Family heirloom, then turned into a demon girl

Chapter 289 Mission: 08-3 Constantine
"Please protect me, Junior Sister!"

Finger was as utterly unpredictable as his motto—a bottom line that seemed unfathomable. Behind him, Lu Mingfei silently turned his head, as if to say, "I don't know him."

Nero ignored his antics in silence. In reality, with the ability to use his Word Spirit, Finger was practically no different from a walking chariot, able to charge headfirst into a hail of bullets and even protect himself against a humanoid Dragon King.

He doesn't need any protection at all.

"What about you?" Nero asked Lu Mingfei, his tone cold: "What are you doing here?"

"I'm here to escort my brother." He raised his hand seriously.

It seemed that this skill of lying with open eyes was also inherited from Finger. Nero looked at him with amusement and said, "Then you have also made it. The gate is over there. Goodbye."

"No! I don't even have a spiritual power. If we meet a dragon, it's like delivering midnight snacks! Please be kind and take us in for a while!"

He was so useless. Although Nero had always known that Lu Mingfei was a useless wimp in most situations, it seemed a bit difficult to see him being tough. It really was true that "when the sky falls, the tall ones have to hold it up." Now trouble had begun to find Nero.

Nero looked out the window. The sounds of battle inside both the cathedral and Valhalla had slowed down slightly. It seemed the moment Nero had been waiting for was nearing. So she turned away, saying, "Then you stay here," and closed the door.

She crossed the corridor again, intending to set out and wait for the Dragon King to awaken. But then she heard two footsteps relentlessly chasing her. Turning back, she saw two men with nervous faces, but they were determined to follow Nero.

"What? Are you planning to follow me to find the dragon clan?"

"I think the dragon tribe is no match for you." Lu Mingfei nodded firmly: "We are ready to be your cheerleaders."

He was right. Even if they faced the Dragon King, it would be easy for Nero to protect them. But the problem was that she really didn't want to have two such clowns around her.

"Haven't you ever thought about why the attack happened today?" she asked coldly.

"Maybe it's a nice day?"

"Maybe it's because the stock market just fell yesterday."

Each of them gave a completely unrelated answer. Nero pressed his forehead, turned around, and continued walking forward with a feeling of exhaustion. He said, "Because the principal just returned from Bronze City today. These people are here to awaken the Dragon King."

As expected, Lu Mingfei stopped in his tracks upon hearing this: "Dragon, Dragon King?"

"Yes, Dragon King, so please hide here, my two little darlings."

She casually put on a pair of slippers, pushed open the door and walked out. Lu Mingfei, who was left in the villa, hesitated for a moment, but in the end did not chase after her.

He felt Nero should be able to protect him, after all, Nero had reportedly faced a dragon king a few months prior. But he couldn't bring himself to ask Nero, who was intent on slaying a dragon, to protect him. He wanted to be useless, not work hard, that was fine, but he couldn't hold back those who were working hard.

So he looked at Finger and asked, "Brother Finger, what should we do now?" But he didn't see Finger at first glance. He looked down and found him lying on the ground, hiding himself behind the wall, typing on his laptop with a serious face, cold sweat on his forehead.

He found a way to connect to the internet again. While quickly browsing the webpage, Finger replied to Lu Mingfei, "Don't worry, I'm checking... Damn, what Nero said sounds like the truth. The principal just sent a notice today saying that we need to sign in for tomorrow's classes!"

"Brother, it's hard to believe that you really want to graduate if you don't even pay attention to this kind of news!"

"A high-risk target has appeared! The enemy is approaching the school gate. Be careful and wait for reinforcements!" Professor Schneider's hoarse command was transmitted through the radio on campus. Finkel quickly called up the surveillance camera footage - but most of the surveillance cameras at the school gate had already been shattered by bullets when the invasion occurred. Finkel only saw burning trees, melted asphalt, and a dark straight line across the center of the lawn in the picture.

The Lionheart members saw the burning figure before anyone else. The Dragon King Constantine, violently awakened before he could fully mature, roamed the lawn like a spirit from hell, leaving a trail of burning. Less than a week after restoration, the expensive lawn beloved by Principal Ange was destroyed again.

All the people on both sides of the lawn who had been aiming at the church immediately turned their guns around and shot at the burning figure, but the terrifying high temperature instantly vaporized all the bullets. The bright red blood mist with an anesthetic effect was ignited by the high temperature and fell into the flames burning around Constantine, completely disappearing.

"All retreat."

Chu Zihang ordered the Lionheart Society members through the headset: "He and I share the same line of spiritual power. His ability to control heat and metal makes him invulnerable to bullets. You are no match for him. Retreat immediately."

As a holder of a high-level Word Spirit of the "Bronze and Fire" series, Chu Zihang deeply understood the vast chasm between Word Spirits. Just now, for example, he and his opponent's attack using the Word Spirit of Sovereign Flame had completely reduced the church to a pitch-black ruin.

And they haven't used their full strength yet, otherwise the church wouldn't even be able to retain its dark appearance.

Across from Chu Zihang, the thin girl who also wielded the Word Spirit, Sovereign Flame, stared at him silently. She wore a tight-fitting outfit that obscured her face, and even her hair was carefully bundled up. But Chu Zihang felt as though he had seen her somewhere before.

"Is this your plan too?" he asked.

"Then I should continue to attack or retreat instead of standing here chatting with you." The girl replied coldly.

"That means you're waiting for new orders just like me. Let's temporarily cease fire and each side take a step back."

"Okay." The girl decisively put away her weapon and walked out of the church. Chu Zihang also rushed out a moment later. The girl had disappeared, but he saw another girl of similar height appear in front of him.

Nero Fortuna, a freshman who should have stayed in the dormitory, now stepped onto the battlefield. Chu Zihang didn't know what kind of spiritual power she possessed, but at this moment, her aura was like a biting cold wind, almost suppressing the violent flames of the dragon enemies.

The burning dragon stopped and looked back blankly at Nero who suddenly appeared, and saw a cold light breaking through the air.

A short word in the Dragon language echoed in everyone's ears. It was Nero who spoke. She said -

"You shall die."

(End of this chapter)