Under the Red Dragon

Chapter 249: Truth - Command

Desert lone smoke, sandy river sunset.

The lone smoke is a sandstorm connecting the sky and the earth, the sunset is dim yellow, and the afterglow sprinkled on the dark yellow barren sand.

Kalong strolled on the sand surface where the heat had subsided, and between his claws and toes, the stress points of all the sand grains were perfectly stepped on, making the red dragon, which had grown to twenty-one meters, look like it was walking on normal ground.

No sand surface depression, no gravel flow, as if the giant dragon, whose weight is counted in tons, is like a fallen leaf skimming the sand surface, leaving almost no trace where it stands.

Giant monster Fafna, who was following beside the ancestral red dragon, covering her eyes with a soft silk and tying it behind her head, could not do such an easy action as 卡隆(Kalong).

Although 法芙娜(Fafna)'s body weight is far less than that of the ancestral red dragon, even if she controls it with her own power, she can't do it as instinctively and easily as 卡隆(Kalong), leaving dents of quicksand and scattered gravel under her feet.

Although 法芙娜(Fafna) covered her eyes, the giant monster, whose mental power has increased dramatically and is difficult to control, observes with her mind's eye at this time, but sees more clearly than a pair of naked eyes.

This is not the ancestral red dragon using its own power, about the talent of the earth or any magic, completely relying on the brain's instinctive adjustment.

Let every muscle and every force movement of the whole body fit the surrounding environment, changing step by step, as if naturally.

Even if 法芙娜(Fafna) tries hard to learn the ways of the ancestral red dragon, she can't learn such skills, so she can only give up the thoughts in her heart, walk on the sand surface at her own pace, and follow her master towards the distance.

Here is already thousands of miles away from the floating island of the Imperial Army, but 卡隆(Kalong) only took a maid by his side and embarked on the road of pursuit.

After taking the spice for the first time, 卡隆(Kalong)'s brain and body got the chance to evolve.

According to the research of the magician group and the common sense of the Harkonnen family warrior Rabban's mind torture, although the spice has powerful effects, continuous intake of the spice will make the body produce resistance to this magical product, so that the effect of the spice gradually decreases.

However, taking too much spice will have serious addiction, and the side effects are unbearable for mortals.

In order to prolong and enhance the efficacy of the spice and reduce the addictive side effects of the spice, ordinary low-level mages need to take a large amount for the first time, and then use it for the second time after at least one month.

And the third time, it needs to be at least about three months apart.

Compared to the foundation of low-level mages, the foundation of the ancestral red dragon appears unfathomable. The upper limit of others using spice may not even reach the lower limit of the red dragon using spice.

However, in order to allow the spice to exert greater efficacy, 卡隆(Kalong) still formulated his own intake plan according to the laws researched by the mages.

Therefore, after taking the spice for the second time on the tenth day, 卡隆(Kalong) carried enough spice for the third use and his maid 法芙娜(Fafna) and embarked on the journey.

During the walking process, the information of the world is collected and organized in 卡隆(Kalong)'s brain and sub-brain in an orderly manner, which is different from the world in the real vision state.

As long as 卡隆(Kalong) is willing, the changes in the salt bed and the exposed or deeply buried rock layer structure in the desert that he swept can easily calculate that this planet Arrakis had water erosion three million years ago.

If 卡隆(Kalong) is willing to invest more energy, he can calculate the specific year and time three million years ago in an instant after learning more information.

But 卡隆(Kalong) has no intention of investing energy in these meaningless calculations, because the memory of the accidental picture of his previous life in his brain is constantly running.

He diverging his thoughts, using the information he had previously obtained to calculate the best guidance for the empire's power action after descending into this world.

And, the best route for 卡隆(Kalong) himself.

This universe, after entering interstellar civilization, because of the 'Butler' holy war with intelligent thinking machines, the human social form underwent final changes, and the families revived and rose, and finally formed an imperial system of enfeoffment system based on the emperor in the galaxy universe.

The various noble families cooperate with each other, but also compete secretly.

The Corrino family is the imperial family, sitting high on the golden lion throne, and the Lion Throne Empire, which rules all nobles, is the highest political power existing in the universe on the surface.

But it is not that the noble united imperial government monopolizes the ruling power of the universe.

Because the Butler Holy War caused the regression of the civilization system, and information exchange and transportation were hindered by time and space.

Among humans, ancient religiousism rose again and also made a rule: you must not create machines to impersonate human thinking.

And the Navigator's Guild, which controls the key to cosmic interstellar transportation, has also become a powerful force.

So the Lion Throne Empire is actually jointly ruled by the imperial government, the Astronautical Guild and the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, which integrates all religious doctrines.

Coincidentally, humans with special abilities because of the spice are members of these three major forces, namely the navigator of the Navigator's Guild, the strategist of the major nobles - Mentat computer, and the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood's Truthsayer!

Among them, the Harkonnen family to which the warrior Rabban belongs is a member of the noble forces in the imperial government. Family Patriarch Baron Harkonnen originally controlled Arrakis, and this planet belonged to the Harkonnen family's fief.

However, the emperor of the Lion Throne Empire feared the Atreides family, which had the name of imperial inheritance and also had strong strength, and reassigned the Atreides family on the planet Arrakis.

This made the Harkonnen family, which originally controlled the spice origin and obtained huge benefits, unite with the scheming emperor. The emperor sent the Sardaukar Legion collude with the Harkonnen family to destroy the Atreides Duke's family forces that had moved to the planet Arrakis.

Now, the planet Arrakis has returned to the rule of the Harkonnen family.

Rabban is the senior commander of the Harkonnen family legion, and was accidentally captured by the giant dragon's mage legion on the way back to the base, thus learning this information on the surface.

But 卡隆(Kalong) knows from the floating memories that the destroyed Atreides family, Duke Atreides' only son Paul Atreides and mother Jessica did not die.

A scene that once flashed combined Rabban's memory, and 卡隆(Kalong) was able to confirm that Paul and Jessica, who were abandoned by the Harkonnen family warriors in the desert and left to sandworms devoured, should have escaped into the center of the desert, seeking the help of the local aborigines, the Fremen.

Not out of his own ability calculation, 卡隆(Kalong) has not intersected with these two survivors, so there is no information to provide him with the basis for deduce.

His understanding of this world comes from the memories of his previous life and the existing information, but for the real and huge universe, feathers is not even considered.

But 卡隆(Kalong)'s powerful intuition tells this red dragon that maybe as long as he sees that special child of the era, the focus of the gathering of all forces, the network of the past and the future is continuous in the center of the present - Paul Atreides.

He will be able to follow the vine, with the intersecting information, get about leaving this world, leading to the clues of the world of ice and fire.

So 卡隆(Kalong) took his maid and went all the way along the desert towards the strongholds where those indigenous residents Fremen might live.

For the red dragon, it is more like a challenge in the journey. He did not use any power. Relying on the calculation deduction ability of his brain, he explored the settlements of the Fred people through clues.

The concentration of water molecules hidden in the air, and the traces of accidental activities hidden in remote corners, were all captured by 卡隆(Kalong)'s eyes.

Occasionally, he and 法芙娜(Fafna) could also see small lightning bloom on the sand surface, which was a sign that the sandworms passed through the desert underground, causing friction effect to produce.

However, after trying the taste of sandworms, 卡隆(Kalong) did not intend to hunt these precious spice producers again. These sandworms have become the wealth之泉(财富之泉: fountain of wealth) in the eyes of the giant dragon that can continuously produce treasure.

The sunset sank below the sand surface, and two moons gradually emerged in the sky, one large and one small.

But 卡隆(Kalong) ushered in a surge of sand and dust storm, a storm with hundreds of kilometers per hour, like an shadow that devours everything in the dim yellow night, sweeping mad sand coming.

However, 卡隆(Kalong) did not take 法芙娜(Fafna) to avoid this smaller scale storm.

The ancestral red dragon opened its claws, and a ball of dazzling magical aura condensed at his claws, forming a rotating seed appearance.

The 68,960 magical runes he mastered are like dazzling ribbons, and the finely broken runes form a ribbon flowing flickering on the surface of the seed, instantly arranged into one after another spell models.

Dozens of spells were immediately released with the model, blessed on 法芙娜(Fafna) who was quietly following.

Steel tendons and iron bones, benefiting qi and growth, dragon scale technique, spell shield, earth barrier, etc., one after another spells wrapped 法芙娜(Fafna) airtight, enough to easily resist the bombardment of the magic heavy cannon.

The magical problems that once troubled the ancestral red dragon were solved after ingesting the spice and successfully opening the evolution. Now 卡隆(Kalong) can release dozens of middle and low-level spells between waving his claws and moving his thoughts, which can be called a spell torrent.

法芙娜(Fafna) smiling, one master and one servant, already familiar, no need to say more. Then one dragon and one person directly stepped into the sand and dust storm.

The real strong wind is a kind of power that destroys everything, making the destruction created by human beings ashamed.

These tiny or coarse gravel sweeping by the sandstorm with amazing kinetic energy hitting on everything exposed in the field of vision, between the heaven and the earth, only mad sand exists, nothing else.

This is not an instantaneous冲击(冲击: impact), any object exposed in the crazy rolling dust will usher in continuous impact.

Even if it becomes an interstellar civilization, the alloy spaceship that can set foot in the star universe will be little by little polished clean by the continuous mad sand冲击(冲击: impact), turning into fragments finer than gravel.

If an adult giant dragon falls into the sandstorm, it may be able to support for a short moment relying on the scales on its body, but eventually it will be worn through by the sandstorm scales, have to escape this area.

But 卡隆(Kalong)'s body stepped into it, slightly turned the right wing to protect 法芙娜(Fafna) under the wings, letting this great power enough to destroy all the mortal world existence impact on his body.

countless gravel with amazing kinetic energy scouring on the ancestral red dragon's scales, grinding out series shooting sparks, like a grinding wheel cutting steel, grinding on 卡隆(Kalong)'s scales, emitting tooth-aching的摩擦声(摩擦声: friction sound).

wisps lightning surrounding on the red dragon's wings and body, that is sandstorm madly rolling, causing the electrostatic field, grinding the red dragon's body together with the gravel.

These gravel grinding the red dragon's scales, the scales that are not attached to any protective power luster little by little worn away, the thick and solid dragon scales ground into a thin piece, to wear through the dragon's scales, then磨灭(磨灭: wear away) the dragon's skin and flesh, tendons and steel bones.

But after 卡隆(Kalong) ingesting the spice, the control of the body has reached the extent of tiny to every cell. The energy full of in each cell is mobilized and extracted a wisp out and allocated to the deliberately polished skin under the scales as a reserve.

Whenever the red dragon's scales is about to be worn through, abundant energy will immediately pour into it, let the giant dragon's scales grow rapidly, forming defense and toughness higher scales.

The skin and flesh on his body that are not covered by scales are the same, in festering the muscles squeezed out gravel, and then growing, and then destroying, and reborn in the pain of growth and destruction.

In the world, there are many creatures who use the stimulation of injury to obtain a more powerful body after repairing to carry out磨练(磨练: training).

The ancestral red dragon is also the same, without training, only relying on natural growth and construction, even if he has a sub-brain, he cannot improve his body strength again, just like an experiment needs a large number of samples to obtain a better choice.

And 卡隆(Kalong)'s body continued to advance in the sandstorm with a natural tonnage alone, not because his weight was heavy enough that this amazing great power could not overturn.

But in the extremely sober brain, the vectors of each existence and the changes of every inch of storm in the mad sand sweeping are in his control.

卡隆(Kalong) fully mobilizing all the muscles and power on his body, relying on his powerful body and perception to feel the trajectory and changes of hundreds of millions of gravel movement, every wisp of wind power change and guidance, the purpose and effect of the force.

Adjusting his subtle movements and balance by this, the membrane wings on his wings bear the training and baptism of the storm on one side, while adjusting the actions to unload the impact sweeping wind power, allowing him to traverse the sandstorm only relying on his flesh and brain.

huge calculation information let Kalong's brain and sub-brain running at the same time, countless huge vectors and wind power changes flickering in the brain, let the red dragon's scales faintly emerging long-unseen steaming aura.

This is because exceeding the ordinary huge calculations needing him to provide a lot of energy, and huge energy running in the red dragon body causing the anomalies.

卡隆(Kalong) has not experienced for a long time this situation of brain running fast, he cracked open his mouth, excitedly revealing his fangs, forcing himself to endure this state, so that he can quickly adapt the results of his growth and evolution.

Whenever the ancestral red dragon thought that his brain was gradually approaching the limit in the calculations of huge amounts of information, his will brought him new surprises.

In this constantly squeezing and磨练(磨练: training), 卡隆(Kalong)'s potential was squeezed out by himself, putting all his energy into into the brain, letting the body's instincts, shuttling in the sandstorm aimlessly.

Until certain个时刻(时刻: moment), 卡隆(Kalong) felt the pressure around him suddenly relax, the body instinctively stopped transporting a lot of energy, and the extremely active brain also recovered to a calm state in an instant, and he came back to his senses.

The natural sandstorm, like a calamity, was already far behind him, a shadow of a shattered sun receding into the distance.

Two moons, one large and one small, hung over the dunes, casting a silver glow upon the mercury-yellow sands.

In the distance, atop a dune, a man and a woman stood, gazing in astonishment at the figure and dragon emerging from the grandfather-class desert storm, their faces filled with shock, oblivious even to the danger of a sand wave surging towards them from beneath the surface.

The most fearsome creature of the desert, the sandworm, sped across the sand, but veered away as it approached the dragon and the figure, churning up lightning and sand waves as it fled in the opposite direction.

"What is that?"

Paul Atreides and his mother, Jessica, stared blankly at the approaching figure and dragon, who, with a slow step, transformed the dragon back into a human, but the previous scene was not an illusion.

Both could clearly see the other, like an ancient myth from a mother planet whose stellar coordinates had long been lost, parting the sands like Moses parting the sea.

"I... I don't know!"

Lady Jessica's trembling voice betrayed her fear and composure.

As a member of the Bene Gesserit sisterhood, Lady Jessica possessed special abilities and a heightened awareness.

As a sisterhood that integrated all religions, they differed from other sects, which either awaited the coming of a messiah or worshiped one.

The Bene Gesserit knew that there were no gods in the world, so they created a messiah, a chosen one, controlled by the sisterhood like a messiah.

This messiah was called the Kwisatz Haderach by the sisterhood.

For thousands of years, the sisterhood had been striving towards this goal.

They relied on mating with outstanding members of various families to select genes and obtain and study the genes of all human families.

To this end, members of the sisterhood who carried out the plan mastered unparalleled abilities through the use of spice-made drugs and rigorous physical and mental training.

The most outstanding could even control their bodies at the cellular level, and when obtaining genes from target families for pregnancy and breeding, they could freely control the sex of the fetus.

Before the sisterhood's 'messiah' was created, all children born were used as girls for future mating and breeding.

They could also control blood flow, body temperature, heart rate, and consciousness, and their fighting skills were almost unmatched.

They could even use their minds in conjunction with truth-speech to briefly manipulate the minds and thoughts of others, and easily distinguish between lies and truths.

After consuming the Water of Life, a special product of the sandworm's death, these witch-like powerful women could also unlock the ancestral memories in their bloodline, understand all history, and possess all the knowledge and wisdom of their female ancestors.

The messiah they wanted to create, the 'Kwisatz Haderach', would be born as a male in the plan, able to possess all the memories of the male and female ancestors of all human families, becoming a human Mentat.

He would also be able to predict the future like a Navigator, become the Golden Lion Emperor of the Lion Empire, rule the empire, and lead all mankind to the expected future controlled by the sisterhood.

Although Paul Atreides was an unplanned product of his mother Jessica's love for Duke Leto Atreides, he also had the potential and qualifications to become a messiah.

He possessed the knowledge and skills of a witch, and also had the ability to observe fragments of the future in his dreams, and was temporarily recognized by the sisterhood as one of the goals of the plan.

But even if these sisterhood messiahs truly descended, they would not have the composure and power to walk in the sandstorm.

Even though Jessica was a witch, and Paul Atreides was also stronger than ordinary people, they still needed to wear survival gear just to walk and survive in the desert.

They could not walk in this wild sand, wearing only simple and gorgeous silk robes, like those two god-like beings.

Lady Jessica, as a member of the religious order, was even more uncontrollably terrified.

Because as the other party approached, both of them could see that the other party's figure was incredibly tall, and the two of them were like weak children in front of the other party's three-and-a-half-meter body.

But the tall stature could not destroy the perfection of the other party, but strengthened the divinity of the other party.

Although the man's eyes were gentle, and the contours and bones were perfect beyond description and creation, the indifference deep in his eyes was like the divinity in the eyes of God, who regarded all living beings as equal.

Although the woman's eyes were covered with silk ribbons, her beautiful body and face appeared particularly holy, like an angelic saint accompanying a god.

A terrible possibility flashed through Lady Jessica's mind, and her shrewd brain was confused by this terrible guess, causing her to tremble and shout: "Stop, tell me, who exactly are you people!"

The surrounding air was like a vacuum, and an ancient, witch-like voice echoed simultaneously with Lady Jessica's voice, majestic, powerful, and authoritative.

It was as if Jessica had summoned all the power of her ancestors when she spoke.

But Jessica's truth-speech could not control the minds, thoughts, or actions of either Karion or Fafna. At the moment Jessica spoke, Karion instinctively analyzed the changes in this language.

He instantly memorized Jessica's language accent and pronunciation, memorized the tone, memorized the pitch, memorized the volume, memorized every detail of the throat's activity, and also instantly detected the emotions and thoughts in Jessica's mind when she instinctively used truth-speech.

So he opened his mouth, and an ancient voice mixed with the echo of a dragon's roar sounded at the same time,

"kneel!"

The majestic and powerful human voice sounded, and the dragon's roar also vibrated, its absolute truth-speech caused Jessica and Paul Atreides to kneel on the ground in an instant, and the previous mental training had no effect at all.

In this instant, Karion learned this witchcraft of truth-speech, but in the mouth of the Dragon Emperor, this truth-speech was like a decree.