbolizes a great defeat for humanity against the dragons, which makes people's feelings towards Angers quite complicated, and also makes Angers himself feel disgusted.

Perhaps it was during this period that Angers developed a dislike for the powerful and wealthy, after all, he himself had been a member of the privileged class before.

It was Angers' investors who broke the deadlock.

The Gattuso family – Pompeii.

By controlling the council of elders and bribing various parties with dragon blood and related technologies, the Gattuso family was in a period of rapid development in this era, and Pompeii, as the face of the family, had already crafted his 'persona'.

Pompeii was resurrected earlier than the other dragon kings, so he naturally knew the fact that 'dragons are transforming into humans' earlier.

Unlike Xia Mi and Lao Tang, he did not reject this point in the same way.

For dragons, there is no excessive pride in their own species. This is what makes Pompeii, as the King of the Sky and Wind, different from others. Not only him, but also his brother, Li Wuyue, is probably the same. That is why they respect the hybrids in the Summer Mourning and take their lives as if they were warriors.

In short, Pompeii not only did not reject becoming human, but even actively created a persona for himself and immersed himself in it.

playboy.

Glib tongue.

There was some overlap with his time as a dragon, but at least Pompeii himself seemed to be having a good time.

Before he knew it, he was completely absorbed in it. Unlike his half-baked behavior of reminding himself and even dividing Jormungandr and Shami into two parts, Pompeii remained consistent from beginning to end with the idea that "Pompeii is the king of the sky and the wind, and the king of the sky and the wind is Pompeii."

They met each other when Angers was at its lowest point and made the investment quickly and decisively.

The Gattuso family's current status and influence within Kassel College stems from the heavy investment they made in their early years.

This also led to Angers and Pompeii becoming friends.

Angers had doubts about Pompeii's motives, but the most brilliant lie is not lying, yet leading others astray. Pompeii never showed the slightest hostility because he truly had no intention of making any moves in the twentieth century.

His plan was designed to last for centuries, and his intention to cultivate Angers was genuine, solely to gain his support from the board of directors and to serve as a deterrent.

Because Pompeii could not stand openly, Angers was a good disguise.

But, a hundred years?
Perhaps it was precisely because Pompeii never rejected his identity as a human being that he unknowingly came to regard Angers as a true friend—something he had never experienced in thousands of years. This coincidence allowed him to avoid Angers' suspicions and make it so easy for him to betray Angers in the end.

The alchemy he used was a "contract" invented by Norton but altered by himself.

Only when one party is completely powerless to resist and is a hybrid of the Sky and Wind Kings can this be used to completely turn the other party into their puppet.

Pompeii did the same for the school board.

Therefore, he never worried about Angers' betrayal.

Because this is a one-time contract.

A blood oath with stringent conditions, one that forbids betrayal even unto death.

Angers has neither a brain-computer interface nor has he undergone brain surgery, so Lu Mingfei cannot control him through hacking or viruses.

Alchemy. Even if Old Tang were on the other side, Pompeii didn't believe he could intervene in the battlefield, let alone resolve the [contract] he left behind so quickly.

This is the power of the "King," one of the four elemental masters. Even among kings, those who control different elements cannot intervene.

Therefore, the possibility of Angers betraying them never existed in the first place.

So what's going on now?

"Ahem!"

Pompeii gripped the blade protruding from his abdomen, his expression constantly shifting.

His face suddenly turned deathly pale, veins bulged, and his expression became ferocious as he slowly and tremblingly turned his head.

unless
"Angers, you—"

"Guessed it right."

And the silver knight whose pupils should have been unfocused.

He spoke for the first time in this battle. Angers' face looked as if it had been carved by a knife in the dim light. Several streaks of blood extended from his brow bone to his cheek, slowly sliding down his high nose and dripping onto the corner of his mouth, but they did not diminish the faint, unruly smile on his lips.

Those deep eyes, no longer unfocused, have become focused and concentrated.

"I have never been controlled by you from the beginning."

[When Pompeii entered Kassel College as a school board member and unleashed the power of the King of the Sky and Wind, intending to launch a sneak attack on Angers]

Angers had already realized that he had no chance of winning.

Therefore, he decisively chose to concede defeat and focused all his physical and mental energy on the fact that he was 'unable to control himself'.

This action should have been judged as reckless.

No matter how powerful Angers was, this determined hybrid could not break free from the shackles of alchemy.

To reiterate, that is the power of the [King of the Sky and Wind].

Only Pompeii could change him.

That's not right.

"That's not right."

"."

Pompeii's hand, which was gripping the folding knife, suddenly trembled violently, and his face, which had been filled with doubt, turned into one of terror.

"you----"

"King of the Sky and Wind"

Angers' voice was dry and hoarse.

"No, are there two?"

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[Odin directly intervened in the Summer Mourning incident, planting a mole and instigating a riot, which directly led to the deaths of all the upper echelons of the Secret Society. His most desired outcome was that the Dragon King would kill all humans and then devour his own brothers—but unfortunately, due to the temporary counterattack of the hybrid Menek, the most outstanding hybrid in the world, Li Wuyue, one of the Kings of the Sky and Wind, still died and entered the cocoon and reincarnation.]

Why was Pompeii, as the Dragon King, able to become friends with Angers alone?

During the Summer Mourning incident, Menek and Li Wuyue perished together. People suspected that it was the alchemical knife [Rhine] + Menek, the precursor to the folding knife, that killed Li Wuyue. But what if he hadn't died?

The Dragon King's resurrection would take hundreds or thousands of years, so Pompeii didn't care about that. But what if there were other methods?

[Hasn't the method of instantly reviving a dragon after death been shown before?]

Beside him, Xia Mi, inside Chu Zihang's body, trembled as if struck by lightning.

".cocooning.

"To form a cocoon inside the human body!"

With the Dragon King on the verge of death but not yet having formed his cocoon, his only option is the nearest living being.

[In that explosion, Rhine had an elemental destruction radius of several kilometers, so why did Angers survive?]

How could a basement possibly withstand such an explosion?

There has only been one answer from beginning to end.

“You are…” Pompeii said incredulously.

"Within your body is [his] cocoon!"

"bingo."