Chapter 491 The Giant of Children
“To live is to die an unexpected journey.”
Samuel, the Bone Priest, has imparted a lot of knowledge and experience to everyone and is a wise man worthy of respect.
But Chicard remembered this sentence and could never forget it.
For the Bone Ancestors, death was a rare and common thing.
In the early days of the Resurrection Kingdom, civilian mortality was high.
When farmers farm, they often encounter predatory wild animals, the most common being wild boars and bison.
They will suddenly rush into the fields to feast. If the farmer dodges and fails to escape, he will be knocked over by them and turn into a pile of broken bones when he lands. If he is unlucky, his skull will be crushed and he will die on the spot.
Herdsmen are most afraid of electric wolves and rock bears.
These two extraordinary monsters are not as easy to talk to as beasts. If the beasts that rush into fields and houses are looking for something to eat, which can be considered stealing and robbing at best, then the electric wolf and rock bear are killing and stealing goods with purpose.
Once they launch an attack, they will first kill all the surrounding herders, and then enjoy 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 great difficulty facing extraordinary monsters. This situation lasted for hundreds of years.
Until Yao God set his sights on this world.
With the arrival of the prophet Maocao, the entire Resurrection Kingdom began to undergo a series of changes: increasing remuneration to encourage animal husbandry and planting, expanding and strengthening the army, and the king must also follow the election system. Come over one after another for support...
Chicard witnessed the earth-shaking changes in the kingdom.
During his unexpected journey to death, Chicard felt for the first time the changes brought about by living.
The mage Andre told him about the outside world.
"I come from the fifth level of the abyss. There used to be constant wars there, but it is also a very magical place. There are many mage towers we built on the ground, there are centaur cavalry patrolling and running on the plains, and there are people practicing on foot in the forests and mountains. Monks and vampires turn into bats and often fly by in the night..."
"You can go take a look if you have a chance."
"You are an optimistic adventurer, Zikad. You will encounter a lot of troubles and dangers, but that is the path you will choose... Some people will choose the path that many people have traveled, those places are safe and flat, But because it’s been stepped on everywhere, it’s hard to have any surprises.”
Andre smiled and patted Chicard's dry shoulder: "And you, my friend, you will take those less traveled paths. I know you will do that, if not now, then one day in the future." choice.”
Soon after, the hero Siddal accomplished a near-impossible feat.
It proves with its actions on the battlefield that the skeletal ancestors can also become giants that make people fear and admire, and the thin skeleton body does not only represent humbleness and cannon fodder.
everything is possible.
During the same period of time, Chikard also applied to become a reporter for the "Shacheng Di News" and was responsible for local reporting in the Resurrection Kingdom.
It follows and reports the entire marriage ceremony of Martyr God and Theodore at Kashima Shrine. Both God and Apostle Theodore are too low-key, and there is no news about their appearance outside the shrine.
The news was as little as one sentence, and Chicard retained some elements that the masses liked in the report.
After the report came out, it received several beatings, and the opponent's attacks were so cruel and accurate that Chicard was cut into pieces by five horses before he could recover. The bones all over its body were severely shattered, and it took a long time to recover.
Then he was recruited by Di Newspaper Office to its headquarters in Shacheng, where he was responsible for local reporting.
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With the baby in his arms, Chicard was in a strange mood.
The Bone Ancestors are sterile, and the new population depends entirely on the Bone Mounds. Therefore, there is no concept of family, and they are more divided by occupational groups.
It was heard from Master Andre before.
"It is not easy for my wife to give birth to a child. She is a vampire. It is difficult for a supernatural person to give birth to the next generation...Alyosha and I were very scared at first. We were both too busy and lacked time to accompany the children. "
"But actually having a child is a wonderful feeling. Zikad, I can't say it, but I just feel that I am full of more hope and fighting spirit for life...I want to become a qualified adult. and role models. Children are the future and the world belongs to them.”
When Andre said this, there was a satisfied smile on his face, as if he had received a gift from the gods.
Chicard 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 expanding and contracting slightly.
The Nibelungen child slowly opened his eyes.
His eyelashes are very long and the pupils in his eyes are blue, like gems. His small lips moved, as if he wanted to say something, but no words came out.
In the end, he just held Chikard's bone-white fingers tightly with his soft little hands, as if nothing could make him let go.
But Zikad has an idea.
It dug out of the toolbox, smeared the bones of the hand with lard, and slipped out from between the baby's fingers.
"Sorry, I really didn't expect to dig you out."
"Just continue to sleep."
Chicard placed the baby back in the pit, quickly buried it in ice and tamped down the ground with a shovel.
When it packed up and turned to leave, it found that the child had crawled out of the ice and looked at it curiously with 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 he was buried again, the child might still come out. Andre said that children are very energetic. They sleep very soundly, but when they wake up, they are as excited as berserkers.
Zicard flipped through his backpack.
Got it!
It found a bottle of magic potion [Sleeping Potion] and poured it all into the baby. The other party fell asleep quickly and lay on the ground with his legs spread out.
Very good.
Good child.
Zicard buried it again in the underground ice cave.
This should be fine now.
But when it walked to the edge of the Land of Mist with its backpack on its back, it suddenly saw that the child had followed behind 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 didn't dare or couldn't leave the Land of Mist.
So when he walked out of the Land of Mist, the baby looked at this side blankly, but his face showed a reluctant expression - but he didn't cry.
Zicard gave him the empty bottle of sleeping potion as a souvenir.
...
Back to the newspaper office in Sand City, Zicard handed over the crystal phases he took with [Coral Crystal Phase] to the newspaper office. After these crystal phases are selected, they will be copied by painters and put on newspapers.
A few days later, the latest issue of Sand City Newspaper was published, and one of the headlines was "Exploring the Land of Mist" written by Zicard.
This is the first detailed record of the visit to the Land of Mist in history, but it does not mention the Nibelung baby in the ice.
A month later, Zicard entered the Land of Mist again.
This time it wants to investigate a strange incident that has caused a lot of controversy.
According to the feedback from the scholars of the Temple Society, the ground of the Land of Mist frequently experienced earthquakes, and the ice layer began to fluctuate violently like waves, making it difficult and dangerous for them to collect ice spring toxins.
Deep underground in Niflheim, it seems that some kind of power is gradually reviving.
In response, the Blood Knight guarding the Inexhaustible Spring just said: "It's a giant."
It is said that the Land of Mist is one of the sources of giants.
At least one giant is being bred in the Land of Mist.
Zicard carried his bag all the way into the Land of Mist. On this ice field covered with cold white fog, it experienced two small earthquakes and almost damaged the precious [Coral Crystal Phase].
Although it protected the most important wind collector's equipment, the large tool bag was missing.
It not only contained necessary items such as potions, iron picks, shovels, ropes and steam stoves, but also important special greases. Zicard had to apply the grease all over his body to prevent the bones and joints of his body from freezing and brittle.
Death is approaching.
Just as Zicard was showing his sorrow, a boy walked out of the fog. He found Zicard's tool kit and returned it intact.
"Thank you very much! It really helped a lot!"
Ziccard was very excited and said in Yao language with gestures: "I am Zicard, a reporter from the Dibao Office. Are you from the Temple Society?"
The boy smiled at him.
Ziccard felt something was wrong.
The boy was wearing tattered clothes, which were worn by adults. He had no gloves on his hands, and his neck was exposed to the ice fog. He was barefoot under his wide trouser legs.
He looked about thirteen or fourteen years old, with snow-white hair, dazzling white skin, and blue eyes.
The boy could not speak, but he could understand what Zicard meant.
He made a series of gestures and pointed to the pendant around his neck - it was a small glass bottle tied with a rope.
Ziccard observed.
"Dig the soil? No, dig through the ice?"
"Sleep?"
"Drink water? Drink wine? Take medicine?"
"Leave, part ways?"
...
Zikade's jaw suddenly clicked, and a tooth broke off.
It finally knew what the other party was talking about.
The child was saying that he was the baby he dug out.
Zikade was excited and extremely surprised.
The growth rate of the Nibelung family was so fast that they could grow from a baby to a teenager in just one month.
At this time, the ground shook again.
The boy showed a surprised expression on his face and looked into the distance.
Zikade barely stabilized his body.
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 boy, with white hair and 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 surrounded by all the Nibelung children, there was a young man who was difficult to distinguish between men and women.
His silver hair was spread out, almost completely wrapping his body, like some kind of mysterious totem. All the children approached him and reached out to touch him.
The moment they touched him, 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 towering into the sky, wearing armor made of ice and snow, and a faint blue light lingering on the armor.
The boy looked at Zicard, then at the giant.
He pointed to the giant heading this way, indicating that he would also go over.
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 fused spell, almost like a symbiotic body.
The giants of the Land of Mist were originally formed by the children of the Nibelungen - in other words, the Nibelungen 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 growth makes Zicard feel dangerous and weird.
It grabbed the boy: "Don't go."
The boy showed a confused and hesitant expression on his face. He gestured to indicate that the call of the giant made it difficult for him to resist.
"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 as a child outside. Becoming a giant is not your only choice to live."
The boy seemed to understand.
But he showed an uneasy and nervous look on his face, as if he was terrified just thinking about resisting the giant.
The boy stood there, still hesitant.
However, the giant had completed the fusion of other Nibelungen children and walked 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 broad five fingers fell from the air towards the boy.
The boy suddenly turned his face, showing an expression of pain and fear.
Zicard grabbed him and dragged him behind him.
"Run! Run out!"
The boy seemed to understand and ran away.
Zicard also wanted to run away, but the giant slapped him and broke his body. At the critical moment, Zicard skillfully threw his skull far away with both hands, but unfortunately it got stuck on an ice cone.
The giant raised his foot and stepped on Zicard's skull.
At the last moment of his life, Zicard felt neither fear nor terror.
It was just annoyed.
It was a pity that he could not take pictures of the Nibelung children growing into giants.
...
However, the expected death fragment did not appear.
A black lightning fell on his head, causing the giant to stagger back two steps.
Zicard came back to his senses and saw a black-armored knight standing in front of him.
Blood Knight Nevid.
"Who allowed you to hurt the Yao people, Frost Giant?"
The giant roared in anger and unwillingness, but finally spread his hands, as if eager to explain something.
The Blood Knight just raised the sword in his hand and pointed it at the other party: "If you do it again, I will send you back to the Inexhaustible Spring."
The Frost Giant's whole body suddenly stiffened, and it hurriedly turned and retreated, quickly disappearing in the ice fog.
Zicard breathed a sigh of relief.
Where the power of Lord Yao is, the Yao people can get the greatest degree of security.
The Land of Mist is the territory and origin of the giants, and it is also the bed and hometown of the Nibelungen family, but only God Yao is the master here.