Under the Red Dragon

The way to make friends isn't by helping others, but by seeking their help, especially with those who are inherently kind.

You make others feel valuable, satisfying their psychological need for meaning, as if you've given them strength, and they won't harm you.

This is the feeling that 'Beast' wants Superman to experience.

Beast said, "Although you possess great power, you are also clearly a being of inherent goodness, standing up for your home. Therefore, I implore you to set aside superficial prejudices and follow me to see a King."

"He will tell you the truth of the matter. After all, I am just a creation born later, and although I possess free will, I cannot personally experience the events of the past like they did."

Superman didn't speak. He looked at the terrifying creature before him. Although it possessed great power, even Superman himself wasn't confident he could defeat this being created from the corpse of a star.

But this powerful creature was now imploring him with an extremely humble tone, completely inconsistent with the meaning of the name 'Beast'.

So Superman nodded. He could feel the goodwill the other was releasing, and followed 'Beast' forward along the vortex center formed by countless high-energy particles, plasma, and storms.

"You also possess great power. Couldn't even the dead angels stop them?"

The middle-aged Superman couldn't suppress his curiosity, after all, this was the first time he had ever seen these legendary creatures.

Beast's entire body was like a hedgehog, carrying countless plasma held by gravitational and electromagnetic fields, moving horizontally in the air, walking like a snake along a zig-zagging path.

Beast shook its head in a strange way, like a tumbler doll swaying.

"I, like you, possess the power to crumble mountains, overturn the earth, and destroy cities, but to those beings, these superficial powers are merely fruits that can be plucked after accumulating over time."

Beast's gaze fixed on Superman as it said, "Let's put it this way,"

"Like the human civilization on that planet you live on called Earth, all the truths and cosmic rules they have mastered are discovered, not invented."

"From the perspective of those humans, they can be said to have invented the steam engine, but in reality, they only discovered the principles upon which the steam engine operates and then utilized them."

"All inventions of human civilization follow essentially the same principle: constantly discovering the existing rules of the world and utilizing them to create so-called 'new' things."

"Sometimes human civilization cannot even understand what these rules and theorems are, how they were born, and why they were born."

"They only discover the formulas of the rules and utilize them. Human civilization does not have the ability to imbue things with new attributes based on their own ideas."

Superman's eyes revealed a light of disbelief, "Are you saying, they can create, not discover?"

Beast's body swayed again like a tumbler doll. It nodded and said, "For a true legend, if one cannot create rules that belong solely to oneself based on one's own beliefs, and thereby embed them into the underlying rules of the universe, then one will forever be just a bloated, fat pig."

"It can crush some rabbits and mice smaller than it, but when it encounters a real tiger, its fat body will be torn apart by sharp teeth and claws."

In that instant, Superman even thought of himself. He said in a low voice, "What a terrifying ability. How much wisdom and will must one possess to create rules based on one's own beliefs that are founded upon the very foundation of the universe."

Beast swayed again. It said, "Hmm, I'd like to shrug, but my body can't do that gesture right now."

As a created being, Beast was also clearly influenced by some of the Ancestral True Dragon's eccentricities.

"So you see, although my current abilities are very strong, I am only a 'mascot' created by the Emperor using the superficial rules of this universe to maintain the stability of the entire magic circle."

Superman nodded, then stopped.

Because before him, on the celestial continent crisscrossed with ravines and surrounded by countless flames and storm fluids, stood the corpse of a frost giant, standing at the entrance of the giant vortex passage, as if guarding the gate to this continent.

The corpse of this frost giant was so tall that Superman could only look up.

Covered in scars, the icy blue blood of frost had solidified on this frost giant's body, becoming bloodstains that were almost impossible to erase.

The huge hole in its chest revealed a completely shattered heart, solidified within its body.

This frost giant with its head lowered seemed to be frozen in death, yet preserving the hope of life, neither dead nor alive.

"Oh? Someone else is trying to break the balance of this continent?"

A huge voice seemed to emanate from the hole in the frost giant's chest. The deceased Ragnar Haegr was entirely frozen by icy blue frost. At this moment, those frosts actually lit up slightly, like blue light appearing in a glacier.

"This is a strong man from another world, coming because he wants to protect his planet, Your Majesty Haegr, his name is Kal-El," Beast said.

Superman nodded, the cape behind him drooping down, his body completely relaxing the vigilance and instinctive hostility he had felt when encountering this tall frost giant.

"Oh, is that so?"

The frost giant's voice rang out, "Then you must revive all my comrades-in-arms to prevent such a disaster."

"Our power and the power of that Seraphim have reached a delicate balance. We have sealed his true body on this continent, but the Seraphim's will controls the trajectory of this continent."

"It is because this angel's true body is so powerful that even the combined forces of the Kings could not defeat it. Therefore, my comrade-in-arms, Emperor Gog-Mora, used a powerful spell to banish the souls of all the Kings and the angel's soul together,"

"They want to use their own wills to defeat a strong person far exceeding their level. This is the glory and divine sword of the weak challenging the strong."

The frost giant said, "At the moment when everyone's souls were banished, Gog-Mora seized that instant of opportunity and perished together with that angel. Their dead bodies remain here, but their souls have fallen into another universe."

"If Gog-Mora and the other Kings can kill the Seraphim's soul in will, they will be victorious,"

"If Hoggarth and the bodies of the Kings adapt to the rules of this universe first, and if Hoggarth's hidden contingency plans revive them with the Life Equation first, their true selves rising from death into new life, then the connection from their true selves to their souls will allow Hoggarth and the Kings to return from the alien universe earlier than that Seraph, thereby seizing the initiative in this battle."

Superman heard a sense of admiration from the words of this powerful monster, as well as the undisguised pride of the Frost Giant when the word 'comrade' was mentioned.

It was as if being recognized as a comrade by that terrifying Super Red Dragon made the giant very proud.

"This is Hoggarth's wisdom, but even his wisdom cannot guarantee that he can step out of death and be reborn before destroying your planet."

"So, if you want to prevent the destruction of your home, you must first help my companions, my comrades, step out of the mire of death."

"How am I supposed to trust you?"

Superman retorted. He was not a naive person, but a mature one, with his own subjective judgment, not easily moved or deceived by simple words.

"Heh heh,"

The Frost Giant laughed, "This is the method that Seraph wants to use to escape. He wants to threaten the worlds that pass by in this way, to make the strong of those worlds take the initiative to break the balance in which he is trapped here."

"As for how to trust me, well, Hoggarth always believes in the win-win principle. That guy is the greatest emperor in our world,"

"A country ruled by totalitarian violence, but its people have the most stable order and the happiest lives in the world. This is his win-win principle for dealing with the empire and its allies."

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"His people revere him, and he gives his people a stable and happy life, because he believes that the power of the masses is strong, but the wisdom of the masses is foolish, so he appreciates life, but never easily destroys life, but guides it."

"Unless someone defies his will and disrupts his order."

Superman's heart stirred. He thought of the chaos that Earth was currently facing.

Although his old friend, Batman Bruce Wayne, had once rebuked Superman's totalitarian order ideology in conversation, Superman believed in his heart that his actions were correct, and at this time, he actually had some resonance with the Red Dragon's thinking.

However, prejudice and stereotypes from the word 'emperor' influenced Superman, and he said, "The word 'emperor' has always been unrelated to a happy life, only related to violence and totalitarianism."

The Frost Giant's voice laughed, "Hoggarth once said something very memorable during a meeting of the Kings,"

"He said that most people in the world think they are thinking, but in reality, they are just reorganizing their own prejudices. This is human nature, and even the smartest people cannot escape this rule."

"Unless that person can break free from the shackles of his own instincts."

"You don't believe me, I can show you."

Superman was silent for a moment, and finally nodded, "Please show me."

A strong will, with a firm personal color, was born from the Frost Giant's dead body. It was everything the Frost Giant had seen, experienced, touched, and thought about in the Golden Empire.

At this moment, all of it was transmitted to Superman, who had taken the initiative to open his heart to the stranger, through the Frost Giant's will through mental contact.

This was an extremely unbelievable act. Even the kind Superman would never have made such a choice so easily in the past.

But sometimes the power of words is no weaker than the power of matter.

So Superman saw the empire in the alien universe, shining like a rising sun. His thoughts accompanied the Frost Giant's will and touched the past memories, as if Superman had transformed into the Frost Giant walking in the empire.

He saw the thriving people, the huge and majestic cities, the clean and tidy bustling streets, the buildings that bloomed with a divine and stern aura everywhere, and the dragons soaring in the empire's sky casting satisfied gazes.

The city bells and the pigeons on the church, the statues of dragons and the colorful fountains, everything, everything, was so unfamiliar, yet it bloomed with a calming magic.

After a long time, Superman came back to his senses from the Frost Giant's memory. He said with a regretful tone, "Unfortunately, I cannot personally see that emperor now. I have questions at this time that I want to ask this emperor, who possesses both wisdom and power."

"But, I believe you now!"

"You want to see him?"

The Frost Giant laughed, "It's very simple, that guy can do it. If I allow you to pass, it can let you see Hoggarth."

Superman looked at 'Beast'. Beast floated forward, "Then come with me. Although the emperor's soul has left its dead body, His two brains are still running instinctively. I can activate the memories once left in the bloodline of this body,"

"With the support of me, 'Lazy', although it doesn't have the wisdom of the true body, it is enough to extract what you want from the past wisdom, just like extracting relevant information from a computer database, hoping to solve your problem."

Superman nodded and quietly followed the head with beast ears forward.

The cosmic storms and high-energy rays that radiated and rotated outward with the Red Dragon's body as the center automatically separated a passage in front of this head.

But as Superman approached, Superman felt a very unfamiliar feeling涌出 from his body, which was the sense of crisis that humans instinctively born in the wilderness.

Even the dead Red Dragon, whose body could not be compared to steel, could bring such pressure to Superman.

The dead bodies of the other Kings stood quietly in the distance, with the Red Dragon's body as the center, occupying all directions of space, and Superman walking among these monsters was like a human walking in the middle of skyscrapers.

"Is this his true face?"

Superman stopped and looked up at the angel and the dragon in front of him.

Clearly the bodies of the two creatures were intertwined, but it gave him a sense of spatial separation, clearly demarcated.

"Don't cross the line, or you will cause the instinctive counterattack of that angel's dead body," Beast warned.

Superman did not cross the line, he just stood under the Red Dragon's claws, he seemed to feel that he was like prey, under the Red Dragon's steel claws, actively peeking into the predator's world.

"This is Emperor Hoggarth!"