Volume 3 Hello, Eri Chapter 344: Blurred Darkness (V)
"So you attacked Tokyo with the Sword of Scourge, trying to wipe out the principal, otherwise he would have become your number one enemy," Nono said.
"It can't be said that it was entirely because of Angers. You have to know that there were still many people in Tokyo at that time, such as Lu Mingfei." Pompey shrugged, "Kassel Academy rated her as S-level, but in fact, with her true bloodline ability, she was rated as SSS-level."
"It's undoubtedly dangerous, but she can also become the best dragon-slaying machine like Ange, and Kassel Academy will certainly open its arms to her. But she is not a good person to us. When the birds are gone, the good bows are hidden. Ange knows very well that the purpose of the Gattuso family is not to provoke, but to eliminate their competitors and hide until the end of the world. He will bring an army to find trouble with us, but he may not be able to find us, because our Nibelungen is about to be built."
"Caesar!" Nono was shocked. Pompey's words were basically equivalent to admitting that Caesar had accepted the Nibelung Plan.
But how could this be possible? Didn't that dandy boy say that what he hated was his own family? How could he bear to drop out of Kassel College, leave the world he loved, and become a coward hiding in the Nibelungen waiting for a new world? He was going to prove his worth in life by slaying a dragon! The most unruly nobleman in the world, Caesar Gattuso!
The floor of the sun room slowly cracked, gradually revealing the marble steps leading downwards. A terrifying cold wind blew from there, mixed with a faint smell of blood. There was a sound of footsteps approaching the hall. The person walked very slowly, but was indeed getting closer and closer.
The first face that Nono saw was covered with fine dragon scales, revealing brutality and hideousness. The deformed reptilian skeleton was like a recurved blade, and black bone spurs broke through the surface of the body. The muscles bulged violently around the man's body, and every muscle fiber was so clear, like a tightly twisted steel cable.
These dragon-like features faded as the man slowly walked to the end of the stone steps. All the changes re-entered his body, and when he stepped onto the last step and came to the hall, he was Caesar Gattuso again, with golden hair, sea-blue eyes, and a handsome appearance. His temperament was already outstanding in the past, and now it was even more unbearable to look directly at. It was the momentum of a king who looked down on the world and swept across the wilderness, but it was restrained around him. The air would be particularly heavy when approaching Caesar, as if it was about to sink to the ground and crawl.
"Welcome back, our new mixed-race king, Caesar Gattuso!" Pompey shouted with a great poet-like voice. He danced the traditional ballet of the Gattuso family, paying the highest respect to his son and the opening of a new era.
Caesar casually threw what he brought on the ground. It was a corpse wearing the same white robe as Pompey. Due to the violence of Caesar's attack, the head of the corpse was cut off as if by a laser knife, leaving a smooth wound. Judging from the arms exposed under the white robe, it was a very old man, and his skin was like dry bark, wrapping around his bones.
"It looks like you've figured it out." Pompey smiled and nodded.
"Yes, the route to the new era does not need the ships of the old era, and the old things should stay in the grave." Caesar's voice actually sounded a little relaxed, with a hint of playfulness. He was still his usual nobleman style, but he was now covered in blood and there was no clean place, as if he had just walked through a battlefield of killing.
Nuonuo wanted to say something, but she couldn't utter a word. That was her Caesar, but she didn't dare to get close to him. Something had been twisted and changed. Caesar, who had become a mixed-blood king, gave her a completely different feeling. She even had a premonition that if she dared to go up and give Caesar a hug regardless of everything, then Caesar would kill her.
This was a long-awaited reunion. Caesar really didn't look at Nuonuo for a second. They had been separated since before the Dragon Abyss Project began. According to his previous personality, Caesar should have done something now. But now he just exhaled slowly and looked up at the prosperous dome of the Sunshine Hall. The terrifying aura burst out from him and forced Nuonuo to retreat to the corner. Caesar was now completely between an angry monarch and a bloodthirsty beast.
"God will punish the sins of mortals with thunder and fire. I always believed this before. I thought that if someone made a mistake and was not punished, then no one would believe in the glory of God." Caesar said slowly, "But now I know I was wrong. There is no God in this world . Pious believers will still be hanged, poor people will still struggle in hunger, and people who have made mistakes can still laugh and share each other's cakes. So why should we still believe in that shitty God? Instead of praying desperately, it is better to hold the sword ourselves!"
Caesar walked slowly towards Pompeii under the murals. There was a long staircase covered with red carpet between them.
"I've told you many times that the family will allow your rebellion because you are our king. Whatever the king wants to do can be forgiven, so I don't care even if you want to kill those old guys." Pompey watched his son getting closer and closer to him. The heat wave that hit his face felt like a river of lava flowing in front of him.
"But you have to know! Mistakes can't always be repeated without paying the price! A king should shoulder his responsibilities, have great ambitions, and lead his subjects! Your name is Caesar! The great Caesar the Great! Not a child who never grows up! I have been tolerant of you, but you can't always act on your own will!"
This was probably the first time Pompey roared at Caesar. In the past, even if Caesar locked him and his girlfriend in a secret room for several days, Pompey would not catch the naughty child and give him a spanking like most fathers would.
But this time it was really different. The power of the new world was in the hands of the Gattuso family. Even the old guys who had facilitated this plan were completely eradicated. The future was absolutely pure and brand new, without any impurities or dangers in the post-apocalyptic era. Everything was within reach. In the face of such a great plan, Pompey would not allow Caesar to rebel again.
He slowly took out something from under his white robe. He had prepared this thing for a long time. As a father, he certainly knew that Caesar's character would find it difficult to accept the Nibelung Plan, so the old men in the family came forward and threatened Caesar with Nono's life to force him to accept it.
Caesar was indeed forced to nod his head and agree. As the most anticipated heir of the family, Caesar's excellent qualifications combined with the Nibelungen Plan can give birth to a hybrid monarch with the best power. But will he really build the Nibelungen that the family wants? When he is promoted to a god, he will hold unmatched power in his hands. At that time, if you threaten him again, you will only incur the king's wrath, right?
So Pompey had to make a plan... If Caesar was ignorant of the immensity of the world and raised the flag of rebellion, then Pompey would have no choice but to kill Caesar himself , seize his dragon cross, and become king himself.
Pompeii put on his face what he had prepared. It was an ancient indigo mask. The face on the mask was calm and solemn.
The floor-to-ceiling windows of the Sun Room were all shattered as flocks of ravens flew in from outside. The overwhelming darkness filled the entire world. They circled around Pompeii, cawed, and turned into a black vortex.
Caesar ordered the group of sickle-tailed weasels to rush up and fight with the group of ravens. These ravens had no fighting power at all and were simply lambs to be slaughtered in front of the sickle-tailed weasels. Piles of ravens fell to the ground, spraying blood, but more ravens would soon fly in from the window to join the army. No one knew where these strange creatures came from, but they seemed endless and only obeyed Pompey's orders.
The sky-blue cloak fluttered out from the flock of ravens, and it turned around to gather the ravens. When the circle was completed, the ravens seemed to have entered his cloak and disappeared. Standing on Caesar's high ground was no longer his father Pompey. Under the mask, there was only one golden eye shining fiercely. The mask also merged with his head to become an eagle helmet for battle. The golden armor covered his whole body. In his right hand was the eternal spear Gungnir, and on his wrist was the golden ring of Dropnir. At his feet were two ferocious wolfhounds with bared teeth. They were named Kili and Kulichi.
This scene was as magical as the face-changing master in Sichuan Opera. Nono was completely stunned. Caesar stood still and did not move forward. He felt a unique danger from . It was not death or anything else, but more like the legendary divine power. The other party did not have to do anything at all, but you would feel that you would have no chance of winning against him, and even want to kneel down and beg for mercy in fear.
"Are you Odin?" Caesar looked up and down at this new Pompeii with a playful smile. "I never thought that my father was actually a mythical figure. Then what is the entire Gattuso family? The son of God? You are very different from what I imagined."
There are indeed some conflicts. In Chu Zihang's story, the Odin he met should be a giant as big as a mountain, sitting on an eight-legged Pegasus that spewed thunder. But the Odin in front of Caesar was more like the old man in the mythological scroll, with one eye and a long beard, accompanied by a wolf and a raven. He was not as ferocious and domineering as Chu Zihang's version, but more like an actor who traveled through time from a modern TV series. Only that momentum was real.
"You don't know many secrets yet, but if you want to kill me now, you will never be able to find out, my child." Pompeii's voice from under the mask was like an ancient death knell. "The real Odin is an ancient figure like a legend, and has long been submerged in the long river of history. But the name Odin will be passed down forever. He is not as arrogant as the Black King, but has achieved his immortality in other ways."
"Wear a mask?" Caesar thought about Pompey's previous actions. When he put on the mask, everything was different. "If I'm not mistaken, what you are wearing is Odin's mask. When you wear it, you will have Odin's power and become a member of Valhalla. Everyone in Valhalla has such a mask, so there are countless Odins and they can't be killed at all. The mask will inherit Odin's will. You are both Pompey and a part of Odin."
"You should have had this opportunity, too," Pompey said.
"It sounds like you're Odin's lackey! Is the Gattuso family Odin's lackey? Or have you reached some kind of cooperative relationship with him? So you can become a member of Valhalla? Odin promised you eternal life after the end of the world?"
"What Odin pursues is all the power of the Black King. The usurper will take away everything from the Black King, so we threw him the bait he wanted. In return, the Gattuso family got Odin's mask. We are just a simple cooperative relationship." Pompey said, "That is your classmate, Lu Mingfei."
"You said she possesses the power of the Black King?" Caesar was slightly stunned.
"Yes, remember I told you that when we found those murals in Siberia, Odin had a fight with a girl? If she hadn't been holding us back, we wouldn't have been able to attack Odin with divine punishment. What else could be worth Odin's trouble, except what he expects?" Pompey looked directly into Caesar's eyes. "In the long history of the dragon race, those who can be called monarchs are not the Black King and the White King you know, the four monarchs, and Odin. In fact, there is another person who is also qualified. He is the first offspring of Nidhogg, known as the Crown Prince."
"He was the only person the Black King trusted. Odin believed that the Black King's egg was in the prince, and he had to take it. But at that time, out of fear, we used the Sword of Scourge to break into the fight between Odin and the prince. This brand-new weapon was defenseless for everyone. Neither Odin nor the prince died in the attack, but they were both injured. The prince placed his egg on something that was present at the time, that was the pregnant Qiao Wenni, and later Lu Mingfei."
"Are you telling me a myth?" The story was too absurd for Caesar to accept immediately.
"At first, none of us realized it. We just knew that Lu Mingfei's bloodline was abnormally high. It was not until later that we restored the entire content of the mural, which included Odin's own opinions and the accounts of humans in that ancient era, that the original appearance of the incident was restored. The dragon kings' eggs are not just physical bodies. They can use ideology to preserve their eggs. This recovery is slower and takes more time, but as long as the host is suitable and will not be harmed, then this method is undoubtedly safer."
Pompey said, "We first realized that Lu Mingfei had the prince's consciousness egg on her freshman day. Remember? She blew up you and Chu Zihang and won the title of Free Day. In that shooting game, she exposed her Word Spirit for the first time. The high-speed camera of Kassel College captured the moment when the Word Spirit Sky Light took effect. For most ordinary people, it was just a fleeting scene, but for those who knew about the existence of Sky Light, it was an absolute sign, because the birth gift that Nidhogg gave to his first child was the Word Spirit Sky Light, which can surpass the four elements."
