Dragon Raja: Dragon Slaying Begins with System Hosting

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Lu Mingze smiled and shook his head: "Brother, you're joking. When you killed Constantine, was it useless to forge weapons out of thin air?"

"Isn't that the effect of Word of Power?"

"Is it possible that the power of words is also a product of alchemy?"

"Oh, I see, the relationship between science and scientific products, right?"

"Yes, brother, you're so smart."

Lu Mingfei seemed to be deep in thought, while the system was frantically refreshing the analysis logs, directly maximizing its computing power.

The science of the Dragon World is alchemy, just like science and technology in the human world. From this perspective, alchemy is the foundation.

What is the essence of alchemy?

The system began frantically analyzing the "Alchemy: Origins" book, trying to make a breakthrough and see if it could uncover the very foundation of the dragon race.

However, to no avail. The system analyzed everything from every angle, but as before, it gained nothing.

"Hehe, brother, the world of the dragons is actually not that big, and it's not that magical. If you understand it, you will naturally understand it. But if you don't understand it, you will feel that it is infinitely magical."

"Then teach me?" Lu Mingfei was eager to try and get something for free.

Lu Mingze seemed to have transformed into a devil again, smiling as he said, "Half a life, guaranteed to teach you until you learn, or your tuition will be 100% refunded."

The fact that he immediately asked for half his life brought Lu Mingfei to his senses. Was it worth trading half his life for alchemy? Whether it was worth it or not was another matter; his own life was precious too!

Lu Mingfei had no doubt that Lu Mingze could really extract his life force.

After all, alchemy is such a high-level thing. Extracting the life force of a living being is as easy as having hands.

Lu Mingze shrugged and said, "Alchemy is a towering peak. Those who climb it may possess everything, but since it's a peak, climbing it won't be without paying a price. If you continue your research like this, you might spend your whole life studying and end up with nothing, or you might spend your whole life only barely grasping the mysteries of alchemy..."

The little devil is peddling deadly products again... Lu Mingfei raised his hand and asked, "I have a question, what do you want my life for?"

He used to think that the little devil was a higher-dimensional being and omnipotent, so he felt that the other party's behavior of wanting his life was strange. But who knows what a higher-dimensional being is thinking?

What if he's willing, and money can't buy that?

Later, Lu Mingze's mysterious veil was lifted, his status dropped again and again, and he became less mysterious and more down-to-earth. When he looked back on this matter, he felt that something was very wrong.

Is one's own life so precious? Is half one's life enough to exchange for alchemy that allows one to climb to the pinnacle?

In today's society, if one could truly sell their life and soul in exchange for something, Lu Mingfei felt that the price would definitely be distorted by supply and demand.

After all, there are too many people suffering in this world, and too many people wanting to sell their lives and souls... But one's own life is indeed precious, since not everyone has a cheat like a system. One may be a unique existence among billions of people and hundreds of billions of creatures worldwide.

Is that why this devil has chosen me?

Lu Mingfei glanced at Lu Mingze with a thoughtful look.

Lu Mingze chuckled and said, "Hehe, I can't just call anyone 'brother.' I'm only willing to help my brothers. Just like there are 70 billion people in the world, they are none of my business. Only you are my brother. This unique relationship between us forms the basis for my willingness to trade with you. Whether I would even consider trading with others is another matter."

Upon hearing this, Lu Mingfei asked again, "What exactly is your relationship with this brother of mine? Is it blood relation or emotional relationship?"

"How can this relationship be explained? Even a thousand years later, even in another world or a parallel universe, you will still be my brother, and I will still be your brother, life after life, in endless reincarnation."

Lu Mingfei said, bewildered, "I only feel bewildered by this special relationship."

"What's so strange about this? This world is strange enough." Lu Mingze shrugged and spread his hands, seemingly unconcerned.

What seemed like a strange relationship to Lu Mingfei was, in his eyes, a perfectly natural one.

Chapter 227 Transforming into a Dragon

You won't get any information out of Lu Mingze. This guy is as cryptic as ever, making it impossible to figure out what he really wants... It can't just be for Lu Mingfei, right?

Hard to say...

However, it is now confirmed that Odin modified Chu Tianjiao's bloodline using alchemy. Since it is alchemy, Old Tang should be able to crack it, right?

Should it be? After all, this belongs to the art of life alchemy, not the metal alchemy within the Bronze and Fire King's domain.

But if you reach the highest level in metal alchemy, you should also have a related understanding of life alchemy, right?

Lu Mingze left, leaving Lu Mingfei deep in thought.

After pondering for a moment, Lu Mingfei said, "Alchemy is an extremely important ability in the history of the dragon race. The only technologies the dragon race possesses are alchemy and the power of words. The power of words is the dragon race's use of power, perhaps similar to the relationship between humans and the scientific system?"

Old Tang's eyes lit up upon hearing this: "Oh! Boss, you mean that the Dragon Clan's alchemy might have dissected the Dragon Clan internally? Just like humans use science to dissect themselves? If that's the case, then we can confirm that Odin's modification of Chu Tianjiao's bloodline came from alchemy, or at least can be explained by alchemy. And if we can explain it by alchemy, we can deduce Odin's alchemical methods?"

"Should? I'm not so sure. My understanding of alchemy isn't that deep. This should be your area of ​​expertise. You're a genius in the field of alchemy, so this problem is up to you to solve."

"Emmm..." Old Tang didn't dare to say anything when he heard this. In the eyes of outsiders, he was a super alchemy genius, and the kind of super super genius who could beat all human alchemists.

But he knew that his alchemical talent came from Norton, the King of Bronze and Fire. He had inherited a large legacy and gradually developed it to become so amazing.

The boss, whose talent has always been a mystery, is the real genius. He is almost omnipotent, and his talent for learning and creating is extremely amazing... except that he is not like this one-sided war god who is full of talent in a single subject.

By the way, Norton must have gone through his memories when he awakened. What was Norton's evaluation of his boss after browsing through his memories?

Old Tang pondered for a moment, but couldn't figure it out. Perhaps Norton didn't care about this amazing human genius?

After all, even the most brilliant human geniuses have their limits. Any dragon could easily crush these so-called human geniuses.

"I think that makes a lot of sense!"

Xia Mi, who was standing to the side, exclaimed in surprise, "If that's the case, how do we trace the alchemy used by Odin? You know, human science is divided into many different fields, such as life science, mechanical science, and telecommunications science. Can they be the same?"

Lu Mingfei's words were entirely within her expectations, since that was exactly what was going on. The next step was for her and Lu Mingfei to quietly push Old Tang onto "The Origin of Alchemy".

Huh? It seems I don't need to worry about this at all? After all, that seems to be Lu Mingfei's plan. I'm just not sure who Lu Mingfei will bestow the royal power contained in the Constantine Dragon Bone Cross upon...

I need to find a way to intercept this flow at this stage and get Lu Mingfei to use this thing on me.

It seems that there are only a few people around Lu Mingfei who are qualified to use this royal power? It seems that his competitive pressure is not that great.

The most suitable candidate, Chu Tianjiao, is definitely excluded from this pool of candidates due to his questionable background. Then there's Chu Zihang, Lao Tang, Panpan, and those three women…

While Xia Mi was silently calculating in her mind, Lao Tang had already begun discussing with Lu Mingfei how to trace the alchemy used by Odin.

After a brief and simple discussion, the two of them immediately thought of the book "The Origins of Alchemy".

After all, if the dragon race's research system is alchemy, then this book should contain related alchemy techniques!

So the two of them immediately took out the book and began to study it.

The system mainly relies on Lao Tang, after all, Lao Tang is the true body of the Dragon King... Although Lu Mingfei and it are powerful, they are definitely not as powerful as the Dragon King on this track.

Meanwhile, Lao Tang was indeed racking his brains to analyze the formulas, trying to understand their meaning and extract all the knowledge within them...

Old Tang scratched his head and said, "Boss, I still can't figure it out..."

"Keep it up. If you can't figure it out, I certainly can't either. I'm counting on you," Lu Mingfei encouraged.

Xia Mi then revealed his relative ignorance and spoke up, saying, "If this book records all the mainstream of dragon alchemy, then there is still a way to start from scratch. Even if there is no basic formula to start from scratch, there will be formulas for the later stages of mastery. Let's study this aspect first, and then compare it with the model. Maybe we can figure it out quickly? After all, we don't understand these things."

"That's right." Old Tang nodded in agreement.

After all, none of them fully understand the Dragon Script right now, so the possibility of soaring to great heights is gone. They can only take things one step at a time and work their way out steadily.

"Alright then, Lao Tang, you go and arrange for someone to do the relevant research."

"Mhm." Old Tang nodded.

Further research in this area would be outside Xia Mi's area of ​​expertise, so he calmly walked to the side and quietly watched Old Tang direct the work.

"Boss, is time really of the essence?" she asked Lu Mingfei with some doubt.

"What time is it urgent?"

"Um... I just feel that you seem to be trying to achieve something quick and easy in this experiment, boss."

"What do you mean by 'achieved in one fell swoop'? Isn't this about doing research step by step?" Lu Mingfei was even more puzzled. "The plan for the fusion of dragon bones is the best method we have. You can't expect us to start researching the plan to create a dragon race from scratch in a short period of time, right? It's not that we can't do this kind of research, but we only have Old Tang. If we let others do the research, they might study for a lifetime and still not get the hang of it, then it would be useless."

Theoretically, it's even possible to reverse-engineer dragons through alchemy, but that's just wishful thinking.

Let's extract the power from the dragon's cross and transplant it into a person first. Having the power of the dragon would solidify the outcome, making it reasonable to proceed with further research.

Unless Lu Mingfei has several Old Tangs under his command, and several alchemy geniuses, this kind of plan is nothing more than conducting research on the void, comparable to asking people in ancient feudal societies to study the origin of humankind.

“Well… that makes sense, but I initially thought you would conduct in-depth research on the Dragon Bone Cross before starting this project. After all, obtaining the Dragon King's power through the Dragon Bone Cross is just empty talk, because it seems there has never been a success in history.”

Upon hearing this, Lu Mingfei said nonchalantly, "Oh, this? We have to give it a try. We can't just use the Dragon King's Dragon Bone Cross for ordinary research, can we? What's the difference between this rare Dragon King's Dragon Bone Cross and scrap metal in our hands? We finally have something like this, so we have to research it thoroughly."

He and the system were a little anxious, but he kept that to himself and didn't need to say it out loud.

After all, revealing such information could easily affect morale. Many things are objective, but people have subjective motivation.

"Mmm." Xia Mi nodded.

……

Starting with basic experimental research, a large number of people can be used for general labor to conduct large-scale initial tests. However, this does not mean that Lao Tang can be idle. These tasks can be delegated to his subordinates, but Lao Tang also has his own things to do.

"Boss, pure life-related alchemy doesn't seem so easy to break through at the beginning. Even with current human genetic technology, it's impossible to quickly decipher the dragon's genetic information and apply alchemy to analyze it in a short period of time."

Old Tang was working on theoretical plans and preparations for follow-up work, but after considering the needs from all sides, he realized that this matter was not so simple, far from being so simple...

“Starting from scratch is like this, take it slow. Success comes from 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. Without that 1 percent inspiration, no amount of perspiration will help, but without enough perspiration, you may not be able to generate that 1 percent inspiration.”

"Well, I'm just worried that you might think we won't handle things well..."

Lu Mingfei asked with some doubt, "Do you think I'm the kind of unreasonable person?"

Although he has been exploiting his employees since becoming the boss, he's not the kind of person who forces them into things. He's quite reasonable. Although he's demanding in terms of time, he still provides the necessary pay, time, and manpower.

"Um... the main thing is that our idea is just too grand, and I'm afraid you'll get impatient, boss." Old Tang thought about what Xia Mi had said earlier and felt that it made some sense. Although he couldn't empathize with her or have such lofty goals, it didn't stop others from having them.

For example, the boss, and Xia Mi.

"It's alright. It's my good fortune to have you, and my fate to lose you. I'm aware of that. I'll just do my best."

"Uh-huh."

The difficulty of this task is obvious at a glance, and one can imagine that it is significant. Humans have conducted relatively in-depth scientific research on biology and have achieved some success.

However, from another perspective, using the alchemy of the dragon race to conduct in-depth research on living beings would be groundbreaking for humans.

Lu Mingfei didn't know if any of the various hybrid organizations around the world had conducted related research and experiments, but he and the system felt that such research and experiments would probably not be easy to succeed, since the results that could be produced if successful would be enormous.

Just like Herzog, whose research on dragon blood has reached a very deep level, he can directly create an army of royal blood... If Herzog hadn't been blinded by the throne power of the White King's remains, he probably could have created a top-tier force.

But it's hard to say whether such a force can be successfully established. After all, there were quite a few eyes on Herzog from the very beginning, and this guy has been deeply involved in the situation ever since.

He may have realized this himself, so he decisively abandoned the path of the Royal Blood Army and turned to embrace the power of the White King's Throne.