"Um..." Professor Guderian didn't expect to encounter such a situation. He was a little anxious for a while, but there was no other way. He couldn't use force.
Lu Mingfei was worried that Cassel College would force him.
After all, the express train he is taking now is heading to the mysterious Cassel College at a high speed of more than 200 kilometers per hour. This is the path pointed out to him by his parents. If the people from Cassel College force him, what else can he do?
What to do?
"Forget it." Professor Guderian put away the document, "I'd better sign it after I introduce you to Kassel College." But you will have to sign it even if you don't want to sign it.
Ordinary people cannot know about dragons.
"Yeah." Lu Mingfei nodded. After the magic filter was broken, he began to wonder if Kassel College was some dark organization. Why did he have to sign a confidentiality agreement to go to school?
Professor Guderian cleared his throat, "As a regular university registered with the U.S. Department of Education, Cassel College has always been committed to providing high-quality education to students with special talents and recommending jobs.
Our normal schooling system is four years. There are very few people who have studied like Fingel for eight years and have not yet graduated. Our school is a classical closed education. All students must live on campus. When you graduate, we will issue you a formal diploma.
degree certificate, but unfortunately, the degree certificate from our school may not help you find the corresponding major in other universities, so if you want to study for a master's degree or a doctorate, you can only choose this school to study."
"You mean it's not a serious degree?" Lu Mingfei became alert.
"No, it's serious. Our school's degree definitely meets the requirements of the Ministry of Education. I mean, our major is special," Professor Guderian considered the words, "very special."
"How... special can it be?" Lu Mingfei blinked. Could it be that he is really a gangster? For example, a major in homicide?
"Do you know about the seminary?"
Lu Mingfei nodded.
"Theological colleges are a special kind of colleges, and their students mainly study knowledge about God; there are also medical schools, whose main research object is the human body mechanism; and business schools, where they mainly study 'trading'
An ancient proposition. Kassel College is also such a special college. What we study is..."
Professor Guderian stood up, grabbed a corner of the canvas on the giant oil painting behind him, and shook it open.
The ferocious picture was exposed to the light. The moment Lu Mingfei's eyes touched the painting, he felt as if he was about to be pushed out by a huge force.
That's the pressure of that painting.
On the picture, the sky is iron blue mixed with the color of flames. The only giant tree stands, with dead branches extending in all directions, weaving into a dense network to support the cracked sky. The wasteland is covered with dead bones and black
The giant beast is rising from the depths of the pile of bones, its wings are covered with skeletons, and after opening its huge membrane wings, it looks up to the sky with black flames protruding.
A shrill roar echoed in Lu Mingfei's head, and he actually thought he could hear the roar of the giant beast.
"Dragon?" Lu Mingfei's voice trembled.
It's not because I'm surprised when I hear a creature like a dragon, but I'm worried about whether the person opposite is in good spirits?
I vaguely felt something was wrong. Professor Guderian didn't mean to say that their college studies dragons, right?
"Yes, dragon. To be more precise, Dragon Emperor Nidhogg. According to the account in the Nordic mythology "Old Edda", at the dusk of the gods, it will repair the roots of Yggdrasil, the world tree.
Bite it off. That day, the world will be destroyed."
Professor Guderian's fingers swept across the neat hardcover ancient books on the bookshelf, "If you know Latin, you can understand the names of these books, "Dragon Genealogy", "Dragon and Spirituality", "Key of Solomon"
", "Dragon Lineage Theory", "Dragon Genetics"... This is what we have accumulated over thousands of years. Countless generations have searched for and studied dragons, and Kassel College is the master of it all.
At Kassel College, you can choose different subjects such as Alchemical Engineering, Magic Mechanical Design, and Dragon Clan Theory. The ultimate goal of all courses is," he looked directly into Lu Mingfei's eyes, "slaying the dragon!
"
"Slay the dragon?"
"Dragon slaying," Professor Guderian nodded, "This has been going on for thousands of years in places you don't know.
Humans have written this history without dragons, but there are dragons in every line of the other history. But this secret is too shocking, and if it is leaked, the possible consequences cannot be judged.
Therefore, several families we call "blood descendants" have jointly held this secret and shouldered the mission of slaying dragons in the past thousands of years. They have continuously cultivated descendants who are good at fighting, spells, magic and alchemy.
Send them to the battlefield to slay dragons, burying the efforts of the dragon clan to revive again and again. To this day, Kassel College has inherited their legacy."
"Legacy?"
"Yes, because the dragon-slaying families in history were huge and most of them have died out. In the new era, we can no longer rely on family inheritance. We must introduce modern education mechanisms." Professor Guderian reached out to Lu Mingfei
, "Welcome to Kassel College, Lu Mingfei!"
"Why don't you just extend your hand and say welcome without waiting for others to decide? Your college is a college that trains dragon-slaying masters? Please!" Lu Mingfei's face twitched, and he doubted from the bottom of his heart whether this college was serious or not.
"Can you please stop joking so much? What is this? The opening CG of the new version of "Dragon Quest"? How did I enter your CG? Can you give me a time and space portal to get out?"
Now he really feels that there is something seriously wrong with Cassel College. He thought that Cassel College was a dark organization before, but he really wrongly blamed them. They are obviously a lunatic college!
There was a loud noise like the earth was shattering, the whole train shook, all the lights flashed and went out, and darkness fell.
"Hey, did the train hit a mountain?" Lu Mingfei touched his whole body and seemed uninjured. "Is anyone injured? Does anyone know where the candle is?"
"Lu Mingfei, what they said is true." Someone whispered in the darkness.
All the lights came back on. It was still the luxurious train and the leather sofa, but Professor Guderian and Fingel were gone. Lu Mingfei turned around, and the boy he saw in the dream at the Chicago train station was there.
Sit next to him.
"Where did you get on the bus?" Lu Mingfei accepted this horrific scene well. He still had time to chat with this weird boy.
It's not that he said that since he met Brother Fool, he seems to have often encountered some things that are extremely scary to think about, so he has developed strong nerves.
"I was always in the car. I was just waiting for the bus like you." The boy said calmly.
"You sound like a resentful spirit..." Lu Mingfei teased.
He faced the boy without any fear, as if he wasn't worried that the little boy would hurt him.
"Look out the window," the boy said, "Welcome to... the land of dragons!"
Lu Mingfei followed his gaze and looked out the car window. His pupils suddenly dilated. In front of that world, he even lost the power to breathe.
It is no longer a dark night. The train is running at high speed on the vast ice field. The plain white and bluish ice covers the mountains that pierce the sky. The sky is as rich as blood red. The heavy rain is pouring, and every drop of water is covered.
The beads were bright red and flowed down the car window.
On the top of the ice peak, the giant dragon in the picture lay quietly, its wings hanging down to the foot of the mountain, and the thick blood dyed the entire ice peak red.
Groups of people are climbing up along the dragon's wings. Those who have climbed to the top surround the dragon's head. They nail the sharp iron awl on the dragon's skull and beat the tail of the awl hard, drilling a hole each time.
, white slurry gushes out like a fountain, and evaporates into rich white gas in a moment. Those people cheered and shouted loudly.
"Nidhogg, the Black Dragon King, was killed on his throne thousands of years ago. His throne was the mountain that was always covered with ice and snow. The person who killed him placed his huge body on the top of the mountain.
His wings hang down to the bottom of the mountain.
His blood flowed down like lava, dyeing the entire mountain red, melting the ice and snow, rising into the sky with blood-colored water vapor, turning into dark red clouds, and raining bright red rain. Those who killed him cheered in the rain.
, they hailed that day as a 'new era'." The boy said softly.
"Oh my god... ah..." Lu Mingfei trembled as he heard the sound of a hammer hitting the tail of an iron cone from afar.
He dealt with the boy very perfunctorily.
He didn't accept the boy's speech in the second grade. Although he was once a second grade boy, but...
Still can't accept it.
"This is the oldest emperor that history has never recorded. On the day he died, everyone cheered." The boy's voice was calm.
He seemed to enjoy those hitting sounds very much. He closed his eyes and admired them silently, showing a smile.
"How wonderful. If it hadn't been for that day, the world wouldn't be what it is today." He opened his eyes, looked at Lu Mingfei and said.
Somehow, Lu Mingfei felt that his smile was so sad.
Sad...for thousands of years.
Lu Mingfei suddenly thought of Brother Fool. Sometimes Brother Fool would bring him a kind of sadness, which was different from the little boy in front of him.
But it’s also sad... for tens of thousands of years.
"You and that black dragon..." Lu Mingfei probed, "Are you familiar with that one?"
"No, no, on the contrary," the boy said softly, "I am the one who wants to kill him the most. No one in the world wants to kill him more than me!"
"By the way, let me give you another piece of advice," the boy's golden pupils looked steadily at Lu Mingfei, "Be careful of the audience."
***The author has something to say***
There are many quotes from the original text in these chapters, but Lu Mingfei's character has already shifted under the influence of Zhou Mingrui.
The follow-up will be very different from the original plot of Dragon Clan.