Volume 3 Hello, Eri Chapter 326: The Fall of God (VII)
This is what the White King left behind when he first made a deal with humans. After the once invincible King was defeated by the Black King, in order to survive, he had to bypass Nidhogg's eyes in this way and abandon his former body. The White King is indeed dead, but her genes, her power, and her consciousness are all packed into this small piece of bone. This is her dragon bone cross.
This was different from the dragon bone crosses of the other four monarchs. The White King's dragon bone cross was a living thing, like some creature that had never been defined. Herzog looked at the gem-like bone, and the golden eye looked at him. He felt as if a seductive ghost had risen behind him. The woman stroked his neck with her slender and cold fingers, whispering in his ears like a lover, telling him that he should accept this gift, and that the power of the holy remains existed for him.
For a moment, Herzog had already reached out his hand towards the holy remains, but when he was only a few centimeters away, he came to his senses again and slapped himself twice to face the present situation.
The White King had never looked down upon humans. In the few records left in the history of the dragon race, she had always been praised for her brutality and bloodiness. That dragon was like a female tyrant ruling the world, and the bright red marks on her plain white dress were made of blood.
How could reach a fair deal with humans? She spread her bloodline, leaving behind countless hybrids of the White King's descendants, but also left behind her own holy remains. She knew that humans would definitely covet this thing. The holy remains were a poisonous gift. Those who received it would certainly gain unparalleled power, but at the same time they would also be controlled by the holy remains. At that time, only a new king with the consciousness of the White King would appear, not the humans themselves who stole the secrets of the dragon clan.
Herzog used his claws to tear open his abdomen and took out a short injection needle. He had treasured this thing for many years. It was made of special materials, resistant to blows, falls and bullets. It was truly foolproof. Even when it was hidden, it was placed inside his body. Even if he died, no one would find it.
He trembled as he grabbed the syringe and stabbed it into the moving eye of the Holy Relic. The Holy Relic was extremely powerful and would not be afraid of bullets and gunpowder explosions, but it was also extremely fragile. Something as sharp as a needle could still pierce an imperceptible hole on the surface of its eye. The chemical reagent stored in the syringe entered the Holy Relic, and the moving eye seemed to have received a fatal blow. It stared at Herzog, but it was powerless to resist and just slowly closed. The bright colors disappeared, leaving only a faint light like a candle, and finally it was completely extinguished.
In a sense, Herzog killed God and the White King. He knew very well that he had just destroyed the White King's consciousness. It was because of this thing's manipulation that the Holy Remains could merge with Mount Fuji and gradually give birth to such a huge body. Now the White King's consciousness was killed, but her power was still in the Holy Remains, just like the dragon bone cross that remained after the death of the four monarchs.
Perhaps only Herzog in the world could develop this kind of medicine, which could destroy the consciousness of the dragons but preserve their skeletons intact, a bit like the surgery to block the central nervous system in modern medicine. In a remote unknown port in Siberia, he had the body of a dragon king to allow him to do enough experiments. Almost all the drugs known to humans at that time were used experimentally, and thus Herzog found the ingredients that were effective against the dragons.
Dragons are indeed great, but they are still just living creatures after all. No matter how tenacious a creature is, it will be killed and of course will be affected by chemical factors.
Now the holy remains are safe. The bone is still alive, and the surrounding parts that have merged with Mount Fuji are still collecting nutrients and executing the orders given by the White King before his death. However, the conscious subject that issued the orders is no longer there, and the throne has been lost, leaving a huge vacancy. At this moment, even a child can easily usurp the throne.
Herzog reached out and grasped the holy remains, easily tearing it off the blood vessels. This thing could no longer open its eyes, but when Herzog held it in front of him, it came back to life, and countless fine spikes grew out of the holy remains and pierced into Herzog's arm.
Herzog watched this scene with his own eyes, without any resistance, as the Holy Remains slowly merged into his body. He could feel the thing dissolving in his body. The amount of blood contained in a bag of that size would not be very much, but this blood, which could only fill a blood bag, brought him the strongest evolution so far.
The road to the underworld of the god was perfectly written at this moment. In just a few seconds, Herzog's ugly dragon features disappeared, and his skin became as smooth as that of a young woman. However, because he was still a man, this scene looked a bit cold and beautiful. He opened his eyes between breaths and could see the flow of elements in the world. The power of words no longer needed language to drive it, but was simply mobilized by consciousness.
He was no longer a human being. His long-cherished wish was fulfilled at this moment. Herzog was promoted to the new king and sat on the throne coveted by countless people.
Perfect, too perfect. Herzog could not think of any other word to express his current state. Any language would be pale in the face of such power.
Someone once said that if the era enters the era of space travel, then human beings will probably lose their current humanity, because at that time the concept of a planet will no longer be huge and can be easily destroyed. Homes can be rebuilt in any distant place, and conflicting wars will inevitably occur countless times.
This is not an exaggeration. Herzog believes in this description. If you can easily hold the whole world in your palm, you certainly won't care about a specific thing in this world. Do gods need to care about humans? That is just human wishful thinking. If humans master the power to kill gods, they will kill gods. This is the case with the dragons. In the distant era, they were gods in the eyes of humans, but now humans can also become such gods!
Herzog closed his eyes, enjoying the pleasure of mastering new powers, his black wings broke through his spine and spread out behind him, dragon scales and new joints began to wrap around his body. His dragonization was no longer as ugly as before, like some kind of mutated deformity, now he was full of beauty, his dragonization was like a layer of exoskeleton covering his body, he looked majestic, graceful and elegant, the dream of many boys to become a Kamen Rider, with a cold mechanical luster.
The new White King flapped its wings and soared into the sky. The storm swept across the water along the way, drawing brilliant arcs of light in the sky. The eight long tails of the Yamata no Orochi were dying visibly because the center for obtaining nutrients was no longer there. The White King's inheritance had all gone to Herzog.
The world was new to him, and the elemental power was clearly visible in the atmosphere, colorful. Herzog was eager to explore his current performance, and he casually said a brief command, and the element of fire exploded in the limestone in Mount Fuji. The amazing flames were like a row of dense covering artillery bombardments, and smoke and dust flew hundreds of meters high, and a fire rain of gravel fell.
Word Spirit·Lord Flame, after inheriting the White King's legacy, Herzog naturally gained the abilities of countless high-level Word Spirits, whether they were previously known in the Word Spirit Table or those that humans had never known. The Lord Flame he released could even surpass the Bronze and Fire Kings. The Lord Flame Norton used at Kassel Academy was a fire dragon more than ten meters long, but Herzog could increase the explosion of the Lord Flame to hundreds of meters, like a spectacular tower of fire rising straight into the sky.
The seawater has flooded to the foot of Mount Fuji. The huge Nibelungen cannot bear such a large amount of water. It seems that the sea has been thrown in. Herzog did not know that someone released Guixu, but he did not need to care. The Word Spirit Qianlong was released, and endless seawater was extracted from there into the air. Herzog fulfilled his promise to Tachibana Masamune. The seawater in the air pieced together the appearance of various delicious foods, Munich's grilled sausages, Berlin's frozen pork elbows, Black Forest cherry nut cake...
This behavior looks a bit like a few-year-old kid getting a real Gundam. He doesn't think about driving the Gundam to annihilate the enemy, but thinks that he can really build a castle of his own and marry Wang Xiaomei, who lives next door and wants a castle.
In fact, this is easy to understand. Eating is the simplest way for humans to pursue happiness, and it is also the most important. In order to save his life, Herzog had to drink the evolutionary medicine halfway through, which led to physical abnormalities. In the past 20 years, he could only eat liquid food to maintain his life and rely on nutrient solution to ensure his immortality. So when he told Tachibana Masamune that he would definitely go back to eat German food after he succeeded, it was a sincere statement and not a joke. No modern person can persist in such a life for 20 years. Herzog has been suppressed for too long.
Now Herzog is really going to enjoy his life. The White King's power has been usurped, and the ownership of Nibelung has also changed hands. This place belongs to him now, and he can come and go as he pleases.
Germany is Herzog's hometown. His first thing is to eat the hometown food that he hasn't eaten for decades. Then, he should talk to the governments of various countries. Herzog will first destroy several iconic cities, such as Paris, London, and of course, Chicago next to Kassel Academy.
People would be horrified by his powerful strength and then take out their own national defense weapons to fight him. He was happy to show people the difference between them. Herzog would pretend to be defeated and scream when beaten. Then, when people thought he was about to win, he would suddenly turn the tide and show overwhelming power, destroying countless armies and precious weapons, and broadcast his demands to the world, otherwise he would destroy the world.
In the White House conference room, Herzog sat at the main speaker's seat, and the audience was filled with timid leaders from various countries. Herzog would approach them in a very friendly manner, pat their shoulders, and say that he would not harm them as long as they agreed to his request, and that they could all coexist peacefully and sign a "Herzog Unequal Treaty".
As for the treaty, of course it had to be torn up. When people thought the aftermath had passed and they could return to normal life, Herzog went out and blew up the city, grinning and saying, "Is it fun? I lied to you. Now run away, run as far as you can, hide wherever you can, until I find you!"
The bloodthirsty desire for destruction is in his genes. Herzog was originally a thug. He killed an entire port of people in Black Swan Port, and when he went to Japan, he caused countless hybrids to run wild. He fought with the Eight Snake Families. He killed too many people personally and indirectly killed too many people. Even if he was going to destroy the world, he would not care at all. For this reason, he even had a detailed plan. He would not kill everyone, but would have a planned slaughter to ensure sustainable development. If he killed everyone, he would have no fun. He wanted to see the world live under the fear of him, Herzog.
Imagine the beautiful future, Herzog was about to leave Nibelungen, when he felt a flash of danger, purely instinctive. After he became the White King, he gained a powerful sixth sense similar to the law of cause and effect.
What could threaten the White King? Herzog was furious. Who dared to resist the new king?
In Herzog's eyes, the surrounding elements produced extremely strong turbulence, which was a precursor to the Rhine, but it was not because someone used the Word Rhine. Instead, the essence of that attack was to make all things in the world obey its orders to kill, so the elements were restless, and gravel and strong winds were rolled up on the ground. The flames rubbed and burned in the dark clouds, and the raging tsunami rushed straight to Herzog's flight altitude and rolled up the atmosphere. They all wanted to kill Herzog.
Following the movement of all elements, Herzog scanned the entire space. He was looking at those messy lines. Although they were chaotic, there was still a source . By following the source, he could find out who caused the turbulence.
He found it, right below him, more than a thousand meters away. From such a distance, it was as conspicuous to him as a huge ship on the vast ocean. Halfway up Mount Fuji, a pair of golden pupils were looking at him fearlessly from a distance, singing a lament composed of dragon characters, Word Spirit·Judgment.
Herzog recognized that face, Erie Uesugi from the Snake Family. She was one of the incubators that were lost in the battle on the Lenin . She was later picked up by Masamune Tachibana and raised in the Snake Family.
At this moment, Herzog wanted to laugh, but he laughed in exasperation. He knew that after he became the White King, someone would surely come to resist him, but he did not expect that the first person to appear would be the embryo he created. If this were a novel, the author would definitely say something about the cycle of fate, and people like Eri must be carrying the fate that would end him, which would be the ending of a grand story.
But Herzog holds destiny in his own hands!
