Brass Dragons in the Dragon World

Chu Hao saw his sister falling from the sky and rushed forward to catch her. Ander also ran a few steps and secretly cast a Feather Fall spell on Chu Jie.

"Are you alright, A-Jie?"

Chu Hao carefully laid down his parents' bodies and turned to look at Chu Jie, whose eyes were red and swollen.

"It's alright... Brother, we've finally found our parents."

"Yes, my parents can finally be laid to rest..."

While the group was still immersed in grief, none of them noticed a figure appearing behind Angers.

Pfft!

With the sound of flesh being pierced, a sharp claw emerged from Angers' chest, staining his chest red with blood.

With a sudden flick of its dragon-scaled claw, Angers was sent flying, and a hoarse voice rang out:

"Long time no see, Hilbert Jean Angers."

Chapter Thirty-Six Friedrich

Beneath the massive pyramid, piled high with corpses, Angers lay slumped to one side, blood flowing from beneath him like a winding snake, adding a striking splash of color to the white world.

A humanoid monster stood there, its body covered in blue dragon scales, with a pair of twisted bat wings extending from its back. Hollowed-out fleshy membranes covered the wings, and its face showed abnormal growths, covered with ugly bony horns.

The distorted face smiled, seemingly enjoying the attention the others were giving him.

Ander stared at the twisted creature, calmly taking up his staff. Several spells were already cast on him, waiting for the right moment to smash the thing's head open with the hammerhead of his staff.

This ugly dragon-winged deadpool seemed to still have a sense of self. He lowered his head and bowed to Ander in a European-style aristocratic salute.

A perfect opportunity! Ender charged forward and swung his hammer at the Deadpool's head. As the hammer fell, Ender held the hammer in one hand and fired a pre-prepared Mayouf acid arrow with the other.

Deadpool reacted quickly. Facing the menacing Ender, he used all his strength to shift his body and dodge the deadly hammer, but was still grazed on his left arm by the strong acid.

"Hiss... Why would such a great creature as you mingle with these yellow-skinned monkeys?"

The Deadpool rolled to the side in a disheveled manner, howling and crawling on the ground, asking Ender in a hoarse voice.

A rare expression of anger appeared on Ender's face, not only because of the "yellow-skinned monkey" comment, but also because Deadpool had learned of his deeper identity.

"So, you sent those things on the ship?"

"That's right, otherwise how could I have seen your magnificent figure?"

The four members of the Heaven and Earth Society standing nearby looked at Ander curiously, seemingly puzzled by how this Deadpool addressed Ander.

"And who are you?"

Ender pointed his warhammer at Deadpool, who was crawling on the ground. He had already made up his mind and was just waiting for the monster to admit it.

"The Lionheart Society of the Secret Party, Friedrich von Long, has seen a great being."

Sure enough, the once spirited German nobleman Friedrich has now become a terrifying Death Servant, abandoning his dignity as a human being and becoming a lackey of those false dragons.

Ander looked at Friedrich, who was lying prostrate on the ground, and his body emitted a magical light of transformation. After the light faded, a bronze-colored dragon appeared on the ground.

"Uncle De, you..."

The members of the Heaven and Earth Society were still unable to accept that their former teammates had suddenly transformed into giant dragons, but before they could react, a cloud of yellow smoke enveloped their bodies.

That was Ander's sleeping breath. Under the effect of the high-intensity sleeping gas, the group of people fell unconscious one after another before they could react.

A spell flashed, and with the fossils turning into mud, the solid rock ground caved in, burying the four members of the Heaven and Earth Society.

"Now that the people in the way are gone, let's talk."

"What a decisive decision. You truly are the supreme being."

Friedrich pressed his head to the ground and loudly praised Ander's greatness.

“Someone like you should have a more outstanding family member, like me…”

As he crouched down, his claws reaching for Ander, Friedrich boasted of his power to Ander.

Ander shook his head, seemingly enjoying Friedrich's flattery.

"Not bad, I've been wanting to replace my servant for a while now, you're quite good."

Ander's enormous dragon head revealed a joyful smile, and he even sang a melodious song in dragon language, while Friedrich, who was lying on the ground, also grinned, revealing his already deformed fangs.

He struggled to his feet, gestured for Ander to proceed, and said:

"Please come this way, let me show you the wonders that those barbarians built in imitation of the great dragon: the dragon veins."

Ander nodded. The space here was quite large, more than enough to accommodate a dragon like him.

As the two walked and talked, Friedrich was so engrossed in Anders that he didn't notice Angers' body tremble behind him.

After being transformed into Deadpool, Friedrich exhibited an abnormal fanaticism towards Andre, which was not like the worship of a kin, but rather the madness of an archaeologist who suddenly encountered a primitive man.

Anders heard a more complete story from Friedrich.

Friedrich von Long's ancestors were Prussian nobles, whose lineage can be traced back to the Frankish Kingdom. Although this family history seems long, it is only considered average among the many talented mixed-race families.

The Friedrich family held a low position in Prussia. As the feudal system in Europe gradually disintegrated along with the increase in productivity, minor nobles like them were no longer able to maintain their status. Their family lands were nationalized, their knights were dismissed, and they had to sell their ancestral collections to maintain their dignity.

This situation not only did not improve after Prussia unified Germany, but worsened. Friedrich's family had the stubbornness common to many mixed-race people, and they were unwilling to lower themselves to do things they considered lowly. The family declined further and further until Friedrich was born, when the only proof of his noble status was the von in his name.

Friedrich abhorred this situation and, while maneuvering among various mixed-race factions, he tried to find hope for the revival of his family.

When the Secret Society refined the Bloodlust Technique, which could enhance bloodlines, through research into ancient dragon heritage, Friedrich did not hesitate to become a member of the Secret Society.

Unfortunately, he was not good at fighting. His long aristocratic life had turned Friedrich into a pale-faced bookworm, and he never thought of changing his habits. In his view, the world should adapt to him, not the other way around.

Within the Secret Society, Friedrich became one of the most outstanding dragon slayers of the younger generation: a member of the Lionheart Society, responsible for clerical work including appraising antiquities, organizing data, and deciphering texts.

Friedrich's Word of Power was "Winter," a useless, pathetic Word of Power that plunged him into a state of suspended animation. Because of this, he couldn't easily defeat his enemies with Word of Power like Angers, and could only sit in the library, accompanied by ancient texts.

If it were just that, Friedrich could still tolerate it, but after Lu Shanyan joined the Secret Service, he completely lost control of his emotions.

I am a noble white aristocrat, why should I be with this yellow-skinned monkey?

Later, the woman that Lu Shanyan brought back, the Native American woman who possessed the same power of words as him, became the fuse for Friedrich's betrayal.

He chose to come to China, where at least he could be a swaggering foreigner and stay away from that damned Chinese.

Just when he thought he was destined to live out his life like this, the dragon vein appeared...

Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Traitor

While Friedrich was wasting his life in China, members of the Heaven and Earth Society inadvertently revealed information about the Dragon Vein, a legendary alchemical array that supposedly protected a dynasty, which immediately caught his attention.

Based on his profound knowledge of history and what he had seen and heard in China over the past few days, he set his sights on one target: Tongwan City, the former capital of the Xiongnu.

Few people know that Friedrich's family was skilled in alchemy. Although no one but him was willing to access the family's collection of books, this ancestral talent still manifested in Friedrich.

When he arrived at Tongwan City and determined its location, he came to the conclusion that there was a hidden door leading to the ideal land that alchemists dreamed of: the land of the dead, Nibelungen.

Even now that he has become a terrifying monster, he can still recall the excitement and exhilaration of that day.

With his genius alchemical talent, he sacrificed the Chinese people in the Heaven and Earth Society who were following him, using their blood combined with the original alchemical array of Tongwan City to open the gate of the dragon vein. At that moment, he finally entered the realm of the gods.

Then he was besieged by countless dead servants in the dragon vein. People usually only think that there is treasure hidden behind Ali Baba's door, but they don't know that there are more likely forty strong men hidden behind the door. And Friedrich was unlucky. There were many dead servants behind this door, and he was beaten and ran away with his head in his hands.

When his life hung by a thread, the Word of Power he had always hated, Winter, saved his life, allowing him to escape the Deadpool's pursuit by faking his death.

However, while faking his death could fool the low-ranking Death Servants, it couldn't fool the half-bloods with their remaining intelligence within the dragon vein. He was eventually discovered and brought before that woman like a slave.

At that moment, he thought he was finished, but looking at the woman in front of him dressed in the attire of a Qing Dynasty female official, and recalling Lu Shanyan who had led him here, he made a decision that might leave him infamous for eternity:

"Do you know about the Secret Party?..."

To Friedrich's surprise, the corrupt imperial officials devised a plan with incredible speed, and with his help, a grand gift specifically prepared for the Secret Service was sent to Europe. Friedrich, in turn, received his reward: an opportunity for advancement.

Ander's enormous dragon body walked beside the white pyramid, making Friedrich appear incredibly small and ugly in comparison. He listened to Friedrich's story, then tossed the cliché into the trash can of his mind.

Although Friedrich's story was terrible, Ander was interested in one thing about it: the evolution Friedrich talked about.

Having transformed back into his dragon form, Ander walked quickly, bypassing the massive white pyramid, and another structure appeared before them.

It was a nine-story pagoda, and a straight road connected the pyramid to the pagoda, paved with bluestone slabs, and Anders and Friedrich were walking on this road.

"You have no idea how brutal these barbaric primitives were in alchemy; they modified the alchemical arrays used by the dragon race back then..."

Friedrich continued his narration, explaining that the dragon vein itself was not built independently by the Tatars, but rather relied on an existing formation in the Nibelungen region.

The master of this Nibelungen has long since disappeared, but the array he left behind is extraordinary. According to Friedrich, it can use the blood of hybrids as materials to refine a special evolution medicine.

Friedrich pointed to the bluestone slabs beneath Ander's feet and said:

“There are water channels in the stone slabs beneath your feet, which are responsible for transporting the blood of hybrids to this tower.”

The nine-story pagoda in front of us, built in the style of Chinese architecture, is not just a decoration, but a device for processing evolution potions.

Looking at the pagoda in front of him and the pyramid behind him, Ander sighed and said that the Tatars of this world were simply too powerful. To cultivate dragon veins in the Nibelungen of the Dragon King was something that most hybrids would never even dare to dream of.

"Those potions that can evolve hybrids are the Dragon Vein."

Friedrich gazed at the towering beast and began to recount his discovery with a touch of fervor.

After he cooperated with the Qing dynasty to deliver a lavish gift to the Secret Society, he was brought here. The dead servants produced a black, seemingly liquid substance. Then his chest cavity was ripped open, and the monsters, looking at his still-beating heart, revealed eerie smiles.

Friedrich fell into a coma due to intense pain. When he awoke, the wound on his chest had long since healed, and his body remained unchanged, but his inner self was completely different.

The Word of Power that Friedrich hated the most, which was at the top of the Word of Power periodic table, "Word of Power: Winter," disappeared and was replaced by the more powerful Word of Power: Illumination.

As Friedrich spoke, he used a spell, causing the light to distort and deform on his body, eventually making him disappear from Ander's sight.

"That's interesting. Let's continue; our chat isn't over yet."

"As you wish, the great being."

There are actually quite a few mixed-race people belonging to the Qing government, but there is only one person in charge of the Dragon Vein, namely the Qing court official mentioned earlier. However, in order to completely eliminate the Secret Party, she went to Europe with that gift, leaving only a few still conscious Dead Servants and Friedrich in the Dragon Vein.

"I want to thank the Secret Party. If they hadn't dealt with that woman, I definitely wouldn't have been able to evolve again."

Friedrich revealed a chilling smile. After the woman perished alongside the Secret Society's elders, he gained partial freedom and was even able to command some low-ranking Dead Servants. It seemed that the evolution drug had made him a superior being to those mindless Dead Servants.

When Friedrich discovered that his former colleague Angers was not dead and had even sailed to China, he was completely panicked.

"When I heard that Angers was coming to find me, I was scared... excited."

Friedrich said in a low voice, seemingly not wanting Ander to hear his fear.