Chapter 176 Terminal (4)

Pompey was even more surprised than them and asked: "I am the patriarch of the Gattuso family, why can't I come?"

His words were well-founded, but very unusual, because this playboy had only attended one secret party meeting before, and that was the year he had just become the patriarch. After the meeting, he said it was very boring and annoyed.

He simply handed over the family burden and the position of school director to his younger brother Frost.

Everyone entered and took their seats, the meeting officially began, and everyone looked at him, which made sense because this was a meeting proposed by the Gattuso family, but the proposer was Frost, and Gattuso's seat was occupied by Pompey.

Pompey's mouth curled up slightly, and he played with the black card representing the family seat with one hand, saying, "I wonder if you have discovered a problem? Since ancient times, all dynasties and countries have not been able to escape the fate of rise and fall."

"What do you want to say?" Beowulf opened his closed eyes and looked at Pompey.

Dynasties rise and fall, who among you is not a well-read person? Even if you can't say anything, you know these things.

"How many years has the secret party existed?" Pompey asked.

Some people looked uncertain, because Pompey's words had a hidden meaning!

But none of them spoke, but waited quietly for what would happen next.

This is the second time Pompey has attended the secret party meeting in so many years. No one would believe him if he said he was not planning to do something big.

They just want to see what big thing the Gattuso family is planning to do.

Seeing that no one answered him, Pompey began to count on his fingers...

"It has a glorious history of thousands of years." Pompeii was unable to calculate how many years of history it had, but he only knew that it had a history of thousands of years.

He went on to say, "The original intention of the Secret Party was to protect world peace and suppress the revival of the Dragon Clan. Over the past thousands of years, successive generations of the Secret Party have been fighting the Dragon Clan to the death under this slogan."

“But…” He said with a playful expression: “Ideals alone cannot support the secret party to continue to fight against dragons, because fighting against dragons is not a game, people will die. If it is only based on ideals, it cannot support the secret party’s inheritance for thousands of years. What can really make the secret party and this organization pass down is profit. Everyone has gained enough benefits from slaying dragons, so they continue the great cause of slaying dragons unswervingly!”

Some people were a little dazed, not because Pompey expressed their former ideals, but why Pompey said this.

Some people probably understand it, but have never expressed similar opinions because they know I am going to say it. These are two different behaviors.

Just like if you hate someone, you won't make it public. If you hate that person, at most you just can't be friends. If you make it public, it will only turn both parties into enemies.

Pompey looked at Beowulf and said, "Mr. Beowulf, your ancestors founded a country on the Scandinavian Peninsula. What great achievements did they rely on to become the monarch? It was slaying dragons, the great reputation of slaying dragons, and the treasures of dragons. By slaying dragons, everyone has received rich rewards. Mr. Vanderbilt, Mr. Turing... Everyone here, do you need me to tell you the history of your rise to wealth one by one?"

"Slaying a dragon is not an ideal. The benefits brought by slaying a dragon are our goal. Slaying a dragon is like a business. Ordinary people slaughter pigs, cattle and sheep for rewards, but we slay dragons for rewards. The risk of slaying a dragon is a bit high, but the profit is very high, isn't it?"

Pompey said slowly and calmly: "Among the new generation of the Gattuso family, only Caesar has performed relatively well. I sent him to Kassel Academy, not for the great ideal of slaying dragons, but because this generation of dragon slayers cannot be without people from the Gattuso family. Without dragon slayers, the Gattuso family cannot reap the benefits of dragon slaying. The secret party controls the channel for slaying dragons to get rewards, and this door cannot be closed to the Gattuso family, even if the Gattuso family will lose the most outstanding new generation of young people, it is better than being out of touch with the secret party. The business of slaying dragons is the root of the Gattuso family's glory, so the Gattuso family must not be involved..."

Pompey may have a lot more to say, but Beowulf could not sit still. He was not a good-tempered person, so he slammed the table and stood up.

"That's enough. This is the Secret Party's Hall of Valor! It houses the ashes of dragon slayers from past generations. How can you say such things in front of their tombstones?"

He looked at Pompey, his face flushed with anger, his eyes full of ferocity, as if he wanted to kill someone.

His domain opened wide, with a fierce momentum. The secret party elders nearby were unable to dodge and were blown into disarray by the sudden momentum.

Beowulf really wanted to kill someone. The glorious history of Beowulf's family in slaying dragons was devalued in Pompeii. The lofty ideals and honor instantly became materialistic and vulgar.

Honor is just a title, but when people are alive, apart from material needs, the only thing left is spiritual pursuit.

Just like the highest enjoyment in the world has always been power since ancient times, it is a spiritual enjoyment that cannot be brought by material things.

That was why Beowulf was so angry, because he felt that the honor of his family, the honor earned with the blood and lives of his clansmen, was now devalued by Pompey and was worthless.

Pompey sat calmly, watching Beowulf leisurely and calmly as he got angry, activated the domain of the realm, and mobilized the dragon's blood.

Beowulf is one of the ancient families of the Secret Party. Like the Cassel family, they are both legendary dragon-slaying families.

Attila, the Scourge of God, led his army to conquer the east and the west, but when he was in Europe, he was held back by three generations of Beowulf's family.

The power and honor of the Beowulf family were earned at the cost of their lives. Babies in their family have to be baptized with dragon blood crystal as soon as they are born. If they cannot survive, they will die, but if they can, they will become a member of the legendary family of Beowulf.

The modern Beowulf, who has been watering himself with dragon blood time and time again, has developed a strong physique over the years. Even if he does not need to light up his golden eyes and release the words, he can crush countless hybrids with this Hulk-like body.

Beowulf's aura did not affect Pompey at all. He sat upright in his chair and played with the black card in his hand. He was not scared by the furious Beowulf. "Are you anxious because I hit a sore spot? I know that even if I tell the truth, it doesn't matter, because in your eyes I am just an old and ignorant playboy. I am good at picking up girls and playing with women in the love field, not sitting with you great dragon slayers with glorious resumes to discuss the future of mankind. But the truth is that Bruno was burned to death in the Campo de' Fiori, but everyone knows what happened later. The truth will be buried, but it will never be erased. Even if you seal my mouth today, it does not mean that you are right."

Beowulf's aura had no effect on Pompeii, which made some people's eyes suddenly move.

Pompey is the patriarch of the Gattuso family. Although he is a playboy, he has never shown his strength.

Would the Gattuso family allow an incompetent person to be their patriarch? To be fair, they would not allow an incompetent waste to be their patriarch.

Stories like this about an incompetent general causing the death of his entire army are not only circulated in China, but also in the West.

Perhaps Pompey's persuasion convinced Turing, who was nearly 100 years old, and he motioned for Beowulf to sit down. "If you are unhappy with him, you can beat him up after you get out, but you can't do that in Valhalla. This is a place for free speech and discussion of decision-making. The glory of the Secret Party is also due to the continuous dedication of talents from various families of the Secret Party."

"Humph!"

Beowulf looked around and found that not everyone was as angry as he was. Obviously, these people agreed with Pompey's words and believed that slaying the dragon was just for profit, not for honor.

After Beowulf sat down, Pompey continued, "In fact, I don't think there is anything wrong with doing business. It is precisely because of profit that human civilization has come to what it is today. Once we kill all the dragons, will the world be truly peaceful? I'm afraid not. The dragon clan is gone, but the dragon clan's status in the world will not disappear. Then who will take the position that originally belonged to the dragon clan? Of course, the hybrids. Those hybrids who killed the dragons will inherit the dragon clan's legacy and their status and become the masters of the new world."

Pompey looked around at everyone in the meeting. They all avoided his gaze. Even Beowulf, who had just been furious, was unwilling to look him in the face.

Even though what Pompey said just now was extremely outrageous, it didn't make people want to cover it up as much as it does now.

Pompey smiled contemptuously, "But, just because we have a monopoly on the dragon-slaying business doesn't mean others don't want to do it. Is the current secret party still the same secret party as 300 years ago? The split forces, don't they want to replace our orthodox position? For example, the North American mixed-race population, why haven't they dared to challenge us? It's because we were strong enough before. When Ange was still around, we could suppress them so that they couldn't raise their heads. But now Ange is in a coma, and Kassel Academy is in a state of disarray. Do they think that Henkel and his people don't want to inherit the legacy of the dragon clan and become the masters of the new world?"

"But what right do they have?" someone said with disdain.

Even without Ange, their secret party and Kassel Academy are still unique forces. Which force can be on par with them?

No.

Just as those Chinese families like to keep things secret, their secret party is not without any background either. They are not afraid of other forces even if they take out swords to fight.

At most I will be seriously injured, but you will die!

"Just because we lost a secret weapon to slay dragons, he is now out of our control." Pompey said, "I don't know what Ange and the Doomsday Cult did back then, or what agreement they made. I only know that Lu Mingfei's Word Spirit can easily suppress Flamel. Isn't that enough?"

The members of the secret party did not speak. They knew Flamel's abilities. Apart from the most important alchemy, it did not mean that he did not have outstanding performances in other areas. Alchemy and combat power, if taken alone, they could easily take their seats.

Pompey threw a stack of information on the table. "Lu Mingfei has been fostered in his uncle's house for the first six years. His uncle's family receives a generous foster fee every six months, and this money is paid by the funds of Kassel College, which was approved by Angers. He used our money to help others raise children, and I won't say anything, but Lu Mingfei's parents are members of the Doomsday Faction. Both parents are members! S-level mixed-blood members! Then Lu Mingfei was specially recruited by Angers for school, and without our consent, he was rated as S-level and had S-level privileges. It's just that at that time, there was already a precedent of Zhang Baiqing, so you didn't say anything, but this doesn't mean that there is no problem here."

"Ange has approved two S-level masters. One of them can hang out with the Dragon King and is very powerful. The other can easily suppress our chief alchemist. I would believe you if you said he was the Dragon King. And now among the three masters and apprentices, one is about to fall into eternal sleep, and the other two are going to kill Odin with the Dragon King and their lives are uncertain. I don't know if you have other means and information, or if you are all obsessed with Chu Zihang's possible path to becoming a god and actually ignored these two humans!"

"They are all human!" Pompey slammed the table. "I don't know whether the road to becoming a god can be completed in the end. I don't know whether Chu Zihang was originally the Dragon King. I only know that Zhang Baiqing and Lu Mingfei, who are comparable to the Dragon King as human beings, should also be our goals. Accepting the dragon heritage does not conflict with the new limits of human beings!"

He pulled out another stack of information and slapped it on the table. "While you were still investigating Chu Zihang, Henkel had already started to take action with the North American mixed-race group. They sent two submarines to the Arctic Circle. I don't know what's in the Arctic Circle. I only know that Henkel and his men definitely didn't have nothing better to do than send Los Angeles-class nuclear submarines carrying Tomahawk missiles to the Arctic Circle. They must have known some news, so they took action."

He looked around the conference room. "Do you really not know the situation of Angers and the Doomsday Cult, or do you not value the opportunity to reach the top of the world? The opportunities are there, and there are two more. Even if we can't take them all, at least we can't give them all up, right? If so, then our Gattuso family can only fight alone to pursue the position of the world throne."

Everyone was silent. It was obvious that Pompey's words were asking them whether they wanted to follow the actions of the North American mixed-race group, and... if nothing unexpected happened, they would have to fight.

"The Gattuso family has prepared nuclear submarines, warships, and the Sky Punishment satellite. All we need is your agreement to unify the power of the secret party and provide us with funding, then we can share the fruits of the throne together." Pompey flicked the black card he had been playing with onto the table.

This is a voting ceremony of the secret party, representing the Gattuso family's agreement with this view.

"Are you trying to force us?" Beowulf's eyes narrowed. He agreed with Pompey's opinion, but this guy asked them to follow the Gattuso family, not that everyone should die together.

"Our Gattuso family has the first-mover advantage. I just want the command and your full support." Pompey smiled like a gentleman.

A seat card indicating agreement was popped onto the table.

“This is how the world works. If you don’t move forward, you will move backward. Just because we don’t make progress doesn’t mean others won’t make progress. The final outcome is that we who stand still will be surpassed by others.”

Another card was flicked onto the table.

"Yes, the Dragon King is constantly reviving, and we need to open up new paths to keep progressing. Even if we don't have a share of the world's throne, we won't end up being manipulated by others."

Some agreed, some stood up and left, one, two, three... but the black cards representing agreement were left on the table.

(End of this chapter)