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fmp2erinharmer · 2 years

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Dragons from different cultures

Western/European Dragons

These Dragons tend to be seen as villains in myth. That reputation led to many stories of having them needing to be defeated. Some of the most well known European dragons are:

Wyverns - A two legged dragon with the wings of a bat and long serpent like tail, one of the most common species of dragon to be written about in England.

For example in the most famous story about Wyverns is Story of Mordiford/Maud and the Wyvern - where a young girl raises a Wyvern however its caught eating farm animals and killed but the bond between them still stayed even when it was on a rampage.

Zmey Gorynych - A 3 Headed dragon with light papery wings from Russian/Slavic/Ukrainian Mythology. This dragon also seems to be mainly depicted as a type of Wyvern just with more heads and tails.

The Story is that the dragon is related to an evil sorcerer who kidnaps a princess intending to marry her with the dragon. She gets rescued by a palace guard called Ivan who can understand the speech of birds and is gifted a magic sword given to him by the czar. When Ivan gets there the sword flies from his hands, killing the sorcerer who had turned into a giant and also kills Gorynych.

Beowulf's Dragon - This Swedish Dragon kept to itself and stayed in its cave with its treasure, until one day someone stole a drinking cup from its lair. This made the dragon angry and it went on a rampage trying to find its cup, until it was slain by King Beowulf.

Hydra - A multi headed dragon with poisonous breath and acidic blood from Greek mythology, often depicted with the ability to grow back extra heads. It is the offspring of Typhon and Echidna, two who created many of the well known monsters in Greek myth.

Ladon - Another dragon from Greek myth similar to the Hydra, It was a hundred headed dragon who guarded the garden of Hesperides’s golden apples from thieves under Heras command. It is slain by Heracles who is pursuing his 11 labours set by the King of Mycenae to test him.

Eastern/Asian Dragons

Considered to be Noble and wise, Eastern dragons are commonly depicted as marine dragons, rumoured to bring favourable weather and good luck. People honour them by performing elaborate dances and holding special dragon boat races.

Chinese Long - These are wingless Asian dragons that usually rule over the elements, most commonly the skies and oceans, and they are generally have better relationships with humans. The mightiest of these Chinese Longs are the Dragon Kings which rules over the oceans. There is also the Sky-Blue Azure Dragon which rules over the skies and the Yellow Dragon which lives in the Yellow river in china. The Yellow Dragon is credited to teaching humans to read and write.

Futs-Lung - The dragon of hidden treasures who lives deep within the earth. He is known for guarding all precious metals and gems in his lair, as well as a magic pearl which represents wisdom, and can duplicate. The people in china have very big respect for Futs-Lung and even went as far as leaving him a way to have an ocean view from his mountain between the buildings when they started to build around there.

Japanese - Similar to the Chinese Longs, These are typicially wingless dragons that can control the sea and skies, so the people respect them in hope they dont bring bad weather and ruin crops. Here are a couple notable Japanese Dragons:

Ryujin - He is the dragon god of the sea, and he lives beneath the ocean in a red and white coral palace, which has halls for each season. Apparently the palace is so deep that it has a separate flow of time as 1 day in there is equal to 100 days on earth. He also controls the tides with magical pearls, which he used to help an empress fight koreans.

Yamata no Orochi - Is an Evil Dragon who demanded a maiden sacrifice each year and was known for his massive body that could stretch across 8 valleys and 8 hills. He was slain by a god called Susanoo (a god of seas and storms) who had agreed to kill the dragon and in return he could marry the maiden he was rescuing.

Naga - A Long bodied dragon, usually depicted as some sort of human/snake hybrid, either just a human head or up to the waist of a human. There are many depictions of them throughout religions in south east Asia ( For example Buddhism and Hinduism), and some think that there have been a race of Naga people around for over 2 thousand years but they live in another realm. However they can turn into a full human as well. Some other places that feture them in folklore, traditions, stories or religions are Sri Lanka, Thailand, Java, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malesia and the Philippines.

Other Notable Dragons

In other parts of the world, dragons also take on the form of giant serpents or lizards. Some myths claim these terrible creatures existed only to harm mankind. Others tell tales of them helping humans.

Quetzalcoatl - A feathered serpent once worshipped by the ancient Aztecs of Mexico. According to Myth the Quetzalcoatl was a wise being who gave humans the knowledge of how to read and write, grow crops and measure time. However it was also known for being a man-eater.

Piasa Bird - A Native American creature with feathery wings, head horns and a long scaly tail. This dragon supposedly lived on the banks of the Mississippi River, and was not interested in eating humans, until one day it fed on the corpses of warriors in a battlefield. It enjoyed the taste so much that it began preying on nearby villages, until an Algonquin Chief defeated it.

Rainbow Serpent - A huge serpent like creature. According to Australian aboriginal mythology, it carved deep riverbeds and gullies as it moved across the earth.

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vixlenxe · 2 years

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‘Cao Cao’s not from a fantasy heavy game’

Remembers he also appears in Keoi’s Warriors Orochi, where he spend 3 installments fighting the Serpent King/The Hydra, & then fights mythology deities in Warriors Orochi 4.

Okay, so maybe I’m a big fat lair in a since.

#[Lore and Ideas] Musings #[Mèngdé] Cao Cao; Aesthetics #i mean mine is more historically based but i have no problem shifting towards more fantasy elements #like Warriors Orochi

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snakegirllovehandles · 9 months

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my friend hates getting hints in games

watched her get stuck in the imp dungeon under orochi's lair in Okami HD for upwards of half an hour just because she didn't actually explore the bottom floor of the elevator... oof, that was rough

#actually blogging on your blog

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minachan95-written-works-on-ao3 · 4 years

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Title: Vampire’s Kiss (Chapter 18: Unreachable Sin. Part 9 of 18)

Fandom: King of Fighters

Characters: Kyo Kusanagi, Iori Yagami, Shingo Yabuki, Orochi, Yashiro Nanakase, Leona Heidern, Kain R. Heinlein, Chizuru Kagura, Kusanagi, Goeniko, Chris

Pairing: Iori Yagami x Kyo Kusanagi (main one)

Genre: AU, BL, Supernatural, Fantasy, Gothic Fantasy, Adventure, Slow-Burn, Eventual Romance, Dark Themes, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Human/Vampire Relationship, Human/Demon Relationship

Summary: This vampire already has bad luck on his side, yet he decides that his next prey going to be a certain redhead vampire hunter. However, the very little he knows how this encounter will end…

AO3 Link

TW: ARACHNOPHOBIA

A good half hour has passed~ As they both went deeper into the woods, this brunette started to complain ‘‘Are you sure we are going the right way? ‘cos I see no one around. So, if you wanted to make me lost in woods, then, congrats - you stuck with me!…Is it still far?’’, however, Yagami without looking back replied in calm tone ‘‘Just go straight for a bit longer and, according Kagura, we should reach the wood of spiders.’’. The further they went, the less and less this place was lively. Now the only sounds surrounding the wanderers were the crunching noises made by their steps on the grass or the ones made by the thin branches breaking under their feet.

Fortunately, the moon, who was shining bright, shown them the path to monster’s lair. However, more and more there were spiderwebs scattered on ground or dead trees’ branches were shining with silver color from the moonlight. Even the slightest breeze made these webs shiver yet there were no traces of their owners. Maybe they were patiently waiting for a naive and frail butterfly to rest for a second…At the beginning these threads were thin as a hair, but the further they went, the thicker and more complex thread becomes. Now the rat rushes with better piece of meat across the road and accidentally steps on silver thread. As this unfortunate creature’s little feet sticks to trembling web, from nearest small cave below the tree trunk, countless eyes shines with deadly and piercing gaze.

Now the high-pitched meowing like scream echoes through the silent forest. The rat didn’t even had a second to react and as the black spider jumps from the cave and with it’s eight legs rushes to it’s prey. Poor creature was already frozen in terror yet now as couple hairy front legs of this arachnid with size of a small animal, holds it’s victim as it wraps in spiderweb. As soon as this rat was in cocoon, it still lets out the screech filled with terror and despair until it was cut when the spider sink it’s fangs-like to the victim. Even so, Kyo couldn’t look back because he was shocked by this merciless creature. Thankfully, Yagami grabs his arm and without a word, prompts him go. As this brunette looks at hunter’s back, he notices that this redhead’s shoulders were stiff as his grasp.

"Stay close to me, vampire." or so, this redhead strictly orders without looking back. As they walk further, Yagami adds "...or else you might end up like that rat.". This brunette just frowns and objects while trying to shake his arm from hunter's grasp "Fine! I get it, but you don't have to crush my arm.", however, without noticing this vampire's foot touches lying thread on ground. As Iori quickly picks couple knives from his left side, he tosses them to the right side. Lastly, the blade pierces spider's chest and abdomen.

Kyo just stares at that creature fallen on it's back, which was letting out agonizing meowing like screech while it's limbs and chelicera slowly twitches before it's own doom. Even if that spider was far away, it looked like the size of grown up dog. As hunter turn his head to face this vampire and scold "I told you to be careful!" However this brunette's gaze was above this redhead and as his fangs shows up, he growls. His sharp nails shows up. Now he sprints through the hunter. After he jumps forward into air, he slashes the enormous spider. Spider's body from head to stomach splits in half until it touches the ground.

As this vampire shakes off his hand from this creature's remains, his nail turn back normal. Now he addresses Iori with smug look on his face "Then, you should also stop joking around~ ‘Cos you like it or not, but you are not allowed to be killed by anyone. More so, I'll keep you alive and protected until I'll become strong enough to defeat you!" now Kyo honestly asks "Hey, Yagami. That was one huuuge one. Don't you think it was Arachne creature? It sure look like having enough of thread.".

Yagami looks to see the slain creature. After he closes his eyes and swallows saliva, he carefully opens his eyes and now he walks around this spider, which was as tall as a grown up dog. However, the way how carefully this hunter walks around this dead creature making sure it won't touch him, caught this vampire's attention. Kyo could swear that Yagami was as pale as a ghost and he didn’t like that. Just when he was about to open his mouth, this redhead speaks up "Unfortunately, no. Despite it's size, it's just a spider. The Arachne creature have a human-like features. But since your small vampire head maybe not familiar with this monster, I'll let you know. This creature has a top of a woman and lower part as a spider. There is a very rare case to find a male Arachne monster, because they met a same fate as some venomous spider species...".

Of course, this brunette lifts his one eye-brow and replies with slight mockery "And why should this matter? We just need to kick this monster's ass, get the web and BAM, the business done! So, why do you need to explain all this?". Yagami just sighs as he face-palms and shakes his head. Now he looks at this vampire and addresses him in irritated tone "Your face is surely not ruined by intelligence...Listen, I'm telling you this so that you should be aware of what kind monster we are dealing with. By this time of season Arachne monsters are very ferocious, because they need food to regain their strength. So, they maybe already aware of our existence and now waiting for us until we'll he close enough to their lair...Just watch down your steps and keep your guard on. The very least thing I want to ran out of knives before meeting this monster.". After such a explanation Kyo knew it would be pointless to argue with Yagami and now he followed this fellow hunter.

Good fifteen minutes passed~ The scenery changed drastically. This area nearly looked like an open field with singly dry trees. Not only the ground was snow-white from being covered in thick layers of web, but they were hanging from the tree branches as masterly crafted net to trap a reckless prey. Even there were scattered around several cocoons of various sizes - either there were from as big as a small wild animal to even the size of possibly adult human. The atmosphere was sinister and cold. Even the moonlight shined from above only added more coldness of silver.

However, all of sudden this redhead hunter was alerted. He even stretched his arm to stop this vampire going further. Now Yagami's gaze was fixated at trembling thread of web. Minute, another minute passed - nothing, the web was still moving without the owner of it showing up. Now just a pitiful and sobbing voice of a young woman disturbs the silence "A-anyone...please...Help!...I-I stuck...it huuurts! A-anyone...plee-ease...Th-that monster...she want to kill meee!...", the web was still keeping shaking yet the rustle of tree leaves accompanied. Now something fell on pile of tree leaves. Even so, along with this sound the web remains still without any movement.

That same voice speaks up again with same plead. Nevertheless, it didn’t moved this redhead even a bit, who just stands. He only picks his trustworthy whip into his left hand and grasps it tighter. This redhead looked calm but even this vampire could sense that deep inside his spirit was burning as a furious beast. However, Kyo’s gaze softens towards the unknown victim and now he takes step forward yet he was once again stopped by Yagami and his silent scolding ‘‘Stay still.’’. This brunette only frowns and objects while facing this redhead ‘‘I can’t leave anyone who is desperately asking for help.’’ and now he walks towards the sound of this mysterious stranger. As he carefully walks closer, a delicate shape arm fells on ground, it was still hard to see the owner of it, who was behind the old and dried tree. It can’t be helped that this stupid vampire wants to jump straight to his death, so, now the redhead hunter follows him.

After getting close enough, this brunette finally saw the person who was begging for a help. It was a young maiden lying on her stomach, who has a pale as porcelain skin and light color long silky hair lying across this field, which covered her bare back and shoulders. It was hard to tell where her strands of hair ends and where was beginning of the web. However, her lower body was trapped by fallen tree branches and covered by dry leaves. That pile was too big that even down to her feet she was buried. Despite that her arms looked untouched and there weren’t even the slightest bruise on her. She lifts her head up and looks with her innocent blue eyes. Her gaze was too deep and anyone who would stare for too long could sink in this ocean of her eyes.

Now she shakily lifts her arm and tries to reach with her hand one of these two mysterious people and speaks to them in such innocent and gentle voice ‘‘Ah, so, you came to rescue me. I’m so glad~ Please, help me, the tree branches are too heavy and I can’t move…I’m tired and starving. Aaah, I want to come back to my mom and dad…I was so lonely~ Please, hold my hand, I’m scared, very scared and lonely.’’. However, it seems that the redhead hunter just looked down indifferently on this unfortunate thing. His grasp around his whip only got tighter. Unlike Yagami, this vampire kneels down and he was about to lend his hand to stand up.

However, just when this brunette was about to reach with his hand, Iori immediately pushes Kyo on ground with his free arm. This brunette wanted to yell at such a gesture of the hunter, but now this maiden, chuckles in menacing and sweet voice ‘‘Fufufu~ It seems that you are smarter than your little friend, boy~’’, now this voice was nearly hissing ‘‘Too bad that I cannot let you go alive…So, you’ll pay for killing my children by your flesh and blood!’’. This woman slowly was lifting her upper body while her head was hanging down. Now with one sudden move she yanks up her upper body and spreads her arms.

That innocent gaze was gone - now there were six pitch-black round glass eyes on her face instead of human eyes, even her nose disappeared and there were only couple of gaping holes. As she opens her mouth, a black slimy chelicera shows up and widens her mouth. Saliva mixed bright red blood were dripping out of this creature mouth. Her visible spider fangs were opened-wide and immediately closes tightly, now she quickly claps her chelitera several times. Her arms up to elbows now are limbed and hairy, even her fingers were pointy and sharp. This creature lifts her one hand and seductively licks in between her couple spread fingers while looks her two targets. She continues with hissing in deeper and seductive voice ‘‘But don’t worry, even if you smell sooo delicious, you also have a cute face. So, I would even let you to touch me. I want to bear your children before you’ll become such a fine dinner for them!~’’ now she places her hands on ground.

As she stands up, the tree branches scatters across the field. Slowly this creature straighten up her eight spider knees and stands on her legs. Once Arachne creature straightens her back, her hair fells on her back and shoulders, covering bare breasts, her spider's abdomen slightly moves as well. However, her attention was distracted by Kyo, who speaks to her in teasing tone ‘‘Ma’am, you don’t need to be so impatient. Call me old-fashioned and pure-heart school-boy, but don’t you think that first we should go on date, get know each other better and then the rest~ Besides, sorry to disappoint you, but I’m not into a spider-type.’’.

While this spider-woman was concentrated on Kyo, Iori used his chance and carefully sneaks behind this creature. Now Arachne creature replies in harsh tone ‘‘Shut up, filthy trash! You dare to speak to me? Who do you think you are?! You are not even worth to be eaten!-’’ this woman now just chuckles and reflects hunter’s thrown blade towards her head with her arm. Yagami only widens his eyes and remains paralyzed as this spider creature turns with whole body towards him. Now this redhead hunter closes his eyes and as soon as he picks another couple knives, he opens his eyes and now tosses the blade towards this creature’s head.

Once again Arachne blocks the attack with her crossed arms and as she opens her mouth, turns her head towards vampire and spits greenish acid. However, Kyo rolls on side and avoids the acid. And thus the ground was burned down by erosive liquid. Arachne stands on her six legs and aims with her spider abdomen at hunter. She shoots a web at this redhead. This vampire rushes towards Yagami’s side and as he catches him in his one arm. With the other one’s sharp nails he slices the web.

This spider-woman looks down on them commenting in hissing and mocking voice ‘‘Two little rats helping one another…How sweet of you~ You can try as much as you want, but your weapons are useless!’’ and she spits the venom at these two. Both dodges the damage by splitting out. When Kyo stands up he dashes at this creature and with nails aims at her side. Once she was about block the attack, she lets a terrible screech, which spreads across this battle-field. Not only her left side splashed the crimson blood from vampire’s left wound, it was followed by loud cracking noise from her right - when Iori ducked, he spin-kicked to Arachne’s two back legs. Poor creature leans to her right side. Now the leather whip wraps around her waist. As this redhead pulls whip to him, he jumps on top of this spider-woman’s abdomen.

While keeping is balance, Yagami holds into her hair with right hand, with the one sudden move of his left one, he unwraps his trustworthy weapon and now aims at her neck. This creature tries to shake him off, however, his whip was now wrapped around her neck. Unfortunate creature shakily tries to reach out with her hands the whip.

The redhead hunter releases her hair. He acts quick. Now with one sudden movement Iori pulls the whip with one arm towards him. Arachne’s head fell on ground - the blood was splashing as a fountain from her neck and now the redhead hunter was covered in dark red. This creature’s body collapses on ground yet the hunter manages to land on his feet. After finding a thicker thread of white web, he wipes his trustworthy weapon from the blood of fallen creature and now wraps it in spiral.

All this time Kyo’s gaze was fixated at Yagami and how he mercilessly finishes his target. Once this brunette stands up, he also notices how this redhead was approaching the dead spider and when he was close enough, he picks one of his knives from the left side and now as he holds blade in his both hands, he kneels down and concentrates all his strength to stab the abdomen of the spider. After the blade pierced the shell, he slices down to the bottom of it. However, once again this vampire was left with unanswered questions.

Why this hunter closed his eyes all this time, more important, with-drawing his both hands suddenly when he barely touched this creature’s stomach with such a disgust? Hell, he even turned his head away…It only made this vampire feel bad about this redhead. Kyo steps closely to Yagami and addresses him in gentler tone ‘‘ Let me try, you look already tired. So, leave it to me.’’, he sensed the hunter’s distress and how he was already pushing his limits way too far. Before splitting wide-open the stomach of dead spider, this brunette orders ‘‘Can you get me a bag?’’.

While Yagami stands up and and turns his back. After he opens his long-coat, he looks inside his inner pockets. As he picks a denim bag from one of his pockets, he could hear the cracking sound, which was followed by slimy noises and something forcibly being pulled out. When Iori turns around he notices how this brunette was standing and now in his arms holds the huge pile of the twisted spider’s web still covered with the remains of this creature's insides. Now this vampire calmly addresses the hunter ‘‘I hope that this what you been looking for, ‘cos not gonna dig the insides of corpse any longer.’’, this redhead just sighs as he opens the bag and lets this vampire to put the web inside of it.

After cracking a smile, Iori turns around and prompts Kyo to follow him ‘‘Let’s go already. Or do you prefer to over-night here?’’. Finally, that stupid hunter returned back to normal, or so sensed this brunette and somehow knowing this relieved him. Now, he just follows the hunter.

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g4zdtechtv · 4 years

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Hot Hot Crossover Action!

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thisgodwontforgiveyou · 4 years

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the varying degrees of evil exhibited by the ball rolling puzzles in okami

#the one with the really heavy ball and the sand in orochi's lair was extremely high evil

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lightdancer1 · 2 years

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A scene from the Zuko Redemption Arc rewrite AU:

Zuko sat on the ship, brooding with one of his legs folded up and his right arm on that knee and his chin on his arm. He was returning home, with the gamble and gambit that he'd mentioned to Katara and Sokka. It had been a hard choice and decisions had been made beneath Lake Laogai. They were made, and they could not be unmade.

He hoped that Sokka and Katara understood. This was his sister, and more to the point that that day in Tu Zin he had finally understood at least a small part of what they had seen. That statement had jolted Katara, in particular. And her attitude to him had seemed to undergo a (he resisted a snort at the feeble pun) sea-change. To tell her that he understood he must have come across as someone deliberately fearsome and destructive and uncaring......well.

Now he would face the real trial.

Returning to the lair of the beast, the eight-headed dragon of lore (a thought he'd increasingly had about his father, that the Orochi had risen out of the old legends and taken a shape that was as terrifying as it was). Uncle in chains but not dead, Dai Li at their side. Ba Sing Se under the rule of Joo Dee, who he'd learned from Azula had another name beneath that.

She had had a strange look on her face when she said it.

Now she stepped in, Mai and Ty Lee at the door of the room.

"I'll give you some time alone with Mai soon," she said with a wry tone to her voice. "But first," and as she inclined her head to them they shut the door.

"I realize it must have been hard for you to make that choice. The Avatar or me?" There was a strange fragility in her tone, the tone something that jolted him.

"You really think someone wouldn't choose you?" He could have asked the question harshly or angrily, let his own resentment boil over. He made a calculating Iroh-like decision to hide his real feelings behind a seemingly innocent question.

A look crossed his sister's face that would linger in his memory for a very, very long time, until they were both old and grey.

He made the decision to get up and go over to her, putting his hand on her shoulder.

"You reminded me beneath the lake that I make my own honor," as she looked at him with a raised eyebrow.

"Well," he said lightly, "let me remind you that as my sister it will never be hard to choose you, or to care about you."

A different look crossed her face and she almost stumbled for a moment, Zuko keeping her from doing so by lightly increasing the strength of his grip. She gave him a look of curiosity and genuine wonder, one that he returned with the gift of always-sincere emotions that crossed his face as the moment lingered for a time.

She reasserted her mask after a moment and stepped out of the room without a word, Ty Lee looking bemused between her and him and giving him an initial hard, even hostile look and following. Mai's gaze was no less keen and then when she stepped in and likewise closed the door, she gave him a more searching look.

"Been a long time," she said, her voice having some genuine emotion in it, beyond what she could and did show with Azula and Ty Lee behind closed doors.

He gave her a broad grin. "It has."

She looked at the door. "What exactly did you tell her?"

Zuko shrugged. "That I love her and care about her."

Mai blinked, for a moment. "And she reacted to that in that way?" There was a strange tone to her voice, concern-worry-understanding. He could have listened to that more than he did then, but he was sixteen and the girl he had a crush on was right in front of him and all his carefully honed control he'd worked on for an idea that had grown in a sun-baked ruin slid for a moment.

Mai noticed with a wry grin to her face.

"Definitely happy to see me."

He nodded, stammering a bit.

#atla aus #zuko's redemption arc rewrite au

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hectabdr · 2 years

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Dragon Raja V - Part 12

"From the moment Nono entered the warehouse, she used her profiling ability to reconstruct the character of Herzog in her mind.

She shuddered, twitching in her stomach, feeling like vomiting a little."

Crow opened the heavy iron door, "Tachibana Masamune, or what Herzog left behind is all here.”

Behind the door was a huge warehouse.

The warehouse was hidden in an inconspicuous place in Tokyo. It was troublesome to reach the door. Hadn’t Crow been there to lead the way, even if they knew there was a warehouse there, they would have been afraid of getting lost.

What Mingfei saw at first sight was a blood-stained black windbreaker, worn on a headless model, with a saber still hung around his waist.

Mingfei was a little dazed when the wind came from nowhere, and the corners of his clothes started waving.

“Those are the clothes of Chisei Gen." Mingfei said, "Why are they here?”

"Only a few people in the family know that Herzog is a demon. To the children of the lower class in the families, we said that the patriarch of the Tachibana family, Masamune Tachibana, died in the underground garage to save everyone." Crow said blankly. "So there is a fake tombstone of Masamune Tachibana behind the shrine where you live. The relics of him and the patriarch are kept together, and we call it the 'Teacher and Student Collection'. Sometimes people come here to pay their respects. “

Mingfei immediately understood the purpose of this. The Yamata no Orochi is an organization with many members. The most important thing to maintain such an organization running is its prestige. If the members of the low-level society know that the person who caused the disaster is actually the patriarch of the Tachibana family, then the prestige of the high-level families will be affected, and the family management will also be in trouble.

This is probably the world of adults, right? It's hilarious, it's clear that the current patriarchs wanted to drag this man out of his tombstone to kill him once again and then again, thousands of times, yet they were forced to come here and pay respects to him.

"It's okay to let everyone stay here to guard. If there is a devil in the world, with him guarding here, the ghost of Herzog won’t try to run out of here." Crow said and walked in, "Only these things are outside, the few things inside were all from Herzog’s collection. This guy was actually an avid collector, he gathered everything from Buddha statues of the Nara period to classical erotic paintings.

There are 5,000 rare books, 6,000 out-of-print vinyl records, eight Easter eggs made by Fabergé, the royal jeweler of the Tsar, and about 600 antique mechanical watches..."

Even without the introduction of Crow, Mingfei and Nono could also appreciate the huge collection of Herzog. They walked through the long corridor, with shelves as high as the roof on both sides, and the shelves were full of displays.

Western mythology says that dragons are creatures that love to collect treasures, and their lair should definitely look like this.

"Greedy," Nono whispered.

“That’s it? He was a greedy, mean, and disgusting bug!" said Crow coldly.

"What is this?" Mingfei pointed to a box on a table.

"I advise you not to open it, it's full of hair.”

"Hair?" Mingfei was taken aback.

"Old people like him have a very strong interest in women, and he would collect strands of women's hair. Don't get me wrong, those weren't love tokens, he often killed women in order to shut their mouths, he kept these hairs as trophies, like a cannibal tribe keeping the heads of their enemies," said Crow.

Nono shuddered, twitching in her stomach, feeling like vomiting a little.

From the moment she entered the warehouse, she used her profiling ability to reconstruct the character of Herzog in her mind, his knowledge, his cruelty, his greed, his madness, his despicableness... The amount of information almost made her explode.

It's like a jigsaw puzzle, it creates a terrifying face and frightens the people playing the game.

Nono felt that these conversations were not suitable for a young boy to listen, and turned to Zihang, who was cautiously following behind. "You go around, but don't mess with the things on the shelf."

Zihang nodded and turned around.

"These things will be helpful, but it's better to have written materials," Mingfei said, "diaries, research reports, manuscripts and the like.”

"Yes, I'm afraid you won't be able to finish it." Crow opened the cover on the huge bookcase, a cabinet full of volumes, covered with thin dust.

"He is really a very rigorous researcher. He must take notes in everything. He seldom uses electronic archives and likes to write by hand, part of his information is stored with us and some with the Mou Kishu. Later, we both sent people, an investigation team was formed, and they were all found." Crow said, "Unfortunately, all the symbols used are shorthand, and we have not been able to interpret it.”

Nono drew out a volume, blew away the dust and opened it, read it attentively for a while, and shook her head.

"You can't read it, not because this guy used shorthand notation, but because these documents are very esoteric. Probably only experts at the same level as him can interpret these materials," Nono shrugged, “For example, there are only three individuals in the world who can read the legend of general relativity.”

"In his research field, there is probably no expert at the same level as him in the world." Crow said.

"But this is the clue." Nono said.

Crow was taken aback.

"Researchers in any field have achieved breakthroughs in the achievements of their predecessors. But this Herzog is very strange, he doesn't seem to need to use any of the achievements of his predecessors. Secretly, he has an understanding of the Dragon Clan that is way deeper than that of the Secret Party, and a deeper understanding of the White Queen than you, the actual descendants of Izanami, and he has also turned himself into a new White King." Nono glanced at Crow, "What is this person?”

"I remember, Mingfei also talked about it." Crow patted his head, "This guy knows so much, more than a scientist, he’s a fucking prophet!”

Nono glanced at Mingfei in surprise. Mingfei was looking at the other volume seriously, not paying attention to their conversation.

Nono and Mingfei had not discussed this matter, but Mingfei had already made similar inferences long before seeing the information. For Nono, who is good at profiling, it is not difficult to perceive this, but Mingfei can only understand this through repeated thinking and analysis.

After all this time, some people have definitely changed.

"The most likely thing is that Herzog did not complete these studies independently, but inherited the database of a certain organization." Nono said slowly, "and this unknown organization, like the Secret Party, has been quietly following the Dragon Raja for a long time."

Mingfei raised his head, and looked at Nono, with a look of horror in his eyes.

This is indeed the most reasonable explanation, or even the only explanation, but it's a bit weird. Is there another organization in the world that studies dragons similar to the Secret Party?

Has that mysterious organization remained hidden for thousands of years without showing up?

"You can use this warehouse freely for the next three days." Crow threw the key to Mingfei. "If you don't return to the shrine in the evening, you can make a ground floor here. I won't be with you anymore. I have to go to work.”

"Go to work?" Mingfei was taken aback.

"Of course I have to go to work. My main job at work tomorrow is to tell the college's agent how I was taken hostage by you and how I escaped safely." Crow scratched his head, "I haven't thought about this story yet. Well, there is a plot that I can’t get through."

"What plot?" Mingfei asked.

"Is the relationship between you and your elder sister, a male and female robber like Bonnie and Clyde or disagreeing partners in crime? If it is the latter, I can explain that you originally wanted to throw me into the wilderness, but your elder sister had a big fight with you and forced you to let me go." Crow then scratched his head. "If you tell it this way, the logic of the story will be more fluent, otherwise how did I come back alive? If you were Bonnie and Clyde, that kind of relationship…"

Crow shut up suddenly, because Mingfei and Nono both looked at him with "shut up, you genius" eyes.

"Okay, okay, take a break early, the plastic bag I brought contains instant noodles and drinks." Crow lit a cigarette and waved his hand and walked out. His leather shoes are nailed with iron palms, and his footsteps are clear and loud.

As soon as Nono and Mingfei looked down at the scrolls in their hands, they both raised their heads, and Crow's loud footsteps suddenly stopped.

The two looked at each other, holding the weapon hidden in the lower back vigilantly, and slowly walked to the outside of the warehouse.

Crow really stopped, smoking a cigarette, looking at the figure holding the knife under the lamp.

That was Zihang, he was standing opposite the headless model, he hesitated for a long time, carefully drew out an ancient knife, hesitated for a moment, and finished drawing it out.

As if a piece of clear water splashed out of the scabbard, the blade's arc was exquisite and solemn. The ancient alchemy knife·Spider-cut, the sabre from the time when he was born, Mingfei was also slightly shocked.

In his memory, this knife was later presented to Zihang by Crow on behalf of Chisei Gen, instead of Zihang's broken Murasame. But now the line of cause and effect has been revised, the battle of Tokyo was fought by Abdullah Abbas. President Abbas’s usual weapon is not a Japanese sword, so Crow wouldn’t give him this weapon. It served under Chisei till the end and it remained there as a relic.

Mingfei wanted to prevent Zihang from playing with the murder weapon, but he was stopped by Crow. Under the light, Zihang tried his blade with his fingers, thoughtfully. When he got this knife in his hand, he had no other thoughts, and he didn't notice that Mingfei and the others were looking at him from a distance. He looked at the knife for a long time, held the knife in a posture, and then swung the knife up, actually practicing, advancing and retreating in an orderly manner, like a dance.

Crow looked attentively. After watching for a long time, Crow nodded, "very authentic."

"He doesn't have a well-known swordsmanship, he is just like me, he learned mixed martial arts, he’s actually better than me, he has studied in the kendo class of the Children's Palace for a few years." Mingfei said.

"No, it's very authentic, if he wasn’t trained at a master level, at least he watched someone else use it at a master level,” Crow said softly, "the chief was a kendo master at that level.”

Mingfei was stunned, he suddenly understood what Crow meant.

Perhaps the Yanling that changed cause and effect is not absolute. Zihang still has memories of the past, in a time and space that was almost erased, he has seen Chisei Gen wielding a knife, to Zihang, there was a strange sort of nostalgia gained from wielding this sword.

Of course, Mingfei also asked Crow if he remembered Zihang, Crow didn't remember him, Crow only remembered the tiger-like Abdullah Abbas.

Mingfei himself gradually accepted the current reality, when Crow said that, he nodded and didn't take it seriously, but he didn't expect Zihang to practice with the sword, and it seemed to awaken some of Crow's memories.

"In the past I remember, you gave him this knife and a knife called Tong Ziqi. He put them in a knife bag and carried them all the time." Mingfei said softly. .

"I still can't remember anything, I'm just glad to see someone else put on this posture," Crow said softly, "I really missed it.”

The three of them stood in a dark place far away, watching Zihang earnestly brandishing the knife and practicing his posture.

The bright light shining on the knife, it seemed to reflect the annihilated past.

The Airbus A380 from London to Tokyo landed at the Narita Airport, the plane had just stopped and the black station wagon had already driven under the gangway.

Other passengers were still locked in the plane, and the girl in a black windbreaker had taken the lead to walk off the plane with heavy luggage and board the station wagon to leave.

"Do foreigners have such preferential treatment in Japan? Shouldn’t it be like this just for diplomats or something?”

“Why would there be such a young diplomat? Is she a member of the royal family?” The old men and women of the returning tour group looked at the girl's slender back and talked a lot.

There was already a passenger in the station wagon, also a young girl, with long hazel hair and a beige windbreaker, looking capable and low-key.

"Victoria Snowton, just call me Victoria, a second-year student, now I am the temporary commissioner of the Execution Bureau." The girl in the black trench coat just got on the bus and introduced herself.

"I've heard of you, Your Majesty, your performance in as a freshman was very good." The girl in the beige trench coat stretched out her hand.

The two shook hands.

"What's the situation now?" Victoria asked.

"Like EVA's judgment, Mingfei did indeed arrive in Tokyo. At this moment, he is hiding somewhere in this city.”

"What about the attitude of the Yamata no Orochi? This is their territory.”

"The Acting Director of the Eight Houses Ryuji Saeki expressed his support for the decision of the college. As soon as Lu Mingfei's information is available, he will report it to the college. The next day he led a team to surround Mingfei and his party, but he failed to capture him. Instead, he was kidnapped by Mingfei and taken as a hostage. Lu Mingfei took the hostage and left the previous hiding place safely. Saeki Ryuji was pushed down from a taxi the next morning at Genji Heavy Industries, the headquarters of the Yamata no Orochi."

"Too suspicious.”

"Really suspicious. In particular, we investigated the background of Saeki Ryuji. His nickname is Crow, and he was a follower of Chisei Gen, the former member of the Yamata no Orochi. He is very familiar with Lu Mingfei.”

"Is anyone watching Ryuji Saeki?”

"The college's agent Shinnosuke Fujiwara is in charge of this matter, at this moment, he is going to Genji Heavy Industries to pay a courtesy." The girl in the beige trench coat said, "Did you bring the equipment?”

Victoria opened her suitcase, which contained a heavy black gun. No gun catalog will record this weapon, because it is not a mass production version.

Produced by the equipment department, the maximum hit range is up to three kilometers, equipped with an intelligent aiming system, bullets can be guided, resistant to strong winds, and arc trajectory.

This thing probably can't be called a gun, it is more appropriate to say that it is a super-range precision killing weapon.

The girl in the beige windbreaker nodded, "Take it away. If this weapon is found by the customs, it will be a huge problem, so I deliberately walked through the diplomatic channel to pick you up.”

"Are you the person in charge of this operation?" Victoria asked, "I don't know your name yet.”

Victoria introduced herself, but the girl in the beige trench coat did not say her name, which surprised Victoria, the girl didn’t seem that impolite, in addition, she looked a little familiar, but Victoria couldn't remember where she had met her.

“We know one another from the student union activities," the girl in the beige trench coat said softly, "My name is Isabel, and I used to be Lu Mingfei's assistant.”

Victoria was taken aback, and suddenly remembered. It was Isabel who could dance flamenco, the head of the student union dance troupe, who always appeared low-key next to Mingfei, but it was hard for her not to be noticed.

The swan-like graceful dancer with lace on her dress, but now appeared in a sharp posture like a scalpel, Victoria didn't even recognize her for a while.

"So it was you." Victoria said.

She suddenly understood why Isabel never introduced herself.

Because of embarrassment, she used to be one of the closest people to Mingfei, but now she is going after him like a hunting dog.

"You were selected to join this group because you’ve had contact with him, and you know him somewhat."

"Everyone in this group is like that, a good hound needs to know the smell of its prey” Isabel said softly.

At this time, the smoky quartz glass between the passenger compartment and the cockpit was lowered, and the driver looked back and greeted Victoria, it was Gonzalez, the two had been working together in Brazil.

"The School Board will issue their instructions directly to us, regardless of the Execution Bureau’s orders," Isabel added. "The Board feels that the Execution Bureau has always had reservations during their pursuits. Professor Schneider has repeatedly emphasized the necessity to preserve the target's life and missed plenty of opportunities. We are not allowed to make such mistakes.”

Victoria lowered her head and looked at the rows of bullets in the gun box. The last two bullets were polished with crimson crystals. The bullets made from the Philosopher’s Stone can severely damage the alchemically protected body of a Dragon king with one shot. The veterans put in these two bullets, the meaning is obvious, if necessary, they can kill the target.

Isabel patted her shoulder, "Don't be too entangled, you are not a shooter, you are just responsible for sending this gun to Japan. The people who are really responsible for the kill are still on the way, and they are also the people in charge of this operation."

"They?" Victoria asked.

“The Watchman, and Thunder." Isabel slowly spit out these two code names.

…

Crow looked at Fujiwara Shinnosuke coldly.

He considered many ways of acting, and finally decided to adopt this attitude of a cold-faced arrogant man.

"I heard that the director was injured in the process of chasing Lu Mingfei, so I came here to visit." Fujiwara Shinnosuke bowed deeply.

There were a lot of scratches on Crow's face, and his left arm was still hanging from his neck. Even if Fujiwara Shinnosuke wanted to confirm with a doctor, it wouldn’t be a problem, the shoulder muscles were really sprained.

On the night after drinking beer with Mingfei, Crow prepared all these injuries. Knowing that the college would doubt it, he still had to do enough to put up such a show. He was an actor who was delayed by the underworld, and Mingfei almost payed the price of not noticing it.

"Is it embarrassing to come to see me? Or do you suspect that I let him go on purpose?" Crow said coldly.

"I wouldn’t dare, the college believes in the promise of the Yamata no Orochi, and is deeply grateful." Fujiwara Shinnosuke was too nervous to sit down, and Crow did not ask him to do so.

He respectfully took a few steps forward, presented the exquisite gift box on the small table in front of Crow, and stepped back, "The college asked me to bring a slightly heartwarming gift, and I hope you can accept it.”

Crow opened the gift box suspiciously, which contained a top-quality fruit purchased from "Senboya" in Ginza. This century-old shop sells the most expensive fruits in Japan, usually as gifts.

I have to say that this is a very caring gift, now he is a big figure among the Orochi families, it is not rare for him to receive objects of value, such an elegant gift of sympathy for his condition is very much in place, it's not like the domineering style of the college at all.

"Thank you so much, please sit down and talk." Crow had no choice but to express some kindness to Fujiwara. He sat down on his knees in panic, like a young daughter-in-law, "I invite Director Saeki to support me in future work.”

"This is natural," Crow had to continue to perfuse. "As long as they are still in Japan, the Orochi Families will not give up on hunting them, the college can rest assured.”

"What the college means is that it also wants to send some commissioners to assist. I don't know what Director Saeki thinks about this”

"Do you need the Yamata no Orochi to arrange their accommodation?" Crow said with his mouth, but his heart was coldly mocking.

This is Japan, where the Yamata no Orochi has been operating since the age of mythology, and only the Yamata no Orochi has the final say here.

EVA is powerful, but the Kaguya system of the Yamata no Orochi is not a vegetarian. With the advantage of the network in Japan, the commissioners of Cassell College will be monitored when they land in Tokyo, but they are not even aware of it.

"Dare not, they can take care of themselves." Nobunosuke Fujiwara nodded and bowed. "There is one other little thing, and I hope to get your support."

"Say, please?" Crow raised an eyebrow.

"We know that the Yamata no Orochi also controls most of the advertising screens in Tokyo, here is a video that I hope can be put on them.”

"Video?" Crow was taken aback for a moment.

Fujiwara Shinnosuke hurriedly took out his mobile phone and opened a video presentation for Crow to see, he finished reading and then looked suspiciously at Fujiwara Shinnosuke.

"This is a bit of advice from the family, it is too risky for her to do so, the family is very worried about her." Nobuyuki Fujiwara went down. "Please, Chief Saiki.”

"Since it is from the family, we will try our best to help and pass the video information to them." Crow nodded, "However, it is an independent company that is in charge of outdoor video advertising. I also want to coordinate with them on the broadcast time. If there are news, my assistant will notify you.”

Part 13

#Dragon Raja #Dragon Raja 5 #Novel

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gofancyninjaworld · 3 years

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Elder Centipede fought Blast. Blast likes hunting God’s cubes. EC and the Subterraneans had a relationship of some kind. The MA took the Subterraneans lair, and EC worked under Orochi and Psykos. Now both Orochi and Psykos have a connection to God. Could EC have known about the mural? Or could EC have been guarding the cube that the Subterraneans had, which is why he fought Blast? And then there’s HE, who also joined the MA. Just how connected is God to all of this?!

I've half-joked about Saitama being a prophet, but as the story comes back to its throwaway gags and reintroduces them as more serious things, I begin to think that Saitama's dream was not so much dream as communication in some way.

He never spoke to any Subterraneans in real life, but what they say about themselves in his dream feels very much like what they would have said.

Their culture and civilization goes back a long way, certainly much longer than City Z has been overhead. They would rightly be most insulted to be called monsters.

What their relation to Elder Centipede is exactly we are unlikely to ever know, but given that it's a long-lived creature that is capable of both speech and reasoning, it has probably seen a lot of Subterranean history. What it made of it, again we will never know. Certainly it's a question worth asking as to how Blast and Elder Centipede came to blows in the first place.

It's also a question worth asking as to when exactly the monsters took over the Subterranean's city. Is there any overlap? We do know that the last of the Subterraneans weren't run out or killed until quite recently (since their bodies aren't completely decomposed), but how long the take over has been going on we don't know. If I had to put my finger in the air and guess, I would say that it's only in the last couple of years that the monsters moved in as the place was still inhabited when Saitama took up residence in his current place.

As to how connected God is to all this, we still don't know. Was God responsible for the setting up of the Subterranean city in the first place? How did he fit into their worship and world view? Why did He vanish? Why was it so important to them so long ago that they set up a shrine for His return?

This chapter has opened up another chapter's worth of mysteries.

One thing's for sure, people need to start treating their fellow monster with more respect. Some of them are capable of praying for divine intervention!

#OPM #subterraneans #mysteries

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dragonrajafanfiction · 3 years

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If you’re still accepting requests, I got a challenge: “I just want to be held for a little while” with Herzog x Bondarev or CaesarxJohann :3💙

(Thanks for the Challenge! You are rewarded with a Cross-over!)

The lighting was minimal in the the ancient 11th century castle in the middle of this small Eastern European Country, so it was easy for Caesar and Johann to hide their identities among the uniformed soldiers of this illegal lab in the mountains.

This lab was run by a group that named themselves after the legendary Hydra. From the murky waters of the swamps near a place called Lerna, the hydra would rise up and terrorize the countryside. A monstrous serpent with nine heads, the hydra attacked with poisonous venom. Nor was this beast easy prey, for one of the nine heads was immortal and therefore indestructible.

The second labor of Hercules was to kill the Lernean Hydra. Caesar Gattuso considered himself a dragon slayer of that caliber. After coming from his adventures in Japan and facing a different beast of a similar name, the SheQiBai Clan, who named themselves after Yamata-no-Orochi, an 8-headed serpent of Japanese Legend, he figured this was just one more head.

Hercules set off to hunt the nine-headed menace, but he did not go alone. His trusty nephew, Iolaus, was by his side. Iolaus, who shared many adventures with Hercules, accompanied him on many of the twelve labors. Legend has it that Iolaus won a victory in chariot racing at the Olympics and he is often depicted as Hercules' charioteer. So, the pair drove to Lerna and by the springs of Amymone, they discovered the lair of the loathsome hydra.

Likewise, Caesar wasn’t alone. Next to him, Johann Chu marched through the gate, flashing their falsified credentials. The two had gotten along much better after their shared adventure. But getting closer meant exposing vulnerabilities. After the mission was done, they no longer invited each other to any sort of shared bathhouses. That was for certain.

Together, they had been helicoptered into to the sparse surrounding woods. After being warned of landmines it was amazing they didn’t set any off parachuting down. The place was being torn apart by a civil war, thought to be stoked by this Hydra organization. They were taking test subjects from the ensuing refugee disaster.

The plan was simple. As far as they could tell, this facility wasn’t staffed by hybrids. They were normal humans and needed to be taken out of the way humanely for questioning and memory wiping of all dragon knowledge if needed. So rather than burst into the facility, guns and swords drawn, they would infiltrate, destroy the lab, free the prisoners and the the Secret Society handle the rest of the investigation.

One of the biggest questions was how these people got ahold of dragon knowledge in the first place. Their similar name made Caesar assume that perhaps they had some connection with Herzog, but as he looked around the place, there was no sign of anything Japanese or anything familiar. The uniforms weren’t the Yakuza’s dark trenchcoat with Ukiyo-E on the lining, but simple camo army uniforms. And the symbols they used on those uniforms had nothing to do with the Cassell’s world tree or even of the actual mythical Hydra. Emblazoned on the chest of each of them was something more like an octopus.

He paused in a corridor and opened his golden eyes. The Scythe Ferrets of his Soul Skill released and swept like phantoms, mapping the entire space like echolocation.

“There’s a lot of empty rooms. I see what’s probably two prisoners. The rest are workers. I know where the computers are. I’ll head that way and get Norma to hack in. I need you to buy some time. We’ve got company. Fourteen, ...fifteen heartbeats headed our way.”

“Stop! Put your hands up!”

Caesar nodded once. In an instant, Johann Chu whirled and drew his pistol and fired one round. The man dropped in a heap, rendered unconscious by a Frigga bullet. “How long do you think it’ll take you?” Johann asked.

“Mmm… give me fifteen minutes.” He loaded a few more bullets into his Desert Eagles

Johann looked up at the taller man sharply. “That is forever.”

He clicked his gun shut and sneered. “They’re just humans. I’ll be dealing with the hybrids. One of the captives is a lady.”

Johann Chu sighed and his eyes narrowed further.

“Don’t give me that look.” His cocky smile turned into a scowl. Caesar had reason not to trust Johann Chu with a rescue task of this sort. He was more than willing to kill Shavee and turn Erii over to the mercy of the School Board.

Johann’s look held just as much cold disdain and without a word, he invoked what happened last time Caesar decided to stick his neck out to rescue a woman. Johann had ended up set on fire and nearly dying and Caesar had gone berserk with Blood Rage and littered the street with mutilated people.

The woman died anyway.

Not willing to give Johann a chance to bring that up, Caesar made his way up the metal stairs while Johann dashed away to deal with their company. The Scythe Ferrets brought him shouts and gunfire that lit up in his ears and he smiled again.

It was much quieter ahead. He pulled an earpiece from his pocket and tucked it in his ear. “Norma, we’re inside. The operation has begun. I’m on my way to the computer room.”

Caesar kicked open the door and spotted a man hunched over the computer. When the man saw him, he raised his arms to shield himself, “No! Please!”

Caesar didn’t bother negotiating, and just put a Frigg bullet into the man's torso without even breaking his stride while he looked around. “This isn’t anything like Genji Heavy industries. Everything here is… decades old tech. Who… uses floppy disks?”

He reached over and picked up a piece of paper. “German…?”

He paused in front of the computer screens. “Hopefully it’s not too incompatible with you, Norma.”

The female voice spoke in his ear. “So long as there’s a USB port then I should be able to copy all their files.”

Caesar nodded and stepped over the unconscious man to get to the computer tower. He slipped in a large device into the USB port. Norma would handle the rest of this job, but questions swirled in his mind about who this Hydra organization really was.

His superhearing ability was telling him that the wall to his left hid a corridor behind it. The whisper of a hollow wind and the whir of fans became clear to him as he approached. He felt along the wall until same thing gave in and pushed it. Sure enough, the wall swiveled open. Even this was no fancy technology but a hidden passage built into the castle itself.

Caesar radioed Johann. “Norma is working. I’m heading down to the captives.”

This corridor was even darker, lit only by yellowing cagelights in the ceiling. Caesar proceeded cautiously, one hand on his pistols, resisting sneezing against the dust that kicked up from its layers on the floor.

“This is too easy.” Johann’s voice came into his ear.

“I just got the same feeling.” He murmured, eyes scanning the room.

“Are you detecting any signs of explosives or booby traps?”

“Not yet, but I am keeping an eye out. Dress those goons up for easy pick up and post sentry outside, be ready when I call you.” Caesar pulled his pistol out as the corridor began to widen into a larger chamber. “I… think I found the lab.”

It was messy full of half filled metal shelfs and discarded drop clothes. Caesar raised his eyes toward the huge cathedral-like ceiling. There a black curled claw the size of a car was suspended. It looked thin and wasted, mummified. Caesar lifted his phone and began to take pictures. It was surrounded by scaffolding. On closer inspection, he could see where pieces of it had been sheared off.

Even this large space was cramped and cluttered, full of blind spots and places to hide, but his scythe ferrets were doing their job. When he stepped around the corner, he knew there was no one there. What the ferrets didn’t tell him was that he would be met with the sight of bodies, in various states of dismemberment, laid out on tables. Men, women, children, skin pale and cold in death. Some had their body cavities open, but there was no blood. Looking further, he could see tanks of fluid where more bodies had been preserved for dissection. It was enough to turn his stomach.

On a table amidst it all was an old book made of ancient parchment. Even from this distance and in the dark, Caesar could see if was old alchemy. “Was this book here when you arrived?” He asked, turning to the woman standing behind him. “Oh, you didn’t think I would know you’re there? I know you were following me the minute I stepped in his room. You’re fast, but… your heart still beats.”

She was fairskinned and dressed, not in a prisoner’s or a soldier’s uniform but a black shirt and dark colored jeans. But what gave him a little tickle of mirth was that she had red hair. What was it with him and red heads?

The woman glared at him, with a fearless threatening manner. She wasn’t afraid or startled by the horrors around her. “Are you responsible for all this?” Caesar asked, waving a gun cavalierly. “Or are you a victim of it?”

He heard what he thought were whispers and saw her eyes glow red. He gasped but then a familiar scream made him turn and raise his pistols. “Nono?!”

He blinked, shaking his head, Nono wasn’t here. She was back in Italy. How… why was he seeing her on the examination tables? Torn to pieces? Naked… Violated! On another table, his mother. The sight was like a spear through his heart. Not again, not her. Not again!

The Scythe Ferrets told him that the other woman was still there, her heart beating fast, but he couldn’t take his eyes off the two most beloved people in his whole life, meticulously torn apart and used in death, just like they were used in life. Disbelief at what he was seeing tugged at his mind but he was drawn to confirm this sight. Nono’s red hair spread out from her face, her eyes stared in an empty expression, blood trickled from her mouth as he reached out to touch her cheek.

A sharp crack made him flinch. The claw had come to life and flexed its fingers before lowering to the ground. The sharp tips dug in and the ground trembled as a reptilian head broke through the stone floor and blinked its golden eyes at him. The eyes were like fire, molten. Burning!

The vision suddenly ended. Caesar blinked, his heart racing. The claw had returned to its mummified state. Nono and his mother were gone from the table. He was sitting on the floor, sweaty and exhausted.

Johann was calling him. “Where are you?”

“I’m here in the lab.”

“Still?”

Norma interjected. “I’ll guide you to him.”

“That girl. She’s a hybrid. She… she’s not on our side.” He felt wet and looked down to see his uniform patched with dark round spots. He ran his hand over it and it came back red on his fingers. “She shot me.”

“Where is she now?”

“Don’t know… be careful. You’re close. You should… be nearly here.” Caesar could hear the other man’s boots coming down the metal stairs. He saw his dark shadow among the debris. Johann wasted no time looking around, hurrying to his side.

“She got you.” Johann dropped to one knee but Caesar pushed him away.

He grit his teeth. The pain hit him arresting his breath and sending trembling through every muscle. “Get the book on the table. I’ve already taken pictures.” Caesar grunted to get up, finding the strength in his dragonblood to stand, leaning on the table. He coughed, and tasted iron. He wiped his mouth and saw blood there as well. Johann ducked under his arm and lifted him up slightly. “Norma, we’re going to need somewhere we can stay for a while. Caesar is suffering multiple gunshot wounds. I can get transport. I just need a place.”

“This will only take a moment.” came Norma’s reply.

Caesar turned his head back to the table where he saw the vision of the dismembered Nono. His heart sank. The vision was so real, not even his Soul Skill could overcome it. That scream echoed in his ears.

“I have acquired all the information I need. The clean up crew is on the way.” Norma said.

Johann took him into a garage with old jeeps. Johann carefully lowered Caesar into the front seat of one and lifted the hood. After a few moments, he slammed it shut. Then he got into the front seat and opened the steering wheel to expose the wiring.

While he worked he murmured. “Caesar. Stay with me.”

“I’m still here.” He said hoarsely. Dizziness was starting to cloud his mind. The vision was emblazoned there like a memory. It was seeping into his subconscious. No matter how much he said it wasn’t real, it affected him like it was real. The feelings of loss and helplessness made his heart flutter.

“What happened.”

“Some sort of hypnosis.”

“What did she look like.” Johann’s grounded questioning was the only thing keeping him moored into this reality. He was sure he was only doing it to keep him conscious, but he clung to it like a life raft in stormy seas.

“Like… Nono, only with darker red hair.”

The Jeep roared to life. Johann put on the flimsy seatbelt more out of habit than safety concern. He lifted Caesar against his shoulder, mindful of what effect a seatbelt might have on his injuries. “I’ll do my best to hold on to you.”

Much to his surprise, Caesar’s arm snaked around his back and his head rested on his shoulder. Johann could feel the blood soaking into him even from that contact. He down shifted the car and sped out into the dark forest. Norma was in his ear, directing him to out of the maze of trees and onto a main road. “Caesar… you…”

“I just want to be held for a little while.” He muttered. Even now, pride wouldn’t let Caesar look him in the eyes. The pain of his injuries was fading, but the wounds from the Soul Skill she used had run deeper. They were like barbed wired on his psyche. The moment he tried to break free of it, the more painful he became. He could only shrank away from the memory of that cold and frightening loneliness that he was truly on his own. There was no family to rescue him. It was him against the cruel world that had wronged him.

Johann’s arm tightened around him.

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incorrectokamiquotes · 4 years

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Yami: *offers you an evil retirement plan and extremely good evil workplace benefits*

Orochi: But do you offer evil dental?

Yami: Of course??

Yami: I said it was extremely good evil workplace benefits, and that is the bare minimum smh. All of my henchman have dental. If some “hero” comes in and punches one of your teeth out while you’re guarding my lair or any of its many nefarious secrets, I will ensure you get seen by one of the finest dentists money can buy.

Orochi: Excellent, I look forward to working with your evil team and being apart of your nefarious schemes and plots

Yami: Thank you. I’m overthrowing God.

#yami #orochi #okami #s: tumblr

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Sealand Homecoming Event

A new week long event that coincides with the release of SP Ootakemaru and SP Ubume. It is the 1st half of the 2 part event "Promise with the Ancient Sea". It's similar to War of Mt Oe and some more recent events that have characters replace our onmyouji like Bound by Love. Consists of 3 main parts; False Islet, True Island and the Final Battle. There is also is a puzzle but it's more of a side thing that you should be able to complete without even trying.

General Info

Battle Report

Like War of Mt Oe, there is an "event chat" labelled Battle Report. In the Battle Report there are 3 tabs;

Report - displays how long until the Evil Spirits start attacking the Sacred Trees, how long the attacks will last, how much of total HP/shield for the Sacred Trees is left, a daruma that displays rewards for protecting the Sacred Trees every evening when tapped on, etc.

Chat - event chat, unsure if this tab will be CN only.

Treasure - view Morale and Treasure, this tab is removed when the Final Battle starts.

Treasure

Morale is a server-wide buff for ATK and DEF on the True Island map. Every time an Evil Spirit Lair has been successfully defeated(?), Morale will go up by 1 level and every level increases ATK and DEF by 0.5%.

Personal Treasures are found on the False Islet map by clearing Treasure Hunting zones. They provide buffs that only affect you in battles on the True Island map.

Treasure effects;

Jeweled Fish: Event AP cost to challenge Evil Spirits on the True Island map is decreased by 1.

Bell Taiko: Changes the effect of Morale from "every level increases ATK and DEF by 0.5%" to "every level increases ATK and DEF by 1%".

Japanese Umbrella: Increased conversion of Miasma Crystals into shields for the Sacred Trees (was 30%, now increased to 50%).

Lunar Jade: Damage dealt to Evil Spirits in their lairs is increased by 10%.

Suzuka

Upon starting the event you may notice that the character you'll be controlling and who'll be replacing your onmyouji is Suzuka. She has her own upgradable skills, 3 are slightly different versions of her existing skills while another 3 will be passives. Her skills can up upgraded with Bells obtained in Treasure Hunting zones and by donating 30 Miasma Crystals to a Sacred Tree. The passives have extra effects that can be upgraded multiple times even after reaching max skill level.

Her skill description can be read on the wiki version of this guide.

Recommend upgrading Suzuka's special 2 first. After all skills are maxed, focus on doing additional upgrades to passive 2. If you want to min-max then only focus on special 2 and passive 2, ignore her other skills.

False Islet

During the event you can explore the map of Mt Suzuka by going "Treasure Hunting" or going to the "Evil Spirit Lairs" and "Sacred Trees".

Treasure Hunting

Everyday there will be a couple of these Treasure Hunting zone you can clear until all 4 Treasures have been found. Clearing a zone gives 10000 event currency and after clearing a most of the zones for a region, a Treasure will be revealed on the map. To clear an area you must clear all 2-4 activities in it, all activities cost 3 AP to do, can be done on auto and all give Miasma Crystals. Activities do not need to cleared all at once, you can leave and re-enter areas if you want to. Activities are;

Evil Spirits (Bosses): Defeat 1 of 3 types of bosses, can be done solo or co-op. There is a 3 minute time limit but HP carries over between attempts.

Evil Spirit: Has ~240k HP and has 5 minions. Drops ~5000 event currency, random 5-6* souls and evo materials.

Young Spirit: Has ~190k HP, has 2 minions and are very weak. Drops ~3000 event currency, random 4-6* souls and evo materials.

Fierce Spirit: Has ~640k HP, has 5 minions and can hit a little bit harder than a regular evil spirits. Drops ~13k event currency, 1 random 6* soul and evo materials.

Knowledgeable Evil Spirit (Quizzes): Answer the questions about Sealand. Answer incorrectly and you'll have to fight a boss. Depending on the question the boss might relate to it, ie if the question is about Kani then the boss might be Kani. Alternatively, you can skip answering altogether and just fight a boss (solo or co-op). On auto only the correct answers will picked for you.

These quizzes are not ones used for Demon Encounter. Rewards are the same regardless of whether you answer the quizzes correctly or fight the boss instead.

Sealand Daruma: Defeat the tanky daruma boss for daruma shards, can be done solo or co-op. Drops ~5000 event currency.

Treasure Paper Doll: A paper doll gives you rewards such as puzzle pieces, bells, R-SSR shiki shards and daruma shards.

Tamatebako (Turtle Reward Box): Get rewards such as bells and select 1 of 4 items (30 AP, 1-5 white daruma shards, R-SSR shikigami shards or 15k gold).

Tales of Mt Suzuka: Listen to the Sea Butterfly tell tales of Mt Suzuka and get rewards such as a bells, R-SSR shiki shards, daruma shards and gold.

Since Treasure Hunting zones are only available for the first few days of the event and the activities to clear them aren't very hard either, would not recommend doing it on auto. Save your mochi for other stuff.

Evil Spirit Lairs

Fight the bosses of these lairs, costs 5 AP to do and can be done on auto. A total of 100 Miasma Crystals and 100 additional event currency drops can be farmed from the bosses, this amount is shared between all 4 so there's no need to fight each one 100 times. They drop 5000 event currency, event AP, a Miasma Crystal, orochi scales and random 4-6* souls. The types of souls you'll get can be chosen from a daily selection, kind of like Choose Your Soul weekend events. The faster you defeat a boss, the more event currency you get.

*Special Note: Memory Scroll fragments can also be obtained as drops here, however the drop rate seems to be rather low.

Sacred Trees

Use Miasma Crystals to restore the shields protecting the trees. Get 200 event currency per 1 Miasma Crystal. Using 10-20-30 crystals gives 15 AP, 5 Mochi and 3 Bells.

True Island

To switch between the True Island and False Islet maps, tap the eye at the top of the screen. This can only be done when Evil Spirit Forces start attacking.

Everyday from 6 PM the server must fight Evil Spirit Forces to prevent them from attacking the Sacred Trees. The various Evil Spirit Forces coming out of their lairs all have their own stats for strength, HP and mobility. As the days go on there will be more and more of of them. Each one also has its own timer showing how long until they reach the nearest Sacred Tree. Challenging them requires 4 event AP, battles have a 2 minute time limit and HP is shared server-wide. Drops of event currency depend on how much damage you dealt, for reference; dealing ~3mil damage gives 7500 and dealing ~5mil gives 12000.

When the 4 Sacred Trees take too much damage, this bar at the top of the screen will decrease and the server-wide rewards for protecting the them will also decrease. To qualify for the server-wide rewards everyday, you must do a total of 8mil accumulated damage and/or donate 30 Miasma Crystals. The rewards can viewed by tapping the red daruma at the top of the screen or in the Battle Report tab.

Rewards for total remaining HP for the Sacred Trees:

100% - 10000 event currency, 3 black daruma shards and 40k gold

75% - 8000 event currency, 2 black daruma shards and 30k gold

50% - 5000 event currency, 1 black daruma shards and 20k gold

25% - 3000 event currency, a blue daruma and 10k gold

0% - 2000 event currency, a blue daruma and 10k gold

The rewards will sent out after reset and claimed from a paper doll in your courtyard.

Final Battle

After the last day (on the 2nd Wednesday of the event after maintenance), the server must work together to purify the Evil Spirit Corpse form of SP Ootakemaru to return him normal. There is no specified end date but we're intended to defeat the boss within a day.

When the boss enters a weakened state, the boss won't attack and we must purify the 4 objects on him (boat, sword, lantern, torii gate). The weakened state is basically a free damage phase, so if you're a beginner try to do much as damage as possible. The state ends when 1 of the 4 objects has been purified. When 4 objects are purified, the boss gains an new skill.

Costs 8 AP to challenge the boss and there's a 3 minute time limit. Can get ~1000 event currency per 1mil damage dealt. Before challenging the boss, can pick Kujira, Kani, Fuuri or Sasori to give you a buff. Can change the buff at any time.

Buffs;

Kujira: Suzuka has 60% chance to double crit when dealing crits.

Kani: Crit damage for all allies is increased by 100%.

Fuuri: Suzuka becomes immune to normal attacks.

Sasori: All allies deal 20% splash damage when dealing single target (and random target) attacks.

The rewards for total accumulated damage are; 50k gold, 50 AP, 50 gold orochi scales, 4* specoal kekkai/realm card, 3 black daruma shards, 10 skin tickets and an icon frame.

Handbook

Main Story: Can reread the main story of the event here.

Side Stories: Can reread the stories involving Yaobikuni, Uminari, Kujira and Kani Hime here.

Puzzle: Puzzle pieces received from paper dolls in Treasure Hunting zones will be automatically placed here. The total rewards for completing the puzzle is; 50000 event currency, a white daruma, a 3* white daruma, a 4* white daruma and a loading screen illustration.

Past Stories: Can reread the 15 short stories told by the Sea Butterfly encountered in the various regions of Mt Suzuka here.

Exchange Shop

The most notable items in the first tab are: lots of event AP, 2 event icon frames, 2 loading screen illustrations, new Sasori Onna skin, random SSR/SP, black daruma, 3-4-5* white daruma, lots of daruma (white, blue and red), 4 blue summon tickets, lots of skin tickets, totem tickets, demon souls, AP, mochi, lots of gold, special realm cards, etc. The icon frames are the exact same, one is still and one is animated.

The type of items that can be obtained from the packs are;

Jewelry: gold, jade, AP, evo materials, bio affection items, etc

Sculpture: R-SSR shikigami shards, gold and EXP buffs, etc

Painting: 6* souls, EXP souls, orochi scales, demon souls, totem zone tickets, etc

Gourmet: daruma, daruma shards, realm cards, bio affection items, soul and evo buffs, etc

Recommended Teams

Don't need very specific teams for this event, so as long as you already have teams that are regularly recommended for events you should be fine.

False Islet

The Treasure Hunting zone bosses and lair bosses aren't very strong, so you should be able to use the same team to clear everything.

True Island

If you don’t have Enmusubi, you could potentially use Shoyou/Bukkuman for the last 2 teams instead.

Final Battle

As long as you have a team that does really well against a single enemy, you shouldn't have too much trouble with this.

If you’re not using a team that needs kyoukotsu on Ushi, then remember to swatch her set from shadow to watcher as the fight goes on.

As for which buff to pick, Kujira's and Kani's buffs are probably the best ones. If you're a beginner and you want to give Suzuka some survivability then pick Fuuri. If you're using Kinnara/SP Tama + double Youkinshi or double Shuten + Shira then Sasori's buff is an option.

#Onmyouji #Onmyoji #events #this is such a nice fresh break from tower events

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