Lu Mingfei doesn’t want to be a superhero

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

Lu Mingfei and the vice principal stood in the dense forest at the foot of the mountain, looking up at the gray-brown stone palace - to be precise, it was a group of stone palaces.

As current events have changed over the past millennium, many families in the Secret Party have gradually changed their way of life along with social changes. Now, although most families have retained their old clan areas, new clan areas have often moved to cities. In a less eye-catching suburban manor, the old clan's land is used as a kind of ancestral hall or backup base, just like Charlotte's family.

The Beowulf family is one of the very few families in the Secret Party that has never changed its clan location from beginning to end. Among these stone temples, the earliest one has stood here two thousand years ago, and the rest have been continuously added to over the long years. , these stone halls are high and square, and they are continuous. From a distance, they look like a huge cemetery, so they are called the "Dragon Tomb Stele Forest", which means that the people who live here have buried countless dragons.

The Holmenkollen Mountain where it is located is one of the world-famous ski resorts. Since 1892, a world-famous ski competition has been held here every March, and even the entire Oslo The city is therefore known as the "ski capital of the world".

When Lu Mingfei was in another world, he came here to ski with Tony.

However, the distribution of the ski resorts on Holmenkollen Mountain in this world is somewhat different from that in another world. The reason is probably to stay as far away from the Beowulf family as possible - although it does not have the same power in ordinary society. Enthusiasm, but in order to ensure sufficient resource support when slaying dragons and to ensure that hybrids can be hidden among ordinary people, the Beowulf family will also let some less outstanding tribesmen penetrate into human society and secretly control local politics and economy. lifeline.

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

The reason is also very simple. From the perspective of the Beowulf family, every baby boy who survives the trial of dragon blood crystal will be the most elite dragon slayer in the future. If you are unlucky, there may only be two or three in a generation. Surviving babies, even when the population is prosperous, it is difficult for the Beowulf family to have more than ten males.

And those girls who do not need to undergo the harsh dragon blood crystal trial, although because of their parents' excellent bloodline, are excellent hybrids worthy of being vigorously cultivated in other families, in the Beowulf family they can only work as logistics personnel—— With their bloodline, it is quite easy to hold a high position in human society.

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

For some reason, the Beowulf patriarch sent him a rather detailed list of the Beowulf family before he came. It can be said to be as detailed as a paid travel guide, which especially described Beowulf in detail. The status of the female members of the family in human society is also accompanied by photos and personal information.

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

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

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

When he arrived, he had already sent a message to Chief Beowulf, and Chief Beowulf also sent a message back saying that someone would come to greet him. However, the two of them had been outside for more than ten minutes in the cold Norwegian wind, and the door of the stone palace was still closed. Closed.

"Aren't they not very welcoming to you?" the vice principal teased.

"No... No matter from which perspective, the person they don't welcome is more likely to be you, right? Tutor Flamel?" Lu Mingfei squinted at the vice principal.

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

"The S-class freshmen in Kassel College who are both good at character and academic, have a clean financial background, have never violated school rules, and have a good reputation in the school, and the students who were notorious when they were young, and when they are old, they spend their days in the bell tower eating takeout, visiting forums, and Isn't it obvious which one is more likely to be disliked, between the perverted fat nerd who uses his position as an administrator to molest female students and the perverted fat nerd who demands the school hold a swimsuit exhibition for personal gain?" Lu Mingfei complained mercilessly.

"You! Boy, don't go too far! I am the Flamel mentor. I don't know how many people in the entire secret party respect me very much. Even the Beowulf family heard that I was coming, and they had to welcome me... "The vice-principal had a beer belly and looked excited.

"Fuck your mother!" the powerful voice of Patriarch Beowulf boomed from behind the wide stone door. With a "rumbling" sound, the stone door slowly opened.

Beowulf and Angers stood behind the stone door. Although they had just experienced a fierce battle a few days ago and were injured to varying degrees, the two old men seemed to be recovering well. They both looked rosy and looked good.

"You are finally here, Lu Mingfei." Patriarch Beowulf changed from his usual majestic and cold look, and looked at Lu Mingfei with a smile, which made Lu Mingfei feel inexplicably sick in his heart - this face is worse when he smiles than when he doesn't. horrible.

"Hey, hey, old guy, didn't you see me?" The vice principal's face was dark.

"Who are you calling old man? Aren't you older than me?" Beowulf turned to look at the vice principal, the smile on his face disappeared.

"Humph, but you are already an old thing. Look at the wrinkles on your face and the white beard!" The vice-principal sneered twice.

Lu Mingfei glanced at the vice-principal in surprise - he guessed that the vice-principal was not young, but he did not expect that the vice-principal was actually older than Beowulf.

The principal said that Beowulf was almost the same age as him, and both of them had very old faces. Although they seemed to be in the prime of life in terms of physical fitness and momentum, the wrinkles and white hair on their faces Whitebeard can't be fake.

The vice-principal is different. Although he is more depressed than Beowulf and the principal in terms of mental appearance, in terms of physical characteristics, he is just an older middle-aged man. He looks at least They are a generation younger than the principal.

A higher bloodline can extend the lifespan of a mixed race and delay aging to a certain extent, but the effect is also limited. Being able to appear younger than your peers even though you are older means that the bloodline of the vice principal is very likely A step above the Headmaster and Beowulf.

but……

"Vice principal, although you don't have a white beard, you seem to be a little bald." Lu Mingfei said from the side.

The vice principal subconsciously raised his hand to hold the cowboy hat on his head.

"Bald? Hahahahahaha..." Chief Beowulf laughed loudly as if he heard something happy.

Angers laughed too.

"Let's go, let's go, what do you think of standing at the door and wasting time? Go and talk about business." The vice-principal pressed his hat and walked quickly through the stone hall.

…

Deep in the stone palace, there is a room filled with alchemical matrices and runes.

The four walls, floor, dome, and even the raised stone platform on the ground, every relatively flat surface has fluorescent lines, and there is a liquid-like light flowing slowly in the lines.

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

The principal is waiting outside the door, because Beowulf said that this is the core place of the family, and outsiders will not be received unless necessary.

"This is the place where you can learn the forbidden technique and obtain the second word spirit," Beowulf said, "Actually, to be precise, this forbidden technique cannot be called 'learning', because skills can only be said to be learned. This forbidden technique It’s to add something to you so that you can have a power similar to the Word Spirit, which is equivalent to a second Word Spirit.”

"Adding something?" Lu Mingfei shrank his neck, "Isn't it human body modification?"

"What are you thinking about?" the vice-principal rolled his eyes. "It is to carve an alchemy matrix on you. This matrix, combined with your own power, can stimulate a field similar to the spirit of speech."

"Holy crap! Is there such a thing as cheating?" Lu Mingfei was stunned. "Doesn't that mean that if this technology can be improved and popularized, all hybrids can break the restriction of having only one word spirit?"

"You dare to think!" Beowulf twitched his lips, "First of all, this ability must use the Philosopher's Stone as the raw material to carve the alchemical matrix in the human body. Only the Philosopher's Stone is the boundary between the physical and the spiritual. Only by the existence of time can it be perfectly integrated with the human body. To depict a complete matrix, the Philosopher's Stone consumed is about half of the total Philosopher's Stone that a third-generation ancient dragon can extract, so I put This old guy, Flamel, is here."

"Secondly, the Philosopher's Stone is extremely poisonous even to dragons, and it is extremely dangerous to hybrids," the vice-principal said. If the power of the Walker's Stone escapes outside the matrix, it will corrode the human body. Even if you are lucky enough to survive, you will be severely mentally damaged. Although the matrix after the engraving is completed is very stable, the matrix during the engraving process is very unstable and the risk is huge. .”

"And the most important thing is that even if the alchemist responsible for carving the matrix does not have shaking hands, if the subject's own mental fluctuations are too violent, it will cause the unfinished matrix to vibrate and leak the power of the Philosopher's Stone," Vice Principal Youyou He said, "Therefore, only those whose mental stability has reached the limit of a hybrid and possess the spiritual power equivalent to the seven essences of completing the Path of the Fire Sword can be portrayed."

"In addition, mixed-race species should be as young as possible. I don't know why. The older the mixed-race species, the easier it is to have a rejection reaction with the alchemical matrix in the body. Mixed-race species under the age of forty will not have a rejection reaction, and those over forty will not have a rejection reaction. You will have this risk when you are over eighty years old, and you will definitely have side effects of varying degrees if you are over eighty years old." Beowulf said.

"So many restrictions...but I seem to meet them all," Lu Mingfei groped his chin, "except for the part about the Philosopher's Stone."

He does not have the Philosopher's Stone, and with his assets in this world, he will never be able to afford so many Philosopher's Stones, unless the Extremis virus has been successfully developed.

"Don't worry, since I promised to teach you a forbidden technique, I will naturally provide the Philosopher's Stone required for this forbidden technique." Beowulf put one hand behind his back and waved the other hand fiercely, "Beowulf The family is still short of a few Philosopher’s Stones!”

"Patriarch, you are simply the reincarnation of Guan Yunchang, so righteous!" Lu Mingfei took a breath and looked touched.

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

"Come on, come on, Mingfei, please lie down quickly," the vice-principal pointed to the stone platform in the center of the room, rubbing his hands with a slightly obscene expression of expectation, "I have never carved an alchemical matrix on a human body."

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

The vice-principal nodded matter-of-factly: "Of course I haven't painted it before. This is a secret of the Beowulf family."

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

Lu Mingfei looked at Patriarch Beowulf: "Patriarch, who painted yours?"

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

"Are you sure this is reliable?" Lu Mingfei was a little worried.

"I'm already the strongest alchemist in the entire secret party, how can you find a better candidate than me?" the vice principal rolled his eyes.

"How about..." Lu Mingfei thought for a few seconds and then suggested, "I can draw it myself?"

Vice-Chancellor:? ? ?

Beowulf:? ? ?

…

"Are you sure you want to do it yourself? Although the engraving process is not painful, it is very inconvenient," the vice-principal said. "Have you ever seen a doctor perform the surgery by yourself after giving yourself local anesthesia?"

"It's not like it's not in the movie." Lu Mingfei said while lying on the stone platform, wearing only a pair of underwear.

"Is this a movie?!" the vice principal's face turned dark.

Patriarch Beowulf brought over a few stone slabs: "There are different matrices on these stone slabs, corresponding to different abilities. After you finish carving the basic matrix, you can carve these on the core part of the basic matrix to connect them, and you will get The corresponding power, by the way, you can only choose one core, and after drawing the basic matrix, you can take a rest and then draw the core matrix."

"I know, I know, then what are you using it for now?" Lu Mingfei was puzzled.

"Of course I'll let you take a look and choose first," Beowulf said.

"It won't be too late to pick after I finish carving the basic matrix." Lu Mingfei shook his head.

"Are you sure you want to do this? You would rather 'operate' on yourself than trust me, the strongest alchemist in the secret party?" The vice-principal looked like his self-esteem was frustrated.

"Vice Principal..." Lu Mingfei said sincerely, "Can you please go out temporarily? I need a quiet environment."

Vice-Chancellor:……

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

"You brat, you will regret it!" The vice principal glared at Lu Mingfei before closing the door.

Watching the stone door close, Lu Mingfei picked up a few philosopher's stones from the metal platform next to the stone platform and placed them on his chest.

Immediately, the threads of the Silver Sword flowed out from his fingertips and wrapped around his arm. The authority from Constantine was taken by Lu Mingfei.

The vice-principal may be the strongest alchemist in the Secret Party, but within his sword is the strongest alchemist in the Dragon Clan.

Although Constantine's authority does not come with knowledge of alchemy, it makes Lu Mingfei very good at alchemy. As for the missing knowledge... Beowulf has already given him the matrix diagram, so he can just copy it.

As Lu Mingfei slowly closed his eyes, the pure spiritual power from the Philosopher's Stone on his chest seeped into his body like threads, slowly weaving into a complete and complex alchemical matrix.

All the alchemy matrices in the room lit up at the same time to assist him, but... this little help seemed unnecessary.

…

Outside the stone room, twenty minutes later.

"Too impulsive, too hasty!" The vice-principal glared at Beowulf, "Why didn't you stop him! How ridiculous is it to draw the alchemy matrix for yourself! If you don't stop him, forget it, I'll stop him, You’re still stopping me!”

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

"What kind of potential is this? The potential to commit suicide? No matter how excellent his bloodline is, facing the Philosopher's Stone that can kill the Dragon King, if something happens to him, we can only collect his body..." Before the vice principal finished speaking, The stone chamber opens.

Lu Mingfei walked out wearing only underwear.

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

"What to give up?" Lu Mingfei was confused.

"Stop trying to draw a 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: "I've finished carving."

The vice-principal is like a duck that was choked halfway through its quacking.

"You, you, you, you... have you finished carving?! How long did it take!" The vice-principal's eyes widened, "Don't talk nonsense, even if I were to carve it, it would still take at least two hours..."

Lu Mingfei's body was faintly glowing with fluorescence, and from the perspective of the vice principal, subtle lines could be seen in the fluorescence.

"Fuck..." the vice-principal murmured softly.

"Clan leader, I've finished carving the basic matrix, but I'm a little tired. Is there a place to rest here? I'll take a rest first and then connect to the core matrix." Lu Mingfei said.

Beowulf's eyes lit up: "Of course! It's been prepared a long time ago! Come on, come on, follow me!"

…

Deep in the stone palace, the bathroom...

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

The ancient Greek-style bathhouse made entirely of marble was covered by rising water vapor. Lu Mingfei was lying on the edge of the pool. An unknown heat source heated the water in the entire pool, making it like a hot spring, but without the sulfur smell of a hot spring.

I didn't expect the Beowulf family to have such a luxurious building. I thought they were all ascetics...

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

But he just observed it. Although this pool is in a very classical Greek style, it... seems to have been newly built. All the details show that it has been around for a short time.

The sound of footsteps sounded undisguised not far away. Lu Mingfei raised his head and glanced - it must be that other members of the Beowulf family came to take a bath. Such a big pool was too extravagant for only one person to use. .

But just by looking at it, Lu Mingfei almost jumped out of the pool.

The visitor is indeed a member of the Beowulf family. The tiny scales that occasionally appear on the visitor's body are the characteristics of the Beowulf family. The problem is...

It's a woman.

A woman wearing clothes suitable for bathing—actually wearing nothing at all—walked toward Lu Mingfei in the mist.

"You, you, you..." Lu Mingfei covered his eyes, "You went to the wrong place! This is the men's bathroom!"

"Yes, sir, I'm here to help you bathe." The woman said softly.

"Holy crap! The Beowulf family is so corrupt? There are dedicated people to take care of you one-on-one in the shower!" Lu Mingfei was shocked, "Aren't you a family of ascetic monks?"

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

As she finished speaking, a series of footsteps sounded. Girls with different styles but all with gorgeous looks and proud figures walked in from the door, wearing... clothes that could be seen at a glance.

Everyone was staring straight at Lu Mingfei in the mist.

Lu Mingfei silently immersed himself in the water, and made a gurgling sound as he spoke: "You... don't come over! I'm a serious person! I just came to take a bath!"