Dragon Raja: Reboot

"This movie tells the story of a future virtual game world where young people can repeatedly experience life and death. The strange stimulation, coupled with the high rewards for clearing levels, makes countless people addicted to it. But the price of madness is cruel. The brains of those who play excessively will be completely damaged, and they will eventually become completely useless."

"In the show, people call this cursed virtual world 'Avalon,' the Western paradise, the final resting place of the hero King Arthur."

"In the early to middle stages of the film, the director tells two remarkably similar stories through the voices of the protagonist and the administrator."

"The administrator told the first story: the nine sisters, also known as the fairy Morgan, once rescued the injured King Arthur in a black ship and went to the end of the world, a place of eternal unchanging nature, and also an island where life and death meet."

"The first story isn't the key point. The key point is that the protagonist uses a similar plot from Norse mythology—Odin also suffered a shipwreck and drifted to an island. The fairy Morgan rescued him and gave him a golden ring. After that, Odin remained forever young and immortal. But Odin didn't realize that when he accepted this gift, Morgan also placed the Crown of Oblivion on his head at the same time..."

The carriage was silent except for Lu Mingfei's voice describing a scene from the movie.

Bright yellow lights shone from the overhead lights of the carriage, while heavy shadows swept past the windows, and the sound of the old-fashioned train rolling over the tracks became the background noise.

"That's the end of the story; that's the main point of this film. Now, you two, please use your clever little brains and the meticulous reasoning you used to decipher 'The Jade Record' to tell me what you've gleaned from this story?"

Lu Mingfei casually pulled an orange from Xia Mi's bag, peeling it as he asked questions, just like a teacher waiting for students to hand in their papers on the podium.

The carriage remained silent for a while.

Both Chu Zihang, a model student, and Xia Mi, an outstanding student, fell into deep thought.

They tried to combine this story with popular legends they could think of, attempting to uncover important information hidden within it by Lu Mingfei.

The silence lasted for a long time, until Xia Mi looked up and whispered:

"In the widely circulated legend of King Arthur, King Arthur's life can be roughly divided into five stages: his childhood was spent being raised by the magician Merlin; his youth was spent pulling the sword from the stone and becoming king; then came the glory of establishing the Round Table and having 150 Knights of the Round Table; then the glory faded, the 150 knights left one after another, the empire came to an end, and finally he was betrayed and died together with his bastard son."

"In legend, King Arthur was the chosen one, destined to be king from the moment he was born. He pulled the sword out of the stone that no one else could, and became the king of England."

"So the question is, why was it only King Arthur who could pull out that sword?"

She raised the first question.

Lu Mingfei, popping an orange into his mouth, mumbled, "This sword is sentient. It knows Arthur is the chosen one and willingly surrendered. Its first lackey will at least become a prime minister in the future."

Xia Mi rolled her eyes at his perfunctory answer.

"It's bloodline!"

Chu Zihang said with piercing eyes,

"The key to whether or not this sword can be drawn is bloodline!"

"A key point here is that the person who proposed using the ability to pull the sword from the stone as the standard for selecting a king was none other than Merlin, King Arthur's tutor! He was known to later generations as a magician, or rather... an alchemist!"

"The Sword in the Stone is a living alchemical weapon! Only someone with a sufficiently high bloodline can pull it out!"

Xia Mi said emotionally, "I remember now, King Arthur also had another name, the Red Dragon of Britain! Do you know the Welsh flag? It's a red dragon, and it's said to date back to the time of King Arthur!"

"Yes, we are currently in the Duchy of Wales, and the flag of Wales is also known as the Red Dragon Flag," Chu Zihang said in a deep voice. "If our current speculation is accurate, then King Arthur was also a dragon, and a dragon raised by an alchemist!"

"A... dragon raised in the human world by a hybrid?" Xia Mi asked in a low voice.

"That's normal. You should have read 'The Hidden History of the Dragon Clan.' Attila the Hun was the king of the earth and mountains. He spent his youth in the Roman court, where he was called by his bloodline and that's when he finally awakened."

Chu Zihang said seriously, "King Arthur was raised by Merlin. As an alchemist, Merlin may have suppressed King Arthur's bloodline awakening."

Xia Mi puffed out her cheeks and glared fiercely at the guy when no one could see her.

Lu Mingfei popped the last segment of orange into his mouth, looked out the window, and casually asked, "What generation of the Arthurian race do you think King Arthur was?"

Chu Zihang pondered for a moment and said:

"King Arthur had two important people by his side: one was the magician Merlin, and the other was his half-sister Morgana!"

Merlin raised King Arthur from childhood and guided him to obtain Excalibur after the sword in the stone broke, constantly mentoring him to become a worthy monarch.

Morgan sent her illegitimate son with Arthur to Arthur's side and plotted to kill Arthur many times. However, after King Arthur died, Morgan took Arthur to Avalon as a guardian.

"It's a contradiction. Morgan wanted to get rid of Arthur and seize the throne, but after Arthur's death, he took him back to Avalon and stayed by his side for the rest of his life."

Xia Mi said softly, "A dragon, how could you possibly understand its thoughts? Perhaps he was killed because Morgan loved him too much."

Chu Zihang frowned.

Kill him because you loved him too much? What kind of logic is that?

But when he turned to look at Xia Mi, he was stunned.

His junior sister, who used to hop around like a rabbit in front of him, suddenly slumped onto the table, staring blankly at the desolate night outside the window, a barely perceptible hint of darkness flashing in her eyes.

A hand suddenly appeared between him and Xia Mi.

Lu Mingfei waved his hand in front of Xia Mi's eyes: "Hey, hey! Comrade, what's making you so inexplicably sad? Are you getting tears in your eyes because of Morgan and Arthur's forbidden love? Stop it!"

Xia Mi chopped Lu Mingfei's wrist with a chop, then snorted as she stood up, hands on her hips, and said, "I'll smear it all over your face! I was just thinking about the manga Inuyasha I used to read!"

Chu Zihang remained silent.

Junior sister has returned to her carefree and optimistic self.

His thoughts still jump around; one second he's discussing the secrets of Morgan and King Arthur, and the next he's reminiscing about Inuyasha.

But for some reason, he felt... that the junior sister from earlier was the most authentic version of her.

Chu Zihang wanted to continue the previous topic and discuss the issue of "killing him because of love," but when he opened his mouth, he subconsciously avoided the topic.

"We now know that the thrones of the dragons are always held by twins. Given King Arthur's status in historical mythology, he was very likely one of the first dragons, and Morgan was the other monarch on the throne."

"As for Morgan..." Chu Zihang hesitated, "Morgan is a very complex character. She appears in Italian, French, and English mythology. Sometimes she is a goddess, sometimes a witch, and sometimes a fairy."

"No, senior brother, you've overlooked a factor: the times!" Xia Mi interrupted him for the first time.