Dragon Raja: I’m Aizen, and from the Start I’m Teaching Lu Mingfei

Ash drifted through the air like snow from a deathly winter.

Covered in wounds, Angers gazed at the war-ravaged ruins of Kassel. Grief and rage filled his face, as if he had returned to that Summer of Mourning, when nothing could be changed.

A horde of dragon-shaped dead servants swarmed across the dark sky screen. Far above, the imposing forms of ancient dragons appeared and vanished, while at the edge of sight loomed the dreadful shadow of a withered tree, its branches like tentacles. The sky had become a monster's lair.

“Pain runs as deep as an ocean trench. Sin and the crimson blood shed in death are filthy, writhing like maggots. Pity you all: even if you stretch out your arms, part the clouds, and soar to the edge of the heavens, touching the stars and moon, you still cannot reach the so-called truth.”

A deep, magnetic voice rang out among the ruins. Aizen, clad in a white haori and holding a black umbrella, walked toward them calmly.

Like a shadow cast by the moon, he remained untouched by dust even as heaven and earth fell into desolation.

“Aizen! You're alive! Are you going to betray me?”

Angers' pupils widened, his shock impossible to hide.

Not long ago, he had watched with his own eyes as the man he trusted completely was nailed to the spirit shrine.

“Principal Angers, neither the Dragon Kings nor the Black King stood at the summit from the very beginning. But the vacancy on the heavenly throne is about to end.”

Before everyone's eyes, Aizen took off his glasses and swept his hair back. He crushed the plain glasses that had concealed his ambition in one hand, then looked up at the sky screen with brown eyes.

“From this day on, I shall stand above the heavens.”

Boom! Spiritual pressure surged into the sky like a raging tide, and the dragons roared in terror.

Lu Mingfei, Erii, Lao Tang, Xia Mi, Chu Zihang, Su Xiaoqiang, Fingel, EVA, Caesar, Nono, the Genji brothers, and the other members of the Thirteen Court Guard Squads followed him, charging toward that decaying abyss in the heavens.