Volume 2 Hello, Xia Mi Chapter 171: Embracing the World with Warmth (Part 3)
"Are you scared, Esther?" The person who released Rhine gently hugged Esther, and it turned out to be a girl.
"Why would I be afraid? Sister, death is not a scary thing. What I am more afraid of is that everyone will leave me and I will be left alone..." Esther gently held the hand that was extended to her shoulder, just like when we were kids, we would exchange each other's clothes and hairstyles, and tease everyone in the manor until they were at a loss.
That was her twin sister, the ruler of Rhine, who was far better than Esther. But for the family, sacrificing so many people in exchange for the dragon bone was completely worth it. If Esther and the others failed, the family would still have the best eldest sister to take on the responsibility. If successful, Esther would perfectly usher in the future inheritance just by virtue of this achievement.
Xia Mi observed the elemental turbulence caused by the Rhine. This word spirit was like a special artificial black hole. It would scramble all the elements around it and then absorb them all. A large number of elements were concentrated in such a small area, just like a warehouse full of explosives. It only took a little bit of inducement to cause a violent explosion.
This was not the first time she had seen this kind of Word Spirit. During the ancient war, the Dragon Kings fought each other, and powerful Word Spirits of Destruction were continuously released, tearing the world apart repeatedly, which led to its current appearance. The rivers and lakes were filled with flat land, and peaks rose from the plains. The vast basin was formed by direct bombing by some huge force. At that time, the Dragon Kings were in their most prosperous state, and any of their Word Spirits was more terrifying than the Rhine released by humans now.
Although the movement now looks exactly the same as it did back then, Xia Mi can clearly feel the difference from the elements flowing through her fingers. The hybrids only know how powerful the Rhine is, but they don't know that its upper and lower limits depend on how many elements it can get to detonate. The power of each Rhine is completely different. The 40-kilometer-long Nibelungen is not enough for it to cause a Tunguska explosion. It is unknown how many elements the Rhine released back then absorbed to create such a power that even the world trembled.
"Let's not leave, Fenrir. Let's play a game together after such a long time." Xia Mi poked Fenrir's scales with a smile. She liked to tease her brother's nose with her fingertips, just like treating a kitten casually, but now she couldn't reach it, so she had to poke the scales.
"What game!" It could be heard that Fenrir was extremely excited. Even though the Rhine was getting stronger and stronger in the distance behind him and was about to burst out, he still did not have much sense of crisis.
"Let's dance together, the Karma dance of Shiva!"
The slender fingers rested on Fenrir's claws, and the two dragon kings seemed to have concluded some kind of contract. The awe-inspiring and terrifying domain quickly opened up, and everything swallowed by the domain returned to nothingness. That domain was like a light that could purify everything, and anything it touched was reduced to powder. All the rocks on the platform were being destroyed by this domain and then transformed into pure earth elements.
Esther and the others don't know yet that Rhine is now unable to absorb the earth elements around it. This Word Spirit, which can use the four elements at the same time to cause turbulent explosions, ranks 112th in the Word Spirit table given by Cassel, lower than the World-Destroying Word Spirit used by the four Dragon Kings. It is the most powerful power known to mankind, and higher-level Word Spirits require a huge dragon body to release.
Shiva's Karma Dance is the power that transcends Rhine, the ultimate of the king of earth and mountains. In front of such a Word Spirit that represents the pinnacle of elements, Rhine lost the ability to attract the earth element. This Word Spirit is no longer complete, but the Word Spirit that has been released cannot be stopped. It will continue and cause a violent explosion with the remaining three elements.
In Fenrir's domain, except for the earth, the elements were isolated from the domain, so Rhine could not touch the domain, which allowed it to take off again. It flapped its wings and created a strong wind, spinning and dancing, and everything was shattered into tiny dust that rose into the air with its soaring and burned fiercely.
It is hard to imagine that such a huge body can dance. The dance is grand and solemn. Its wings, scales, legs and all parts of its body display various ancient and exquisite movements. Even the fighter jet performances in military exercises are not as gorgeous as the dance of the Dragon King. Its body weighing tens of tons is light and beautiful, just like the dancers draped in silk in the murals, with its long tail, long neck and wings forming a perfect arc.
Those different movements represent different dragon characters. Shiva Karma Dance is not released with sound, but with dance as language. It is not as loud as Zhulong, which ends everything with the fiery burning of the sea of purgatory. The extreme of the earth represents death, because all things in the world live on the earth. Without the earth, there will be no more living things, and everything in the realm will be destroyed by silent death.
Rhine was released earlier than Shiva Karma, and once it officially started, it was just like Shiva Karma, with domain protection, and began to absorb the four elements. It is obvious that Rhine can no longer catch up with Shiva Karma after releasing Shiva Karma now, but Rhine is now missing one element and is an incomplete form. Even if it cannot catch up with it, the incompletely released Shiva Karma can still touch it. The spirit of destruction released by the dragon body is by no means comparable to the human body!
Humans and the Dragon King, each standing in their own territory to accumulate strength, this scene is like two great wizards about to confront each other with energy waves. There is no need for everyone to draw swords and engage in bloody battles. All resentment and hatred are stored in this final blow to decide the outcome in one go.
The Rhine exploded first. The high-intensity light bathed everything in a destructive white light, which was almost as bright as the sun. Mushroom-shaped clouds rose up amid the violent explosions, shattering everything in sight. Following the white light, the surrounding space was immersed in a fiery red black cloud, like a nuclear bomb exploding in the depths of the desert. The shock wave swept across the entire Nibelung at an extremely fast speed. 40 kilometers was not even considered a length for it.
The explosion hit Shiva Karma's death field. There was nothing left to burn, but the remaining three elements carried by Rhine still produced their own concepts. The flames were burning this field, and the friction of high-speed winds caused arcs of light. The water element spread along Shiva Karma's field, trying to find a gap that might be pierced.
The roar of the Dragon King was heard in the domain, and Fenrir forcibly released the incomplete Shiva Karma Dance. The death domain expanded again, swallowing up all the black clouds, flames and smoke. Such a violent Rhine explosion should have been a shocking scene, but the arrival of Shiva Karma Dance made everything quiet, because death is such a silent thing. Wherever the slowly expanding domain went, everything disappeared, silently, and nothing could notice their death. Even the elements themselves lost their color and power, and the world was left with only a faint gray.
The space created by Nibelungen was even distorted, and a large number of black cracks appeared around. The Beijing subway could be vaguely seen in the silence of the night, and the inspectors were picking up garbage on the subway line. The sudden tremor scared everyone and made them look up and around. The collision of the two powerful words even affected the outside world. The Earthquake Bureau temporarily issued a notice of a small earthquake, telling everyone not to panic. The epicenter was very deep and it was difficult to have any impact on daily life, but it was still recommended that workers related to the underground temporarily evacuate the environment.
"Meximi mexi? Is anyone there?" Lu Mingfei arrived at the end of the subway section. The tunnel ahead was blocked by the stalled subway train in front of her. She knocked on the door and stuck her head in to take a look. There was nothing inside. If she had arrived a little earlier, she would have found that the entire car was full of sickle-tailed weasels.
She got into the rear cab and tried to drive the train away to clear the blocked road ahead, but she found that there were no CNC instruments or LCD screens here. Instead, there was a green-painted iron dashboard, red and green square indicator lights, countless copper knobs, and a driver's seat with a yellow-brown sponge layer whose artificial leather surface had been removed.
She was confused, and suddenly remembered that she was a liberal arts student. Not to mention driving a train, she didn't even know what the dashboard was for. She hadn't even taken the driver's license test yet...
It was all because Su Xiaoqiang told her that beautiful girls don't need to learn how to drive, not even a bicycle. Lu Mingfei was curious and asked why. Su Xiaoqiang said that every boy dreams of having a beautiful girl with long hair on the back seat when riding a bicycle, and having a pretty girl with long legs on the passenger seat when driving. Why would you learn how to drive by yourself when you have a man to protect you? Lu Mingfei agreed with him and only regretted it today. If she had taken the driver's license test, she might have studied how to drive this thing now.
Lu Mingfei fiddled with it for a while, tapped everything that could be pressed, and twisted everything that could be turned, but the train didn't move at all. She was so angry that she slapped her thigh, thinking to herself, "I should have studied science!" At least in addition to public courses, she can also take professional courses with Chu Zihang. She only needs to study hard and skip a grade to catch up with him!
"elder sister……"
A ghostly call came from the carriage, which scared her. She turned around with Taotie and pointed behind her, but she didn't see anything.
"elder sister……"
This time the cry came from under his feet, and there was even a cold touch of something licking his ankle. Lu Mingfei jumped back half a step and was about to chop forward with the blade fiercely, but suddenly he was stunned.
It was a dragon. To be more precise, it was smaller than the dolls that little girls would put on their bedside tables. Lu Mingfei roughly estimated that it was not much .
Damn, this can't be the Dragon King! Lu Mingfei was simply stunned. She had seen a young specimen of the dragon race at Kassel Academy, and she had to say that this thing really looked like one. More importantly, it could move and talk, and it was obviously not a mechanical doll. The little dragon seemed to only know those two words, calling her sister while licking Lu Mingfei, and even tried to climb up, but because his body was too small, he couldn't even hold his ankles and somersaulted and fell down.
Lu Mingfei was amused and thought that this little thing was quite cute. Her girlish heart played a little trick on her, so she picked up the little dragon by its tail and placed it in her palm.
If this thing is the Dragon King, then the half-bloods who come to slay the dragon will be laughing to death? Lu Mingfei can only think that this may be the Dragon King's child, or descendant or something, just like a lost child who can't find the way home, but why can it only call sister? It always feels like this thing is wound up, saying this sentence over and over again, a name.
Nibelungen is slowly repairing itself. After the heavy damage from the Rhine and Shiva Karma Dance, this place should have been an absolute dead zone, but among the floating ruins, the original architecture and colors of the subway station are slowly recovering. A girl slowly sat up, her waterfall-like blonde hair falling naturally without the restraint of a hairband. She looked around blankly. She was not even hurt, except for the wound on her face left by Xia Mi's stone bullet at the beginning, her clothes were not damaged at all.
Is everything over? Is this the afterlife? Heaven or hell?
Esther looked down at her fingers, holding a kind of prayer, she grabbed the back of her other hand and squeezed it hard. The pain told her that she was still alive and this was the Dragon King's Nibelungen.
Tears silently flowed down her cheeks. She had never been afraid even when facing the Dragon King, but now she could not stop the endless sadness. The thing she was most worried about happened. Everyone left her, leaving her all alone.
"How could you survive the explosion at Rhine and the death at Shiva Karma Dance? Are you an immortal monster?"
A cold voice came from behind her. Esther was startled. She grabbed a handful of sand from the ground and wanted to turn back to attack, but Xia Mi was much faster than her. She easily grabbed Esther's hair, pulled her up from the ground, and leaned in to observe her eyes.
Esther's eyes were still a brilliant golden color, which meant that the dragon blood was active. She was most likely still releasing Word Spirits. Some Word Spirits did not necessarily require specific dragon characters to drive them, like Shiva's Karma Dance. Some Word Spirits were like passive skills that you carry with you, and they would remain effective as long as the golden eyes were ignited.
"You... aren't you still alive?" At this point, Esther still refused to admit defeat. Although she was surprised to see Xia Mi was still alive, Xia Mi looked unharmed just like her.
"You only know that Rhine is as powerful as a nuclear bomb, but you don't understand the essence of the power of Word Spirits. Failure is an inevitable result, there is nothing to be surprised about." Xia Mi said calmly, "And I find it very interesting that you are still alive. In addition to the Bloodline Jie Luo, you have a second Word Spirit, right? That is Order? Only this kind of thing can allow you to survive among the world-destroying Word Spirits."
Esther pursed her lips tightly. She didn't want to admit it, but as a dragon king who had survived from that distant era to the present day, Xia Mi had seen and heard a lot, and she easily found the truth from the current situation.
Word Spirit Order, this is the second means that the Black King prepared after the Word Spirit Emperor's suppression of bloodline, to dominate other descendants of the Dragon Clan. This Word Spirit has no offensiveness and no defensive power, but it can only act on the power of Word Spirit itself. Except for the Word Spirit Emperor, no Word Spirit can attack the released Order. The holder can walk in the destructive Word Spirit power unscathed and break the Word Spirit field of others with physical contact.
This was probably the first time that order appeared in humans after the Black King. Even many descendants of dragons were not lucky enough to inherit this power. Esther was a human hybrid. No matter how pure her bloodline was, it should not support her from obtaining this power. Unless she was born a dragon, there would be a slight chance of luck.
Is it some unknown technology? Humans spared no effort in usurping the treasures of the dragons. They were greedy and arrogant. No matter how many sacrifices and how much they paid, they were determined to climb to the unknown peak. Although they only got the tip of the iceberg for thousands of years, it is undeniable that they did make breakthroughs in scientific fields unknown to the dragons using different methods.
"Be thankful that you can still live a little longer. I have to send you to Fenrir. Perhaps eating you will allow Fenrir to try to understand the power of order." Xia Mi's smile was cold.
"Isn't your brother dead?" Esther asked. She could see the huge black dragon corpse over there slowly dissolving like mud and water. In the collision between the two world-destroying spirits, even the Dragon King might not be able to withstand it.
Wait, Esther's heart sank. Why would the dead Dragon King dissolve? Rhine was an explosion. Esther saw the words released by the Dragon King from the beginning. It was a silent death. No power could dissolve the Dragon King's body.
"Do you think you can compete with Fenrir's power with just the bronze throne?" Xia Mi coquettishly covered her lips. As a winner, she was happy to mock these self-righteous hybrids, unable to hide her pride. "We are the kings of the earth and the mountains. In addition to controlling power, we also control life. Is there any creature in the world that can grow apart from the earth? Even the deep sea has the concept of earth elements! In Chinese mythology, Nuwa created the first human beings out of clay. That is not a rumor, but ancient humans have really seen life created from clay. In the mouths of European alchemists, it is called a clay puppet or an artificial human."
She snapped her fingers, and countless young black dragons emerged from the cement tiles that were gradually being repaired in all directions. They were of different sizes, the small ones were no bigger than dolls, and the big ones were comparable to ogres. The black dragons whispered "sister sister" and moved closer to Xia Mi. Xia Mi let go of Esther, leaned over and put her fingers on the ground, letting several little black dragons climb onto her shoulders. The little black dragons kissed her face affectionately, making her giggle.
A chill of fear filled Esther's heart, because she saw very clearly that every little black dragon looked exactly like Fenrir. They were like miniature versions of Fenrir, except that their IQ was so low that they could only call each other sister. Most of them were too small and therefore lacked aggressiveness.
"What you killed with the Rhine was just a puppet made of mud by Fenrir. He is still deep in the Nibelungen, manipulating the puppet to fight with me. Such a big puppet has used up one-third of his own strength, so he needs to be trained." Xia Mi put the smallest black dragon on her head. "Fenrir is very stupid, so I have to protect him. This Nibelungen is our home. We have prepared many means to deal with invaders. The dead have become skeletons. Without the train, we can't find the exit of the Nibelungen maze. There is a false Dragon King trap... When I appeared with the puppet to talk to him, you must have thought that it was the real Dragon King Fenrir, right?"
Xia Mi was once a beautiful ponytail girl and the most intelligent and cunning dragon king. Years of human life taught her a lot of different ways of thinking. She gradually abandoned the violent means that the dragon kings were once proud of. Conspiracy, seduction, and disguise are what make up Jörmungandr. The arrogant party in the war gradually turned into a hybrid. She likes to show weakness first and then lead them into despair that will never return.
Xia Mi skipped in front, and Esther followed like a clockwork puppet. She knew very well that it was impossible to escape with her motor nerves. The only thing she could do now, perhaps before her real death, was to explore more truths as the first human being to understand the mysteries of the dragon clan at such a close distance.
