Chapter 491 The Child’s Giant

 “To live is to die an unexpected journey.”

Samuel, the Bone Priest, has imparted a lot of knowledge and experience to everyone and is a wise man worthy of respect.

But Chicard remembered this sentence and couldn't forget it no matter what.

 For the ancestors of the White Bones, death was a rare and common thing.

 In the early days of the Resurrection Kingdom, civilian mortality was high.

Farmers often encounter predatory wild animals when farming, the most common ones being wild boars and bison.

They will suddenly rush into the fields to feast. If the farmer cannot dodge and escape, he will be knocked over by them and turn into a pile of broken bones when he lands. If he is unlucky, his skull will be crushed and he will die on the spot.

 Herders are most afraid of electric wolves and rock bears.

 These two extraordinary monsters are not as easy to talk to as beasts. If the beasts that rush into fields and houses are looking for something to eat, which can be considered stealing and robbing at best, then the electric wolf and rock bear are killing people and stealing goods with purpose.

Once they launch an attack, they will first kill all the surrounding herders, and then enjoy the various livestock in the pasture. Sometimes they don't do it for food, but just enjoy the process of hunting and killing.

 The kingdom's military strength was not enough to ensure the safety of farmland and pastures, and the soldiers had great difficulty facing extraordinary monsters. This situation lasted for hundreds of years.

 Until Yao God set his sights on this world.

With the arrival of the prophet Maocao, the entire Resurrection Kingdom began to undergo a series of changes: increasing remuneration to encourage animal husbandry and planting, expanding and strengthening the army, and the king must also follow the election system. Coming over one after another for support...

 Zikad witnessed the dramatic changes in the kingdom.

During his unexpected journey to death, Chicard felt the changes brought about by living for the first time.

 Mage Andre told him about the outside world.

"I come from the fifth level of the abyss. There used to be constant wars there, but it is also a very wonderful place. There are many mage towers we built on the ground, there are centaur cavalry patrolling and running on the plains, and there are people practicing on foot in the forests and mountains. Monks and vampires turn into bats and often fly by in the night..."

 “You can go and take a look if you have a chance.”

"You are an optimistic adventurer, Zikad. You will encounter a lot of troubles and dangers, but that is the path you will choose... Some people will choose the path that many people have traveled. Those places are safe and flat, but It’s been stepped on everywhere, so it’s hard to have any surprises.”

Andre smiled and patted Chicard's dry shoulder: "And you, my friend, you will take those less traveled paths. I know you will do that, if not now, then one day in the future. A choice.”

 Soon after, the hero Siddal accomplished an almost impossible feat.

It uses actions on the battlefield to prove that the skeleton ancestors can also become feared and revered giants, and the thin skeleton body does not only represent humbleness and cannon fodder.

everything is possible.

At the same time, Zikad also applied to become a reporter for the "Shacheng Di News" and was responsible for local reporting in the Resurrection Kingdom.

It follows the whole process of reporting the marriage ceremony between the **** of sacrifice and Theodore at Kashima Shrine. Both the **** and the apostle Theodore are too low-key, and there is no news about their appearance outside the shrine.

 The news was as little as one sentence, and Zikad retained some elements that the masses liked in the report.

　　After the report came out, it received several beatings. The opponent's attacks were so cruel and precise that Chicard was cut into pieces by five horses before he could recover his senses. The bones all over its body were severely shattered, and it took a long time to recover.

 Then it was recruited by Di Newspaper Office to its headquarters in Shacheng, where it was responsible for local reporting.

 …

Hold the baby in his hands, Chicard was in a strange mood.

 The ancestors of the White Bones were sterile, and the new population depended entirely on the Bone Mounds. Therefore, there was no concept of family, and they were more divided by occupational groups.

 I heard Master Andre say it before.

"It is very difficult for my wife to give birth to a child. She is a vampire. It is difficult for a supernatural person to give birth to the next generation...Alyosha and I were very scared at first. We were both too busy and lacked time to accompany the children."

"But actually having a child is a wonderful feeling. Zikad, I can't say it, but I just feel that I am full of more hope and fighting spirit for life...I want to become a qualified adult and Role model. Children are the future and the world belongs to them.”

When Andre said this, there was a satisfied smile on his face, as if he had received a gift from the gods.

Zikad carefully held the baby dug out from under the ice.

He has delicate and thin skin, but his whole body is as cold as snow. He looks so weak, and his body is expanding and contracting slightly.

The Nibelungen child slowly opened his eyes.

His eyelashes are very long, and the pupils in his eyes are blue, like gems. His small lips moved, as if he wanted to say something, but no words came out.

 In the end, he just held Chikard's bone-white fingers tightly with his soft little hands, as if nothing could make him let go.

 But Zikad has a way.

It dug out of the tool box, smeared the bones of its hand with lard, and then slipped out from the baby's fingers.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t expect to dig you out.”

 “Just continue to sleep.”

Zikad put the baby back into the pit, quickly buried it in ice and tamped the ground with a shovel.

When it packed up its things and turned to leave, it found that the child had crawled out of the ice pile and looked at itself curiously with blue eyes.

 When Chicard walked, he walked too. The boy crawled nimbly on the ice, not slow at all.

This made Chikard a little embarrassed.

 If you bury him again, the child may still come out. According to Andre, children are very energetic and very heavy when sleeping, but when they wake up, they are as excited as a berserker.

Zickard rummaged through his backpack.

　　 Got it!

 It found a bottle of magic potion [sleeping potion] and drank it all for the baby. The other party quickly fell asleep and lay motionless on the ground.

very good.

Good boy.

 Zikad buried him again in an underground ice cave.

 There should be no problem now.

But when it walked to the edge of the Kingdom of Mist with its backpack on its back, it suddenly saw that the child was following behind it again.

Although the baby couldn't help yawning, he still followed it tenaciously.

Chicard realized that this child had a stubborn desire to follow him, but he did not dare or could not leave the Kingdom of Mist.

 So when he walked out of the Kingdom of Mist, the baby looked at this side blankly, but with a reluctant expression on his face—but he didn't cry.

 Chicard gave him the empty bottle of sleeping potion as a souvenir.

 …

Back at the Di newspaper office in Shacheng, Chicard handed over the crystal phase he took with [Coral Crystal Phase] to the newspaper office. After these crystal phases are selected, artists will be asked to copy them and put them on newspapers.

A few days later, the latest issue of Shacheng Di News was released, and one of the headlines was "Exploring the Kingdom of Fog" written by Chicard.

 This is the first detailed record of a visit to the Land of Mist in history, but there is no mention of the Nibelungen babies in the ice.

 A month later, Chicard entered the Kingdom of Mist again.

This time it is going to investigate a strange incident that caused a lot of noise.

According to feedback from scholars of the Temple Society, earthquakes occur frequently on the ground in the Kingdom of Mist, and the ice begins to cause violent fluctuations like ocean waves, making it difficult and dangerous for them to collect ice spring toxins.

 Deep underground in Niflheim, it seems that some kind of power is gradually reviving.

To this, the Blood Knight guarding the Eternal Fountain just said: "It's a giant."

 According to legend, the Kingdom of Mist is one of the sources of giants.

 At least one giant is being conceived in the Kingdom of Mist.

Zikad carried his bag all the way into the Kingdom of Fog. On this ice sheet covered with cold white fog, it experienced two small earthquakes, almost damaging the precious [Coral Crystal Phase].

Although it protected the most important wind collector equipment, the large tool bag was missing.

It contains not only necessary supplies such as magic potions, iron picks, shovels, ropes, and stoves, but also important special oils. Chicard must smear these oils all over his body to prevent the bones and joints of his body from freezing. and embrittlement.

 Death is approaching.

Just when Chicard was showing off his worries, a young man walked out of the fog. He found Zicard's tool bag and returned it intact.

 “Thank you very much! It’s really helpful!”

Chicard was so excited that he gestured in Yao language and said, "I am Chicard, a news collector from the Di newspaper office. Are you a member of the Temple Society?"

 The young man smiled at him.

Chicard then felt something was wrong.

The boy was wearing tattered clothes that were worn by adults. His hands were not wearing gloves, his neck was exposed to the ice mist, and he had a pair of bare feet under his wide trouser legs.

He looks to be about thirteen or fourteen years old, with snow-white hair, dazzlingly white skin, and blue eyes.

The boy couldn't speak, but he could understand what Zikad meant.

He made a series of gestures and pointed to the pendant around his neck—a small glass bottle tied with a rope.

Zickard observed.

 “Digging? No, digging through the ice?”

"sleep?"

 “Drink water? Drink alcohol? Drink medicine?”

 “Leave, separate?”

 …

Zikad’s mandible suddenly clicked, and one of his teeth fell out.

It finally knows what the other person is talking about.

The child was talking, he was the baby who was dug up by himself.

Chicard was both excited and extremely surprised.

The Nibelungs grew up so fast that they could grow from a baby to a teenager in just one month.

At this time, the ground began to shake again.

 The young man had a surprised expression on his face and looked into the distance.

Zickard barely managed to steady his body.

It discovered that a huge hole opened in the ground, and many people crawled out from the ground and the glacier. They are all like teenagers, with white hair, white skin, and blue eyes, but most of them are very young, almost all of them are children, and there are very few boys and girls.

 At the center of all the Nibelungen children is a young man whose gender is difficult to distinguish.

His silver hair spread out, almost completely covering his body, like some kind of mysterious totem. All the children moved toward him, reaching out to touch him.

At the moment of contact, these children merged with the long-haired young man, making the young man taller. With the assimilation and integration of a large number of children, the shape of the young people in the center is constantly changing and distorting.

He turned into a towering giant, wearing armor made of ice and snow, with a faint blue light lingering on the armor.

The young man looked at Chicard and then at the giant.

 He pointed to the giant facing this way, indicating that he would also go there.

Zickard doesn’t feel good.

 As a bone mage, he also has a certain understanding of the basics of spells and various abilities. This is a spell of complete fusion, almost symbiotic.

 The giants of the Kingdom of Mist were originally made up of the children of Nibelungen - in other words, the Nibelungen clan is more like the childhood of the giants of the Kingdom of Mist.

 It takes a large number of children to form an adult giant.

This way of growing up makes Chicard feel dangerous and weird.

It grabbed the young man and said, "Don't go."

The young man had a confused and hesitant expression on his face, and he gestured to indicate that it was difficult for him to resist the giant's call.

 “I don’t know if you understand... You can go over there and become part of the giant.”

Chicard gestured: "You don't have to go back and live like a child outside. Becoming a giant is not your only choice to live."

 The young man seemed to understand.

But there was an uneasy and nervous look on his face, as if he was frightened by the mere thought of resisting the giant.

 The young man stood there, still hesitant.

However, the giant has completed the integration of other Nibelung children and is coming here step by step. At this time, it was more than thirty meters tall, like a hill, shaking the earth with every step it took.

 The giant’s broad fingers fell from the air to the young man.

 The young man suddenly turned his face, showing an expression of pain and fear.

Zickard grabbed him and pulled him behind him.

 “Run! Run out!”

The young man seemed to understand and ran away.

Chicard also wanted to escape, but his body was shattered with a slap from the giant. At the critical moment, Chicard skillfully threw his skull far away with both hands, but unfortunately it got stuck on an ice pick.

The giant raised his foot and stepped on Zikad's skull.

 At the last moment of his life, Chicard felt neither fear nor fear in his heart.

It's just annoying.

It’s a pity that I couldn’t take pictures of the Nibelungen children growing up into giants.

 …

 However, the expected death fragment did not appear.

A bolt of black lightning fell on his head, causing the giant to stagger back two steps.

Chicard came back to his senses and saw a black-armored knight standing in front of him.

 Blood Knight·Naved.

 “Who allowed you to harm the Yao tribe, Frost Giant?”

The giant roared angrily and unwillingly, but in the end it spread its hands as if eager to explain something.

The Blood Knight just raised his sword and pointed it at the opponent: "Next time, I will send you back to the Eternal Fountain."

The frost giant's whole body stiffened suddenly. It turned around and retreated in a hurry, quickly disappearing into the ice mist.

Zickard felt relieved.

Wherever the divine power of Lord Yao resides, the Yao people will be able to obtain maximum security.

 The Kingdom of Mist is the territory and origin of the giants, as well as the bed and home of the Nibelungs, but only the **** Yao is the master here.

 (End of this chapter)