Chapter 613 Utgarochi
As the dark vortex in the sky gradually spread and grew larger, the sky became increasingly gloomy.
As the sky watched, it gradually got darker. It was clearly noon but it felt like night.
The howling storm blew in, rocking the ship anchored on the shore. Waves washed over it one after another—not a tide flowing from east to west, but ripples spreading outward from the island of Avalon.
"Captain! Think of a solution!"
Albert covered his chestnut-like round hat and shouted to the tall elf beside him: "Is Lord Heleqin in danger?"
"……I don't know either."
The gray-haired elf known as the Captain frowned, "This is too fast..."
"I think this is a trap! Let's get off the boat!"
The old dwarf spoke in a rough and loud voice.
"In any case, please send the armor and spear to Lord Heleqin first."
The human girl beside him looked over: "Otherwise, if he is attacked..."
"—I'll go there, you guys guard the boat."
The tall lizardman warrior spoke in a low voice, interrupting the others.
The others suddenly fell silent and looked at him with conviction.
"Leave it to you, Origen!"
Others were shouting, as if everything would be fine as long as this warrior took action.
At this moment, the brown-skinned lizardman warrior easily put on the heavy armor on his back, raised the silver-white lance, and frowned.
——He felt a strong sense of unease.
That feeling...
"……demon?"
The giant priest in a red robe suddenly raised his head, looked out the window, and frowned: "Where did the demon come from?"
"What demon?"
The other female giant beside him, who was much shorter than him, was a little confused: "What are you talking about, Surtel?"
"A night demon is venting her 'jealousy'... perhaps this is a conspiracy by the Fallen Angels.
"—Also, remember to call me Utgaroch, Sigyn. I am no longer the guardian of the kingdom."
The giant Utgarochi glanced down at the long-handled metal axe in his hand and said calmly, "I no longer have the right to hold the [Broken Branch]."
"Then do you still want to take care of this matter?"
Sigyn asked with concern, "Or report it to the Supreme Heaven."
Unlike the rough and terrifying appearance of the giants, the female giant Sigyn has a beautiful face and skin as white as marble.
Both she and Utgarochi had red hair, but hers was darker, or darker.
"certainly."
Utgarochi replied briefly: "That's right, I want to fight too."
He picked up his weapon, and the arm holding the weapon gradually became engorged with blood and bulged with dark red muscles.
"O brave Most High Heaven!"
He roared, his crimson, scarred skin gradually igniting with flames like red wine: "Protect your people!
"I will fight! I will win! I will—
"—I will go crazy!!"
Utgarochi's entire body was engulfed in flames, and his red robe seemed to be soaked in blood and turned into flames.
First it was a slow walk, then a quick pace, then a mad dash, turning into a comet.
A giant more than ten meters tall rushed out of the hall of the Supreme Heaven with bare feet. The flames burning on his body easily evaporated the blood rain, leaving a trail of steaming hot smoke in the rain curtain.
And the other side.
The blood rain brought by the Night Demon turned into a deadly weapon.
The clear water turned to blood, the plants began to wither, and the animals fled in panic.
The air was filled with an ominous smell like rust, and a curse clung to every raindrop that fell like a scarlet poison needle.
If you zoom in, you can see that within each falling drop of blood, there is a thin, inky black, curved line that bounces back and forth. And at the tip of each line is a skull-shaped snake head.
The giants who were drenched in the blood rain began to feel their bodies becoming weak.
The power in the body began to leak out uncontrollably, the mind began to become abnormal, and the body twitched involuntarily, as if it had been poisoned by a snake in the air and had a fever.
——This is the "Snake Head Curse".
Unlike ordinary "fever curses", this curse can be precisely targeted - the Night Demon set it to "all creatures over three meters tall." To those who are not cursed, it is just a sticky rain of blood; to the cursed race, it is a fierce poison that will infect them if it touches the skin.
Every drop of rain is a curse.
No matter how strong the giants' resistance to curses is, they still cannot withstand the pressure of curses of this density and are entangled by the curse one by one.
Then, they screamed one after another—
When they were cursed, the original blood rain seemed to have turned into poison needles!
Every drop of rain that fell shaved off a tiny piece of flesh. The giants cried out miserably, as if being pierced by a dense swarm of steel needles falling from the sky.
That's even more vicious than a rain of steel needles!
Because once the blood rain penetrates the skin and muscles, it will turn into an acidic poison, causing even greater corrosion to the body. The next drop of rain may even fall exactly where it just landed, causing further wear and tear deep into the body!
In less than a minute, the giants who were unable to return to the building were turned into a pile of bones under the blood rain.
Their flesh and blood were corroded by the blood rain, spreading on the ground into scarlet rivers.
Aiwass rode on the Pegasus affected by the enchanting aura and flew towards the east.
Unlike the later Knight Kingdom of Avalon, the "Island Avalon" of this era had no port. However, this did not prevent Aiwass from knowing that their current location should be on the west side of Avalon Island.
The location of the Glass Island should be to the east of Avalon!
The Pegasus flew at high speed in the air, and a golden sacred light emanated from its surroundings.
And the Night Demon followed closely behind.
Behind her, her wings, as rugged as the trunks of a dead tree, spread wide. Illusory feathers of shadow dotted them like leaves. Her body almost completely vanished into nothingness, fading into the sky that had become "night."
——That night demon didn’t look like Aiwas’ follower at all, but rather like someone who was chasing him!
At this time, Aiwass finally arrived at the first large gathering point.
Aiwass knew that giants weren't typical social animals. They tended to live in small, family-based units, each occupying a small area. They didn't normally interact with other giants and had no social needs. These relatively compact giant families could be called "gathering places" or "gathering points."
The giants would build castles and raise humans in their own areas - they called the humans who established villages and towns "free-range", and the ownership of these free-range humans remained theirs.
With the endless supply of vegetables provided by the Magic Cauldron, the giants wouldn't starve despite their voracious appetites. However, meat was undoubtedly a luxury for them. For this reason, the giants often named their gathering places after parts of meat... and naturally, there would be areas with the same name.
After all, although the Giant Kingdom is called a kingdom, it does not have grassroots managers.
The Giant Kingdom practices a classic example of flat governance—the entire nation consists of only three thin layers. At the top, the royal family, imbued with the divine blood of the Supreme Heaven, serves as its representatives in the material world. Below them are the priests, who prioritize culture, and the generals, who prioritize martial arts. Then there are the common people. All commoners are soldiers, and there is no Giant who is incompetent in combat.
The reason the giants had established a gathering point was because, as devout believers in the Supreme Heaven, they had a strong need to perform sacrifices. However, traveling to the Royal City was too far, so they needed a closer area for their sacrificial activities.
From this perspective, the gathering point of giants is a large group of scattered giants surrounding the territory designated by the temple.
"Go ahead, Night Demon!"
Aiwass commanded: "First, demolish the temple to prevent any apostles from being teleported through it!"
"As you command, Master."
The Night Demon answered concisely and clearly, and then dived towards the temple like a black comet!
(End of this chapter)
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