Beyond the Nibelungen, in the midst of the choppy sea, a strangely dressed man in a floating boat lifted his crooked hat and beak mask.

"That's a ......," he sighed, "and sure enough, it's not so easy to pull a tooth out of a tiger's mouth." ”

The boat beneath him drifted in the furious sea, fragile as a leaf, ready to tear his ship apart at any moment. Then, a cannonball came towards the small boat it was on.

Unhurriedly, he raised his hand, chanted softly, and spread a transparent screen around the hull, and the cannonballs that brushed against the screen exploded in the surrounding waters.

In the slowly falling water curtain, a ship with black sails slowly approached.

On Queen Anne's Revenge, Soot exhaled a long puff of smoke and similarly lifted the brim of her hat on her head. Menek stood beside him, looking at the lonely boat on the page with no expression on his face, and the strange people on it.

"Sure enough, it's an extremely unfamiliar, but inexplicably familiar taste." Lu Shanyan played with his revolver, squinting at the strange figure.

"This feels ......," said the tiger, holding the bow in his hand, with a solemn face, "just like the storm of Hamburg night!" ”

The rainstorm was a night that none of them could forget, the hinterland of the Secret Order, the Casel Manor, was destroyed overnight, and the elite Lionhearts were almost all killed, leaving Ange alone to wander back to the ruins of the manor like a dead man, collecting their bodies and burying them.

It's another stormy day, and it's so similar to that day. It was daytime, but it was still night, and a bolt of lightning streaked across the sky, illuminating the two ships that were far away from each other. Both the people on the boat and the pirate ship were silent, and no one interrupted the calm, looking at each other tacitly.

"It's well hidden, but I'm sorry, your lord's game of hide and seek." Menek took a step forward, climbed over the guardrail, stood on the foremast, and asked, "But we are a little curious, and you have a strange feeling that your Excellency has made us wonder, can you tell me what is going on?" ”

He looked at the man's face covered by a bird's beak mask, waiting for an answer.

"Who knows?" The bird-beaked man shrugged, "There are so many people in this world, how do I know if we are passing by there?" ”

"It seems that Your Excellency is not going to cooperate, so we can only lift your mask ourselves." Menec shook off the rain and lifted his cloak, revealing the long sheathed knife underneath it.

"No, I'd love to cooperate." The bird-beaked man said, raising his hands as if to show that he was harmless.

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Then, under the somewhat inexplicable expressions of the members of the Queen Anne's Revenge, he casually removed his mask, revealing the face of a handsome young Western man underneath, but otherwise unusual.

He raised his hands as if in surrender and said, "You see, I also said, I don't know you, do I?" ”

The man's inexplicable movements made the people on the ship look at each other silently, and after a silent exchange of opinions, they all looked at Menek, who was in the lead.

Menek also shrugged, then took out a flintlock pistol from under his cloak and pointed it at the man from afar: "We discussed it, and unfortunately, we don't accept such a suspicious captive." ”

The bullet fired, but there was no figure on the boat in front of him.

Menek raised his head and looked at the man who was floating in the air and put on the bird's beak mask again: "Should I call you Li Yuanhao?" Or is it the name Yuanhao or Tuoba Yuanhao? Or is it the name of the sky, or the name of the Wuzhu...... Honestly, there are so many names just for one identity, aren't you tired? ”

The man floating in the air tapped the mask that had been re-covered on his face with the crow's cane in his hand, tilted his head and replied, "I have almost forgotten all the names you said, as for why there are so many...... On a whim, of course. ”

As he spoke, he took off his top hat and stood in the sky to salute the people aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge: "First meeting, all of you from the Lionheart, although I haven't met you in person before, I've been longing for you for a long time. ”

"We didn't meet in person...... Indeed, you have simply thrown your brother to our side, and then hid in a dark corner and watched him die with us. Lu Shanyan sneered, "Compared to other dragon kings, you are really a beloved brother." ”

The bird-beaked man was obviously silent for a moment, and after a long time, he sighed and said, "Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and the bad situation between me and my brother is the only one among all our brothers and sisters. ”

"Compared to this......," he took off his hat again, and then bowed deeply, "I deeply regret and apologize for the disaster that my brother caused you, even though it was nearly a hundred years late. ”

Such a standard apology is rare now, and if it were elsewhere, this impeccable attitude would have been deeply moving.

"Oh, you're talking coldly. I have heard that in a country in the East, people should be tolerated if they are willing to admit their mistakes. The bird-beaked man, who didn't get any response, slowly put on his hat, looked at the people on the boat, and said, "Sure enough, as long as you apologize, you should forgive, this kind of look is quite strange, right?" ”

However, he was answered by the sound of a gunshot, and the slowly rising gun ports on the deck.

Pointed at the black muzzle, he lightly tapped the bullets floating on the transparent wall in front of him and sighed, "If I could, I really don't want to clash with you here......"

"So, let's play with you with something else." He chuckled and snapped his fingers.

Then, the low dark clouds broke through, and a pillar of fire fell from the sky, smashing into the lonely ship in the sea with a terrible cry.

Endless light and flames overflowed, enough to burn the eyeballs and explode over the dark sea. The whole sea is as bright as day, as if a sun is rising in the Mediterranean.

……

At the same time, in the central control room of Kassel, an operator hung up the phone with a strange expression and turned back to report to the veterans of the command platform: "The commissioner who works in the headquarters of the ESA (European Space Agency) in Paris, France, has sent back a report that an unknown object has entered the atmosphere over the Mediterranean Sea a minute ago, and the destination is predicted to be the Tyrrhenian Sea off the coast of Italy, which is shrouded in a storm. ”

"Unidentified object from outer space?" One of the patriarchs asked, "Is it a meteorite?" ”

"What do you do at this time?" One of the patriarchs complained, "What we need now is to find out the information about the Nibelungen under the Tyrrhenian Sea, not these things!" ”

"Elder, I don't think it's something that you don't have." Schneider looked at the picture transmitted on the central screen and reminded faintly.

It was captured by ESA's satellites in space and ground-based observation telescopes, a cylindrical, pitch-black pillar that looked like a man-made object broke through the atmosphere with a fire and crashed towards the Earth at the speed of a meteor. What made the elders of the entire control room dumbfounded was that the pillars that looked like they were burned red had an unusually conspicuous pattern that emitted a faint light.

This is not only a personal creation, but also an alchemical weapon, an alchemical weapon from outer space.

“…… I think I probably know this thing. "There was a faint voice ringing, it was Pompeii in the call connection.

"Actually, it's not just the academy, the family is also building the ultimate weapon against the dragon king." Pompey said, "Although it seems that it is still debatable whether this is something to deal with the Dragon King, it can be said that this can be regarded as an unprecedented space-based kinetic weapon - the Sword of Damocles that combines the aviation power of the whole of Europe." ”

"Space-based kinetic weapons?" An old man who had been off the surface for too long and lacked some modern information asked, "Can anyone explain?" ”

"I, I, I, I, I! I got it! A voice suddenly interjected into the communication connection, and many people questioned the unfamiliar voice.

Schneider nodded: "Director Akadulla, please explain what you know." ”

"Rest assured, leave it to me, no one will know more about space-based kinetic weapons than my equipment department!" The voice just now continued to sound, and the words were full of pride.

The people who were still confused just now were instantly in awe, this was actually the person in charge of the equipment department who was even more mysterious than the S-class in the legend!

"Very well, then I'll see where to start...... "Director Akadulla cleared his throat and said, "Back in 1985, the U.S. Department of Defense began a study called the 'Scepter of God,' which is the highest strength tungsten ......."

"Skip these long explanations, I want simple and quick instructions!" The patriarch who asked the question just now said dissatisfiedly, "We don't have time to understand these theoretical things!" ”

"Tsk, trouble, you have a lot of requests...... Director Akadulla also said dissatisfiedly, without taking into account the identity of the other party's patriarch, after all, the equipment department didn't even pay attention to the headmaster.

He thought for a moment and said, "Let me think about it, to put it simply, modern long-range weapons, such as various missiles, intercontinental missiles, and nuclear bombs, have two steps to launch. First, the location of the target is confirmed by satellite. Second, the ground center receives the data fed back from the satellite and then launches the missile. ”

"The space-based kinetic energy weapon directly omits the second part, and all the procedures, including positioning, analysis, and launch, are all carried out on the satellite." "And what is even more amazing is that the space-based kinetic energy weapon, which is completely powered by the earth's gravity, has far more power than conventional weapons, comparable to nuclear bombs!" If such a thing is put into the battlefield against dragons, it will become an absolute killer! ”

He shouted to Pompeii with an excited face: "Has the Gattuso family already made this?" You know, but even the United States has given up. How is the accuracy of the target solved? How accurate is it? How is the supply solved......"

Schneider cut off the communication route of the equipment department with a blank face, and the chatter of the director of Akadulla disappeared from the central control room.

Then he said, "Pompeii Gattuso, you can go on." ”

"Uh...... Thank you. Pompeii also cleared his throat and said, "Actually, I didn't participate too much in this family project, after all, I am just the head of the family, and it is impossible for me to know too much about such a core project." ”

"So what are you trying to say with all that time you occupy?" An elder couldn't stop asking angrily.

Pompey cleared his throat again: "What I want to say is that the sword of Damocles that the original family was going to launch was a purely kinetic weapon, not an alchemical weapon. After all, we are not Flamel, but no one can engrave the alchemy matrix on such a goal. ”

"But now, the Gattuso family is basically gone, which means ......" He paused abruptly.

An elder asked: "Keep talking, what does that mean?" ”

"You mean to say that the sword of Damocles is very likely to fall into the hands of the enemy, right?" The vice principal, who had not spoken, suddenly said faintly, "To be able to possess such a level of alchemy, you are really a troublesome thing to send to the enemy......

"Haha, it's just a possibility, it's just a possibility." Pompey snorted, but his panic could be felt through the phone line.

"It's not possible." Another voice interjected, it was the headmaster who had been silent for a while.

He said in a somewhat inexplicable hoarse voice: "Although it may not be of much use, it is better to notify all parts of Europe to issue air defense alerts." Just now, the Sword of Damocles has launched an attack on us......"

……

In the midst of the red water, the stiff-looking "corpse" suddenly opened its eyes. Caesar looked around with bloodshot eyes, and the blood-red color in his eyes almost made him think that he had come to the world of the dead. But the pain all over his body, from mental to physical, made him understand that this was still a reality.

Gritting his teeth and enduring the pain that seemed to be pricked by countless needles, he rose from the rubble and crawled crookedly towards the twisted monster in the distance.

The monster's face could still be faintly seen with Frost's shadow, but it was no longer alienated. His limbs were tugged at and wrapped around the ruins like a mollusc. His torso had also enlarged several times, rooting like a hill on top of the ruins. Countless thin threads like spider silk poked out of his mountain-like body, connecting many broken white bodies, and looking at the appearance of those broken bodies, they were the scrolls of those dragon kings just now.

The sound of a pounding heartbeat came from Frost's chest, and it was incomparably clear in the water. It's like something is going to hatch out of his body.

Slowly approaching, Caesar saw the beautiful woman sleeping quietly in an egg called "Frost". Her blonde hair was fluttering, her body was covered with beautiful scales like a straitjacket, and her eyes were tightly closed, quiet and beautiful. It's not the tail, but the legs are slightly bent, and the hands are resting on the head, as if they are just asleep.