Brass Dragons in the Dragon World

"Ah, this..."

"Then hurry up and go over there!"

A flash of light, and the place was deserted, leaving only a pool of silvery liquid, swaying slightly.

Chapter Thirty-Four: Nibelungen

In a thick fog, Ander and Angran fell onto a body of water one after the other, and the water miraculously caught them just like the ground.

Shouldn't we be asleep?

Ender looked at the water beneath his feet and took a moment to accept the fact that he was walking on water. In his understanding, he should arrive at Nibelungen in his sleep and then wake up surrounded by Deadpool.

But there was nothing there; he walked on the water like a prophet from some religion.

"No, I've figured it out. We're in a sleeping state outside, and we'll naturally wake up here."

This is Nibelungen, the land of the dead, where those who die outside will surely rise again.

Ander was forced to sleep by magic in the outside world, but his state was reversed after entering Nibelungen, and he woke up naturally.

Feeling the wonder of this world, Ander and Angran randomly chose a direction and headed forward.

In this milky white fog, there were no landmarks, only the lifeless water beneath one's feet and the impenetrable fog before one's eyes.

This world looked even more terrifying than the Nibelungen of the Dragon Kings; there was no change, no end, only endless emptiness.

In the thick fog, a faint light could be seen ahead, and Ander immediately perked up.

"Ang Ran, it must be those guys."

Regardless, any change in the lifeless fog is always delightful. Ander buffed himself and Anger as he ran toward the direction where the firelight appeared.

As he drew closer to the fire, the thick fog gradually thinned, and a patch of land suddenly appeared before Ander, as if some mysterious force had carved a piece of earth and stuffed him into a large, square pit.

Before Ander, several members of the Heaven and Earth Society were struggling to resist an attack by a group of Dead Servants.

These Dead Servants seem to be the lowest of the low. Their bodies have dragon-like features, but they don't have dragon wings. They look like emaciated walking corpses. Their attack methods are also relatively simple. They can only rely on their claws and their hard bodies to fight against the members of the Heaven and Earth Society.

As one of the two main damage dealers among them, Chu Hao naturally took the lead, wielding his axe with impeccable skill, and using his strength and speed to contend with Deadpool.

The other Chu Jie was even more violent, having already drawn the Chu family's ancestral anti-bandit sword. With the enhancement of the alchemical weapon, the crimson blade was able to cut deep gashes into Deadpool's skin, causing Deadpool to let out a terrible howl.

The two support characters in the back row weren't idle either. Ye Tao held a pistol and accurately fired at Deadpool. The alchemical bullets with added mercury were the best poison.

The seemingly old and composed Su Yu was wielding a throwing knife. With one swift motion, the knife flew out in a strange arc and pierced the back of a Deadpool's head from an odd angle, instantly relieving the pressure on the Chu siblings in the front row.

"cut!"

With Chu Jie's angry roar, a fan-shaped fire shockwave appeared in the group of Deadpools, blasting many of them away. They howled helplessly on the ground, but could only watch as the flames consumed them all.

These zombie-like dead servants didn't seem to pose much of a threat to the group; the four of them could easily handle them.

"You guys seem pretty good."

Ander raised his hand and unleashed a group Bull's Might, boosting the attack power of these individuals.

Suddenly, the situation began to reverse, and the previously deadlocked situation began to tilt in favor of the four.

With Angers joining the fray, the scales of victory tipped even more sharply. The powerful Word of Power: Time Zero allowed Angers to break through the Deadpool's defenses in an instant, and the unstoppable rapid attack sent several Deadpool heads flying into the sky.

Angers has become stronger again, that was Ander's first thought after seeing him make a move.

Under the combined attack of several people, the last Deadpool soon fell into a pool of blood that looked like black oil.

Andrew carefully avoided the corrosive blood and walked over to the Heaven and Earth Society members.

Seeing that the group was covered in wounds of all sizes, Ander frowned and cast a healing spell to slightly alleviate their injuries.

The members of the Heaven and Earth Society were all elites from their respective families, with relatively high bloodline levels and strong self-healing abilities. Under the influence of magic, they quickly regained their mobility.

"It looks like this is the dragon vein."

Ander stepped on the solid ground beneath his feet. Although walking on water felt strange, as a brass dragon living inland, he felt more at ease on the ground.

"These Tartars are really clever to hide the dragon vein in another dimension."

Ander never imagined that the dragon vein would appear in this form. At first, Ander thought that the dragon vein was some kind of device buried underground, but now, the dragon vein that could dominate the prosperity of the empire was actually in an alternate dimension.

This made Ander somewhat curious about the Tatars of this world. They were actually able to cultivate the dragon vein into the Nibelungen. The strength of the Tatars was simply too great.

Just as Ander was pondering the problem, the group that had just fought had recovered their strength and were resting and repairing their equipment. Instead of blaming Angers for hypnotizing them, they seemed somewhat excited.

"Foreign scholar, how did you manage to get us here?"

"You don't remember?"

"I just remember something flashing."

Hearing the answers from the members of the Heaven and Earth Society, Angers breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, his magic was activated quickly enough that he didn't have to go through the trouble of concealing its existence.

"You wouldn't understand even if I explained, so forget about it. Are you all done packing?"

Ander came over and helped Angers out of the predicament. The group sorted out their supplies, which included a small amount of dry rations, a large amount of explosives and weapons.

The Heaven and Earth Society's plan was simple and brutal: find the dragon vein, blow it up, and everything would be fine.

According to the Heaven and Earth Society's plan, they would provide local bandits with some weapons so that they could attack Yulin City, which was attached to Tongwan City, during Ande's expedition, in order to divert the attention of the Qing Dynasty.

Thanks to the German arms brought by Angers, even when they encountered the most elite soldiers, those bandits were able to hold their own.

Meanwhile, some hybrids will join the bandits in the attack on the city, trying to attract the attention of the dragon vein guards in Tongwan City.

It seems that the plan has been somewhat effective. Most of the Deadpools that have appeared so far are low-level and not very powerful. No higher-level beings have appeared.

After packing their belongings, the group continued on their way. The fog had thinned, and they could vaguely see some kind of towering building in the distance.

But as they ventured deeper, white netting began to appear on the ground beneath their feet, and the tower-shaped building finally revealed its true form.

It was a kind of distorted structure, like the Zerg hive in StarCraft, a pyramid shape that was narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, covered with a large amount of white filamentous material, presenting a distorted appearance.

On the surface of this building, countless white silk threads wrap around huddled human figures, their cheeks sunken, eyes tightly closed, most of their bodies trapped in the web of threads, like insects in a spider's web, unable to escape.

From a distance, it looks like a mound of human heads.

Chapter Thirty-Five: Someone's Behind It All

As Ander gazed at the terrifying structure before him, built from threads and human figures, his stomach churned. As a young dragon, he had never ventured into the abyss or hell, but this white pyramid made of humans would surely earn the admiration of demons even in the deepest abyss.

The members of the Heaven and Earth Society stared blankly at the white pyramid. They had imagined many things a dragon vein might look like. Most of the members of the Heaven and Earth Society believed that a dragon vein should be the habitat of a dragon clan, but the scene in front of them still exceeded their imagination. This white pyramid covered with human bodies might be the dragon vein.

Angers cautiously stepped forward, and to his surprise, the white, thread-like substances seemed to have little stickiness, but rather a rock-like texture, as if the finest craftsman had sculpted pure white marble into flowing threads.

Placing his hand on the face of a person bound by silken threads, Angers could clearly feel the withered flesh, which felt like an Egyptian mummy collected by the Secret Society.

Those who were bound remained motionless, and had long since turned into mummies over the passage of time.

"Is this the dragon vein?"

Ander looked at the huge white building. Although it was ugly, it was probably not enough to secure the throne of the Qing Dynasty.

Grabbing a thin thread, Ander tried to break the white strand, which was only as thick as spaghetti, but its hardness was beyond Ander's imagination. He even had to use all his strength to break the strand.

Looking at the indentation on his hand, Ander made a judgment about the strength of the pyramid. Even using all the explosives he brought wouldn't be enough to destroy this disgusting structure.

The group suppressed their nausea and proceeded to walk around the pyramid. The structure was unexpectedly tall. If the ten-meter-high city wall of Tongwan City could make people feel their own insignificance, then the height of the pyramid was at least ten times that of the city wall.

Standing at the foot of the tower, looking up at the countless heads and threads above, Ander felt a powerful sense of oppression, the kind of suffocation one feels when facing something far larger than oneself.

As they circled the giant white pyramid, one after another, withered human figures appeared before them. The bodies of these people were deeply embedded in the pyramid's structure, and their heads, which were sticking out, resembled the most gruesome mummies, with exposed teeth and withered yellow hair connected to white threads.

Endured, suppressing his nausea, turned a head around with his hand and carefully examined the back of the man's head. Most of the poor man's head was bald, with only a small section of hair at the back, which was tied together and braided into a thin braid.

This hairstyle was common in the early Qing Dynasty. As time went on, the hair on the back of the heads of Chinese people increased, until it became a situation where most of the head was covered with hair by the end of the Qing Dynasty.

If the knowledge Ander gained is correct, then this person might have died here two hundred years ago.

As the group ventured deeper into the pyramids, they noticed that the corpses hanging on the pyramids had more hair on their heads. It seemed that what Ander had initially seen were the earliest group of people sacrificed, and now, as the group moved further into the Nibelungen region, the people sacrificed came from more recent eras.

An eerie silence permeated the group throughout the journey, and even Ander couldn't speak in the atmosphere. After an unknown amount of time, a startled exclamation broke the strange silence.

"Father! Mother!"

Chu Jie saw two faces side by side exposed in the middle of the pyramid. Even though they were long dried up, Chu Jie still recognized them. They were her parents whom she had been longing for day and night.

Seeing her long-lost parents appear here, Chu Jie could no longer hold back. She grabbed the white spider web structure on the pyramid and tried to climb up, wanting to get to her parents as soon as possible.

"Ah Jie!"

Chu Hao called out to his sister from below. He also saw his parents, who were bound to the pyramid and had long since turned into mummies, but he did not impulsively separate from the main group like his sister.

"Father, Mother, I've finally found you."

Chu Jie climbed the building recklessly, reaching the withered head and carefully placing her hand on her mother's dry face.

Her once rosy cheeks now had a deathly yellowish-black tinge, and her muscles had shrunk from dehydration, revealing her somewhat uneven teeth.

"mother!……"

Chu Jie knew that her parents were dead, but she could still free them and let their bodies rest in peace.

She pounded hard on the silk threads binding her parents, and white fragments flew everywhere under the power of the hybrid, but naturally, her bare hands were not enough.

Looking at the cracks in the white spider web, Chu Jie panted heavily and drew the Tang sword from his back. The red blade, carrying a terrifying heat, cut through the white web.

"Father, Mother, I'll get you out right away."

At the foot of the pyramid, Ye Tao and Su Yu also discovered people belonging to the Su and Ye families. Those mixed-race individuals who had been captured by the Tartars had all appeared on this strange pyramid, becoming one of these mummies.

"uncle!"

"Third Uncle?"

The three members of the Heaven and Earth Society at the foot of the pyramid began searching for their former relatives and friends throughout the pyramid. Some of them had been missing for a long time, while others had been captured by the Tartars and disappeared without a trace.

"It seems this place is indeed a dragon vein."

Ander recalled the rumors he had heard before about how the Tatars would sacrifice hybrids to prolong the life of the dragon vein. Even if this pyramid in front of him was not a dragon vein, it was probably related to the Tatars.

On the other side, Chu Jie, atop the tower, drew his sword and, using the power of his alchemical weapon, severed the threads binding her parents in a few swift movements. Their already withered bodies tumbled downwards under the pull of gravity.

Ignoring his own safety, Chu Jie grabbed the two of them and hugged them tightly without thinking, intending to use his body as a cushion.

"careful!"