Brass Dragons in the Dragon World

Occasionally, the child would also help clean the dragon's lair or tend to Ander's scales.

Two years ago, Angers finally found a suitable candidate who could give Ander a temporary rest and also give Luli a playmate.

Lu Li cannot control her Word of Power; it always activates involuntarily, causing harm to those around her. Even if Lu Li closes her mouth, an occasional hiccup or yawn will trigger the Word of Power.

Therefore, to get along with Lu Li, you need someone with a strong enough body to ensure that he can survive Lu Li's unconscious attacks.

For example, the guy who's currently playing Street Fighter with Luli on PS2 in Ander's Dragon's Lair, a German guy who's over 1.8 meters tall:

Fingel von Flint

This guy is a notorious failure in Kassel, the only man to repeat a year in Kassel College in recent years, but his Word of Power is very useful, namely the Bronze Throne, which can enhance physical strength.

Of course, to be able to enter Ander's dragon lair, this guy must have signed a confidentiality agreement; the magical contract ensured he would keep quiet.

Fingel has already repeated a year, and the word "loser" is visibly written all over his face. He is currently using Ken in the game to corner Chun-Li, who is controlled by Luli.

Then Ken was blocked by Chun-Li, and Luli seized the opportunity to kill Finger with a combo.

"You little rascal, you're playing games with Lu Li again."

Ander gave Fingel a hard knock, and seeing his scalp turn bronze the instant he struck it, he nodded in satisfaction.

Over the years, through Ander's training, although Luli could not control the release of the Word of Power, she had restrained its power, which allowed Fingel's Word of Power to barely withstand the attack.

In the process of taking care of Lu Li, Fingel has reached a level of mastery through trials of blood and tears, and can easily block Lu Li's unintentional attacks.

"Principal Ander, you're back!"

Ander's position at the school was honorary principal, a nominal position with no real work, mainly responsible for conducting alchemical research with the vice principal.

Lu Li also turned her head, her rose-red eyes staring at Ander, and angrily summoned a flame from her palm, which formed a line of Chinese characters in front of her.

"Uncle, I'll only play for a little while!"

Perhaps because she came into contact with brass dragon blood when she was an embryo, Lu Li is very talented in fire. She is a natural-born dragon vein sorcerer, specializing in fireball spells.

So Ander had her try using fire to form words to communicate, in order to improve her control.

It now seems that Ander's training was very successful. Just now, Lu Li used a zero-ring trick: fire control. Although the words were not very clear, it was already possible to tell what she was trying to say.

"You didn't even welcome me back."

"Ander complained."

The character for "flame" immediately changed, becoming...

"Welcome home"

Ander looked at the comment with the emoticon and Lu Li's aggrieved expression, gently rubbed her dark red head, and said softly:

"You go ahead and have fun. I'm going to find Angers to take care of something. We'll have hot pot for dinner tonight."

">ω&t;"

Lu Li happily turned around and pulled Fingel along to start the next round.

Ander stood up and glared at Fingel again. Since this guy came, he had been playing video games with the kids every day, which really annoyed Ander.

Why can't we play some games that are more suitable for dragons, like hunting training, like Fingal's training?

Chapter 87 False Freedom

Ander took an elevator from the dragon's lair underground, passing through Angers' beloved aquarium and zoo, all the way to his office.

Ander had always wanted to criticize Angers' aesthetic sense. What guy would like to build an office in an aquarium and then have a very, very long elevator that leads directly to the ice cellar?

This can only be described as a difference between species. Getting a brass dragon living in the desert to like seawater is probably harder than killing it.

After a long elevator journey, Ander finally arrived at his destination: the principal's office in Angers.

"Angers, I'm back!"

Angers was reviewing the equipment department's budget. They always liked to cause trouble in unnecessary places, such as adding two nuclear bombs to their private plane so that it could turn into a sun at an altitude of 10,000 meters.

Angers put down his pen and turned around. In the principal's office, only Ander could use the elevator besides him, and Angers knew who it was without even thinking.

"How about it?"

“I got the money back, but I refused to stand up for that spendthrift son.”

Ander rubbed his temples, looking somewhat pained. If Lu Lincheng weren't a member of the Lu family, his funds wouldn't have been misappropriated.

"That's what doomsday prophet people are like."

Angers walked to the side, took out a bottle of whiskey, and poured a small glass for Ander.

"I thought you hated them."

Ander took the wine and drank it all in one gulp. This wine wasn't too strong, and it had fruity and caramel notes, which Ander quite liked.

"Of course I hate deserters, but now is not the time to deal with them."

Angers poured himself another glass, walked to the side, and took out a document from the cabinet.

"Take a look at this, it's an encrypted copy, and there's only one of its kind."

When Ander received the document, he found two children's faces. One was very familiar to him; it was Zero from Black Swan Harbor. The other face belonged to his nominal junior, the protagonist of the original story: Lu Mingfei.

“A few years ago, I received a photo from Lu Lincheng and found that the child, Lu Mingfei, looked very familiar.”

Angers downed the wine in his glass in one gulp, and then said:

"I thought about it for a long time before I realized that his face shape was getting closer and closer to size zero."

"So I collected front-facing photos of Zero and Lu Mingfei, compared them, and discovered a fact."

Andrew turned to the next page, where a series of front-facing photos of a child from infancy to adolescence were arranged together, with an analysis of elements such as the distance between the eyebrows and eyes.

"According to Norma's analysis, Lu Mingfei's appearance has been changing constantly since birth, far exceeding the changes that growth might bring."

A child's appearance will indeed change as they grow up, but there will always be some traces of their childhood. A square-faced baby cannot gradually become an oval-faced baby; the bone structure will not allow it.

"He's gradually becoming more like Zero."

Angers concluded that if you compare Lu Mingfei's photos from when he was born with his current photos, you can see that his face shape has changed significantly, and this change has happened subtly and gradually.

"Lu Mingfei is definitely related to Zero."

Ander silently closed the file. The back of the file contained a lot of evidence collected by Angers. Ander did not expect that Angers could actually determine the relationship between Lu Mingfei and Zero, that is, Lu Mingze, from the photos.

What do you think?

Ander asked, wanting to know Angers' opinion.

"Lu Mingfei might be the Dragon King."

“We all watched him being born; he really did roll out of his mother’s belly.”

"Those pseudo-dragons are capable of any means. Back then, Emperor Shunzhi was just an ordinary human, and he almost became a next-generation species, didn't he?"

In recent years, Angers has begun to call the dragons of this world "false dragons" to express his contempt for them.

Ander nodded. Angers' reasoning was reasonable, but Lu Mingfei's identity was not important; what mattered was...

What are you planning to do?

What matters most is what actions Angers is prepared to take; discussing Lu Mingfei's identity in isolation is meaningless.

"Of course, we'll send him to slay the dragon, throw him in front of the Dragon King, and then wait for one of them to die."

Angers grinned, like a schemer in a movie.

"You want to use others as weapons again, just like what happened in Siberia back then."

Ander recalled the operation in Siberia back then. The original plan was for Lu Lincheng to come out and kill Lu Lincheng after the heavy artillery bombardment. Kupata, who could use Rhine, was just a backup plan.

However, the order was later adjusted, with Lu Lincheng covering the rear and Rhine released first. This was Angers' order; if sacrificing one person could bring about the Dragon King's serious injury, then the sacrifice was necessary.

"And then there's the Greenland thing. A whole squad died because of that Dead Sea Book, and Schneider now has to breathe with a machine."

Angers was silent for a while. Back in Greenland, Ander had wanted to participate, but before he could arrive, the exploration team discovered the target. In order not to miss the opportunity to dive, Angers caused the entire team to be wiped out and Schneider to be seriously injured.

"If we can defeat the Dragon King, then it will be worth it."

Ander extended an index finger, shook it, and said slowly:

"You should know that education now emphasizes giving full play to students' initiative."

"I didn't realize you knew anything about education?"

"At least I know more than you, you old scoundrel who indulges in debauchery."

Ander walked to the back of the office, found a small refrigerator, and pulled out a can of Coca-Cola from among the precious wines.

“We not only need to push him to slay the dragon, but we also need to make him slay the dragon willingly.”

Ander opened the can, tossed the pull tab into the trash can, and then said:

“Assign him a mentor to guide him.”

"Arrange a lover for him and give him love."

“Arrange for a group of friends to help him transform.”

"Make him feel like he is irreconcilably opposed to the Dragon King and that he is omnipotent, and then he will roar and rush over to slay the dragon."

Ander sat down and took a swig of Coke. He actually preferred Best Coke, but Angers was a Coca-Cola fanatic and could only manage to swallow it.

"Over the years, Metal Dragon has used this trick whenever he wants to eliminate his enemies: find a team, send them people and equipment, and then reap the benefits."

"We gain wealth, they gain honor, and occasionally love."

Angers chuckled softly and poured himself another glass of whiskey.

"You do seem to know more about education than I do, but isn't that using him as a weapon?"

"This is a matter of mutual consent. The key point is not what he has to do, but whether he has the right to choose, that is, freedom."

"But he had no choice from the beginning."

Ander laughed, crossed his legs, sank into the sofa, and raised the can in his hand.

"He will feel that he has something to offer: respect for freedom!"

"To freedom!"