Zero

Norton didn't even spare a glance for these crawling Death Servant monsters.

The King of Flame ignored them, more or less innocently caught in the crossfire, and after walking down the long passage, entered the lower level.

This place was even more eerie and damp than the upper level. Eerie green light shone on the two neat rows of coffins in the display room, and a stale, pungent smell leaked from the cracks in the coffins.

It looked like the dead who hadn't seen signs of life for a long time were stirring, trying to crawl out of the underworld.

In response, Norton simply extended a finger, pressed down on a Corpse Guard that was trying to crawl out of its coffin, and the next second burned it into ash powder, enough to scatter its soul.

"!"

Although slower to react than the Death Servants, the Corpse Guards, who had just awakened, finally realized the visitor's noble and extraordinary status. They immediately lay back down obediently and tightly closed their coffin lids.

"...Mature Corpse Guard Alchemy technique."

Norton evaluated it... Of course, he wasn't just looking for trouble to bully these Corpse Guards.

He had just confirmed from that Corpse Guard that there were traces of Dragon Blood Alchemy techniques that were absolutely impossible for humans to possess.

Could it be one of his siblings?

"Not sure, let's see."

Norton walked to the end of the display room. A vast emptiness lay before him, like a pure sanctuary created by holy white light, solemnly and rigidly refusing entry to outsiders.

This was the end here; there was no path, only a delicate silver-white coffin laid flat on a large, square stone platform like white jade.

"A boring trick." Norton saw at a glance that this was a hidden Alchemy mechanism, requiring the blood of a specific person to unlock the hidden staircase switch.

But he didn't need to go through that trouble.

Norton casually dripped a drop of his own Dragon Blood. The blood bead slid down and sank into the groove hidden within the intricate patterns of the white coffin. The coffin immediately creaked, and the Alchemy array was instantly forcibly activated. The silver-white coffin, along with the stone slab, vibrated violently, and a large amount of mercury overflowed from the gaps in the patterns.

The mercury forming the Alchemy array instantly filled the surface of the coffin and even flowed down from it. It danced erratically and wildly, as if encountering a fatal virus, splashing out irregular and meaningless ripples and waves.

Suddenly, Norton, who had been observing, lightly snapped his fingers.

"Snap!"

The wildly overflowing mercury immediately quieted down and began to gradually shrink back from the outside, as if time were reversing. Norton successfully usurped its authority within seconds, revealing the hidden truth on the silver-white coffin—a switch resembling an elevator control panel.

After pressing it, the entire stone platform began to slowly descend, taking Norton away from this level and submerging deeper into the darkness.

This level presented Norton with a large amount of mechanical equipment, cultivation pools filled with electrolyte solution, and empty rooms separated by thick Reinforcement glass.

Some rooms also had room numbers and text on the doorplates, such as "Biology Lab," "Equipment Maintenance Room," and so on.

Walking to the end, Norton saw that the second to last room was the "Interrogation Room." He peeked inside with slight curiosity and found mechanical interrogation torture instruments similar to operating tables. The adjacent cubicle also contained scattered records.

[Frigga One experimental subject failed. Interfering with Zero's complete soul easily leads to loss of control. After handling the experimental subject's rampage, it could only be destroyed...]

[...Forced reduction of Frigga Two's physical strength, but this defective clone has reduced soul compatibility, and the phenomenon of rampage still exists. Equipment is frequently damaged, capital consumption is high with few effective results, discarded.]

[...The medical society provided new technical assistance and successfully extracted soul fragments from Zero to create Frigga Three... After 46 interrogation records, Three has consistently shown stability. Perfect control of the Frigga experimental subjects has become possible.]

"These humans... are trying to combine their life science with Dragon Blood Alchemy?"

Norton looked for a few moments. Since they dared to combine soul interference technology with human biological cloning technology, it was basically confirmed that a high-level Dragon Blood was helping humans conduct experiments. No, perhaps they had reached a deep cooperation...

Also, their goal has always been to control Frigga Zero's soul? What exactly is Zero's soul that it's worth such a great effort?

Norton closed the door and looked at the last room at the end. The doorplate had no text, only a large room number—"0".

Pushing open the door, there were no locks or protective measures. Norton stepped in gently. The sound of flowing water circulated directionally from the circular water channels around.

The walls were tall, smooth, seamless alloy material. In the narrow, cramped long gap connecting the top and ceiling, thin streams of water also uniformly overflowed downwards at regular intervals, forming a thin, transparent water curtain.

Water?

Norton clearly realized something was wrong here. Besides mercury solution, water was also an important medium for performing Alchemy.

The room was empty and completely visible. Only a crystal coffin was placed in the center, vaguely showing a figure with red hair... undoubtedly "Frigga Zero".

The coffin was tightly bound and trapped here by dense, dark Alchemy chains.

Norton saw that a circle of exquisite Dragon Script resembling Rune Script was also carved around it.

These were layers upon layers of sealing measures.

Hmph, seeing the style here, he could basically determine who was funding the human experiments.

And for this fellow to covet Zero so much could only mean... Zero's soul was even more noble.

Then, the identity of the soul was obvious...

Just as Norton placed his hand on the sealing chains and began to decipher them, the sound of hooves suddenly came from the water curtain behind him.

Warehouse area.

The originally vast building looked like it had been carpet-bombed by tactical missiles. Huge, charred, smoking craters replaced the massive building structures, thick road surfaces, and even the foundations.

Although it was still night, the scattered firelight illuminated the warehouse ruins and even the square, and thick smoke billowed upwards. Reflected by the ground flames, it allowed the Noble Family descendants who were encircling the park from a distance to see clearly.

The uninformed descendants were dumbfounded, thinking that the Zhou Family had changed tactics, brought in heavy firepower to bombard and severely retaliate against the Chen Family, completely preventing them from recovering... No wonder so many Noble Families were mobilized to seal off the routes together.

The informed Noble Family heads had complex expressions. This was the power brought by the new system. The Zhou Family asking so many Noble Families to come was not necessarily without the calculation of letting them witness it firsthand.

The perception that Hybrid individual combat power could not challenge modern military weapons began to be shaken.

These Noble Families might also acquire such military power in the future, but at least for now, the Zhou Family was uniquely powerful and far beyond their reach...

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