Dragon Raja: History Simulator

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After a moment of silence, Feng Hou nodded. "As Your Majesty says."

This is the story before the Battle of Zhuolu began.

Back in reality, Tiannvba looked at the open palace gates before her, opened her mouth as if to say something, but ultimately said nothing.

She slowly walked forward and, taking advantage of this rare truce, entered the Yellow Emperor's Palace before her.

Inside the palace, two voices were arguing incessantly.

“Youxiong clan, I think you should dismiss your prime minister; he doesn’t look like a proper subject.”

It was a familiar female voice, one that Tiannvba remembered vividly. It belonged to the goddess from the West, named Jiutian Xuannv.

“No, Jormungandr, I think someone of your high status should be more magnanimous and learn to tolerate different opinions.”

This is His Majesty the Yellow Emperor. The difference is that the Heavenly Maiden Ba felt that His Majesty's voice was extremely deep, unlike anything she had seen before.

Is it because of this battle?

It is quite possible. After all, His Majesty the Yellow Emperor, who is about to be crowned emperor, has been defeated nine times in nine battles by a "barbarian" from a remote place. This is indeed damaging to His Majesty's prestige.

It is only natural that His Majesty feels distressed about this.

“Generosity? I’ve never understood those things. I only believe in one principle,” the goddess’s voice rose, “Let them hate me, so they can fear me.”

Indeed, they were "barbarians" from the West, Tiannvba thought to herself. Otherwise, she would not have behaved so rudely and made such a blasphemous statement about the downfall of a nation in front of His Majesty the Yellow Emperor.

Sure enough, His Majesty the Yellow Emperor also seemed to have a headache, and remained silent for a long time.

The Heavenly Maiden Ba leaned against the door, feeling puzzled as she listened to the long silence from inside the palace from Emperor Huangdi.

This palace itself was the "domain" of His Majesty the Yellow Emperor, and when she stepped into this palace, she should have already been in His Majesty's sight.

Remembering this, Tiannvba tried to take a step forward as she had done in the past.

As soon as she entered the hall, she was stunned. The Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden stood in front of her with a smile and happily took her hand.

The Heavenly Maiden Ba tried to break free, but she felt as if her hand was being crushed by a mountain, preventing her from escaping.

Xuan Nu took her hand and led her upwards until they reached the Yellow Emperor's side.

Tiannvba disliked this woman, but now, she was powerless to resist her and could only submit to her commands.

Xuan Nu looked at her face and nodded with great satisfaction. She then gently pinched her cheek with her hands, which were meant for appraising goods.

The Heavenly Maiden Ba subconsciously showed a look of disgust, but the Mysterious Maiden herself seemed completely oblivious. She looked at the Yellow Emperor and said:

"Youxiong clan, how about this gift that came to our door? Are you satisfied?"

This was the second time that the Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady addressed the Yellow Emperor as "Youxiong Shi" in front of her.

The Heavenly Maiden Ba clearly remembered that His Majesty the Yellow Emperor disliked this title because the name "Youxiong Shi" meant "leader of the Youxiong tribe," while His Majesty the Yellow Emperor should be the ruler of the Nine Provinces, and he did not like this title.

In the past, this Western goddess had never addressed His Majesty the Yellow Emperor so directly, yet she seemed completely unconcerned now.

"His Majesty the Yellow Emperor" also seemed to have no reaction. He nodded and stared at her blankly, as if it were the first time he had seen her, just like the way His Majesty the Yellow Emperor looked at her when she was born.

It was equally inexplicable, yet equally profound.

"She is... the Heavenly Maiden Ba."

The Yellow Emperor called out her name, but the Heavenly Maiden Ba was not pleased; she clearly sensed the pause in the call.

She attributed the cause to "Xuan Nu," who was clearly the "femme fatale who brought ruin to the country" that the old fogey "Feng Hou" often talked about.

She turned to Xuan Nu and rebuked her sharply, "Xuan Nu, what have you done to His Majesty? How have you bewitched him?"

As she spoke, a faint heat emanated from her body, and the temperature in the air rose endlessly with her anger.

If the Heavenly Maiden had received a complete education in alchemy and the science of words, she would know that she was raising the temperature in a static state.

This is the authority belonging to the King of Bronze and Fire.

If Feng Hou were to witness this scene, she too would be dumbfounded, overturning all her previous understanding of Tiannv Ba.

He used to think that Tiannvba was a "dragon race", and that the dragon race was a "god race" of the old era. However, such supreme authority belonged only to the Bronze and Fire Kings among the four monarchs, and ordinary dragons could not even overstep their bounds.

The Heavenly Maiden Ba glared angrily at the woman who was holding her hand and binding her body, but the goddess before her seemed completely unconcerned. Her gaze was somewhat complicated as she looked at the Yellow Emperor before the steps and said self-deprecatingly:

"I've bewitched your emperor? Little girl, don't be so naive. How could I possibly bewitch your emperor? All along, I've only been a pawn in his game..."

She had only just begun to see part of the truth, and this part of the truth was about to be locked in her memory, only to be allowed to be recalled at the "appropriate" time.

Jormungandr thought to himself, looking at the "Yellow Emperor" on the stage who still seemed a little confused, and couldn't help but feel a little lazy, loosening his grip on the Heavenly Maiden Ba.

The Heavenly Maiden Ba's anger had subsided. Sensing the departure of the Mysterious Maiden, her heart calmed down. She looked up at the Yellow Emperor and said in a deep voice:

"Your Majesty, have you forgotten me?"

"how come?"

Wang Anzhi shook his head, feeling that another question had been raised in his mind, because the girl in front of him, whom he had subconsciously called "Tiannv Ba," actually had a face that resembled Nuwa or Yin Lihua.

He knew there must be a reason for this, a reason he might not have experienced yet.

"Heavenly Maiden Ba, what brings you here?"

The Heavenly Maiden Ba looked up at the Yellow Emperor; his former emperor had never been so cold to her.

At this moment, it was the mysterious woman, whom she had always disliked, who spoke up for her:

“Youxiong clan, why are you so cold to this little girl? You should know that she was just born in front of you and me three years ago.”

Xuan Nu rested her chin on her hand, displaying an expression of longing and reminiscence, full of yearning.

The Heavenly Maiden Ba saw through her pretense at a glance, and her seemingly ambiguous words just now made her even more displeased.

Instead, it was His Majesty the Yellow Emperor on the throne who gritted his teeth and said, "Jormungandr, are you saying that she was born in front of you and me three years ago?"

“Yes!” The Dragon Girl nodded, smiling sweetly. “Three years ago, in Yunyan Palace, I witnessed her birth, and I even saw you drape a… garment over her shoulders.”

The Dragon Girl deliberately used the word "clothes" in an extremely ambiguous way, and the various things that happened during that time make people think deeply.

Wang Anzhi was completely at a loss because of this thunderbolt, but fortunately, Tiannvba interrupted his embarrassment in time. She looked coldly at the dragon girl who was secretly provoking him.

"Xuan Nu, don't make trouble in front of His Majesty."

"Am I wrong? Isn't what I said the truth?" The dragon girl was also a little unhappy and asked back.

The Heavenly Maiden Ba was speechless for a moment, so she changed the subject and said to the Yellow Emperor:

"Your Majesty, I want to tell you that four more extraordinary individuals have joined Chi You's side."

"An anomaly?" Wang Anzhi looked at the girl in front of him who resembled Nuwa, except that she did not have a snake tail. He was somewhat bewildered and did not know what the "anomaly" she was talking about was.

Are they living dragons? Or dead corpses? Or mutated undead? Or lives tainted by dragon blood?

Too much.

These can all be called "outliers" in the future.

"They are dragons, but you humans have been presumptuous in classifying them as aliens," the dragon girl interjected.

“An outsider is an outsider,” Tiannvba disagreed with this statement, even though she sometimes secretly wondered if she herself might be one of the “outcasts” she was referring to.

Her purpose in being adopted by the Yellow Emperor was to slaughter her own people, but she soon stopped having such wild thoughts, because the Yellow Emperor never asked her to go to the battlefield during the Battle of Zhuolu, as if he had forgotten about her.

Meanwhile, the goddess Ba began to feel uneasy. Perhaps it was because of her that the capital suffered a severe drought, which gave Chi You, who had already obeyed the orders of the Yellow Emperor, an opportunity to rebel, thus raising the banner of rebellion.

The dragon girl smiled, looked at her serious face, and said cheerfully:

"Heavenly Maiden Ba, if I remember correctly, in Feng Hou's eyes, you are the one who is different."

“I’m not,” Tiannvba retorted firmly.

Watching the two women exchange words, Wang Anzhi finally managed to sort out some of his thoughts. He knew that what Tiannv Ba wanted to say was that Chi You had gained four more dragons by his side.

To be honest, he wasn't particularly surprised. Since Samson and Abidun, the offspring of the Bronze and Fire Kings respectively, had already appeared by Chi You's side, it wasn't incomprehensible that a few more dragons would appear.

He looked at the grinning Jormungandr and knew that with the Little Dragon Girl's temperament, she probably wouldn't gain the following of many dragons. This was the case even when the Black Emperor was alive in ancient times, let alone now that the Black Emperor has passed away.

It's all because Little Dragon Girl is useless. Other Dragon Kings have several dragon servants or corpses to serve them, but Little Dragon Girl's most presentable companion is a Kamaitachi Queen whose strength is questionable, perhaps even unable to withstand a polar bear.

Alas! What a pity!

Soon, as the Dragon Girl cast a suspicious glance at him, Wang Anzhi easily averted his gaze. He looked at the serious-looking Heavenly Maiden Ba and asked:

"What rank of dragons?"

The Heavenly Maiden Ba recalled her encounters with the four "abnormal beings," assessed their bloodlines, and finally said:

"It is slightly weaker than the Wind God and the Rain Master, but it is already a proper dragon, not a python."

Wang Anzhi knew that the term "python" was a derogatory term used by the orthodox and even the entire Chinese hybrid race to refer to pure-blooded dragons below the third generation. In their view, dragons below the third generation were not even worthy of being called "dragons" and could only be named "pythons" or similar creatures.

Coincidentally, Wang Anzhi also knew that the same was true in the class chain among dragons. In their eyes, pure-blooded dragons below the third generation were not necessarily much more noble than S-class mixed-bloods; they were all servants.

Only those of the third generation can be considered "dragons" among the dragon race, similar to medieval knights, or the "scholars" who "shared the world with the literati."

In other words, Chi You now has four more third-generation dragons by his side.

Such a "grand spectacle" is hard to find in this day and age. After all, according to the research of orthodox "experts," the process of the complete extinction of the dragon race in the East had already ended in the era of the Three Sovereigns.

Unexpectedly, by the time of the Battle of Zhuolu, Chi You could still easily summon so many dragons. Among them were the Rain Master and the Wind Master, both second-generation dragons, as well as the "mounts" of Chi You's eighty brothers, all of whom were at the level of fifth-generation dragons.

The "iron-eating beast" that Chi You rode was not the giant panda he had originally imagined, but a dragon that had fallen from the third generation.

At a glance, Wang Anzhi understood that it was not surprising that Feng Hou and the ministers around the Yellow Emperor called Chi You a "barbarian".

After all, although he had two prominent dragon kings, "Xuan Nu" and "Ying Long," by his side, and Fenrir openly displayed his dragon form, they still seemed somewhat inferior compared to Chi You.

After all, Jormungandr was disguised as the "Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden" and had never revealed his dragon form. Thus, although he still had Fenrir, this "big guy," by his side, it could be said that his army did not contain the "outcasts" that the Celestial Maiden had mentioned.

At least, not as obviously as Chi You.

He nodded and said, "I understand."

Wang Anzhi didn't really care about this. Although the third-generation dragon race could cause waves in later generations, they obviously couldn't cause any waves in front of the current mixed-race army full of martial virtue.

The Heavenly Maiden Ba then said, "Your Majesty, it is these four new anomalies who have stirred up the thick fog on the battlefield."

Wang Anzhi paused for a moment, then nodded, remembering the compass carriage that Feng Hou had prepared, and put aside his worries, "It has already been prepared."

After thinking for a moment, he asked again, "By the way, what are the names of these four new outcasts?"

“Demons and monsters,” the Heavenly Maiden Ba recalled, “I remember that’s what they called each other.”

She nodded at the Yellow Emperor on the platform, knowing she had completed her task. Then, she gritted her teeth and asked again: