Dragon Race: Lu Mingfei Returns from Warhammer

Chapter 416 Catfish
Puff-!
A muffled, loud bang was followed by a violent surge of viscous blood.

The massive, bluish-gray dragon bone cross only stirred up a ripple on the surface of the sea of ​​blood, which quickly spread and was then swallowed up by the dark red. As if dragged by an invisible behemoth, it instantly sank into the bottomless, ominous, blood-red ocean, leaving no trace.

Lu Mingfei stood quietly at the edge of the bow, his golden eyes, burning with golden flames, staring at the bloody pool where the keel cross had disappeared, as if observing the reaction triggered by this "sacrifice" on the seabed.

"Sacrifice..."

It seems that Pompeii had already placed many "sacrifices," or rather, "bait," into the seabed before he arrived.

It seems they're trying to fish something out of the sea.

Although Lu Mingfei didn't know what Pompeii had thrown in, it certainly couldn't compare to him now—the Dragon Bone Cross, which was based on him and also entangled with the power of the three Dragon Kings.

As if to confirm his judgment, the surface of the blood sea, which had been merely churning, began to boil.

Violent tremors emanated from the deep sea; beneath the surface, undercurrents tore and collided wildly, and enormous shadows writhed and crashed against the blood.

Those were several enormous and powerful creatures, engaged in an extremely fierce battle for this unimaginably precious offering!

“I see… In this twisted ecosystem, all living things are nourishment for ‘He’.”

Lu Mingfei muttered to himself, his gaze piercing through the barrier of hundreds of meters of deep seawater, precisely locking onto the giant aliens below who were fighting for the Dragon Bone Cross.

There were four of them!
They are the overlords at the top of this bloody evolutionary ecosystem!
Lu Mingfei opened his alchemical domain with his left palm, and a tactical helmet appeared in his hand—

The Forging General also applied an alchemical miniaturization process to the helmets of the Legion's standard power armor, similar to that used in weapons, so that warriors could remove their helmets at any time and place, allowing His Majesty the Emperor to remember their faces.
They can also be rearmed on the ever-changing battlefield.

With a soft "click," Lu Mingfei closed his helmet, accompanied by the buzzing of the system activation, his scarlet goggles blending seamlessly with his burning golden eyes.

The next second, the light-forged wings behind him erupted with even more intense flames, as if they could evaporate even the seawater;
He was like a blazing meteor tearing through the deep sea, wielding the Sword of Revelation as he crashed into that boiling, blood-red ocean.

Even in the incredibly resistant sea, Lu Mingfei maintained an astonishing speed no less than that of soaring through the sky;
He streaked towards the four aliens, leaving a trail of swirling bubbles and golden flames in his wake!

The four giant aliens appear to be the four strongest overlords in this ecosystem. Each one has a different appearance and has evolved unique killing organs according to the cruel ecological laws of this place.
A massive, sharp ramming horn on its head, or a giant claw covered in serrated bone blades, or thorns on its back surging with terrifying electric currents...

Just a moment ago they were engaged in a fierce melee, fighting for the sinking dragon bone cross. Whichever overlord got close to the supreme dragon bone cross first would immediately attract a hysterical and frantic attack from the other three overlords.
However, when that figure, spewing forth holy yet destructive golden flames from the water, appeared with the power to tear the deep sea apart—

A terrifying warning, stemming from their very survival instincts, instantly extinguished their frenzy in vying for the offerings!
The four overlords froze simultaneously, their massive bodies stiffening, their crimson or dark gold eyes instinctively revealing intense fear. They should have scattered and fled immediately, fleeing from this terrifying being that had suddenly appeared.

but……

The dragon bone cross, so close yet radiating an aura of unparalleled power, was like the most tempting delicacy, firmly gripping their greedy souls.

The ultimate desire for power overwhelmed the fear of destruction.

Therefore, instead of fleeing, the four deep-sea overlords, each with a different form, stopped fighting each other under the immense pressure from Lu Mingfei. They slowly turned their massive bodies and turned their attacks towards the rapidly approaching golden streak of light.

Lu Mingfei didn't care about this—his dive was merely to accelerate a predetermined process.

Before the four alien creatures had fully closed in, the golden streak that tore through the seawater had already arrived.

Lu Mingfei's figure left a straight golden afterimage in the murky blood, as if completely ignoring the resistance of the water.

The Sword of Revelation in his hand was like a dazzling golden streak, rushing towards the nearest alien.

The alien overlord, wielding massive claws covered in serrated bone blades, only had time to instinctively raise its claws in front of it—

But the blazing golden ribbon had already circled it three times.

The next second, the alien's huge and tough body silently separated into three pieces along three smooth cuts with edges shimmering with molten gold light!
The severed giant claws, the horizontally split upper body, and the lower body covered with a thick carapace slowly shifted apart due to the enormous water pressure difference and inertia.

From the huge, open wound, the thick, dark red blood did not gush upwards or spread due to water pressure, but instead strangely sank downwards.
It seemed as if there was an unseen giant maw beneath the sea, secretly sucking up the life essence of this alien creature after its fall.

This horrifying scene immediately filled the remaining three aliens' eyes, which were filled with ferocity and greed, with fear stemming from their primal instincts.

Instant kill! An instant kill with absolutely no chance of resistance!

But fear also takes time.

The second alien has two rows of golden dragon eyes, and a terrifying, writhing tentacle covered with highly venomous vesicles has evolved on its throat.

As the golden light rushed toward it, it immediately contracted all its tentacles in terror, attempting to unleash a torrent of venomous vesicles at Lu Mingfei, while its massive body twisted wildly backward in an attempt to create distance.

But it's still too slow!

The sword of revelation drew a sharp angle in the water, its tip pointing directly at the writhing core filled with disgusting vesicles!

The tentacle overlord only saw a golden light rapidly enlarging in its field of vision, so fast that it couldn't even fully react to spray venom.

The Sword of Revelation pierced through the largest vesicle in the center of its body, containing the most deadly neurotoxin, with unparalleled precision, as if piercing through a thin sheet of paper!

Bo——!
A muffled sound, like a bubble bursting, spread through the deep sea.

What followed was a silent burning and annihilation!

The vesicle pierced by the Sword of Revelation, along with the terrifying toxins stored within and the flesh and blood tissue enveloping it, burst into flames in the water, only to be silently annihilated by the golden fire.

A huge cavity, several meters in diameter, appeared at the core of the tentacle overlord;
Its massive body convulsed violently, all its wriggling tentacles instantly stiffened and withered, and the golden light in its two rows of pupils dimmed and went out as quickly as a candle flame being extinguished.

The enormous corpse, having lost all its power, slowly sank into the abyss, and the deadly venom was completely purified before it even had a chance to be released.

The third one is an alien whose back has evolved spikes that can unleash terrifying electric currents!
It witnessed the instantaneous death of two creatures of equal status, and fear completely overwhelmed its greed. Its massive body twisted violently, attempting to escape into the deeper sea.

At the same time, the thorns on his back flashed wildly, and blue and white arcs of electricity exploded in the water, forming a deadly electric net, attempting to hinder Lu Mingfei's pursuit.

But the golden light moved freely through the electric grid, its speed increasing rather than decreasing, and in the blink of an eye it caught up with the fleeing alien. A flash of blazing golden light passed over the alien's back!

The thorns shattered and dimmed, the electric current dissipated, and blood gushed out.

The enormous alien body stiffened completely amidst violent tremors, slowly sinking into the darkness.

Only one alien with a sharp, huge horn on its head remains, and it is also the largest of the four overlords.

At this moment, its ferocity had been completely ignited by the tragic deaths of its kind. Knowing that it could not escape, it let out a deep roar, its massive body churning the crimson seawater, and like a mad bull, it charged toward Lu Mingfei with a destructive force that could crush everything.

Lu Mingfei's expression beneath his helmet remained calm and composed. The alien possessed some intelligence, but not much—did it think that it could collide head-on with him at its speed?

He swung the Sword of Revelation in a backhand motion, and the blazing golden sword light, like a bolt of lightning, traced a deadly path through the deep sea.

The next instant, the monstrous head with its giant horns separated from its body, and even propelled forward a distance with its momentum before rolling helplessly, dragging gushing purple blood, and twitching as its headless corpse plummeted into the abyss-like seabed below.

In less than a minute, all four aliens that dominated this ecosystem were killed!

Lu Mingfei hovered amidst the murky blood and pervasive blood mist, his golden eyes behind his goggles coldly watching the four enormous and grotesque alien corpses, along with their gushing, viscous blood that was eerily accelerating its descent, all plummeting into the bottomless abyss of darkness.

It seemed that some unimaginably vast will, sleeping at the bottom of the abyss, was drawn by the rich and "fresh" life essence and the aura emanating from the slowly sinking dragon bone cross, and began to awaken.

Rumble——!
A deep, chilling roar came from the depths of the sea. Suddenly, a colossal vortex, its diameter immeasurable and composed entirely of absolute darkness, took shape, like a gaping maw leading to the void, emanating a terrifying suction force that devoured everything.

The enormous corpses of the four overlords, along with their blood and a massive amount of seawater, were pulled by a tremendous suction force into the deep black hole at the bottom of the sea.

These aliens, who think they are at the top of the food chain, don't realize that they are also part of the food.

They've survived until now only because the feeders below think they're not fat enough.

Now that we have the most "plump" dragon bone cross, which has incorporated the essence of the four dragon kings, they can be served as side dishes—Lu Mingfei has simply accelerated this process.

However, Lu Mingfei had no intention of simply feeding the dragon bones to the beings below.

The Lightforged Wings on his back burst forth with blazing golden flames as Lu Mingfei swooped down, his armored hands precisely seizing the Dragonbone Cross.

Without the slightest pause, Lu Mingfei abruptly turned around, activated the full power of his light wings, and charged violently towards the sea at an almost vertical angle.

Roar--! ! !
An indescribable roar of terrifying intent, a mixture of rage and greed, instantly pierced through the entire deep sea like a tangible sound wave.

The creatures beneath the sea seemed enraged by the loss of their delicious food; several thick, dark pillars of dust rose up, transforming into tentacles as they tried to drag Lu Mingfei, along with the dragon bone cross in his hand, into the abyss.

But Lu Mingfei's speed was simply too fast.

Then, even more violent tremors came from the seabed, and the undulating "underwater mountain range" began to move like a sleeping ancient behemoth.

Two rows of enormous, blazing golden pupils suddenly lit up from the deep sea like searchlights.

That's not a mountain range, but the body of that giant beast! That black hole is its gaping maw for feeding.

It was only when it broke through the sea that its full form was revealed; the sea looked as if a black volcano had risen from it, and Pompeii's icebreaker seemed as small as a toy in comparison.

The ultimate creature in this incubation space... its true identity is already self-evident.

However, it was not like the various ancient dragons described by humans, but a kind of giant catfish with a body length of over 100 meters, and with remnants of coral-like growth terminals on its back.

Apart from those two rows of awe-inspiring golden dragon eyes, there is no other feature that suggests it is an intelligent being.

Putting aside the difference in size, his imposing and aesthetically pleasing appearance... was even inferior to those four aliens with different evolutions.

"Oh my gosh—! Is it finally coming?!"

At the edge of the distant ice cap, Fingel looked at the giant beast that Lu Mingfei had brought out of the sea. "Is this what the captain is here to destroy?"

Chen Motong gripped the hovermobile's handrail tightly, her knuckles turning white from the force; her suddenly constricted pupils reflected the ferocious beast that covered half the blood-red sky, like a moving mountain range.

"What...what exactly is that?" Her voice was dry, filled with disbelief, confusion, and trembling.

“Although it looks a lot like an ugly catfish… I feel it is the Black King Nidhogg,” Fingel said, his playful smile fading and his voice becoming serious. “Or perhaps one of its forms?”

"But the problem now is... how should the captain deal with this huge thing? That convergence mechanism... wait—captain, what are you doing, captain?!"

Before he could finish speaking, his eyes nearly popped out of their sockets—

He saw his legion leader, transformed into a golden streak of light, rush directly into the giant beast's gaping maw, which resembled a black hole, as if walking into a trap.

(End of this chapter)