Chapter 615
Eivass: I’m back!
In an era when people still feared giants, most humans devoutly and fearfully referred to them as “Giant Gods.”
This was because they were so terrifying—standing at four to five meters tall, with bodies as solid as rock and filled with muscle. They were also well-armed and possessed robust life force.
Even the rare Extraordinary individuals among humans often needed more than a tenfold numerical advantage to barely win against them.
And if several giants gathered, it would require an army of over a thousand to defeat them.
—Undoubtedly, they were gods.
When the gods were angry, humans had no way to respond. To appease their wrath, humans could only sacrifice their own kind to beg for forgiveness. Even if they miraculously succeeded in the feat of “slaying a god,” other Giant Gods would soon come for them—and sometimes, it would even be apostles from the Dream Realm, who were undying and peerlessly powerful.
The humans sent onto the black ships were the “sacrifices” that their own kind had immolated. Even if they were lucky enough not to be eaten immediately, they had not forgotten the day they were betrayed by their homeland. They no longer trusted humans and dared not resist giants.
This was because villages would regularly send those to be sacrificed; they merely had to sail out at fixed intervals to collect them.
It was a hall where the demon cauldron rested.
The spacious corridor allowed the now two-and-a-half-meter-tall Eivass to move freely even while riding a Pegasus—this was originally a corridor designed to accommodate the nearly twenty-meter-tall apostle, Kastenning.
Even the powerful Hrasal Empire dared not openly challenge Avalon Island, which was less than a tenth of the Empire’s size—just as humans feared the Church, they also feared Avalon.
Eivass burst out of the dark and wide corridor and rushed into the room from which the giants’ roars were emanating.
Eivass suddenly realized.
“Wait, this isn’t….”
—It was the radiance from the Path of Devotion, which Eivass was all too familiar with!
This fear shattered abruptly—
As he entered, the incredibly familiar surroundings made Eivass tremble uncontrollably.
He immediately swooped down, calling out the Night Demon’s name, “Viness, prepare for battle!”
“…Viness.”
Precisely because of this, major cities in the Empire era were not built on the coast—from a normal shipping perspective, coastal cities would be best suited for developing commerce and culture.
This was precisely the Asparava, who had nearly killed Eivass before!
It was the kind of Asparava that could easily crush Eivass like a mosquito!
“—Asparava!”
Its appearance gave Eivass a sense of incongruity and familiarity…
“…Hmm?”
Or rather, they dared not anger the Pillar God, Supreme Heaven, and its apostles who were behind the Arktos Kingdom.
“…This is the holy shrine of Kastenning, the apostle of the Candlemaster!”
“My dear Master… are you serious?”
—In fact, that was also the peak of the Empire’s power. They could even dispatch a legion of over ten thousand Extraordinary individuals, so they were certainly not incapable of defeating these giants… but it was because they dared not anger the Arktos Kingdom behind those giants.
This had a tremendous impact on people.
Eivass showed his Desire for Transcendence to little Barton, shattering the demon cauldron—made from the souls of many innocents and capable of resurrecting the dead—with the Holy Lance!
What greeted his eyes was an old giant, still thirteen meters tall even when hunched over.
—Like lambs being herded, waiting for the day they would be sent to the slaughter.
Therefore, if they were attacked by gods, it meant their actions had angered the gods. This could not be attributed to the Empire’s failure to protect them, nor was it the Empire’s responsibility—they couldn’t expect the Empire to challenge the gods to protect citizens who had angered them, could they?
The way those giants wailed miserably in the sky-raining blood and melting into skeletons was neither divine nor invincible.
This was also the venue for Eivass’s first Ascension Ritual on the Transcendent Path!
Just then, Eivass, flying in the sky, suddenly spotted a building and was taken aback, stopping in mid-air.
The further Eivass flew inside, the more familiar it felt.
They were already homeless. They could only live aimlessly on this island, awaiting their doom.
Viness retorted with a strange tone.
Eivass’s mutated right eye could clearly see its trace—it was a golden ripple, spreading in all directions like water waves. Upon touching Eivass, it bounced back, creating a resonance with something inside.
At that moment, a strange fluctuation emanated from the colossal stone hall.
On the one hand, it was due to their fear of giants, and on the other, it was due to their hatred for their own kind.
As Eivass advanced like a prosecuting angel in the rain, the pure white Pegasus spread its white wings. Now, it was stained red with the blood that symbolized revenge.
If someone was captured by giants while at sea, it was considered a natural disaster; if dozens or hundreds of giants formed a fleet to capture slaves to supplement their overworked labor force, the Hrasal Empire could only condemn them and evacuate important personnel in advance.
These captured humans were kept like livestock by the giants… and even without any giants guarding them, very few managed to escape.
This was not fear, but excitement!
He could finally confirm that it was not his imagination before—
And now, its master was…
That is to say: those giants were gods walking the earth.
That was not the aura of the “Power” Path.
With the development of the Empire’s economy and population, there were more and more people being sacrificed—giants had poor reproductive capabilities, and their population growth was slow. They couldn’t eat so many humans at once, so many humans were “free-range” within Avalon, becoming “villages under Giant Lords.”
By now, giants no longer needed to kidnap slaves from Hrasal.
He was staring with wide eyes—although his eyelids were loose and drooping with age, like two heavy curtains, due to extreme anger, he had rarely opened his eyes so fully!
He had a waterfall-like reddish-brown beard and was covered in red bear fur.
Viness arrived before him, transforming into a bolt of meteor-like dark purple electricity that smashed directly through the stone gate!
Eivass followed Viness into the chamber.
Eventually, the number of humans within Avalon had surpassed that of giants by several times. Furthermore, as giants regularly visited the Empire, they would bring back even more humans.
The Night Demon was still a Shadow Demon at that time, and this was their first coordinated effort in the Dream Realm.
And today.
Eivass suddenly asked, “Are you familiar with it?”
—And this mindset had persisted for centuries. Education had deeply ingrained it in the hearts of every Imperial citizen.
From the very beginning, they were not two equal races.
That blood rain poured onto the earth.
Under such circumstances, the Hrasal Empire’s high command could only convey the “Giant God Doctrine” to the people.
It was a four-sided, pyramid-like stone structure in the wilderness.
Unlike the Grand Hall of the Supreme Heaven Shrine, which was a spacious square building composed of stone pillars.
Eivass felt his mind clear and his thoughts flow unimpeded.
He roared loudly, “I’ve come to settle the score with you!”
(End of Chapter)
