novelraw Chapter 191: The Dragon King Returning from the Magical Girl World
Chapter 191: The Dragon King Returning from the Magical Girl World
In Jiang Si’s eyes, Dragon Race was also an online novel.
Not only could it be found online, but Dragon Race even had detailed rank systems. The word-spirits were strictly ranked from one to one hundred and twenty-two, and there were four realm classifications: Stable, Dangerous, High-Risk, and Top Secret.
Add in the five elemental affinities and, to be honest, it was even a bit more detailed than the Disaster Control Bureau’s ranking system.
Jiang Si also liked the gameable methods inside it, the blood-rage mechanics.
But that was about it. He had expected Dragon Race to be brutally chopped down, to ascend to the supreme Dragon Emperor throne.
Instead he found drawn-out melodrama about “I’m lonely, she’s lonely, you like her, she likes him,” and other nonsensical plotlines.
He rated it a Harry Potter ripoff table, yet it still dutifully performed realm divisions, and some of the incantations were pretty good.
It could be given a Half-Step NovelBin ranking.
And the Golden Calamity Dragon King’s power came not only from the Emperor’s curse, which granted seemingly endless vitality.
It also had a rule that altered probabilities within its body.A fragment of the Reaper rule from the Calamity Realm was obtained through the Emperor’s curse and became its mastery.
But the Golden Calamity Dragon King couldn’t be bothered to monitor or adjust outside probabilities!
What would a countryside beast know about cultivation? Using the power of fate to affect the outside world would be a once-in-a-millennium treasure!
All those grand powers, solely applied to itself!
It reconfigured probabilities again, elevating the dragon body’s condition, filling it with immortal power, surging life force and blood—almost invincible!
Always at peak condition anywhere, anytime!
It even crushed a Mirror Beast on the spot with sheer aura until its body burst apart!
"Simo Tu…"
Jialan looked at the Mirror Beasts trembling around her, then raised her head to glance at the Golden Calamity Dragon King that covered the whole school.
Her expression finally turned somewhat grave.
If the Witch Association wanted Simo Tu’s combat value, of course they had ways to control him.
Although the human-to-disaster-beast experiments had all failed, the Witch Association possessed massive experimental records and had naturally learned many methods of manipulating disaster beasts.
To ensure a stable supply of experimental material, research existed to turn disaster-beast humans back into humans.
However, when humans were heavily polluted, even if you reverted them, they were basically ruined—and because their bodies had been fundamentally altered, the slightest negative emotion could trigger self-generated negativity that turned them back into disaster beasts.
So the technology later mostly served to restrain witches and forcibly undo their transformations.
After all, many witches were weak in ability, personality, or loyalty, short-lived, and variously flawed—but extremely troublesome to deal with, so forcibly undoing transformations made handling them much easier.
Thus the tech saw little everyday use.
But using it to control Simo Tu posed no problem.
After all, the disaster dragon Simo Tu used still originated from Witch Association technology;
even his transformation was witch-derived.
That was why Jialan was so unsettled.
The Prince herself wasn’t strong;
a new Alice from the Mirror Kingdom could not be created that fast—she and her side were busy enhancing a special Alice tailored to Shion.
New Alices didn’t appear quickly, and Jialan knew where the old Alice was.
The Prince’s strength relied on those odd Mirror Kingdom devices.
But those devices had been consumed during the rescue of Xilan and Twins when they entered the Heart Image Remnant.
Now the Prince moved solely by Mirror Kingdom spatial-travel tech and stealth. Her real combat power was not high;
she was just hard to capture. Even now, if the Prince wanted to leave, Jialan couldn’t stop her.
Her intention was merely to detain Simo Tu.
She hadn’t expected the Prince to be so honorable—refusing to flee, even considering surrender.
What she hadn’t expected at all was that the disaster dragon would transform again.
And that power was utterly unlike any curse the Witch Association could comprehend!
All the Witch Association’s techniques were shattered by the Golden Calamity Dragon King’s power. The enormous Golden Calamity Dragon King suddenly bent low.
When its terrifying dragon eye stared over, Jialan inhaled sharply.
She had never felt anything like it.
The sensation of being watched by a colossal creature, as if it could tear you apart at any moment, was something she had never experienced since birth.
Luckily, she still had a trump card.
"Simo Tu!" Jialan shouted, "Annul your engagement with the Mirror Kingdom. There’s no need to go this far for a fiancée. The Witch Association has plenty of beauties;
many young witches long for you with fluttering hearts, yearning to follow you and do anything with you!"
People-reading technique!
Then she put a smile back on her face, "Given your identity and strength, if I report it to the president, promising you two hundred fiancées would be no problem!"
The secret of human nature!
Being in a place like the Witch Association and holding a high post, how could Jialan not be skilled at social manipulation? She had watched Simo Tu’s actions for a long time;
through dark psychology she had long seen his true thoughts—
The more aloof and sexless a man appears, the more he dreams of a harem of beauties!
Back when they first met online, he had demanded a complete witch;
one Xilan wasn’t enough, he wanted more.
Simo Tu, you rogue!
Twins, who Jialan held, had just woken and widened her eyes:
"This—this isn’t right, Captain Jialan."
"Why not? Such a powerful genius is worth this price."
What about my mom though...
Twins started to object further but made no motion. The Golden Calamity Dragon King simply let out a low roar.
A terrifying soundwave and gust exploded outward!
Everything reflected in the Mirror World’s buildings turned into ruins in that low roar of the Golden Calamity Dragon King!
Caught off guard, Jialan was blown away!
Twins was hurled from Jialan’s grasp too, but she caught a nearby utility pole with sharp-eyed reflexes, being battered by the gale until tears and snot streamed from her nose: "I—I’m me! Oh heavens! I heard nothing and saw nothing, please don’t—don’t hit me!"
Whether it was Twins’ pleading or that the Golden Calamity Dragon King felt satisfied, it stopped its low roar.
When the wind and bellowing subsided, the ground was a complete wreck.
All Mirror Beasts prostrate on the ground shattered from that single low roar, turning into pools of black corrupted mana flowing like rivers through shards of glass and rubble, with the occasional carcass drifting among them.
When Jialan, who had been blown into the Mirror World barrier, slowly landed, she spat blood and fragments of organs.
Twins glanced back at her former superior in surprise.
Logically, someone who had climbed to vice president would likely have undergone the witching experiment.
The Witch Association’s high ranks must have come out of laboratories and possess powers to confront magical girls, otherwise they couldn’t have climbed that high.
Unlike orderly organizations like the Disaster Control Bureau, the Witch Association was filled with backstabs and violence. Even if one excelled at reading people, without sufficient strength one could die at any moment.
So coughing up blood and organs should have been impossible.
"How can you be normal?" Twins watched the Golden Calamity Dragon King preparing to crush down and immediately jumped up, abandoning everything else.
Her face wore a somewhat sinister smile, "Oh? You should have told us you were ordinary. You scared Lady Twins so much—I thought you really had power, Simo Tu-sama! Don’t worry, you needn’t act personally. I’ll take care of this traitor for you! How dare she lay hands on our esteemed Simo Tu-sama;
I Twi—won’t let her off!"
After speaking, Twins rubbed her hands and grabbed a steel pipe nearby, charging at Jialan.
"Die for me! Jialan!"
Her cry was heartfelt.
After all, it was Jialan who had sold her to the Prince;
Twins had suffered much at the Prince’s hands, and Jialan was to blame.
Although she later returned to team up with Jialan against the Prince, that was merely a tactic of swallowing one tiger to defeat another.
More importantly, who dares mess with my mother’s interests—how many mothers do you have?
Now given the chance to strike, she would show no mercy!
‘I am jade-like in heart.’
But halfway there, she heard Jialan mutter.
What nonsense…
"My body is blood."
Until the Miracle Seed in Jialan’s hand lit up, Twins slammed on the brakes.
"Perpetual smelting."
The yellow radiance instantly threw Twins back as if she had hit the brakes too hard!
"Transform."
The smoking girl’s body was progressively covered by dazzling magical outfit plating. Twins, kneeling on the ground, glanced up.
A pale-yellow magical girl stepped out of the dust, twisting her neck and murmuring as if in nostalgia, "It’s been so long since I used this form."
Not only Twins but even the Golden Calamity Dragon King and the Prince had their attention drawn.
A Witch Association magical girl, and at this level.
A Peak Blooming-level magical girl.
Perched on the Golden Calamity Dragon King’s back, the tiny Prince looked puzzled, "Back when you used Polluted Magic, how did you retain magical girl power?"
"Well, that’s a secret."
The pale-yellow magical girl smiled slightly, twirling her magic wand in her hand with the same ease as spinning a pencil, "But I can tell you this: I’m the only one in this world who can use both Polluted Magic and Pure Mana at the same time."
Then she looked at Twins.
Twins’ head drooped immediately, oh I’m dead.
What a joke—Sect Master is still here. How could a mere magical girl make Twins eat humble pie and beg!
Don’t underestimate me, Twins the divine!
Just wait for the Sect Master to take care of it…
Sure enough, as she sneaked open her left eye, she saw the pale-yellow magical girl who had just flown up.
She was instantly swatted away by a claw from the Golden Calamity Dragon King!
Twins secretly clenched her fist and gave an inner cheer.
Nice pitch!
Home run!
What strength—daring to act tough in front of our Sect Master! They’ve never seen real power!
They call me an old-timer, as if you don’t belong to the old guard yourself!
Whoever comes is old guard!
Early old guard or late old guard!
Twins will never again allow anyone to call her old guard!
Before Twins could watch more of her Sect Master’s performance and record Jialan’s embarrassing moment on her phone, a rock slammed down on her forehead.
Twins instantly passed out.
The disaster dragon’s strike was terrifying—so powerful it tore the spatial barrier and smashed the yellow magical girl into the spatial turbulence.
Crap, lost control.
For the Golden Calamity Dragon King, whose body had just risen after a second awakening, this extraordinary strength was somewhat beyond expectation.
After all, sending an enemy flying could cause operational troubles.
But it quickly flapped its wings, its massive body surprisingly agile like a mountain dog, turning smoothly and darting forth!
Its gigantic head slammed the spatial barrier, widening the tear;
its claws grabbed the edges and literally ripped the space open.
Half a head poked out of the isolated pocket as the yellow magical girl, her body shredded from the claw blow, looked at it with serious eyes.
With spatial turbulence sweeping across her, the magical outfit gradually restored itself.
Even inside the turbulence she could exist safely—true magic.
The Golden Calamity Dragon King noticed the opponent’s magical outfit was steadily rendering her blurry.
Soon the girl, who had barely been able to survive in the turbulence, could swim through the spatial chaos like a fish.
Half the dragon’s body remained lodged in the isolated space. It stretched its neck and then suddenly blasted a massive dragon breath!
The golden breath even calmed the spatial turbulence. Wherever its gilded light touched, splendor spread.
But when it hit the yellow magical girl, it had no effect—rather, it passed right through her.
Still, the Golden Calamity Dragon King didn’t care, only increasing the pressure!
There was no change in strategy—just relentless, ever-thickening sprays of dragon breath!
Its accuracy was astonishing;
the blurring yellow magical girl darted about, yet the golden breath clung to her like a shadow to a face—no matter how fast she moved or how she changed direction, she couldn’t escape!
The nonstop violent dragon breath continued until, after a while, the yellow magical girl finally couldn’t hold on.
Phasing wasn’t indefinite;
it consumed significant mana and was generally used to avoid critical attacks. But this stream of breath was an intolerable critical attack—she had to keep phasing until her mana ran out…
In the instant the phasing ended, she was engulfed by the golden dragon breath!
The Prince, sitting atop the Golden Calamity Dragon King, looked at the vast spatial turbulence and at the floating magical girl being swept by the returning currents, her mouth twitching.
From initial daze to shock, then to uncontrollable fanaticism.
She had never felt the Mirror Kingdom’s revival so close to her.
It felt within reach!
As long as he was here, as long as he was here!
"Simo Ju—"
She had already decided to have the wedding as soon as she returned.
Tonight she would secure him.
Tie him down first;
forget maidenly restraint, long-term plans, nurturing feelings, royal pride.
Never mind—the Mirror Kingdom had long since fallen;
who even remembered how many years ago.
Except for her, the Mirror Kingdom had few original citizens left.
Mu Jin’s old sealing hadn’t wiped out the Mirror Kingdom’s populace outright, but over the years, with no new resources, being locked inside the Mirror Kingdom was only a delayed death!
When it was unsealed before, she’d taken a glance.
Currently she was the only Prince;
the rest were machines and Alices.
Many asked why the unsealing of the Mirror Kingdom caused no stir—were they cowardly?
The Prince wanted to pull people into her Mirror Kingdom, show them the empty land, and then tell them how she single-handedly attacked the Disaster Control Bureau with a heap of scrap.
But as a proud Prince, she could only say that she was different from previous fools.
She would gather enough hearts here, slowly devouring this world.
In truth it wasn’t brilliance—just lack of other options…
But now.
The kneeling young Prince stroked the golden scales, her heart surging!
Her once cold, arrogant eyes now softened and glazed with obsession, sparkling as if frozen crystal had been tempered into glass by fire.
With Simo Tu there, and such power, what else was there to fear?
With Mirror Kingdom tech plus the Golden Calamity Dragon King’s strength, conquering the world would be child's play!
"Simo Tu." Her voice carried a new tone.
"I am willing to offer the Mirror Kingdom and myself to—"
Before she finished, she noticed the yellow magical girl’s mouth twitch as she was swept away in the spatial eddy.
Although the dragon breath had blown away her magical outfit, she hadn’t lost the transformation, and her mind remained clear.
"Heart image, deploy."
The environment changed as she entered an empty world.
Inside Jialan’s Mental Landscape there was nothing—an empty expanse with nowhere to stand—and the Golden Calamity Dragon King fell continuously as it entered.
The Prince clung to the Golden Calamity Dragon King and saw its right claw slap at empty air as if grasping something. Brilliant sparks flew from its claws;
it tore a crack through the barren Mental Landscape!
The dragon claw traced the tear like pulling a zipper—shrrrk—and it ripped an exit out of the Mental Landscape!
The Prince stared in disbelief as the Golden Calamity Dragon King tore apart the Mental Landscape as if demolishing a house.
Research in the Mirror Kingdom claimed a Mental Landscape couldn’t be broken by physical force—you had to defeat the magical girl, open an equivalent Mental Landscape, or wait for the girl’s mana to run out.
Yet they had seen none of Jialan;
the Golden Calamity Dragon King had simply smashed through by brute force.
If they had worried about its strength at first, the Prince now worried about whether anything besides her in the Mirror Kingdom could truly be worthy of Simo Tu…
Bursting triumphantly out of the Mental Landscape, the Golden Calamity Dragon King turned and swallowed the entire Mental Landscape into its maw amid the spatial turbulence!
Then the enormous dragon cradled the isolated mirror space in its claws and squeezed with force!
The mirror space shattered in the dragon’s grip.
But from the things that fell out, only carcasses of Mirror Beasts remained—no Jialan, not even Twins.
That one had fled and even taken Twins with him.
The Golden Calamity Dragon King snorted, not too concerned.
Although Jialan might spread tales of his betrayal, as a Witch Association legend he wasn’t afraid.
Jialan might be called vice president, but her actual authority was limited.
The Witch Association didn’t look to formal power. As long as someone had enough money and influence, who was the real traitor could change.
That was the Witch Association.
"That way leads back."
Following the Prince's indication, the Golden Calamity Dragon King flicked its tail and left the spatial turbulence along the crack.
When the transformation was undone and someone fell from the sky, Jiang Si slammed into the ground like a cannon, his feet even sinking into the cement until his knees.
The Prince descended more gracefully, landing on the edge of a nearby flowerbed, still shining as she gazed at her fiancé and ally before her.
"Simo Tu, I now want to fulfill our engagement!"
Jiang Si was silent for a moment.
"You’re too weak."
"I will become stronger! As long as I get Iris’s Miracle Seed, I’ll be the experimental subject to become a Full Bloom magical girl!"
"You have no money."
"I will earn money! I’ll work hard and give you everything I earn!"
"You probably want to break off the engagement."
"Impossible! I would never annul the engagement! I, Itaen, would never break my word;
I swear on my clan’s honor!"
Jiang Si sighed.
I wanted you to be the Nalan Yanran one.
Not to play Jiang Qing’e.
He didn’t particularly like Li Luo—he always felt that person lacked the sharpness of the Flame Emperor’s martial ancestor—and now he vaguely understood Li Luo’s feelings.
Can this world not get any better? Is it so hard to get out of an engagement?
Must I become Yun Hailan?
After humoring her for a bit, Jiang Si sent her away.
Let her prepare the Full Bloom experiment;
he would return soon with the seed.
Although he knew she had tricked him with a fake voucher, Jiang Si withdrew his low evaluation and reclassified her as a Fully-Complete Ant.
But Jiang Si was intrigued by how the Mirror Kingdom could produce a genuine Full Bloom magical girl.
Getting Iris’s Miracle Seed wasn’t that hard.
Coincidentally, the Disaster Control Bureau Central was about to open trials for Mental Landscapes, and they gave Azure Cloud Sect three slots.
While retrieving a Mental Landscape from the Central Bureau, he could also bring Iris’s Miracle Seed out.
Jialan’s strength was far inferior to the Golden Calamity Dragon King, yet when she deployed her Mental Landscape she could hold the dragon long enough to create an escape opportunity.
The power of a Mental Landscape was unquestionable;
gaining one could take his strength up another notch.
Moreover…
Jiang Si walked down the road looking at his Miracle Seed.
Purple, a little blackened, the Miracle Seed lay quietly in his hand.
He gently closed his fingers around the seed and felt its energy.
An endless surging power, as if bound by something, unable to be fully unleashed.
With the Central Bureau handling the Mental Landscape and the Mirror Kingdom’s Full Bloom experiment, it was time to attempt breaking into Full Bloom.