Dragon King - World Reset

Dragon King - World Reset (龙王：世界的重启) is a web novel written by Jiang Nan that started serialization in August 19, 2022. The novel is a sequel to the Dragon Raja series, continuing the story after the events of Dragon Raja III and replacing the original Dragon Raja IV.

Originally planned as a revised edition of Dragon Raja IV, the publication of the book was interrupted due to a copyright dispute, forcing it to be released with a different title. Jiang Nan announced that he would publish the book online on a chapter-by-chapter basis.

The final chapter was posted on March 20, 2023. A second book was announced that same day for a 2023 release.

## Official premise

The oblivioned Hyperborea, the forgotten Far North, the gateway to the kingdom of God. Little by little, the secrets of gods and an ancient civilization are revealed, which are coveted by many. The battle for the growth of the young is about to kick off. They walked ahead of the others and seemed to be approaching the gate of the kingdom of God. In order to pass through it, mortals will use bones as stairs, a cruel situation is placed in front of them. However, there may be hell on the other side of the gate, what should they choose and how should they fight what's inside?

## Story summary

### Chapter 1 - The North Pole and its ruined city.

#### The Far North

After the defeat of Herzog, Lu Mingfei, Caesar Gattuso and Chu Zihang formed the Project Pai Pact (named by Caesar after the protagonist of the manga *3x3 Eyes*). They made an oath to uncover Herzog's past and prevent his return.

After two years there was little progress, until it was discovered that he once belonged to an organization called "The Far North", led by Maria of The Stars. The last surviving members of The Far North now travelled the Arctic ocean on a Russian ice-breaker ship called *The YAMAL,* which was rented by them and transformed into a cruise ship for tourists.

Chu Zihang boarded the YAMAL as a passenger and stayed there for days. With EVA's help, he hacked the secure communications channel that belonged to the ship's captain, Sasha Rybalko. Every morning, he and Rybalko used to watch the whales in silence. On December 24th, during the Christmas Eve celebrations, Zihang took advantage of a storm to infiltrate Maria's chambers. He decided to go unarmed, hoping that it would demotivate him from escalating violent situations.

He first disguised himself as a waiter and brought a hamburger and mulled wine to White Wolf, the security guard who protected the secret entrance to Maria's room. The moment White Wolf noticed that he was to thinly dressed for the violent climate conditions, he assaulted Zihang, who easily knocked him unconscious.

EVA provided him with a picture of Maria during her youth, and explained her background. The founders of The Far North claimed to have obtained conclusive evidence from ancient documents, of an unknown land in the Arctic Circle. According to them, the ancient Hyperboreans once created a super civilization far beyond our own on that land. Maria was one of their founding members, once a German aristocrat, she escaped to Argentina right before the fall of the Nazis. She should be 130-years-old by then.

Zihang arrived at her bedroom, the floor was made of burgundy marble, the wallpaper was splendid malachite green, and the crystal glass of the chandelier was mixed with gold powder, which made the color of the light close to that of Sunshine, where every color was vibrant, converging to evoke a tropical rainforest in bloom.

All communications on the ship were monitored by an old radio, he noticed a strange murderous aura around him and the sound of someone's breath.

> Chu Zihang silently counted to three, and the sound of breathing disappeared, which meant that his opponent had finished adjusting their breath. From the moment they ceased to breathe, the so-called killing intent in their heart could only last for a few seconds. Sure enough, the opponent rushed towards Chu Zihang with violent momentum, and the sound of the weapon cracking the wind was like cutting through silk.
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Zihang pulled the carped under his opponent's feet and made them loose their balance, taking advantage of the opportunity to grab them by their throat.
His opponent was a girl in her twenties, Zihang also noticed a few juvenile items in the bedroom, signaling that it belonged to a younger person. The girl reluctantly invited him to take seat instead of continuing their fight. He scanned her to memorize her physical features, which irritated her. Zihang asked to see Maria, but the girl explained that her great-grandmother died three years ago, and "Maria of the Stars" was not a name but a title, and she was the inheritor of said title.

> *"You can call me Maria of the Stars, you can also call me Reginleif, that is my own name."*
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Reginleif asked to know Chu Zihang's purpose and he asked her for information about Herzog. She didn't know much about Herzog after he left the Far North in the 1940's, and she wasn't aware of his role in the Soviet Union. According to her, Herzog used to call himself "The Knight of Galahad" and said that he was chosen by God, and only he could lift the Holy Grail with his own hands, and those who believed in him could follow in his footstep to the Kingdom of God.
Herzog pursued Maria, but she rejected him, since she was very weary of him. No one knew anything about his blood, he was quickly expelled form the Imperial Academy for attempting to combine science with Dark Magic, so he funded his own research institute. Reginleif asked Zihang if he knew the purpose of The Far North and he answered:

> *"The oblivioned Hyperboria, the forgotten land of the North Pole, the door to the kingdom of God."*
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Herzog also beieved himself a descendant of the Hyperboreans, he believed that they could be reached by activating the divine blood in their veins, he persuaded the SS to provide him with funds to use genetic technology to recreate a pure Hyperborean. He used the Children taken from the occupied territories and he failed to obtain useful results. He created an institute called Migdal Babel.

> *"Even if the gate of the kingdom of God really exists in this world, then it should not be found by humans. The day humans find it, the gate of the kingdom of God will unleash hell."* Chu Zihang said lightly.
> *"I don't understand your words, I think you are mocking our beliefs!"* Reginleif became more serious.
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Herzog was keen on studying the remnants of black magic from the Middle Ages. He participated in theatre and Ballet, he once shot his muse after drinking heavily, a ballerina who was also a Russian prisoner. That was the extent of Reginleif's knowledge, who heard the sound of an owl and asked Zihang to leave. Before opening the door, he noticed a painting of Nidhogg and Izanami over Reginleif's bed, but she didn't seem to understand its significance.

#### Sasha Rybalko

When he opened the door, he was quickly apprehended by Rybalko, who took him to an interrogation room. Sasha seemed more interested in learning whatever Zihang knew about Maria. Rybalko was actually a member of the Russian Federal Security Service, and he reported directly to them, but hadn't been able to learn enough about his supposed employers, the owners of the ship. Zihang revealed what he knew many things about Rybalko, like his personal quest to gather enough money to pay for the treatment of his ex-wife Anna, who was currently in a coma and required life support.

Zihang asked for wine in exchange for more details about his discoveries, he of course avoided mentioning Herzog's name, but he told Sasha what he knew about Reginleif.

Rybalko had in fact slept with many women since the end of his marriage, but they were meaningless to him, Anna was the only woman who truly loved him, the one who would have stuck with him to have his children. He was hoping for the moment she'd wake up, to tell her that she was the love of his life.

#### Plans for the future

Zihang was released and he went back to his small cabin, where he checked his computer, he had messages from Caesar and Lu Mingfei.

Caesar's message read:

> How is your schedule next month? The spring festival is almost here. Let’s go back to the College so we can arrange a fellowship?
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Lu Mingfei's message read:

> "Brother, I'm in Oslo. I just got off... I wanted to find you so we could hang out, but EVA said that you’re on vacation, and I will leave in two days." I won’t be able to wait for you to come back…
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> The boss said that he wants to take advantage of the winter vacation to arrange a fellowship between the Student Union and the Lionheart Society, but I kinda want to go back to China for the Spring Festival. You know, I haven’t gone back to see my uncle and aunt for several years and…
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> Norma! Who put this thing on the backseat? I felt like I was laying an egg! I... Oh, it’s okay, some underclassman casually left a grenade here, huh?
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> Anyway, I mean, if you go back to the college, I will spend my winter vacation there, if you go home I’ll go with you…”
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Zihang decided to answer the messages once he got back to Oslo, in the meantime, he communicated his discoveries to EVA, who was incredulous about Reginleif's identity (since her name belonged to a Valkyrie from Norse mythology) and the possibility of Hyperborea being real, since the ability to create a Nibelungen with no equivalent in the real world was unprecedented.
EVA also tried to motivate Zihang to socialize with the crew and possibly meet a woman. He also ignored a Christmas card from his mother for the time being, he reflected on his health condition, he wanted his parents to have another child in case that he died.

> *"Don't be so pessimistic, ancient dragons haven’t awakened for years now, and the average life expectancy of the Execution Bureau has risen a lot. Find a girlfriend now, and maybe you can make it to the wedding."* Eva smiled, *"Christmas is a couple hours away, don’t you want to go to the bar? The YAMAL takes a well-known high-value route on the Arctic Ocean, and many of the passengers are young people. According to my statistics, there are 26 famous female tourists.”*
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> *“You don’t need to keep acting like Norma."*
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> *"This suggestion was not given by the college butler, but by a friend. You are still a human being, and you don't have to live like a lonely dragon."*
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> -EVA motivates Chu Zihang.
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Zihang heard a Christmas song outside, he remembered that Christmas from two years earlier, when he visited Xia Mi's house. Her scent was still in the place when he arrived, and even two years later he wondered if at least a bit of her was real.

#### The living ship

For months, Sasha and his men took advantage of the ship's mechanical noise to open a series of passages to the lowest cabin. Only Maria and her closest crew had any access to it. The last remaining guard was distracted by a waitress bribed by Sasha, and he entered the secret space in the YAMAL.

Inside, his men had found a complicated system of veins and blood vessels, giant bone ribs were merged with the structure of the ship and the strange organism seemed to keep growing, invading more and more cabins and rooms. The seawater present on the floor had small amounts of mercury in it, they collected a sample and left.

Sasha's men tried to contact other ships, but they changed course before they could get close, as if they were instructed to stay away from the YAMAL.

Back in her cabin, Reginleif listened to a majestic opera, Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelungen", specifically the first volume "Rhinegold". She heard the sound of the owl again and a door opened behind her bed. There was a room there, it was full of people.

> In the depths of the sanctuary was a marble altar, and the dome above was inlaid with crystals and stars all over the sky. Reginleif walked slowly to the bottom of the altar, and the wind blowing from nowhere blew her skirt rippling, as if she was about to dance in the air at any time.
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> She suddenly raised her head and raised her sword to the sky. This scene was very similar to the photo Chu Zihang had seen, except that what was enshrined on the altar was a steel badge, engraved with a completely withered giant tree.
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> The four men in horned helmets beat the ground slowly with their sword hilts, and all of them began to chant in low voices: "Holy! Holy! King of hosts!
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#### Vincent

The following morning, Chu Zihang went to the ship's restaurant for breakfast and ordered a beef and mushroom stew. The place was unexpectedly empty, so he opened his bag and took Gen Chisei's blades out.

> "We can start with a good talk," he said aloud. "It's a public place after all, and someone has to clean our mess."
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He walked though the restaurant with caution, and he sensed a presence within his shadow. A torrent of black smoke rose up and from within it, a blade. Zihang blocked the attack, one cloud of smoke manifested right after another, and blades came swinging out of each. Two girls came out of the smoke, they looked a bit like Reginleif.

> "Hervor," said the long-haired girl.
> "Olrune." The ponytail girl licked the blood on the tip of her sword.
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Hervor's weapon was a Malaysian Kris. Olrune's short spear looked more like a weapon from the Roman era, any of them could have been an A-Rank or above at  Cassell College, and it was very likely that they'd be recruited by a modeling agent if they walked by the streets of Paris or Milan.
The fierce fight continued, the furniture around them was sliced into pieces, in the middle of it all, another voice was heard.

> *"Hervor! Olrune! How can you be so rude with our distinguished guest?"*
> The door of the restaurant finally opened, and an electric wheelchair slid in silently, with a thin old man sitting on it. He was hunched like a shrimp, his head lowered, as if his old spine couldn't even support his body. But he was so dignified and elegant.
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He introduced himself as Vincent, Reginleif's valet. He wanted to confirm if Chu Zihang was a member of the Abraham Blood Pact (a common name for the Secret Party). He seemed concerned, apparently the Far North was once part of the Secret Party, when they were known by a different name, "The Twilight Dogma". He seemed relieved when he heard Herzog's name, since it meant that Cassell College was not specifically after them.

> *"So the Blood Pact has not started an investigation against us. The relationship between us and the Blood Pact is still like the water of the well, which does not interfere with the water from the river, am I right?"* Vincent confirmed with Chu Zihang again.
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Zihang seemed confused, Vincent didn't act like Reginleif's assistant, but more like a guardian. He was allowed to go back and finish his breakfast while the waiters replaced the broken dishes and furniture. Hervor expressed her frustration with the interruption of their fight, but Vincent made it clear that they were no match for Zihang, only Reginleif could deal with him.

Chu Zihang waited for them to leave the kitchen and ran back to his cabin.

#### The Twilight Dogma

Zihang leaned on his bathroom sink and vomited black clots of blood.

> The dizziness came in waves, and everything in front of him had a bright red halo; the world roared in his ears, and the sound of running water in the water pipe was like rumbling thunder; his lungs felt like they were split, and his breath carried with it a strong bloody smell.
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He began to have problems since the Tokyo incident, his blood condition started degrading even more after repeated uses of Blood Rage. But he had learned to deal with this condition.

> In the past two or three days, in his dreams, he would see a giant tree that penetrated the sky and the ground. Their branches form a complicated scroll of dragon characters. The strange thing is that Chu Zihang could read it.
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Zihang took a shower and opened his laptop. He asked EVA to tell him everything she knew about the Twilight Dogma. Unexpectedly, the name was considered sensitive, and she wasn't allowed to disclose most of the information. In the meantime, all EVA could tell him was:

> "They were followers of Odin, they believed that in history, there used to be intelligent beings comparable to dragons. Humans called them “gods”. In the decisive battle called Ragnarok, the gods and the dragons were hit hard at the same time. A cataclysm broke out immediately, a tsunami swept through the vast majority of the world and buried many prehistoric civilizations. After the tsunami, human beings finally ushered in the opportunity to develop."
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EVA mentioned that the Secret Party considered their beliefs outlandish and they didn't bother to supervise them after they became independent. Zihang asked the Bureau for clearance to access the rest of the information and left his cabin to get some fresh air.

#### The girl in the bunny suit

> That night was the carnival on the ship. The waiters moved the restaurant and bar to the foredeck, and put up gas-burning heating lamps. Guests could even drink coffee in the open air in evening dresses with bare legs. As long as they wore a fur coat, or anything that warm. The charming Belarusian girls from the casino put on Christmas dresses and came and went on small skates to serve. In the center of the deck, the waiters used ice to form a crystal-clear dance floor, and the orchestra played lyrical tunes.
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After the breakfast incident, Vincent and his assassins disappeared entirely, Sasha showed up at the party, with him was a beautiful woman on a red velvet dress. Sasha recited her poetry, and Zihang sighed at the image of the loyal man who dedicatedly missed his sick former lover falling in love with a random woman with such ease. Why the KGB didn't chose him as a spy was beyond him. The man noticed Chu Zihang and signaled him to get away but the woman left his side and went to see the ocean. Sasha mentioned to Zihang that some passengers arrived at the ship so they could talk to Maria, their saint.

> Under the Christmas tree in the distance, the slender figure in crimson red beckoned to Sasha, as if shocked, Sasha hurriedly chased after her with a glass of wine. Chu Zihang returned to his table and sat down, and the waiter brought him mulled wine and almond cookies. In the cold Arctic Circle, mulled wine is almost everyone's preferred drink.
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In the dance floor, there was a girl dancing on a full-body rabbit suit. Anyone could perceive her youth and vigor, immediately calling the attention of the men on the boat. Through the bunny eyes, he could see the girl's silver eyes, she was Reginleif.

> Every now and then he felt lonely, so he missed Caesar and Lu Mingfei a little. If they were on the boat, everything would be different. The girls would probably choose to sit around Caesar. Chu Zihang was convinced of the charm of this friend. Undoubtedly, Lu Mingfei would have liked the carnival as well, casually eating the Arctic sweet shrimp.
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> Looking back on his life, if he was allowed to go back to a specific time in his life, his first choice would be the childhood he lived with his parents, followed by his time in Japan. Back then, his future seemed bright, there were many opportunities for him to take, looking for Odin to take revenge, spending time with his best friends, working hard for their next performance on stage. Oh, wrong… Working hard to defeat the enemy behind the scenes...
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> If there was a third chance, he would just choose the autumn of that year, when he was about to enter the subway, the Nibelungen within it, he would stop time right there. At that moment, nothing had concluded, the phantom named Xia Mi still existed in this world, and she even invited him to have dinner at her home the following day. The good times in life are always so short, and when he thought the future would be better, he realized his life was like a rollercoaster ride, about to go down, well past the point of no return.
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Reginleif was sitting on a table filled with empty wine cups, the boys were scuffling for her and the guards had a hard time separating them, but Reginleif laughed and clapped, Zihang couldn't stand their noise and asked the waiter for his bill. A young man named Persson seemed particularly interested in her, he puller her costume's paw and seemed determined to have a dance with her, but the girl called to someone else among the crowd:

> *"Hey! Chu! I'm done drinking! Let's go!"*
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#### Reginleif's deal

The two were separated by two meters, Reginleif held a bottle of vodka in one hand. Zihang didn't want to get involved in the conflict started by her admirers, Zihang wanted to stay away from the troublesome girl, but she reached to his hear to whisper something:

> *"The reward for helping me is the information on the gate of the kingdom of God!"*
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A jealous Persson's expression changed from confusion to rage, but Zihang kept him at a distance, no matter how many times Persson attempted to get close to him, he pushed him down to a chair and nailed his suit's sleeve to the table with a fork and a kitchen knife. Zihang and Reginleif left him behind.
The girl jumped out of her costume, she was wearing a night gown so Zihang gave her his suit jacked and she stepped on a pair of slippers. She asked Zihang to go with her to the helipad, since they couldn't be listened by Vincent there. She had invited Chu Zihang to share the half-finished bottle, but Chu Zihang refused. He also wanted to drink warm wine, but he didn't want to share the bottle with her, he had his own boundaries and he lived comfortably within them.

> *"That guy is handsome, but he is terrible to talk to. He's been talking to me about his family, their family business, his villa in Amsterdam, inviting me to vacation on it, saying that he has several thoroughbred horses in his villa, and a hundred bottles of Whiskey that had been around for many years,"* Reginleif took a sip of the spirit, and then cursed. *"He's so handsome, he doesn't understand his selling point at all!"*
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Chu Zihang had never met a girl like her, she was a saint, but her followers were so little, the title of a saint can't be too significant in such a small group. In Cassell, one could call Zero or Nono saints, but he wasn't there to think about such things, he was waiting for Reginleif's intel.

> *“What? You can’t talk back to me?”* Reginleif finally noticed the guy's silence, *“Even the steam pipe is spitting something out!"*
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> *"Do you often sneak out to play?"* Chu Zihang asked a dry question.
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> Reginleif looked up at the sky and smoothed her hair with her fingers:
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> *"Every year from Christmas to New Year's, I have a week's vacation. They don't care what I do during the holiday. I eat in the kitchen for a week and dance for three days... Ok, ok, well, I know you are not interested in these things, you want me to quickly pay you the reward I promised you, and then go back to sleep."*
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She described the door to the kingdom of God as an entrance, a hallway with no end in sight, she considered Zihang's theory to be interesting, the notion of hell being on the other side of the gate.

> *"That's not what you said last night. You said that I blasphemed against your beliefs."*
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> *"There were eight hundred pairs of ears eavesdropping outside the door. I have to say something that suits my status."* She approached Chu Zihang and lowered her voice, *"But here we can say things that don't suit my status."*
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> Chu Zihang smelled the cypress fragrance rushing towards his face, and instinctively wanted to dodge back.
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Reginleif recognized the power and near omnipotence of the Secret Party, and she asked to negotiate a deal.

> *"As long as I can remember, I have lived on this boat. For me, the world is the sea, ice floes, and boats. I live like the ancient ladies. They forbid me to meet outsiders, and I even eat in the back kitchen. The food was sent up directly, as if I would lose my virginity if a waiter dared to look at me, and then the world would be destroyed. When I was fourteen years old, I saw a boy on the forecastle playing ukulele. I really wanted to talk to him, so I went out through the porthole and climbed down to his room in nothing but a nightgown. They were so scared that they promised me that I would have a week off every year. I’m not a saint during that week, I can do whatever I want."*
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> *"Are you not satisfied with your life now?"*
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> *"The Far North, the Twilight Dogma, the Gate of God, and that Herzog, there are many things you want to know. I can tell you everything I know, but you have to help me get off this ship! I want A helicopter, a box of banknotes whose date cannot be found, and a passport! Put any name on the passport, but don’t write Reginleif! Your college is so powerful, it shouldn’t be difficult to do these things, right?"*
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> *"These things you want are the standard procedure after a bank robbery, these are your followers yet they restrict your freedom?*
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> *"Do you know? My great-grandmother has been a saint for nearly a hundred years, and she was still floating in the sea until she died, because it is said that the gate of the kingdom of God can only be opened by the hands of a saint. Those people provided her with the best medical service. In the end, she had tubes all over her body. If she lacked oxygen, she would be supplemented with it, and if she was lacking electrolytes, they would provide them as well. She would be able to continue breathing even if she died”.*
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> *“Is there anything I can do for you? You know what she said? She smiled at me and said, kill me! I'm sick of living like this! One year, one week off, even if I find a boyfriend who suits me, it will only last one week, and my love will be over when he disembarks. Only by leaving this boat can I be free and talk about true love!"*
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> Chu Zihang thought in his heart that the resentment of missing one’s true love was strong enough to make a saint rebel.
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> *"We just met yesterday, you tell this to a stranger like me, aren’t you worried about me telling Vincent?"*
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> *"Tell him if you wish, it's just another failure. I've tried to run away several times over the years, but it never worked. I started to think that the boys who liked me could help me, but they were unreliable. I should find a prudent old man like you."* Reginleif said angrily, *"The old man isn’t too embarrassed to refuse the beautiful girl's request, is he?"* Chu Zihang was speechless, since when did he start exuding a mature and prudent attitude? What was that aura? But he wasn't ready to refute.
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> *"I can't agree to your request on behalf of the college. We have precedents for protecting witnesses, but all of them need to be applied for."* Chu Zihang said.
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> *"Do you want to see the information sent to your door? I don’t want to see you! You said it earlier, the river water shouldn’t mess with the water from the well!”* Reginleif shook the snowflakes on her body, turned and left.
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#### Odin's cult

When Chu Zihang returned to his cabin, EVA had already disclosed the remaining information of The Twilight Dogma:

> The so-called "Twilight Dogma" was actually a small group within the Secret Party back then. They believed that Norse mythology was the record of ancient history. At that time, the Dragons and the Gods checked and balanced each other, until the Dragon Kings betrayed the tyrannical Black Emperor Nidhogg, joined forces with the Gods, killed the mighty Nidhogg, and suppressed his remains with a powerful alchemy matrix called The World Tree. But the Black Emperor will always wake up, he will break through the suppression of the alchemic matrix, and fight to the death with the Protoss led by Odin, and that destined battle is called "Twilight of the Gods". Odin is considered by the believers in the Twilight Dogma to be the only one who can contend against the Black King. The survival of the world does not lie in how the hybrids fight their bloody battle against the Dragon King, but in whether they can find the great Odin.
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The Dogma believed that Odin's capital, home of the Protoss was located in another dimension, to reach it, one had to pass through a gate constructed with alchemy.

> *"It seems that both the Twilight Dogma and the Far North are just a group of blind believers who got lost in their own fantasy."* Chu Zihang said.
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> *"You know the reason. Your body is becoming more and more unstable. To be honest, I don't even know how long you can live. You need a comprehensive treatment plan."*
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Zihang was upset, all he knew was how to kill dragons, but the college expected him to become a teacher, EVA thought he could be a great one. He understood finally that the college sent him to the calm Oslo in the hopes of getting him used to a peaceful life, a treatment could only increase his life expectancy, but they could never cure him.

He asked EVA to submit a refugee application for Reginleif. He didn't knew why he felt so concerned about her, he was touched by the story, and he inexplicably thought of a certain girl's lonely little room away from the world.

#### Reginleif's loyalties

In her room, Reginleif sat down to study an old recording:

> She came to the desk and sat down, took out a file from the drawer, and read it carefully. That file came from Cassell College, and it was the resume of a student who dropped out for special reasons. Her name was Xia Mi. Along with this file, there was also a USB flash drive.
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> Reginleif inserted the USB flash drive into the computer, and the projector showed a huge picture on the opposite wall. In just a few months of college life, the girl would always avoid the camera skillfully, so there are not many video materials left, and most of the captured images were of her back in the library and the cafeteria, one of the longest images is that she is carrying a thermos bucket through the corridor at night, with light steps, as if stepping on a special rhythm, surrounded by cicadas and fireflies dancing after her.
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> Reginleif stood up and walked around the bedroom barefoot, imitating Xia Mi's sense of rhythm. After a while, she collapsed on the big soft bed: *“That’s how it goes, isn’t it? Or was I too dull?"*
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