Dragon Raja: History Simulator

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“I think so,” Ye Sheng said, trying to recall the scene. “After hearing that sound, I lost contact with the ship, along with Aki.”

Then, I tried to contact the Moniach using the Word of Power Serpent as before, but failed. A powerful aura suddenly appeared in the Bronze City, suppressing my serpent within my brain, rendering it unable to move.

“In the cycle of incantations, the snake is a gray area, located at the junction of bronze and fire and sky and wind. If nothing unexpected happens, His Highness the King of Bronze and Fire can easily nullify your incantations,” Mans speculated.

He wasn't particularly surprised. Each of the four monarchs was a direct offspring of the Black Emperor Nidhogg. Apart from their respective "authorities," they could use every Word of Power on the Word of Power periodic table, and unlike other dragons, they didn't need to "learn" it.

That's their talent.

Even if he weren't the King of Bronze and Fire, the Dragon King could easily shield himself from the influence of Words of Power.

Mans knew that Vice Principal "Night Watchman" Master Flamel's Word of Power, under the blessing of the Alchemy Matrix, could easily suppress the Word of Power of all students and teachers within the entire academy.

The Dragon King could only do better, but they simply didn't have to.

Ye Sheng nodded, and then he continued:

"After that, Aki and I wanted to go back the way we came, but the way we came was gone. No matter which direction we went, we would eventually come to a long corridor. I guess that was the Dragon King's invitation to me."

“It’s not an invitation, it’s that you’ve already entered Nibelungen,” Angers speculated. “There are actually two Bronze Cities. One is the one in reality, which was created by the Dragon King Norton by pouring molten copper from the mountains. It’s right here beneath our feet, but it’s now in ruins.”

Another is Nibelungen, which the Dragon King added to this. He created it based on the real-world Bronze City, but compared to reality, Nibelungen is more absurd and can be manipulated at will by the Dragon King.

Angers recalled the absurd scene of entering Nibelungen in the small town of Shilan, and he flew back to Kassel College to have his old friend "The Night Watchman" brush up on his knowledge of Nibelungen.

He still can't forget the envious look in the old man's eyes, who kept saying that it was a waste for him and those students to go to Nibelungen.

Not only were they wasting resources, but none of them even considered taking anything out of the Nibelungen.

Everything inside is "dead," so the Dragon King can manipulate it at will, just like a god outside the world playing with his toys.

At the same time, "spiritual elements" can be extracted from it and refined into the Philosopher's Stone.

Thinking of this, Angers couldn't help but feel regretful. Last time, he hadn't brought out any materials from the Nibelungen in that small town for Nibelungen, and neither had Ye Sheng and Jiu Deyaji had this idea this time.

He shook his head and continued, "Creating Nibelungen is not an easy task; dragons below the third generation should not even think about having this ability."

Of the three generations of dragons, only those with titles and a willingness to strive for advancement possess this ability; however, the Nibelungen they created cannot withstand the test of time and will only collapse as their real-world reference points disappear.

Mans said softly, "And the Bronze City, this Nibelungen, has existed for two thousand years. If the Dragon King hadn't destroyed it, it might have continued to exist."

Ye Sheng didn't think much of it. He had no time to learn new knowledge and was instead gripped by anxiety.

“Aki and I had no other choice but to walk down this bronze corridor. The corridor was long and quiet. After we walked down the corridor, Aki and I never heard that strange sound again.”

I don't know how long I walked inside. When I got to the end, I found that the oxygen tank was completely empty, but neither Aki nor I suffocated.

Without a second thought, we stepped out to the end of the corridor.

Chapter 132 The Story of the Nibelungs (Part Two)

"what is inside?"

Mans found himself gripping his sleeve tightly, his stiff right hand seemingly flowing with fresh blood, the pumping power of his heart completely enveloped by the unknown.

Angers' gaze was equally intense. Since the Dragon King who called himself "Li Wuyue" disappeared a hundred years ago, he had never found a new Dragon King in a hundred years.

This is the first time.

Ye Sheng grabbed his head and muttered:

"It was a very cozy room, without a speck of dust..."

"I saw a figure in a white robe sitting on the bed..."

"It seemed as if there was a window in the room, and outside the window were two completely different voices, one gentle, the other violent..."

"I couldn't understand what those two voices were saying, I could only sense that they were arguing..."

After the argument, one voice faded into the distance, leaving only the other still waiting for the white-robed figure's orders...

Angers and Mans exchanged a glance, neither of them speaking to interrupt. They both realized that Ye Sheng had once again fallen into "spiritual vision".

The source of his "spiritual vision" was the result of his and Shudeyaki spending a long time in the Bronze City and even meeting the master of the Bronze City.

The human brain has a protective mechanism that automatically filters out images and memories that are too painful or stimulating for humans.

For hybrid races, almost all of their physiological functions are far superior to those of humans, except for this protective mechanism, which is deliberately weakened, resulting in the brain being divided into two parts.

One is all the cognition that transcends common sense, including unbearable pain, ultimate pleasure, and deep-seated despair. This is the "loneliness" that hybrids often talk about, or rather, the part that belongs to dragons.

The other is just like everyone else, experiencing love and longing, hate and expectation, joy and sorrow, cowardice and courage...

All the qualities that ordinary people possess, whether good or bad, are contained within it; that is, it is the part that belongs to humanity.

The fact that mixed-race individuals are caught between two extremes is itself a contributing factor to mental illness.

This is why mixed-race individuals are often mistaken for mentally ill, and it is also why Herzog's pontine splitting surgery was still effective on Uesugi Erii, who had already integrated into the "Holy Relic" and begun to gain some of the White Emperor's authority.

Hybrids, as their name suggests, exist between dragons and humans, neither of which can fully accept them.

When the "Path to Godhood" came to an end, the human genes, which were originally fragile in the face of dragon genes, suddenly became tenacious, and the noble dragon blood could not completely eliminate the influence of human blood.

Therefore, even though Uesugi Erii had already obtained a portion of the White King's authority, after undergoing pontine splitting surgery, she was still unable to completely eliminate the aftereffects of the surgery through the "spiritual authority" she possessed, thus becoming subject to the Bangzi sound.

Angers silently arranged Ye Sheng's ramblings in his mind, deducing the whole picture.

He guessed that after Ye Sheng and Jiu Deyaji stepped into the Bronze Corridor, just like he was driving his Maserati on the viaduct, they began the process of entering Nibelungen from the real world.

When they reached the end of the corridor and entered the room, it was precisely the moment they truly stepped into the Nibelungen.

The white-robed figure they saw was just like the Odin who appeared beneath the mask to be Chu Tianjiao—the master of Nibelungen.

They all have one thing in common: in the eyes of those who experienced them firsthand, they are all like gods.

Just like when he saw that masked figure, his first impression of him was Odin, not some other minor character pretending to be a god.

According to Angers' guess, the two voices Ye Sheng heard were probably the two dragon servants who followed the King of Bronze and the King of Fire.

The departure of one of the voices symbolizes the departure of one of the dragon servants, just like the dragon servant that Mans saw on the surface of the Yangtze River, which always hid underwater and never showed itself.

Another voice and a figure in white robes have never appeared near the Three Gorges Reservoir, which is consistent with the orthodox account that the King of Bronze and Fire has already fled.

However, in that case, it's very likely that not only the Dragon King will escape, but also a Dragon Servant who is following him.

Angers frowned, then listened on.

"I watched as the figure in white robes walked up to me..."

"I wanted to step forward and stand in front of Aki, but the moment I looked up, I completely lost consciousness..."

He put his hand on my forehead...

"Then I saw my entire life, from a helpless infant to an adult..."

"Finally, the figure in white robes sat back down on his bed..."

"I heard him say something..."

"What did you say?" Angers suddenly asked.

Ye Sheng's eyes remained vacant, as if he were merely muttering unconsciously, "It's been two thousand years!"

He mimicked the childish yet arrogant voice from his memory, as if a dragon king about to awaken resided within him.

"And then?" Mans asked, noticing his student's eyes growing increasingly clear, as if he were about to awaken from his "spiritual vision."

"Then, Aki and I both lost consciousness." After saying this, Ye Sheng also fell into a deep sleep, his right hand, which was supporting his body, became limp and powerless.

Angers and Mans exchanged a glance and tacitly left the room.

Both of them were deeply shocked, and because of this, neither dared to speak first.

"Is it possible for the Dragon King to peer into human memories?" Mans asked. They had all gleaned a very clear message from Ye Sheng's seemingly incoherent ramblings:

By stroking Ye Sheng's forehead, the King of Bronze and Fire saw something in Ye Sheng's mind, thus learning about the current time and other modern knowledge.

“Professor Masafumi Tomiyama’s Word of Power: Hypnosis can erase a part of a memory,” Angers said quietly. “And my Word of Power: Time Zero can slow down time in my perspective, which even breaks Einstein’s theory of relativity.”

He sighed. "Compared to all this, I think it's not so hard to believe that I'm just peeking into someone's memory."

After a moment of silence, Mans agreed, "That's true."

He closed his eyes, unsure whether he was recalling the chase with the dragon servant not long ago or examining his own "arrogance" in the face of the dragons.

After a while, he opened his eyes and looked at his old friend. “We know too little about the Dragon Clan,” he said, glancing at the students in his room. “We don’t even know why the Dragon King spared Aki and Ye Sheng’s lives.”

Angers remained silent as well:

“I think it’s time for me to go and see Nuwa, as well as my other two students who returned alive from the Bronze City.”

Chapter 133 Elixir of Immortality

On the surface of the Yangtze River.

A fishing boat, dragging a keel, slowly approached the shore, with a huge, dinosaur-like carcass trailing behind it.

Once the boat had come to a complete stop, the keel was towed to the shore.

"Lord Nuwa, the news that the Zhou family has obtained a complete dragon bone has been spread to everyone."

Zhou Minhao looked at the dragon corpse in front of him with a complicated expression. No matter how powerful a life is, it loses all its majesty after death and is displayed on a shelf like a commodity.

Half of the hybrids belong to the dragon race, and Zhou Minhao couldn't help but feel a sense of shared fate, since not everyone has the same resolute dragon-slaying strategy as Kassel College.

Of course, it should still be killed if it's deemed necessary. If this dragon servant were allowed to escape, the harm it would cause would be even greater.

"Tsk tsk, the news spreads pretty fast!" Nuwa wasn't too surprised. Not to mention Kassel College, which had no responsibility to hide it for them, even Madam Bai, who was just an observer, wouldn't hide the news.

"Naturally, Lord Nuwa, the true purpose of the dragon bones is not to obtain the authority of dragons. With science replacing alchemy and the power of words, usurping authority is no longer the top priority. Its true purpose is to prolong life."

Zhou Minhao looked at the dragon servant who had just awakened and was about to become a meal again, and felt very complicated. The young man could not understand the enthusiasm of those old people in their pursuit of immortality.

"Superior medicines bring peace to the body and prolong life, and elevate one to the status of a celestial being... all of which enable one to fly and live forever."

Zhou Minhao first quoted a passage from classical Chinese, and then said:

"Dragon bone is a superior medicine. From it, a substance that can be extracted for longevity can be extracted. Although the longevity substance will gradually lose its activity and even develop resistance after entering the bodies of humans and hybrids, thus losing its ability to prolong life, according to the records in our ancestral home, the longest recorded lifespan extended by relying on dragon bone is two hundred years before resistance develops."

Two hundred years?

Nuwa's expression turned solemn. A dynasty at most lasts for a little over two hundred years, which, in the eyes of ordinary people, is not much different from immortality.

She asked, "Did it mean your lifespan was extended by more than two hundred years, or that your lifespan was extended by more than two hundred years?"