Chapter 637
Supreme Heaven is invincible!
He comforted the giants, and his powerful leadership immediately reassured the Giant Priests.
Among the giants, who were generally hunched and spoke indistinctly, he was the only one with a straight back and clear speech.
Even when just looking at their backs, at the same height, people could usually distinguish giants from other races.
But Giant King ElNino was different—
If you only looked at his back, you might even mistake him for a valiant monarch or a human general!
Although his face was more akin to a beast than a human, and although he had fangs and an incredibly ugly face…
He possessed a powerful confidence stemming from his authority. Compared to other giants, he was closer to humans.
In fact, this was indeed the case.
This Giant King was different from all previous Giant Kings.
When he was young, he often sought out the humans kept by the royal city to chat with. He mastered the human language even before mastering the giant language—the first song he sang was taught to him by his human friend.
When he was a giant youth, his height was not yet so great. He was only a little over two meters tall, and his skin had not yet grown hair, nor did his appearance seem ferocious. He looked like a simple-minded and tall human youth.
An old man who had been captured knew he was the Prince of Giants, so he told him stories of humans and taught him the principles of humanity, hoping to instill in him a heart of kindness and justice. With luck, perhaps this generation could change the giants.
He almost succeeded.
But perhaps because he spent too much time with humans, or perhaps because he learned too much human culture… ElNino’s aesthetic was distorted during his youth.
The first girl he fell in love with was a human woman. They soon had a child.
Mixed-race giants were generally allowed under other circumstances, but not in the royal family. Not to mention that ElNino was too young at the time, not even close to being an adult—a grown Giant King would be at least four or five meters tall, but he was less than two meters.
This incident quickly spread throughout the Giant Kingdom and alerted the Giant Royal Family.
It was fine for the giants for ElNino to study human culture. As long as he didn’t neglect physical training and martial skill, it was just a personal hobby… As royalty, they had such freedom. After all, giants were free.
But for a giant to fall in love with a human, that was forbidden!
It was like humans falling in love with golden fried chicken.
His father immediately stewed his teacher and the girl together, along with their newborn child—even giants were on the giants’ menu, let alone half-giants.
After ElNino obediently ate this stew, his father successfully taught him not to play with his food.
Ultimately, ElNino disappointed his teacher—even though he understood human culture, ElNino did not become kind and righteous. Instead, he adopted human flaws.
Greed for desire, understanding of power, longing for fame, yearning for vanity… and most importantly, he gained insight into the Transcendent Path.
Changing the rules—
In a way, his teacher did succeed.
He failed to make ElNino a benevolent ruler or teach the giants to be a normal race… Instead, he taught him human vices, making him the Giant King most unlike a giant.
However, it was only after he became Giant King and came into contact with the truth.
ElNino finally understood what his lost childhood love was all about.
It wasn’t just a seemingly normal reason like giants forbidding marriage with humans—
…In fact, the ancestors of giants were elves.
Supreme Heaven himself was of Harpy origin, but aesthetically, he preferred elves. After becoming a god, he used his immense power to abduct many elf women to bear his offspring.
And according to the rules of the Origin River of the Path of Love, gods and mortals could not have offspring, or they would commit the “unforgivable Great Sin”—divine retribution. The giants’ deformity, immense size, and rage were because they were a race born of divine retribution. This immense divine power caused the mothers of the first giants to die during childbirth… Therefore, giants were a race that truly “had no mothers.” Their first and only father was Supreme Heaven.
Later, a portion of the giants’ bloodline was diluted, while another portion became more concentrated.
In modern times, giants have actually evolved into two distinct groups: “Royal Giants” and “Ordinary Giants.” Royal Giants still had red bear fur, while the bloodline of ordinary giants had been diluted to the point where their skin was white like giant stones. If they continued to interbreed with humans, they would become ordinary people within three generations at most.
This was because the sin in their bloodline had been diluted to the point where it would not manifest, and the giants themselves did not know their origins.
The reason his child was cooked was precisely because if a Royal Giant had offspring with any other race, such as humans or elves… the offspring would become ordinary giants. Only when Royal Giants had offspring with other royal races would the offspring become royal giants.
—This was the secret of the Royal Giant bloodline!
Therefore, ElNino’s child could not be kept.
This was because “Royal Giant” was actually just a fabricated concept—they possessed no special abilities, nor were they sent by Supreme Heaven to rule the other giants.
On the contrary… their sins were more concentrated, and their racial characteristics were merely a curse from the Path of Love. Royal Giants were stronger than other giants simply because they trained for longer, while other giants were lazier.
They only became royalty because they were the minority.
—How ridiculous.
Because of this, ElNino realized… that the giants’ traditions were actually meaningless.
The “Race of Power” was filled with deception, vanity, and trickery from the very beginning. In essence, they were no different from the humans they despised.
The giants’ self-righteous barbaric traditions were instead mocked by Supreme Heaven.
Although Supreme Heaven doted on his subjects and protected them from external enemies, he looked down on them with the same condescension as a high and mighty patriarch.
He viewed these man-eating giants as unintelligent beasts—to Supreme Heaven, cunning was a tool of power, and authority was a shield for power. Brute force without reason was how the Heavenly Envoy of Violence understood the Origin River of Violence; being gluttonous like beasts was even the domain of the Beast Lord.
When ElNino understood this, he finally dropped his pretense.
—If that’s the case, he might as well go all the way!
It was for this reason that ElNino became the most unscrupulous Giant King. Possessing human intelligence and cunning, along with the unreasonable arrogance of giants… combined with his suddenly atavistic aesthetic, he became Supreme Heaven’s most admired and beloved “youngest son.”
Supreme Heaven even promised ElNino that when he ascended to the Dream Realm, he would become his apostle. He would reshape ElNino’s body, bringing him closer to perfection.
Even when he took the Scar Branch of the Guardian of Wildfire, Supreme Heaven did not criticize him.
How could those flattering priests be as pleasing to him as the intelligent and cunning ElNino?
—And because of this.
When ElNino joined the battlefield, the sky suddenly cracked open.
In ElNino’s view…
The Giant Kingdom did not need a guardian at all.
Because the guardian was not enough to protect the entire kingdom; the true protector of the kingdom was Supreme Heaven himself. Those enemies who posed a threat to the kingdom were actually afraid of Supreme Heaven, not the name “Wildfire,” which was why they had not attacked.
Since that was the case, it was better to simply omit the intermediate step—and directly summon Supreme Heaven!
This was also ElNino’s confidence.
He was here.
Supreme Heaven was watching here.
“Wildfire” might ultimately be defeated.
—But Supreme Heaven is forever invincible!
(End of Chapter)
