Europe, thirteen kilometers northeast of the city of Oslo, the capital of Norway, on the Holmenkollen mountain.

Lu Mingfei and the vice principal stood in the dense forest at the foot of the mountain, looking up at the gray-brown stone hall—a group of stone halls to be exact.

In the millennium, many families of the secret party will gradually change their way of life with social changes, and now, although most families retain the old clan land, the new clan land will often be relocated to a less conspicuous suburban manor in the city, and the old clan land will be used as an ancestral hall or reserve base, such as Charlotte's family.

The Beowulf family is one of the very few families in the secret party who have never changed the clan land from beginning to end, among these stone halls, the earliest one has stood here since 2,000 years ago, and the rest have been continuously added over the years, these stone halls are high and square, continuous, and look like a huge cemetery from a distance, so it is called the "Dragon Tombstone Forest", which means that the people who lived here have buried many dragons.

Since 1892, a world-famous ski competition has been held every year in March, and even the entire city of Oslo has been hailed as the "Ski Capital of the World".

When Lu Mingfei was in another world, he came here with Tony to skied through the snow.

However, the distribution of this world, the ski resorts on Mount Holmenkollen are a little different from the distribution of the other world, and the reason is probably to stay away from the clan land of the Beowulf family as much as possible - although they are not keen on the power of ordinary society, but in order to ensure that there are enough resources to support when slaying dragons, and to ensure that the hybrid can be hidden among ordinary people, the Beowulf family will also let some less excellent clansmen go deep into human society and secretly control the local political and economic lifeline.

By the way, these hybrids who are responsible for cultivating human society and providing logistical support for the Beowulf family are basically women in the family.

The reason is also very simple, in the eyes of the Beowulf family, every baby boy who survives the trial of dragon blood crystals will be the most elite dragon slayer in the future, and when they are unlucky, there may only be two or three surviving babies in a generation, and even when the population is prosperous, it is difficult for the men of the Beowulf family to exceed ten.

And those girls who don't have to be tested by the harsh dragon blood crystals, although because of their parents' excellent bloodlines, they are also excellent hybrids worthy of vigorous cultivation in other families, but in the Beowulf family, they can only work as logistics staff - with their bloodline, it is quite easy to be in a high position in human society.

As for why Lu Mingfei knows so much about this......

For some reason, before he came, Patriarch Beowulf sent him a rather detailed list of the Beowulf family, which can be said to be at the level of a paid travel guide, which especially described the position of the female members of the Beowulf family in human society, and also attached photos and personal information.

Standing in front of the stone hall, Lu Mingfei and the vice principal looked at each other.

"Didn't anyone come to pick us up?" The vice principal looked at Lu Mingfei.

"I don't know." Lu Mingfei scratched his head.

When he came, he had already sent a message to Patriarch Beowulf, and Patriarch Beowulf also replied that someone would come to greet him, but the two of them had been blowing the cold Norwegian wind outside for more than ten minutes, and the door of the stone hall was still closed.

"Aren't they welcoming you?" The vice-principal quipped.

"No...... Either way, it's more likely that you're the person they don't welcome, right? Tutor Flamel? Lu Mingfei squinted at the vice principal.

"Why are you looking at me like that!" The vice-principal suddenly felt insulted.

"Isn't it obvious that the S-class freshmen who are excellent in character and learning, have a clean net worth, have never violated school rules, and have a good reputation in the school, and the perverted fat house monster Shu Xiao, who is notorious when he was young, and when he is old, he spends his days eating takeout and shopping in the forum, molesting female students as administrators in the forum, and asking the school to hold a swimsuit exhibition for personal gain?" Lu Mingfei complained mercilessly.

"You! Don't go too far, boy! I'm Mentor Flamel, and I don't know how many people in the entire secret party have a lot of respect for me, even if the Beowulf family hears that I'm coming, they have to welcome me......" The vice-principal held his beer belly and looked excited.

"Fuck you!" Patriarch Beowulf's angry voice exploded from behind the heavy stone gate, and with the roar of "boom", the stone gate slowly opened.

Beowulf and Ange stood behind the stone gate, although they had only experienced a fierce battle a few days ago and were injured to varying degrees, the two old men seemed to be recovering well, and they both looked ruddy and good-looking.

"You're finally here, Lu Mingfei." Patriarch Beowulf changed his majesty and coldness in the past, and looked at Lu Mingfei with a smile, which made Lu Mingfei inexplicably feel a feeling of hair in his heart - this face is more terrible than not smiling.

"Hey, hey, don't you see me, old thing?" The vice-principal's face darkened.

"Call it an old thing? Aren't you older than me? Beowulf turned to look at the vice-principal, the smile on his face gone.

"Hmph, but you're an old thing, look at the wrinkles and white beard on your face!" The vice principal sneered twice.

Lu Mingfei glanced at the vice principal with some surprise - he guessed that the vice principal was not young, but he didn't expect that the vice principal was actually older than Beowulf.

The headmaster had said that Beowulf was about the same age as him, and both of them were full old men, and although they seemed to be in the prime of life in terms of physical fitness and momentum, the wrinkles on their faces and their white hair and white beard could not be faked.

The vice-principal is different, although he is more depressed than Beowulf and the headmaster in terms of mental outlook, but in terms of physical characteristics, he is just an older middle-aged man, and he looks at least a generation younger than the headmaster.

A higher bloodline can prolong the life span of a half-breed and slow down aging to a certain extent, but the effect is also limited, and being able to appear younger than his peers when he is older means that the vice-principal's bloodline is likely to be a cut above the headmaster and Beowulf.

But......

"Vice Principal, although you don't have a white beard, you seem to be a little grateful." Lu Mingfei said on the side.

The vice principal subconsciously raised his hand and pressed the cowboy hat on his head.

"Thanks? Hahahahaha...... "Patriarch Beowulf laughed out loud as if he had heard something happy.

Ange laughed along.

"What does it look like to walk around and stand in the doorway and waste time? Let's get down to business. The vice principal pressed his hat and walked briskly through the stone hall.

……

Deep in the stone hall, in a room carved with alchemical matrices and runes.

The four walls, the floor, the dome, and even the raised stone platforms on the ground, each of which is relatively flat has fluorescent lines, and there is a liquid light flowing slowly in the lines.

"What is this place?" Lu Ming looked at Beowulf and the vice principal in confusion.

The headmaster waited outside the door, for Beowulf said that this was the core of the family, and that outsiders were not allowed unless necessary.

"This is where you can learn the forbidden art and obtain the second word spirit," Beowulf said, "Actually, to be precise, this forbidden art cannot be called 'learning', because skill can be said to learn, this forbidden art is to add something to you, so that you can have a power similar to the spirit of words, which is equivalent to the second spirit of words." ”

"Add something?" Lu Mingfei shrunk his neck, "It can't be a human body transformation, right?" ”

"Where do you want to go," the Vice Principal rolled his eyes, "is to carve an alchemy matrix on you, which, together with your own powers, can inspire a realm similar to the spirit of words. ”

"Holy! And this kind of hanging the same thing? Lu Mingfei was stunned, "Doesn't that mean that if this technique can be improved and popularized, all half-breeds can break the restriction of only one word spirit?" ”

"How dare you think of it!" Beowulf tugged at the corners of his mouth, "First of all, this ability must use the Philosopher's Stone as a raw material in order to depict the alchemy matrix in the human body, and only the Philosopher's Stone, which is a critical existence between the physical and the spiritual, can be perfectly integrated with the human body." And if I want to carve a complete matrix, the Philosopher's Stone consumed is about half of all the Philosopher's Stones that can be extracted by a three-generation ancient dragon, so I invited this old thing Flammel. ”

"Secondly, the Philosopher's Stone is highly poisonous even for dragons, and it is extremely dangerous for half-bloods," the vice principal said, "Using the Sage's Stone to depict the alchemy matrix, if you make a slight mistake, the power of the Philosopher's Stone will escape outside the matrix, and it will erode the human body, and even if you are lucky enough not to die, you will be hit by the spirit, although the matrix after the carving is completed is very stable, but the matrix in the process of carving is very unstable, and the risk is huge." ”

"And the most important thing is that even if the alchemist in charge of the matrix does not tremble, if the subject's own mental fluctuations are too violent, it will cause the unfinished matrix to vibrate, leaking the power of the Philosopher's Stone," the vice principal said leisurely, "Therefore, only if the mental stability has reached the limit of the half-blood, and has the spiritual power equivalent to the completion of the seven essentia of the Fire Sword Path, can the portrayal be accepted." ”

"In addition, the mixed race should be as young as possible, I don't know why, the older the mixed race, the more likely it will be to have rejection with the alchemy matrix in the body, and the mixed race under the age of forty will not have rejection, and there will be this risk if you are over forty years old, and there will be different degrees of side effects if you are more than eighty years old." Beowulf Road.

"So many restrictions...... But I seem to fit it all," Lu Mingfei groped his chin, "except for the part about the Philosopher's Stone." ”

He didn't have a Philosopher's Stone, and with his assets in this world, he would definitely not be able to afford so many Philosopher's Stones, unless the Desperation Virus had been successfully developed.

"Don't worry, since I promised to teach you a forbidden technique, the philosopher's stone needed for this forbidden technique is naturally from the old man," Beowulf put one hand behind his back and waved the other hand, "The Beowulf family is not short of so many philosopher's stones!" ”

"Patriarch, you are simply the reincarnation of Guan Yunchang, righteous Bo Yuntian!" Lu Mingfei gasped and looked moved.

Patriarch Beowulf smiled proudly, the hand behind his back trembled slightly—he took out nearly half of the Beowulf family's inventory of the Philosopher's Stone in one go, and his heart was dripping blood.

"Come on, come on, Ming Fei lie down," the vice principal pointed to the stone platform in the center of the room, and rubbed his hands with a slightly obscene expression of expectation, "I've never carved an alchemy matrix on a person." ”

"Wait a minute!" Lu Mingfei's face changed, "You haven't painted?!" ”

The vice principal nodded as a matter of course: "Of course I haven't painted it, this is the secret of the Beowulf family." ”

I don't know if it's an illusion, Lu Mingfei always felt that when the vice principal said this, he seemed to have a little bit of a weak heart.

Lu Mingfei looked at Patriarch Beowulf: "Who painted the patriarch yours?" ”

"I'm ashamed to say that because I didn't meet the conditions, I couldn't cultivate this forbidden technique in the end." Patriarch Beowulf said with some embarrassment.

"Are you sure it's reliable?" Lu Mingfei was a little worried.

"I'm already the strongest alchemist in the Secret Party, can you find a better candidate than me?" The vice-principal rolled his eyes.

"Why don't you ......" Lu Mingfei pondered for a few seconds and proposed, "I paint myself myself?" ”

Vice-principal:???

Beowulf:???

……

"Are you sure you're coming on your own? Although the portrayal process is not painful, it is very inconvenient," said the vice principal, "Have you ever seen a doctor who would perform surgery on himself after giving himself a local anesthetic?" ”

"It's not like there's nothing in the movie." Lu Mingfei was lying on the stone platform, wearing only a pair of underwear.

"Is this a movie?!" The vice-principal's face darkened.

Patriarch Beowulf took a few stone slabs: "On these stone slabs, there are different matrices, corresponding to different abilities, and after you finish depicting the basic matrix, engrave these on the core part of the basic matrix for connection, you can get the corresponding power, by the way, the core can only choose one, and after carving the basic matrix, you can take a break, and then depict the core matrix." ”

"I know, I know, what are you doing with it now?" Lu Ming was puzzled.

"Of course, I'll let you take a look and pick it first." Beowulf Road.

"It's not too late to pick when I'm done carving the basic matrix." Lu Mingfei shook his head and said.

"Are you sure you want to? Would you rather 'operate' on yourself than trust me, the strongest alchemist of the Secret Party? The vice-chancellor looked like he had a frustrated pride.

"Vice Principal......" Lu Mingfei looked sincere, "Can I ask you to go out temporarily?" I need a quiet environment. ”

Vice-principal:......

After a few seconds of silence, the vice-principal walked out of the stone chamber with Beowulf.

"Stinky boy, you'll regret it!" The vice principal glared at Lu Mingfei before closing the door.

Seeing the stone door close, Lu Mingfei picked up a few Sage Stones from the metal platform next to the stone platform and put them on his chest.

Immediately, the threads of the sword of silver mistletoe flowed from his fingertips and wrapped around his arm, and the authority from Konstantin was in Lu Mingfei's hands.

The Vice Principal may be the strongest alchemist of the Secret Party, but in his sword is the strongest alchemist of the Dragon Clan.

Although Constantine's authority does not come with alchemy knowledge, it can make Lu Mingfei comfortable with alchemy, as for the missing part of the knowledge...... Beowulf had already given him the matrix diagram, and he would draw the scoop directly from the gourd.

As Lu Mingfei slowly closed his eyes, the pure spiritual power in the Sage Stone on his chest seeped into his body in the form of silk threads, slowly weaving into a complete and complex alchemy matrix.

The alchemy matrix that filled the room lit up at the same time, assisting him, but ...... This help seems to be dispensable.

……

Outside the stone room, twenty minutes later.

"Too impulsive, too sloppy!" The vice-principal glared at Beowulf, "Why don't you stop him!" Characterize the alchemy matrix for yourself, is this like words! If you don't stop him, forget it, if I stop him, you still stop me! ”

"The potential of young people is beyond your imagination." Beowulf said calmly.

"What kind of potential is that? Potential for suicide? No matter how good his bloodline is, in the face of the Sage Stone that can kill the Dragon King, once there is an accident, we can only collect his body......" Before the vice principal's words fell, the stone room opened.

Lu Mingfei walked out wearing only his underwear.

The vice principal was stunned for a moment and breathed a sigh of relief: "You finally gave up after a complicated ideological struggle?" ”

"Give up what?" Lu Ming was puzzled.

"Give up portraying the matrix for yourself, I know you young people are thin-skinned, don't worry, I won't laugh at you, sometimes it's wise to give up......"

Lu Mingfei interrupted the vice principal's words: "I'm done carving." ”

The vice principal is like a duck that has been choked by the neck in the middle of the "quack".

"You, you, you...... Finished carving?! How long has it been! The vice principal's eyes widened, "Don't be, even if I portray it, it will take at least two hours......"

Fluorescence faintly appeared on Lu Mingfei's body, and from the perspective of the vice principal, subtle lines could be seen from the fluorescence.

"Damn......" the Vice Principal muttered in a low voice.

"Patriarch, I've finished carving the basic matrix, but I'm a little tired, is there a place to rest here? I'll take a break and then connect with the core matrix. Lu Mingfei said.

Beowulf's eyes lit up: "Of course there is!" It's been ready for a long time! Come on, come with me! ”

……

Deep in the stone hall, the bathroom ......

To be precise, it should be in a super large bath in the style of ancient Greece.

The ancient Greek-style baths, made entirely of marble, were masked by rising water vapor, and Lu Mingfei lay on the edge of the pool, and the heat source of unknown sources heated the entire pool, making it resemble a hot spring, but without the sulfurous smell of a hot spring.

I didn't expect the Beowulf family to have such extravagant buildings, and I thought they were all ascetics......

Lu Mingfei soaked in the pool, comfortable all over, and sighed in his heart.

However, he had just observed that the pool, although very classical in Greek style, was ...... It seems to have just been built, and all kinds of details show that it has been around for a short time.

The sound of footsteps sounded undisguised from not far away, and Lu Mingfei glanced up - it should be that other people from the Beowulf family also came to take a bath, such a large pool, it would be too extravagant for only one person to use.

But just looking at it like this, Lu Mingfei almost jumped up from the pool.

It is indeed a member of the Beowulf family, and the occasional appearance of tiny scales on the body of the comer is characteristic of the Beowulf family, and the question is ......

It was a woman.

A woman wearing the clothes she should wear for a bath - in fact, she was wearing nothing, and walked towards Lu Mingfei in the mist.

"You, you, you......" Lu Mingfei covered his eyes, "You're wrong!" This is the men's bathroom! ”

"Yes, my lord, I am here to serve you in the bath." Woman jujudo.

"Holy! The Beowulf family is so corrupt? There is also a one-on-one service in the bath! Lu Mingfei was shocked, "Aren't you from an ascetic family?" ”

"No...... the woman shook her head, "not one-on-one, there are other people." ”

As her words fell, a series of footsteps rang out, and girls of different styles but all with beautiful faces and proud figures walked in from outside the door, dressed in ...... Unobstructed view of the clothes.

Everyone stared at Lu Mingfei in the mist.

Lu Mingfei silently immersed himself in the water, and made a grunting voice as he spoke: "You guys...... Don't come here! I'm a serious person! I'm just here to take a shower! ”

(End of chapter)