Two Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-Seven, Inheritance of the Underground World (17)

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Forest of the Fallen Giants.

"【Kang Keke——】"

After being defeated by Sherlock, the "angry giant king" roared with reluctance and anger while disintegrating into wood, and finally turned into a gray-green tree that vaguely showed a human figure.

"This guy is a bit outrageous. After knocking its giant sword away, it actually chose to pull down one of its hands as a weapon," Sherlock straightened his clothes that were a little messy due to sliding and dodging: "If we continue to fight, will it pull down its legs as a weapon and then roll to attack?"

"It's possible." Melina, who was not affected by the battle at all, nodded.

"I'm just joking, huh? What?"

Sherlock was halfway through his words when he saw Melina reaching out to the giant king who had turned into a tree.

As she moved, golden streams of light dissipated and gathered from the giant tree, and finally, in her palm, it turned into a golden object... about the size of two fists, as fluffy as clouds and as bright as flames.

"【The soul of the giant king】," Melina said without waiting for Sherlock to ask, in the expected tone of reading a script: "【The soul of the giant king who destroyed Dolan Gureg in the past.】"

"【The king of Dolan Gureg, Pancrad, listened to the advice of his wife Duna Xiangzhuo and crossed the sea to conquer the powerful soul of the giant."

"【The giants were defeated by the dragon riders who came across the sea, and were captured and brought back to the royal city. At that time, the king's face was shrouded in an ominous shadow.】"

"【After using it, you will gain a huge amount of souls, and it can also be used to forge equipment with great power.】"

Isn't this "recollection"!

At that time, at the border, after defeating some bosses, this kind of thing would drop. In their "item description", in addition to the name at the beginning and the purpose at the end, there must be one or two paragraphs of introduction to the world view in the middle, but it is basically vague, and a large number of related items must be combined to piece together a complete history.

However, because of the encyclopedia "Witch Melina" at that time, Sherlock was basically too lazy to summarize and analyze those things.

Hmm... Thinking about it carefully, it seems that "Little Melina" and "Black Lantern Clee" also have the ability of "search engine", but the latter is less talkative so it is ignored.

As for this "Pancrad", Melina has already told his deeds once, but now there is an additional person who seems to be very key-"Princess Duna Xiangzhuo".

"Why does this 'Princess' suggest attacking the country of giants?" Sherlock asked: "The living giants are imprisoned as slaves, and the dead giants are extracted from their souls. She should know that this will definitely be retaliated by the other party."

Although it seems that the giants were all wiped out in the end, what was the price? Didn't Dolan Gureg also perish because of this? Moreover, the sentence "an ominous shadow shrouded his face" is also very worrying.

"['The Apostle of Desire' Duna Xiangzhuo is a fragment of the 'Abyss'," Melina looked at the "soul" in her hand, but her eyes were unfocused: "[She tried everything to lead Dolan Gureg to destruction.]"

It sounds familiar, as if there are many similar stories in ancient Eastern history, but according to the professors, it was just a cowardly act of not daring to blame the king or emperor and attributing the responsibility for the country's demise to women.

However, in this world, they seem to be the culprits?

"What is the 'Abyss'? What is its purpose? Is it just to destroy Dolan Gureg?" Sherlock asked.

According to previous experience, when a noun comes out of Melina's mouth, it becomes a "hyperlink" that can be "jumped". In order to avoid jumping too far and deviating from the original purpose, Sherlock generally does not ask about irrelevant things.

But this time is different. The so-called "Abyss" clearly has the intention to destroy this world-and it seems to have succeeded.

"【When the first fire was born in the world, the shadow that appeared was the abyss. Fire has always wanted to expel the abyss, and the abyss has always wanted to devour fire. The establishment of a country and the birth of a king will make the fire more vigorous, and vice versa, the flame will gradually extinguish.】"

As expected, once it comes to the bottom setting of the world, Melina's words become a little incomprehensible:

"【Countries are constantly established and kings are constantly born, and the abyss is constantly expelled. The fragments produced in this process adhere to the will of the abyss and want to destroy those countries and destroy those kings. One of them is Duna Xiangzhuo. She does not want to destroy Dolan Gureg, but wants to destroy all countries on this continent.】"

"Were other countries also destroyed by Duna Xiangzhuo? Did she instigate King Pancrad to attack them like she did to the Giant Country?" Sherlock continued to ask.

"【Other countries also have 'their own abyss fragments'," Melina replied: "【They are the princess of the 'White King's Kingdom': 'Silent' Yarshuna, the princess of the 'Holy Wall': 'Filthy Elena', the princess of the 'Smelting Iron Kingdom': 'Coal Bride' Nadra.】"

Does the abyss fragment have any obsession with the incarnation princess to seduce the king? !

But think about it carefully, if reality and the abyss correspond to light and shadow, there is nothing wrong with them doing this, just look at those kings who actually married them as princesses.

Sherlock was silent for a while, then asked: "So they all succeeded?"

This is a superfluous question. If they failed in the end, the world would not have become like this.

"I don't know," Melina returned to her dull expression: "The Giant King did not attack the other three countries, and the relationship between Duna Xiangzhuo and the other 'princess' is not very good."

Hmm, is this the end of the information that can be obtained just by relying on the "soul of the Giant King"?

Maybe he really has to travel to all four worlds and get some related items so that Melina can interpret the history and summarize a way to save the world.

Um? Wait, is that merchant carrying a bunch of equipment from other countries?

"Melentilla, where are you?" Sherlock looked towards the corner where the merchant had been hiding, only to find that there was no one there.

"Over there." Melina raised her hand and pointed to the ruins where the "Giant King" had just rushed out.

Although no one could be seen because it was blocked by the broken eaves and broken walls, the super-large backpack was very conspicuous as it flickered, especially when something would fly up out of thin air and land in the basket from time to time.

As expected, all his equipment came from this...

Forget it, there is no rush to obtain information, let’s bring him back to Rumi first.

"Help, help - help!" Before Sherlock was about to call him, the merchant ran back from the ruins while letting out a familiar scream.

bass--

A big sword fell in the air and was inserted diagonally into the position where Melentilla had just ran. Then, a knight wearing heavy armor that was constantly emitting black smoke, holding a huge shield, and a red light coming out of his helmet appeared. Falling from the sky, he slowly pulled out the big sword, and then pointed it at Sherlock from a distance.

What appeared next was the familiar long health bar and its name.

[The Cursed One - "Start class!"]

...No, that shouldn't be the name.