"Jack the Giant Slayer"! Wayne also sat by the fire, listening to the story told by the old man. It was actually a very simple story, like a fairy tale.

The monks discovered God, and then they used unknown means to create magic bean pods. They used the beans taken from the bean pods to grow a road to heaven in an attempt to find God.

But when they climbed up the road to heaven and arrived at a new place, thinking they had arrived at the gate of heaven, they ended up encountering a tragic fate.

Between the human world and heaven, there is a floating continent called Gantowa, which is the territory of the cruel giants.

When they killed the monks and discovered the road leading to the human world, the giants came to the human world with disaster.

They burned, killed and looted, and human soldiers were like ants in front of them. But when they discovered the deliciousness of human flesh, these giants went completely crazy and began to treat humans as food, carrying out even greater scale destruction.

When the human king Eric witnessed this disaster, he immediately ordered the monks to use magic again to create something that could control the giant's mind.

So the monks melted a magic bean, added various kinds of magic, and finally created an unprecedented crown, which was called Eric's Magic Crown.

As long as the king wears this crown, all the giants will become his slaves and obey his orders.

So King Eric ordered the giants to return to their homes and had the vine bridge grown from the magic bean cut down, cutting off the road between Gantowa and the human world.

In the end, the kingdom was safe, and before King Eric died, he took the crown and magic beans and fell into eternal sleep.

After telling this story, Thomas' granddaughter listened with great interest. After listening to it, she asked her grandfather excitedly:

"Grandpa, are there really giants? Do magic beans and magic crowns really exist?"

The old man stroked his beard, shook his head and said, "How is it possible? This is just a story. There are no giants, spells or magic crowns. However, there is indeed a King Eric. He is the ancestor of our current King Brawell. The current royal family is the descendants of King Eric."

After explaining to his granddaughter, the old man found Wayne also listening to his story, so he smiled and asked:

"Mr. Wayne, haven't you heard of this story? This story is very famous in our kingdom, and almost all children have heard of it."

Wayne smiled and explained that he came from a faraway country and had never heard such a story.

But he knew in his heart that this was not the story, although he was not sure what time period it was, but in the movie, the hero obtained the magic beans and accidentally planted them, resulting in the reappearance of the road to heaven and its connection to Gantova, the territory of giants in the sky.

Even the princess of the kingdom was accidentally sent there and captured by giants, and humans also stole the crown. Finally, the giants launched a large-scale attack on the ground, and the male protagonist accidentally obtained the crown, married the princess and became king, and the story had a perfect ending.

A rather old story.

He can no longer remember the specific details, but he still remembers that this incident happened when the princess came of age and was about to be betrothed to the villain. The villain stole the crown, and the hero Jack got the magic beans. As long as he goes to the royal city to confirm, he can find out what time period it is now?

After sorting out his thoughts, Wayne took out the golden beans he had prepared, showed them to Old Thomas, and asked:

"Mr. Thomas, I don't have your currency. Can I pay directly with gold?"

"If possible, I would like to exchange my gold for some more of your currency."

"Of course, I won't let you suffer any loss. I can pay a little more as a reward for your hospitality."

………………

In the afternoon, Wayne left Thomas's farm on a mare.

This time his luck was pretty good. The first natives he met were a group of nice people. Not only did they exchange some coins for him and sell him a docile mare, they also invited him to have lunch with them.

Obviously, the civilians in this world are normal people, not like those unruly people in the wizarding world, who are always thinking of despicable things like cheating, murder and robbery.

Wayne rode for two hours to travel a distance of more than ten kilometers. When he was leading the breathless horse close to the royal city of the Albian Kingdom, this fortress-like city came into his sight in its entirety.

Not only does it have a moat that is seven or eight meters wide, and a huge drawbridge-style city gate that can be taken off and recovered, but the city walls are also nearly twenty meters high, and the building materials used are all solid rocks.

On the walls of this royal city, there are four huge crossbows. Wayne has an impression of this weapon. It is a powerful weapon that can kill giants.

There is also a sub-city wall behind the city wall that can be used for secondary combat. The overall city wall can be said to be impregnable.

Unfortunately, in Wayne's memory, those giants were all seven or eight meters tall and very strong. They could use a whole tree or a huge rock as a projectile to attack. They were simply human catapults.

The defense of this royal city may be able to deal with ordinary human soldiers, but it is still a bit stretched to deal with giants and can be easily broken through by various means.

In the original movie, if the male protagonist had not appeared at the last moment with the crown to control the giants, all the soldiers and civilians in the city would have been captured by these giants as spare food.

The entrance fee was not expensive, only two copper coins. After paying the money, Wayne drove his horse into the city.

Just like the medieval cities in his impression, there were also some shops in the city. He led his horse and first found a hotel to stay in, and then strolled around these shops, wanting to see if there were any local specialties in this world worth buying that he could take back.

Unfortunately, after walking around for an afternoon, Wayne didn't find anything good. They were just some common food, daily necessities and clothes. However, it was not without gain. After walking around for half a day, he found a bookstore. In this bookstore, he used gold beans to buy several books, most of which were about history and mythology.

Wayne wanted to see if there were any other noteworthy themes in this world besides the story of the Giant Catcher.

The reason why I didn't buy more books was mainly because the books here were too expensive, several times more expensive than the books in the wizarding world.

Perhaps because printing technology was not yet popular, almost all books were handwritten and the paper was quite thick, so each book was equivalent to a luxury item that ordinary people could not afford.

Fortunately, the text here is almost the same as English. With his English level, he can barely understand the text and read it.

And this world may not be as simple as Wayne imagined, because he saw the legend of Merlin, the Viking warriors in the north, and some legends that are similar to those on Earth, but also somewhat different.

In this way, he stayed in the city until the evening. At night, he found the busiest tavern in the city and went in. While drinking, he used his keen hearing to collect the information he wanted.

However, perhaps because the country had been peaceful for too long, most of the drinkers in these taverns talked about trivial matters, such as someone's wife cheated on him, someone's business made money, or which young man became a knight's squire and was appreciated by the nobles, etc. Such useless information.

Not only that, this kingdom called Abilan is simply a food desert. He ordered their most delicious dishes in this busiest tavern.

What was served was mashed potatoes, fried fish, and a meat pie decorated with a salted fish head. The dish was comparable to the Stargazing dish, and it made Wayne, a top chef, feel itchy all over.

He barely finished his mashed potatoes and fried fish, and drank two bottles of fruit wine before he finally heard some useful information from someone else.

A strong young man, who might be a guard in the palace, boasted to his friends:

"Princess Elizabeth is so beautiful. She is old enough to get married, and she is the king's only daughter."

"Whoever can marry her will become the future king of this country."

"I wonder which man will be such a lucky person."

After hearing the young man's sigh, some of his friends immediately asked with interest: "Blot, you stay in the palace every day, don't you know which man the king is going to choose to be the princess's husband?"

The young man named Blot smiled mysteriously when he heard this. At his friend's urging, he lowered his voice and said, "I guess it's Earl Roderick. He is a great nobleman and lord in the kingdom, and he is not married. His Majesty the King has kept him in the palace and trusts him very much. I think he must be trying to match him with Princess Elizabeth."

After hearing the news, Wayne nodded with satisfaction. At least it was certain that Princess Elizabeth was not married yet and was old enough to get married, which meant that the story in the movie was about to happen.

It's a pity that he didn't know where the crown and magic beans were hidden, otherwise he could sneak into the palace directly and find the two magic props. In that case, he wouldn't have to wait for the plot in the movie to happen normally.

However, this has no effect. Anyway, when the time comes, after the vine that reaches the sky appears, he can go and get the crown and magic beans, and deal with the giants at the same time. It is all fine and will not affect the final result.

Moreover, he hadn't figured out how to deal with what happened next.

Of course, he must get the crown. As long as he has the crown, these giants will become his slaves, a group of powerful giant warriors. When necessary, they can be taken to other worlds to fight wars for him.

However, Wayne has not yet figured out how to treat other mortals.

He himself is not an evil person. It is impossible for him to allow the giants to massacre ordinary civilians, but he does not want to give up the power that he can control over the giants.

But the giant's territory was too far from the ground, probably several thousand meters high. Without a bridge made of magic vines, he couldn't fly directly to the giant's territory.

The number of magic beans is limited. If you cut off the magic vines that are thousands of meters long, when they fall to the ground, they will cause great damage to the surrounding buildings.

If he wants to use the power of the giants in the future, the best way is to tame the entire giant clan. At the same time, he must maintain the existence of the magic vines so that he can travel between the giants' territory and the ground at any time.

(End of this chapter)