Chapter 1: Asking for your help, yet still raiding your home.
“Xia Mi, could you ask for a leave of absence for me?”
On the unremarkable path to school, Xu Lie looked as if he was about to die; a stranger seeing him would likely be startled.
Actually, Xu Lie’s face was quite handsome and refined; when healthy, he had a prominent nose, full lips, and an elegant bearing.
However, now gravely ill, his slightly thick eyebrows were furrowed, and his eyes, which should have been deep and rational, were filled with fatigue and bloodshot.
Xia Mi, being an acquaintance, was accustomed to Xu Lie’s ‘frailty’ and responded with a smile as radiant as summer flowers, giving an OK sign with her right hand.
It wasn’t her first time helping Xu Lie ask for leave.
In the Cassel College Imperial Capital Branch Preparatory Class, during his second year of high school, Xu Lie often took sick leave. He consistently ranked last in every subject, and both teachers and students unanimously believed that Xu Lie would absolutely not get into Cassel College.
This was also the norm; every year, so many Preparatory Class students were enrolled, but only those with passing grades in all subjects could go to the main campus for further studies.
The remaining students would often stay to work in the Preparatory Class.
Watching Xia Mi’s energetic, hopping figure gradually disappear, Xu Lie grinned: “Thanks, Xia Mi.”
Today’s Preparatory Class schedule was packed, and Xia Mi probably wouldn’t be able to get away. Xu Lie had an entire day to visit the Nibelungen of the King of Earth and Mountains.
Clearly, Xu Lie was a Transmigrator.
It sounds absurd, but Xu Lie had previously, out of interest, single-handedly created a mystical potion mini-program.
It was the kind of text-based, pure potion-drinking simulator; never mind AI-generated beautiful images, it didn’t even have text-simulated life, only pure potion drinking.
It was very rudimentary, at most a mini-program that refined the twenty-two Pathways plus the nine great primordial substances.
After completing it, Xu Lie randomly drew a Sequence 9 Marauder potion. Before he could continue to advance, Xu Lie inexplicably appeared in the Preparatory Class classroom.
At first, Xu Lie thought he had been reborn, and that the World Cup scores and lottery numbers he had memorized for years would finally be useful, and he was about to reach the pinnacle of life.
However, when he looked up and saw the history of dragons on the blackboard, and the words ‘Cassel Preparatory Class’ in the textbook, his mentality almost collapsed.
Why was it the Dragon Age world? Would the World Cup scores he had memorized for so many years still be useful?
After organizing his memories, Xu Lie found that this life was too miserable. He started as an orphan, was taken in by the Preparatory Class after being detected with Hybrid blood, and struggled to grow up to this point.
Bad news: even if the World Cup scores could still be used, if he couldn’t survive the Black King’s revival and the end of the world, then no matter how much money he got, it would be meaningless.
Good news: Xu Lie had a cheat; he brought the entire mystical potion system with him, landing directly as a Sequence 9 Marauder.
It’s just that this golden finger was somewhat out of place in the Dragon Age world, harshly embedded into this universe, causing many things to change.
For example, many potion formulas and rituals had changed.
Also, it seemed there was a problem with the nine great primordial substances he brought with him; they buzzed constantly in Xu Lie’s mind, causing him to fall ill from time to time.
It was as if nine chainsaws were colliding and holding a concert in his head. After more than two months, he was so neurasthenic that he almost died suddenly.
The so-called Sefirah are things that control the most fundamental rules of a certain aspect of the universe, special spaces that are independent and transcend reality, and can help people break through beyond Sequence.
Fortunately, Xu Lie discovered that whenever he entered a certain Sefirah, that Sefirah would quiet down and no longer cause trouble, but the other eight were still noisy.
This made Xu Lie realize that these nine things were craving attention and desperately needed someone to inhabit and control them.
But he couldn’t hide in a certain Sefirah for his entire life; wouldn’t that drive him crazy?
Unable to bear it any longer, and to survive, he could only choose to take a gamble!
After more than two months of preparation, after fully digesting the Marauder potion and then taking the Sequence 8 Swindler potion, Xu Lie began to act.
After confirming that Xia Mi had gone to the Preparatory Class, Xu Lie specifically changed into black clothes, carried a large bag of Coke and potato chips specifically for Fenrir, and also carried a material bag, then casually found a subway station.
According to the original text, to enter the Nibelungen of the King of Earth and Mountains, one needed a card that could be swiped through all stations on the Imperial Capital’s Line 1 and loop lines within a single day.
For this, Xu Lie specifically woke up at five in the morning, enduring the Sefirah’s torment to get a card, swiped it through the turnstile and entered the station, and the environment suddenly changed.
Behind the turnstile, there should have been a bright corridor and crowded pedestrians. Now, Xu Lie directly arrived at an empty platform.
Thick, yellowish pillars, full of the faded colors of a bygone era, supported the subway tunnel, and Xu Lie could still smell a faint scent of kerosene.
The incandescent lights overhead were not tube-shaped; instead, they looked very much like large, square dinner plates, flickering on and off.
The faintly humming central air conditioning was gone, leaving only a dead silence.
Xu Lie had long anticipated this and showed no surprise. Ignoring the environment, he pulled out a metal coin, infused it with spirituality, and flicked it into the air: “Gray Fog.”
This was a charm he made by calling upon a wisp of gray fog from Sefirah Castle, one of the nine great primordial substances, and it was his trump card for daring to visit Fenrir alone.
The charm’s effect was very simple: it released a wisp of Sefirah Castle’s gray fog aura, effectively deterring some small creatures.
Even an ordinary Sequence 9, even with a Sefirah, would find this difficult to do, but for some reason, Xu Lie could very easily leverage a tiny bit of power from the nine great primordial substances.
Praying to himself and responding to his own rituals, he managed to create this kind of charm.
In an instant, an incomparably ancient and magnificent aura flashed by, like a fleeting glimpse, yet it truly awed all beings.
From deep within the subway came a dense ‘drip-drop’ sound, like night rain falling or a small mine collapse. Tens of thousands of Kamaitachi felt that great aura.
Terrified, they fell from the tunnel ceiling, then prostrated themselves on the ground, not daring to flap their wings, fearing that their tiny movements would be seen as presumptuous by the great existence!
Xu Lie looked into the depths of the tunnel from where the sound came, smiled apologetically, and waited patiently.
A moment later, accompanied by a tremor of wheels rolling over tracks, an old-fashioned train, crushing countless Kamaitachi, slowly pulled into the station.
Xu Lie could even detect the thick, nauseating smell of blood beneath the train.
He couldn’t worry too much. Xu Lie hurried onto the train, which carried him through the empty carriage into the depths of the tunnel.
Outside the carriage was only Darkness, like the legendary underworld. The only thing he could feel was the monotonous vibration of the train moving over the tracks beneath his feet.
The atmosphere, which should have made one feel exceptionally lonely, had no effect on Xu Lie. The nine great primordial substances in his mind were causing a ruckus, one after another, so he couldn’t even feel lonely.
The train slowly decelerated, finally stopping at a place called Fushouling Station. As soon as Xu Lie got off, he saw the Kamaitachi Queen, whose appearance was extremely distinctive.
Her nine spines curved like snakes, and her nine heads were spread out in a semicircle like a peacock’s tail, with different heads moving and shifting independently, primarily emphasizing flashiness.
With the Kamaitachi Queen’s appearance, it wasn’t love at first sight, but at least it was a sight that would last a hundred years, unforgettable for life.
Eighteen eyes stared at two eyes. Before Xu Lie could react, the Kamaitachi Queen was already terrified by the gray fog’s aura, trembling and prostrating herself on the ground, her nine heads pressed tightly against the floor.
Not only the Kamaitachi Queen felt the deterrence of the gray fog’s aura, but even her master, the existence hidden in the Darkness behind her, also felt a hint of pressure.
At the end of the tunnel, a tentative dragon roar echoed.
Unlike the roars that displayed dragon might in myths and legends, this roar, for some reason, sounded somewhat childish to Xu Lie?
Xu Lie took a deep breath, trying his best to ignore the noise in his mind, silently adjusted his state, and responded loudly: “Fenrir!”
“I am your sister’s good friend, and I’ve brought potato chips and Coke to see you!”
I hope this book brings joy and relaxation to all readers.