Chapter 491 The Giant of Children

“To live is an unexpected journey to die.”

The bone priest Samuel has imparted a lot of knowledge and experience to everyone and is a wise man worthy of respect.

But Zicard remembered this sentence and could never forget it.

For the ancient people of bones, death was a common thing.

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

Farmers often encounter wild beasts rushing to plunder their fields while farming, the most common of which are wild boars and bison.

They would suddenly rush into the fields and feast on the food. If the farmer could not dodge or escape in time, he would be knocked away and thrown to the ground, turning into a pile of broken bones. If he was unlucky, his skull would be crushed and he would die on the spot.

The herders are most afraid of electric wolves and rock bears.

These two extraordinary monsters are not as easy to talk to as wild beasts. If the wild beasts that rush into fields and houses are looking for something to eat, which is at best stealing and robbing, then the lightning wolf and the rock bear are purposefully killing and robbing.

Once they launch an attack, they will first kill all the herders around them, and then they will eat 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 a hard time facing the extraordinary monsters. This situation lasted for hundreds of years.

Until God Yao turned his eyes to this world.

With the arrival of the Prophet Cat Grass, a series of changes began to take place in the entire Resurrection Kingdom: increasing remuneration to encourage animal husbandry and planting, expanding and strengthening the army, and the king must also follow the election system to take office, with the capable being promoted and the weak being demoted. Many Yao scholars and mages came to provide support...

Zicard witnessed the kingdom's earth-shaking changes.

On his unexpected journey to death, Zicard felt for the first time the changes that came with being alive.

The wizard Andre told him about the outside world.

"I come from the fifth layer of the Abyss, where there used to be constant wars, but it's also a very wonderful place. There are many wizard towers built by us on the ground, patrolling centaurs on the plains, monks practicing on foot in the forests and mountains, and vampires turning into bats that often fly by in the dark night..."

"You can go and have a look if you have a chance."

"You are an optimistic adventurer, Zicard. You will encounter many troubles and dangers, but that is the path you will choose... Some people will choose the road that many people have walked on. Those places are safe and flat, but because they have been stepped on everywhere, it is difficult to have any surprises."

Andre smiled and patted Zicard's dry shoulder: "And you, my friend, will take the paths less traveled. I know you will do that, even if not now, you will make this choice one day in the future."

Soon after, the hero Sidhar accomplished a nearly impossible feat.

It proved through its actions on the battlefield that the skeleton ancestors could also become giants that people fear and admire, and that a thin skeleton body does not only represent humility and cannon fodder.

Everything is possible.

During the same period, Zicard was also hired as a reporter for the Sand City Gazette, responsible for local reporting in the Resurrection Kingdom.

It followed and reported the entire process of the marriage ceremony of the god Martyr and Theodore at the Kashima Shrine. Both the god and the apostle Theodore were too low-key, and there was no news of them appearing outside the shrine.

The news was so short that it only had one sentence, but Zicard retained some elements that the masses liked in the report.

After the report came out, it was beaten several times. The opponent's attack was cruel and accurate. Before Zikade could come to his senses, he was torn into pieces. Its bones were severely broken and it took a long time to recover.

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

…

Holding the baby in his arms, Zicard was in a wonderful mood.

The bone ancestors were infertile, and population growth was entirely dependent on the [bone mounds], so there was no concept of family, and the population was more divided into occupational groups.

It had heard Master Andre say this before.

"It was not easy for my wife to give birth to a child. She is a vampire, and it is difficult for supernatural beings to give birth to the next generation... At first, Alyosha and I were very scared. We were too busy and lacked time to accompany the children."

"But when I actually had a child, it was a wonderful feeling. I can't explain it, but I just felt more hopeful and motivated about life... I wanted to be a qualified adult and role model. Children are the future, and the world belongs to them."

When Andre said this, a satisfied smile appeared on his face, as if he had received a gift from God.

Zicard 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 slightly expanding and contracting.

The Nibelung child slowly opened his eyes.

His eyelashes were very long, and his pupils were blue, like gemstones. His small lips moved as if he wanted to say something, but no words came out.

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

But Zicard had a solution.

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

"I'm sorry, I didn't expect to dig you out."

"Just continue to sleep."

Zicard placed the baby back into the previous pit, quickly covered it with 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 was looking at it curiously with his blue eyes.

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

This made Zicard a little embarrassed.

If we bury him again, the child may still come out. Andre said that the child is very energetic and sleeps very soundly, but when he wakes up, he is as excited as a berserker.

Zicard rummaged through his backpack.

Got it!

It found a bottle of magic potion [Sleeping Potion] and fed it all to the baby. The baby soon fell asleep, lying on the ground with his arms and legs spread out, motionless.

very good.

Good boy.

Zicard buried it again in an underground ice cave.

That should be fine now.

But when it walked to the edge of the Land of Mist with its backpack on its back, it was shocked to see that the child had followed it again.

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

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

So when I walked out of the Land of Mist, the baby looked at me blankly, but with an expression of reluctance on his face - but he didn't cry.

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

…

After returning to the newspaper office in Sand City, Zikad handed over the crystal images he had taken with the [Coral Crystal Phase] to the newspaper office. After these crystal images were selected, they would be copied by painters and put on paper newspapers.

A few days later, the latest issue of the Sand City Gazette was published, and one of the headlines was "Exploring the Land of Mist" written by Zicard.

This is the first detailed record of an expedition to the Land of Mists in history, but it does not mention the Nibelung baby trapped in the ice.

A month later, Zicard entered the Land of Mist again.

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

According to feedback from scholars of the Temple Society, earthquakes frequently occurred on the ground of the Land of Mist, and the ice layer began to fluctuate violently like ocean waves, making it difficult and dangerous for them to collect ice spring toxins.

Deep beneath Niflheim, some power seems to be gradually reviving.

In response, the Blood Knight guarding the Inexhaustible Spring simply said, "It's a giant."

According to legend, the Land of Mist is one of the origins of giants.

At least one giant is being bred in the Land of Mist.

Zicard carried his backpack all the way into the Land of Mist. On this ice field covered with cold white fog, he experienced two small earthquakes and almost damaged the precious [Coral Crystal].

While it protected the all-important wind collectors’ gear, the large tool bag was missing.

It contained not only necessary items such as potions, pickaxes, shovels, ropes and steam stoves, but also important special grease. Zicard had to smear the grease all over his body to prevent his bones and joints from freezing and becoming brittle.

Death is approaching.

Just as Zicard was showing his sorrow, a young man walked out of the fog. He found Zicard's tool kit and returned it to him intact.

"Thank you so much! It really helps!"

Qikade was very excited and said in Yao language, "I am Qikade, a reporter from the Dibao Office. Are you from the Temple Society?"

The boy smiled at him.

Only then did Zicard feel that something was wrong.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

The boy was wearing tattered clothes that were meant for adults. He had no gloves on his hands, and his neck was exposed to the icy mist. He had a pair of bare feet under his wide trouser legs.

He looked to be about thirteen or fourteen, with snow-white hair, dazzling white skin, and deep blue eyes.

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

He made a series of gestures, pointing to the pendant around his neck - it was a small glass bottle tied with a string.

Zicard watched.

"Dig the soil? No, dig through the ice?"

"sleep?"

"Drink water? Drink wine? Take medicine?"

"Leaving, parting?"

…

There was a sudden click in Zicard's jaw, and a tooth fell out.

It finally understood what the other party was talking about.

The child was saying that he was the baby he dug out.

Zicard was excited and extremely surprised.

The growth rate of the Nibelungen family is so fast that they can grow from a baby to a teenager in just one month.

At this time, the ground began to shake again.

The boy showed a surprised expression on his face and looked into the distance.

Zicard managed to keep himself steady.

It found that a huge crack appeared in the ground, and many people crawled out from the underground and the glacier. They were all like the teenagers, with white hair, white skin, and blue pupils, but most of them were very young, almost all children, and there were very few boys and girls.

In the center of all the Nibelung children was a young man who was difficult to tell whether he was a man or a woman.

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

The moment they touched, these children merged with the long-haired young man, making the young man taller. As a large number of children assimilated and integrated, the shape of the young man in the center continued to change and distort.

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

The boy looked at Zicard, then at the giant.

He pointed at the giant heading this way, indicating that he wanted to go over too.

Zicard didn't feel good.

As a bone mage, it also has a certain understanding of the basics of spells and various abilities. This is a completely integrated spell, almost like a symbiotic body.

It turns out that the Giants of the Land of Mist were formed by the children of the Nibelungs - in other words, the Nibelung clan is more like the childhood of the Giants of the Land of Mist.

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

This way of growing up seemed dangerous and weird to Zicard.

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

The boy had a confused and hesitant look on his face, and he gestured to indicate that the Titan's summons were making it difficult for him to fight against them.

"I don't know if you can understand... You can go over and become part of the giant."

Zicard gestured: "You can also not go back and live the way of the children outside. Becoming a giant is not your only choice to live."

The boy seemed to understand.

But his face showed an uneasy and nervous look, as if he was terrified at the mere thought of resisting the giant.

The boy stood there, still hesitant.

However, the giant had already completed the fusion of the other Nibelung children and was walking towards this side step by step. At this time, it was more than 30 meters tall, like a small mountain, and every step it took would shake the earth.

The giant's five broad fingers fell from the air toward the boy.

The boy suddenly turned his face with an expression of pain and fear.

Zicard grabbed him and pulled him behind him.

"Run! Run out!"

The boy seemed to understand and ran away.

Zicard also wanted to escape, but the giant slapped him and smashed his body. At the critical moment, Zicard skillfully threw his skull far away with both hands, but it got stuck on an ice cone.

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

In the last moments of his life, Zicard felt neither fear nor terror.

It's just annoying.

It’s a pity that I couldn’t capture the scene of the Nibelung children growing into giants.

…

However, the expected death fragment did not occur.

A bolt of black lightning struck the giant's head, causing him to stagger back two steps.

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

Blood Knight Navid.

"Who allowed you to harm the Yao people, Frost Giant?"

The giant roared with anger and unwillingness, but finally spread out its hands, as if eager to explain something.

The Blood Knight simply raised the greatsword in his hand and pointed it at the other party: "If you do it again, I will send you back to the Eternal Spring."

The frost giant's body suddenly stiffened, and it turned around and retreated in a hurry, quickly disappearing in the icy fog.

Zicard breathed a sigh of relief.

Wherever Lord Yao's divine power is, the Yao clan can be guaranteed the greatest degree of security.

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

(End of this chapter)