Dragon Raja: Starting with acquiring Orochi, a counterattack against the gods.

He was like a student carefully taught by his mentor, finally facing the final exam. He was afraid of letting his teacher down and also afraid that his performance would not be good enough to disappoint his teacher.

After all, no one had ever been willing to teach him the principles of being a good person.

"I think I passed," he thought vaguely, before his consciousness completely faded into darkness.

He didn't know how long he had slept, but when he regained consciousness, all he saw when he opened his eyes was an endless starry sky.

Lu Mingfei found himself lying on the deck of the ship. He sat up and saw the small figure sitting beside him, seemingly waiting for him to wake up, or perhaps protecting him.

Strangely, he didn't find anything abrupt about this scene at all; it was as if they had always been like this for so many years.

In some remote corner of the world, there is no one else but each other. They lean on each other, accompany each other, and protect each other until the end of time.

Lu Mingfei thought he would be afraid if he saw the little devil again, because his life now belonged to the little devil. However, the truth was that he only felt a sense of peace in his heart, like the calm water outside the boat.

He sat up, and the devil naturally handed him a glass of wine, still steaming hot.

Lu Mingze didn't look at him, but casually said, "It's just warmed up. If you had woken up any later, it would have gotten cold."

"Then you can drink it yourself," Lu Mingfei said casually. He was stunned after saying that, because such a conversation seemed to have appeared many times in the deepest part of his memory, but when he thought about it carefully, he couldn't remember it.

"Yes, you've said it many times, and I will do it too."

As the boy spoke, he also picked up a glass for himself and continued gazing into the distance.

Above them stretched the Milky Way across the sky, and the enormous black shadows of goldfish swam on the surface of the water. In the distance, on the calm sea, a huge white moon was slowly rising. Half of the moon was submerged above the sea, while the other half remained below the surface, and the craters on its surface were clearly visible.

The reflection of the half-moon on the sea surface, together with the half-moon in the sky, formed a complete circle, so close that it seemed within reach, while the calm and soothing sound of the tides echoed gently in my ears.

Lu Mingfei suddenly felt that sitting quietly like this wasn't so bad.

However, at this moment, the devil spoke up, and it was a topic that Lu Mingfei neither wanted to hear nor dared to face.

"Brother, your life is mine now."

Lu Mingfei: "..."

The moon dimmed, the sea became turbulent, and the loser suddenly became restless.

Lu Mingfei felt that the heartwarming scene had suddenly turned into a horror and suspense thriller. He didn't want to die, but his senior sister saved him, and his mind started to work. Now he was racking his brains to figure out how to deal with the devil.

As if knowing what he was thinking, the devil looked over, his dark eyes reflecting Lu Mingfei's clear image: "Brother, you're not trying to renege on your debt, are you?"

"How could that be, huh? Haha..." Lu Mingfei chuckled, but looking at the devil's calm gaze, he inexplicably couldn't laugh anymore. He was silent for a moment, then suddenly said, "Yes, thank you for saving Senior Sister. My life is yours now."

"I thought you were going to renege on your debt, brother." Lu Mingze looked away.

Lu Mingfei, who did have this thought, suddenly felt a pang of guilt. He thought to himself that whether he faced the blade or not, he would still be stabbed. So he gritted his teeth and began to wait for death.

After waiting for a long time, the devil remained silent. He looked over in surprise, only to find that the devil was just staring at the distant sea.

What are you looking at? What are you so engrossed in?

Lu Mingfei looked over with some curiosity, but saw nothing. The sea was a deep, dark blue, and unfathomable.

He thought for a moment, then couldn't help himself and asked in a low voice, "What do you want?"

The devil still didn't look at him, and answered irrelevantly, "Brother, are you very scared?"

"Nonsense, who isn't afraid of death?" Lu Mingfei gritted his teeth: "Give me a straight answer, whether I live or die. Don't torture me like this. If you want this life, take it."

He rarely acts this manly; mainly because he's afraid he might go back on his word if he doesn't say things definitively.

"Don't rush," the devil said. "I'll give you a little perk to keep you alive for now, but you have to answer one question honestly."

Lu Mingfei's eyes lit up. He thought to himself, "What a great thing! When did the devil switch to doing charity?" He nodded repeatedly, "Okay, okay, ask away."

"If I answer well, can I live a little longer? I don't need much, just sixty or seventy years would be fine."

Once he realized the tense atmosphere had dissipated, Lu Mingfei couldn't help but start spouting nonsense again. Lu Mingze ignored his ramblings and calmly said, "I don't need your answer to be perfect. I just need you to tell me your truest thoughts."

"Your most honest thoughts?"

"Yes, just tell me what you're thinking."

"I see." Lu Mingfei scratched his head. "Okay, go ahead and ask."

"What are your ideals? Or rather, what would your ideal life be like?"

"Don't rush to answer. Speak your mind. I want to hear your true thoughts."

Lu Mingfei was stunned. He never expected such a question. Was the devil no longer doing charity work, but instead becoming a mentor who cared about the mental health of teenagers?

Well, it feels kind of strange.

However, since it concerned his own life, Lu Mingfei thought about it seriously for a while, and after a long time, he scratched his head and said, "Actually, I don't really know either."

"I feel like I don't really have any ideals. Don't laugh if I say this, but I'm actually very easily satisfied. I just want to go to school normally, get a decent job after graduation, and have a pretty girl who likes me... Okay, maybe that's a bit greedy."

"But I really like the kind of life where I can swoon over pretty girls during the day, have late-night snacks and chat with my useless senior brother at night, and just daydream when I have nothing to do. There are no dangerous things or those damn reptiles. That's actually my ideal life."

As Lu Mingfei spoke, he felt a little embarrassed and lowered his head, not daring to look into the devil's eyes: "Isn't that pathetic? But that's how I think. I think this kind of world is really interesting."

"Isn't this just the life of an ordinary person?" The devil tilted his head, looking at him softly, "Brother, have you ever wanted to live the life of an ordinary person?"

"Yes, I'm just a nobody. I just want to live a simple, ordinary life. Unfortunately, these damned dragons never let me have my way."

At this point, Lu Mingfei gritted his teeth, feeling a lingering fear in his heart, because he remembered Yuan Zhinu, who had almost disappeared.

"Brother, don't you want to become the savior that everyone admires? Don't you want to become the supreme ruler of this entire world?" the devil asked sincerely. "Don't you want to have the highest power, even more powerful than your senior sister?"

"Are you giving up your supreme position to become an ordinary person?"

He asked very seriously, rarely so earnestly, which made Lu Mingfei lose all interest in joking around. He thought for a moment and said, "But I just want to be an ordinary person. I don't want to save the world."

The devil stared intently at him, as if trying to discern every micro-expression on his face in order to determine whether he was lying.

Finally, he got his answer. He didn't say anything, just nodded: "Okay."

"Brother, your wish will come true."

Before Lu Mingfei could react, the devil had vanished, followed by the ship, and he plunged into the icy sea.

Lu Mingfei suddenly woke up from his sleep, opening his eyes and panting heavily, startling the person next to him.

"Why are you making such a commotion? Did you have a nightmare?" Fingel grumbled. "You almost scared me to death."

"What are you doing here, useless senior brother?" Lu Mingfei was overjoyed. Seeing Fingel's disheveled face, he felt a surge of warmth and familiarity. "Long time no see!"

Fingel rolled his eyes: "I don't think you thought much of me. You're something else, doing something big. Kazama Ruri told me to keep an eye on you, so I just came to guard the ward. How about that, buddy, I'm pretty good to you, right?"

"Enough, enough, enough." Lu Mingfei nodded haphazardly. "What about my senior sister? Is she alright?"

"She's doing fine, brother. It's us who might not be doing so well."

"How to say?"

“Didn’t you also come back from the Arctic Circle? Didn’t you know?” Fingel’s expression was unusually complicated: “You’ve made too much noise, Nidhogg is about to wake up.”

Lu Mingfei was completely stunned, his brain unable to process what his useless senior brother had said. He stared blankly at Fingel, who nodded at him and sighed.

"Just as you thought, the Dragon Lord is about to awaken. We're doomed, brother."

……

"So, you mean the world is going to be destroyed because Nidhogg is about to awaken?" the blond, blue-eyed boy asked.

"Yes, it could be as fast as three days, and at the latest no more than seven days," said Yuan Zhinv.

"So?" Caesar looked at the white-haired, red-eyed woman before him, suppressing the complex emotions in his heart. "What does this have to do with me?"

As a proud nobleman, admitting defeat is undoubtedly painful, but the only good thing is that now these inhuman beings are fighting the final battle. Caesar considers himself still human, so it's normal that he has no role to play.

Besides, Chu Zihang doesn't have any scenes either.

He was puzzled. Nidhogg was about to wake up, and the world was about to be destroyed. Why was the only hope of mankind in front of him not hurrying to save the world, but coming to find him?

Just as he was wondering, Genji finally revealed the purpose of her visit.

"I'm here to ask you, if you had the opportunity to contribute to this world, the opportunity to save the world, how much would you be willing to pay?"

Caesar was taken aback, his expression turning somewhat strange. He couldn't imagine how a human like himself could save the world, but he quickly nodded.

"Of course I'm willing to contribute to this world; it's my honor."

"Good, very good, very spirited." Yuan Zhinv praised repeatedly: "Then how much are you willing to pay for this world? Are you willing to give your life?"

“It would be an honor.” Caesar smiled politely. “If I could give my life for this world, what a magnificent sacrifice that would be, and I would certainly be willing.”

"Alright, alright, you said it yourself." Yuan Zhinv looked relieved. "But it's not that grand. Don't worry, I'll protect your life."

Caesar frowned, but before he could voice his doubts, he felt a sharp pain in his chest.

He stared blankly down at her and saw that the girl's five fingers had turned into sharp claws, which had penetrated his chest.

“It’s alright.” Yuan Zhinu was still in the mood to comfort him: “You won’t die. The life pod that Angers lay in has been prepared for you. When you wake up, it will be a new world. I will give you a first-class merit.”

As she spoke, she slowly stretched out her hand, and in her palm, tightly clenched, was a mass of flesh and blood that resembled a heart and was still beating.

That is... Odin's cocoon.

Chapter 410 The Qualifications Required to Become the Black King

Tokyo, Japan, the Snake-Headed Eight Families.

A huge projection screen unfolded in the conference room, showing a vast ocean, but the surface was red, like a pot of boiling blood. The aerial view slowly zoomed out, revealing the state of the sea to everyone.

If you look closely, you'll see that the sea is shaking; it starts as ripples, but in a moment it turns into raging waves.

Crimson waves spread out in concentric circles, crashing against distant reefs. The center of the hatchery began to sink, and a whirlpool gradually formed, drawing massive amounts of seawater towards the seabed.

"This situation has lasted for a day, and the commotion is visibly increasing. Right now, it's just a localized change, but after a while, it will probably affect the entire Arctic Ocean."

Yuan Zhisheng pointed to the rolling red waves on the screen and said to everyone with a solemn expression, "According to Eva's prediction, the changes will reach their peak in about 75 hours, which is the time we predict Nidhogg will awaken."

The entire conference room was extremely quiet, and the people sitting here could almost decide the fate of the entire mixed-race society, and even the entire human society.

Genjiro, Uesugi Kotsugu, Angers, Pompeii, Xia Mi, the vice principal, and Constantine, who is inside Erii's body.

"Other countries have also reacted. The commotion caused by the Tsar Bomba was too great, and this anomaly could not be concealed. It has even been captured by the media."

As Yuan Zhisheng spoke, he waved his hand, and the projected image changed instantly, transforming into a headline from a certain country's social media app:

Breaking News! Breaking News! Secret Nuclear Weapon Test in the Arctic Ocean Causes Bloodshed!

The content is basically written in the most frightening way possible, and netizens from all over the world gather below, expressing the same fear in various different languages.