Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Doesn’t Want to Become a Night City Legend

Chapter 345 The Black King Stopped Thinking

That was also a clue that Caesar left for Lu Mingfei.

Among Lu Mingfei's few remaining "friends," Caesar and Chu Zihang stand out the most. Generally speaking, Chu Zihang would risk his life for Lu Mingfei, going through fire and water for him, showing unparalleled loyalty and righteousness.

Caesar was a proud man by nature. Even if he wanted to help you, most of the time he would be arrogant and give help in the manner of an emperor issuing orders.

But even so.

Undeniably, Caesar Gattuso remained a capable man.

Whether it's uncovering the truth about history or providing hints time and again.

[The methods available for burying the Black King]

Blitzkrieg

[Human wave tactics]

Information gap

When all else fails, the only option left is to bring it to the final arena.

The feeling of being overweight is like an invisible wall pressing down on your whole body.

As it breaks through the troposphere, the atmosphere turns from blue to black, and the clouds are torn into wisps like tattered cotton.

The thin air caused the body to tremble violently, and the temperature plummeted to a level that normal organisms could not withstand.

Then, just for a moment.

When you cross the line, the shackles of gravity suddenly disappear.

Blood rushes to the head like a tidal wave, and the eardrums sting due to the sudden change in air pressure.

Looking down at the Earth, the curved blue edge burns with a thin atmospheric glow, while overhead is forever black.

Space

Within this space where no element intervenes, the Black King's upper limit will be eternally fixed.

"!!!"

and so.

Is that why there were so many battles?
Lu Mingze's dark expression kept changing.

The initial attack was to test its mobility and fighting spirit. Then, the use of sheer numbers to deplete its elements was to ensure that the Black King could not escape from any angle when it took off.

After employing a human wave tactic, the three people other than Lu Mingfei were used as vanguards, which was also to deplete the elements in the Black King's body as much as possible, while preserving the elements in Lu Mingfei's body.

Everything was for the purpose of allowing the Black King to engage in battle with Lu Mingfei in an irreversible, worst-case scenario within this "universe".

No.

Even if the elements were still remaining, the [Word of Power] would no longer be able to exert its full power in outer space, a fact that Lu Mingfei had already confirmed.

Caesar's battle with himself was a rehearsal.

Words of power are a chain reaction. Without elements around, relying solely on the elements within the body, one cannot exert much power, especially attack words of power like [Monarch Flame], which require detonating surrounding elements, making them practically unusable.

The most suitable lineage for invoking the power of words from the elements within the body is actually only one.

【White King】

Spiritual elements.

But how can the power of words used by spiritual elements be determined?

At this moment, only the sword matters.

All royal blood must end with the sword.

This is the last time.

In this space devoid of any medium, everything is deathly silent.

However, Lu Mingfei was still able to sense Lu Mingze's presence.

—The third transaction.

In order to prevent Lu Mingze from disappearing, and also to kill the Black King.

Three transactions constitute the maximum transaction limit.

In this cycle, Lu Mingfei didn't make a single transaction, all so that he could squander it all at the end.

The third transaction, combined with Lu Mingfei's unlimited bloodlust.

The dragon has descended.

Dark gold, dragon-scale-like patterns appeared on the skin's surface, with lava-like blood seeping between each scale. Finger bones pierced the fingertips, extending into jet-black bone blades, and vertebrae protruded segment by segment, forming serrated bone spines.

Offal.

bone.

skin.

Even their 'spirit' has become closer to that of dragons.

Unbeknownst to many, the strongest sword, 'Ama-no-Murakumo,' had already been passed down from Erii to Lu Mingfei.

The Black King tacitly approved of all this, and only responded after a long time.

Black scales covering the arm.

In the deathly silent space, the two dragons faced each other.
The final battle ensued.

————————！ ！

In an instant, both of them disappeared.

The blade of the Ama no Kusanagi drew a molten gold arc, bursting into a cluster of blue-black blood flowers on the Black King's breastplate.

In the weightless environment, the splashed dragon blood condensed into floating spherical beads, which were then swept into a blood mist by the blasting afterimage in the next second.

The two murky shadows collided, and the Black King's counterattack was even more ferocious. His claw blade pierced through Lu Mingfei's dragon-transformed abdomen, and black blood mixed with fragments of intestines gushed out from the wound.

——————!
As the two dragons entangled, Lu Mingfei's blade pierced the Black King's carotid artery, and the remaining momentum sent them crashing into the nearest satellite facility.

The metal shell shrank like tin foil, and the Black King's wing bone pierced through Lu Mingfei, the vibration of the bone fragments being directly transmitted into his internal organs through the vacuum.

His expression remained unchanged.

They simply fought, and on the tracks they tumbled, scales, severed fingers, and iridescent blood floated, surrounding this eternally vast world.
They fought silently.

Lu Mingfei rarely tries to push his physical limits. Humans possess a survival instinct, so in most cases, they will subconsciously reject excessive combat.

So, it doesn't matter if it's a dragon.

Abandon all other words of power.

All you need to do is **not die**.

Just focus everything on 'slashing' and 'restoring'.

Keep fighting like this.

Fight, fight, fight
Every muscle felt as heavy as if it were filled with molten lead; the joints made a faint grinding sound as they flexed and extended; the muscle groups felt as if they were being repeatedly pierced by countless steel needles. Breathing became a mechanical, bellows-like action, and the piercing pain caused by diaphragmatic spasms radiated into the intercostal spaces with each inhale.

Even though I wasn't breathing, my oral mucosa was rapidly dehydrating, and a gritty sensation spread through my breathing tract.

When the heart and lungs are pushed beyond their limits, a metallic-tasting blood foam rises deep within the body. Swallowing pushes this hot, pungent liquid back down the esophagus, where it splashes between the teeth during the next violent cough, forming a salty, fishy spray with body heat.

【Buzz————————————】

Flashing gray spots began to appear at the edge of my vision, and tinnitus gradually drowned out other sounds.

The stinging sensation and blurred vision together created a hallucinatory scene, stretching and distorting the perception of time, while the skin surface simultaneously felt a burning heat and shivers caused by hypothermia.

How long did the battle last?

He 'died' several times.

By now, the number of things has become countless.

It's impossible to calculate how much time has passed.

To be honest, Lu Mingfei only found out now.

"Don't Die" is a recovery skill, not a Logia-type Devil Fruit. Therefore, while it might appear that "Lu Mingfei's hand is severed, he will repair the broken bones," it could also appear that "Lu Mingfei's hand is cut off and flies to the side; in that case, using 'Don't Die' will cause a new arm to grow."

That's probably why things have turned out this way.

The Earth is surrounded by the debris of satellites.

The only two living beings were Lu Mingfei and the Black King.

But all around them, besides shattered mechanical fragments, were severed limbs and scattered drops of blood.

Eyeballs, arms, legs, internal organs
Dig it out, cut it off, pull it out.

On the hellish battlefield, the two monsters compared the strength of their mental fortitude.

Black King is far, far more powerful than Lu Mingfei.

In most cases, he was crushing Lu Mingfei in battle.

but--

That makes no sense.

Being powerful is meaningless on this battlefield that Lu Mingfei has prepared.

Since neither of them can use incantations and both are 'immortal,' the only thing that truly matters is their mental strength.

This is also the only point that allows Lu Mingfei to defeat the Black King.

The Black King is a born strongman, therefore, the "will to survive" will never exist in his life.

Lu Mingfei's soul strength is superimposed in countless worlds. He experiences despair and redemption in cyberpunk, and after forming so many connections, he must fulfill his responsibilities and make promises.

This is the only area where Lu Mingfei, as a human being, can defeat the Black King.

It is because of weakness that one becomes persistent.

The moment Lu Mingfei reaches outer space will be his victory.

[Arrive here, then exhaust all your stamina and elements.]

From this moment on—

Even if the Black King could kill Lu Mingfei and survive in the universe longer than Lu Mingfei, it would be of no use.

Because he can no longer go back to Earth.

—Lu Mingfei is good at finding ways to defeat enemies from anime. This is not because he is quick-witted or has a brilliant mind, but simply because he has little life experience.

But this time...
He won the bet.

In the infinitely silent space, the Black King's expression shifted from anger to realization, and finally to relief and understanding, without taking long.

This being, born naturally from Earth, has no fear of death, because it has never understood the weight of life.

No, perhaps at the end, we glimpsed a corner of the unknown.

At this moment, even with limbs flying everywhere, Lu Mingfei is fighting himself, striving for victory in the most savage, primitive, and disheveled way. He is not a dragon, but a human.

An endless silence descended, and darkness gradually enveloped the two fighters.

The powerlessness began to spread. The planet's tentacles could not dispel the vast universe. As the elements were exhausted, both sides simultaneously began to grow dense black scales on their bodies for insulation and to block radiation.

Lu Mingfei's body was visibly drained, so even his remaining strength had vanished. The rate at which scales were generated was far slower than the rate at which the temperature of the universe was eroding his flesh. His muscles began to stiffen, his wounds could not heal, and thick ice rapidly began to grow on his body surface.

The Black King can still live; he can continue to survive solely through his physical body.

but.
His immobile body was covered by a thin layer of frost, and the Black King's trembling eyes, weakened by his illness, watched as the darkness was pierced by beams of light.

A huge rocket rose from the ground.

One, two, three. As far as the eye could see, there were torches lit by humans from the distant earth, swirling around the two of them.

The person they are supposed to 'welcome' is not themselves.

This battle doesn't need to determine victory or defeat; it just needs to be 'ended'.

Just as Lu Mingfei said.

Humans are weak, yet they are also the strongest.

Given enough numbers, when they unite, even the Black King is nothing more than someone who can be killed with 'tactics'.

Having understood this, the former ruler finally closed his eyes.

Quietly—eternally, it fell into sleep.

Black King stopped thinking.

(End of this chapter)