Chapter 610: Where to kill, who to kill, and how many to kill?

Aiwass woke up to the sound of shaking and clear music.

...It felt like being on a boat.

Aiwass only felt a slight headache...

That even reminded Aiwass of how he felt when he woke up the next day after a hangover in his previous life.

He slowly opened his eyes and saw himself lying on a dry and simple bed, with sunlight shining through the window onto the quilt.

The thin quilt was covered in pure white silk, elf-style, without any decorations. The room he was in was not large, probably less than ten square meters. Apart from the bed he was lying on, there was only a wardrobe and a desk with a cabinet.

There were documents pressed with seals on the desk, and various small ornaments on the cupboard.

A brownish-red crystal cup that seemed to be used for drinking water, with a bumpy texture like tree bark; a palm-sized golden music box, its box was opened, and a little man made of rubies jumped out, dancing a complicated dance... The singing came from here; there was also a square piece of white crystal, which looked like a "photo" and a "golem", with a short animation stored in the crystal piece.

Aiwass first covered the music box that seemed to be acting as an alarm clock. Then he stretched out his rough but powerful right hand and picked up the "piece" of moving picture.

The protagonist in the story is undoubtedly a young man with a bright smile and golden hair.

He put his arm around the neck of his female companion, hugging her intimately like a "brother", and gave a thumbs-up to the "camera", as if saying something. His hair shone in the sun, and his pupils shone with a blue-green glow like turquoise.

His ears were pointed and long. Of all the elves Aiwas had ever seen, his ears were at least as long as those of the "Pure White" Saint or Cardinal Matilda.

The woman he was hugging had long straight black hair.

She had ominous scarlet pupils that obscured half of her eyes, giving her a rather gloomy look. What caught Aiwas's attention most were the two long dragon horns on her forehead.

It was a curved dragon horn similar to Ligeia's.

[This is me... and Valrhona]

A thought popped up in Aiwas' mind.

This is... me?

Aiwass was slightly stunned.

—Wait, is this really me?

Self-doubt is like a sharp knife that pries open a small hole in memory.

And just like the egg liquid flowing out after the eggshell was cracked, Aiwass remembered everything in an instant.

There wasn't even a waiting room for this promotion ceremony? Was he just thrown in with his eyes closed?

...Oh yeah. This time it's solo queue.

If you don't have to queue, you don't have to wait in the waiting room for everyone. And this time, there's no "host" at all, because the Lord of Scales and Feathers is hosting it himself...

After realizing who he was, Aiwass finally heard the ritual announcement of the Lord of Scales and Feathers.

Unlike the hoarse and unpleasant voice used during Aiwas's first promotion ceremony, the voice used by the Lord of Scales and Feathers this time was the same as the voice he used when he appeared before Aiwas, becoming mysterious and mature:

"You are Helechin Dragonflame, the renowned White Knight.

"As a 'Mediator,' you walk the human realm, upholding justice and judging right and wrong according to your own will. Your name spreads far and wide, and humans respect you greatly.

"But one day, one of the people you sanctioned shouted, 'You like to meddle so much, why don't you go and take care of the giants? They eat more people in a day than we kill in a month!'

"—You know what a giant is. They are the darlings and descendants of the Pillar God Supreme Heaven, born with natural strength, capable of wrestling with dragons.

"That barbaric and warlike race did not revere the Nine Pillars, but rather revered the Supreme God. They used force to determine the order of the Pillars and regarded the Supreme God as the most powerful Supreme God.

"And the Supreme God is also the most violent of the Pillar Gods. For millennia, He has been the only one to personally punish those who disrespect Him. But precisely because of this, some people do regard the Supreme God as the 'only true God.' This is one of the main difficulties in the missionary work of the Nine Pillar Gods Church... because only the Supreme God frequently performs miracles, known to all races.

"But you also think this matter is very difficult. This is because giants are very powerful, and they can reach the fifth level almost as soon as they reach adulthood. Giants do not live in groups, but they have terrifying 'skinless ones'. Even a group of two of the Pope's guards would find it difficult to fight against a skinless one.

"Although this matter involves the Pillar Gods, giants, and powerful enemies—yet you believe it's something that must be addressed. While some humans eat snake-men, bird-men, and lizard-men, only giants take this consumption for granted.

"—And as you investigate, you're horrified to discover that the giants' diet includes not only humans but also elves. More precisely, the giants prey on all races, even their own. The conquered are slaves, the defeated are food, and for the giants, slaves are a reserve of food. If the giants weren't trapped by the limitless food supply of the 'Devil's Cauldron' and gathered on Avalon, they would have become a race that brought endless disaster.

"Therefore, you decided to bid farewell to your pregnant wife and take your followers to the island of Avalon for an adventure and investigation. Your wife is also your mount, the dragon Fafner. As a 'Dragon Rider', without your mount, your strength will be greatly reduced; so you temporarily mobilized a Pegasus to supplement your combat power.

"These followers of yours are not your subordinates, but friends who were moved by your righteous deeds in the past and voluntarily followed you. They include elves, humans, lizardmen, snakemen, goblins, and even dwarves - a total of forty-eight people, who arrived in Avalon with you on the ship.

"One of your secrets is... you are a natural prophet, able to see fragments of the future through dreams. When you arrived in Alctoros and awoke from your dream, you knew... you would die here. The Giant Priests also saw this future, and they came to capture you.

"What will you do?"

As the Lord of Scales and Feathers finished his report, the Lord of Scales and Feathers' mission appeared before Aiwas' eyes.

[Necessary Task——]

[Continue to play Heleqin Longyan without being discovered or exposed by anyone (Points: 100)]

[Survive (Points: 100)]

【Additional Task——】

[Giant Slayer: Kill a giant of a higher tier than your own (Points: 100)]

[Giant Slayer: Kill all the Giants at the 'Breast', 'Tenderloin', and 'Rib' gathering points (Points: 500)]

[Giant Enemy: Go to the Temple and kill three Giant Priests of the Cervical Vertebrae level or above (Points: 500)]

[Giant Must Die: Kill a total of 100 giants (Points: 500)]

[Skinless and Heartless: Go to the King's Court and kill a Skinless Person (Points: 1000)]

[Wildfire Blows Again: Go to the Temple and kill a Giant Priest of the Skull level (Points: 1000)]

[Royal Court Hatred: Go to the Royal Court and kill or severely injure the Giant King (Points: 2000)]

[Blasphemer: Go to the Royal Court and demolish the statue of the Supreme God enshrined in the Royal Court (Points: 2000)]

"Fuck!"

Aiwass exclaimed in amazement: "The boss is awesome!"

In all his time in this world, he had never seen such clean, simple, and straightforward mission requirements.

——Where to go, what to kill, how many to kill.

Other than that, it's clean and nothing else.

He finally understood why the Lord of Scales and Feathers was so sure that this promotion ceremony would be able to lure Xiong Tiansi out...

This time, Aiwas plays the role of "Sir Helechin", the elven hero who turned into the Wild Hunt after his death, whom he had seen in Eagle Point Village before!

He can be said to be the person most hated by the giants.

In a sense, he was the first to question, "Why can man-eating giants exist?", the first to ask, "Even if it has always been this way, is it right?", and the first to attempt to overthrow the rule of the Giant King. With him, humans began to realize that "giants can actually rebel."

Before this, humans only viewed giants as a race of gods that must be revered and worshipped to avoid destruction - even if they were evil gods, they were still gods.

This promotion ceremony involved nothing more than killing giants. There were no puzzles, no battles of wits, and no role-playing traps—although he had to maintain the role, as long as he ran away, Heleqin's followers would never be able to catch up with him.

But... I have a small problem, boss.

Aiwass looked over the task carefully again and began to have some doubts about his new boss's plan.

...Is this how we fish with a straight hook?

Doesn’t Xiong Tiansi know that something is wrong?

Can this really be caught?

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(End of this chapter)